Happy Holidays: Otaku Style

Warning:  to say that this is image heavy would be an understatement.

Well, 'tis the season to be jolly, to drink hot cocoa, and to wait for gifts from an overweight man in red who constantly seems to barge down people's chimneys regardless of security measures. Don't ask me what he does if there aren't any chimneys. But it is also the season to write college essays take a well earned break, and perhaps marathon a series or two! So here are a series of pictures which should help get you in the holiday spirit! Most are christmas oriented (i.e. girls dressed up in santa outfits), some just have snow in the background (despite northern VA's lack of it), and some just look festive (i.e. red, green, yellow stuffs). But hey, it's all good.

...we'll keep this as SFW as possible. But I'm pulling a bunch from Danbooru (which in turn pulls them from pixiv), so no promises. Going along with that, no one at Infinity And One claims any ownership of these images unless otherwise stated.

Now...enjoy

Meiling the red-haired gate guard,
has some very shiny bells.
And if you ever saw her,
you would say she goes through hell.

All of the Mansion's workers,
always laugh and call her names.
They never let poor Meiling,
join in any youkai games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Flandre came to say:
"Meiling wow you're very tall,
won't you carry me so I don't fall?"

Then all the youkai loved her,
as they shouted out with glee,
Meiling the red-haired gate guard,
you'll go down in history!

Lyrics by Extraintrovert (Danbooru member). Kudos to you sir.

Real reindeers can control vectors.

Index's costume was the source of much hilarity among danbooru users. For obvious reasons.

I found my Christmas present ~BartreTheBeast

HNNNNNNNNG ~ExtraCareful

Well that really put me in the mood. Let's have a song!

Deceptively heartwarming. Nice ornaments btw >_>>>>>

S'why you don't drink and drive.

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Now for a comical intermission...

Hey guys, don't hate on Marisa. She's just stealing to bring you...this!

I knew all those random remixes would come in handy someday

The phantom ensemble has put me in the mood for some more music. Let's go!

Two notes. One, the title is actually "True Truly Love." Second, this isn't really meant to be Christmasy or anything, but the piano and chimes (or whatever they are, glockenspiels?) at the beginning sound festive.

 So much for a white Christmas. F***ing global warming...

You gonna get raped

...stop making me think of music!

The title is correlation enough. I should just keep going with the Yui Horie trend and put Immoralist on here

...............

...wut?

If only the adaptation hadn't flopped so badly...

The perfect gift. Until she comes at you with a bokken.

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aaaaand another intermission

...Actually, we'll have another intermission. This slipped through my initial net. Colonel Aki sends you his holiday cheer once again!

And now a parting shot with Gensokyou's favorite Santa Claus

and now, it's ExtraCareful's turn!

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ExtraCareful: Hey guys, happy holidays, hope you guys are enjoying some days off. Hopefully it's snowing over there, because I'm not getting anything here. Stay safe and warm and cozy, but also get ready for the Winter 2012 season! Not much more to say since BartreTheBeast stole my thunder in a rather spectacular fashion, but again, best wishes to you all, and let's all keep on running!

I'll just add some more stuff here from my limited collection of series that BartreTheBeast might not have thought of. Enjoy the splurge!

The only good version of Merry in the iDOLM@STER franchise's Christmas album Christmas for You!

But then again it's Miki that's singing it so of course it's good.

[From the Danbooru image thread] Kikimaru: As if you must ask whether Momo is dirty enough to go no-pan.

Because she is. She TOTALLY is.

This man has a Christmas rap for you.




Obligatory d'awwww picture


All these Nanasaki Ai solos and not one good Morishima Haruka pic to be seen. Bugger. 


There were a lot of Minato (right) solos, but I managed to resist. Doesn't mean Yuuhi (left) is any good though.

And last but not least, an iDOLM@STER picture. I...think I'm falling for Miki. FIGHT IT EXTRACAREFUL! FIGHT THE TEMPTATION! You have Azusa!


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From the blog crew, Happy Holidays! And be on the lookout for a New Years' post!