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You should ask me to do my impression of every Babysitters Club book Chapter #2 sometime.
It’s pretty solid.
#KRISTY HAS THE BEST IDEAS! SHE’S KIND OF BOSSY AND A TOMBOY. #AND GET THIS - SHE LIVES IN A REAL-LIFE HONEST TO GOD MANSION! #CLAUDIA IS JAPANESE AND GORGEOUS - WITH LONG SILKY BLACK HAIR AND ALMOND EYES. SHE’S ALSO A WILD DRESSER! #SHE’LL WEAR THINGS LIKE LACY PURPLE LEGGINGS WITH AN OVERSIZED MEN’S SHIRT THAT SHE TIE-DYED; PLUS HIGH-TOPS AND EARRINGS THAT LOOK LIKE FRUIT. #SHE’LL PUT HER HAIR UP IN THREE FRENCH BRAIDS TOO! SO DIBBLE! #CLAUDIA LOVES JUNK FOOD AND NANCY DREW. SHE’S ALSO THE BEST ARTIST WE KNOW… BUT SHE HATES SCHOOL AND IS A TERRIBLE SPELLER. #MARY ANNE IS THE SENSITIVE ONE. SHE’S ALSO THE ONLY ONE WITH A BOYFRIEND! SHE HAS A DIBBLE SHORT HAIRCUT AND A CAT NAMED TIGGER. #HER DAD USED TO BE REALLY STRICT - BUT THEN HE FELL IN LOVE WITH DAWN’S MOM! #MARY ANNE WILL CRY AT THE DROP OF A HAT - LITERALLY! #STACEY IS SOOOO SOPHISTICATED. SHE’S ORIGINALLY FROM NEW YORK CITY AND SHE DRESSES LIKE IT TOO! #SHE HAS NATURAL BLONDE HAIR THAT’S ALWAYS PERMED AND SHE WEARS THE COOLEST CLOTHES. #STACEY ALSO HAS DIABETES. SHE HAS TO CHECK HER BLOOD SUGAR ALL THE TIME AND GIVE HERSELF - ICK! - INSULIN INJECTIONS! #DAWN IS A REAL INDIVIDUAL. SHE’S ORIGINALLY FROM CALIFORNIA AND SHE’S A HEALTH FOOD NUT. #HER STYLE IS WHAT WE CALL ‘CALIFORNIA CASUAL.’ SHE HAS LOOOOONG WHITE-BLONDE HAIR THAT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN HER BACK! #MALLORY HAS RED HAIR; GLASSES; AND *SEVEN* BROTHERS AND SISTERS! #SHE’S THE WRITER OF THE GROUP AND SHE LOVES HORSES. SHE’S ALWAYS COMPLAINING THAT HER PARENTS WON’T LET HER GET A NOSE JOB. #BUT ONCE YOU’VE KNOWN MALLORY FOR A LONG ENOUGH TIME SHE BECOMES PRETTY TO YOU IN HER OWN SPECIAL WAY! #JESSI IS MALLORY’S BEST FRIEND AND SHE’S FROM NEW JERSEY. SHE’S A BALLERINA. #ALSO - THERE’S NO OTHER WAY TO PUT THIS. I HAVE TO BE BLUNT. JESSI’S BLACK. #SHE HAS COCOA SKIN AND BLACK HAIR AND THE LONGEST LEGS YOU’VE EVER SEEN. SHE AND MALLORY ARE OUR JUNIOR MEMBERS; WHICH MEANS THEY CAN’T SIT AS LATE AS THE REST OF US. #SO THAT’S THE BSC! #NOW ON WITH THE STORY!
#claudia was wearing earrings that she made herself #one was a tiny palm tree and the other was sunglasses! #she was just sitting on her bed eating a snickers bar she had hidden under her mattress but she still looked way hip! #kristy on the other hand was wearing her uniform— jeans and a turtleneck #kristy was also wearing her own barely repressed lesbianism #business as usual for the bsc!!
NO. NEVER.
#that movie is perhaps little 3m’s first recognizeable instance of pushing popular and established minority characters into the background #hi claudia kishi - voted second most popular of all the baby-sitters in fan voting contests #hi claudia kishi - like 0 lines #no cognizant storyline whatsoever #forever pressed
OMG RIGHT?!?!?
I remember being so obsessed with Claudia and then all she did in the movie was like hammer some forks flat to make a wind chime. Meanwhile, we had to have 900 million hours about Stacey and her 20 year old boyfriend or whatever. Meanwhile, Jessi appeared in the background once or twice. I guess.
WEEPING. STACEY AND CLAUDIA WERE BFFS AND SOULMATES AND REMEMBER WHEN STACEY AND LAINE HAD THAT BIG FIGHT AND STACEY REALIZED THEY HAD GROWN APART AND HER REAL BFF WAS CLAUDIA RN BECAUSE THEY LOVED TO WATCH THE HOME SHOPPING NETWORK TOGETHER?
AND THIS GODDAMNED MOVIE COULDN’T EVEN REMEMBER THAT THEY WERE BFFS, AND LIKE, SPOKE TO EACH OTHER. AS BFFS DO.
And did the movie even get into how much Jessi rocked at ballet and was the best in her school despite being the youngest? No I bet it didn’t. :///////
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