#tscs

[stuff-diary]

Damn, can I just mention how amazing they sounded on this show?

[safyresky]

LMAO okay okay this has been in my drafts since an ungodly hour of May of 2023 and tbh, I can't recall why I kept it in there for so long? ANYWAY. I still think all of these things are absolutely CORRECT, so I'm posting it now with some updates and tweaks and yelling BON APPETITE at the void!

Cool! You think. Great! What is it?

Valid question. Great question, even! It's my very rambly thought process/take on how Crystal Springs could/would work in a The Santa Clauses-compliant way and then some 🫠🫠

(Starting with the original "it's 1am" intro I initially typed 😂)

Enjoy!

hey, hi, it's late at night and i really should be going to bed but my brain is presently plagued with vengeful thoughts of the Frosts in tscs making Scott's life HARD and now I have to unleash this on you all (she says knowing full well she will pass out before posting this and stick it in drafts for lord knows HOW long [apparently, two whole fucking years lmao]), I just HAVE to ok so anyway

FIRST off, given the way Scott speaks about Jack the ONE time in episode whatever the fuck of season 1, I think it's safe to say that, assuming CS canon (that Jack's thaw=villain reformation/redemption arc), Scott does NOT give Jack an easy time and PROBABLY doesn't even WANT him hanging around the NP for community service round 2, but this time, it's fr

Or maybe he does! And CS happens as it does! Idk, it's SO HARD to reconcile tsc movies!Santa with tscs!Santa that I couldn't even BEGIN to figure it out

BUT ANYWAY

REDEMPTION ARC, BECAUSE FUCK YOU!

AND. KEEPING IN MIND TSCS!SANTA SCOTT. AND HAVING TWO YEARS TO ROTATE THIS IN MY HEAD. THIS NEXT BIT IS PRETTY EASY TO FIGURE OUT NOW! :)

Santa doesn't want him at the Pole post tsc3 and the thaw.

The Council thinks there's no better place to keep an eye on him.

Santa gets outvoted.

So Jack hangs out there for the first bit of the year.

Mans is chill! He is v chill! And he does indeedy try his best to make up for things

And everyone is coming around to him, except, of course, for Santa.

He is an ass about it all. Can't blame him given tsc3 in general, but like, it's an EXTRA layer of assholery that has even JACK going my guy, what the actual fuck

Based on that, I think that the reconciling with the Frosts thing would go a bit differently!

Mother Nature would play a bigger role in it, and Jacqueline would be the one to just go see her one day and EXPLODE like

DID MY BROTHER THAW?? FR? LIKE FOR REAL? HE'S NOT OUT HERE TRYING TO TAKE OVER HOLIDAYS AND MAKING MY JOB THE WORST? FR?

and, y'know, with a bit of guidance and time I think MN eventually reunites the cold front, at the least, and from there Jacqueline takes care of easing the parents into the idea of having Jack back

it isn't that hard, actually; they both missed him too and are willing to give him another chance

And the Twins are, of course, ecstatic about it all

So they all reunite and it goes pretty okay! Until...

1) Jack's powers basically disappear and the Deliquesce starts, and I have every confidence that in this universe nobody tells Santa lol

[1a: OR they do, and Santa does NOT take it well and even when Jack eventually gets his shit together and fixes it, Santa STILL insists he let it get that bad on purpose]

2) Uncle P does his usual bout of solitary scrying and can't find his ex-cursed nephew anywhere in the Pole.

I used to have no idea how Pyros factors into this thing, fun fact!

But upon revisiting, I think I've got a solid idea now:

He attempts some kind of long-distance mind control/mental influence and uses Jack's return as a catalyst to effect the WHOLE younger half of the family.

He's pretty brill, so I'm sure he'd find a way—especially with Jack's return making for choppy waters, in Pyros's humble opinion, lol

Suffice to say, he'd pit all three siblings against one another and Jack, and Blinter finds it very perplexing and is immediately sus bc what the fuck.

Jacqueline was MAD, yes, but she literally spearheaded the entire reconciliation thing by GOING to Mother Nature after a half year of silence!

She was DONE waiting and took matters into her OWN HANDS, and it worked

The Twins were/ARE excited about it all!

They've all been very good about working through these things in a non violent way, so why the sudden 180?

