#Craig Thea Sisters

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I am so normal I am so normal I am so normal I am sO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO-

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Craig amiright

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Craig x Shen moment

I’ve not drawn as much stuff as I expected despite the amount of free time I had (I played too much Minecraft and Stardew Valley)

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Colette is literally Barbie in my eyes so had to doodle her in the cowgirl out with Craig

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Wellerman is stuck in my head so

So yes they are singing Wellerman in front of the campfire, they are vibing ✨

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I’m BAAAAAACK! And this time, I’ve delivered in a case of the sillies!!!

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"This," Vic says drowsily, "is not fair."

"What's not?" Craig yawns.

"How you can shower with that Old Spice sewage and still have your hair look this good."

Craig yawns again and rolls over, careful not to dislodge his head from the pillow atop Vic’s lap as he pulls a slumbering Shen closer to his chest. "M' just... awesome that way."

"Annoying," Vic corrects. He doesn't stop running his fingers through Craig’s unruly curls, though.

Shen mumbles something unintelligible.

Craig figures it'd probably be a good idea to tell Vic to go to sleep so as not to be cranky tomorrow, but between the late hour and the gentle massaging at his scalp, his brain's not really working all that well.

So he leaves it as a soft huff.

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Craig: So uh, for this party and everything, do you, uh… Vic, sighing: You don't know how to dress for this, do you? Craig, panicked: WHAT IS CLOTHES???

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What are your driving headcanons for the Thea Sisters + CVS?

Who would drive like a grandma, and who would drive like a Texan during rush hour?

HEHEHHE so glad you asked

Pamela is obviously the go to driver (even though she drives like a madwoman) mainly because she has the most experience. Has broken numerous speed limits, has not cared. Everyone gets nervous whenever she has to get them somewhere fast, but she hasn't crashed into anything yet so it's fineeee

Pamela: Traffic laws? More like traffic suggestions!

Violet: ...I suggest we get out of the car.

Pamela: Too late!

Violet is a decent driver, but in a car with the other Thea Sisters? Between Nicky complaining that she wants to have the window open, Colette fighting with her over what they listen to on the radio, Paulina constantly wanting to stop and take a picture whenever she sees something slightly interesting, and Pamela trying to be a backseat driver- she prefers not to be the one behind the wheel. Once had to pull off to the side of the road and scream for a solid ten seconds because they were annoying her that much (they got super quiet afterwards tho).

Colette as a driver,, yeah no this woman is a passenger princess all the way. Does not drive unless absolutely necessary.

Colette: I just got my manicure I can't drive.

Violet: My arms are sore from practicing for THREE HOURS you'll live.

Colette: :(

Violet: No- stop making that face- fine, I'll drive.

Colette: Yay! :D

Paulina will not start the car unless everybody has their seatbelts on. Will not bend this rule under any circumstance. It gets especially annoying whenever they have to chase after the villain of the week/make a quick getaway.

Paulina: *waiting*

Pamela: Dude they're getting away, step on it!

Paulina: I only heard four clicks, including myself.

Colette: Four clicks?

Nicky: *slowly buckles in*

Paulina: We can go now.

Nicky. Oh, dear Nicky. In most circumstances she's an alright driver, but the Thea Sisters cannot allow her to drive in highly trafficked areas. She will get road rage, will flip off anyone who cuts her off, will honk the horn repeatedly as the car crawls through slower than a snail moving through tar.

Nicky: YOU BUNG DAG GOOG ARE YOU EVEN WATCHING THE ROAD?! YOU'RE GONNA CRASH INTO SOMEONE YOU-

Paulina: *As Nicky shouts in the background* It's always fun to learn new Australian lingo via an angry Nicky.

Okay time for da bois.

Craig, despite all his jockiness, believes in responsible driving. He's drilled into the heads of all members of the Lizard club to call him if they've been drinking heavily and need a ride because he wants to make sure they get back safely.

Vic learned to drive through Mario Kart. I feel like that's self explanatory.

