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clarktooncrossing · 4 months
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Giraffe's Eye View: Christmas Specials Special | Klaus
Chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose. Mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again. All the dogs in the neighborhood somehow learned to bark Jingle Bells in sync. Yet retail workers are still more annoyed with Mariah Carey. Snow is getting shoveled, tossed, and formed into sentient beings leading parades without permits. It makes for an excellent distraction as the Krampus abducts children for bad behavior. Fruitcake is exchanged only to find its permanent home in the garbage. Terrorists have hijacked the Holiday office party right before your boss can give you a Jelly of the Month Club membership as your bonus. And of course, the Turducken has returned to wreak its fiery vengeance upon an unsuspecting world! If all this doesn’t put you in the Christmas spirit, perhaps these following Holiday specials will!
Greetings people of today and robots of tomorrow! It is I, Santa Clark, your geeky giraffe friend with a deep love of Christmas! My obsession for the yuletide is rivaled only by Maleficent’s hatred for it, which is saying a lot considering she once teamed up with Mad Madam Mim to kidnap the literal Spirit of Christmas. Yes, that really happened. I know this due to my annual pilgrimage to the Island of Misfit Specials, home to obscure or nerdy festive media ranging from movies, TV episodes, and comics. It’s no easy journey. Constantly I find myself confronted by sinister snowmen, genocidal gingerbread men, and worst of all, crappy commercials. Getting stabbed in the foot by a candy-cane wielding cookie is one thing, but I swear I’ve seen that ad for Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium more times than I’ve seen Miracle on 34th Street! Sometimes at night I catch myself reciting that jingle. Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium: Where Christmas meets Convenience! Huh, maybe Maleficent had a point.
Nah, my deep-rooted appreciation for this time of year can weather even the most moronic marketing! It helps that most of the merry media I’ve seen have put me in the perfect Holiday mood! Examples include the time a Ninja Turtle found himself trapped in a truck full of stollen toys, a drunk department store Santa stumbling onto a wish-granting magic bag, Big Bird nearly becoming a popsicle, Gwenpool waking up in a world where Galactus took the place of jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas, a terrifying tree stump trying to slaughter some saps over a stupid ship war, and the year when Death gave the Little Match Girl the greatest gift of all. Needless to say, I thought I had seen it all. That is, until I took my friends on a trip to the Island, tasking them to find me new, strange, seasonal specials to review! Some of them were fair, finding me festive favorites as comforting as coco in front of the fireplace. Others were fiendish, wanting to feed off my misery like Gremlins after midnight. Regardless of how naughty or nice my companions were, I’ve compiled all of their suggestions into a makeshift advent calendar! So stay tuned everyday until Christmas to see how badly my buddies can shred what little sanity I have left.
On the seventh day of Christmas, my buddies gave to me...
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Netflix has never made my Nice List. Even back in their Blockbuster killing days I thought they were overrated. After all, what’s so cool about an overpriced service that didn’t have Jurassic Park? Now that they’ve spawned steep competition, heightened their prices, and constantly cancel any popular series they produce, it seems the rest of the world is finally singing the same song. Welcome to the Netflix Sucks Club, everyone! However, in defense of the house Stranger Things built, they are running circles around Disney in regards to cartoons. Along with streaming sensational shows like She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and The Dragon Prince, they’re also home to some equally amazing animated movies. Movies such as Nimona, The Mitchells vs the Machines, and of course Klaus. Their origin story for Santa came out at just the right time and has quickly become a seasonal staple for many peeps around the world. Including in Barcelona, home to the artistic android AN-D (Void-Android). So how did this flick become so instantly beloved?
For starters, it’s unspeakably gorgeous! Good lord, I’d be insane not to praise the phenomenal talent poured into every frame. The expressive characters, their energetic motion, all of the breath-taking backdrops enhanced by enriched lighting,  this is easily one of the prettiest pictures of the past few years. Words fail in describing how amazing the art is. It’s right up there alongside Spider-Verse or Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Makes sense considering all three utilize a style combining the hand-drawn animation of yesterday with the technological trickery of today. Everything is so beautifully blended that I genuinely have a hard time telling where one method ends and the other begins. Which was the point. Director / Character Animator Segio Pablos theorized the reason 2D animation had yet to make a comeback was due to how it had failed to evolve. Features like Treasure Planet or The Princess and the Frog paired their riveting plots with visuals trying too hard to recapture the magic of the old days. So when Pablos formed his own studio, the cleverly named Sergio Pablos Animation, he was determined to make something special. In his own words, “It was important to me that the film did not feel like it could come out of any other studio, and that it had its own personality without losing the broad appeal that’s expected from a high-end holiday film.”
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That’s a quote from Ramin Zahed’s Klaus: The Art of the Movie, a book I highly recommend reading. Not only are you treated to page upon page of fantastic behind-the-scenes concepts, but you also get to hear how Batman Begins served as inspiration. Honestly it matches up once you dive into the plot.
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. Or laziness, in the case of Jesper Johanson (Jason Schwartzman). He’s a millennial mailman so spoiled he nearly rivals the Kardashians. Key difference being Jesper’s genuinely entertaining. Furthermore, this brat has a father who actually cares about him, threatening to cut off his trust fund unless he delivers six thousand letters by year’s end. Should be easy given this takes place long before email was invented, right?
Wrong! Like any good parent, the Postmaster General knows his son will be forever doomed to fail if he doesn’t exercise some tough love. It doesn’t get much tougher than sending him to the small, northern island of Smeerensburg. Here the bitter chill of winter is rivaled only by the searing hatred between the town’s two prominent families; the Ellingboes and the Krums. Neither clan remembers how their feud started. Really, when did details like that matter? It’s tradition! What’s important is the disdain that divides them! A mindset later adapted for Twitter! It’s an ideology that’s sadly enforced onto their offspring, too. Snow will fall in Southtown, USA before they allow the spawn of their sworn enemies to mingle! Shun out those who are different from you, even if the only separating factor is their hair color! Wow, it’s so realistic it’s painful. They’re not even allowed to attend school together, much to the frustration of the local teacher Alva (Rashida Jones). Arriving eight years ago hoping to guide youths towards a bright, better tomorrow, now she’s selling fish so she can escape this dump. Getting away from this petty rivalry is all that matters. Both sides are firmly set in their ways, not letters needed to express any ire. Looks like our desperate protagonist needs a miracle!
Enter our titular Klaus, a bearded behemoth voiced by the legendary J.K. Simmons. Contrasting other cinematic Kringles, our initial impression of this legendary figure is that of a gruff, grumpy loner longing to be left alone. He’s a man living far out in the woods building birdhouses in memoriam of his long lost wife. Yup, Mrs. Claus is dead! Merry Christmas! Before the two had hoped to fill their house with happy children, the gentle giant filling his barn to the brim with hand-crafted toys in anticipation. With those dreams dashed, he has no purpose other than waiting to die. That is until Jesper accidentally drops off a depressed drawing swindled from a sad boy. Seeing someone in need, the weary woodsman wrangles the wormy weakling into helping him deliver one of his many toys; a wind-up frog. It’s while watching the kid playing in the window that we get our first glimpse of the good man inside. For the first half of the runtime, Simmons scarcely says a word. You’d be forgiven for forgetting he was in this at all! Yet like any great animated feature worth its salt, the visuals express everything. A spark can be seen in Santa’s eyes when he witnesses the happiness brought onto another. In that moment he’s given a reason to live again. 
Lucky for Jesper, said reason is his ticket out of here. Turns out the kid had caught Santa staring through the window. Presuming his letter’s what led to a shiny new toy, word is quickly spread amongst his peers, all quickly forming a line around the post office. Seizing the opportunity, the courier convinces Klaus to donate more of his toys for tots, under the condition they do so in secret under nightfall. As more gifts are given out, legends of the mysterious merry man grow. Most of it predicated on lies and deception. It’s an aspect of the story that really bugs me, sad to say. Personally I prefer how Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town handled this detail, organically explaining how a humble toymaker became the mythical figure we know and love today. Sure, most of it is based in magic, but we’re talking about a guy who traverses the world all in one night on a sled led by reindeer. As I hope my earlier rant in the Flash made clear, logic need not apply here. Layering Batman in a grounded reality makes a strange sort of sense, not so much Papa Noel. For example, the reason Klaus swaps out his horse for reindeer in the first place is because Jesper doesn’t want to lighten the load of presents. More presents equals more letters! Worst of these fabrications is the Naughty List. One little snot found a clump of coal in his stocking, threatening to make like the Power Rangers and mutilate the mailman lest he get answers. Putting aside that it was in fact Jesper who pulled the dirty deed, he terrifies the tubby tike by stating Santa knows when he’s been sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. Only the ornery ones end up on the Naughty List.
Upon learning of the list, an unexpected domino effect triggers throughout the community. First the kids start behaving better, performing good deeds such as shoveling snow, painting over graffiti, cleaning clarinets, helping out with the laundry, picking berries, nursing a stubborn senior who broke his foot, even going to school at Jesper’s suggestion. An astonished Alva learns to love teaching again, going so far as to spend her savings to spruce up the schoolhouse. Now some may argue this is only happening because these brats want a reward. Fair enough, it’s not an unfair assumption to make. Provided you ignore the adults mirroring that attitude. Despite nobody giving them anything, they’re still acting neighborly towards each other. Why? Because kindness is infectious! It’s a mindset the cynics of the world will undoubtedly scoff at. Let’m keep their dour worldview. Humans are far more hospitable than given credit for. Klaus himself puts it best: a true selfless act always sparks another. Jesper himself scoffs at first, until he meets a sweet little Sami girl named Márgu (Neda Margrethe Labba). Look up ‘cute’ in the dictionary and there’ll be a picture of her. Those protesting otherwise may also expect clumps of coal in their socks! Good gosh, she deserves all the hugs! Although she’ll settle for a sled. Throughout the picture we see her ask Jesper for help in writing a letter to Klaus so she can receive one. Eventually he concedes, asking Alva to translate before helping Klaus build the sled himself. It’s when he delivers it and sees Márgu eagerly ride it that we see that same spark twinkle in the mailman’s eyes too. Perhaps his colossal colleague was onto something after all.
Do the clan elders care? Nope. Realizing their resentful lifestyle is fleeting, both agree to a ceasefire to cancel Christmas. Now that’s the true reason for the season: uniting under a common hatred! Joy to the world!
By then, Jesper’s forgotten about his selfish status quo, contempt with settling down in Smeerensburg. He’s ready to help his friend deliver more presents to the pipsqueaks, now aided additionally by Alva and Márgu’s Sami tribe. Imagine his surprise when dear daddy arrives to escort him back home. All six-thousand letters have been delivered, partially thanks to the malicious machinations of the elders. One would assume they’d burn the barn down due to its location being public knowledge, but then we wouldn’t be subjected to the liar revealed trope. Now in fairness to this classic cliche, How to Train Your Dragon demonstrated that it can work well to strengthen the story. Stoic is a stubborn man set in his ways, it makes sense that he’d ignore anything Hiccup has to say. Jesper's pals suddenly acting pissy doesn't. What, because everything he said was a lie? Okay, but he still changed all your lives for the better, so what does it matter? In her review, Cellspex proposes that Jesper’s friends should’ve allowed him to leave, a true selfless act that in turn would’ve prompted him to stay. That would’ve tied back to the thesis of the narrative while also feeling less forced. Otherwise it’s so obnoxious going through the motions. Inevitably Jasper returns to save the day, they partake in a chase scene minus Klaus flying on rooftops in a big, black tank, and all is forgiven. In the end the elders are forced to reconcile as two of their own fall in love, Jesper lives a happy life with Alva and their kids, and Klaus eventually dies. Merry Christmas! Or does he? As a man Santa is flesh and blood. He can be ignored, he can be destroyed, but as a symbol? He can be incorruptible! Everlasting, even. Jesper can’t comprehend what happened to him after that. He stopped trying to make sense of it a long time ago. What he does know is that once a year he gets to see his friends again. So long as love, generosity, and devotion still exist, so too does Klaus.
Overall, Klaus is a flawed masterpiece that’s earned its seasonal staple status. Artistically it shines like a diamond! Storywise is where the smudges are shown. Pablos accomplished his agenda in elevating the animated artform, but failed to do so narratively. Ironically it's the opposite problem he proclaimed most cartoon pictures once had. This feels like what happens when The Emperor’s New Groove, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, Cars, and Batman Begins are all mixed in a blender. It’s a familiar flavor, though not a terrible one. If nothing else, it's a fun, festive film with vibrant visuals, a charismatic cast, and at least one sensational song. I sincerely hope more movies are made like this in the future, even if they end up on Netflix. The future of animation looks bright! Wait, that’s not the future. Some random Christmas carnival is on fire! Quick, throw cards at it!
