#a diva’s christmas carol

[hausofvladia]

A Diva’s Christmas Carol will *always* be superior, but A New Diva’s Christmas Carol is quite lovely thus far 🎄

feat. Ashanti with the resting face I make 24/7 😂

[liltypingtom]

LITERALLY !1!1!1!1

the polycule of a life time. if im allowed to say that

[kitschykitschykoo]

away in a manger...

[broadwaydivastournament]

Movie Musical Divas Tournament: Quarterfinals

Dolly Parton (1946- ): The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Miss Mona | The Best Little Special in Texas (1982) | Rhinestone (1984) Jake Farris Additional musical/singing roles include: n/a

"Just look at her." - anonymous

Miss Piggy (Never ask a lady her age): The Muppet Movie (1979) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Emily Crachitt in The Muppet Christmas Carol | (1992) Benjamina in Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Additional musical/singing roles include: n/a

"Maintaining the status of diva/star/fashion icon for even a few years is difficult, but Miss Piggy has been doing this with ease for decades now. Unironically, the fact that we’re all so attached to her like we would be with any other celebrity is a testament to the level of talent that goes into every single one of her performances." - anonymous

This is Round 5 (quarterfinals) of the Movie Musical Divas tournament. Additional polls in this round may be found by searching #mmround5, or by clicking the link below. Add your propaganda and support by reblogging this post.

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Dolly Parton:

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[artstar1997]

I finally did it! The Rageons as ghosts are the last ones in my list because Shocktober is over. The Rageons here are ghosts love to haunt haunted houses, where they can party all night and scare the socks out of the living, including humans. They belong to a species of ghosts called phantasms, which are a species of ghosts that are natural-born, which includes poltergeists, shades, wraiths, and spectres. While phantoms and banshees have ghost-like powers like levitation, and phasing through solid matter, they are separate species from ghosts, who remain non-corporeal, can shapeshift, move things more than once with telekinesis, teleport, and they float all the time. They also have the ability to control their chains, which are camouflaged as fashion accessories when not in use, but special chains are used to bind unruly or evil ghosts like handcuffs.

BTW, I used a lot of ghost references for their style, from the Haunted Mansion, A Christmas Carol for the chains, Spectra Vondergeist from Monster High, and Beetlejuice.

Velvet and Veneer are poltergeists who love to haunt human residences for their own entertainment. Velvet doesn't care who she wants to scare, which caused a wedge between the relationship between the two and Rose, but Veneer tends to be considerate of the humans and all living things before haunting anyone to make sure he doesn't scare them to death. They even haunted Floyd’s old pad that he was scared out of it but they later made amends with their old vampire friend.

As the future ghost leader, Cerise is a spectre with a ladylike demeanor and she makes sure that all ghosts must follow the rules that her auncle, Zircon enforces to make sure there is peace and harmony between the living and the dead after they became the leader of the ghosts and ruler of the netherworld, which he reformed the bureaucracy to a proper government alongside is sisters, Cerise and Ruby, and his brothers, Alexandrite and Agate. Cerise looked up to them so much, especially her deceased parents, who sacrificed their souls to save monsters from the hunters that she worked hard to become as great as they are. She, her adoptive cousins and her fiancé, Marvel would come and go as they please in the living world and the netherworld while checking on the deceased souls, called spirits who are living alongside the phantasms.

Marvel is the odd one out among the other poltergeists because of using tactics in scaring humans but it was his calm, collective demeanor that makes him one of the leaders of the group of ghosts, who are collectively his fiancée’s adoptive cousins and friends. His leadership and protectiveness is from the burden of caring for his siblings, Velvet and Veneer, and he makes sure he never let them fall on the reckless cloud.

Lux is the enby wraith who prefers solving problems, working on technology, and is known for being the brains of the group, but they doesn't have one since they're immortal and they look undead. They are also known to read minds and looking at the true faces of anyone they look at so everybody had to watch what they're thinking or Lux would figure it out. It isn't so bad because they can help give solutions on the problems that anybody is thinking about.

Gloss is a poltergeist with flamboyant ideas to scare the humans out of their daylights but he has a soft side for Marvel, whom he tried to help solve his inner turmoil alongside Lux. He is also in love with Marvel’s brother, Veneer, who later became his boyfriend.

Silks is a shy shade, who would teleport or turn invisible when she gets flustered or overwhelmed. Despite lacking confidence, she is emotionally intelligent, typically shows compassion for everyone, corrects Cerise whenever she's out of character and talks sense into her friends when there are disagreements among them, which comes in handy when she can telepathically feel emotions around her.

