#anything goes december

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Muppet Christmas Carol / Gonzo the Great as Charles Dickens

It's been well documented that the costumes in this movie are more detailed and accurate than they have any right to be, including (or especially) on the Muppet characters. Here is Gonzo as Charles Dickens in all his glory. Look at his patterned waistcoat! His beautifully fitted greatcoat and top hat! His striped socks, which don't even show unless the trouser legs are specially pulled up! And just imagine being in the workshop chuckling to yourself while creating this costume, assuming nobody but you and a few costume nerd friends would ever notice the level of craftsmanship, unaware that large portions of this newfangled thing called the internet would be squeeing over them thirty years later. Ann Hollowood and Polly Smith, I salute you.

[sweet-christabel]

One Dress a Day - bonus challenges

Anything Goes December Emerald City - East (Florence Kasumba)

I haven’t seen this show, but stumbling across this costume has sparked my curiosity. It looks so cool in motion! The feathers around the collar look great and create a dramatic silhouette. I’m not sure if those are gloves or jewellery, but they look amazing.

[smimon]

Brand new money making scheme from giant Käärijä: ...a kissing booth?

Let's do something fun 🙌 askbox is OPEN from now until February 15th!

Rules:

Go to my askbox and send one or more characters who would like a kiss 😙

(optional) if you want, you can specify what kind of kiss it will be (e.g. on the cheek, on the hand, air kiss, etc.)

On February 14th I will answer the asks by drawing all the kisses!

[taliaglitch]

hello everyone look at my bg3 character (+ the dream guardian who i based off my other character from early access)

[chrisbangs]

hello... (and bye ig 👋)

[most-fuck-able-ff14]

I said y'all ain't ready for week 18 but I don't think y'all are ready for this week either. i have no idea what the gage in interest this will be but i'm sure someone whos figured out the pattern will know and can tell me. -Mod Fisher

[cuntwrap--supreme]

My mom: *telling me how she's only done what's best for her kids*

Me: *reminds her of a time when she absolutely did the worst for us because it benefitted her more than not doing it would have*

My mom: You have such a creative memory! Wow! You're gaslighting me! This is abuse!

[throttlegainwell]

So these are my main fic writing goals (none of which I'm working on again until, like... mid-December, at the earliest--I don't have the time rn and I'm way too fried to write anyway).

CAVEAT: Needless to say, this is all ridiculously ambitious and will keep me busy probably until the end of time, or at least until I get bored of something and move on (which I will, definitely). I don't anticipate keeping up this year's writing pace into next year, and even that wouldn't be enough to complete all of this particularly quickly (especially because some of these are more involved--not all, but some). Like, I really don't write fast. At all. It's an illusion. At the very least, I don't do so consistently--I do it in bursts.

pdwm 'verse:

memorized your smile lines (Jonathan at NYU--pretty ambitious, but I kind of have to write it) holding incandescent light (Joyce working through the stuff I introduced in Iconoclast and building a future for herself, also very ambitious) the handful of more interstitial pdwm stories that I've mentioned (all probably in 5k range, I'm guessing)

Would be awesome to finish pdwm, basically, and mark it complete.

Also:

finish the 4 prompts/requests I received for my milestone event (2 porn, 1 shippy, 1 character study) (bolded because that's up there, priority-wise)

finally write some Jargyle

finish the Carol/Nancy one

Finish Safelight (don't know if I'll post it, but either way, you'll hear about it when it's finished lol)

properly plot and finish Riptide (because I need a fun comic book sci-fi crossover in my life)

Finish And Where Do You Rest?

Finish strange is your language

Finish Rainy Day (probably won't post)

Finish In Bocca al Lupo (THG; might post, might not)

Finish that one profoundly upsetting Johanna & Finnick story that I almost certainly won't post

Finish/post something from literally any fandom other than the main ones I've been posting about lately (I do write them--I just don't seem to have finished them in a while) (I'm thinking it'll be Scrubs)

finish any of the X-Men WIPs I have (though preferably the one with 616!Cable getting whammied into the X-MCU and meeting a slightly less fucked up but deeply grieving Scott)

finish literally anything from Circadian, but preferably Ozone

write Farscape fic (because I haven't written any in years, but my feelings for Crichton and Chiana are very, very big--no, you don't understand, I love them)

finally write the fucked up Hard Core Logo porn that I've been thinking about for more than a decade

These represent a fraction of my WIP folder, but they're the ones that I think would be particularly satisfying to do.

