to add religious amounts of cinnamon the holy spice and make something better. coined by anyone who has accepted cinnamon as the lord and savior of sweet and savory foods.
(guy) I'm hungry but all we have is bread. I guess I'll make some toast.
(roommate 2) Sounds good but you better cinnamize that shit, man.
(guy) Hell yes.
(sugar high girl) OMG, I cinnamize everything!
(friend) And we love you for it, but please shut up now.
A character that is very kind and sweet but faces more hardship and suffering than they truly deserve. Comes from the usage of an article headline from 'The Onion' titled 'Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure.' to describe a person or character that is very good but faces a lot of pain in their life.
Percy Jackson fan and tumblrite: OMG, Nico di Angelo is such a cinnamon roll! I hope things turn out okay for him in the next book....
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.