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danicollinsauthor · 4 months
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still searching for the holiday spirit?
Read | Buy Are you in the mood for a holiday-themed romance, but feel overwhelmed by choice? I’m here to narrow it down for you: Do you want a sweet, low-drama, no naughtiness reunion romance where the hero broke the heroine’s heart but never forgot her? And is actually still very much in love with her? Try Wedding at Mistletoe Chalet . Read | Buy Would you prefer something that dips into a small-town series? Because there are two Christmas romances set in Marietta: Blame the Mistletoe sees Liz spending Christmas alone, dog-sitting her ex-mother-in-law’s pup. She’s feeling lonely and sorry for herself when she bumps into Blake, who she knows through her ex’s family. He’s also a single-parent, his son is also away, so they get into shenanigans that turn *very* naughty and complicated once the kids come home. This has one of my favorite ‘busted’ scenes ever. Read | Buy If you want all the Christmas feels, pick up His Christmas Miracle . Niki signs on as nanny for Quincy, who just learned he has a four-year-old son. He’s trying to bond with his boy so Niki helps him by making an Advent calendar of daily activities. Slowly, Quincy opens his heart and lets in not just his son, but Niki, too. There’s a side romance with his father and an old-flame that is the angel on the tree. This one has all the Christmas trimmings and will definitely tug on your heartstrings, then make them sing. Read | Buy If you have a taste for high-drama and betrayal and loads of sexual tension, you’ll want to check out Claiming His Christmas Wife . Imogen is one of my favorite heroines ever. She’s feisty even when she is literally on death’s doorstep, collapsing in the snow. Travis will make you angry before you fall in love with him, but then you’ll root for these two. I won’t spoil the bit about Imogen’s sister, but it’s pretty fun, too. Read | Buy Then, guess what? It’s Happy New Year! I freaking love One Snowbound New Year’s Night . It was challenging to write, keeping the bulk of the story happening in twenty-four hours, but the absolute longing between these two was so fun to write. They’re spending the last night of their marriage–the eve of their divorce–figuring out what went wrong between them so prepare for some heartbreak, but some heart-mending and, yes, some make-up loving, too. That’s a lot under the tree, isn’t it? Happy reading!
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arabellaflynn · 1 year
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Advent Calendar 14: Nintendo's Crazy Ex
Greetings, and welcome to Advent Calendar 2022! This year we're being self-indulgent and rambling about video games.
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I hope you're all having a happy winter holiday season. Let the nerd rambling commence!
Gather 'round, children, and let me tell you the story of How The Playstation Came To Be. Once upon a time, there was a Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The SNES was a shiny, shiny thing in 1991 (1990, as the Super Famicom, in Japan). A spiffy new 16-bit games console that played all the latest Mario and Castlevania and Metroid games, its main rival was the slightly older Sega Genesis (né Sega Megadrive, 1988 in Japan, 1989 in North America). The two coexisted for some time with only the usual sibling rivalry, where Sega pulled an attitude and claimed to do "what Nintendon't", and Nintendo pointedly ignored them while pointing at some plumbers from Brooklyn with an inexplicable hatred of turtles.
One day, Sega learned a new trick. The older Nintendo bro, the Famicom, had come up with an add-on device that let it play games off diskettes; the little Sega Megadrive thought about this and went, yes, but what if I used CDs instead? CDs were super cool, cutting-edge, space age tech at the time, which was not coincidentally also 1991. Compared with cartridges, CDs had an unimaginable amount space to fill, and since they were for music first, Sega threw in a nicer sound chip to sweeten the deal. Thus was born the Sega CD.
Nintendo looked at that and grudgingly admitted they had a point.
Obviously the thing to do was steal this concept, so Nintendo got to work on a CD add-on for the SNES. Neither company worked with CDs or audio tech themselves; Sega had partnered with JVC for the Sega CD. (JVC stands for Japan Victor Corporation, by the way, the Japanese subsidiary of RCA Victor, the people who used to use the painting of a terrier listening to a phonograph as their logo. The original painting was titled "His Master's Voice", which title eventually ended up, through a complicated series of divestitures and acquisitions, as the name of the HMV record stores in several Commonwealth countries.) Nintendo phoned up Sony, who had developed the original CD standards in conjunction with Philips Electronics. Together they started work on a prototype equivalent of the Sega CD, accurately if boringly titled the Super NES CD-ROM.
The unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show was an event. Sony proudly unveiled the fruits of its labor, a combination SNES-cartridge/CD-ROM machine they called the "PlayStation". It received many oohs and ahs from the audience. The very next day, Nintendo revealed its half of the project, a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES, produced in partnership with... uh, Philips. Philips Electronics. You know, Sony's best friend.
To say Sony was angry was an understatement. They were livid. It just wasn't working out, Nintendo said. Sony kept asking for things -- licensing fees, rights, content control. Nintendo and Philips just had long term goals that were so much more compatible! Mainly because they made Nintendo more money. Surely Sony would understand. It was just better for business.
Fine, said Sony. We'll just make our own console! With blackjack! And hookers! I'm not actually kidding about that part, a lot of the early Playstation marketing centered around the fact that Sony would let you publish games including adult things like sex, violence, drugs, and naughty words, which were all still very much banned in Nintendo titles. This ultimately led to Sony landing the Grand Theft Auto console ports, and we all know how that turned out.
The SNES CD-ROM project eventually stuttered to a halt, and nothing of the sort ever came out, even in Japan. The backlash soured Nintendo on CDs so much that they refused to make the switch with everybody else for their next console generation, opting instead to use ROM cartridges in the Nintendo 64. This bout of sour grapes actually lost Nintendo several of their loyal publishers -- the Golden Age of JRPGs started on the Super Nintendo, but chafed at the space restrictions of the N64. The biggest, fattest rat to jump off that particular sinking ship was Squaresoft, who started developing for the N64 but ultimately opted to publish the smash hit Final Fantasy VII on Playstation, where the game could span three CDs.
Nintendo continued to drag its feet on disc technology through the DVD era, declining to include DVD-Video playback on its GameCube, Wii, and WiiU systems, even though all three use DVD drive mechanisms, and are physically capable of reading DVD discs (mini-DVD in a GameCube, without a case mod). Sony, in contrast, coughed up the licensing fees and advertised the shit out of the DVD player function of their Playstation 2. The PS2 didn't just wipe the floor with the Wii (and the Xbox), it became the best-selling video game console of all time.
The Nintendo/Sony PlayStation fell into the black hole of history. For almost a quarter century it was thought that none of the prototypes had survived, but in 2015 a single example was discovered in a bankruptcy auction of random stuff from a completely different company where a Sony CEO had once worked. The creaky, dusty, substantially-broken thing was presented to Benjamin Heckendorn, aka "Ben Heck", a passionate nerd who accidentally invented a career for himself about two decades ago by hacking apart an Atari 2600 and reassembling it into a handheld. 
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He did a full teardown of the machine on The Ben Heck Show, a series he filmed for the content provider element14, and managed to get it working, in conjunction with a boot ROM mysteriously leaked to several prominent members of the retrogaming/emulation community. There is no known surviving software for the machine, but several people have verified that homebrew games will play.
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angywritesstuff · 2 years
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The one with the Advent Calendar (Day 1)
Summery: You are a true lover of Advent Calendars
Pairing: Henry Cavill x Reader
Warning: 18+ only, please don���t read this if you are a minor, poorly written SMUT
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You were sitting on the couch patiently waiting for your boyfriend… well it wasn’t true: your patience was running short, you couldn’t stop shaking your leg trying to find a way to keep your mind busy. It wasn’t that you were nervous, you were actually giddy: you couldn’t wait to see your boyfriend’s reaction.
You weren’t even sure how it came to your attention, you weren’t actually looking for it but while being on the internet carelessly scrolling through page and page of nothing you had seen it and bought it without even thinking about it. And now you couldn’t wait to open it with your boyfriend who was currently taking the longest shower ever.
You groaned totally over with it, you were going to give Henry five more minutes and then you were going to scream murder. He was probably going to make you pay for scaring the hell out of him, but he was going to forgive you in the end, like he always did.
You took a deep breath ready to scream when you heard the shower going off… “Thank god” you huffed. Your boyfriend was a very beautiful man and you loved his cute curly hair but you were going to shave him sooner or later if he didn’t start getting faster at taking his shower… you needed his attention. Now! You laughed at yourself knowing that you would never cut Henry’s hair… you considered it a crime. You didn’t speak to him for a whole day when he did it himself.
“Baby did I hear the doorbell?”- Henry asked as soon as he got out of the bathroom. He was still wearing nothing but a towel on his waist , his hair were still wet and all you could think about was licking the drops of water that was gently running through his chest hairs. You looked at his hair still damped but perfect like always and you agreed with yourself that you could never shave his head. Henry’s hair should be declared patrimony of the world.
“What”- you hadn’t heard a word of what he asked you
“Was there someone at the door? I thought I heard the doorbell while I was in the shower”- he smirked aware of your eyes on him.
“Oh yeah… there was a delivery”- you shrugged unsure if you were ready to share with him what you had bought. You had been giddy until a minute before but now you were starting to panicking a little: he would never judge you but still…
“I didn’t know there was a delivery planned”
“I bought something”- he was looking at you ready to hear more. It wasn’t like you had to tell him, but you were always so happy to show him your purchases -“It’s an Advent Calendar”
He gently rolled his eyes, he really didn’t get your fixation with them, you bought one every year and you were always so thrilled… but you outdid yourself this year
“Didn’t you already buy three of them?”- you had actually bought three calendars but, in your defense, they were very different from one another: one was only make up, the other one was a skincare calendar and the last one had chocolates in it.
“You’re gonna like this one Hennybear”- you smiled at him -“do you wanna share it with me”- you flashed at him your puppy eyes
“Don’t even think about it. I let you put make up on me once already; it’s not gonna happen again baby. I’m sorry”- he shrugged at you. Henry didn’t like saying no to you, but he had to put his feet down sometimes.
You still remembered that day: you were so annoyed during the lockdown, apart from sexy time with Henry, playing with Kal and cooking, there wasn’t much left to do especially when Henry was so taken by his game he almost forgot about you. He had been gaming all day, only saying two words to you during the whole day, so you had started pouting. You had gone to Henry with your pout on and he had been putty in your hands: you had known as soon as he had looked at your big eyes you could have asked him anything and you did. Beside he could whine all he wanted, you knew he had had as much fun as you did that night. And if you had learned something from that night was that your man looked absolutely stunning with a gold highlighter on.
“We both know I could make you do it again, beside…”- you smirked at him while taking the box behind you.
Henry was always astonished at how you could go from sweet little shy girl to vicious minx in merely a second.
“Are you really sure you don’t want to open this one with me”- you asked once again, lightly shaking the calendar.
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You saw Henry carefully looking at what you were holding, still doubtful at least until he actually read what was written on the calendar “Naughty &Nice”
He gulped, you always knew how to throw a curve ball at him
“Fuck baby, where did you find it?”
“It wasn’t that difficult. Shall we open the first box?”- you hadn’t even finished talking that he was already opening it. You laughed at his eagerness, he was such a dork. - “Shouldn’t you put some pants on first”- you couldn’t help but make fun of him.
“I’m not gonna need any pants if this goes how I’m hoping it will”- he smirked at you while removing the cellophane. - “So can I have to honors”- he rubbed his hands together
“Sure”- you couldn’t have taken this away from him even you had wanted to
Henry opened the box with the number 1 on it and took what was in it, he didn’t even give you the time to see it that he was already smirking at you while caging you in his arm
“We’re gonna have fun”- he said while caressing your butt with one hand, while the other one hold the mysterious object behind his back
“What is it”- you asked once it was clear he wasn’t going to show it to you
“It’s a surprise”
“Oh come on”- you said- “ come on tell me, I was the one who bought it, this is so unfair”- you huffed at him.
“Take off your clothes, get on the bed and wait for me there with your eyes closed”- you looked at him like he betrayed you, but you knew he wasn’t going to budge on this one. He always liked to take control when your pleasure was involved.
“Fine”- you huffed in the end -“but you better make it worth it”- you screamed from the stares that went to your bedroom floor
“When don’t I”-he screamed at your back
You had been waiting for a couple of minutes when you heard him entering the bedroom, it was clear he was as eager as you because usually he made you wait a lot longer . Apparently he was feeling kind today
You heard him moving around the bedroom but you weren’t sure if he was teasing you, trying to make you open your eyes or if he was actually looking for something. You waited with your eyes closed like he asked anyway, knowing it was going to be worth it
You felt the bed bent a little under Henry’s weight and you could suddenly feel his presence over you. He bit your lips, while gently caressing your thigh with his fingers and you couldn’t help but moan, you loved when he used his fingers on you in any way… wait… those weren’t his fingers
You hadn’t had enough time to actually processed that thought that you heard a buzzing; you were about to ask Henry about it when you felt something vibrate against your clit.
