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 Mistigram: this time last year, as we dropped our MIST-30 30th anniversary collection, our colleagues in @pizzatoe were celebrating along with us, sketching this seasonal #ANSIart logo. 2025 was supposed to be their year, but wherever they went, we never forgot their kindness!

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 Mistigram: @blippypixel wishes you all a #HappyNewYear 2026 (or else a _very_ belated Guy Fawkes Night) with this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen depicting the pyrotechnic festivities in London.  Here's hoping 2026 has greatness in store for all of us!

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 Mistigram: @teletextr drew this screen of pealing Christmas bells, 'Ding and Indeed Dong', for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and it was also included in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: you may feel your ears burning when someone's talking about you, but the effect is only more pronounced when you're a snowman.  This one needs to know who's got the frosty gossip!  This screen was drawn by @horsenburger for the Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar two years ago, and it was later included in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: this #teletext illustration of a hungry #blackbird was jointly made by @illarterate and Sarah Burgess, and was included in this month's new seasonal MIST1225 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: Zeus II drew this very wintery freehand #ANSIart illustration of #NatsukiSasahara from #HyperPolice as an advertisement for Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net. It was included in the frosty new MIST1225 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: this garish digital #ChristmasTree was drawn by @blippypixel to be aired on last year's Yle #teletext #adventcalendar.  Like a fruitcake, we included it a year later in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: this jolly radiology image by @littlebitspace was shown when departing the ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar BBS door. We have now shown its entire slate of daily screens, but it still offers a couple of further unshared illustrations.

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Mistigram: this "#Reindeer #moon" screen was drawn by @AtonalOsprey for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and we have also included it in the new festive MIST1225 artpack collection. On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen!

ADVENT24/25_DEC24

 Mistigram: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one final Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace and LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

MIST1225/CT-ICY

 Mistigram: Cthulu found this badass image, Bruce Timm's cover artwork to Dec 1994's Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, while cruising for ADVENT25 subjects... but it was too tall (well, inadequately short and wide) to adapt to a 25-line screen. However, he couldn't stop thinking about it, so he drew it and slapped on a logo to make it a freezy promo for Mike Krüger's #IcyDraw #ANSIart editor, which just dropped a new release, version 5! Details at https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyDraw0.5.0

ADVENT24/24_DEC24

 Mistigram: far from being localised entirely within anyone's kitchen, Codefenix of Constructive Chaos BBS drew this striking illustration of the #AuroraBorealis for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

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 Mistigram: The #polarbear quietly calculates that whoever rolled up this #snowman is _probably_ tastier than yet another snow cone.  This screen was drawn by @thegreenherring for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and was included in the new MIST1225 artpack collection.

ADVENT24/23_DEC24

 Mistigram: Last chance to get your doomscrolling quota for the rest of the year out of the way before, like Santa, you tamp it all down and kick the holidays into high gear!  LDA drew this moody screen for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

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 Mistigram: @illarterate drew this head-scratchingly silly screen for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and we included it in the festive new MIST1225 artpack collection which you can browse in full at the @sixteen_colors gallery via https://16colo.rs/pack/mist1225

ADVENT24/22_DEC24

 Mistigram: "I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel." This alienated scene from 1965's #ACharlieBrownChristmas was adapted by Cthulu for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. (Good grief!)

MIST1225 ANSI art mosaic

 Mistigram: for the ANSI fans(i), the festive new MIST1225 artpack collection also includes a handful of #ANSIart screens, here parcelled out to fill nine cells on the screen.

MIST1225 teletext mosaic

 Mistigram: most of the new seasonal MIST1225 artpack collection consists of #teletext screens drawn by members of our community for the annual Yle Advent Calendar, and here are some highlights in that medium.

MIST1225 FILE_ID

 Mistigram: because it seems that ADVENT25 somehow just wasn't enough to exorcise our surplus of holiday spirit, we share with you the new music- and teletext-filled MIST1225 artpack collection, including highlights from recent years' Yle Advent calendars. Its mittenny DIZ was drawn by Cthulu.

ADVENT24/21_DEC24

 Mistigram: I mobilized our artists for the next pack, but have a nagging feeling that I forgot something... oh no, Kevin!!  Ah, I'm sure he's fine.  Not like he's #homealone!  This screen was drawn by @consolejockey for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/20_DEC24

 Mistigram: Santa works hard and plays hard, and is expected to remain at the beach right up until the last possible minute, because Vitamin D is in short supply at the North Pole. This screen was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/19_DEC24

 Mistigram: a twist on a classic seasonal formula, this red-and-green sprig of #holly -- #yauponholly, North America's only indigenous caffeinated plant -- was drawn by Moth for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/18_DEC24

 Mistigram: this portrait of an impish goblin partaking in a little seasonal five-finger discount from a purveyor of holiday dross was drawn by the Green Herring for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/17_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA turned Cthulu pressuring people for vintage computer art into a holly jolly ugly Christmas sweater design, drawing this eye-popping illustration for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/16_DEC24

 Mistigram: Kanto experiences freezing temperatures at this time of year. If you're cold, they're cold - bring your #Pokemon inside! This illustration of a chilly Caterpie and Venonat bundled up was drawn for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar by Mothnox.

ADVENT24/15_DEC24

 Mistigram: now where did he find that?  For this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, LDA drew us #TheMandalorian's #Grogu, aka #BabyYoda, enjoying a hot beverage (I'm guessing grog, you?) while dressed in a darling tiny Santa Claus outfit.

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!

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 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.

MIST-30/MOZZ-NIGHT-MOON

 Mistigram: this striking nighttime #textmode art landscape (#ASCIIart? #ANSIart? There's a little Xbin character remapping going on) was drawn by Mozz and included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: this piece, TheWarOnXmas' amazing #ASCIIart remix of AFlamingoCup's incredible "Well-Dressed Ghost" pixelart piece from MIST1020 four years earlier, was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection, one of an awesome handful of updates and revisitations to worthwhile works lurking in our extensive back catalogue.

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 Mistigram: from last year's MIST-30 artpack collection, celebrating 30 years since the establishment of our (now vintage) computer art community, here's a lovely #ASCIIart logo by our guest @darokin ironically celebrating #ANSIart. (Hey, we like to mix it up, too!)

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 Mistigram: and here's an #ANSIart portrait of actress #SydneySweeney in promotion of the 23rd installment of the #TotalDOSCollection, as drawn by VileR. She's still in the news starring in Christy, but the illustration is a little "Big Blue" wordplay throwback to her American Eagle "great jeans" ad earlier this year. This piece was part of a larger scroller that appeared in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.