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They’re going to the movies

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i love you record player, i love you dvd collection, i love you discman, I love you still functioning vhs player, i love you radio, i love you newspaper, i love you physical ticket, i love you cash, i love you board and card game, i love you museum, i love you concert, i love you paint, i love you film camera, i love you instrument, i love you needle and thread, i love you book, i love you physical and tangible world of entertainment and information i live in, interact with and feel

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of course my first finished art in months is my boy hunter

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first time I ever went to the animal shelter and picked out my own animal was surreal. we had so many animals growing up but we never picked out any of them. and sure that’s normal for cats. they just showed up and we adopted them. but it didn’t end there.

we had a ball python because my mom was on a walk with her friends, saw it on the ground (this was Ohio) said “woah! that’s not native!” and put it in her purse. we advertised but never found the owner so we kept the purse python.

we ended up with a corn snake during a hurricane because my mom went out to get one of the cats and the corn snake was so little it came blowing through the air like a branch and my mom reached out and grabbed it out of the air to save it.

actually the point of this post is lost because I typed this far and realized the universe was maybe just sending my mom snakes specifically.

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Northern bedstraw

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Hill

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The Poisoned Prodigy (Characters)

As a preview of the characters from my story before I drop the first chapter onto you.

Vincent Song

Our narrator and teenage detective

Struggling with a lot of insecurity and confidence issues

Best friends with Patton Reynolds (met him while skateboarding)

Fun fact: Vincent was supposed to be a girl named Vanessa because the sonogram was read wrong. His older brother, James, delights in showing people the photos of him (Vincent) as a baby wearing a dress because there were no boy clothes for him during his early years. Vincent, naturally, finds this incredibly embarrassing.

Patton Reynolds

Vincent's best friend and victim of poisoning

Man of many talents (has 'inspirational' written all over him)

Disabled character (is an amputee and mostly uses a below-the-knee prosthetic leg)

Fun fact: Patton's birth name is not Patton. He had it legally changed when he was 10 with permission from his aunt and uncle. He does not like to talk about his previous name.

Ernest DuBois

Patton's enemy and academic rival

"They say there is a line between genius and crazy. Ernest DuBois uses this line as a skipping rope for fun."

Just before being taken away by EMTs, Patton accused Ernest of having poisoned him because of an argument that took place between then days before the award ceremony

Fun fact: Ernest Dubois's family comes from money as a result of his great-grandfather having tripped, fallen, and landed on an oil geyser. Literally.

Sally Kinley

Friend of Patton Reynolds from school (and possible crush)

Suspect in Patton's poisoning

Helps Vincent investigate Patton's poisoning

Patton's aunt and uncle

Patton's legal guardians

Saved his life (Rescued Patton from foster care and nursed him to health after being diagnosed with cancer)

Noticed that Patton was gifted and took him to be tested, which was when he ended up going to Sandalwood Institute

#oh this sounds so fun #I kinda love them already #the tripping and falling on an oil geyser is hilarious absoulutely incredible

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The Poisoned Prodigy (Chapter 1)

My suit didn't fit. The suit was originally my older brother James', who was bigger than me, but I really expected it to at least kind of fit by the time the awards ceremony at Patton's fancy school came around. "I knew I should have gotten a rental," I muttered.

"You look great, Vince," Patton said, tying his tie into his preferred Windsor knot. He knew other ways of tying a tie, but this was his favourite. Because of course my friend had categorised his favourite ways to tie a tie. "I didn't notice myself until you pointed it out."

"Easy for you to say. You made yours from scratch, tailored it to your proportions, and decorated it with stars and planets!" I bit the inside of my mouth as I looked at his blazer compared to my drab charcoal hand-me-down. It looked like a masterpiece. A shimmering navy blue colour with gold trimming and embroidered constellations and silver buttons, and matching trousers.

Matching.

Trousers.

Patton laughed as he braided his hair. It had gotten longer and somehow even more red than before. "I suppose not everyone can be as incredible as I am."

"Couldn't have said it better myself." I looked at the clock and winced. "Shouldn't we have left by now?"

"Oh, shoot!" The conversation ended there and we rushed to get out of the house. Greatness awaited.

:-)

In the taxi, I started asking Patton questions. Awards ceremonies were not places where I normally ended up, and Patton's school had one at the end of every single year. "Do you know many other people there?" I asked.

"A few people. There's this girl, Sally, who's always so nice to me. I've worked with her a few times," Patton said.

"Who do you think will end up winning the category for inventions? If it's not you, of course."

"If it's not me, it should be Sally. She's worked so hard. You'll like her."

I looked at the smile blooming across my best friend's face. "I think you already do."

"What?" Patton snapped out of it and became serious. "No, no, we're friends. Just friends."

"OK." The rest of the taxi ride was silent, Patton looking out of the window, while I smirked at his reddening face.

He so had a crush on this Sally girl.

#I am very intrigued by the murder mystery tag #This sounds like the beginnings of something very fun

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I think more people should have a trans girl bestie who is obsessed with a specific animal. Because not only will she enlighten you about gender in ways you didn’t know before but when you come out to her as trans her response is a gif of a shark swimming around with the caption “that’s so cool!!”

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A whole new perspective

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

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minecraft add baby endermen immediately