The ghostly fashion diva, Cashmere knows how to make any ghost look good and become their better selves with fashion and creativity. She would uses her ability to change anything and everything to make fashions for her ghoulish friends, though she would prefer to create the outfits and accessories with her telekinesis. She is in a relationship with Dazzler, a grim reaper-in training.

Glimmer and Shimmer are a pair of spectral twins whose style mismatch their personality. Glimmer, the older twin wears devilish colors but she is calm and cool-headed, while Shimmer, who is the younger twin in angelic palette, is hyperactive and optimistic. Both twins know how to balance each other and combine their strengths to help their friends in need.

Shocktober is finally at its end so see ya!

[free-cursed-frogurt]

List does not have Vanessa Williams, poll invalid.

Favourite Scrooge?

[barbielore]

I have never seen any of the Barbie animated films before. But it’s Christmas, and even though I don’t really celebrate the holiday, I love the book A Christmas Carol; and I love A Muppet Christmas Carol. So Barbie in A Christmas Carol seemed like the obvious way to dip my toe in.

My notes from watching are below!

In the framing device scenes of Barbie telling the story to Kelly, Barbie is wearing a silver dress that looks like pretty much the same dress as 2008 Holiday Barbie, even though that wasn’t an official tie in doll for the film.

Instead of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, we have Eden Starling, an opera singing diva. Her childhood friend Catherine seems to play the role of Scrooge’s nephew but given she also works for the theatre there’s a dash of Cratchitt in there too?

Eden tells everyone not to bother coming back if they don’t come in to rehearse for the new show on Christmas. Even Scrooge only told Cratchitt to be there all the earlier the next morning. 

Aunt Marie (the stand in for Marley) is draped in chains - but these chains have mirrors on the ends instead of cash boxes and ledgers. I presume to represent her sins of vanity instead of financial greed.

The spirit of Christmas past is really cute, like an excitable little elf. 

Little Eden wants to spend time with friends but Aunt Marie makes her rehearse all Christmas instead of seeing other people. Eden sneaks out to go to a party instead of practicing. 

I’m sure it’s in the interests of streamlining the story for Barbie audiences, but I’m a little disappointed the spirit of Christmas past only takes Eden to one place. 

Christmas Present shows the theatre workers throwing tomatoes at a picture of Eden. That’s pretty funny but it’s not much of a lesson. That’s okay - Christmas Present takes her to a second location, presumably so we can meet our Tiny Tim. In this case it’s the reveal that Catherine is working for another theatre as well; or so Eden thinks. Actually it’s an orphanage putting on a Christmas pageant, and our Tiny Tim is a little girl who walks with a crutch and idealises Eden. Catherine lies to her and says Eden is very sorry she can’t come in person but is so proud of all of them. I don’t know why but I got a little emotional about that!

Anyway the orphanage is about to close due to lack of funds. This doesn’t strike me as quite as resonant because Eden is a diva and selfish but none of her sins we’ve seen so far are related to finances.

Alright, time for Christmas Future. The show is a shambles because she fires all her staff for coming in late and their replacements are rubbish so the show is an embarrassment. This means Eden lives in squalor because she lost her career. Her best friend Catherine is now a famous fashion designer, but has got there by being as selfish as Eden is. The orphanage closed down because Catherine had to go out of town to find new work and she never found out what happened to the children.

Catherine indicates she would have adopted Tammy if she had known, but didn't get the chance. The other kids can just miss out I guess?

We the audience don’t find out what became of Tammy, so we don’t know if she died like Tiny Tim. We can assume it wasn’t a great outcome for her, but it’s left to our imagination. 

The red dress Eden is wearing at the end is the one from the tie in dolls! 

Eden adopts (by which I assume she means financially support) the whole orphanage which doesn’t seem really like it suits the arc but sure I’ll allow it. 

At the end of the movie I finally realise that Catherine was supposed to be Barbie’s friend Nikki. Apparently there was a doll prototype for Catherine, but I don't think she ever got released.

That doll I shared above wasn't the only tie-in doll though! There was also a giftset with Kelly dolls dressed as the spirits. Missed opportunity because the spirits were of different ages. I would have liked to see a doll of the Spirit of Christmas Present as seen in the movie!

I looked up some reviews of the novelisation to see if there were any changes, and only then did I realise I missed something -- Catherine isn't supposed to represent nephew Fred at all. The magician who has a crush on Catherine is Fred, leaving Catherine in just the Cratchitt role. That in hindsight makes a little more sense.