Shen drives like my grandma. Constantly checking to make sure he isn't going over the speed limit, and if he is going just 0.01 times faster than the law states he acts like he's committed high treason. Mostly prefers to be the driver because he once accepted a ride from Pamela and has yet to recover from it.

Shen: We're gonna die we're gonna die we'regonnadie-

Pamela: *zooooom*

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hi!! could i please get some recs for a sophie nelisse family - parents, two older sisters, and a younger brother. i know this is a lot of recs to ask for so thank you so much in advance!!

Both blond/e and brunette suggestions!

Clancy Brown (1959)

Clint Howard (1959)

Kenneth Branagh (1960)

Kristin Scott Thomas (1960)

Daryl Hannah (1960)

Hugh Grant (1960)

Meg Ryan (1961)

David Foley (1963)

Laura Linney (1964)

Christopher Eccleston (1964)

Sarah Lancashire (1964)

Robin Wright (1966)

Nicole Kidman (1967)

Rhys Ifans (1967)

Anthony Michael Hall (1968)

Daniel Craig (1968)

Jeri Ryan (1968)

Naomi Watts (1968)

Jason Bateman (1969)

Michael Sheen (1969)

Peter Dinklage (1969) - has achondroplasia.

Elizabeth Mitchell (1970)

Melissa McCarthy (1970)

Heather Graham (1970)

Maxine Peake (1974) - is pro Palestine!

Sisters:

Loiza Lamers (1995) - is trans.

Hadley Robinson (1995)

Julia Schlaepfer (1995)

Jessie Mei Li (1995) Hongkonger / English - is a gender non-conforming woman who uses she/they, is pro Palestine!

Kristine Froseth (1995)

Sarah Dugdale (1995)

Lauren McQueen (1996)

Kayla Heller (1996) Indonesian / White.

Jeanne Goursaud (1996)

Mary Mouser (1996)

Sasha Pieterse (1996)

Grace Van Dien (1996) - is pro Palestine!

Thea Sofie Loch Naess (1996) - is pro Palestine!

Zara Larsson (1997) - is pro Palestine!

Elena Kampouris (1997)

Antonia Gentry (1997) Afro Jamaican / White.

Madeleine Arthur (1997)

Giorgia Whigham (1997)

Havana Rose Liu (1997) Chinese / White - is pansexual.

Ivanna Sakhno (1997)

Brother:

Morgan Davies (2001) - is trans.

Tom Taylor (2001)

Ed Oxenbould (2001)

Cooper van Grootel (2001)

Hope these are useful!

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Okay but can we talk about the implication in Dance Challenge that Shen had made, edited, and polished a whole soundtrack of wave sounds

Using CRAIG’S SNORING

They really were cramming, god damn

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Can I contribute some of my own headcanons too? :0

- Uhhhh to make this clear I’m a genfic type of person so my stuff isn’t really mlm, wlw or wutever other ship-related stuff thing out there, so my girls are straight like in canon; do ship platonic! Vi x Nicky tho

- Violet wears vision-correcting contact lenses with purple irises. I’m sorry, Vi, but purple is a very unnatural and rare eye color and you being Asian doesn’t make a natural occurrence any easier for you. Yes she is blind as a bat without the contacts and she has glasses in her room somewhere, but so far none of the girls have been able to find where she keeps them, if they exist somewhere.

