#Father Christmas Is Back

[thewomanwhowatchedchristmas]

Father Christmas Is Back (2021)

This is more adult than a lot of other Christmas movies with a rating of PG-13, so I would caution watching with young children.

Caroline Christmas-Hope (Nathalie Cox) and her husband Peter Hope (Kris Marshall) are hosting Caroline's family for Christmas at their manor in the English countryside with their children Daisey (Amelie Prescott) and Henry (Oliver Smith). Caroline has invited her mother Elizabeth Christmas (Caroline Quentin) and her uncle John Christmas (John Cleese). Also arriving is her fashionista sister Joanna Christmas (Elizabeth Hurley) and her most recent boyfriend Felix (Ray Fearon), her sister Paulina Christmas (Naomi Frederick) who is working on her dissertation about the musical genius of The Beatles, and the youngest sister Vicky Christmas (Talulah Riley) who has been couch-surfing across America for some months. We find out pretty quickly that the Christmas sisters have a dysfunctional relationship with each other and Caroline has been trying to have the perfect Christmas every year since the year their father left on Christmas when they were kids.

Surprise, surprise, when Vicky was couch-surfing, she ran into their father in Florida and invited him back for Christmas, so James Christmas (Kelsey Grammer) shows up with his girlfriend Jackie (April Bowlby). Everybody has strong reactions to this, but nobody is more directly rude to James than his older brother John. The Christmas sisters mostly fight with each other. Vicky and Joanna probably fight the most, but everyone regularly jabs at Caroline for being too uptight and having a bad sex life with her husband. Peter and Felix are so chill about the chaos that they have to be wildly in love to deal with it, because I sure wouldn't. Also Jackie is an American nightmare and seems like she has no idea when she's being ridiculous, like a true American. They muddle through various Christmas events with each other, warts and all, until the shit really hits the fan Christmas morning.

This movie is clearly meant for adults, and it's very fun. Not super raunchy, just enough to keep things interesting. There's not a ton of background music, but there are some "live" performances throughout. It's a very sweet train wreck to watch, and I would watch it again, but I don't know that I would choose it again. Overall, 3.5 stars.

[willowser]

aww aww katsuki coming home to find you and your kiddos in the kitchen, a disarray of gingerbread and icing and candies spread out across the dining room table.

you'd managed to dye your daughters frosting pink, and she's jumping up and down on her tippy-toes when she sees him, grinning so hard the tendons in her neck are straining. she'd wanted to build and decorate her own gingerbread house this year, but so far she's spent the last twenty minutes being very particular about only the first wall.

"daddy!" she leans her head all the way back when he puts his hand on her face, giggling beneath his palm with her little squished nose. "look at mine, look at mine!"

your wobbly son jumps up in his own chair, using the table as leverage to balance himself as he lets out a squeal of gibberish that vaugely sounds like an echo of what his sister is saying. at the excited pitch in his voice, her head whips around, free from katsuki's grip as her brows furrow.

"he's not even decorating anything," she protests—and she's not wrong; whatever your little boy is doing hardly classifies as 'decorating', and is more like 'eating all the frosting he can before getting caught'. there is a mess of sugar dried all around his mouth.

still, your son squeals in his chair, jumping up and down with even more energy when you place a hand on his butt, in case he slips. the promise of you only encourages him, and katsuki reaches across the table to snatch him up when he tries to get his little knee up on the surface.

your daughter's frown grows; sharing attention remains a soft spot for her. instead of saying anything, she only makes an annoyed little sound and presses her cheek into her dad's hip.

"stuff's gonna give you cavities," katsuki murmurs, though he picks up a few red and green candies and shares them with your already sugary boy—who hums happily. "need a toothbrush for christmas."

"no," your daughter pulls back and tugs on his belt loops, sneering up at him playfully when he pinches her nose. "you have cavities!"

katsuki makes a point to bare his teeth at her, and then presses his forehead to his son and does the same until they're both giggling. "ain't me, bighead,"

"you're a bighead!"

"yeah, 'n i am big, so what's your excuse?" a wicked little grin splits his face when she starts swinging on him, and he deposits your son into your lap before scooping her up off her feet, her girlish scream vibrant and happy in the space around you.

katsuki waits until she calms down a bit, holding her to his chest like a baby, before coming around the table to get a good look at her little pink masterpiece. he presses his mouth into her hair, like he does with you, and her little ruby eyes sparkle when he murmurs, "looks good, kid,"—just to her and only to her.

[sjhowitt]

The Presbytery crew going out carol singing....ending in the Red Lion after which point its just Sid and Bunty demanding Figgy pudding with menaces.

[buildoblivion]

hitting send on my annual ‘the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe is good actually’ post

[batemanofficial]

my mother is going to be home for a full week instead of the 3 days i was originally told. i will be seeing nosferatu back to back to back from 12/25 on until i am forcibly removed from the premises

[nomsfaultau]

Mandatory Family Reunion excerpt I wanna look at

[Something flickers in the expression Phil wears as he scrutinizes Techno. “I’ve tolerated a lot, believe me Technoblade. But the moment your instincts get my child hurt, you’ll find my patience runs very thin. This is unacceptable. Tommy wouldn’t hurt you, surely you know that. Why can’t you just trust people?”

