New Year! [Daily Photo #639-640]

This is a combined Daily Photo post! First, photos from 30.12.

Robert's Coffee date!

Heroic bean.

And now 31.12!

Surprise gifts arrived. Who could it be?..

 Oh my! I am now a proud owner of 5 poro plushies. =D

Poro is a cute creature from League of Legends, a game my husband plays sometimes. I don't play it but I always wave at poros whenever I see them! =D They are just so cute! (I even drew a poro fanart.) Here is what their creators say:

“Poros have a heart-shaped underbelly because they’re made of love”

“We wanted to create something furry that looked like it could survive through harsh weather, so RiotEarp looked to mountain goats, reindeer, and polar bears for inspiration. He sketched the initial poro concept art based on a cuter version of all of those things and we ran with it! Howling Abyss is the coldest and harshest place in all of Runeterra, so you can think of poros as the manifestation of whatever warmth, happiness, and love that still exists.”

“RiotCaptainLx needed a name for the animation file that went up on the Public Beta Environment (PBE), so we tossed around a few options until we decided on poro, the Finnish word for reindeer. It sounded cute! It was supposed to be temporary, but we were stuck with it thanks to a small oversight on our part. Basically, a player posted online that he’d discovered the file name after pinging a poro in-game on the PBE. Players liked it, we liked it... so we kept it.”

New Year fireworks!