#* smoke.

for purposes of making this easy, i think it’s better to split this chatter into several groups:

the first one would be the one made up of those who have a positive relationship with their fathers at the current moment and get to celebrate father’s day with them. that would be jerome, smoke, samuel, émile, and olivia and i think that’s about it. 

jerome normally tries to spend this day with his father doing something they both enjoy, like going to the movies, a music recital/concert, and/or having lunch together and catching up with him. this is more prevalent when he moves to nyc, since he’s on his own with his parents down in florida. if something happens (either on his side or on his father, since he’s a very busy man) and they can spend time together or he can’t go to florida, jerome videochats with him (or a witchy equivalent lbr). the first father’s day in new york thaddeus kendricks actually goes to visit him instead to see where he’s living and what he is up to with his own eyes. 

smoke’s father, much like on his birthday enjoys going for a ride with his son which, in the carter household means leaving the continent to fly freely across the pacific ocean in their dragon forms. 

samuel’s case is more peculiar in the sense that while they have a positive relationship, the kovacs don’t really celebrate holidays of any kind besides -- perhaps -- christmas in a very ironic way, so there’s probably nothing prepared for father’s day (and there never is), but they like it that way. 

émile’s father likes to catch basketball games with him either live or on tv. they prefer to keep it simple and at home unless one of the chevalier children has a bigger plan in mind. they make him his favorite meals and they each give him a present (or contribute toward buying him a single very nice present)

SmokingScreen: a collaboration with fellow youtubers and filmmaking enthusiasts Jade Alexander and Deangelo Wright, SmokingScreen is a film and TV show review channel known for it’s in-depth analysis of popular and indie films, not just in terms of plotline and characters but in terms of filmmaking (cinematography, music, design, behind th e scenes material), in order to better understand the themes and intentions behind each film they choose to review. On top of that, they go out of their way to travel to various film festivals throughout the year, handpicking their favorites and making recommendation lists and spoiler-free videos to bring attention to them before their public release. Started in 2012, the longrunning channel boasts 5 million followers and it’s one of the more well-known review channels in the platform. It has over two thousand videos and it has reviewed over 2,7k films (and a hundred or so TV shows). Though all three contribute to the review writing process, the channel is normally hosted and voiced by Deangelo and Jade, with Smoke writing and researching, and ocasionally appearing on screen (though mostly preferring to stay behind the scenes), and Jade cutting and editing the material as well as general upkeep of the channel. They also run a website with written versions of their reviews, recommendation lists, and polls, and run a biweekly two hour podcast (since mid 2018; previous to that it used to only for the awards season) where they talk about movies they haven’t gotten a chance to make videos about. The channel itself posts a new video three times a week in a mon-wed-fri schedule. 

The festivals they visit (or have visited in the past) include: Sundance, Slamdance, TIFF, the LA Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, the NY Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival. They hope to add Cannes and Venice to the list soon. 

Art of The Film: a more lowkey, low profile, channel that sprouted from SmokingScreen in 2017, it’s ran entirely by Smoke (who goes simply by Theo, and never shows his face) and it’s where he analyses various famous films from the direction and screen writing angles, in order to discuss the visual storytelling techniques used. In contrast with the higher energy SmokingScreen, AOTF is more laidback in narration and pace, and it’s updated once every two weeks. A good real life equivalent is LFTS, but you didn’t hear that from me.