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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
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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!!
#sorry it ain't that long#autistic kristy comp#kristy thomas#dawn schafer#mary anne spier#janine kishi#claudia kishi
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inspired by @sensitiveheartless comic
Thinking abt Dazai being infatuated with Chuuya's resting face after corruption.
Thinking about how he progressively ventured with how much he provided caring touches each time Chuuya is out cold.
These are the only moments he sees Chuuya completely resting, without anger or stress drawn onto his features. These are the only times Soukoku can even have silent moments between them, free of exclaims and insults.
The first few instances Dazai would just sit beside him, observe from afar the way his chest heaves and the blood trickles from his skin. The way he's completely vulnerable without a care in the world, like Dazai's presence is somehow grounding for him, safe. And isn't that the dumbest thing he'd ever concluded?
Then the Dragon Head conflict happens, and Dazai can't help but carress his hair, give him a sense of comfort after Chuuya just told him to never stop him. He doesn't hate it as much as he thought it would.
But then, as they resort to corruption more and more, he'd take a risk and hold his hand, maneuvering him to be more comfortable. It would be a pain to have Chuuya develop essential tremors for how his hands shake at these times, wouldn't it? So he'll keep them steady, never letting the blood stain the bandages, else Chuuya would figure him out.
The next time he'd hold Chuuya completely in his arms, because surely the ground can't be that comfortable, and he'd hate for his dog to get sclerosis or something.
And rarely, when they are truly alone, when Dazai is sure they're in the clear, he'd even lean forward so he's resting on Chuuya's shoulder, almost falling asleep himself. His coat is black, so it'd never show the blood smearing him everywhere. And Chuuya isn't that smart to reckon what happens when he falls asleep. It's fine.
Chuuya would be hurled the moment he conveys the smallest signs of waking up, even if he isn't waking up at all, and Dazai would collect himself with an inhale, struggling to fully accept his indulgence in these quiet moments, and knowing he'd miss them for how gradually shorter they're becoming.
And, in fact, Chuuya had already made the connection, seeing how he wakes up with blood smearing Dazai's white shirt, despite getting nullified solely by the wrist, and being wildely far away from Dazai every time at the result of being thrown, despite feeling like he was cozily held not a second earlier.
Though for how hard Dazai is trying to keep this from him, he doesn't find it in himself to be obnoxious about it. And really, he isn't awake for it anyways, so there isn't a risk of him gagging from how sappy this all is. He'll be lenient this once and grant the bastard what he guesses is some sort of comfort for him.
Thus he never brings it up.
#Dazai leaving Chuuya at 22 might have actually been hard on him too is all I'm sayin#also Dazai you ain't slick I'm sorry#he's actually so embarrassed about it#wow that was long#bsd#dazai osamu#chuuya nakahara#skk#soukoku#bungou stray dogs#ficspiration#bsd headcanon#bsd dazai#bsd chuuya#J's post#J's Writing โ๐ฝ#corrupted chuuya#smitted Dazai so canon
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are they... you know๐ณ๏ธโ๐
#hi. my quota of one original post per month#happy pride and happy overseer yaoi sunday everybody#they're kissing:)#rain world#i really really wanted to add sliver and nsh with iggy but. well to be honest i was just too lazy to make a slugbase cat for it rn#and getting either of them to pop up around iggy is nearly impossible and would take way too long for it to be worth it without one#<- also for clarification the white overseer is sliver. to Me. sorry wind likers#anyways. i do have a white overseer/pebbles kiss screenshot somewhere. and also suns/iggy. because i like it when overseers kiss#but this ain't about them rn๐
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FRANTIC IS HERREWHOOOO
Oh and also the others ig
Gonna come back everyday and show my thanks ;_;
#I'm sorry I turned you yellow it ain't your color#cat of aurora#skyblr#sky cotl#frantic stagehand#ultimate kitten cult outfit GET finally muahahahaha#oh I have longed for this moment
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Glamtober Day 10: Cowboy
If it took more than one shot, you weren't using a Jakobs.