- Two canon facts for context here: Maria was four when she and Paulina’s parents disappeared and she’s eight as of her appearance in Secret City, and Nicky and Paulina were online friends for a while before they first met in person upon arriving in Mouseford. As for the headcanon, Paulina met Nicky online in the wake of her parents disappearing. She took to the internet to get her feelings sorted somehow (as she had to be the strong one for Maria), and a nature post (or any post really) from Nicky led to them meeting and messaging each other. Nicky being her goofy little nature-loving self inadvertently saved Paulina from spiraling in her grief. Angst writers you’re welcome :D

- So canon fact here from the Thea Sisters’ Italian blog: the reason for Pam’s mood shift from mechanic waman to foodie is because Pam is working to a culinary degree, specifically pastries! I’m assuming the canon time this happened happened somewhere in some Italian book we haven’t gotten yet because Scholastic has this annoying habit of publishing way too slow and then publishing the newer books way out of order in a pathetic attempt to catch up to EdiPiemme’s 4-books-every-4-months routine; but my personal headcanon for Pam’s cooking awakening was either the flower-themed dinner in Great Tulip Heist or the entirety of Chocolate Sabotage.

- Not a Thea Sister, but remember Craig? The jock guy in the comics? He canonically loves Les Miserables, sooooooooooooooooo headcanon is he loves the musical production and has seen it many times in person, but he absolutely HATES the Tom Hooper Les Mis movie. Ask him any day and he will GLADLY tear the thing to shreds Sideways-style.

- Paulina has the most diverse tastes, since she spends the most time online. She’s a weeb, casual gamer, MCYT fan, etc. Craig is a weeb too and he and Paulina gladly binge anime together, dragging a friend like Nicky, Vic or Shen to watch with them. Violet is a closet weeb and manga fan, and so far only Craig has caught on to her weebhood. He is very supportive :)

- Ever since Legend of the Maze where the girls first learn about cosplay (the uncultured swine), Colette was deeply interested in trying it out. Problem is her fandoms are all stuff like Jane Austen and William Shakespeare romances so all the possible outfits she could try whipping up are out of her skill level. (Nobody tell her about the wigs.)

- For the Seven Roses series, Nicky has had mild nat1 anxiety (yes I will use DnD terms to describe the SRU series because honestly that whole thing is a glorified kid-friendly DnD campaign). Iiiii mean with just how many nat1s Violet and Paulina have to deal with and just how well Nicky does in all the campaign quests, you’d think a failed skill check would happen at some point right? During the latter half of the campaign, Nicky had mild anxiety over “the girls have been almost taken down by something at some point, what’s gonna take me down      .    .’’’” She’s still baffled to this day by her Robin Hood archery nat20 in Dance of the Star Fairies.

- (The blog entries about it imply Nicky’s canon love language is giving lil’ gifts and stuff btw :D)

- When the girls had to undergo extensive checkups in Star Castaways, which I assume also had an MRI scan, Nicky avoided having to take the MRI like the plague, until it got to the point where she’d done ALL the other checkups EXCEPT the MRI. She eventually had to take the MRI but feel free to imagine how she got through it :3

- Violet post-Stars Academy dies inside every time she listens to Mozart’s “A Musical Joke”, and she doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry from the sheer nature of that piece. Learning music theory in her Composition class in Stars do be like that. (If you want or need context go watch TwoSetViolin’s video about funni classical compositions)

- Violet holds a mild grudge against every single movie that has either misrepresented the violin or has played it sacrilegiously wrong. If an inaccuracy pops up she notices it immediately and is unable to ignore it. Yes she is unable to watch C-dramas about music because of the fact. If Rate (character in the Italian Mouseford books and is Vi’s classmate in violin class) is with her however, then she’ll happily binge the series and movies just so the two of them can roast the inaccurate and bad violin playing to oblivion.

- Nicky has broken the most bones out of all the Thea Sisters, and it’s a lot. None of the Thea Sisters even know that she’s even broken bones at all in the first place, and with good reason.

- Paulina is the shortest in the group followed by Violet, then Nicky, Pam and Colette. Nicky loves carrying Paulina as part of the whole smol joke.

- The reason why Violet is “standing off to the side” when Thea meets them in Dragon’s Code was because she was doing the will-they-won’t-they tango with the possibility of puking. Hey, Nicky said the trip was “worse than riding a cat with fleas” and Violet is known for getting motion sick easily, I don’t see how she can’t feel like puking after that. (Or maybe she did in the hydroplane who knows--)

-  Violet and Shen converse in Mandarin rather than in English. Confusion ensues when Violet accidentally slips into Hangzhou dialect Wu Chinese/uses slang from her hometown and Shen can’t understand it because he’s not from the region.