And when they seem to come back to themselves, they can't recall why they did what they did or what happened?

Hmmmm...

Something's fishy.

They figure it out faster for sure and work on strengthening their mental defences

I think this would include Jacqueline, Fino and Fiera doing the warlock testing OFFICIALLY and getting to staff summoning levels pretty fast

(staff summoning is like how you graduate warlock kindergarten. You get started with the basics, learn them, and let's see you summon your staff--BOOM BABY!)

And they are ready about the same time Pyros is, and he escapes, heads direct to Blaise, boasts about having his nibblets as his new army/puppets, is in for the SHOCK of his LIFE when he gets staff whipped by all FOUR nibblets!

Things are rough and tumble, Blaise tries to keep Pyros off the kids but he's an ASSHOLE

So Jack's helping keeping his sibs safe and making sure they stay out of Pyros's control, and is successful with the Twins (who already were doing a gr8 job kicking it with one another!)

But Jacqueline is a bit harder, for obvious reasons lmao

And then Jack admits the DoD was an accident and that does it, that properly breaks Pyros's hold on Jacqueline and the events proceed as they do in Crystal Springs

Jacqueline gives Jack her essence, he figures out his, Pyros gets dunked on, etc. etc.

And instead of recovery happening at the Pole, the Pole is replaced with THE Crystal Springs and CS General

The Season Sisters are playing a much bigger role in getting outside help and keeping things contained

There's probably a lot more political intervention, I.e., we see the five governors and their lieutenants instead of just name drop them

And the healy bits happen and yay! Happy ending!

Frosts reunited, and Pyros taken care of, the Dome gets fixed for Christmas, and Jack and Jacqueline's return is probably what starts the schism between Lucy and her parents and Santa Scott since tscs does NOT reference them at all

(and, in the event a third season were to happen, GOD FORBID THEY DO)

SO! Time goes on, things mellow out, Jack's doing his hecking job, as he do, and is regularly attending meetings

And Scott. My god. His assholery just increases EXPONENTIALLY towards Jack, and after meetings he drops by the family home and BITCHES about it to Blinter, who are, of course, here for it

Jacqueline eventually is present for one of these sessions and is here for the bitching too

She asks multiple times if she should kill him, to which Blinter goes NO and Jack goes well hey now, it's not OFF the table

As the years pass, Santa makes a couple of comments that have Jack like yeah, no, I am DONE WITH THIS, I love myself I do NOT deserve this and Jacqueline goes PLEASE UNLEASH ME ON THIS MAN. PLEASE. IF I DO NOT SASS HIM TO HIS FACE I'LL ACTUALLY EXPLODE. YOU DON'T WANT YOUR SWEET LIL SISTER TO EXPLODE DO YOU?

Most of these comments, I think, are just general undermining Jack's lil journey and refusal to accept that people are capable of change and some people actually change (since Scott seems to be incapable of doing so, see, three movies AND A SERIES?? THAT HAS HAD A WHOLE SECOND SEASON COMING????)

ANWYAY

this is a very big amount of preamble to say, tl;dr: in tscs canon, bc I refuse to say it is the same canon as the movies, Jacqueline takes over for Jack after a solid decade of Scott being the worst to him, and she is READY to unleash a whole new shade of AWFUL FROST on this man

She has her Jack Frost outfit picked; she steals Jack's vest for it! She has been waiting a DECADE to get her icy lil Popsicle hands on this old man (Santa)

the very first council meeting she goes to and is introduced as the new Jack Frost, Scott's like "maybe I can make this work!" and immediately looks at her like "you're shorter than I expected" to which Jacqueline replies, "Well, I've no need to compensate for anything. What's your excuse?"

Scott's like Mother Nature, FT, did you HEAR THAT

MN thought it was funny. She lets it slide.

"First meeting jitters and such"

Scott's like maybe! Maybe that is the case! Alright! Cool!

He is very wrong and Jacqueline is a middle child at heart and is READY TO BOTHER THIS MAN, and bother this man she DOES.

For every question she's got a silly or sassy answer, there is no in between. For every snide comment Santa makes, Jacqueline comes back with another snarkier one. Cupid's keeping score. It looks just like the scene in Anastasia:

And Santa is LOSING BABY LMAO

As the years go on, Scott becomes even MORE of a grumpy old man (derogatory).