Weapon: Sthalmann Special
Head: Gaganaskin Hat of Aiming
Body: Pioneer's Coat (Kobold Brown)
Hands: Pioneer's Gloves
Legs: Rinascita Poleyns of Aiming (Loam Brown)
Feet: Wrangler's Boots
#ffxivglamtober2024#glamtober 2024#dawntrail spoilers#7.0 spoilers#kitali moonblade#i would apologise for the borderlands reference but i ain't sorry :D#i know this isn't ~accurate~ to what cowboys actually wore but hear me out; long coat sexy#'wow kitali in another long coat huh' and what about it lol#i know what i like
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I remember you're genocides ๐ซต
( do you even remember who moqi is ... hai its me )
now answering to your question.. no sorry i can't remember someone called like that-
(read tags pls)
#i know this thing happens in another scenario#i just remembered watching a video not too long ago where sans says this just here and#well i started drawing blah blah blah until i realized i was wrong all along#i was too lazy to redraw everything that's all#btw sorry for abscense it has been almost three days i think??#i've been trying to draw and stuff but things didn't come out as i wanted and i started to get frustrated#(and i wasn't reblogging anything as well bc i don't wat to fill my profile with reblogs)#this you're all seeing here came out unintentionally and i liked it#although it's a bit too much detailed for something as *unserious* as this ask#but i'm fine with it#i've got two more asks that could work as drawings or mini comics#i'll try to post them asap but i ain't promising anything#cuz mentally i'm kinda unstable my sleep schedule is killing me#so yeah! that's it#undertale#sans#fluffy asks#bunnyoverdose
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fictional character that made you realise your bi?
*sighs* it's her.
Saw her in iron man first and knew I was a goner ;)
#black widow#i knew i was bi like since a year but i hardly told anyone except the people i trusted#now i feel so free and wild#being myself#my sister knows but not anyone else in family#maybe sometime later when i am brave enough#cuz i ain't keeping my gurl like a secret for so long#anyway sorry for rambling but it's her#saw her kicking asses and thought wouldn't mind if she stepped on me#bisexual#happy pride ๐#bi pride
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So for the past 15 yrs Iโve been obsessed with a certain drama king ghost and his chaotic love interests.
Pmd2 community is there an available spot for another fan? Cause BOY do I have feelings about the future trio and I need friends to vent with. Y'all pls say yes Iโm begging
#new art blog who dis?#time to give this a try cause i ain't ever done art blogging#art style all over the place but we die like men i ain't a coward#i had to retrain myself with clip studio cause i haven't drawn in so horribly long so excuse literally everything in this image#future trio#dusknoir#grovyle#celebi#pmd2#pmd eos#my art#memes are probs cringe but i couldn't help myself#to anyone that liked this before sorry i had to recreate my blog cause i set the first one up incorrectly
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Do you think with Kord, Imogen would be going for a 'partners or allies' situation - like with Orym? (I was so relieved when he said that after the vision)
My initial take is that it would be weird for Imogen to seek raw power in this way after holding back from ruidus (plus what she said to the group that night on the roof, and everything that just happened with Delilah) So this feels more... personal?
I'm just curious of your vision!
i am so sorry this gets to you So Late! but to me the way imogen inherently interprets religion already resembles a partnership. whenever imogen invokes faith there is always a prioritisation of power and exchange.
the implication is clear. very fascinating to me that imogen thinks for a holy person to truly lose, he must not only lose his god but he must also lose the status and power granted to him by his faith.
to me this is imogen thinking: a god is just a god. what makes a Faith is what the gods give to its followers first and foremost. i think this view is not malicious at all, considering she genuinely believes this for herself.
because i think back on how when laudna died, imogen saw delilah as a god bc she seemed to be the only one who had sway and power to bring laudna back a second (third) time. was it really hyperbole if there was evidence of worship? how she always kept a second gnarlrock close to laudna's body? begging delilah to take that offering? pleading for guidance? but the moment delilah revealed she was powerless imogen denounced her.
