Back on Earth, we call this Christmas…

Bring big whovian energy to ugly Christmas sweater day this year with our festive Doctor Who inspired holiday sweaters!

Featuring some of our favourite Christmas quotes from The Doctor and hand drawn whovian references.

Perfect gifts for time travelling friends this Christmas!

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HALF WAY OUT THE DARK

A TREE FULL OF WHO

BACK ON EARTH WE CALL THIS CHRISTMAS

Entertainment Earth exclusively carries a Jack Skellington Geeki Tiki celebrating The Nightmare Before Christmas' 30th anniversary. Limited to 600, the 22-ounce ceramic mug measures 7.5” tall with a 4” diameter. It costs $50 and will ship in October.

The Ugly Sweaters Club! These are a group of WOY OCs I've designed that are seemingly unrelated to one another but I think they can be friends :)

I got Junipex and Plant in an OC trade with @uxielulz!!

It's coming up to the last few days my Etsy shop is open before the New Year. I have plenty of prints that could do with a new home! Use code: CRIMBO at checkout for a 20% discount.

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Happy Christmas [E]eve[e]!

Side note, it's almost 2024. How do we still not have an eeveelution for every Pokémon type??

Sending this early because a lot of people won’t be on here for Christmas. So without further ado… MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope it’s MERRY and BRIGHT! I’m so glad we are friends, and wouldn’t change a thing! Feel free to pass this along to your friends! Keep the love going!

Thank you so very much for such a kind message!! I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas!! ♥️ ♥️ 🎄 🎄

Love The Bear? Let it rip with our new Original Beef of Chicagoland logo shirts!

Great Christmas gifts for fans of the most stressful show on television. 

Buy online now, here.

Giraffe's Eye View: Christmas Specials Special (2023) | From All Of Us to All Of You

Chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose. Mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again. All the dogs in the neighborhood somehow learned to bark Jingle Bells in sync. Yet retail workers are still more annoyed with Mariah Carey. Snow is getting shoveled, tossed, and formed into sentient beings leading parades without permits. It makes for an excellent distraction as the Krampus abducts children for bad behavior. Fruitcake is exchanged only to find its permanent home in the garbage. Terrorists have hijacked the Holiday office party right before your boss can give you a Jelly of the Month Club membership as your bonus. And of course, the Turducken has returned to wreak its fiery vengeance upon an unsuspecting world! If all this doesn’t put you in the Christmas spirit, perhaps these following Holiday specials will!

Greetings people of today and robots of tomorrow! It is I, Santa Clark, your geeky giraffe friend with a deep love of Christmas! My obsession for the yuletide is rivaled only by Maleficent’s hatred for it, which is saying a lot considering she once teamed up with Mad Madam Mim to kidnap the literal Spirit of Christmas. Yes, that really happened. I know this due to my annual pilgrimage to the Island of Misfit Specials, home to obscure or nerdy festive media ranging from movies, TV episodes, and comics. It’s no easy journey. Constantly I find myself confronted by sinister snowmen, genocidal gingerbread men, and worst of all, crappy commercials. Getting stabbed in the foot by a candy-cane wielding cookie is one thing, but I swear I’ve seen that ad for Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium more times than I’ve seen Miracle on 34th Street! Sometimes at night I catch myself reciting that jingle. Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium: Where Christmas meets Convenience! Huh, maybe Maleficent had a point.

Nah, my deep-rooted appreciation for this time of year can weather even the most moronic marketing! It helps that most of the merry media I’ve seen have put me in the perfect Holiday mood! Examples include the time a Ninja Turtle found himself trapped in a truck full of stollen toys, a drunk department store Santa stumbling onto a wish-granting magic bag, Big Bird nearly becoming a popsicle, Gwenpool waking up in a world where Galactus took the place of jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas, a terrifying tree stump trying to slaughter some saps over a stupid ship war, and the year when Death gave the Little Match Girl the greatest gift of all. Needless to say, I thought I had seen it all. That is, until I took my friends on a trip to the Island, tasking them to find me new, strange, seasonal specials to review! Some of them were fair, finding me festive favorites as comforting as coco in front of the fireplace. Others were fiendish, wanting to feed off my misery like Gremlins after midnight. Regardless of how naughty or nice my companions were, I’ve compiled all of their suggestions into a makeshift advent calendar! So stay tuned everyday until Christmas to see how badly my buddies can shred what little sanity I have left.

On the thirteenth day of Christmas, my buddies gave to me...

