Fuck it. New saw au
Everyone except John is a kindergartener and John is their nice but scary teacher. The apprentices are the designated class helpers and use their status to bully the other kids into giving them the good snacks they earned for being good at the end of the day. Billy the Puppet is their class pet.
Amanda "dying" was her being transferred to a different class. Half the class held a big pretend vigil while the other threw a big party. John's "death" was him going on sick leave so little Mark Hoffman took over the classroom and started terrorizing the other kids
The traps are actually just the kids being tasked to write an essay explaining what they did and why they thought it was appropriate and how they won't ever do it again. If they "failed" the test they were put in time out, and if they succeeded they got to pick a snack out of John's giant snack jar.
The bathroom trap actually did happen but it was just Dr Gordon and Adam accidentally getting stuck in the boys bathroom. They also had an elaborate pretend wedding with Ring Pops and made John officiate the wedding. Actually the whole class makes John officiate all the pretend weddings and John takes them as seriously as a funeral.
Uhhhhhh I'm also adding vacuum flytrap to this bc no one can stop me. Little saw x janitor often cleans up after the other kids not because he likes it but because it's easy to steal things that way. Michael one day spots him sneaking snacks out of the jar and rats him out to John. They both had to do the tests only because Michael's snitching almost got a few kids expelled for no reason. They become very close friends and eventually become pretend husbands.
Also the plot of saw x is Cecelia and her gang doing "brain surgery" on John with toy knives and play doh and "scam" him out of his "money" so he and Amanda team up to "test" the little guys. Mateo still does "brain surgery" on himself.
Billy is more respected by the kids than John is at some points. He's just Billy, nothing changed. Except he has shrines in the bathrooms where kids leave cool rocks and flowers.
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UNTIL HEAVEN - WIP INTRO
matthew lejune / @dallonwrites / ocean vuong / mary ruefle
He knows that his headache is quietly growing vicious and he should take off his headphones, but now they’re singing about Heaven and Las Vegas – two places he has never been – and he knows that at some point, still unknown to him, his father died, and maybe that means he’s now stuck in Heaven or Las Vegas or somewhere in between. Or maybe that means he’ll just be everywhere, in the rain on Felix’s face and the ache behind his eyelids, and that’s how it’ll stay.
Genre: Adult Literary Fiction, novella (please god stay a novella)
Setting: San Francisco/New York, December 1990/January 1991
Vibe: shoegaze & dream pop, warm lighting, ginger flavor, a city skyline at night, going to church for the first time in years, feeling too old and also like you were born yesterday, disposable camera photos, the passing of time, stuff rabbit toy from your childhood, the hallway at a family gathering, planetariums, cold air on your face, retro christmas decor, realising you were once a child and that child deserved so much better
Deals With: parental grief when your parent was a piece of shit, Christian trauma, queerness in relationships, adulthood as you progress through your 20s, healing + building your own life after a traumatic childhood and what happens when that is disrupted
Soundtrack Essentials: The Cure - Plainsong / Mazzy Star - Be My Angel / Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk / Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas / Beach House - The Hours / Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother / Tamino - Cinnamon
Synopsis: When Felix's father dies suddenly it's a week before Christmas, he and Beau had just begun experimenting with an open relationship, and he refuses to interrupt his life to mourn a man who doesn't deserve it. But when he can't stop his body from grieving, and his sister is growing obsessive over the morbid details, and at work he's teaching children that remind him of himself, an opportunity to impulsively leave sees Felix spend an insomniatic month in New York: diners at 3am, trips at the club, a birthday spent in a planetarium, one night stands to tell his boyfriend about in the morning, and a dangerously intense relationship with an enigmatic man who wants to know everything about his father.
This is another piece in my personal project/emotional support series and follows Revelations, Revelations and Lover Boy. If you know me you know Dorothy and Felix are my annoying children who I love so dearly and this novella is paired with a future novella that follows Dorothy during the same time. Fun fact! I only returned to writing because I wanted to explore Felix more and now I have an entire world that dominates my brain and it's all his fault! So this novella is kind of like a love letter to him. I also literally only created this so I could have a project that was soundtracked by historic Cocteau Twins' album Heaven or Las Vegas. Currently drafting because it won't leave my mind
The answering machine beeps awake -- and then, Beau's mother, reminding them that they're in charge of dessert tomorrow --and then, Beau's coworker wishing them both a Happy Holidays, a Stacy who Felix has never met -- and then his sister, sarcastic but loving, This is me calling so you know I made it home alive, just like you asked -- and then surprisingly, Goldie, Hi Felix, even though school broke up weeks ago, So I know it's Christmas, but I wanted to let you know that I talked with Joey's father and it sounds like he's doing much better at home already. He's even excited to come back to your class! And his father sounds super proud and optimistic about his progress and by the end of the last message he’s on the floor, back to fridge and elbows on his knees, face in his hands. And he lets out a shaky, snivelled breath that makes him push his palms harder against his eyes, against the wetness because he can’t cry, not over this, not when there’s still Christmas presents to wrap and last minute laundry so stop crying, get up, put on your new Mazzy Star record and get on with it. He straightens his back, holds his head up, takes a few deep breaths that feel more like gasping for air and also like pulling barbed wire out of his throat, gazes at the slants of streetlight on his living room wall. He can’t cry, not over this and not here, not in the home he’s worked so hard to make so warm. So he sits with himself, wipes his own eyes and holds himself in his own arms; when he feels calm enough, or trusts himself to be, he leans forward so he can open the fridge and reach in for the last ginger ale, cold in his hand and warm down his throat. Just him and the hum of an empty apartment.
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That reminds me of the time I thought about how Silver and Blaze in 06 kind of parallel Adam and Lawrence (the two guys in the bathroom). I made a post about it and Couch (who’s seen all the Saw movies) said “ok,” which is a very valid response msdglkfs
Ok i have no idea how silver and blaze parallel the bathroom saw guys. How. How are they anything like the guys who had to saw their legs off or whatever they had to do
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Hey, if anyone is still looking for the bathroom horror lost media known as "Go for a punch" then I guess I can share what I know about it as I've seen it a few times.
It begins with a cold open
A girl cries a single tear that drops on the photo in their flip phone
The photo features a family member who I think was stated to be a rich oil tycoon by one of the others
"Go for a punch" is a quote from one of the characters if I remember correctly
The whole thing ends weirdly with a girl walking to the door after everything is over and she opens it to a bright light and says "It's open"
I remember telling the creator (?) of the whole thing that I saw this on a website because it was pretty interesting and I wanted to let them know that they should make sure that they properly archive their animation because it was really well done
The video was removed from that website at some point, so I think that maybe they don't actually want to be known for it as it is a pretty disturbing piece of media albeit an impressive one
This is one lost media that anyone into horror needs to see! It's twisted, violent, and traumatic. The strange ending leaves much to the imagination. Does she actually escape?
Update: I think that "Go for a Punch" may have been inspired by "Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment" which is gruesome yet strikingly similar from the description I've read online.
Below is an example of what the bathroom probably looked like:
In the notes:
animation is possibly called "Period"
there may have been a brutal sink scene
3 or 4 girls total
about 40 minutes long
possibly a few seperate clips
may have a manga adaptation
I saw it during when I was in high school which was 10+ years ago
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