Makes comments about world issues and important things to literally EVERYONE on the council, making them very upset.

And I'm not even kidding you all, I think he says some very "I don't know any better" things about ALL the major events that happened between 2006 and the present.

BUT. WHEN THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO KNOW ABOUT SAID ISSUES TRY TO TEACH HIM/EDUCATE HIM NICELY, HE VERY MUCH GOES "I DON'T WANNA KNOW! THIS IS ALL SO COMPLICATED! CAN'T WE JUST KEEP THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE NOW? IT'S NICE!"

says the straight white man 🙄🙄🙄

So as Santa slowly pisses off every single Legendary Figure, they all peace out slowly but surely, to the point where Santa believes the meetings have been deemed unnecessary and stopped, but the truth of the matter is, the Council pulled back and let Scott believe what he wanted to believe, lmao

To Santa, nothing's changed! Things are running smoothly to him!

But the Council does check in every so often and Jacqueline more often than not is the one who volunteers to check in with Santa >:)

She does her duties but lingers! As Sandy and Buddy get older, she offers them a listening ear and checks in with them, etc. etc.

I mean. She knows ALL TOO WELL how it feels when people base their thoughts on you as a person on your predecessors 🤭🤭🤭

She's not about to assume Buddy and Sandra will be just like Scott!

As Buddy and Sandy get older, Jacqueline befriends them!

Buddy is a sweetheart and Sandy looked like she needed a friend to like, vent to one day and Jacqueline enjoyed it so much she made a habit of it

Scott is always complaining about how mean and awful this new Jack Frost is and Sandy and Buddy are always like "she's LOVELY", Sandy especially

so Carol investigates and it turns out that yes, Jacqueline IS lovely to people who are kind/nice to her (and her loved ones, but Carol doesn't know this yet!)

Jacqueline gets so much Hot Goss bc she's on good terms with the REST of the Calvin-Claus family >:)

And she grows more resentful of Scott bc NOT ONLY did he treat her brother like shit and refuse to accept he had changed, UPSET EVERY SINGLE LEGENDARY FIGURE INCLUDING HER GRANDMA! But the man REFUSES to accept change in GENERAL AND! ON TOP OF ALL THAT! HE TREATS HIS FAM LIKE SHIT!

She's like ah, I see why Lucy and her parents don't talk as much to him anymore

Bc like, after the whole dome debacle, Lucy deffs is very upset with Scott's refusal of accepting Jack's change.

Like. He's denying Jack can change despite the proof, keeps bringing up the Dome incident, and Lucy, who used her OWN HECKIN UNKNOWN AT THE TIME MAGIC TO INITIATE THE CHANGE, is MAD

So she distances and does her own thang learning magic, is pen-pals with Jack for SURE, and pals in general!

They meet for coffee/cocoa monthly as her magic training continues :)

Jacquie's also like, I get Charlie's whole vibe too, tho why he'd move to FLORIDA of all places who tf knows

(they are friends for sure)

Like, the first time Carol mentions that Scott snuck up the chimney to avoid a discussion, Jacqueline's MAD furious

"Not only is that IMMATURE, it's fucking RUDE. Want me to freeze him, sweetie? I can freeze him solid for a bit"

Carol, pursing her lips and quiet for maybe a bit too long: "...I'll think about it"

Betty, later: "I think you should. Not for long, though. Busy season starts in October. March or April is probably best."

So YEAH. She's pretty mean to Scott! And he is to her, too!

And when he's extra mean, she'll tell Jack, who takes great pleasure in picking a random, unassuming part of Santa's fly path that Christmas Eve and making it AWFUL. Just the WORST. SOO much turbulence, bad storms, whiteout conditions?!?!?!?

maybe that's why he starts taking Noel out with him, lol

SUFFICE to say, Jacqueline is a menace to Santa specifically and LIVES for it

Jack's like (sniffles) I'm so proud :)

When season 1 happens she's SO pro Buddy and Sandra and Carol getting a chance to get OUT there and be NORMAL for a bit

When she sees what Simon does to the Pole she gets IMMEDIATE Frostmas flashbacks, goes "not my monkeys, not my circus" and takes a sabbatical to chronicle the damn thing

