ADVENT24/14_DEC24

 Mistigram: for this date last year, AdeptApril, SysOp of Storm BBS, drew this #HerrnhuterAdventsstern or #MoravianStar, a 26-pointed star part of German Christmas festivities.  It was included in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/13_DEC24

 Mistigram: this illustration of an unforgettable, impossible moment from #MrBean's Christmas dinner was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  It also has a BBS door version, seen here live at Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD BBS at bbs.decafbad.com

ADVENT24/12_DEC24

 Mistigram: when they hang the mistletoe on the #NCC1701D, #GeordiLaForge finally has a good excuse to kiss the hologram of #LeahBrahms, as in the #STTNG S3E6, "Booby Trap". Darkman Almighty drew the moment for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/11_DEC24

 Mistigram: this jolly outdoor #ChristmasTree was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. The executable calendar has a BBS door version, and here it is served up by Jerry Reed's A-Net system at a-net-online.lol

ADVENT24/10_DEC24

 Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, Moth drew this seasonal showdown between a cardinal and a blue jay over a frozen birdbath.  Demonstrating the calendar's availability as a BBS door, this display was captured from Funtopia BBS.

ADVENT24/09_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA shares with us this stark winter landscape, drawn for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. Both last and this year's editions of the calendar can function as BBS doors, and you can see it in effect at X-Bit BBS at https://x-bit.org/

ADVENT24/08_DEC24

 

Mistigram: The Green Herring drew this dancing polar bear rocking the disco carols (Boney M for sure!) for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated live on BlaZZZe's BBS The Penalty Box at thepenaltybox.org

ADVENT24/07_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA drew this anguished #snowman, melting in unimaginable agony, for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated live on Martin Kazmaier's Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net

ADVENT24/06_DEC24

Mistigram: Cthulu drew Batman's nemesis #TheJoker (bowdlerizing 'Jingle Bells'), from the Nov 1992 second episode of #BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  We found it as a BBS door on the web board at https://angstridden.net/

 

ADVENT24/05_DEC24

 Mistigram: This rooftop portrait of #Sinterklaas was drawn by ENDOOM artist Peccatummihzamiz for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated on Paulie's bustling system at http://20forbeers.com:1339/

ADVENT24/04_DEC24

 Mistigram: This ominous nighttime portrait of #Krampus was drawn by The Green Herring for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, which saw a forked release as a BBS door... here it is demonstrated on Amessyroom's system Too Lazy at https://toolazy.synchro.net/

ADVENT24/03_DEC24

 Mistigram: this chilly landscape was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. The calendar saw a forked release as a BBS door, and here it is demonstrated on Codefenix's system Constructive Chaos at https://conchaos.synchro.net/

Ask your SysOp to host ADVENT25 on your favorite BBS and we will showcase it here!

ADVENT24/02_DEC24

 Mistigram: Frozen's Olaf isn't the only snowman interested in warm summertime pursuits! This screen for today's Dec 2nd date (at bottom right) was drawn by Moth for last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. (We have new art as well as the old for the ADVENT25 calendar, but you have to go open those little doors yourself... or wait a year for us to post them.)

The program also has a BBS door version, and one place you can see the calendar in action is, as demonstrated, on @_n1tr0n's "Hold Fast" BBS at https://holdfastbbs.ca/ (Let us know if you host it on _your_ BBS and we will post a screen shot from there!)

ADVENT24/01_DEC24

 Mistigram: last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar kicked off on Dec 1st with this incredible macabre @littlebitspace illustration of #UncleSam hyping up the crowd's patriotic involvement in festive seasonal cheer.

ADVENT25 FILE_ID

Mistigram: introducing ADVENT25, our third annual #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  Enclosed is an executable program, and every day this month up to Dec 25th it will display that new date's illustration and allow you to view the previous screens.  Andyh's MS-DOS executable can be run via 16colo.rs or in DOSbox, and j0hnny a1pha's BBS door fork will allow you to have the daily screens displayed via participating bulletin board services.

The #ASCIIart cat in the FILE_ID artwork is by The Green Herring, whose work you will be seeing a lot of in this collection!

MIST-30/ILLARTERATE_MRZERO

 Mistigram: this fauvist portrait of #MrZero, the announcer from the #FZero racing games, was drawn by @illarterate and won 1st place in the Nova 2024 demoparty's #Teletext compo. It was also included a year ago in the MIST-30 30th anniversary celebration artpack collection.