And suddenly you remember the mysterious object of the advent calendar; you wanted to say something… anything, but all you could think about was the feeling of the vibrator against your clit. Henry was feeling merciless it seemed, since he wasn’t giving you even a second to catch your breath, he just kept stimulating you again and again and again.
“Baby”- you tried calling for him. He wasn’t talking and you mentally cursed him… what a bastard , he knew you needed to see him or hear him to come and not only did he tell you to wait for him with your eyes closed, but he also wasn’t talking to you.
You could only feel him lightly against your body: his hairy legs against your smooth one, his breath on your forehead, his hard cock softly rubbing against your hip. But you needed more: you were almost there but you needed more of him.
You opened your eyes and as soon as your eyes met his ocean ones with that splash of brown you came.
“Fuck”- you tried to say -“You’re so mean, why weren’t you talking to me? You know I need you to come”
He still chose not to answer you.
He positioned himself over you and he entered you in a slow motion. You wanted to say something but you were overwhelmed. You had just come and you were feeling on the edge already again just by being full of him. He trusted in and out of you, and you took your hands from the sheets to tag on his curls. He kept trusting and trusting still not talking to you, he only groaned and trusted again and again. You moaned louder as he fucked faster and faster, you were right there once again. You clenched around him and tagged harder on his curls
“Fuck love”- he finally said and if you were more coherent you would be smirking at him victorious right now.
“Come baby, come”- you said… well you asked him and with a last trust he did
Once he made sure you had come once again too, he lied down next to you while trying to catch his breath.
“So are you going to say I’m right now?”- you jokingly asked him while caressing his pecs
“About what?”- he was caressing your naked back sending shivers all over your body.
“About Advent calendars”
“You’re always right love”- you smirked at his answer
“Good boy”- you couldn’t help but gasp when he took you by your waist to tickle you
You couldn’t wait to know what was going to be in the second box of the advent calendar
I would like to be able to post a one shot every day for this one, but let’s be honest I’m not gonna be able to. Beside I’m not that good at writing smut as you can see form this post
But I’ll try at least to update what could be in each box every day.
English is not my first language so I’m sorry if there are any mistakes
Feedback is always welcome and appreciated ❤️
Taglist: @omgkatinka @xxxkatxo @jwspiter @maan24 @littlewrenofrivia @xprettyqueenx @marytudorbrandon @amortentiaaaa @summersong69 @margauxmargaux07
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FIC RECS 1
A list of fics I have enjoyed reading and/or recommend. Grab your cup of tea or coffee and let yourself get transported into the fictional world of these wonderful fic writers. Thank you everyone for providing much needed distraction and entertainment. Your work is loved and appreciated.
Master List Fic Recs
Middle Earth Stories
Durin’s Garage - Part 3 - by @laurfilijames
The last chapter in the Garage AU series featuring Fili. This hot and steamy fic will make you want your car to break down too.
Day 11: BAM! - by @lathalea
Day 11 story in the Advent Calendar. The fluffiest fic about young Thorin, young Frerin and their baby sister Dis. Your heart will melt reading this!
Naughty Thoughts - by @linasofia
Yes, I was late to the hot party, but being late is not always a bad thing. I could read all 4 chapters in one go and who wouldn't want to know what is going to happen next. This hot and steamy fic may heat you up more than your cup of tea or coffee does when reading it.
Day 12: North and East (snippet)- By @lathalea
Day 12 in the amazing stories Advent Calendar. This is just a snippet of what is going to be a full story, but I’m already so intrigued. I love the way @lathalea writes Thorin, the way she makes him speak. It’s amazing.
8: Sweets - by @blairsanne
The fluffiest young Fili and Kili story. I love stories about young Durin family members and especially the interaction between siblings. If you are having a bad day, this is definitely the story to read. |t will put a smile on your face.
Thorin and Co gift giving headcanons by @huckleberrytea03
A lovely imagine on gift giving in the Hobbit Company. It makes you want to join in the fun.
Other worlds
The Ugly Duckling by @magravenwrites
A two-part story in The Last Kingdom world about love between two outsiders, Sihtric and OC Elsef. It makes you miss the boys and want to re-watch The Last Kingdom again.
The Citryne Chronicles: Winter’s Curse Prologue - by @the-poldarkian
An original story, a planned(!) Book series that follows the lives of 6 Princesses (Gabriella, Syrena, Florina, Yasmin, Tiara and Leigh) and their journeys in a fictional world.
Art & Vampires by me @enchantzz
Shameless self promotion of my stories in the series about a vampire Mitchell (AU - Being Human UK) and a human Amy (my OC), in the world of art, antiques, vampires, witches and other supernatural beings, world travel, history, adventures and slow-burn love stories around the characters. There are also a couple of stand-alone and tie-in Hot!Mitchy 18+ fics about Mitchell and Amy.
Grab you cup of tea or coffee and enjoy reading. Again a big thank you to the wonderful authors 🧡🧡🧡 Your work is appreciated.
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Happy & Hot Valentine's Day!
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Well, compared to last year's Valentine's Day art, Sammy has settled down, hasn't he? It's true that I sketched something else for Valentine's Day - the whole family from Samdy Kids. But then I decided that I would leave it for another day - and use a sketch I made in November, instead. My heart needed something hot and mildly naughty. Yes, Sammy is much shorter than Bendy, if you haven't noticed yet. So here his feet hang in the air. I hope you will enjoy this day. My Valentine's Day today comes down to caring for my husband who has a cold xD As for the technical side... I was better at drawing this time. Two more drawings and I'll be ready to finish rewards and move on with the Advent Calendar Challenge. And then comics - and we might even start the second serie on schedule in March. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
Plus BONUS :)
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Real Life Tasks With Ransom Drysdale
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An Advent Calendar Of 24 Normal Human Tasks As Performed By A Huge Man Baby
Day 11: Where The Fuck Is The Top? 
Warnings: Bad Language Words, some Naughty Times. 
Pairing: Ransom Drysdale x Reader
A/N: Alright, so this instance has happened to me. I loathe tupperware because I can never ever find the damn cover and half the time I saran wrap that bitch. As always stayed tuned for what @what-is-your-plan-today​ and @jennmurawski13​ have up there sleeves for this Man Child. 
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Ransom groaned while stretching, your feet in his lap and your head propped up on the other end of the couch, his hand dropping to your ankle and giving it a good rub which made you mimic his groan from before, rolling your foot a bit while his fingers worked there magic over the arch of your foot. “Right there Ransom, feels so damn good.” 
He smirked hearing you while his eyes were still glued to the America’s Worst Cooks episode you two were watching. “Same thing you said to me the other night Y/N.” 
“I did, but this might be even better than that Ransom.” You grinned down your body at him, while you switched feet so he would do the other one, which he shifted his attention to, making you give another satisfied groan. 
“Well you were mixing my name with God’s, I think that kinda beats everything doesn't it?” He slid a finger from your heel up to your toes that he wiggled the ends of. 
“Nah, I was just adding that for your benefit.” You said while turning back to the television, scrunching your nose at some of the stuff the contestant made. “Fuck these people are hopeless Ransom. We should sign you up, I bet you would kick all their asses.” 
He gave a slight squeeze to your heel, and worked his hand over the top of your foot, knowing how much you enjoyed it. “Hey, I think those tacos were not to bad tonight, I even manage to toast the shells without burning them.” You grinned thinking back on how carefully he diced the lettuce, tomatoes, and onions, bitching the whole time he was dicing the onion cause of the tears streaming down his face. You let him also open the salsa jar while you carefully monitored the stuff on the stove top. 
You to had an eye on the shells and subtly reminded him to check them when you noticed they were starting to toast up. 
“Baby, those fucking tacos were the best, Spawn Baby was extremely pleased with it.” You rubbed your belly and shifted to move up to a sit, dropping your feet from his lap. “So I will go clean up, since you spoiled me.” 
“Nah, I got it Baby. You just stay right there.” He pushed up, and leaned over to grasp your chin lightly, placing a deep loving kiss on your lips. You inhaled deeply as he pulled away, your eyes shining a bit brighter than before. Inwards, Ransom cheered as he knew that look well. With all he had been doing today, and actually not making a disaster of it, you were getting turned on, and frankly he was ready for it.  
“Uh when you come back, maybe I will make you cry out my name.” You wink at him, biting your lip playfully and he smirked at you while giving a nipping kiss on your lips before moving away. 
“Mmh Princess, sounds like a deal. Be right back.” Ransom winked at you, then made his way to the kitchen, whistling happily while flicking on the light to show the disaster of the kitchen. He might have made decent tacos, but hell if he knew how to clean up after himself. 
Strewn across the counters were bowls of chopped veggies, tops to sour cream and salsa, some shredded cheese fell across the counter, taco shells and wraps half scattered from where you two had flung them at each other across the counter joking about what the best taco toppings were. You stood behind your salsa and sour cream combo, and Ransom swore that the more cheese the better, what the hell was sour cream good for? 
Deciding to put the chopped veggies and meat away, he went into the tupperware cupboard. They were stacked so neatly that he easily chose a few different sizes. Then he started sorting through the tops, trying to find some to fit the bottoms, and not a one would click on. “You have got to be fucking kidding me.” He growled under his breath, flinging the tops that didn't fit over his shoulder in aggravation across the kitchen to skid across the tile floor. 
He just kept pulling them out and no matter which he tried, even forcefully trying to make them fit, they just wouldn’t snap and finally the kitchen floor was scattered with tupperware tops and a few bottoms he also flung when he had gotten frustrated. 
“Fuck the tupperwear, wheres the saran wrap?” He asked himself and searched the rest of the cupboards till he found what he was looking for. Unwrapping the saran wrap, it kept folding on him and wrapping around his hand, which he shook his hand hard to dislodge from, getting more agitated and hostile until it dislodged from his hands. Now the kitchen looked like a toddler had gone through it. “Fuck it.” 
He ended up just leaving everything in the dishes he had served it in, and just stuffed it in the refrigerator without anything covering them. Thoroughly distracted with your earlier offer, he didn't even think to pick up the scattering of tupperware dishes and lids, or the tangled saran wrap all over the kitchen floor. 
“Ready for bed?” He asked going back into the living room and you flicked the tv off and moved to a stand. 
“Kitchen is all picked up?” You asked while heading around the couch and Ransom steered you towards the stairs, obviously now just having your offer to get him off in mine. If you had any idea, damned if he would be getting lucky tonight. 
“Done, cleaned and sorted.” He pinched the curve of your ass playfully, making you jump and go up the stairs faster, him grinning devilishly while following you up towards your bedroom. 
You waited till he got to the bedroom and wrapped your hands in his soft tee shirt and pulled him to sit on the bed, smirking at him. “Well since you’ve stepped up Ransom, you deserve what was promised.” You move, somewhat awkwardly to your knees and work your hands on his pants. 
Fuck if Ransom has ever been more turned on watching his pregnant wife work to get her mouth on his cock. 
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It was hours later, Ransom was passed out in bed, and you had woken up craving orange juice. Ransom's kid seemed to love the stuff, leaving you craving it all the time. So you made your way down to the kitchen which you accidentally kicked at one of the containers, making it skid across the floor before you had even turned on the light. 
“What the-?” confused as to what had went bouncing, you turned on the light to see the mess left behind. Your jaw dropped in shock at first, looking around and said out loud in disbelief. “I’m going to kill that fucking asshole.” You picked your way through it and sighed to yourself. “I’m not cleaning it, nope… this is on him. He can do it in the morning.” Your resolve set as you made your way to the fridge and opened it to find all the food had been shoved in without any covers. Leaving it smelling awful. “That motherfucking bastard. So god damn stupid.”  
 You snatched the orange juice and shut the door before you were assaulted with the smell any longer. Pouring yourself a big tall glass and drinking half of it before topping it off again. “I’m not his maid, or housekeeper.” You continued on, having debated if you should clean up the mess Ransom had left behind. But it wasn’t your job, you continued telling yourself as you made your way back through, and right back up the stairs to bed you went. 
Ransom groaned and rolled around to spoon up behind you as you settled back in, nuzzling the back of your neck and muttered “Where did you go?” 
You looked over your shoulder at your sleeping husband, knowing he wasn’t really listening. “You fucking left the kitchen a disaster Ransom.” 
He smirked as his arm tightened around you. “I did a damn good job didn’t I?” so smug with himself, even in his sleep. 
