Horse Mule breed of the day: Miniature Mule

Height: 7-9hh

Common coat colors: Various roanss, duns, black and grey

Place of origin: US

Philippians 2:1-2New International Version

Imitating Christ’s Humility

2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.

I’m still obsessed of this amazing Christmas Carol modern musical adaptation

Have I mentioned how much I love Spirited?

Spirited is part of my new Christmas traditions. Here’s a fun number.

🎁🎄

Do you ship it?

reason (small spoiler I think lol):

They’re the ultimate “I can fix him/I can make him worse” couple.

The ending with Clint chasing after present in the streets of New York felt like a love confession scene from a romcom. Their part of do a little good feels very romantic. They always try to bring out the best(or worst, looking at you Good Afternoon) in each other and support each others wrongs and rights.

ALT

I was thinking about an SPOP AU of Spirited (2022) and was never going to finish it in time so I made this extremely low effort doodle of what would have been a classic moment from it 

Anyway, here’s what I had so far for this AU…

So Catra is Clint, obviously, and Adora is Present (except we make it actually romantic instead of just homoerotic subtext) because that just really freaking fits, you know? 

Adora works with co-workers Past (Bow, who doesn’t sleep with Catra, obviously, but who is too nice and she steamrolls him which is why Adora takes over the Past duty) and Yet-to-Come (Glimmer) and Perfuma from HR.

Then Scorpia is in the Kimberly role but obviously not as a love interest for Adora, more like pining for Catra and that’s why she’s stayed working for her for so long. And Finn is in the role of Catra’s nibling but do NOT ask me who Owen is, I haven’t gotten that far yet. I was thinking maybe Lonnie and Kyle were her siblings from a foster home and Finn is their little sibling and when Lonnie was dying she wanted Catra to take care of Finn, but she pawned it off on Kyle instead maybe? idk still a work in progress. 

Also still a work in progress is how we do the Kimberly / Present thing bc she’s key to Present’s character arc but obviously I want Adora with Catra and Scorpia with Perfuma. 

And don’t ask me why Glimmer is Yet-to-Come, it just felt like the vibe because then the BFS are the main good guys trio and she’s Present’s best friend and resents Catra for stealing her from them. And also because, let’s face it, she’s the only one who would deliver the classic line. 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

P. S. If you haven’t watched SPIRITED, I highly recommend it ASAP. 😁

Spirited, 2022
with Sam Williams, Will Ferrell, and Ryan Reynolds
clip: tayryn

IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE!!

*Sharing this one again, as I LOVE this movie! It really REALLY needs to be out on DVD/BluRay!!

*Cross-posted to all the Judi Dailys!

Spirited is one of the funniest, wackiest Christmas movies I’ve ever watched.

Is the plot good? Nope

Are the actors doing their best? I honestly can’t tell.

Can anyone sing in this movie? Hell no.

But are the songs bangers and the dancing is fire as fuck? Yes.

Spirited 2022 ❤️💚

okay but the musical numbers in Spirited (2022) had no right to go as hard as they did

Recently saw Spirited on AppleTV+ and… Yeah it’s pretty damn good. I’d say one of the best Christmas movies in recent years.

Absolutely loved the songs. It’s an interesting film that is an adaptation of a Christmas Carol while also expanding on the original in ways I’ve never seen in other adaptations.

My only issue with film is that there were one too many “Gosh, isn’t weird that characters are singing in a musical???”, and “We stopped the scene in a middle of a musical number! What a wacky and meta twist!” moments, especially since they often do it when a musical number is getting really good.

Dang it! Just sing the entire damn songs!

When the film is proud of the fact that it’s a musical, it really shows. Absolutely embraces it with fantastic melodies and amazing choreography.

If you needed an excuse to check out AppleTV+ (well outside of Snoopy and Fraggle Rock), this is a pretty damn good one. Certainly worth the price of a one month subscription.

🎄 Behind the scenes Spirited (2022).

I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read it every year. Every year.

