Is this a greeting card? A decoration? Who knows! I know two things for certain, and they are that this a) is a small piece of cardboard, and b) it has been tortured by some of the lowest-effort AI I have ever fucking seen. I'll see you tomorrow for day 2!

And without further ado, here's your day 1 treat: a small piece of cardboard, with a picture of a mug, a kind-of-depressing Margaret Attwood quote, and an utterly illegible attribution that might be the biggest "we used shit AI for this" tell I've ever seen. 'tis the season!

Further important context:

1) Nothing was in the pouches, meaning I had to put them all in there, so I got a preview of every item

2) There are more than 24 items

3) There is no way to distribute the items so they fit in the pouches

4) The pouches do not close

5) It turned up damaged

This is only *kind of* a prize, in that it's a purchase she made with a voucher that she won. It's still relevant context, because she would never have made a purchase this frivolous, and boy oh boy has that attitude been vindicated.

Behold, the Book Lover's Advent Calendar!

Backstory: my fiancée's big hobby is entering online competitions, which means our house is constantly besieged by parcel deliveries containing all manner of objects. This is not a complaint, she wins me loads of nice stuff! But it does mean I have seen some shit. And this one really is some shit.

My worlds colliding in such weird ways lately

I would think after breaking your TV with a simple baseball cap you’d be a little more understanding about physical fragility

Remember that one game where we didn’t even have to look it up

That’s not even how we say it

I LOVE online

I feel like you’re manifesting bad things for me

Yeah ideally but probably not very well

Literally