You snorted as you tugged the blankets over yourself. “Yea, a real regular professional man child I have. I can’t wait to have two of you.” In which you then tucked your cold feet against him and made him yelp. 
“Fucking hell Y/N, you know I hate that.” 
You wriggled further in bed. “Make sure you put away the tupperware on the floor and scrub the fridge before I get up in the morning Ransom. I can’t believe you did that. What the fuck were you thinking?” 
“I couldn’t find a god damn lid that fit.” Ransom slid his hand along your hip and shifted back in close to your back, hoping he could warm up your sudden cold demeanor. You retaliate by reaching to smack his hand he had the nerve to touch you with. 
“Don’t you dare think your going to fuck your way out of this one. Don’t touch me for the rest of the night Ransom.” You snapped out, leaving him cursing mentally at how his luck had so swiftly turned. 
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Real Life Tasks With Ransom Drysdale
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An Advent Calendar of 24 Normal Human Tasks As Performed By A Huge Man Baby.
Day 10: Shop Till You Drop
Warnings: Bad Language words
Pairing: Ransom Drysdale x Reader
A/N:  Instalment 10 of mine, @sweater-daddiesdumbdork​ and @jennmurawski13​ ‘s telling of Ransom’s quest to become a normal human being. This time Ransom takes on a Supermarket…
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“Will you stop!” You sighed, exasperatedly.
“Stop what?” Ransom frowned, tossing another box of Pop Tarts into the trolley he was pushing round the Supermarket
“Loading the trolley full of crap!”
“Why?”
“Because we don’t need it.”
“So?” he shrugged “I want it.”
You let out another groan “That’s all it ever boils down to with you isn’t it?”
“What the fuck is eating you today?” he snarked back, folding his arms across his chest. “Or is it more a case of nothing has eaten you, if you get my drift?”
“God you’re a fucking…” you growled and shook your head, “frankly the thought of you going near me at the moment makes me wanna puke. I’m tired. I have back ache and my legs are sore. We came in with a list and it should have taken us twenty minutes tops but oh no, you just keep stopping for a load of shit we don’t need and it's taking us twice as long and I just want to go home!”
The last word broke as you began to sob, the damned hormones flooding your system and Ransom’s eyes flew open in panic. He was used to your little outbursts thanks to his spawn growing inside of you, but this was the first time you’d had one in public.
“Y/N, stop.” He urged you, moving round the trolley towards you. He hesitated, before he opened his arms, clearly not sure if you were going to slap him or not but you didn’t have the energy. Instead you let him pull you to him, pressing your face into his sweater, breathing in his heady scent. His hands gently ran up your back as you fought for control, eventually pulling away as you looked up at him. His large hands cupped your face gently and he pressed his lips to yours, smirking a little “And you say I’m a brat?”
“Fuck off, Ransom.” You pulled away.
“Okay, okay!” he chuckled. “Look, why don’t you-“ he fished into his jeans pocket and handed you the keys to the Merc “-go wait in the car? I’ll finish up.”
“You’re going to finish getting the groceries?”
“Yeah.”
You blinked, before you shrugged “Fine, but don’t forget anything on that list or I swear to God you’ll be couched for a week.”
“Jesus, Y/N.” He plucked the list out of your hand, rolling his eyes “Just go for fucks sake.”
You glared at him once more before you turned on your heel and left him in the middle of the aisle, without so much as a look back. As you left through the exit, you took a deep breath, instantly feeling calmer and you felt a little guilty at your outburst as he hadn’t actually been doing much wrong. He had always been a pain in the ass when it came to shopping and you’d tried so hard to get him to stay at home, but he was insistent that he came to help. You should be grateful really, you knew that, he was only trying to ensure you didn’t do too much but all it resulted in was him getting on your last nerve and an emotional outburst like the one you’d just had.
True to form he’d been a complete fucking tool from the moment you set foot in the shop. Completely ignoring you and piling anything and everything he liked the look of into the trolley, even if you knew half of it would go to waste. But that was him and his damned family all over. More money than fucking sense.
Fuck it, he could deal with it. You were going to take a nap in the comfy passenger seat whilst he finished. And woe betide him try anything when you got home later on that evening, if he so much as made a single amorous advance towards you that night you’d rip his cock off.
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Ransom watched Y/N stalk off away from him an exhaled, loudly, whilst also giving himself a mental pat on the back for being smart enough to tell her to go and wait in the car. Allowing her to rest whilst he complete the shopping was most certainly going to put him in her good books. And, if he played his cards right and even unloaded the groceries at the other end, he’d most certainly get a bit of bedroom fun later on.
Yup, Ransom Drysdale was a clever bastard.
That said, he did feel a tad guilty. He knew she’d been struggling the last few days with her back and seeing her burst into tears in the middle of Whole Foods had made him realise just how much energy she was using growing their baby. Maybe he had been a bit of a pain in the ass, but he hadn’t meant to be. He just liked what he liked and seeing as money wasn’t an issue why shouldn’t he get it?
He glanced down at the list, there wasn’t that much left on it. So he hastily made his way around the store allowing himself only one little detour for an unlisted item- some Lavender and Camomile bath salts for Y/N which he intended to use later when he drew her a bath to help her relax- and then made his way to the check outs.
This was the bit he hated, with a passion. Unloading and then waging a war with the damned items at the other end whilst he tried to bag them as quickly as the checkout ninja scanned them and slid them down to him. However, as luck would have it, today’s ‘ninja’ was more of a ‘nan-ja’, and to his relief the coffin-dodger took her time, having to bend so close to the screen to see the items her nose might as well have been touching it. This allowed him enough time to bag everything as Y/N did- raw meats separate, then chilled, frozen, fresh and tinned. He paused, as the final bag containing the 3 bottles of his preferred wine and a 4 pack of beer felt a little strained and he pondered double bagging. But decided against it. It was only going in the back of the car from the trolley, he’d just make sure to support it underneath.
Eventually the woman, who now he studied her must have been the same age as his fucking Great-Nana Wanetta, scanned the last item which was a bar of Y/N’s favourite chocolate he’d picked up from the stand at the end of the checkout, and turned to him smiling. She read out the total and he passed his card over, looking around as she scanned it and pressed a few buttons. Finally, the ordeal was over and he took his card and receipt before making his way back outside.
Job well done, even if he did say so himself.
He pushed the trolley over the car park, stopping only to hurl abuse at some absolute moron in a Toyota who nearly took him out when he skidded round the corner, and opened the trunk to the car. He loaded the bags, took the trolley back (well, he pushed it to the spare space besides the car because fuck walking over to the Trolley Park, that’s what they paid the simpleton in the hat and hi-viz to do) and made his way to the driver’s door. He dropped in besides his girl and she turned to face him, a smile spreading across her face as he handed her the Hershey’s.
“Feeling better?” he asked.
“Yeah. I’m sorry.”
“Its ok baby.” He smiled at her as she leaned over to give him a soft kiss “Cooking my boy is zapping it outta you huh?”
“Just a tad.” She shrugged “But I shouldn’t have snapped. Thank you for finishing up.”
Ransom shrugged “No big deal.” he gave her another quick kiss before he put the car in reverse and drove towards the parking lot exit, a soft smirk playing on his handsome face
Yup, he was off Santa’s Naughty List for sure.
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“Go and put your feet up, I got this.” Ransom assured you as you made your way to the trunk to help unload the shopping.
"You sure?"
“Positive.” He nodded, his arms wrapping around you from behind, large hands sweeping over the front of your jacket, softly caressing your bump. “It won’t take me long to unload and put it all away. Then we can curl up and I’ll order us that pizza you’ve been talking about all day.”
“Extra olives?”
“Whatever you want.” He pressed a kiss to your neck and you bit your lip. You had to admit, that did sound like a damned fine idea. And, to be honest, he was pretty good at unpacking groceries, that was one area he was actually trained in after years of you whipping him into shape.
“Okay.” You tilted your head round to look at him, giving him a quick kiss “Can you keep the mincemeat out for tomorrow’s dinner and the rest of the meat-“
“Can go in the freezer, yeah, I know.” He stepped back, reaching for a bag “I’m not a complete moron.”
“Debatable.” You muttered, ignoring the eye-roll that came your way as you stepped away from him. You headed to the front door, your pace slow as your baby was doing what felt like the tango in your belly. He seemed to be doing that a lot recently, especially when Ransom had touched your bump and spoken to you, almost like he was reacting directly to his Daddy. When you’d told Ransom so the previous night, he’d positively beamed at you with pure unadulterated love on his features, something which you were sure no one but you ever saw. You rubbed your belly, a soft smile on your face, telling your unborn son to quieten down a little, and you’d just unlocked the door when you heard a loud yell, followed by the smashing of glass and a string of expletives from your husband.
“Mother fucking, asshole, bastard crap bag!”
You spun round to see Ransom stood with a carrier bag in his hand, the bottom flapping as it had completely given way. Green and brown glass littered your drive way as a pool of red-wine and beer swam around his expensive chukkas. He screwed the bag up, tossing it into the trunk as he ran a hand through his hair, growling in annoyance.
“How much did you just drop all over the drive way?” you asked and he peeked up at you and grimaced.
“Eighty bucks worth. That was some quality merlot.”
“Well, maybe next time you’ll remember to double bag.” You shook your head, before you nodded to it “Make sure you clean that up. I’d hate to reverse over it and get another flat. Woe betide we have a performance like last time.”
“Oh, I dunno.” He quipped, a smirk spreading across his face “I happen to think the performance last time was pretty good. You certainly didn’t have any complaints once I got you back inside and sat on my face.”
You blinked, before you scoffed and shook your head “Do you know where the brush and dustpan is or should I draw you a map?”
“Fuck you.” He shot back, his eyes narrowed in a glare and you grinned, shrugging.
“Maybe later.” and with that you headed inside leaving him to grieve for his precious alcohol, which had been taken from him far too soon…
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SaiyanPrincessSwanie - Reading List Week 23
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Hey all, it’s time to bring you week 23 of my reading list. These are all one-shots, drabbles and stories from authors who have either tagged me in their work or they have been recommended to me. Every week, I will put a list together of what I’m reading. I want to do this to help spread the love in the Marvel Community.
If you would like to be added, signal boosted, please tag me in your fics or tag me in someone else’s stories. If you don’t see your story listed it’s probably due to my cut off date I had earlier in the week or Tumblr might have eaten your tagged story. All stories not listed that I did receive will be featured on the following week. Completed series that I’m tagged in will take longer for me to get through but please still tag me.  
This week was crazy as I fell behind in my reading. I had 50 fics this week and had to push off another 20 until next week. Please be kind and patient as I continue to make my way through all tags.
Make sure you read the warnings on every story. They range from dark to fluff.
These will be listed in no particular order. None of these stories are mine. I’m just signal boosting them. Author is listed next to title.
Page break made by @whimsicalrogers​
If you can please reblog these lists so they can reach more people on Tumblr.
~Missy  💜
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A good girl - @rayofdawnworld​
Hungry like a wolf | soft!dark Ari - @mypoisonedvine​
Good girls gone bad - @chuuulip​
Partition - @gogolucky13​
Pure and good - Chp 1 - @donutloverxo​
Party favors - @fuxkingmarvel​
Overflow - @ozarkthedog​
Super Hair-O - @jobean12-blog​
Innocence - 22 - @extremelyblackandwhite​
Not that you knew it - @afriendlyblackhottie​
My best friends dad - Part 11 - @drabblewithfrannybarnes​ 
I want your midnights - @feliciahardyn​
Salvatore | v. - @nsfwsebbie​
A big mistake - @ironlady1993​
Almost had me believing - Part 3 - @tuiccim​
Nimble fingers - @angrythingstarlight​
Dwindling, mercurial high - @feliciahardyn​
Too loose and you’ll lose it - Chp 5 - @what-is-your-plan-today​ @icanfeelastormbrewing​
Make me - Part 8 - @donutloverxo​
Ghost of you (8) - @gogolucky13​
Past life - @nekoannie-chan​
Naughty or Nice - @sweeterthanthis​
Love is not obvious (For these two at least) - Part 1 - Part 2 - @fandomsandxfiles-writes​
Everywhere you want to be - @avengerscompound​
Fall memories - @animnerd​
Claiming the Queen - Chp 1 - @jtargaryen18​
Dance with me - Part 4 - @drabblewithfrannybarnes​
Say it - @stargazingfangirl18​
Old man - @tuiccim​
Chris Drabble (biting chain) - @ozarkthedog​
Not your forever - Chp 4 - @navybrat817​
Kinktober Prompt 16: Captain Hydra - @stargazingfangirl18​
Yes ma’am - @sweeterthanthis​
Worth the wait - @jobean12-blog​
Unwelcome partnerships - @fandomsandxfiles-writes​
The real thing - @tuiccim​
Chris smut Drabble - @ozarkthedog​
Soul seer Part 14 - @notyetneedcoffee​
Feed, or Fuck Chp 2 - @caffiend-queen​
Real life tasks with Ransom (advent calendar of 24) Day 1 - @what-is-your-plan-today​
Real life tasks with Ransom (advent calendar of 24) Day 2 - @sweater-daddiesdumbdork​
Real life tasks with Ransom (advent calendar of 24) Day 3 - @ohthankevans13​
Real life tasks with Ransom (advent calendar of 24) Day 4 - @what-is-your-plan-today​
Real life tasks with Ransom (advent calendar of 24) Day 5 - @sweater-daddiesdumbdork​
Real life tasks with Ransom (advent calendar of 24) Day 6 - @ohthankevans13​
Absent hearts Part 1 - @sweeterthanthis​
Graveyard - @buckyownsmylife​
Moon and Back - @drabblewithfrannybarnes​
The perfect tree - @jobean12-blog​
It’s a Pinterest Christmas miracle...kind of - @imanuglywombat​
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Real Life Tasks With Ransom Drysdale
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An Advent Calendar of 24 Normal Human Tasks As Performed By A Huge Man Baby.
