Non-Denominational Winter Hats Icons

It's that time of year when people draw santa hats on other people's icons for them, which I've enjoyed myself in the past. But as a celebrater of Channukah, I've never put up any Christmas decorations before Channukah was over, and I was thinking it would be nice to have a winter icon or two that didn't have the Christmas thing going on. I snitched the hat gifs here from pupe.jp and pasted them on some icons and voila. A couple of these I made for myself and the rest I made with icons belonging to perhael. They're just examples to demonstrate what I'm proposing: if you want a non-denominational winter hat (notice there are three kinds) on an icon of yours, raise your hand - I mean, leave a comment - and I'll happily do it for you. I can pick the icon myself, but it's easier if you give me one. Notice it works much better if it's cropped so the top of the head shows.





ETA: Semi-relevantly... A Grocery Store Gets It Wrong for Channukah. Link from darkrosetiger. I kind of choke-shrieked (shroak?) with laughter.

bad!logic: an explanation for cheating bastards fic?

So browsing through back posts of badfic, I've encountered, just recently, a rationale for Cheating Bastards Fic and its rather sweet but horrifically deformed cousin The Wives Know And Don't Mind At All Fic. This is a rationale that never would have occurred to me, personally, but it was voiced by more than one badthor and several badreaders in the discussion post: basically, in essence, they think that an implausible-to-the-point-of-impossibly-convoluted explanation that nonetheless agrees, on the surface, with observable reality, makes for more plausible (and thus inherently "better") fiction than a plausible alternate universe.

This is why it's more likely that passionately political characters with decisively un-homophobic politics would be closeted, or embroiled in years of deception and lies and partner betrayal, than that they would have failed to get together with said partner while otherwise remaining more or less in character. Apparently. (The tone in which this argument was delivered was actually rather condescending.)

I mean. I just. WHAT? These two deformed clichés are some of my biggest RPS rage-buttons (in any RPS fandom, and I include especially bandom because it's my primary right now, but the post in question came from a Daily Show community) - the former much more than the latter in the case of characters who don't strike me as cheating bastards, but the latter can be even more maddening when you get too used to the flippancy with which it's handled.

So by this logic, for example, a genderswap story (these usually conflict only with the laws of physics, and not with the available information about the celebrities we're slashing!) is far more plausible than, oh, a universe where a character was gay from the beginning or even a universe where their career simply didn't take off.

In other words... it's the exact opposite of Occam's Razor! Conclusive proof of the squirrelly twistedness of the badthor mind?