in that same vein, imogen insisted that vecna was not a god because his power and influence was not immediately obvious to her. i think her disdain for the changebringer was because of this same reason.
a show of power impresses her, clearly, so it's all too fitting that she turns to pelor in the very same episode:
what had pelor done for imogen to think he's More Powerful? at that point in time, imogen already knew about deanna and hearthdell. proof upon proof. if he could bring light back from an extended death then he might be able to do something about laudna's. if he could spare an armed angel for a village what could he have spared for a moon?
but the ultimate proof came to imogen in the thalamus vision, witnessing a god whose chin brushed the skies and whose ankle breached the surface of the sea. she saw him smite one of the greatest civilisation in the age of arcanum effortlessly. kord's religion is already synonymous to strength anyway. well, strength, power.
right now she's off to fight something even the gods fear. exandria has called for war. of course imogen is going to pursue the stormlord's thread, the god of battle and warfare, despite the risks to herself. so when kord approached imogen and when imogen responded in kind, it is them recognising the other's sheer power and capability.
the storm is just a bonus thing.
#that being said i do think there is chance she might pursue kord as a genuine follower if only because imogen (and laura) have acknowledged#multiple times that acts of worship is known to bolster a god's prowess considerably. every prayers will have to count or wtvr.#immult speaking tag#thunk tag#long post#asks tag#thebeedleboat#''she sought delilah even after the evil things she did? seeks pelor after hearthdell? kord after aeor? imogen bad!!!''#girl they ain't special! predathos and the very powers imogen was born with are considered evil bad too! how you use it is what will matter#i have so much more to say but the post gotta end /somewhere/ and i am alr bad at getting straight to the point. i am so so sorry.
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RAS! HERE'S YOUR BUNDLE OF JOY!
Here's Starboy from @rascalentertainments Wish au called Wish Granted!
#sorry it took so long!#got a bit busy#disney wish#wish au#wish granted au#wish starboy#fanart#wish 2023#zee's doodles#also sorry if his nose ain't big enough ๐
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thinking about whether or not FL sheds his fluff
imagine its summer and after a long day of dealing with whatever crap goes down in their workplace while having to deal with the ridiculously high temperatures, reader just wants to cuddle with their beastly lover (who just so happens to be covered in 90% metal and would definitely feel cool to the touch) but as soon as they step into their house, they realise something. There is purple fluff on almost every surface of the house and not a few seconds later did the culprit come sprinting towards the reader, bringing them into a hug, delighted to see them after a long day. Reader reaches to pet FLโs fluff only to watch it fall out with the single light touch. At first they immediately retract their hand afraid that FL has contracted some sort of illness that causes hair (fluff?) loss. FL looks at reader questioningly, wondering why they arenโt giving him his usual pets. Reader tells FL to put them down and as soon as their feet touch the ground, they are booking it out of the house and back into the city to look for Zhongli. After finding the man, they explain the situation and Zhongli laughs, telling them that FL is simply shedding his fur to cope with the hotter weather recently. With this the reader lets out as sigh of relief and heads back hime just to find FL pouting, thinking that reader had abandoned him. Reader then apologises to him and exxplains what happened and the situation is then cleared up.
(Imagine reader collecting the fur and using it for some art project)
-Sleepy anon
sleepy anon, i LOVE the way your mind works
Foul Legacy immediately starts purring and nudging himself against you, getting soft purple fuzz all over your clothes- can you scritch him, please? it's scratchy! he shakes his head slightly and even more tufts of it fall out and drift onto the floor, and you just let out a single long sigh, opening the closet to fetch your broom. the next one to two hours are spent gathering every single bit of fluff that you can find, sweeping it off the floor and tables and random corners of your house- how it got on top of the bookcase of all things, you'll never know- and finally sitting Legacy down and giving his fur and hair a thorough brushing for good measure, clouds of lilac fur clinging to the comb and a very happy purring Abyss creature tilting his head this way and that so you get all the right areas. it takes until nightfall, and you're exhausted afterwards, but finally your house is clean and Legacy has shed all that excess fur, the ruff around his shoulders looking smaller but more manageable and Legacy looking very comfy and pleased with himself
so now you're left with a large bag of shed Abyss monster fur- what do you do with it?