I love the idea that:

• Scrooge is not evil and shut-up in his heart because of some trauma that occurred in his past. He had examples of goodness and charity and love in his little sister, in Fezziwig, in his fiancée. He chose to start living a life of selfishness, and he was reaping the consequences of that.
• Christmas Day is worth celebrating with everything you can celebrate it with—and every character from miners to seamen out on the water to the Cratchit family with ribbons and geese instead of turkey and finery to Scrooge’s nephew to peasants are all good if they choose to set the day aside and treat it as sacred, and foolish if they do anything else. They’re generous in their celebration just like Scrooge should be generous to those less-fortunate. Because generosity is giving as much as you can with others in mind, not giving as little as you can with yourself in mind.
• The Ghost of Christmas Present is the most cheerful and giving of all the ghosts—he’s the only one who can affect what is going on in the world. The Ghost of Christmas Future just points and he’s designed to be unknowable, unseeable, unbearable, even to some degree by Scrooge because of his mantle. The Ghost of Christmas Past is small, hard to look at, but lights up parts of how Scrooge wants to change his present to align more with good examples from the past: he sees Fezziwig self-sacrificially, inspiringly leading his apprentices, and wishes he could’ve been that inspiring to Bob Cratchit in his own office. But the point is, neither Past nor Future are active in the scenes they take Scrooge to. Only Present can do anything with his torch and sprinklings that helps the people who can’t see him. Just like how Scrooge can only change what he’s doing now, right now. No use regretting the past, the things you’ve lost. No use fearing the future, when you might be penniless. Just give, give, give NOW. Now is all you’ve got. The past illuminates, the future cautions, but the present is for giving all you’ve got.
• Women are spoken of in the novel like treasures (except for Mrs. Dilber.
• Children are spoken of in the novel like treasures.
• The material in the world matters, but is inextricably linked to the immaterial, so the material goes “bad” when it’s separated from the immaterial value. Tiny Tim, for example, can’t contribute anything to the Cratchit household materially. But when he’s on Bob’s shoulder, coming home, Bob walks faster and has a lighter step, despite the fact that he’s technically carrying more. Tiny Tim’s whole value to that household is immaterial—they just love him, and he is cheerful and quotes Scripture and alludes to life after death in a household that should constantly be oppressed by the poverty they have in this material world.
• Kind of addendum to the Christmas Present point, but every single ghost Scrooge sees are miserable for one reason: they can’t assist others. There’s an idea of unlimited potential for good in human beings, but not in and of themselves and not when they’re focused on themselves. And there’s a ticking clock on how long you have to achieve it.
• The name “Ebenezer” means “rock of remembrance.” Scrooge needs to remember what life is really about and Christmas is a day of remembrance.
• Christmas is about Jesus Christ, perfect and owing us nothing, unwanted by us, choosing to step in and be gracious and kind and invite us to eternal life anyway. Goes out of his way to do so. And Bob Cratchit toasts Scrooge even though he had no reason to. And Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, goes out of his way every year to invite his uncle and beg him to come to Christmas dinner. Christ honored the authority of God in loving us that way, Fred and Bob honored the “authority” of Christmas in loving Scrooge that way.

So needless to say the very best adaptation I’ve ever seen is Disney’s A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey (honorable mention to the Christian-speckled Muppets Christmas Carol) and the very worst by far is Spirited.

By far.

It’s another one of those:

• “Yeah you’re broken but it’s not your fault, it’s more the fault of society and probably one or both of your parents, not something inherently bad in you.”
• ”Nobody’s perfect! We’re all kind of broken! Look at all the funny shapes that takes. Kind of fun to be messy, isn’t it?”
• ”Christmas is whatever you make it. You’re in charge, so hey, if you want to make money off it, exploit it, use it as an excuse to hug the people you call family, you do you. It’s whatever you make it.”
• ”And hey, isn’t it kind of terrible, trying to impact the world for what you call good? Look at all the hurt you’re causing trying to get people to change! Who says you need ‘redeeming?’ Just do your best, whatever that looks like is good enough, no standard, no bar to meet. Christmas is you, being in charge.”

I hate that movie.

My ★★★ review of Spirited (2022) on Letterboxd:

A ★★★ review of Spirited (2022)

♯ 25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS .ᐟ ⌁ (07/25)
↠ Spirited (2022) dir. sean anders