- Violet uses Chinese number slang sometimes. See that “I’m so bored” in Secret Notebook? She’s not saying “I’m so bored” or “how boring”, she half-screamed “56 (wuliu)″ with a half-obliterated voice in her room and just told Thea when recounting it “I looked at Frilly and said ‘Ugh, Frilly! How boring!’”, omitting the 56 part. Much to everyone else’s chagrin, nobody besides maybe Shen knows what she means when she says 56, 514 or 666. The latter has caused a loooottt of confusion and chaos in the past.

- When scared like say watching a horror movie or trying a horror game that’s actually scary, Paulina will start speaking extremely quickly in Spanish. Her record for speedrunning the Lord’s Prayer in Spanish is 9 seconds.

- Paulina sometimes points with her lips instead of with her finger. The Thea Sisters have been routinely confused time and time again with how much she alternates between finger point and literally o3o

That’s all I got so far, and this thread is running on long, so cheers :D

may we hear yr thea sisters headcanons? 👉👈

GLADLY

-Right off the bat I wanna make this absolutely clear they're an open polycule and they're all sapphic

-Colette is trans she LITERALLY dresses in PINK and BLUE what else do you want from me. She's a bi lesbian. Nicky is also trans.

-Paulina is genderfluid but doesn't identify as trans

-Violet is a lesbian and her childhood friend Xiao (from the book the secret city) is gay

-Pamela is biromantic and asexual, Paulina is pansexual and Nicky doesn't really know or care

-Colette had major crushes on Violet and Nicky from the get-go

-Okay i promise this isn't all gonna be polycule stuff. However Pam and Paulina were the first to get together followed by Colette and Violet and then Paulina and Nicky which elicited a 'WAIT YOU GUYS ARE COOL WITH THAT?' from the second couple allowing the polycule to seamlessly take form

-Pam descends from both african and italian immigrants. She likes to cook, and is often the one to prepare meals for the group.

-Paulina loves old horror movies, both classic and obscure. Violet only agrees to watch them when she's sitting next to Paulina.

-Nicky's love languages are gift giving and words of affection, and Violet's is quality time

-Colette listens to 80s music, Pam listens to a mix of punk rock, hip-hop/rap and pop, Nicky likes country and folk rock, and Paulina enjoys a little bit of everything. Violet says she only listens to classical music, but she's lying.

-Colette steals clothes from the rest all the time. Especially from Violet and Pam, who have the comfiest sweaters.

-Paulina was banned from a local arcade on account of winning too much

-Nicky was banned from a local festival fair on account of winning too much

-They both kept winning at all the rigged games and it was bad for business. Pam, Nicky and Colette have several plush animals thanks to them

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Watch "[Thea Sisters] Craig&Ruby_ It's never "too early" for Christmas" on YouTube

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The Astounding Finalists Of The 100th Archibald Prize

The Astounding Finalists Of The 100th Archibald Prize

Art

by Sasha Gattermayr

‘Rachel Griffiths’ by Natasha Bieniek.

‘Professor Chandini Raina Macintyre’ by Karen Black.

‘The green suit, a self-portrait’ by Kirthana Selvaraj.

‘A mind–body dualism portrait of Joanna Capon’ by Dapeng Liu.

‘Dark dad / extremis’ by William Mackinnon.

‘I listen and they tell me the bush news’ by Julianne Ross Allcorn.

‘Self (bogong moth jumper)’ by Lucy Culliton.

‘Inside out’ by Jude Rae.

‘Autoportrait’ by Sally Ross.

‘Me and my sisters’ by Eunice Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu.

‘The sea within’ by Julia Ciccarone.

Left: ‘Making noise’ by Kirsty Neilson. Right: ‘Professor Mabel Lee’ by Hong Fu.