I'm not sure if I'll watch any more of the Barbie movies, but that was a good start. (If you think I should watch more, by all means tell me so, and recommend some!)

[purplink8]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better:

Thanks for the tag, @helendamnationx <3

3 Ships You Like: Lawlight (L/Light from Death Note), Narumitsu (Phoenix/Edgeworth from Ace Attorney) and Frostiron (Loki/Tony Stark from MCU)

First Ship Ever: Pokeshipping or Ash/Misty from Pokemon (I was just 12 when I started shipping it!)

Last Song You Heard: Red by Taylor Swift

Favourite Childhood Book: (Disclaimer: I hate JKR) Harry Potter, and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Currently Reading: the Hunger Games prequel Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which has apparently been out so long the movie came out last year! (same!!)

Currently watching: Castaway Diva (it stars Park Eun-Bin (cast for Woo Young Woo from EAW) too! :) and a Death Note rewatch!

Currently consuming: Bananas (literally lol)

Currently craving: Waffles and Peri-Peri Fries

Tagging:

@alliums4us @reaperlight @astralpenguin @isomorbism @mgcmind

@main-exam @ro-zden @floweryflees @qwanderer

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

I must know more about your gymadfen Christmas story!! Holidays angst with the folks? Heck yes!!!

yippee!!!! :3

literally been thinking about this for as long as I’ve been shipping them but yeah Mads is not having a good time, Fenton’s trying to help him feel better, and Gyro is trying to convince his family that everything is fine 🙃🙃🙃

Sooooo Mads doesn’t know how to act around Gyro’s family (or his family? he doesn’t know), and spends most of the time in the room they’re staying in (defensive self-isolation babeyyyyy). Whenever he’s around them he’s in automatic ‘say one critical thing about any of us and I will bite your head off’ defense mode. Fenton spends most of his time with Mads trying to help him feel better, or at least just being a companion for when Mads just wants to be away from most of the family. Therefore Gyro is really the only one who spends time with his family, and spends the whole time making excuses like ‘oh yeah Mads didn’t sleep last night so he’s sleeping in that’s why he’s not at breakfast’ ‘Mads is doing laundry because he spilled on his favorite shirt that’s why he’s not coming Christmas shopping’ ‘he’s going to the store to get muffins and therefore can’t do carols with us.’

So uh. from all of that I’m sure you can guess it’s kind of a disasterrrrrr Genevieve can see what’s going on and tries to help, giving instructions to Gyro and Fenton because Mads doesn’t want to talk to her about it. Gabby spends the entire time arguing with Mads over everything, and is the first to passive aggressively be like ‘oh why aren’t Mads and Fenton here, they have something better to do than spend time with family???’ Fulton and Sonia are concerned and confused but are trying to make the most of the holiday with everyone together for the first time, and Grant seems painfully oblivious sldlflglgk

I guess this just comes down to Mads being a diva (he’s just scared of what the family is going to think of him and them) and everyone else having to deal with it XD dw that’s probably a lesson they learn in the end or something fltlggmym

[thefifthsister-notactive]

#23 christmas prompts

Castlemas ‘22 #11: Heartfelt Songs

Post Series

She’s in her element and no one can fault her. A rapt audience completely mesmerized by the performance she’s putting on.

The boys are bouncing from foot to foot in time to the tune Martha is playing on the piano, each holding onto Alexis as she laughs at her brothers dance moves and Lily dances with Jim, grandfather twirling granddaughter back and forth.

“Dance Mrs Castle?”

She grins, takes his hand and lets him pull her out onto the makeshift dancefloor the kids have staked out besides the piano and they laugh and sway.

Its not long before they’re surrounded by the kids, Jake and Reece clinging to a leg each and Lily wraps herself around Rick’s back. They somehow manage to wind arms around giggling bodies and sway with their children as Martha moves through Jingle Bells. The Loft is filled with the discordant voices of carolling as the Castle family start singing, Jim lifting Jake into his arms for a dance as Kate pulls Reece into her arms and Castle lets Lily stand on his feet to waltz. Martha smiles bright when Alexis slips onto the piano bench next to her.

It’s not often she entertains them like this but when Martha sits at the piano, the kids go wild for it and she eats it up. 

“Gram, again!” They all chant when she’s done, her grandkids clamouring to be next to her and Castle sits back for a minute to watch the way she brings magic to their lives just by being the diva he’s always known and loved.