well, the obvious answer is to make it into yarn and knit. not that you really need anything knitted right now, given the temperature and all, but it'll be nice once winter comes around again. you have enough Foul Legacy fluff to knit a few scarves, so the first one you make goes to none other than Legacy himself, who quickly wraps it around his neck with a delighted trill, cooing at the familiar texture and scent. he insists that you make a matching one for yourself- that way everyone knows that you're his and he's yours! the last one goes to Zhongli, who smiles warmly as he picks it up and asks what the material is. without missing a beat you just point at Legacy's fur, and have to bite your tongue to keep from wheezing when Zhongli snorts a laugh into his teacup
#genshin impact#childe#tartaglia#foul legacy#foul legacy childe#genshin tartagalia#genshin childe#genshin tartaglia#SORRY EVERYONE I PASSED OUT YESTERDAY I PROMISE I AM ALIVE#legacy asks you to help him every year from now on#you always know the best places to scritch and the best ways to brush out the excess fluff#don't worry anon i did get your request aaaaaaaa#i just spent too long staring at it because i liked it so much#anyways my feet hurt so much grahh#short scenario#other's stuff#sleepy anon#chit chat#i ain't gonna tag this good evening because i don't even know what time it is where i normally am#anyways tomorrow i search for candy for my friends#and it is fukcing WIMDY right now
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two sweaty, horny dudes โ
sauna โ
no plot โ
enjoy ๐ฆ
(or: Olli/Allu get it on at the band's sauna evening for no reason whatsover other than simply wanting each other so goddamn much)
~*~
Don't bother, Joonas, let's leave the IT club to nerd about whatever in peace.
Niko's teasing words had barely stopped echoing in the sauna when Olli's lips were already on Aleksi's shoulder, his tongue peeking out to lick a droplet of sweat above his collarbone. The boldness made Aleksi inhale sharply before nudging Olli away, although there was nothing in the world he wanted more than Olli's mouth on his skin.
"Don't," he whispered. "Not here..." Olli looked up at him from under hooded eyelids and the long lashes that framed his darkened eyes, and suddenly Aleksi could no longer remember why he was denying Olli anything at all. That was why he made no effort to stop Olli when he leaned further in to take a mouthful of Aleksi's skin just below his earlobe in his mouth; in fact, Aleksi tilted his head to give Olli more room to do so and hoped the tinted glass door of the sauna would veil their...carnal activities.
By the time they heard the showers being turned off and the door to the changing room closing, Aleksi was already half-hard from Olli's hot, wet kisses and his fingers digging into Aleksi's inner thigh. By the time the last noises of laughter and friendly banter died out in the next room, Olli was already lying down on the top bench of the sauna, back arching and low moans filling the small room as Aleksi mouthed his stomach with hungry, sloppy kisses landing all around his navel and along the happy trail to savour the salty taste as much as to worship the sweet softness of his belly. By the time Aleksi finally touched the tip of Olli's pulsing cock with his tongue, Olli was but a squirming mess under his touch, all but begging Aleksi to take him in his mouth.
The long, lingering licks Aleksi left on Olli's cock drove Olli crazy โ Aleksi knew this from the way Olli's groans adopted a more needy undertone โ but he had no intention to fulfil Olli's wordless pleas before he'd have the man tremble for it.
"Ale, I need to cum so bad," Olli panted, grinding his erection against Aleksi's lips that were now leaving light kisses along Olli's hardness. A lone drop of precum appeared at the tip, which Aleksi is quick to kiss away.
"Ale, please," Olli was practically whining now, "please let me cum in your mouth.
"Are you close?" Aleksi asked, although he knew the answer when he took Olli in his hand and felt it twitch in his fingers, and when he saw how Olli's abdomen contracted from the touch, and when he heard the litany of swear words leaving Olli's mouth.