I really cannot describe to you how many WIPs I have, for each fandom. I get, like... a lot of ideas. Sometimes I plan, sometimes I just get an impulse and start writing. There's no way I'll ever finish more than a fraction of them. Which is fine! That doesn't bother me. I'm exercising a lot of creative muscles here, so... it's pretty fun.

But, like, to be clear, I don't pressure myself about fic. If I do it, I do it; if I don't, I don't. It's not something I'm ever willing to stress or feel bad about. (Not that there's anyone out there eagerly waiting to read my work, lol. But still.)

[the-kipsabian]

lmao @ the all in presale codes dropping today

[ironmanstan]

Everytime my dad remembers he exists i stop feeling anxiety and get more excited for college to start

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

Dr. Who ("The Ribos Operation") / Mary Tamm as Romana (Romandvoratrelundar)

This is a very "wintry" episode, taking place on a snow-covered planet, and Romana looks both stylish and warm in her ostrich-feather-trimmed white cloak. It has capacious inner pockets, a hood, and slits for her arms. We catch just a glimpse of silver shoes as well.

The gown underneath looks like something Princess Leia might wear, which may not be a coincidence. This episode originally aired in September 1978, or about a year after the first Star Wars movie was in theaters.

[sweet-christabel]

One Dress a Day - bonus challenges

Anything Goes December Anne of Avonlea - Anne Shirley (Megan Follows)

I love this outfit so much. It’s so smart! If you saw my Bernadette Banner post, you’ll know that I really like the combination of a waistcoat and long skirt. The addition of the pocket watch is really cute, and the blouse is lovely too with its little bow at the neck.

[figtreeandvine]

I want to write a movie that is sort of the flip side of a Hallmark holiday movie. Not an anti-Hallmark movie, just like the other side of the same coin.

It starts with a well-dressed professional woman driving a convertible along a country road, autumn foliage in the background, terribly scenic. She turns onto a dirt road/long driveway, and stops next to a field of Christmas trees, all growing in neat, ordered rows, perfectly trimmed and pruned to form. She steps out of the car--no, she's not wearing high-heels, give her some sense!--and knocks on the door of a worn but nice-looking farmhouse. An older woman, late fifties maybe, answers the door, looking a bit puzzled. The younger woman asks if she can buy a Christmas tree now, today. The older woman says they don't do retail sales--and the younger woman breaks down crying.

Cut to the two women sitting at the kitchen table with cups of tea. The young woman (Michelle), no longer actively crying, explains that her mother loves Christmas more than anything, but is in the hospital with end-stage cancer. Her doctors don't think she'll live to see December, let alone Christmas. Nobody is selling Christmas trees in September, so could the older woman please make an exception, just this once? The older woman (Helen) regretfully explains that they have a contract to sell their trees that forbids outside sales. The younger woman nods, starts to stand up, but the older woman stops her with a hand and asks her what hospital her mother is in. After she answers the older woman says that "my Joe" will deliver a tree the next day. "Contract says I can't sell you a tree, but nothing says I can't give you one."

Next day "Joe" shows up at the hospital in flannel and jeans, with a smallish tree over her shoulder. Oh, whoops, that's Jo, Helen's daughter, short for Joanna, not Joe. Jo sets up the tree and even pulls out a box of lights and ornaments. Mother watches from hospital bed with a big smile as Jo and Michelle decorate the tree. Cue "end of movie" type sappiness as nurses and other patients gather in the doorway, smiling at the tree.

