this holiday is almost entirely excellent

[kaberett]

However: immediately outside our windows is a Child Enclosure, for children to Learn To Ski. There is a Tunnel for Transporting Children in very stately fashion from the bottom of the slope to the top (that goes BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP when a small falls over inside it). There are things for them to slalom around!

... there are nightmare creatures that I think are... intended... to be reassuring and encouraging and kindly.

They. Are nightmares.

Comments

[lunabee34]

Eeeeeeep! LOL

[niqaeli]

....okay, so I saw the very lowres version and was like "huh, that looks like it's probably a weird vaguely cute bunny thing, I guess I can see that being terrible but it's not necessarily"

and then I accessed the full res version and saw the face and nnnnnnnnnnnnnope!

insert nopetopus gif here.

that is indeed

A. Nightmare.

[highlyeccentric]

Same. It was pretty cute at low res!

[ludy]

Likewise!

[kaberett]

THANK YOU FOR VALIDATING ME

(even A thinks it's a horror, despite his general They're All Good Buns Bront attitude.)

[vass]

Is it... being eviscerated? And smiling? And is one of its eye sockets empty?

[kaberett]

I'm not sure if it's being eviscerated or if it's wearing an apron of the blood of its victims

but EITHER WAY

(I have not got close enough to confirm what is going on with its eyes.)

[damerell]

Just a perfectly normal grinning skull, nothing to see here.

[kaberett]

n i g h t m a r e

(the duck and the ??marmot??beaver?? aren't much better)

[silveradept]

Well, if you want the smalls to avoid them, nightmare is the right idea, is it not?

[recessional]

I was like "I BET I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE" and I was right.

Because ski-hills. I don't know. I think there may be some kind of secret ski-hill protective cult or something that feels the need to put that kind of shit up to appease the evil spirits.

[kaberett]

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE PAPIER-MACHÉ WOLF I FOUND IN THE NEXT VILLAGE DOWN.

(i didn't take a picture of the reindeer with the hoof that had been replaced with parcel tape but that, too, was Bad)

[booksarelife]

Oh wow, that’s creepy