"So fucking close I'm gonna cum on your face if you're not gonna take me in your mouth soon."
There was no doubt Aleksi wouldn't have loved that either, and he almost told Olli so; nevertheless, he guided Olli's cock in between his waiting lips. Hollowing his cheeks, he began sucking in rhythm with Olli's groans, making sure to let his lips graze against the sensitive tip before swallowing down again until his septum ring was nearly touching Olli's pubes. He felt Olli throbbing against his tongue, twitching in between his lips, thrusting towards the ceiling under his hands that rested on Olli's hip bones, and with every lust-filled movement Aleksi felt as if there were two, fatally horny wolves inside him: one that was determined to keep Aleksi bobbing his head up and down to help Olli reach his peak sooner rather than later, and one that was curious to see how long Aleksi could keep Olli on the edge before they'd both lose their minds.
Eventually his motive to please Olli outplayed any other, more selfish desire he might have had and he tightened his lips around Olli's cock. Olli buckled his lips uncontrollably when Aleksi added a hand to the base of his hard-on to massage it, to feel Olli's arousal under his fingertips, to revel in every twitch and throb that inspired Aleksi's own aching cock that stood neglected between his thighs. He was desperate to touch himself โ he was only human, after all โ but as it turned out, his hands had far more important tasks to tend to: while the other was busy gripping Olli's cock, the other had sneaked up to Olli's chest to bury his fingers in the bush of chest hair which Aleksi so loved; which Olli so loved to leave peeking from the collar of his shirt just to drive Aleksi crazy; which Aleksi couldn't wait to cover in his white semen again, like he had done just the other night on the couch of his studio.
Nearly lost in the memory of frotting himself on Olli's chest, Aleksi was almost caught off guard by Olli starting to shoot his load in his mouth. At the height of his orgasm, Olli's slurred words are a mix of fuck and Ale and don't stop, and Aleksi keeps on working his tongue and lips until every last drop of cum has been swallowed, until the only noises left in the sauna are Olli's heavy breathing and the quiet cracking of the fire.
Seeing Olli's naked body in front of him, all spent and relaxed and beautiful, Aleksi could no longer ignore his own bodily needs. He sat back against the wooden panelling behind him and finally took himself in his hand, but he only had time to give himself a few, much-awaited strokes before Olli's fingers were replacing his own and a pair of lips were crashed against his. As if desperate to taste himself off Aleksi's tongue, Olli kissed him hungrily while pumping Aleksi's erection with vigorous, experienced flicks of his wrists, which had no business making Aleksi as close to his climax as it did. Yet, he found his lips mirroring the hasty movements of Olli's, grinding his erection into Olli's fist the best he could from his tight position in between Olli and the wall, and even letting Olli help Aleksi's knee up against his own chest, pushing him further against the wall as Olli's other hand teased around his hole.
Without warning, Olli slid one of his fingers in, and with even less warning, Aleksi came hard with his bottom lip tightly in between Olli's teeth so that his cry of pleasure was muffled somewhere inside Olli's hot mouth. When Aleksi at last regained the little that was left of his senses, the fire in the sauna stove had already died out; the fire in Olli's eyes, however, drilling into his from up close as he milked the last of Aleksi's cum, only seemed to flare up.
~*~
They made out under the shower, somehow leisurely and with great urgency at the same time. Olli was wet and smooth and hot under Aleksi's palms, his every curve and bone and muscle adding fuel to the already blazing flame that was scorching Aleksi's chest and groin, even without Olli's hand stroking his cock anew.
When Aleksi came again, spilling his load on Olli's fingers and stomach, his knees trembled under him from the strength of his second orgasm that evening, nearly making him fall at Olli's feet.
He wanted to ask Olli if he would catch him if he did; if he'd crumble under the weight of it all, would Olli be there to pick him up again?
Somehow the words never left his mouth.
(Perhaps Aleksi was afraid to hear the answer.)