Day 10: Shop Till You Drop
Warnings: Bad Language words
Pairing: Ransom Drysdale x Reader
A/N:  Instalment 10 of mine, @sweater-daddiesdumbdork​ and @ohthankevans13​ telling of Ransom’s quest to become a normal human being. This time Ransom takes on a Super Market…
Series Masterlist
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“Will you stop!” You sighed, exasperatedly.
“Stop what?” Ransom frowned, tossing another box of Pop Tarts into the trolley he was pushing round the Supermarket
“Loading the trolley full of crap!”
“Why?”
“Because we don’t need it.”
“So?” he shrugged “I want it.”
You let out another groan “That’s all it ever boils down to with you isn’t it?”
“What the fuck is eating you today?” he snarked back, folding his arms across his chest. “Or is more a case of nothing has eaten you, if you get my drift?”
“God you’re a fucking…” you growled and shook your head, “frankly the thought of you going near me at the moment makes me wanna puke. I’m tired. I have back ache and my legs are sore. We came in with a list and it should have taken us twenty minutes tops but oh no, you just keep stopping for a load of shit we don’t need and its taking us twice as long and I just want to go home!”
The last word broke as you began to sob, the damned hormones flooding your system and Ransom’s eyes flew open in panic. He was used to your little outbursts thanks to his spawn growing inside of you, but this was the first time you’d had one in public.
“Y/N, stop.” He urged you, moving round the trolley towards you. He hesitated, before he opened his arms, clearly not sure if you were going to slap him or not but you didn’t have the energy. Instead you let him pull you to him, pressing your face into his sweater, breathing in his heady scent. His hands gently ran up your back as you fought for control, eventually pulling away as you looked up at him. His large hands cupped your face gently and he pressed his lips to yours, smirking a little “And you say I’m a brat?”
“Fuck off, Ransom.” You pulled away.
“Okay, okay!” he chuckled. “Look, why don’t you-“ he fished into his jeans pocket and handed you the keys to the Merc “-go wait in the car? I’ll finish up.”
“You’re going to finish getting the groceries?”
“Yeah.”
You blinked, before you shrugged “Fine, but don’t forget anything on that list or I swear to God you’ll be couched for a week.”
“Jesus, Y/N.” He plucked the list out of your hand, rolling his eyes “Just go for fucks sake.”
You glared at him once more before you turned on your heel and left him in the middle of the aisle, without so much as a look back. As you left through the exit, you took a deep breath, instantly feeling calmer and you felt a little guilty at your outburst as he hadn’t actually been doing much wrong. He had always been a pain in the ass when it came to shopping and you’d tried so hard to get him to stay at home, but he was insistent that he came to help. You should be grateful really, you knew that, he was only trying to ensure you didn’t do too much but all it resulted in was him getting on your last nerve and an emotional outburst like the one you’d just had.
True to form he’d been a complete fucking tool from the moment you set foot in the shop. Completely ignoring you and piling anything and everything he liked the look of into the trolley, even if you knew half of it would go to waste. But that was him and his damned family all over. More money than fucking sense.
Fuck it, he could deal with it. You were going to take a nap in the comfy passenger seat whilst he finished. And woe betide him try anything when you got home later on that evening, if he so much as made a single amorous advance towards you that night you’d rip his cock off.
**** Ransom watched Y/N stalk off away from him an exhaled, loudly, whilst also giving himself a mental pat on the back for being smart enough to tell her to go and wait in the car. Allowing her to rest whilst he complete the shopping was most certainly going to put him in her good books. And, if he played his cards right and even unloaded the groceries at the other end, he’d most certainly get a bit of bedroom fun later on.
Yup, Ransom Drysdale was a clever bastard.
That said, he did feel a tad guilty. He knew she’d been struggling the last few days with her back and seeing her burst into tears in the middle of Whole Foods had made him realise just how much energy she was using growing their baby. Maybe he had been a bit of a pain in the ass, but he hadn’t meant to be. He just liked what he liked and seeing as money wasn’t an issue why shouldn’t he get it?
He glanced down at the list, there wasn’t that much left on it. So, he hastily made his way around the store allowing himself only one little detour for an unlisted item- some Lavender and Camomile bath salts for Y/N which he intended to use later when he drew her a bath to help her relax- and then made his way to the check outs.
This was the bit he hated, with a passion. Unloading and then waging a war with the damned items at the other end whilst he tried to bag them as quickly as the checkout ninja scanned them and slid them down to him. However, as luck would have it, today’s ‘ninja’ was more of a ‘nan-ja’, and to his relief the coffin-dodger took her time, having to bend so close to the screen to see the items her nose might as well have been touching it. This allowed him enough time to bag everything as Y/N did- raw meats separate, then chilled, frozen, fresh and tinned. He paused, as the final bag containing the 3 bottles of his preferred wine and a 4 pack of beer felt a little strained and he pondered double bagging. But decided against it. It was only going in the back of the car from the trolley, he’d just make sure to support it underneath.
Eventually the woman, who now he studied her must have been the same age as his fucking Great-Nana Wanetta, scanned the last item which was a bar of Y/N’s favourite chocolate he’d picked up from the stand at the end of the checkout, and turned to him smiling. She read out the total and he passed his card over, looking around as she scanned it and pressed a few buttons. Finally, the ordeal was over and he took his card and receipt before making his way back outside.
Job well done, even if he did say so himself.
He pushed the trolley over the car park, stopping only to hurl abuse at some absolute moron in a Toyota who nearly took him out when he skidded round the corner, and opened the trunk to the car. He loaded the bags, took the trolley back (well, he pushed it to the spare space besides he car because fuck walking over to the Trolley Park, that’s what they paid the simpleton in the hat and hi-viz to do) and made his way to the driver’s door. He dropped in besides his girl and she turned to face him, a smile spreading across her face as he handed her the Hershey’s.
“Feeling better?” he asked.
“Yeah. Sorry.”
“Its ok baby.” He smiled at her as she leaned over to give him a soft kiss “Cooking my boy is zapping it outta you huh?”
“Just a tad.” She shrugged “But I shouldn’t have snapped. Thank you for finishing up.”
Ransom shrugged “No big deal.” he gave he another quick kiss before he put the car in reverse and drove towards the parking lot exit, a soft smirk playing on his handsome face
Yup, he was off Santa’s Naughty List for sure.
***** “Go and put your feet up, I got this.” Ransom assured you as you made your way to the trunk to help unload the shopping.
“Sure?”
“Positive.” He nodded, his arms wrapping around you from behind, large hands sweeping over the front of your jacket, softly caressing your bump. “It won’t take me long to unload and put it all away. Then we can curl up and I’ll order us that pizza you’ve been talking about all day.”
He pressed a kiss to your neck and you bit your lip. You had to admit, that did sound like a damned fine idea. And, to be honest, he was pretty good at unpacking groceries, that was one area he was actually trained in after years of you whipping him into shape.
“Okay.” You tilted your head round to look at him, giving him a quick kiss “Can you keep the mincemeat out for tomorrow’s dinner and the rest of the meat-“
“Can go in the freezer, yeah, I know.” He stepped back, reaching for a bag “I’m not a complete moron.”
“Debatable.” You muttered, ignoring the eye-roll that came your way as you turned around. You headed to the front door, your pace slow as your baby was doing what felt like the tango in your belly. He seemed to be doing that a lot recently, and you were convinced he was reacting to Ransom’s voice, something which you’d told him the previous night making him positively beam at you with pure unadulterated love on his features, something which you were sure no one but you saw. You rubbed your belly, a soft smile on your face, telling your unborn son to quieten down a little, and you’d just unlocked the door when you heard a loud yell, followed by the smashing of glass and a string of expletives from your husband.
“Mother fucking, asshole, bastard crap bag!”
You spun round to see Ransom stood with a carrier bag in his hand, the bottom flapping as it had completely given way. Green and brown glass littered your drive way as a pool of red-wine and beer swam around his expensive chukkas. He screwed the bag up, tossing it into the trunk as he ran a hand through his hair, growling in annoyance.
“How much did you just drop all over the drive way?” you asked and he peeked up at you and grimaced.
“Eighty bucks worth. That was some quality merlot.”
“Well, maybe next time you’ll remember to double bag.” You shook your head, before you nodded to it “Make sure you clean that up. I’d hate to reverse over it and get another flat. Woe betide we have a performance like last time.”
“Oh, I dunno.” He quipped, a smirk spreading across his face “I happen to think the performance last time was pretty good. You certainly didn’t have any complaints once I got you back inside and sat on my face.”
You blinked, before you scoffed and shook your head “Do you know where the brush and dustpan is or should I draw you a map?”
“Fuck you.” He shot back, his eyes narrowed in a glare and you grinned, shrugging.
“Maybe later.” and with that you headed inside leaving him to grieve for his precious alcohol, which had been taken from him far too soon…
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Giraffe's Eye View: Christmas Specials Special (2023) | Sakura's Wonderful Christmas
Chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose. Mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again. All the dogs in the neighborhood somehow learned to bark Jingle Bells in sync. Yet retail workers are still more annoyed with Mariah Carey. Snow is getting shoveled, tossed, and formed into sentient beings leading parades without permits. It makes for an excellent distraction as the Krampus abducts children for bad behavior. Fruitcake is exchanged only to find its permanent home in the garbage. Terrorists have hijacked the Holiday office party right before your boss can give you a Jelly of the Month Club membership as your bonus. And of course, the Turducken has returned to wreak its fiery vengeance upon an unsuspecting world! If all this doesn’t put you in the Christmas spirit, perhaps these following Holiday specials will!
Greetings people of today and robots of tomorrow! It is I, Santa Clark, your geeky giraffe friend with a deep love of Christmas! My obsession for the yuletide is rivaled only by Maleficent’s hatred for it, which is saying a lot considering she once teamed up with Mad Madam Mim to kidnap the literal Spirit of Christmas. Yes, that really happened. I know this due to my annual pilgrimage to the Island of Misfit Specials, home to obscure or nerdy festive media ranging from movies, TV episodes, and comics. It’s no easy journey. Constantly I find myself confronted by sinister snowmen, genocidal gingerbread men, and worst of all, crappy commercials. Getting stabbed in the foot by a candy-cane wielding cookie is one thing, but I swear I’ve seen that ad for Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium more times than I’ve seen Miracle on 34th Street! Sometimes at night I catch myself reciting that jingle. Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium: Where Christmas meets Convenience! Huh, maybe Maleficent had a point.
Nah, my deep-rooted appreciation for this time of year can weather even the most moronic marketing! It helps that most of the merry media I’ve seen have put me in the perfect Holiday mood! Examples include the time a Ninja Turtle found himself trapped in a truck full of stollen toys, a drunk department store Santa stumbling onto a wish-granting magic bag, Big Bird nearly becoming a popsicle, Gwenpool waking up in a world where Galactus took the place of jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas, a terrifying tree stump trying to slaughter some saps over a stupid ship war, and the year when Death gave the Little Match Girl the greatest gift of all. Needless to say, I thought I had seen it all. That is, until I took my friends on a trip to the Island, tasking them to find me new, strange, seasonal specials to review! Some of them were fair, finding me festive favorites as comforting as coco in front of the fireplace. Others were fiendish, wanting to feed off my misery like Gremlins after midnight. Regardless of how naughty or nice my companions were, I’ve compiled all of their suggestions into a makeshift advent calendar! So stay tuned everyday until Christmas to see how badly my buddies can shred what little sanity I have left.
