#old man Marley

[vixymix101]

The Memories of a McCallister

[creativegenius22]

On the eleventh day of drawings, my true love gave to me…

Home Alone!

Thank you to @jokerislandgirl32 for your suggestion “Home Alone: Zach making the screaming face perhaps? Or any interpretation of this movie”! I decided to go with a different interpretation for this one! Zach is dressed as Old Man Marley from the first movie and Alessandra is dressed as the pigeon lady from the second! The outfit actually really fits Zach’s aesthetic and I love seeing him in a trench coat! And the pigeon lady fits Alessandra very well seeing as she is a nature loving Wild Kratt!

Hope you guys like today’s drawing! I loved the challenge of creating these outfits in the Wild Kratts style and drawing a pigeon into it as well! Stay tuned for tomorrow’s!

[magnetic-maverick]

Who wants to bet Marley became a foster grandpa to Kevin after the first movie? I also am curious if there is a fanfic where Marley raises Kevin since his parents got arrested for child neglect and child abuse?

[megahorous]

Harry and Marv are basically invincible, but scary/misunderstood old people are their kryptonite

As you know, Pigeon Lady eventually settled down and married Pigeon Man from Hey Arnold

[axelwolf8109]

Honestly Kevin was way too wise for his age....the conversations with Old Man Marley and the Pigeon Lady

[valiantsuitcaseskellington]

Wait a fucking second- does Marley's injury form home alone have fucking foreshadowing/story reference or something???? Wtf??? I JIST realized this! I've been watching home alone ever since I was younger! I'm a fucking adult!! Wtfwtfwtf?!?!?!?!

Holy shit- I looked it up and there are things about this??? And I just never realized????

[mrthemovieman]

[vintage-tigre]

[vice-president-galade]

It's beginning to look a lot like the time of year when I haunt the Jacob Marley/Ebenezer Scrooge tag on AO3

[nerds-yearbook]

Civilization had been thrown into havoc with the outbreak of an atomic war in 1964. By 1974, one town had been surviving using the wisdom of “The Old Man in the Cave” in matters of what to eat and what to grow and other matters of survival. The peace of the town was disrupted by the arrival of soldiers claiming they were trying to unite the survivors and rebuild society. The lead soldier came into conflict with Mr. Goldsmith who was the only one who had been talking with the old man in the cave. To create discord, the lead soldier, named French, convinces the town’s people to eat canned food that the old man in the cave said was dangerous. To further distance the people from Mr. Goldsmith, French learned and revealed to the people that the Old Man in the Cave was actually a computer. However, the soldiers and the people of the town all died of food poisoning leaving only Mr. Goldsmith. ("The Old Man in the Cave", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[undeadchestnut]

Modern day AU Scrooge/Marley concept: they connect on a GRINDR equivalent but because they don't post face pics neither realizes who the other actually is. Ebenezer is mortified when he arrives for their planned hookup and sees it's his boss, but--after getting over his initial shock--Marley thinks the whole thing is serendipity.

Ooooh, what a DISASTER! I love it

Realistically, this is probably the only way those two emotionally repressed dorks would ever actually end up with each other.

[djevilninja]

It’s about time for the music man to rip: First I take a sip, then I like grip The crowd tight into my hand with the loud Intro, then throw lyrics from a cloud like Zeus - I’m the one to get the ladies loose.

Masta Ace - Music Man

[axelwolf8109]

I love the scenes where Kevin bonds with Old Man Marley and The Bird Lady even though he was previously scared of them and then at the end when Marley reunites with his son and then Kevin giving her one of the doves, they're very sweet

[onehalfoftheset]

To be fair, Kevin didn't mean to shoplift and felt worse about that than the torture of the Wet Bandits

Watching Home Alone is so funny it’s like

Kevin’s mom: *hyperventilating into a paper bag* I can’t believe I left my son home alone, he has to be so terrified, my poor baby boy all alone I need to go get him-

Kevin: *actively planning to commit war crimes*

[curryvillain]

OLDIES SUNDAY: Aston "Family Man" Barrett - Soul Constitution (1971)

Before we start off today’s Oldies Sunday, we want to send our condolences to the families of the late Alan Magnus, and the late Aston “Family Man” Barrett who made their transitions over the weekend. May their legacies live on. On Oldies Sunday, we’ve highlighted many who have made the music we love. From Vocalists to Musicians, they have provided sounds and vibes beyond our imaginations,…

[ravencromwell]

Rereading Dickens Christmas Carol for the first time in a long time. And the more I reread, the more it strikes me how seamlessly a queer reading could slip within these pages. Not an especially twee reading, wherein all Scrooge's troubles start and end with grief over Jacob Marley's death. For we know that Scrooge was a "Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" And we know that he and Marley were "two kindred spirits"

And perhaps that very fact makes the similarities to queer life, unintended as they most likely were by Mr. Dickens, achingly poignant to me. Scrooge is, we're told, "secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster." How much that resonates, for so many of us who shield our innermost selves but from a select group of friends. And we know that Scrooge and Marley were, at the very least, certainly that for one another. Scrooge is Marley's sole mourner; his sole executor and beneficiary; and even Dickens notes, "friend." How reminiscent is that of queer couples across history, estranged from their families?

Scrooge lives in a set of chambers that once belonged to Marley—clearly Dickens wanted us to believe Scrooge gave up his own dwellings after Marley's death to economize. But with only a flicker of change, those chambers become _their chambers, rented by Marley as the senior member of the couple. The place is so desolate Dickens notes "one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again." The perfect abode for two queer misers who wanted no one prying into their business.

Marley's name is still above the door of Scrooge's counting-house: a mark by which, no doubt, Dickens meant to convey Scrooge such a penny-pincher he couldn't bother to have it changed. But a thing can be both! mark of frugality to ludicrous excess and! mark of mourning. "sometimes," Dickens opines, "People new to the

business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him."

This is why "death of the author" matters so much, in expanding our interpretations of texts. It is vastly far from the lens Dickens would have intended. But, the idea of a ghost of queerness, so taboo in the society it could barely be glanced at sidewise in this tale that is all about the inexplicable and yet that lingers over everything becomes an astonishing lens through which to read this book. Thinking of Scrooge as a queer man, his "melancholy dinner at his usual melancholy tavern" becomes a eerie prefiguring of the hollowness of days spent by Isherwood's A Single Man. In this universe, little wonder Scrooge doubly hates mention of time with family, marriage, etc. when the precise nature of his grief is both unacknowledged and unacknowledgable.

And readings like this are vital, because the uncomfortable truth is, discrimination doesn't "discriminate between sinners and saints", to borrow a Miranda phrase. It is easy, in my liberal circles, to fight for queer people who hold "the good sorts of politics". But what about men like Michael Hess, culpable for supporting Reagan even as his contemptuous homophobia let the aids epidemic run rampant? How much harder is it to remember Michael had a partner? That he deserves empathy and compassion for being practically tarred and feathered out of the party upon his own aids diagnosis?

Expanding our imaginative universes to include queerness, not as redemptive panacea, but merely as one aspect of identity, personality, often in vicious conflict with others. Even! as we consider those stories equally worthy of being told feels vital if we're ever to truly express the complexity of what queer humanity looks like.