Instead, he got on his knees again.
#weewoo here it is! sorry it's so late (for those of you on my side of the globe at least)#i had sauna myself tonight and... yeah maybe i had Thoughtsโข what of it#ngl though i have wanted to write this exact fic for soooooo long#didn't have any particular universe in mind when writing this but if you imagine this to happen in the infidelity AU i ain't gonna stop you#also pleeeeeeaaase let me know how i did i am so insecure about my pwp-writing skills ๐ฉ#random tumblr ficlets by theflyingfeeling#blind channel rpf#blind channel fanfiction#ollixallu#edit. added a teeny weeny detail before anyone could reblog this lol
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Alright my friends - the twinkly lights are up, the house smells like pine, you've got every manner of red-green-and-gold wrapping paper shoved in a corner - without a doubt it's that time of year: Christmas. As you know, I've been disappointed to see so few entries into the Christmas rom-com genre this year from Netflix, so I've started to explore further afield to find something ripe for your enjoyment.
And now, I'm pleased to present...
The Worst Movies on HBO/MAX/Discovery+/HGTV??? (idefk), Right Now!
As it turns out sometime last year Discovery+ teamed up with MarVista to produce some Christmas romance content with random tie-ins to their FoodNetwork/HGTV network stars. This has created some really... oh, let's just call it interesting content.
I mean... you gotta know from the outset that there's no way these will be good. NO fucking WAY.
FIRST, as a whole, I don't think these movies know what their purpose is. Are they supposed to promote the reality shows of their cameo stars? Are they supposed to give their reality stars an opportunity to flex some acting muscle!? Are they supposed to be *GASP* good stories? NOBODY KNOWS!
SECOND, it's possible that the point of these movies is just to promote the reality show format as like... a concept. But the thing is -- NOT TO FORESHADOW OR ANYTHING -- that comes with some very weird baggage. LIKE SUPER WEIRD.
Let's break these down in round-up style.
The first movie that apparently created the mold* was Candy Coated Christmas (2021) - *pun intended. This vehicle cameos Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, who gets about two minutes of screen time which apparently warrants her this kind of promotional one-sheet placement:
...like okay.
A shocking number of these stories involve people who are in financial peril. In this one, a hotel heiress finds herself on the brink of bankruptcy, and, on daddy's orders, she heads to a small town to evict the peppermint farmer tenants at her family's property who are, you guessed it, on the brink of bankruptcy.
In this movie, the spirit of Christmas (or spearmint gum in this case), is a plan to rescue these two financial catastrophes, oh, and they fall in love. Sure. Why not.
This movie is an empty candy-coated shell of a romance that I can best describe as serviceable. But apparently it was enough of a hit that the rest of the movies followed. So we can blame this candy cane for the Christmas rogering that followed in 2022.
Continuing from worst to most egregious...
A Gingerbread Christmas (2022) - This one cameos that Ace of Cakes dude (no idea his name and not interested in looking it up) who is judging a gingerbread competition that the main character desperately needs to win to save her dead mom's foundering bakery - YES another fucking business in peril.
Her love interest is the general contractor/baker/single dad who has taken up daily residence in the bakery where he is apparently simultaneously working on fixing the place up and also doing all of the baking........?
Yeah, it makes little sense, and yet somehow this is not the worst of the four entries this year.
Both of these actors are people you'll recognize and will have you thinking heyyyyy where is she/he from? (Let me help you out: The Good Place/Reacher). They're fine.
This is fine.
It's just... not going to leave you feeling much of anything. And that's the exact opposite of what these movies are supposed to do. You're not killing me, you're just boring me. There's nothing spicy in this gingerbread, baby! ZING! Nailed 'em.
There's a kind of nice subplot about a new immigrant entering the contest as well, but maybe I have a soft spot in my heart for that. This definitely does not seem like it's going for the same audience as some of the Hallmark movies, but it's also only gesturing at substantive things rather than really delivering anything of substance. Hey guys, did you know that immigrant Muslims can celebrate Christmas too!?
