#this set had me fighting for my life

[detectivechen]

Tim and I are station-bound, waiting for the phone to ring. On your undercover thing? Yeah. The original go-time fell through, and it's just been radio silence since then.

OUTTA POCKET ↦ Lucy Chen & Tamara Colins The Rookie (2018) – 5x01 "Double Down"

#the rookie #therookieedit #chenford #chenfordedit #lucy chen #tim bradford #tamara collins #tamara colins #lucy x tamara #the rookie s5 #the rookie 501 #the rookie outta pocket #this set had me fighting for my life #mine.gif #detectivechen

[bericas]

Why did you do that? Because I love you.

#twedit #scallison #scallisonedit #teenwolfplus #teendramas #scott mccall #allison argent #making this made me so crazy i had to fight for my life to not make this a lyric edit #thats what happened with the cant help falling in love scydia set if anyone was wondering #it was supposed to be like this and then i felt crazy #literally this whole set my head was like #i see the look in your eye and im biting my tongue you'll be the love of my life when i was young #isnt it amazing despite all the space in the world im still close to you then you said to me are we enemies no baby we could never be #if i could be stronger and if you were just older we might last this out longer but the task just gets harder and my face turned to red #we huddled under covers we ddint say anything if you hadnt come ovre i would be so much colder i would be so much less confused #goodbye goodbye goodbye you were bigger than the whole sky you were more than just a short time ive got a lot to live without #ANYWAY. #these scenes are very Specific to me they are so specifically about hurt/comfort to me #both of them bloodied in such different ways; both with blood on their hands; scott's is his own. allison's is mostly her own. but not all #the gentleness that comes not because of the absence of violence but despite the abudance etc etc etc etc #i refrained from including stuff from the movie trailer but the movie has really made me a scallison endgamer its crazy i never was #but i feel fucking Insane #the question is always why and the answer is always because i love you

[sleebyfrogs]

Okay so just imagine like. You’re just a little guy. You have no parents and your grandfather who raised you has always disparaged and disapproved of the very fact that you exist, for reasons utterly beyond your control. People enjoy your presence because you’re polite and charming the same way they enjoy flowers in spring, which is to say in passing and ultimately without any real connection.

And then you meet this guy who is just like. obsessed with you. He always wants to be around you and he derives true joy from it without you having to say anything funny or clever or lie for politeness’ sake. He creates art that he loves of you and because of you. Indirectly, you are suddenly able to put joy and beauty into the world, anything into the world, because you inspire him. You never imagined you would leave any kind of footprint the way things were before, because nothing you had was meaningful or lasting. And he flatters you dreadfully, he tells you how incredibly beautiful you are, and whether you realise it or not, you can feel that at least part of this value that he has found in you, that he has given you, comes from that beauty.

And then one day you meet his friend, who is older than you and cooler than you and a lord, and so witty and eloquent that you struggle just trying to keep track of whatever the fuck he’s talking about (and he always sounds like he knows everything about it), and he’s been this guy’s friend much longer than you have, and he also compliments you on your beauty and so seemingly that is the only quality of any worth that you possess, right? And then he waxes on and on about how it’s the only thing worth having and explains that what you have is actually incredibly valuable and fragile and precious, and that you are inevitably going to lose it and there’s nothing you can do. And also he says all this while you’re having your gay awakening because he’s sweet-talking you in a way you’ve never experienced and it’s uhhhhh it’s something. So then while you’re having a complete existential crisis over this your mutual friend calls you over to show you the most exquisite painting you’ve ever seen in your life and it’s of you. You didn’t know you could be so beautiful to anyone, you didn’t know he could create anything so beautiful, you didn’t know beauty on this level could even be captured in art. And that’s how he sees you, continually, without you having to make any effort to please him? Just to be yourself is enough to have inspired this incredible thing? You might cry. And then you realise he created it here and now and of you because on this particular day of June, you are twenty years old, and young, and pretty, and once you age out of that, you will lose the one thing anyone has ever valued in you, and surely also his interest, and you will be alone again, and worthy of nothing and no one. And because you’re also twenty years old and privileged and inexperienced you’ve never learned any capacity for nuanced thoughts and say things that are incredibly rash and stupid and regrettable.