‘ Portrait of Guy Warren at 100’ by Peter Wegner.

‘Kate’ by Kathrin Longhurst. Winner of Packing Room Prize 2021.

‘Stop pouting, you’ve had your turn’ by Peter Berner.

Left: ‘Repose’ by Mirra Whale. Right: ‘The white shirt – portrait of Tané Andrews’ by Nick Stathopoulos.

‘Two town camp stories’ by Sally M Nangala Mulda.

‘Filipiniana (self-portrait in collaboration with Maella Santiago Pearl)’ by Marikit Santiago and her daughter.

‘Fozzy’ by Julian Meagher.

‘Mara reading, in the kitchen at Mount Lofty’ by Tom Carment.

‘Trent mango tree, all the colours of the rainbow, Trent’ by Victoria Atkinson.

The Archibald Prize started in 1921 and has steadily grown to become Australia’s most celebrated art award. It reached new heights last year, with a record number of entrants and First Nations winners in each of the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Packing Room awards. Vincent Namatjira’s win marked the first time in the prize’s 99 year history an Indigenous artist had taken out the top honour.

This centenary year heralds another first for diversity, with gender parity achieved among the shortlisted entrants. From the 52 finalists, 26 are women and 26 are men, with women making up the majority of portrait subjects.

One of these works was a portrait of musician Kate Ceberano by Kathrin Longhurst, which has been awarded this year’s Packing Room Prize. Other subjects of prominent Australian figures include Australian of the Year Grace Tame, artist Del Kathryn Barton, Arrernte and Kalkadoon filmmaker Rachel Perkins, actor Firass Dirani, and presenter and refugee advocate Craig Foster.

Many of TDF favourite artists were on the shortlist – Sally M. Nangala Mulda, Karen Black, Thea Perkins, Julian Meagher, Sally Ross and more – as well as an entry from last year’s Wynne Prize winner, Marikit Santiago, made in collaboration with her seven-year-old daughter and a vibrant self-portrait by art therapist Kirthana Selvaraj.

The winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes will be announced on Friday June 4th.

The shortlisted works will be on exhibition at Art Gallery of New South Wales from 5 June to 26 September 2021, after which it will travel to six regional galleries in NSW and Victoria from October. Find out more information here.

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Christmas season, time for festive asks~! I want your headcanons on how the girls celebrate Christmas together at Mouseford :D

Mouseford has a Christmas tree that's decorated with different themes every year. With the Thea Sisters being the Thea Sisters, they volunteer to decorate the tree every year and go beyond every single time :]

I feel like the girls have one big Christmas party with their friends Dina and Tanya and the boys, and everyone gets to choose stuff to do. They get to do Christmas jam sessions, play physical games, play videogames, and other stuff they individually like doing that they get to share with everyone. Craig gets them to play Smash or Mario Kart, depending on his mood that year, and thus chaos ensues.

Pam is not as good at Mario Kart as you'd think she is-- this is what she gets for having to learn to use the Switch when she grew up on Mario Kart Wii. Paulina, being the master of consoles, is the most experienced in MK8 besides Craig and Shen. The three of them get hella competitive over the first place, only for someone who isn't very good at the game like uhhh Vi or Colette to accidentally snipe all three of them with a blue shell and then take the lead without realizing what's happening. Or Nicky swoops in like a dark horse and Bullet Bills to victory like a little gremlin.

Smash is uh, not as beginner-friendly as Mario Kart is (imo), so it's mostly a free-for-all between Paulina, Nicky, Craig and Vic, who's more comfortable showing off his skill in Smash. The others just sit back and watch the smoke coming off their controllers, sipping some of Vi's tea most likely, eating some pastries made by Pam maybe.

Shenanigans galore on Christmas honestly, anything they wanna do they do, there are no rules, it's a free-for-all, anything goes :D

(Besides drink alcohol because I'm pretty sure that won't be allowed on campus)