MOVING ON.....
One Delicious Christmas (2022) - Alright... where do I even start here??? Continuing on our theme of struggling businesses, this one slightly breaks the pattern by telling us a story of the owner of a boutique inn who needs to find a new chef for her family business so that she can bring on a financial partner to help ease the strain of her sole ownership.
The cameo in this one is Bobby Flay who comes in as a restaurant critic to comment on the food. Sigh. I know. Look I'm just reporting here, don't harm the messenger.
Alright there are three things here that just drove me completely batty: First, and I hate calling this shit out, but I gotta say the lead actress here has some partial vocal fry thing going on with her voice that is just impossible to watch for an hour and a half. I just wanted to shake her and be like BREATHE THROUGH YOUR CHEST. Fucking hell. It's a trial being me sometimes.
Second, obviously the theme here is cooking, but the whole story is based around the fact that the chef is doing new and risky recipes that the inn owner is nervous her people won't like... but like... the recipes are super basic? Like scalloped potatoes instead of mashed? Lobster bisque!? None of the new menu items read as dangerous or cutting edge -- especially if you watch the Food Network -- SO WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT1?!? Argh, okay.
Last, and this is just a weird thing that probably only I noticed, but like all these movies seemed to go out of their way to do mixed racial castings, which is a good thing, but then they also seem to have not made any adjustments for that in terms of story.
In this one, the love interest/chef is played by a Canadian actor of Filipino ancestry -- but his character name is Preston Weaver. Preston. PRESTON. PRESTON. There are also repeated references in the story to cooking for and with his grandmother, but no mention, not even one, that maybe her cooking wasn't American-style food? I mean, it is perfectly possible for a person to have their family immigrant story have happened so long ago, that even their grandparent doesn't make traditional foods from their country of ethnic origin, but it also seems WEIRD. Like some sort of weird white washing??? idk. Jury is still out on this I guess. I just don't think it would have killed them to reference one Filipino recipe or technique, especially since that's a pretty rich food culture. You know, as compared with making a main plot point that the fucking LOBSTER BISQUE keeps selling out.
(Is there a whiter word than bisque? I don't fucking think so).
I HAVE GONE ON TOO LONG. THE NEXT ONE.
Designing Christmas (2022) - Alright, I'm running out of steam and so I'm gonna make this one quick. This one cameos that dark haired lady from Love it or List it not sure her name not looking it up (Hilary???). This one is about a couple who work as a designer/contractor pair on a reality show and in order to save their failing show they decide their last show of the season will be a restoration of her family's old home that she just purchased and SURPRISE TO NO ONE WHO WATCHES THESE SHOWS there's a crack in the foundation blahblahblah WHO CARES!?
NO ONE.
This one really suffers from the fact that the male lead is just boring.
Honestly, that's a theme throughout these movies. The male leads are super weak and boring. Tepid. Just absolutely forgettable characters played by actors who are deciding whether the fuck to fire their agents.
What's weird about this one is the way that the production really styles it after a reality show -- even including those restoration classic before and after reveals. But that is nothing on the last one......
A Christmas Open House (2022) -- Alright the cameos in this one are that Hometown Whatever couple who have been "restoring" houses in their hometown in someplace in the south and by restoring, I mean flipping but under the guise of home restoration.
ANYHOW - the plot is that this big city house stager teams up with a realtor to sell her family home to make sure her mom gets the best purchase price on the sale. It's just like those old Christmas classics that really capture the Christmas spirit - A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life. You know. Really in that anti-capitalist vein.
Deeeeeeeep sigh.
So... I don't even know how to say this. But this movie involves a Christmas miracle.
See, it turns out the house stager accidentally gave the furniture company the wrong credit card number, so the day before the showing ON CHRISTMAS the furniture people came and took back all of the perfectly staged furniture and GASP knocked down the (fake) Christmas tree! WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO1?!? HOW ARE THEY EVER GONNA SELL THE HOUSE ON CHRISTMAS NOW!?$!
