AG: Kavi's dog

It's that time of year when the AG leaks pretty much happen whenever I take a nap. :P Kavi's dog has shown up on Chapter's site and included with the pics of said pupper is a clear shot of Kavi herself.





According to Kavi, her dog Scamper is “the smartest dog in the world,” and he really seems to understand how she feels.
At this point I feel like AG is trolling me with all their dogs. I know dogs are insanely popular and I still miss my two doofs, but every time a new AG character's pet is revealed to be a dog this is my reaction:

Everytime. Probably because at this point it's easier to list those with cats and even shorter still to list those with other pets (and usually those still have a dog). Anyway, that means I'm kind of weird when it comes to my AG dogs. I'm drawn to only those who speak to me (Meatloaf!) OR are massively important to a character, like Nanea and Mele. Scamper looks like he's judging me, but dude, I'm judging that ribbon leash and why we needed yet another black and white dog. :P Is it wrong that the dog food looks more realistic than a good chunk of their regular food and less disgusting?




KAVI. The rumour mill for her has finally kicked beyond high gear and I'm not going to bother to hunt down any of them because the site they seem to be originating from likes to fuck my computer up and those ~in the know~ have all given the "bitch, wtf?" responses to most of the stuff being circulated, so I guess we'll see very soon. Back to Kavi herself!

Definitely the MG mold (in your face, doubters!) and one of the medium skin tones. I'm grateful she doesn't have Tenney's eyes and while I don't love her outfit, I kinda find myself liking it for just how different it is? I really hope she's got regular canvas shoes and not plastic monstrosities, and the pants are definitely giving me 2000s vibes. I kinda wish she had black hair but dark brown is fun, too. I think everyone's expecting it to be McKenna's partless wig but in brown. I wonder if that means we'll skip the part where they made McKenna's wig originally without shorthairs and everyone realized it looked like shit if you did any of the hairstyles they suggested that would show the wigcap OR if AG's learned from that mistake. Doesn't really matter, I'm plotting to get her anyway. I'm just wondering if she'll be one of the GOTY dolls whose first run wig is either the best it'll ever be or one you should wait on so they can fix the issues.

Kavi's so pretty. ♥

Last one for awhile, mebbe

Okay, I'm back with my holiday movie mini reviews. Sunday was my decorate day so I needed something in the background and I went back and picked up Dancing Through the Snow which I chose because it's a Lifetime holiday movie and they tend to be better.


...tend to be.

I'm going to try and cut this movie some slack because it's not bad. I have endured far worse and far weirder. It's not great, either and I don't think all of this can be blamed on me starting it just when I was really getting sick and then trying again while decorating and not having my full attention on things. There's not quite negative chemistry going on here but it's kinda close.

Short version: Michael's a single dad to Lily, a ballerina. One day his best friend, Noah, catches Mike helping Lily with her dancing and records them, then uploads it online and naturally it goes viral because dad dancing badly but with joy? Yes, please. Everyone in his life except maybe Lily wants him to maybe use this as a reason to get back into dating, but Michael has no interest in anyone who wants to date him because of his fleeting "fame". Instead he meets Lily in a cringe inducing scene and shortly thereafter they realize Olivia is Lily's dance teacher. Which Michael doesn't know because he's a firefighter and his mother takes Lily to and from dance class. Liv and Mike are instantly drawn to one another but Lily gets jealous at having to share her father (and is dealing with not remembering her mother very well, so having someone replace her is freaking her out) and Olivia's been seriously considering moving to Florida to live with her parents because the dance studio has been in the red for quite awhile. Guess it's a good thing she fell for someone who still has about twelve seconds left on the 15 minutes of fame clock, huh?

There are things that work. If nothing else, I've realized I think I like AnnaLynne McCord, as she was kind of fab here. Lily could be very sweet/cute. The father/daughter dancing? Also cute. I liked the friendships, even if they didn't get a ton of time.

But like I said, we're dealing with kind of negative chemistry at times. There's also a bit of an odd note with Noah who gets very flustered when Lily asks him questions about her mother and I swear to God, I thought we were going to find out he and the late, great Claire had been a thing at some point. But no. To be fair, I also wouldn't have been surprised if, before Liv showed up as the obvious love interest, we were getting M/N until I remembered the ballet bit and realized yeah, no, that'd be a big no. On the I'm not sure where to put this side, the realization that the actors playing Michael and Lily are a real life father/daughter pair made things make a lot of sense, as did realizing this came out in 2021 which explains the very, very small sets. Seriously, it's going to be a game in the future to play "no budget or COVID filming?"


It's a solid B- for me. It did the job of catching my attention enough to get some holiday spirit going but wasn't enough that I felt super invested, nor do I think I'll remember this in a year. *shrug*



Baking Spirits Bright is one I probably should've actually watched more than I did. It seemed to have a few more montages than I anticipated and I think that's how we had these two bonding, which can work...but it feels a bit cheap. I liked Mira's family and while I don't think I'm a fruitcake person, I do love a good tradition and Mira's alllllllllll about tradition. Not really sure how well Mira and Brady are going to work out given her life is very firmly rooted at home and Brady's centered elsewhere, though I guess he'd travel anyway so *shrug*

Ahhhhh, the guy playing Brady is on Sweet Magnolias. That's where I know him from. He reads a little too aloof here and the chemistry is off but I admit I was busy baking a cake and flipping through magazines so again, I'm not sure how much is really on the movie.

My only big issue with this is Brady's second in command, Finn, is given the Varma family account when Brady's father lands a huge account and needs Brady back home. Brady's just come up with the perfect ad that'll finally appease Mira and should still help sell fruitcake (in theory. I still think they were absolutely right when they had Brady scoff that it was too late in the season to set up an actual campaign for this year) before he leaves and then Finn takes over and goes in the exact opposite direction. It's EVERYTHING Mira did not want and honestly, it's terrible. I'd think it's meant to be terrible (there's literally a whiteboard with WOKE on it as a selling point for the campaign) except when Brady comes back to town, after Finn's campaign fails spectacularly, Brady promotes Finn to partner and assures him he's done a great job.

No the fuck he did not. I'm not saying he hasn't done wonderful work on other campaigns but in this instance he fucked up spectacularly. Y'all know you don't have to say something's good just because the character who did it is gay, right? He's allowed to make a mistake and be called out for it. o_O

Basically: love the Varmas, not so much love for the ad campaign or lead romance stuff. Jay and Finn were the better couple.

Lifetime, you're letting me down something fierce this year.



On the other end of things, I finally watched Wednesday and my glob, it has been a long time since the internet made me think a show was going to be one thing only to have it be something else entirely. The amount of Enid/Wednesday stuff I had to wade past ever since this first came out made me think that at the very least, Wednesday's heart would thaw towards Enid much sooner than it really did.

I liked it overall. I think it not coming out until damn near Thanksgiving was stupid as fuck.
( Spoilers, I suppose. )

A lot of my issues might be resolved in S2 or were writing choices that simply didn't work for me. I can get why people might not love the show but I enjoyed it enough that I'm like 99% sure my new AG doll is gonna wind up named Enid. :P