On the eighth day of Christmas, my buddies gave to me...
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Y’know what’s annoying? Asides from a-holes who shop on Thanksgiving? Not being an otaku. I’ve made my general disinterest in anime no secret, blaming it on a lack of Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon when I was younger. Closest I got was Avatar: The Last Airbender, an amazing adventure series that gate-keeping weebs will insist doesn’t count. First of all, yes it does. Second, none of this comes from a place of disrespect. If anything, I appreciate how Japan treats the medium as a true artform instead of relegating animation to the kid’s table like here in the States. Regardless of my feelings on the subject, there’s no escaping the relentless swam I call my friends. Previously I’ve proclaimed how persistent my pals were in pestering me to pursue My Little Pony, but that’s nothing compared to how bothersome my buddies become when begging me to view Cowboy Bebop or My Hero Academia. Not even Christmas offers any relief since Dani (Alice2Rose) has presented me with the thirty-fifth episode of the Cardcaptor Sakura series, Sakura’s Wonderful Christmas. Brilliant, what better way to get me invested in something new than plopping me in halfway through the plot? That’d be like handing me a novel with the first three chapters ripped out! Still, I could say the same for Miraculous Ladybug and I managed to follow what was going on fairly easily. Perhaps I’m being too pessimistic.
Or not. My confusion starts immediately after the admittedly catchy theme tune as we’re dropped into the dream of our titular magical schoolgirl, Sakura. Her English dub is done by Carl McKillip while Sakura Tenge provides the original Japanese vocals. Much to the annoyance of anime purists everywhere, I prefer the dub. If I wanted to read what the characters were saying, I’d buy the manga! Tough perhaps I should, since Sakura and I are equally confused as a bunch of cards rain from the sky, a mysterious feminine figure watching on from Tokyo Tower. What are these cards? Who is this woman? Does our hero have these dreams often? Do you hear what I hear? Thanks to the power of the Internet, I at least have an answer for the first question. These are Clow Cards, magical macguffins capable of storing magical monsters. Collect them all, of course! You can find them at Hot Topic right next to the Rarity body pillows! As for the woman, they heavily imply it being Sakura’s teacher Miss Mizuki. Who is Mizuki? Why is she so important? Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?
No time for that, we have real issues at hand! Like what Sakura is gonna get her friends for Christmas! Who are her friends? Are any of them relative to the plot? What’s with the crazy chick’s meltdown when Sakura approaches to ask a simple question? What do you get a wookie for Christmas when he already owns a comb?
Perhaps some tickets to a winter carnival, since suddenly we cut away to one. Okay, how come these things keep popping up in media? Is this an actual thing I never noticed before? Who wants to visit a fair in freezing temperatures aside from me? Everytime I see one I expect Captain Marvel to show up to beat down the Seven Deadly Sins. At least then I’d have a familiar face to follow, instead we’re stuck with Sakura and company. Again; who are these people? Who’s the sentient skyscraper with gray hair hanging with them? Wait, are he and Sakura on a date? She’s ten, isn’t she a little young to be romantically involved? How old is her boyfriend? Who spiked the eggnog? And why does it take everybody so long to notice the park is on freak’n fire!?
Leaping into action, our young heroine and some bratty boy I’m assuming to be her sidekick activate their Shadow Card Jutsu against the Fire Sprite responsible for fanning the flames. Why did it decide to set stuff on fire? Is it Charizard’s cousin and this was its way of making things merry and bright? Home come the love child of Pikachu and Simba is instructing our heroes how to stop it? Is he incapable of actually assisting them? What was the point of the protagonists putting the park goers to sleep instead of evacuating them to safety? Why is Miss Mizuki watching from a distance? People are in danger, what’s stopping her from helping? Why is she stalking her students? Does she know about Sakura’s after school activities? Who's playing first? Mary, did you know? I don’t know or care. By this point I was so lost I was actually getting angry! Whatever, Sakura manages to capture the creature, gives a gift to her boyfriend, the park takes medication for the burning, Simbachu manifests a magical light show, and I’m left looking for some Tylenol.
All respect to followers of this franchise like Dani, but this was terrible. Dragon Ball at least offers audiences a ‘Previously On’ segment before the story starts proper. I wasn’t expecting to have to do homework in order to watch this! It made me feel stupid and Care Bears didn’t even manage to do that. Granted this is far better animated and acted, but why should I care when the writing is what’s bogging it down? So yeah, sad to say Cardcaptor Sakura is not my cup of sencha. Action anime still has no appeal to me.
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Thanks to my buddy AN-D for making this GIF for me. ^^
Besides, I prefer slice of life. Yeah, in an astonishing turn of events, a certain robotroll finally cracked the code by getting me hooked on plotlines pertaining to high school romance and found families. Shows such as Spy X Family,  Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, Dress Up Darling, and especially Komi Can’t Communicate. Komi’s capers were so compelling that I even bought all volumes of the manga. An autistic guy like me could easily relate to the plight of Shōko Komi (Amber Lee Connors), a student suffering from an extreme social disorder that renders her practically mute. Despite this, her goal is to make 100 friends, a task one would assume to be easy considering her classmates treat her like a goddess, though really that has more to do with her looks rather than her personality. Not to mention the added attention only makes her more nervous. Only the typical wallflower Hitohito Tadano (Kyle McCarley) manages to bypass her bashfulness, becoming her first friend via an earnest conversation on the chalkboard. Together the two form a terrific friendship, eventually blossoming into a beautiful romance. Signs of this inevitable development are evident even in earlier entries like It’s Just a Merry Christmas.
Y’know what’s annoying? Aside from trying to remember the names of all of Komi’s companions? Sharing a birthday with Jesus. Coincidentally, Komi does! Thus Tadano and their gender-neutral agent of chaos Najimi (Skyler Davenport) are prompted to plan a party at her place later that day, Christmas Eve. Like Rainbow Dash they rush to the mall alongside Komi’s other amigos, Najimi challenging all present to find something exceptional for their silent friend that’s ¥5000 / $35.30. All fail save for Tadano, spotting a humongous cat plushy priced at ¥8000 / $56.48 that they all split the bill on. Still, shopping for a loved one is easy when you’re able to ask them what they like. Komi isn’t as fortunate, scrambling to the store to find something with her little brother in tow. She needed backup in case she ran into a psychotic postman or the Terminator. Otherwise he offers little assistance other than pointing out a scarf she gets for Tadano. Sadly we never see him receive it, but he does wear it in future chapters and in promotional material, so I’m assuming he appreciated it.
We do see Komi receiving her cat once the crowd converges at her home. Her peers perceive Shōko’s silence as a sign they screwed up, but Tadano understands she’s embarrassed by the affection. He suggests she send a thankful text later, not even mentioning how the feline was his idea. How honorable an hombre. Meanwhile, everyone else greedily battles for their Senpai Supreme’s attention, including Himiko Agari the Big Green Dog (Sarah Williams), Omoharu Nakanaka the Chosen One (Cherami Leigh), and Ren Yamai (Cristina Vee).
Yamai, more than anyone, deserves a permanent place on Santa’s Naughty List. My buddies and I have dubbed her Stalker McGee due to her perving out over Komi whenever on screen. She is a Yandere, and an odious one at that. In an earlier installment she actually kidnapped Hitohito with the clear intent on murdering him so she can take his place. You can’t even argue she was joking since the boy spends a majority of the story tied up in a closet before Ren returns with a knife. Granted it was changed to drumsticks for the show, though I could imagine Ren still using them for stabbing. Later on the class takes a trip to Osaka where all the girls share a bath house and Yamai salivates at the notion of touching her goddess’s bare breasts. No joke, it actually made me feel physically uncomfortable. I was squirming so much my spots kept popping off! She at least asks for consent, the timid teen having the common sense to refuse the request. Komi knows Yamai is crazy, but accepts it cuz of friendship. Screw you, Tomohito Oda, that’s not how that works! Generally I can’t bring myself to hate anyone, real or fictional, but Stalker McGee is a rare exception. Someone lock this psycho in prison! Have her be run over by a reindeer instead of Grandma! Let Godzilla step on her! Force her to watch Care Bears Nutcracker Suite on a loop! Just make her go away!
Uh, what was I saying? Oh right, the party! Putting aside Stalker McGee’s never-ending creepiness, a fun time ensues as crazy costumes are tried on, violent video games are played, Love Actually is watched for the ten-thousandth time, and depriving dares are dished out. All that and a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken! Like most chapters in Komi’s ongoing quest to make friends, I found this one to be endlessly endearing. It was well written and delightfully drawn, each character succeeding in stealing the spotlight, for better or worse. At the heart of it all was Komi and Tadano, the two getting along as splendidly as ever. Even without dialogue I could easily understand what they were feeling, which was certainly a nice antithesis to Cardcaptor. Still, much as I was miffed over Cardcaptor’s lack of clarity, I know Dani only brought it up under the assumption that I’d enjoy it. That’s why I don’t mind my pals' never-ending peer pressure, since their pleas are loving ones meant to broaden my horizons. Though there are some instances where my friends make me kranky.
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» Gender «
↬ Female: ♔ [♔-Reader]
↬ Male: ♚  [♚-Reader]
↬ Gender neutral: ♕  [♕-Reader]
» Genre Key «
↬ Fluff: 🌸 
↬ Angst: 🌧 
↬ Hurt and Comfort: ☔
↬ Serious Themes: ⚠️🚫                                                                                
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↬ Comedy/Crack: 🌞 
↬ Soft Smut [sweet vanilla~]: 💋 
↬ Hard Smut [kinky stuff~]: 😈 
   ┃ ➙ [💋😈]: kinky smut with feelings ;)             
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 ► Kink-Scenario 😈💋  [♔- Reader] 
[What kind of dirty secret(s) could the boys have?]
 ► Halloween Costume-Scenario  🌸💋😈 [♔- Reader]
[You’re wearing a scandalous Halloween Costume for a Halloweenparty...]
 ► Their favourite Make out-/Sex-Songs: Hyung Line Maknae Line  💋😈   [♔- Reader] 
[Which songs would bring the boys right into the mood?] 
 ► Honeymoon-Destinations: Hyung Line Maknae Line 🌸 [♔- Reader]
[What cities/countries would they choose for their honeymoon-trip?] 
 ► When the boys have a crush on you!
     ▸  Their feelings for you! 🌸  
        ▪ here [♕- Reader]
     ▸  Their dirty thoughts about you! 💋😈 
        ▪ About him  [♚- Reader]
        ▪ About her   [♔- Reader]
► Easter Special 🌸💋😈
[You’re wearing a sexy bunny outfit for them on Easter Sunday!]
    ▪  Easter with her! [♔- Reader]
    ▪  Easter with him!  [♚- Reader]
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↬ Long Term Project: 📅
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(the last one will hopefully never happen...)
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► Naughty Days ‘til Christmas 💋😈 [♔|♚|♕-Reader]
This is a spicy Advent Calendar for Christmas: The Boys bought an Erotic Advent-Calendar and every day they unpack another sexy Accessory with the Reader. Of course they try all the products! 💬
(24 Smut-Drabbles with female/male/gender neutral Readers) 
► BTS Dog Hybrid-Series   🌸🌧💋😈  mostly [♔-Reader] BUT [♚/♕-Reader] possible!
Seven different stories about the boys in a world where humans and hybrids exists, an unique ethnicity of humans they’re able to shift their shape into a dog.    ⁉️| 📅
► BTS “We’re all the same equal!”- Series 🌸💋🌧⚠️🚫 [♔|♚|♕-Reader]
 We all deserve the same love, no matter if we’re are chubby, thin, tall, short, have white or colored skin, are a female, male or an other gender. It simply doesn’t matter. And the boys would still love us. And they would teach us to love ourselves.  ⁉️| 📅
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 ► Disobedience [Hoseok x Reader x Namjoon] 😈 [♔- Reader]
Summary: You are sexually frustrated, annoyed and bored, which is why you started to mastubate without the permission of you boyfriends, Namjoon and Hoseok. Even if they promised to take care of your needs tonight. But you don’t feel like waiting anymore. But you also didn’t expect that Hobi will catch you with your pastel blue dildo deep into your pussy...  
► l’innocence indécente [Jimin x Reader x Jungkook] 💋 [♔- Reader] 
Synopsis: Jungkook and Jimin want to try something new with you... and you have to admit that you like it. A lot... 
► Prey  [Jimin x Reader x Taehyung] 😈💋 [♔- Reader]
Synopsis:
► Birthday Princess [Yoongi x Reader x Taehyung feat. Jungkook] 😈 [♔- Reader] 
Synopsis: You have Birthday today and your two boyfriends make sure that you will be sexually pleased to the ultimate maximum...