Cut to Michelle sitting in her dark apartment, clutching a mug of tea, staring out at the falling snow and the Christmas lights outside. Her apartment has no tree, no decorations, nothing. She starts at a knock on the door, goes to open it. Jo is standing there, again holding a tree over her shoulder.

Plot develops: the second tree is a gift, because Michelle might as well get it as the bank. The contract for the tree sales was an /option/ contract, which prevents them from selling to anyone else, but doesn't guarantee the sale. The corporation with the option isn't going to buy the trees, but Helen and Jo can't sell them anywhere else, and basically they get nothing. They'll lose the farm without the year's income. Michelle asks to see the contract and Jo promises to email it to her.

Next day at a very upscale law firm, Michelle asks at the end of a staff meeting if anyone in contract law still needs pro bono hours for the year. No one does, but a senior partner (Abe) takes her to his office and asks about it. She says the contract looks hinky to her ("Is that a legal term?" "Yes.") but contract law's not her thing. He raises an eyebrow and she grins and pulls a sheaf of paper out of her bag and hands it over. He reads it over, then looks up at her. "They signed this?"

More plot develops. Abe calls in underlings--interns, paralegals, whatever--and the contract is examined, dissected, and ultimately shredded (metaphorically). It's worse even than it looks--on January 1st Helen and Jo will have to repay the advanced they received at signing. The corporation has bought up a suspicious number of Christmas tree farms in previous years after foreclosure, etc.

Cut to Abe explaining all this to Helen and Jo while sitting with them and Michelle in a very swanky conference room. The firm is willing to take on the case pro bono, hopefully as a class's action suit for other farmers trapped by the contract--but there's no way it can go to court before January. Which will be too late to save the farm's income for the year. They might get enough in damages to tide them over, but….

After Michelle sees Helen and Jo out, she comes back and asks Abe if there's anything they can do immediately. Abe looks thoughtful for a long moment, then gets a really shark-like grin on his face. "Maybe…."

Cut to Helen wearing a bathrobe, coming into her kitchen in the morning. She looks out the window…and there's a food truck stopped in her driveway. She pulls a coat on over her robe and goes out--two more trucks have pulled up while she does this. Driver of the first truck asks her where they park. Another truck pulls up behind the others. Behind that is a black BMW--Abe rolls down the window and waves. Helen directs the trucks to the empty field/yard next to the house. Abe pulls up next to Helen's car and Jo's truck and parks. He and Michelle get out--Abe wearing a total power suit, Michelle in weekend casual.

The case will be easier if the corporation initially sues them for violating the (uninforcible!) contract, rather than them suing to corporation (damn if I know, but it's movie logic). So they're going to sell the trees now, and rounded up some food trucks and whatnot to draw people in.

Cue montage of Jo and Michelle running around helping people set up while Abe and Helen watch from the kitchen table. The table starts out covered in file folders…and slowly gains coffee cups and plates of cinnamon rolls. It becomes increasingly clear here that Abe and Helen are becoming as close as Jo and Michelle.

Everything gets set up and a very urban, very motley crowd appears--tats and studs and multiracial couples and LGBTQ parents and everything--and everyone is having a wonderful time eating funnel cake and choosing their tree so Jo and a bunch of rainbow-haired elves can cut it for them. At which point someone shows up from the corporation (maybe with a sheriff's deputy?) and starts yelling at Helen, who's running checkout. And suddenly Abe appears from the house and you realize why he's wearing that suit on a Saturday….

Cue confrontation and corporate flunky running off with their tail between their legs, blustering about suing. Cue Jo kissing Michelle. Cue Helen walking over and putting a hand on Abe's shoulder and smiling at her.

I want the lawyers to be the heroes because they are lawyers and know the law. I want a lesbian who lives in the country with her mother. I want urbanites to turn out as a community to help someone who isn't even part of their community. I want Michelle to keep working at her high-power job, loving Christmas and grieving her mother.

[sol-flo]

i'm going to destroy this damn phone

- the boss avoider

[rahabs]

Wide awake at 5 AM stressing about money.

[woundedheartwithin]

Haaaaaaaaaa….