“Trust? You want me to trust!? The last guy I trusted kidnapped me, and now there’s 8 bazillion cameras on my every move and the first time I tasted fresh air in weeks I got dragged back kicking and screaming because someone can’t accept his kid got murdered eighteen years ago!” It’s stupid. Techno knows that, has known it for years. But his words were all he ever had to fight back with when he was too small to do physical damage. Like all things, it’s lashing out, thoughtless. Isn’t he supposed to be smart? Isn’t that the one good thing about him? He’s always caught in reactions, responding in split seconds. 

It’s useless, anyways, even that bravado dies the moment Phil takes a single step forward, Techno’s jaw clicking shut. He should have known Phil’s earlier mercy was to lull him into false security. That's how it always worked with his parents. “Rave at me all you want, call me a lunatic, I. don’t. care. But the moment you hurt my son there has to be consequences.”

“Alright,” he says evenly, even if dread scrapes out his insides in coiling, asphyxiating knots, the familiar leviathan tumultuous in his gut. Techno shifts back, muscles tense. Judging by the murder in his eyes, Techno is only going to survive this one if he fights back. Like hell does he have a chance against the Angel, especially as battered as he is. But all he has to do is last till it’s out of Phil’s system. Maybe this time he’ll be left to lick his wounds in peace. 

Guess Phil really did mean it when he called them family.]

Do you think. Just for a second. Techno's eyes flickered to Philza's belt? And that's what snapped Phil out of his anger? So jarringly forcefully reminded that his son thinks only in terms of abuse that he's waiting to be hit?

(The violent part of the Angel of Death who delivers all comeuppance ten fold in blood, snarling at the threat to his family, unsoothed by the fact Techno is of his blood. Did part of Philza want to hit Techno, even if he would never? How much did he hate himself when faced with a mirror reflecting the Piglins back at him?)

((How bloody did he beat the Piglins after that encounter?))

[gaybabything]

Finally worked up the courage to ask my parents for a hip brace of some sort for my birthday and they thought it was the funniest thing in the whole wide world. I do not think I will be receiving one.

[argeriant18]

Weird thought but don't you find it cool and oddly fitting that Susan is gifted a horn. The whole point of it is that once you use it then help will always come to her. It's oddly fitting and quite foreshadowing as well, knowing that she's the one who strays from the path of Narnia. But also it's a bittersweet and hopeful thought because she should be willing to receive help. She can never come back to Narnia until she resolves her feelings about it within herself. And once she has that peace in herself, she can then seek out Narnia. Like an old verse: seek and you will find, I think that the horn operates on that level too: help will come to her, they will find her, so long as she is willing to call out and receive that help.

[deafeningfanlight23]

Y'ALL, CHRISTMAS EMERGENCY 😭🙏

I'm not in Christmas mood cuz like I have some ermmm ✨family issues ✨ right now BUT THEY'RE FOR ME TO CRY ABOUT AT NIGHT NOT FOR Y'ALL >:D But it's like kinda okay I'm used to it so no worries! :D

BRO I SWEAR TO GAWD EVERY TSAMS CREATOR HAS SOME TRAUMA- 😔✋ LIKE IT'S A PART OF OUR JOB APPLICATION AS A TSAMS CREATOR 😭🙏

Got some tips on how I can feel the Holy Spirit tho?? :'D

[coochiequeens]

This is what I mean when I use Male Aligned Mothers in my tags

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of lance rubin's father (a bit that was also in the very first xmas show as well) real opposite Surprise Father & Son Reunion, It's Only A Motion Away going from It's My Boy :0 where then it's all "cuz you love me :)" "eh, sure ¬_¬" waved off from across the venue to the avalanche (on misery mountain) of You The Audience Know How This Stuff Is pelting of one xmas special genre convention after the other such that they overlap so oh my god my long lost child out of the blue b/c it's christmaaaaas just goes into kissing on the mouth & to Accelerate it so we didn't even ever Set Up that mister macabee has his own long lost child but we didn't need to b/c Of Course, It's Christmas Specials & Their Finales & you just can't stop the reunions & we're kissing again & but even in the first occasion kinda Christmas Magic Christmas Wishes if you want or gay sex & total coincidence brought lance rubin's father to this venue in the saint nick of time, just like well & this only goes so far if your dad keeps talking & ruins it lmao. which is Also present in a fourteenth annual long lost father & son reunion, so the answer is really always just more hahaha MORE

[threnodians]

trying to not to bawl my eyes out because i accidentally called my best friend’s house “home” and her husband said “it can be your home, we can be your home”

[smutinlove]

To the lovely ladies and gentlemen who are spamming my inbox, asking if I'm alive,

YES! I'm alive. We just didn't have internet for a month, that's also why I only created ONE fanfic... Yikes.

Anyway, I'm here. And there's gonna be a Christmas special and y'all are gonna EAT IT UP.

Merry Christmas, babes <3

[if-men-were-angels]

GUYS ITS BEEN ALMOST A MONTH I THINK IM SORRY

I’ve just… not been possessed by masterful creativity for a while.. after I promised to post more…

so how will I make up for it? By promising again and giving some festive James Madison for the upcoming super cool holiday!

I’ll do better I promise….😞😔

[aytsaid]

just a dad who always game back with the milk