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Prompt: Piano music

[adamsvanrhijn]

all i want for christmas is an xmas gilded age ep with all the broadway divas singing carols and john + oscar kissing under the mistletoe (john is dressed in white tie, oscar is dressed in a dressing gown + tea towel on his head (he's been forced by agnes to join in with a charity nativity gala to help fix his reputation (he's playing a shepherd)))

help 🐑

[royalarmyofoz]

unpopular opinion but a divas christmas carol is the best adaptation

[broadwaydivastournament]

Movie Musical Divas Tournament: Round 1

Miss Piggy (Never ask a lady her age): The Muppet Movie (1979) | The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) | Emily Crachitt in The Muppet Christmas Carol | (1992) Benjamina in Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

"Maintaining the status of diva/star/fashion icon for even a few years is difficult, but Miss Piggy has been doing this with ease for decades now. Unironically, the fact that we’re all so attached to her like we would be with any other celebrity is a testament to the level of talent that goes into every single one of her performances." - anonymous

Eartha Kitt (1927-2008): New Faces (1954, Miss Kitt) | St Louis Blues (1958, Gogo Germaine)

"YES! Even though she faced bewildering amounts of Hollywood racism, the winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Women Tournament DID manage to do a couple of movie musicals: New Faces, a fluffy backstage-hijinks thing in which she plays her classic chanteuse persona and is even addressed as "Miss Kitt", and St Louis Blues, a musical biopic in which she sings alongside a bunch of other jazz greats. Neither of the films is considered a masterpiece, but Eartha is as scorchingly hot as always, and demonstrates that she could have become a legend in movie musicals if the roles had been there for her. In short, vote for Eartha Kitt because (1) she has JUST ENOUGH credits to count as a movie musical diva, (2) think of all the other Eartha Kitt movie musicals we COULD have had if not for racism, and (3) she's Eartha Kitt, certifiably the hottest old movie woman. Please and thank you." - anonymous

This is Round 1 of the Movie Musical Divas tournament. Additional polls in this round may be found by searching #mmround1, or by clicking the link below. Add your propaganda and support by reblogging this post.

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Miss Piggy:

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Eartha Kitt:

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[sivavakkiyar]

if you think about it there’s really only two Christmas movies: The Flowers of St Francis by Rossellini and Fellini, and more importantly a Diva’s Christmas Carol starring Vanessa Williams

[msshadows97]

Ok, episode 6 of season 2 spoilers below finally and overall thoughts on season 2 and the series of a whole

Hugo went to MIT no thoughts just pointing it out

Noel is still talking to the cut out, boy needs therapy

Betty being jealous of the cardboard then attacking it

Hugo is me on a mental level

Evil santa is a highlight along with Olga the only reason I liked this season

Why do I feel like evil santa getting a reaction arc

I Hate Scott's short beard it gets shorter each episode

Carol "IS HE DEAD" and being a momma bear I love her

Canoe kid was fluffy?

How did he recognize Mrs claus she look like a normal person not any depiction of what Mrs claus looks like. She's in a jacket with hair down.

Attack squirrel I wish we saw it attack Scott's beard

Noel starting a war without everyone what bro. You can't fight a war alone

Betty and Gary beef

Uncanny valley reindeer

Why bring fluffy? I love him, don't get me wrong, but civilian.

Eddie is in charge

Fluffy said crap and then swallowed a bug

Do the elfs mine coal since the gnomes used to?

Lemon easterbunny

Would he rot?

Oh my god Easter bunny is aware as a lemon!!

Sandra doesn't know how to do magic you are putting a lot of faith is someone who has no idea what to do

MAD SANTA THINKS THE EARTH IS FLAT

Why is Betty holding a damn toy sword

Cal needs to be a real boy

Again toy sword against an axe.

Men being OCD on where things go.

Ew, their bellies touch and made a sound.

Betty just "this is sparta"

They are fighting like children and not the centery old beings that they are

Mad santa hating on the beard and I agree

God, this is petty between two Santa's. It doesn't even feel like a fight more like a playground argument.

"Give me back, my son." Bro is way too calm, having his son in enemy hands. He could have destroyed him.

Noel making peace with the gnomes makes me happy. (I have a lot of gnome Christmas stuff)

Honestly, why didn't they make peace a while ago?

The amulet being a chalice lowkey bothers me. As an amulet, to me, tend to be a jeweled necklace. Like saying "the chalice" would still be cool

Hahaha, Scott being yeeted

I want an Olga redeption arc

I wish he says chalice

Befana is a mood

Olga exploring is cute. And making something useful and making a printer ink lol

Again, since mad santa isn't human, DO THEY JUST SPAWN IN?