Comes back from sabbatical and is asked by the Council to go speak with Santa about their concerns (as seen in season 2)

And that's how she learns that Scott came BACK

Shes like "wow. Jack was right about how hard it is to keep a good Santa down" tho tbh, given the interactions she's had with him, she has no idea if he SHOULD be considered a good Santa

Council insists he was, he's just getting...old and, y'know...opinionated

She's like (scoff) that's ONE way of putting it

And off she goes to run the notice to Santa and cue where my season 2 rewrite would start 🤪🤪🤪

THAT piece of work would have a lot of silly things like Jacqueline being the worst but also, the best; a much better "Sandra's magic" arc, Santa actually REALIZING HE'S BEING SHITTY after Jacqueline tricks him into meeting with Blaise of all people, Frosty and the Abominable Snowman, Abby; Santa having no idea that Jacqueline is Jack's sister and NOT his kid nor some Regular Person plucked out of their ordinary life to become the next Jack Frost (tho I do enjoy a good fic like that!), Winter getting to yell at Santa very briefly, Jack and Santa going inro the. What was it. Yuleverse? And much, much more!

But yeah. I think about this scenario a lot. It plagues me. And now it'll plague you all too 😈

[timallenicons]

Tim Allen as Scott Calvin in The Santa Clauses (2022)

[lmelodie]

So sad times here. I got booted from my Disney Plus earlier this week and have not seen the season (and hopefully SERIES) finale of tscs.

On one hand, I am not too sad about this development and this should really say something for the series as a whole. That I'm currently unable to watch the season two finale and I'm not even mad about it. "But Mel, don't you wanna know how it ends?" Well yes but actually no lol.

But cause I just KNOW that the ending was just like the entire rest of the series, mind bogglingly asinine and unsatisfying. I can already tell and therefore won't be missing much if I end up never seeing it lol. I won't be avoiding spoilers but will reblog other posts about it and will take everyone's word for it concerning how it went.

ON THE OTHER HAND, literally the only reason why I still want to kind of watch it is to see if there's any other added context that I would need to incorporate into this hate fueled tscs one shot I've been babying.

So if anyone wants to put me onto a pirating site to watch the finale that would be cool, but if not, also cool lol. I am so tiredly indifferent to this series, I'm almost too tired to hate it outright.

[neils-weenie-whistle]

I literally am so behind this year I haven’t seen the new season of The Santa Clauses because I’ve been working and doing class stuff.

if you’re wondering why there’s a lack of posts that’s why. but like. is the new season even good?

[polartss]

One of many third book makeouts 🫡

[i-cant-swim-actually]

bro what if we fit together like puzzle pieces bro what if we just lay down and like test it out bro you never know

[evyltalks]

emotionally constipated but so aesthetically devastating. that’s my andrew minyard.

[risha-png]

queen sketch from a while ago I've decided to polish a bit

[nothatsmi]

Meal prep

As much as I love drawing doodles and simplified figures, I missed doing full illustrations, feels like it's been a while.

Trojans!! Can't believe I hadn't drawn them fully yet... So, here's my take for the four of them, I guess.

For those who wondered - yes I've read tsc and tgr, obviously (i've been following both of the releases like a famished animal ready to pounce). I love these guys' dynamic and domesticity so much. I wanna be their friend.

[pepeshka]

look at me Jean-Yves

[stuff-diary]

I'm really glad TXT are finally going on an extended break this January. They've been looking physically and emotionally exhausted for a while... I hope they take as much time as they need, cause they deserve it after working so hard 💙💙💙💙💙

[edvvinee]

some sketches of my precious boys 🦋

usually i don’t post here but i love neil and jean so much that i decided to upload them here

[karmacharmeleon18]

what the Trojans expected: violent dangerous giant ex raven 👹🔪

what they got:

what the Foxes expected: traumatized poor baby angel runaway 🥺😇

what they got:

[lmelodie]

I'd like to think that Befana has a soup at her disposal that has the ability to insta-thaw Jack.

I personally think it would just be really funny if the man just needed a good magic soup and had all his problems solved. One sip and he gets melted and he's like "yeah actually I do feel better. Sorry about all that upstaging Christmas stuff, won't happen again." And then he just lives his thawed life because the soup was that powerful.