So I’m not saying Dorian did nothing wrong but I am saying in his position I’d definitely have been a vain and terrified idiot too

#The Picture of Dorian Gray #LISTEN. My other point is that yes he should have known better but he was never given the chance to learn how to make those better decisions #The world and people that should have prepared him to be a wiser adult navigating a more complex world failed and neglected him #So in that position with the life he’d had behind him he could *never* have made a different choice even though his past was full of so many #opportunities for him to learn that if only anyone had actually given it the time of day to teach him #Yes Dorian was selfish and cruel and stupid and that is his fault #But it was also wrong of the people in his life not to have shown and taught him how to be anything else #And that’s really what makes him a very tragic character to me #Because all these things that he couldn’t control came together by sheer chance and made him an offer he had no means to refuse #and no idea he was even agreeing to #and it set him up perfectly to ruin his entire life and the lives of so many around him #Doriginal #Lord that was. an Essay and now it’s 4am girl help #Yes it was still a fight he could have won and he lost anyway. #but I do think it’s more than a little unfair that no one who was meant to ever gave him a sword.

[tarmac-rat]

TFW you're two weeks removed from leaving your entire life behind and moving to Night City but you're restless and anxious and can't sleep so you sneak out in the dead of night and do something reckless and the only person you know who can fix you up is that old doctor guy your new friend took you to see in a basement last week for back alley chrome and fighting tips.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(insp.)

#Cyberpunk 2077 #CB2077 #V #My V #Riley Aldana #Viktor Vector #I've been nursing a story of sorts that I'm debating penning out but my writing drive is so fickle these days #Riley-- two weeks moved into Night City and not coping well-- sneaks out of the Welles house and stumbles across a Tino fight #(AKA the same spot you fight Cesar) #and fights a younger Cesar 18 months before BotB but gets her ass kicked and run out #So at like 3 in the morning she goes to Vik's with a broken wrist like 'can you please help me?' and he can't turn her down #So they get coffee at Toms and talk about shit after her sets her wrist #Riley-- a nomad who as never once had a dad in the picture-- takes his words to heart #IDK I find Riley and Vik would get along very well due to their similar no-nonsense approach to life and I one day want to explore that #emphasis on one day #But enough of me rambling this post'll get reblogged and then it's just another shitpost so enjoy a laugh I hope #Maybe one day in the future this'll be a fic worth reading #Aldi speaks #Been Good to Queue Ya

[marypsue]

Yanno what, I like high fantasy just fine, but the older I get and the more I read, the more I'm starting to think I like high fantasy better when it's in-universe fantasy fiction for a different story instead of like. Me, directly reading/watching/etc it.

#i like LOTR as a series and I like the peter jackson movies #but i almost like it better through the lens of a fictional character who loves it #(also real-life friends who love it but that's not what this post is about.) #i get sooooo bored so easily of constructed-world/secondary-world stories that don't have any connection back to my own #give me a doorstopper about an entirely alien species on another planet thick with worldbuilding and I will politely decline #BUT. give me a modern-no-magic-setting fictional nerd obsessed with that doorstopper? it's go time babey #fucking loved the shannara series as a youf because it was all the tolkeinesque high fantasy constructed world stuff #BUT it was set in a POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE of OUR WORLD #only it had been so long that almost nobody remembered! #so you'd have characters fighting these giant monsters in these abandoned wastelands of unnaturally even rock #(parking garages) #over magical artifacts whose power would kill anyone who wasn't Chosen #(radioactive material that certain families had been mutated by and developed a resistance to over generations) #fucking love that shit. that's so much fun. #but give me the same series and take out the post-apocalyptic future part and I'd never make it through two books

[star-mum]

Okay OP nation I have some (maybe controversial) statements about the Straw Hats and I need y’all to listEN FIRST OKAY- HEAR ME OUT