Being a Disney fan today is hard. The parks have been ravaged, their films flop on arrival, their continued downplaying of animation is annoying, and don’t even get me started on how they handled this year’s Writer / Actor Strike. Not to say there’s no diamonds hidden in the rough every now and again, but for the most part the buzzards running the Mouse House believe in profits not pixie dust. Worse, they have forgotten the most crucial ingredient to any creative undertaking: risk. Go big or go home, make a splash or stay dry, spending money makes money. Perhaps no one knew this better than Walt Disney himself. The man mortgaged his home to finance Snow White, nearly drove his company to bankruptcy to build Disneyland, and embraced television when the rest of Hollywood cowered in fear of it. He understood that television could be a powerful marketing tool that could help his brand grow in the long haul. Ironic, innit? Uncle Walt became a beloved figure through the small screen, hosting the Disneyland series and making a brief appearance at the opening from From All Of Us to All Of You. Premiering in 1958, the seasonal special proved so popular that it airs along with a sampling of various shorts to this day in other countries. Including Sweden, home to the rambunctious robotroll SIM-N (Finjix), himself having fond memories of watching it with his family. Being a classic Disney fan myself, I was actually eager to see if the hype the malicious machine was peddling was valid.

A pity it’s not on Disney+! First the Star Wars Holiday special, then Snowed in at the House of Mouse, and now this!? You advertised everything would be on there, Bobby Boi. What gives!? Thankfully where you fail, the Internet succeeds! Let’s just say I found a copy well archived on a specific site. It also had One Hour in Wonderland, Walt’s original Holiday offering from 1950. Sadly it was nothing special, just the Magic Mirror from Snow White showing clips from several projects to Kathryn Beaumont, Bobby Driscoll, Edgar Burgen and his iconic puppet pals. Aside from Walt’s daughters Diane and Sharon making a brief cameo, this trip to Wonderland is only notable for how many times it promotes Coca Cola. Man, is anybody else thirsty for a Sunkist?

Let’s pop a cold one and we can check out From All Of Us together! 

Walt, now the same size as Tinkerbell, welcomes us to the program. He wishes everyone at home a Merry Christmas before  turning things over to the real musical Masters of Ceremony; Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards) and Mickey Mouse. Together on piano the cartoon celebrities sing a rousing rendition of The Little Drummer Boy mixed with Peace on Earth! Or rather Jiminy just shows off his collection of Christmas cards. Each card cues up a segment from a beloved animated feature that’ll already has or will be unnecessarily rebooted in live-action. Which features depend on the version you're watching, this recreation including Bambi, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, along with two additional short films, Toy Tinkerers and Santa’s Workshop. The former features famous foul Donald Duck (Clarence Nash) comically dueling against Chip and Dale in toy warfare, the latter showing Santa prepping at the Pole for his annual sleigh ride. It also features an unfortunate bit of blackface, something I hope is cut from reruns. At least they didn’t show an entire segment from Song of the South like One Hour did. Remember folks, Disney’s most controversial film was once endorsed by Coca-Cola!

Overall, From All Of Us is decent blend of Holiday warmth and Disney magic, a warm cup of cocoa laced with a pleasant amount of pixie dust. However, I feel like it’s unnecessary in this modern age. Call me crazy, but why watch this clip show when I’ve seen these movies in their entirety via VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, or streaming? For SIM-N, the answer is comforting nostalgia. While I might see it as regifted film scenes with barely any new material, SIM-N sees it as an excuse to get together with his family and watch the moments that made us realize magic was real. Knowing that makes this special a yuletide treasure in my book. Still, if you want some comforting Christmas capers centered around Mickey Mouse, I can do you one better. Or should I say three better?

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UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER SEASON!

Step up your holiday jumper game this year, with our range of cool, cozy, pop culture inspired designs! Featuring festive takes on your faves from the world of film, television and music, there are dozens to choose from! 

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A HOLLY DOLLY CHRISTMAS (DOLLY PARTON)

CHRISTMAS PARTY PLANNING COMMITTEE (THE OFFICE)

SHANTAY YOU SLEIGH (RU PAUL’S DRAG RACE)

YULE LOVE IT (SCROOGED)

MERRY CHRISTMAS SNOTFACE! (DROP DEAD FRED)

XM/AS (AC/DC)

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I absolutely love my Hallmark BOTW Link Christmas tree ornament!!

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♡ Miles Morales Spider-Man Christmas Sweater (XS-3XL) ♡

♡ Merchoid ♡

For my Gingerbread Iron Men I have made a Gingerbread Martini

2 Oz caramel sauce

1/4 tsp mixed spice

1/4 tsp ground ginger

4 Oz thickened cream

2 Oz vodka

1 Oz of Irish Cream

Whipped cream to serve

Mix spices and caramel sauce together and then add cream, vodka, and Irish Cream and shake over ice. Serve in a martini glass and top with cream