BUT IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
The whole town shows up to bring them furniture that they can use to stage the house before the potential buyers arrive. Like... they show up with their odds and ends so that the house can be staged. SO THAT THE HOUSE CAN BE STAGED FOR SALE. Are... are you guys with me here? The miracle that the whole town rallied behind was bringing FURNITURE to STAGE A HOUSE. FOR SALE.
I just... I am walking away.
We are so fucking far from Dickens here we might as well be in a new fucking holiday.
And we are.
Because that's the whole point of all of these movies.
It's not Christmas.
It's American Christmas.
For all the shit that the nostalgic, small-town worshipping Christmas movies get this time of year, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say these movies are more insidious. Instead of blatantly trying to valorize the small town spirit, the support of family and friends, and getting back to your roots, these movies are like the Scooby Doo villain of Christmas movies. Rip off the mask at the end for the big reveal:
IT WAS CAPITALISM ALL ALONG!?!?
Anyhow, I don't know who was supposed to read these scripts before they became movies, but everyone involved will probably be laughing all the way to the bank.
Don't watch these. They're not funny enough to be worth the soul-gutting feeling of realizing what these movies are for.
Nothing.
Empty.
Spiritless.
Candy-coated capitalism.
#ptpt reviews#long post#not sorry#ptpt has opinions#i have actually watched some good ones#but this ain't it
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We need to stop saying "kids/teens don't go out ever bc they rather stay on their phone and on TikTok all day ๐ ๐ ๐ "
One, Well maybe stop fucking hating us? Stop acting like we're pests , stop closing malls and stuff, stop being obligated to have a adult with us everywhere?
two, SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING CHOICE. My family never take me outside when I want because it's "inconvenient" to them and they don't wanna deal with my shit. I don't have the choice I'm barely allowed to go outside Ever
Shut up
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there Iโm actually studying for once I have a math test on monday..math is 2nd period for me
just taking a quick break and my rushed handwriting looks like shit
we absolutely love my math teacher eugh
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your handwriting looks so tasty.
let me just take a bite outta that paper let me utilize my chompers to chew that slim sheet let fit my laughing gear around that portion
you go ceneid!! make sure to take lots of breaks and drink water, get some rest if you can. don't be an idiot and get sick again. like me. ahahsafds. dies.
( sfjasdkfj i have math fourth hour and i think my math teacher is actually insane cause he's talked about a medical history of insane people in his family he said that people who think they arent insane are insane then proceeded to tell us that he wasn't insane, we were the crazy ones here )
i actually love him though hes so silly !!!
#๐ฌ โ ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ . . . โง#๐ฑ โ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ ! โก#๐ฅฆ โ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ ? โ#wowjfldsjfsd guys look arent hte new tags sooooooo prettyytytytyttyy#how do people even retag all their posts i ain't doing that omg that would take so long#anyways#sorry for answering all these asks so late im getting back into it through queueing shit n stuff
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Not really an ask at all, but I just wanted to say that I love how your little chicken sona looks like a feathery sausage.
And, of course, to say that I love every single bit of art you do and impatiently await the next comic page so I can thirst some more over this wet cat of a man. Hehehe~
Thank you anon ๐ My little 'Kens are very dear to me, they are in a way me after all, to see affection for them and their odd form makes me as happy as can be~
You are just an absolute sweet pea! ๐ I hope I don't keep you waiting too long for the next page, but just in case, let me quickly indulge you in some wet cat of a man right now UvO
#okkennymay#Vlad Masters#Danny Phantom#'kens#'ken#askkenny#anon ask#I'm so happy to finally be answering some of these asks <3#I'm sorry it's taken me so long#I'm embarrassed to admit to being scared to interact with anyone because my body/poor health punishes me for it almost every single time#Same thing when I post anything it's utterly maddening but I ain't never gonna stop throwing myself at the wall created from my fear#I GOT DREAMS AND AMBITIONS BODY COME ON WORK WITH ME HERE ;C;
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