#genre: children's

[cinema-hallucinations]

Prompt: Create a movie concept similar to those cartoons about TCGs that connect to real creatures, except the cards in questions in this case are just normal old-timey christmas cards and not intended for duelling/playing with.

Title: Yuletide Chronicles: Guardians of Christmas Past

Tagline: Discover a whole new form of Christmas magic

Logline: In a hidden world nestled within Christmas traditions, mischievous sprites called "Yuletide Imps" threaten to erase cherished memories and unravel the magic of Christmas. Only the Noel Navigators, children who can activate the power of vintage Christmas cards, can stop them.

Characters:

Clara Claus: A bright and curious 12-year-old who discovers a hidden box of antique Christmas cards left by her late grandmother. Little does she know, these cards hold the power to summon legendary Christmas spirits.

Dasher: A mischievous but loyal Yuletide Imp accidentally trapped inside one of the Christmas cards. He becomes Clara's reluctant guide to the Yuletide Glade, the secret world of Christmas magic.

The Noel Navigators: A group of kids who have inherited the ability to activate the Christmas cards, each card summoning a different Christmas spirit with unique powers.

The Snow Queen: A once-benevolent guardian of Christmas magic, now corrupted by the Yuletide Imps, seeking to erase Christmas memories and plunge the world into eternal winter.

Plot:

Clara Claus, grieving the loss of her grandmother, stumbles upon a hidden box filled with beautiful vintage Christmas cards. As she flips through them, a mischievous sprite named Dasher pops out of one of the cards, revealing a hidden world known as the Yuletide Glade, the source of all Christmas magic.

Clara learns from Dasher that the Yuletide Glade is under attack by the Yuletide Imps, mischievous creatures who feed on forgotten Christmas memories. Led by the corrupted Snow Queen, the Imps aim to erase Christmas cheer and memories, leaving the world devoid of holiday spirit.

The Christmas Cards:

Clara discovers the cards are not ordinary. Each card, when activated by a Noel Navigator with a pure heart, summons a legendary Christmas spirit depicted on the card - a jolly Santa Claus, a troop of helpful elves, or even the reindeer guiding Santa's sleigh. These spirits possess unique magical abilities and become Clara's allies.

Challenges and Teamwork:

Clara joins forces with other Noel Navigators, each wielding different vintage Christmas cards and summoning various spirits. They embark on a series of whimsical adventures, traveling through fantastical landscapes inspired by traditional Christmas imagery - gingerbread houses, candy cane forests, and glittering snow globes.

Lines as Clues:

Dasher, explaining the Yuletide Glade, might say, "These cards hold the memories of Christmases past, and within them lies the magic that keeps the spirit alive!"

The Snow Queen, corrupted by the Imps, might declare, "Let the world forget the warmth of Christmas, the joy of giving, the laughter of children! Let there be only winter!"

Climax and Resolution:

In a thrilling climax, Clara and the Noel Navigators confront the Snow Queen in her icy palace. They utilize the combined power of their Christmas spirit allies and their unwavering belief in the magic of Christmas to defeat the Imps and restore balance to the Yuletide Glade. The Snow Queen is redeemed, realizing the true meaning of Christmas.

Themes:

The importance of cherishing tradition and maintaining the spirit of Christmas.

The power of friendship and teamwork.

The beauty of imagination and childhood wonder.

Ending:

The movie ends with Clara and her new Noel Navigator friends spreading Christmas cheer, ensuring the magic continues for generations to come. Dasher, no longer mischievous, becomes a cherished friend, reminding everyone that even the smallest creatures can play a part in the magic of Christmas.

[tolkienillustrations]

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Albert Anker (1831-1910) "Knitting girl watching the toddler in the cradle" (1885) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

[haveyoureadthispoll]

[lionofchaeronea]

The Umbrella, Marie Bashkirtseff, 1883

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

teen titans (2011) #18

to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[climbdraws]

im so so sick of the infantalizing takes of "this children's media is soooo dark its not for kids!!!" and it's just a millennial recounting scene for scene what happens like this

[locusfandomtime]

i hope you guys understand my vision

[thepaintedroom]

James Tissot (French, ) • Hide and Seek • c. 1880-c.1882

[solcattus]

Admiring the Baby

By Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen

[fictionadventurer]

Reblog and tell me about a movie/book/show that isn't Christmas-themed, but you still like to experience at Christmastime.

[cinema-hallucinations]

Prompt: A seven-year-old kid doesn't trust clawfoot furniture because they think the legs are like THAT 'cause the furniture in question move when you're not looking at it. The kid is right. Generate a movie concept based on that.

Title: The Night the Furniture Danced

Tagline: You really shouldn't trust anything with claws.

Logline: When seven-year-old Leo's suspicions about his creepy clawfoot furniture are confirmed - they're alive and mischievous! - he teams up with a skeptical teenager and a grumpy cat to uncover the truth about the furniture's origins and stop them from wreaking havoc.

Characters:

Leo: A curious and imaginative seven-year-old who always feels watched by the furniture. He's convinced they move when he's not looking.

Stella: Leo's cynical teenage sister. Initially skeptical of Leo's claims, she gets drawn into the mystery when she witnesses the furniture move.

Mittens: The family's grumpy cat who seems to understand Leo's concerns about the furniture. He may hold the key to their communication.

Professor Alistair Hawthorne (Voice Only): A long-dead eccentric inventor trapped in the spirit of the clawfoot furniture. He's mischievous but ultimately benevolent.

Plot:

Leo has always felt a sense of unease around his family's antique clawfoot furniture. He's convinced the spindly legs resemble monstrous claws, and he swears they move when he's not looking. His family dismisses it as a childish imagination, except for Mittens, the family cat, who seems to share Leo's apprehension.

One night, Leo witnesses the furniture rearranging itself while the house is empty. Panicked, he wakes Stella, who initially scoffs. But when a chair lunges towards her, she's forced to believe.

Together, Leo and Stella discover a hidden inscription on the furniture leading them to research Professor Alistair Hawthorne, a forgotten inventor obsessed with imbuing furniture with sentience. They soon realize the clawfoot furniture is haunted by Hawthorne's spirit, trapped within his own creation.

With Mittens as their reluctant guide (turns out he can communicate with the furniture - badly), Leo and Stella learn Hawthorne is lonely and bored, using his newfound mobility to play harmless pranks. However, his attempts at amusement escalate, causing chaos in the house.

The climax involves a showdown where Leo and Stella must use Hawthorne's own invention manual to create a communication device to reason with him. They convince Hawthorne that friendship and genuine connection are more fulfilling than mischievous pranks.

[wronghands1]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Viggo Johansen (1851-1935) "Silent Night" (1891) Oil on canvas Located in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark

[uppercase-disgrace]

enemies to lovers is so difficult to accomplish because we don't really have a modern gauge for how shitty someone is allowed to treat you and still get together with them so we have rivals to lovers where someone is slightly mean to someone once or they were competing academically or worse there was a misunderstanding which is BORING. vs the opposite extreme where its like oh hey I know that two months ago you were a genocidal dictator how's that going? oh you've changed? interesting. i'm incredibly dtf btw. and that always feels a little awkward because it's never that they killed like six people, it's always that they blew up a planet. y'all tryna fuck the guy who hunted your people? his best friend killed your mom and you're hopping on that? wild. but then again it IS more interesting than dating the guy who accidentally hit your car six years ago and forgot to apologize because he was running his mom to the hospital

[lionofchaeronea]

Listening to the Sea, Karl Gussow, 1879