Scott, i feel like still wasn't listening to Mad santa when he was talking about Cal not wanting to be santa

Befana is saying soup and (I forgot who) said chip and dale.

Cal loving being a Nutt cracker, then immediately had a stroke

Reception arc mad santa

Betty being able to make toys now? OK, was last season a wake-up call for her? Was she just sad about Christmas and couldn't make toys? Did she learn how to make them?

Gibberish is best to make toys

Olga REDEPTION ARC

OLGA TOASTER

mad santa putting himself in jail

GARY SAID DIVA

since mad santa is not human what does he do? Does he go to the yule verse? How does a santa go to the yule verse when they retire? Does mad santa need to die?

Fluffy in jail also is a mood

Again, I think Scott's beard is getting shorter every second

Prom is cute, and all that happened to the Easter bunny? Is he still a lemon?

Scott is thinking Cal is going to college while Carol knows better. Bro, not making it through college.

Mad santa needs therapy let's be honest

Olga breakup with mad santa lowkey sad as it was a cute father daughter relationship. Hateful relationship and cute

Fluffy, not going to lie, honestly added nothing to the show and him being a character felt really pushed. Expessually this last episode.

La befana being "no I don't want a job"

Easter Bunny isn't a lemon anymore. I wish we saw him yell and have a break down

Now there's troll drama. They aren't being racist but speciest? Is season 3 about trolls now?

Betty better not be leaving

Betty and Noel better not leave. I'm sad they are my otp. They are probably leaving as the actors might be getting too old now.

Curtis isn't dead! But then that begs the question, what in the willy wonka happened to unblueberry him?

Where the hell is curtis

"Santa claus is coming to town" as Santa claus is in literally in the crowd

Ew Scott is breaking the fourth wall.

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Final thoughts on this season and the characters:

Carol felt useless and needs a hobby other than telling Gary what to do. I'm honestly sad that her character is feeling flat. I don't exactly know how they CAN fix it as Mrs Claus is very in the background as a whole in the holiday.

Fluffy felt like an unneeded character. His jokes were bland for a comedian. Most of his jokes were about daddy issues, which his character did have, and it wasn't funny tbh. Idk I feel like mad santa could of done better without fluffy being there.

Mad santa and Olga: I love the design and his sass. Olga and him really bounced off eachother well. I loved that Olga didn't put up with Mad Santa and would make fun of him. Olga and Mad Santa were honestly the reason is ticked this far into this reason as they were actually fun.

Cal is a golden retriever with two braincells, and both are thinking about girls. I hate Riley, but she's fits his lack of thought well as she is also head empty. I wish Cal was actually intelligent and not your stereotypical disney boy.

Sandra is the golden child. Sandra, I truly like and was worried she would be as flat as Carol. I'm glad she has magic, but I have no idea where they might go with her magic. Might be interesting if she becomes halloween as that's a legendary we haven't seen.

La befana, I have mixed feelings on this season. I liked her a lot, season 1, but now she just seems weak and not the powerful witch we thought she was in season 1.

Scott....... needs a longer beard. He needs to get his ass out of his head and actually listen and look at his children instead of what HE wants. I want to see him make toys like he did in the movies and actually be in the workshop.

Betty and Noel leaving makes me sad as they were my OTP and will be sad to see them go. I'm scared who the next head elf will be if they do decide not to return from Kribble Krabble. Because none of the elves we see currently are head elf material. Eddie should not be head elf.

Curtis isn't dead????? I need an explanation how he survived.

If season 3 does happen, I want to see more hands on Scott in the workshop. Cal gaining 5 more braincells. Carol having a hobby. Backstory on Gary's eye

[cockadoodlebumtits]

I'll be honest, I always sort of assumed this was a Miss Piggy thing because A Christmas Carol hadn't given her an opportunity to flex her diva/violence muscles yet:

Delighted that it's in the book!

[Edit because I forgot the Image Descriptions:

Image 1: a screenshot from the Dickens December email. The extract reads, '"Mr. Scrooge!" said Bob. "I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!"

"The Founder of the Feast, indeed!" cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it."

"My dear," said Bob, "the children! Christmas-day."

"It should be Christmas-day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. You know he is, Robert! Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow!"

Image 2 is a gif of Miss Piggy from an interview. The subtitles read, 'I just let people know I do karate, and they do what I ask.' End ID.]