daydreaming until my brain hurts

For a late Christmas present, Compiled Wubbulous clips I think about.

THE GRINCH, 2018 (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch)

THE GRINCH (2018) || DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (2022)

“It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.”

Taking my sketchbook to Universal Studios to draw Mr. Grinch for the Wholidays

Art Baltazar, James Kochalka + Kaeti Vandorn will bring Dr. Seuss characters to comics

Random House Graphic will release a new line of graphic novels featuring Cat in the Hat, the Grinch and more

Background Paintings by Colin Stimpson, the art director and character designer for Illumination's The Grinch (2018), dir. Scott Mosier, Yarrow Cheney

When your heart grows 3xs it’s size

As a kid, I never noticed how bad Martha May was crushing on the Grinch XD

I might draw some more of these two If I have the energy 😂

Personal headcanon: Martha May wears all shades of green for eye shadow because she always had eyes for The Grinch!

Ok but hear me out: is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas a Beowulf fix-it AU??? Aimed at children???!!!

- Both begin with a creature getting super annoyed unto rage due to a community's inability to party in way that is respectful of their monstrous neighbour's desire for peace and quiet at bedtime. Which we can all agree makes the Danes and the Whos terrible people to live next to.

- Both stories have the monster with a G name, (Grendel, Grinch, they are the same I TELL you!) sneak into the village when all are slumbering to lay waste; Grendel to the revellers themselves, the Grinch to the trappings of revelry (though I suppose given enough time and a target audience older than seven years old, the Grinch's actions could eventually lead to death by starvation for a mountain town which may not have open trade passes by Yuletide. But it's a kids book AND A FIX IT FIC SO THAT WON'T HAPPEN).

- Where the Danes eventually require outside help to meet violence with violence, leading to death, followed by generational revenge, a further cycle of death which will continue for decades due to the hero worship of violence, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a fix it/everybody lives AU. And so the Whos sing out in welcome and rejoicing and do not stoop to the level of rage the Grinch manifested upon stealing the all food of an entire village, even depriving the smallest mice of sustenance. Plus taking all the toys and presents, the Whos' treasure, much as Grendel had a hoard.

With the villagers in Whoville extending peace in the face of violence, the Grinch gets to become a welcome member of the community, rather than a monstrous creature alone in a cave and thus end this cycle of violence after only the one turn.

It can surely be assumed that in future years, the Grinch's mother will be invited to the Feast, ensuring a multigenerational fix-it, to fully parallel the multigenerational violence of the original source material, but as this is so readily apparent the author clearly has not needed to extend the story and has trusted the reader to follow the narrative to it's logical conclusion.

Brevity is a virtue in this case, as it so often is in stories targeting a younger audience. Plus many readers of any age prefer a one-shot fic length.

Your thoughts?

The parallels makes sense. How would the Grendel novel add onto this, I wonder?

A SCENE FROM EVERY MOVIE I WATCHED IN 2020; THE GRINCH (2018)

Watching Green Eggs and Ham made me want to do a Dr Seuss maraton

Honestly the 2018 version of the Grinch is a cute movie!