► Birthday Gift [Seokjin x Reader x Jimin] 😈 [♔- Reader]
Synopsis: Your Boyfriend Jimin bought you something very specific as your birthday present. You should use it as a preparation tool before you’ll get the real birthday gift tonight... 
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 ► Halloween Special 💋😈  [♔- Reader]
 ► Easter Special 🌸💋😈
     ▪  Easter with her!  [♔- Reader]
     ▪  Easter with him!  [♚- Reader]
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► My Fake-Texts Masterlist  [Semi-active/inactive] [♔- Reader]
Note: At the beginning of my blog I was more focused on making fake texts (simply it was easier and more comfortable for me back then because I was a bit insecure about my language struggles) but now it’s not my main thing anymore. That doesn’t mean that I don’t want to make fake texts in general anymore but right now I like the “real” writing much more! So I don’t know when I’ll make new fake texts. 
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► Improvisation 🌸💋😈 [♚-Reader]
Summary: This wasn't planned. Well, the whole world didn't planned to deal with a damn pandemic in 2020! If everything would have gone "normally", you would be in Seoul with Jin right in this moment and just enjoy that you're finally able to be close to Jin again. But now you two are stucked at home, Jin in his dorm in Seoul and you in your apartement in your town, far away from him. So you have to improvise for now on, how you want to deal with longing emotions and urging sexual desires... 
► Strawberry Kiss  🌸💋 [♕-Reader]
Summary: It's Friday Afternoon and when Jin comes home from work, the freshly baked strawberry cake smells deliciously. But he decided that a taste of you is even sweeter, especially when you're not wearing any underwear underneath your thin summer dress...
► Birthday Gift [Seokjin x Reader x Jimin] 😈 [♔- Reader]
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►  Home  🌸🌧  [♕-Reader]
Summary: You finally managed to spend your two semesters abroad studying in Korea! However, after some unfortunate circumstances, you want nothing more than finally be able to fly home again. But your Roommate Namjoon has some ideas to make your year abroad still wonderful...  
► Precious  🌸💋 [♔- Reader]
Summary: Today is your birthday and because your last few weeks have been terribly stressful, you want nothing more than to be able to sleep in in your day off. However, Namjoon has to go to practice all day long, that’s why he has found a very gentle method of waking you up to unpack your presents together...   
► Disobedience ft. Hoseok 😈 [♔- Reader]
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► Business Trip 💋😈 [♔- Reader] 
Summary: It's a stressful life to be the CEO of a big and international known company. Always hopping onto the next flight to a new investor or business partner, all around the globus. But sometimes he can't fix his little problem alone, so you need to help him out with some naughty stuff through these rough times of his job~   ► Jar of Kinks 💋😈 [♔- Reader] 
This Two-Shot is based on my own Jars of Kinks. 
I identify myself as a Switch. That's the reason why I decided to write a Two-Shot to my "Jar of Kinks". So I'd be able to write both Dynamics, with Dom! Yoongi and Sub! Yoongi as well. In this Index you'll find the links to the Oneshots, combinded with their summary and their individual warnings. 
► Touched 💋😈 [♔- Reader]
Summary: This week was just so awful and shitty, every muscle in your body hurts and you're absolutely exhausted from this horror week. But Yoongi has an Idea to relax you and make you feel so loved in a way, that couldn't make thousands of compliments.
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►  Netflix and Chill  🌸🌞 [♕-Reader]
Summary: Hoseok and you are best friends, especially because you two share an unique passion for which you get sometimes quizzycally looks from others. Like every friday night you meet up to watch some series on Netflix together and massage and fondle the hair of each other. All the same, all innocent as ever. Until it comes to an certain situation and you realize the true meaning behind “Netflix and Chill” faster than you expected.   
► Disobedience ft. Namjoon 😈 [♔- Reader]  
► Little Swan  😈 [♔- Reader]
Sneak Peak: Laying open, completely helpless and so vulnerable in front of him. Presented like a meal on a silver tablet. His meal, his prey. Your wolf is starving, licking his lips with an animalistic and devilish smile at the sight of your parted pussy lips. Revealing his most desired things, this swollen and sensitive clit and this pretty tiny pussyhole. Clenching around nothing, literally begging to get filled with his fat cock and stuffed up with his cum until it’s leaking out of his little sweet swan...
► Mustang v8 💋🌞 [♔- Reader]  
Summary:  You kinda have a thing for the sound of the engine of a Mustang. How bad that Hoseok’s new car is a Mustang and that your Boyfriend looks super hot while driving!
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► Study Break  🌸💋 [♔- Reader]
Summary: College wants to kill you right now. Exam Phase and then you have to write a 20 page long scientific work! Jimin and you barely see each other, you gave yourself completely to your studies. Until some specific needs some attention again...   
 ► Poolside Kisses 🌸💋😈 [♔- Reader]
Summary: Jimin said, you should pack a swimsuit into your suitcase when you're going to visit him in Korea. You thought, you'll go bathing somewhere privately, maybe just with the boys or so... and not going to a pool party of one of Jimin's Idol friends where you'll not know anybody! Since then you hate yourself that you only brought your new bikini to Korea that reveals more of your bare skin that you're used to... 
► Mousse au Chocolat 💋 [♔- Reader]
Synopsis: You are Jimin’s favourite dessert...
► l’innocence indécente ft. Jungkook 💋 [♔- Reader]
► Birthday Gift [Seokjin x Reader x Jimin] 😈 [♔- Reader]
► Dirty little Secret  
Summary: Whenever you leave your apartement for work, you're carrying a dirty little secret to your workplace as well. To be more specific, you wear inconspicuous sex-toys underneath your business attire to keep your sex-craving libido under control. Nobody noticed something and everything went well... until now. Until your Boss and secret crush, Park Jimin, bursts into your office unannounced and hears something buzzing which definitely doesn't come from your phone. Even worse, he sees a certain remote-control laying on your desk that seems to be surprisingly familiar to him... 😈 [♔- Reader]
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► The Definition of Art  🌸💋 [♚-Reader]
Summary: You’re under Taehyung’s total mercy. Tied up, bare and trembling you lay spread out in front of your boyfriend who loves to turn you into his personal piece of art... 
► Deflowered 🌸💋🌧  [♔-Reader]
Summary: You're getting married tomorrow and you want to say goodbye to your mare. There you met the stable boy Taehyung for the last time, who's your best friend and childhood crush at the same time. You will experience a stormy night full of love and passion and you'll give the biggest proof of love to him...
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► The hands of a sinner 💋😈
(The Idea of this Fanfiction has two versions: for female and male readers!)
For her! [♔- Reader]
For him! [♚-Reader]
Summary: Since Jungkook got his hand tattoos, you’ve found out that they have a stronger effect on you than you would like it. You also have good reasons not to tell him that you are developing a kink for this tattoos. And these reasons getting confirmed... 
►  Goddess of the sun 💋 [♔- Reader]
Synopsis: Jungkook is the best servant for his Queen and Goddess 
► The walls 💋😈  [♔- Reader]
Synopsis: You don’t know why but today was the first Day you realized how buff and bulky Jungkook’s Biceps are. And the fact that they look delicious when they’re tensed up…
► l’innocence indécente ft. Jimin 💋 [♔- Reader]
► Der Geliebte  🌸 💋 [♔- Reader]
Summary: You and Jungkook met right at the first day you opened your own atelier in Seoul after you had to leave your old home behind you. You love paint canvas with landscape motives, other people just roll with their eyes when they hear that you choose such usual, almost boring things to paint. Not so Jungkook, he seems to be different than most of visitors. It’s almost like he can read your feelings through your paintings... 
 ► The laundry hamper  🌸 🌞 💋 😈 [♔- Reader] Summary: Jungkook has a crush on you since you moved together for college but the poor boy is way too shy to confess his feelings to you... rather he would search through your laundry hamper to get a shirt which smells after your very personal scent and tries to calm his racing heart... and other nerves. He didn’t thought to get catched by the person who already stole his whole heart in the most embarrassing situation...
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Published: 27th December 2019
Last Update: 10th August 2021
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swissmissficrecs · 3 years
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Word count: 16,497 Chapters: 22/22 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson & Rosamund Mary "Rosie" Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Rosamund Mary "Rosie" Watson, Mrs. Hudson (Sherlock Holmes), Mummy (Sherlock), Sherlock Holmes' Father, Mycroft Holmes, Eurus Holmes, Janine (Sherlock), Greg Lestrade, Molly Hooper, Philip Anderson, Irene Adler Additional Tags: Christmas, Winter, Parenthood, Parentlock, Friends to Lovers, Also Established Relationship, because these will likely jump around in time, Fluff, Post-Season/Series 04, Canon Compliant, Ficlet Collection, Mutual Pining, I combined some prompts so my Advent calendar now has less than 24 days, switchlock, Explicit Sexual Content, but only in chapters 2 and 7 Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson will both tell you that they are not sentimental men, and that neither thinks the holiday season is anything more than a series of dates on a calendar. Don't believe a word they say.
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Rec: A sweet getting-together holiday fic with a couple of delightful naughty bits that will make you never look at Christmas decorations the same way again.
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angywritesstuff · 2 years
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The one with the Advent Calendar (Day 2)
Pairing: Henry Cavill x reader
Warning: 18+ only, please don’t read this if you’re a minor. Poorly written smut
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You woke up with the smell of coffee and you smiled because it was your favorite way of waking up, well beside your boyfriend kissing you that’s it.
You looked at the clock on your phone and groaned: 7a.m. How could he possibly be up so early even today? It had been two exhausting days between the premier of the second season of the Witcher and your work schedule. And yet he was up already. You would have bet your house (well it was Henry’s technically but it still counted) that he had even found the time and the motivation to work out.
You stood up groaning: there was no point in trying to go back to sleep without Henry. You went quickly to the bathroom before joining your boyfriend in the kitchen.
Henry was at the stove cooking, he had showered and changed already and you asked yourself how come you didn’t wake up sooner. Kal was setting beside the counter so you patted him gently on the head before moving forward
“Hmmm”- you groaned at your boyfriend while hugging him from behind. You caressed his muscles, your boyfriend was huge and you loved it. Henry caressed your hands on his hips
“Good morning love”- he was cooking his protein pancakes, which you hated but ate anyway. What you wouldn’t do for this man..
“Coffee”- you mumbled. And a coffee filled cup appeared next to you - “Magic”- you sighed while taking the mug.
Henry laughed at your ridiculous behavior; he was used to it by now but it still made him laugh.
“Sometimes I think you love coffee more than me”- he smirked
“Good coffee…”
“Aren’t I good too since I made it for you?”- he raised his brows at you
“Good Henry… good coffe”
He boomed in a loud laugh - “you don’t even know how much I miss this when I’m not with you in the mornings.”
“How long have you been up? I thought we were going to take it easy today”- you looked at him while still drinking your coffee.
“I woke up at 5 am more or less, worked out a little bit”
You glared at him. Your man really needed to be forced into taking some rest sometimes otherwise he would burn out. And this time you knew exactly how to.
You waited until both of you had done with your breakfast before planting the bait
“Well I’m gonna open today’s box of my advent calendars”- you said with nonchalant while leaving the kitchen. You heard him drop whatever he still got in his hands before running past you
“Oh my god, we’re hopening it together today otherwise you’re not getting any. Do you hear me mister?” - you rolled your eyes and went after him. You found Henry with the box in his hands waiting for you
“Can I open it now?”- he was trying to sound patience and not succeeding… not even a little bit.
He waited for your nod before opening it and once he did you both smirked
“Don’t you have that gaming tournament or something like that today?”- you took the surprise from his hands
“Well that’s a bit out of the blue, but yes why?”
“At what time?”- you asked
“Aren’t you going to tell me why first?”- you raised your eyebrows silently telling him that it was you who wasn’t going to budge today -“Fine… it starts in an hour”
“Good. I’m gonna take a shower”
“Wait, Y/n you still haven’t told me why”- it always astonished you how cute he sounded when he whined. He could be such a huge big baby sometimes.
You kissed him softly on the corner of his lip and turned around to go to te bathroom when you felt a gentle slap on your butt
“What?”- asked Henry innocently when you looked at him
You took your time in the shower, washed and dried your hair, put a face mask on and relaxed a little bit.
Only when you heard Henry going to his gaming room you started to get ready: you put his favorite piece of lingerie on, chose a bright red lipstick to adorn your lips with and went out of the bedroom.
Before going to Henry though, you made sure Kal was sleeping on his doggy-bed in the leaving room. The last thing you wanted was for Kal to follow you to the gaming room, so you tried to be as sneaky as you could. Not only not to wake up Kal, but also so that Henry could be as much surprised as possible.
