Disney The Nightmare Before Christmas is a classic Halloween/Christmas movie (I will not enter a debate with you; it is a movie for both holidays and can be watched September through Christmas, the end) and, for good reason, has become a major cultural phenomenon. People are straight-up obsessed with this movie, and a Jack Skellington and Sally family costume is almost guaranteed to pop up at a trunk-or-treat or on Halloween night. But listen, I have one major hang-up with everyone’s love for this movie, and it’s the truth: Jack Skellington sucks, and anybody who says Jack and Sally are...
20 Slam Dunk Basketball-Inspired Names For Your Future Baller
SrdjanPav/Getty Images What’s in a name? A lot of pressure if you ask many parents to be. Choosing a name for a developing human you have yet to meet can feel like a tall task. Naming a child after a family member can be quite an honor, but you may have been there and done that. Or, you may not want them to have to ask, “Which one?” at family gatherings for years to come. But if family get-togethers often include pick-up basketball games or gathering around the ‘tube to watch Caitlin Clark tear it up, consider a hoops-inspired name....
TikTok User Wants Us All To Stop Tiptoeing Around Our Parents
TikTok Navigating a relationship with a parent as an adult isn’t always easy. The existing dynamic of one person being in charge of and responsible for the other is hard to shake even when everyone involved is grown up and equal. And for some parents, giving up that authority is a problem… which they will attempt to make everyone else’s problem. TikTok creator Elisabeth, who posts as @elisabethrhe_ recently made a video highlighting this common issue. “Can we normalize not tiptoeing around your parents anymore?” she begins. She began recounting a story in which she didn’t take a suggestion from...
OMG Everyone Shut Up: Adult American Girl Doll Costumes Just Dropped
Rubies If you’re a Millennial woman (and, if you’re reading this site, statistically you are) then you probably have some kind of feelings about American Girl dolls. Either you had one and you loved one, didn’t have one and wanted one, or just generally didn’t get the hype that seemed to take over everybody else. It’s just one of those touchstones. So imagine our nostalgic delight when American Girl announced a new line of Halloween costumes based on their historical dolls… including four in adult sizes, which marks yet another year of my life when I’m gleefully flinging cash at...