#dawn Schafer

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Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call The Babysitters Club!

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have you done your daily click

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As usual I'm a day late and a dollar short, but I have some feelings anyway.

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I MISS THEM SO MUCH

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Unlabled Dawn Schafer Stimboard

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Feminist Recommendation: The Babysitters Club

When a group of girls decide to start a babysitting business together in their home town of Stoneybrook, they find comfort, support and friendship in each other as they make it through middle school. Kristy Thomas is a headstrong 'tomboy' and a natural born leader. Mary Anne Spier is a shy girl with a love of musical theater and has an overbearing, protective father watching over her. Claudia Kishi is a creative fashionista who flunks out in the maths department of her schooling. Stacey McGill is the chic new girl from New York with a secret, and Dawn Schafer is a determined activist and loyal friend. With their creation of 'The Baby-Sitters Club' we see the five girls grow, as we follow individual stories of their babysitting ventures.

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Fandom: The Baby-Sitters Club

Sample Size: 355 stories

Source: AO3

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hello all

welcome back the kristy thomas autism analysis, where i'm rewatching the show and writing down her autistic traits as i see em (as well as noting any neurodiverse traits in the other girls). here's part 1, 2, 3/4 and 5 if you haven't seen them yet.

due to the sensitive nature of episode 6, i won't be doing a list of kristy's traits this time around. however, i will take the time to note that claudia and janine remind me of when different neurodivergent people clash - specifically, autistics and adhders, especially since claudia accuses janine of not having feelings, and when janine tries to break down the facts to her to reassure her in her own way, claudia snaps back at her and hurts her. also, janine seems averse to touch this episode.

kristy isn't featured in episode seven that much, considering it's stacey and mary anne centric. and in episode eight there's not much to comment on, just some stimming here and there.

without further ado, let's get into this.

Episode 8/9

it's been mentioned before, but kristy is, from what we've seen, the one least concerned about going up to authority figures. some autistic people don't have a sense of embarrassment or second thoughts in situations where there should be. i don't know if my words are coming across right or if this makes sense.

kristy mentions the baby-sitter's club every other sentence. hyperfixation!!

some minor stimming in the form of fiddling with her fingers

problems with volume control ("'CAUSE ARCHERY IS A SURVIVAL SKILL!"), which many autistic people have trouble with and often don't even realize they're doing

additional notes

mary anne stimming, fiddling with her brade!! she's also very anxious about not being with her friends, which is understandable, but being in a new environment can be hard yet bearable with friends and constants, but is really stressful when you have nothing to latch onto.

idk if i read dawn as neurodivergent, but if i do, then she reads as having a hyperfixation on social justice :)

and folks, that's season 1 wrapped up!!! i hope you enjoyed me being absolutely rabid about this little ginger gal and her friends. i'll probably do season 2 at some point, though likely not soon. this has been really fun!!

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The Baby-Sitter’s Club (2020): Season 1 Episode Titles

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I love me a good poll

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Shirt is from Anthropologie

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#9 The Ghost at Dawn’s House: Chapter 15

OMG it’s sleepover time!

Next book I’m doing is Karen’s Newspaper. Yes, I’m braving a Little Sister book for this blog but it’s also got some of the funniest moments in BSC history in it.

BSC SLEEPOVER! Surprisingly, the movie choices du jour are mostly “current” stuff - Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Sixteen Candles. These outweigh the two typical BSC movie choices - Mary Poppins and The Parent Trap. I think we can assume Stacey suggested Mary Poppins and I remember Mary Anne saying Sixteen Candles is one of her favorite movies.

They can't choose which two to watch and voting doesn't work. So Kristy picks two out of a hat, since she's the Club President and their Supreme Lord and Master. Ghostbusters and Sixteen Candles it is.

They did makeovers too, compliments of Stacey and Claudia. First of all, Kristy let them do makeup on her without her fake-puking like Dawn in a Burger King? Number two, I pity whoever was on the receiving end of a Claudia makeover. “Claudia, you’ve got it set on WHORE!”

And Mary Anne is fangirling over Cam Geary again. Patience, Mary Anne. You’ll have your own personal Cam Geary in one more book.