The gaming room’s door was ajar, you tried to listen through the door to make sure Henry was already playing and focused on the game. When you heard him slight cursed you knew you were golden.
You entered the room glad Henry wasn’t playing while connected with others. Your boyfriend hadn’t noticed you yet, so you closed the door not as gently as you usually did when he was playing and you didn’t want to make him loose his focus
“Damn love you scared… FUCK”- Henry said while looking towards the door. He was speechless: you were the most beautiful woman even when you hadn’t slept in days. But now, looking at you, he knew you were totally aware of what was going to be his reaction as soon as he would’ve landed his eyes on you. He got immediately hard just by looking at you: your plump red lips that you were slightly biting, your beautiful eyes that were sparkling with mischief, not to mention your breast that seemed almost to pop out of your lingerie. Henry couldn’t see your ass, because you were facing him, but he was sure it looked amazing too
“Do you mind if I play too!”- you asked while playing with the cock ring you two had found in the advent calendar merely an hour before. Henry wasn’t even going to answer you, he started to exit the game but you stopped him
“No no, keep playing”- you put yourself between his legs and made yourself comfortable on your knees. Henry was looking at you from above -“come on Hennybear go back to play, I got you”- you smirked at him and made a sign to him to slightly lift his ass so you could lower his shorts.
“I’m not gonna start if you don’t go back to play your game”- he groaned at you but took back his joystick and started playing again
You waited a little bit, only caressing his thighs, you knew Henry was still looking at you with the corner of his eyes.
Once you were sure Henry was at least partially focused on the game, you rested your check on his thigh and looked at his cock. He was already hard but you decided to stroke him a little bit anyway.
As soon as your hand touched his member Henry groaned but kept on playing anyway; you gave him a couple of stroke and as soon as he started leaking you knew he was ready. You touched the tip with your finger collecting some of the pre-cum that was there and licked it.
Henry looked at you as soon as you moaned but a glare from you was enough to make him look back at the screen
You explore his cock with your tongue all along its length from the base to the tip a couple of times and when you were sure he was wet enough you positioned the cock ring
Henry hissed but said nothing more, trying to stay focused on the screen in front of him at least until he felt your hot mouth around him. He stopped to look at you and enjoy the moment: you were beautiful on your knees between his thighs, your lips stretched around him. He took your hair between his fingers but as soon as he did so, you looked at him and stopped
“You stop playing, I stop playing”- you said and he huffed but did as you said.
You weren’t sure if he was actually playing or just pretending but you didn’t really care, you had had his cock in your mouth for just a couple of minutes and you were already wet. You took his cock in your mouth once again, deepthroating him as much as you could and then you stood there for a while just enjoying the weight of him on your tongue.
Henry could barely breathe, the feeling of your mouth around him and the constriction of the ring at the base of his cock was driving him crazy. He felt your hand gently playing with his balls while your mouth kept going up and down his shaft. He felt you moaned around him, you always liked blowing him but one look at you and he knew you were playing with yourself.
You rolled your tongue around the head of Henry’s cock and once you were sure he was about to come, you took him out of your mouth so that you could remove the ring. As soon as the ring was off you eagerly took him in your mouth again.
You moved up and down his shaft while using you fingers on your pussy slowly at first, but eventually increasing your speed on both yourself and him.
You heard Henry moaning lauder and lauder until was coming in your mouth.
You kept him in your mouth a little bit longer until he went soft, and with a last kiss on the tip you let him out of your mouth.
“So did you win?”- you smirked at your boyfriend who was still too caught in his own orgasm to answer you.
I’ve made the executive decision that this is going to be a 12 days advent calendar 😂😂 it’s just that it’s going to be easier for me this way
English is not my first language so I’m sorry if there are any mistakes
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Bring out the tinsel and baubles, it’s time to decorate this blog with Christmas cheer! Here’s the whole collection of 2020 Christmas stories shared on prettywordsyouleft!
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Idol Advent
For the first 25 days of December, a drabble no more than 500 words will be posted daily attached to an advent calendar. 25 idols from different groups will be used in this series. 
Day 1: A Meet-Cute Christmas
Day 2: Christmas Charm
Day 3: Wrapping Christmas
Day 4: Non-Believers
Day 5: Your Christmas
Day 6: Hosting Christmas
Day 7: A Big Reaction
Day 8: More Than A Tree
Day 9: When’s Present Time?
Day 10: Unwrap Me
Day 11: Christmas In Bed
Day 12: Winter Enchantment
Day 13: Tolerance 
Day 14: Shaky Slopes
Day 15: Their Parents’ Wish
Day 16: Fluffy Socks
Day 17: Atrocious
Day 18: Mission Mistletoe
Day 19: Prized Possession
Day 20: Is It The Eggnog?
Day 21: The Brightest Lights
Day 22: The One Person
Day 23: Confessions In A Christmas Card
Day 24: Christmas Catch-up
Day 25: The Missing Stocking
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Christmas Is [Collab Masterlist HERE]
What is Christmas to you? A special tradition, taste, experience, or something else? In this collab, we’ll be exploring what Christmas is to our idols and reader.
Christmas Is: The Star On Top - my story 
Others in the series: Noche Buena | A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Not By Lemony Snicket | The One Carol | Naughty Santa 
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Animated Special Advent Calendar
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Updated: December 23, 2019
Every year since my oldest first became interested in TV watching, we’ve watched classic Christmas specials annually. What started as a happy accident with an enamored three-year-old wanting a nightly dose of cartoon Christmas goodness, became a family tradition, and we now try and watch a different special every night between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, with family members rotating picks, youngest to oldest. 
After mentioning this several times online, a few folks expressed interest in what we watch, so I’ll try to keep this page updated with daily entries, though I admit we’re not tyrants about doing this (it’s supposed to be fun!), so if we miss a night, we just try to watch two (or more) another time to catch up. The daily picks mean our line-up changes every season (variety is good!), though there are definitely a handful of annual must-watch specials on every family member’s mental lists, and we always finish on Christmas Eve with the 1966 classic, Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
We’ve got a huge collection of DVDs and digital specials we own, but I’ll try and note where our picks are available to watch, if possible. And, if you’re looking for ideas to fill up your own Christmas Special advent calendar, you can check out my Top 25 Animated Holiday Special list, or the results of our Holiday Special Showdown, where 64 animated classics went head-to-head for viewer’s votes in 2017.
Nov. 28: We kicked things off on Thanksgiving with Phineas and Ferb’s Christmas Vacation, a music-filled Disney Channel original now available on Disney+ (Season 2, episode 21). It’s an annual must-see for us.  
Nov. 29: Night two was British imports Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire and Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe. The first of these Aardman Animation originals is better than the sequel, but both still air annually on CBS. There’s also a third, UK-only entry, Close Encounters of the Herd Kind, that never made it to the US. Fun Fact: 100% of all 3 specials’ profits go to charity, as they were produced by Comic Relief.
Nov. 30: A Chipmunk Christmas. Though it had several DVD releases, they’re all of out print currently and this 1981 classic, a staple of my childhood, has become distressingly hard to find, even though we, personally, have multiple DVD copies.
Dec. 1: Our first special of December was The Happy Elf. This 2005 Harry Connick-voiced special got little love on its release, but is a family favorite. Rare to find on TV, it’s still widely available via digital or DVD, and worth checking out.
Dec. 2: With Frozen fever rampant, we revisited a lesser known entry in the franchise, 2016′s LEGO Frozen Northern Lights. This clever send-up isn’t specifically Christmas, but it’s snowy and so much fun. And it’s now available, though oddly broken into segments, on Disney+. (The Disney Channel is also showing it in one 30 min package all this month.)
Dec. 3: On this busy school night we needed something short, so I picked Pluto’s Christmas Tree, now on Disney+. Kids had never seen this 1952 animated short, and we all really enjoyed it.
Dec. 4: One of those days we wandered off the beaten path and tried the Opus-led A Wish for Wings that Work from 1991, based on the book and comic strip by Berkeley Breathed. A bit long for littles, but the ending landed, and it was a nice change of pace. Not streaming, but available very cheaply on DVD.
Dec. 5: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire was my son’s pick. This pilot episode for the 30-year-old series works as the stand alone holiday special it was first conceived as, and can be found on Disney+.
Dec. 6: Ducktales: Last Christmas! This fun, 2018 special can be found on Disney+ (season 2, episode 6 of the rebooted series). We watched it several times last year, and it’s just good as I remember. Timey-wimey fun.
Dec. 7: This 2006 direct-to-DVD release isn’t the classic Looney Tunes of the 1930s-40s, but Looney Tunes: Bah, Humduck (available digitally or DVD) is still a fun Christmas Carol take with Daffy as Scrooge and a fairly faithful adaptation of Dickens’ tale.
Dec. 8: Time for a classic: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, playing this year on Freeform, as well as CBS, and also available in an infinite variety of DVD collections and via iTunes.
Dec. 9: Did you know that Hallmark Channel used to make original animated specials? They did, and they were good, too! 2011′s Hoops and Yoyo Ruin Christmas was our pick last night and it’s smart, and cute, and fun. I miss that Hallmark Channel. Released on DVD, it’s out of print, but copies can still be found, and Amazon offers it for digital purchase.
Dec. 10: As a kid the anticipation of this special’s debut was almost too much to bear for my then, 7-year-old self. 1982′s The Smurf’s Christmas Special was my pick last night, and I vividly recalled how it was a such huge event for me at the time that I danced around the basement during the commercials, too full of excitement to sit. It isn’t streaming, but can be found on the still-available 2011 DVD The Smurf’s Holiday Celebration.
Dec. 11 and 12: Busy evenings the past few, so missed the 11th, but still managed to watch Merry Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda Holiday last night—and I almost managed to stay awake, too. (Both are on Netflix.)
Dec. 13: Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special, this charming, under-rated 2016 Disney Channel original is, oddly, NOT available on Disney+, though it can be purchased digitally or watched this month via Disney Channel On Demand. A family favorite since its debut.
Dec. 14: Last night, instead of a traditional animated offering, we had our annual viewing of (mostly) animated British Christmas adverts, which are a very big deal in the UK and, frankly, often more awesome than any 30 minute special. I’ve tweeted a lot about my love for these often tear-jerking mini-movies, but here are what I think are my top 5…5) From Sainsbury’s, 2018′s The Big Night builds to an awesome ending. 4) Sainsbury’s The Greatest Gift (2016) has an original song that’s become a Christmas favorite in our house. 3) John Lewis is the master purveyor of this emotionally manipulative—in the best way—three-minute extravaganzas. Lots to choose from, but 2014′s Monty the Penguin is probably my fave. 2) In 2015, Sainsbury’s delivered the perfect mix of comedy and heart with Mog’s Christmas Calamity. 1) And my fave—a bit of cheat since it’s Canadian—is Cineplex’s Lily and the Snowman. Seen it probably 100 times now, and cried every one. There’s plenty more to explore, from the UK and beyond, and falling down a rabbit hole of these ads on YouTube is an utterly delightful way to spend an evening. To get you started, here’s a compilation of what one YouTube reviewer calls the top 10 Christmas ads of 2019.
Dec. 15: Returned to a classic with 1969′s Frosty the Snowman, which still airs annually on CBS. Happy Birthday! 
Dec. 16: Finally watched NBC’s new How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, available on Hulu.
Dec. 17: My pick, and I chose a Rankin-Bass we hadn’t seen in a while, 1970′s Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. Unfortunately, forgot how long and slow this one was. My kids were kind of bored.
Dec. 18: Shrek the Halls, which really is laugh-out-loud family fun. For some reason, this is the only Dreamworks special not on Netflix, but does still air annually on ABC.
Dec. 19: I have no clue how Olive the Other Reindeer, this super-charming, Drew Barrymore-voiced special about a dog who mishears a radio bulletin and thinks Santa needs her, didn’t become a classic. It’s not streaming, but is available very inexpensively on DVD and well worth a watch.
Dec. 20: How Murray Saved Christmas, another overlooked gem, this 2014 rhyming special first appeared on NBC, and is airing this season as part of AMC’s Best Christmas Ever. (It’s also available on DVD and digital.)
Dec. 21: As we realize we’re quickly running out of days till Christmas, time to make sure we pack in some classics, like, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Dec. 22: Santa, Baby! This 2001special featuring Eartha Kitt is the last of the Rankin-Bass originals and it’s…fine. Lots of music and a magical partridge. Not something you see everyday. (Was available on DVD, now out of print, and can sometimes be found on YouTube.)
Dec. 23: Saving the best for (almost) last, the whole family got up this morning and watched Prep & Landing, and its sequel, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice, in our jammies, to kick off Christmas vacation.
Dec. 24: Christmas Eve is always the 1966 version of Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas to remind us all that Christmas doesn't come from a store. Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more.
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