#and that's a pretty boring food...

[bumpkling]

consider me a house fandom Australian Cultural Liason: here’s some chase family christmas headcanons!

rowan and his mum definitely drag chase and retcon sister along to midnight mass on christmas day. it, as the name suggests, starts at midnight (imagine sitting awake in lousy wooden chairs on CHRISTMAS EVE/DAY as like. an eight year old. catholicism is stupid) and includes receiving communion (the little wafer, and the wine if you’re old enough). there’s a roman catholic communion chant specific to midnight mass for all you latin enjoyers (me): in splendoribus sanctorum, ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te (in the brightness of the saints, from the womb, before the day star, i begot you)

it’s hot and dry this time of year in australia, so spending the whole of christmas day or boxing day at the beach or the pool is common. i imagine chase and his sister competing in made-up competitions — “i bet i can make the water splash taller with a cannonball!” — with their mum as a judge

“classic catches” is a common one: basically, one person throws the cricket ball out across the pool, and the other takes the most spectacular jump/dive they can to try and catch it before landing in the water (there’s a bluey episode about it). we see chase catch pens/case files/miscellaneous objects a few times throughout the show, so i think he’s honed the skill through games like this lol

bundaberg ginger beer is a classic aussie drink for the summer. it’s not alcoholic, and kind of a stronger ginger ale, made in queensland. virtually synonymous with summer. chase feels like an adult holding the heavy glass bottle, sipping it by the pool, trying not to screw up his face at the strong taste

his family have a christmas day lunch with. yes: prawns on the barbecue. but if i catch any of you calling them shrimp i will have harsh words. you’ve been warned

i have no idea whether other places do this, but christmas meals in australia usually feature ‘christmas crackers’ or ‘bonbons’ (there is a bluey episode about these too). they’re paper and kind of shaped like wrapped tootsie rolls, with trinkets, paper crowns, and little joke cards inside the middle. they’re called crackers because you open them by pulling on either side with someone else, tug-of-war style, and when one side breaks, a little fire cracker lights and makes a small explosion with a crack sound. i think chase looooooves the stupid little crowns and wore them all day as a kid.

on boxing day every year, australia hosts a match of test cricket against another international cricket team. cricket is a slow sport (the boxing day test is like five days long), but visit any aussie household with an adult man present, and the boxing day test is absolutely on the tv. it’s one of those things that make most australians patriotic, even if for the rest of the year they couldn’t care less. i don’t think chase was a cricket kid, but he liked watching craig mcdermott’s fast-bowling against india in ‘85. gave him something to talk about with his mates when school started again.

that said, rowan absolutely had tickets to the big game almost every year, either as work gifts or consolation for his wife and kids when he couldn’t (read: didn’t want to) be there during the holiday celebrations. since it’s held at the melbourne cricket ground, chase probably attended a few. they’re gruelling all-day matches, and not exactly entertaining for young kids, but chase probably looks back at the memories fondly: his mum slathering him with zinc and bug spray, constantly yelling at him to keep his hat on, promising to buy him an icecream at half-time

chase seemed pretty aware of his surroundings as a kid, at least in his home. he never failed to catch his mum’s solemn expressions while cleaning up wrapping paper and preparing platters of fruit and cold cuts, while retcon sister played happily with her presents. rowan never labelled his gifts “from Santa”, not even when retcon sister was young enough not to know: their mum always did.

every year, chase was jealous of retcon sister about something. did she get a larger slice of panettone? did she get one more gift from rowan? did she get to be blissfully ignorant on christmas day, swimming and snacking and not having to worry about how many times mum had topped up her white wine, or how heavy her sighs became as the day got hotter? their competition wasn’t always friendly — sometimes he got pissy, and spat cruel insults at her until she ran off to cry in private. neither of them ever told their mother

[nenoname]

I always thought that the unrealistic part was Stan waiting to fulfill his and Ford's childhood dream right after finishing high school in that boat they found, without any money and expecting to live off the treasure they find, not the dream itself. A lot of people spend their lives on boats, but they have already a lot of money and are properly prepared. It was never about the dream itself being unrealistic to me, but the way Stan wanted to live this dream.

yeah i mentioned this in one of those previous asks about this topic

but on the flipside, folks finding the idea of the older bros sailing when fully prepared+with more than enough funds to be "unrealistic" is so silly to me (like normally i'd assume the main challenge they'd face is a repetitive diet when on the boat but. stan strikes me as the type of guy who mainly ate the same things over the past few decades kasdhaskdha)

[lottieratworld]

hi

[beastblade69]

these two made my 13 yo bisexual arse go nuts lmao

[mira-shard]

Gonna be finally going back to drawing Hp oc's once i'm home-

It's time girlie pop Marina makes a comeback

(And maybe draw my baldur's gate 3 Tav but shh)

[spidergirl-fibula]

listening to any music lately?

Trans women yelling at me, mainly

[kudzucataclysm]

its fun to be excited abt maya. ty kanye

[deanportmans]

Trying to think up better food options for myself because I have limitations in terms of what I can eat and what I can make and when. Frustrating. I need 2 remember 2 have mom help me brainstorm next we hang

[kexoxo]

Date night with my boyfriend❤️

(We made the pastry and the apple cake)

[ferberus-skull]

pixel cat's end i love you.

flight rising.... you're okay (joking, i love you too)

[yardsards]

Sorry that happened to you. (the rock thing) zoomers can truly be gross awful people

sorry it happened to me??? bruh it was fucking *hilarious* and made me laugh really hard and brightened my day. kids can be absolute delights and i'm glad to have them in my community

[gumpistol]

tag dump p.1

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

It doesn't feel real that I'm moving soon. Like I still go to work and make my silly little posts and go home and knit my silly little garments and drink a lot of coffee and eat poorly and go to therapy but in a little over a month my life is going to change so much for the better. Wild.

[fingertipsmp3]

A few times a year I get the urge to learn basically every language ever and then I give up because I get too ambitious. So my new rule is I’m never allowed to not be learning a language. I have to do at least one language lesson per day for the rest of my life

[autism-corner]

yellow!!

[au-drayton-shenanigans]

"Hmmm. What if I make a grilled cheese but I put a tomato slice in it too? I'd call that a bleeding-cheesing. Or something. Sounds tasty. Maybe experimenting with grilled cheese can be a career path for me if I ever cared about a career. I could be Crispin's partner or whatever. There would totally be food crimes too like grilled cheese with peanut butter in it." -🦉