#it's a Christmas thing

[wiproaringreading]

December Goals for December 1 of the Just One More Page BPC. Getting ready for my 2023 challenge of only reading yellow books, by reading lots of blue and red.

Books Featured

Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano

It’s a Christmas Thing by Janet Daily

Candy by Luke Davies

The Kids are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthony

A Brush with Love by Mazey Eddings

The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall-Smith

Providence by Max Barry

The Patron Saint of Liars by Anne Patchett

Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

Throne of Glass by George R. R. Martin

In Love With John Doe by Cindy Kirk

The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[kensatou]

j… jesus oppa ;____;

[honibumii]

Soo What I was saying

[harunayuuka2060]

Skully: Will you be my friend?

MC: I love to! But...

MC: ...

MC: I don't know if I would remember you or even this place.

Skully: ...

Skully: *smiles*

Skully: It doesn't matter. We became friends, and I will cherish this encounter forever. *gives them a tight hug*

MC: ...

MC: You are making me cry... Waaaaaah!

[magic8]

the harringtons

[hitwiththetmnt]

Master Leonardo has some tricks to show Casey for his first Christmas

[shushmal]

okay but a like post-series fic i want that's like: steve harrington being the only man left in hawkins fighting monsters

and not like a 'everyone died, last man standing' way but just. they beat it back, the story ends, nice little tie-up and neatly concluded, eleven loses her powers because their world is completely cut from the other. and life goes on. eddie (yes, eddie lives au don't fight me) goes off with his band, robin-nancy-jargyle off to separate cities for college. the kids go to high school, graduate high school, and scatter across the country. joyce and hop buy a beach house far-far-far away from goddamn hawkins indiana.

steve though. steve stays. he does it too without comment, takes all their calls telling him all these amazing things. the years pass. the calls are fewer and far between. he's mostly in contact with only dustin and robin. except robin's out of country doing some crazy temp job in some remote country, she never catches him at home right now so just leaves him messages. and it takes a couple of weeks for dustin to realize he hasn't gotten steve on the phone.

frantically he calls around "have you heard from steve???" except the most people talk to steve anymore is like phone calls during holidays and holy shit what could have happened??

and what if it's back?

cue everyone who can in that moment, rushing back. eddie hopping on a flight from fucking london direct to indianapolis somehow, heart in his throat. he manages to meet hopper in the airport and they pick up max and dustin at the bus station.

they get to hawkins that is even more different that what they left. a smaller town, a town that shuts down completely when the sun sets. it's creepy and deserted.

except for the fucking upside down monsters of course.

and they're in their stupid little rental in front of this demogorgon and they're screaming but then the thing just goes splat on the concrete and steve fucking harrington is blinking owlishly at them.

"Oh, hey guys!" he calls jogging up to the driver's side window. "Wow, what brought you back down this way? You should have told me, I would have told you about the curfew!"

turns out steve just forgot to pay his phone bill that month, didn't even realize he was missing calls and he's been fighting monsters the entire time because actually they WEREN'T cut off from the upside down at all and he's just been casually fighting monsters for the remaining hawkins residence—the whole town knows now and steve's the guy you call when you have a monster problem

sidebar: WAYNE still lives in hawkins, and he and steve are best friends, eddie munson you are gonna LOSE YOUR MIND

[adobe-outdesign]

The notes on that last Muppet poll I made made me realize that most people seem to mistakenly believe that Muppet adaptations of classic literature are parodies, which isn't true. you have to everything dead straight. in fact, the key to making a Muppet adaptation is to be so faithful to the source material that it's more accurate than 90% of other non-Muppet adaptions

[fabcreature]

you know what, since we've been talking about how annoying it is when people react like "what drugs were they on when they wrote this 🤪" when someone is creative, i just wanna say

everyone who says "HOW IS THIS A KIDS' MOVIE 😱😱", when a kids' movie is a little bit out of the box and features dark or deep imagery and meanings, owes me one thousand euros

[courfee]

christmas season at the wolfstar flat

[wiproaringreading]

Vampire Kim

Kim : Khm allô oui c'est RCM LT Kitsuragi

Harry : Did you say Halloween

Kim : It's midnight

Harry : Hi

Kim : Bye (waiting for him to call back)

Harry : Rude

Kim : What's wrong

Harry :

Harry : Were you awake?

Kim : I was asleep

Harry : You were asleep?

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[hellenhighwater]

Genuinely being a single woman in my thirties, living alone, is such a mixed blessing sometimes. I do love my house and when I'm here I literally never want to leave. But on the other hand, I do get tired of leaving to go hang out with people, even though I love seeing them. Especially because I have such a great group of friends but they live all over the place, geographically, and therefore most of them don't know each other. And I actually really love hosting? But I never have people in my house because logistically it's always more practical for me to go to them than vice versa.

But sometimes I buy new old dishes and wanna just have a little fancy wizard party, but all my guests are far away. Please may I have the teleport spell. Or a high-speed commuter rail system.

[seefasterdraws]

hug! that! captain!