While watching the Stay Puft marshmallow man in Ghostbusters, Kristy gets a hankering for s'mores. Of course, Dawn laughs; she doesn't have sugary crap in her house! But she underestimated Claudia and Kristy, who came prepared with an artillery of junk food - chocolate, marshmallows, M&M's, chips...oh, and some crackers for the boring health food people. Damn you and your diabetes, Stacey! You ruin sleepovers!

The candy freaks run off to make their s'mores and Stacey and Dawn roll their eyes at them. While they're gone, Dawn decides to get some revenge. And what better way than to scare the shit out of them with the secret passage? Hey, Dawn must like this idea because she uses it on Mary Anne later on in the series. Dawn explains about her secret passage and Stacey responds, “Hey, I know plenty about secret passages.” No, she agrees to take part in Dawn's vendetta against people who bring sugar into her house.

The s'mores eaters then come back and they all finish the movie. When it's done, Dawn brings them upstairs under the guise of putting MORE makeup on Mary Anne to make her look like Cam Geary's girlfriend Corrie Lalique. Well, when they all go upstairs, Dawn says she and Stacey are going to get some sodas. We then get this wonderful exchange between Claudia and Dawn:

“You have soda?” asked Claudia skeptically. “Or do you mean Perrier or sparkling, saltless mineral water from an artesian well or something?” I tried not to sound sarcastic. “Yes, we have soda. Real soda. Mom bought it for the party. One hundred percent sugar.” “Good,” said Claudia, not cracking a smile.

First of all, how the fuck does Claudia know the word “artesian?” She probably spells it “arteezhun.” Second of all, shut the hell up, Claudia. Dawn was nice enough to accommodate you. Wow, did I just defend Dawn?

Stacey and Dawn sneak into the passage, rap on the walls and the pipes and freak the shit out of everyone inside. Mary Anne goes nuts and screams that it's the ghost and Kristy is all confused. I guess this means there’s more ghosts in Stoneybrook besides Ben Brewer! Well, Dawn and Stacey come out of the passage and everyone laughs over it. Dawn tells them all about it and Claudia immediately wants to go in. But wait! They hear noise coming from the passage. And since it's 1 a.m., it isn't Nicky. Or could it be? Maybe the triplets stuck his hand in a glass of water and he ran out of the house to blow off some steam.

The girls go downstairs to sleep and the next morning discuss what they should do in the last days before they start 8th grade for the 1st of 193 times. And we've seen food in mouth dialogue and allergy dialogue and butchered accents and here we have probably the only case of face-in-pillow dialogue. Mary Anne says, “Having a cookout,” but instead it sounds like “Havee a fuh-fow.”

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WAIT SHE'S NOT IN S2 WHY INTERNET WHYYYYY

OMG I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THE ACTRESS THAT PLAYS DAWN! SHE PLAYS AMERICA CHAVEZ!!!! MORE DESCENDANTS, MARVEL OVERLAP 😭😭

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This evening I beat my first nest of gloom hands and Phantom Ganon! Tulin and Sidon helped a lot.

I should really probably try to take out the electric temple and fire temple so Riju and Yunobo can help me too, but I've been stalled on that while trying to get a bit stronger and better equipped and by this point it just sort of feels like Tulin and Sidon are my team and the other two will feel like Dawn in the Baby-Sitters Club. (To be clear, I mean Dawn in the original books, where she came on board as a replacement for Stacey after she moved back to New York City, rather than Dawn in the Netflix TV series, where she joined slightly after the club began but was Stacey's contemporary rather than replacement.)

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A Beacon Street Girls oddity

My favorite BSG member, Avery, is pretty much an amalgam of my two least favorite Baby-Sitters Club members, Kristy and Dawn.

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TV SHOW REVIEW: The Babysitters Club

★★★★★ - 5 stars

“With all the things I can do, the only thing they care about is the one thing I can’t.”

Based on the novels by Ann M. Martin, The Babysitters Club follows a group of early-teenage girls as they learn about friendship, life, and babysitting.

At its core, the Babysitters Club depicts the importance of friendship and family - how relationships define us as people. It also shows the importance of identity. Each character displays different interests - such as art, theatre and politics - showing how discovering your own interests at a young age is extremely important to development. Furthermore, the show depicts young love, grief and important life experiences, such as first periods. It shows everything that makes up the life of a teenager, and how integral each and every experience we have is to who we are as individuals.

With a diverse cast, impeccable acting and well written storylines, The Babysitters Club is an iconic show that should be on everyone's watchlist.