Boyfriend: Zoro and Franky

Husband: Usopp and Sanji

Girlfriend: Nami

Wife: Robin

Luffy: Aroace king

#DO YOU SEE THE VISION ???? #like I am a Certified Zoro Girlie but thats not a husband... he has Boyfriend written all over him #I cant call him husband in my head - ‘oh that’s my Husband Zoro’ - ew no - 'thats my BOYFRIEND Zoro' - yes ! #Franky is just cool and sensitive like that -> the boyfren to defeat all boyfrends -> i'd fall hard and fast -> like embarrassingly so #SANJI OH MY GOD !!! THE FIRST MAN WHO DARED TO MALEWIFE #and of course anime he has a couple red flags but I always put those on ‘annoying anime trope’ rather than accepting thats a part of him (C #(OPLA IS HERE TO PROVE THAT) shit like in canon they kinda set him up as this totally uncool Wannabe Casanova (which he is !!) #but he’s also just effortlessly charming ???? me at 7 y/o watching his intro for the very first time ??? a goner !!! -> me at 20 yo watchin #GOD !! USOPP !! THE MAN ! THE KING ! THE LEGEND -> I have ALWAYS been an Usopp girlie -> cause im always right and i love to win #y’all gonna give a pathetic cowardly little man with huge dreams and an even bigger heart who ALWAYS stands up for whats right #DESPITE BEING SCARED ???? I’m in the chapel baby lets do this 👰🏻 -> also his tiddies are always out ??? DUNGAREES WITH NO SHIRT !! WHATS NO #risking his life fighting an incredibly powerful and scary pirate for an entire village who didn’t treat him fairly and DIDNT BELIEVE HIM #him going to a place he was Not Welcomed and constantly mistreated at only to tell a DYING girl incredibly fun stories and keep her company #cause he saw his mom go through the same thing as a kid ? -> i love him yall 🥺 #NAMI !!! thats Girlfriend with a capital G -> shes pretty greedy and a little bit (very) mean -> i love her sm i want her to rule my life #RO !! BIN !! the crush I have on that woman is honestly embarrassing -> she is THE wife -> do not be mistaken #i dont really see Luffy wanting a romantic relationship but that’s not gonna stop me from reading fanfic about him ; p #i had to edit this and glue some tags together so they'd all fit -> thats why theres so many arrows -> I have Thoughts okay -> let me live #one piece #opla #one piece live action #straw hats

[laneaconite]

Treatment

“Take this pill,” They say.

Take this pill and it should work

 In a month,

                    Three months,

                                            Six.

Take this pill,

And it will make you tired.

                                        They all make you tired,

Because they act on the brain, 

                                                  You see.

Take this pill,

“We’re sorry the others didn’t work.”

We will smile

                    Sympathetically.

                                                 We do care.

Take this

            Pill.

                  It will make you dizzy.

Take this

            Injection.

                           Since it is treatment resistant

Now.

It will hurt,

                 It will make you itch.

You can still keep taking the old ones,

                                                         In case they end up working

                                                                                                          Too.

Take this pill,

                      It should work in one month,

                                                                    Three months,

Six.

No, we don’t know

                               Why this is happening.

We don’t know

                     How to fix it.

Your blood screening was

                                           Normal.

Your CT scan was

                                Normal.

Take this pill.

-Lane Aconite,

March 5th, 2023

#poetry #my work #lane archives #chronic pain #chronic migraines #chronic illness #this poem is still pretty ouch #the us medical system can really suck in its cyclical lack of progress regarding finding out what's “wrong” with a person #due to crazy long wait times for appointments & processing referrals as well as 4 profit health insurance #my chronic migraines had to escalate into epilepsy for me to be seen by an actual neurologist and be taken seriously & even now I still fee #neglected by the system #not because my drs are bad but because they're overloaded with patients #it's really exhausting & difficult to have to fight at every turn to receive the care we need & deserve when we're bent over in pain #in my experience this repetitive cycle really broke down my ability to advocate for myself for a while because I was just too depressed #but hey if you're reading this and you relate: I love you. You deserve to feel better and to be supported by your physicians #I'm getting better care now but healing isn't linear #and if you have insurance & you're feeling absolutely fucking crushed by the system pls look up if they have a nurse advice line & call the #to see if they're able to set up a complex care coordination plan & if the nurses themselves can set up appointments for you #it really helps to have an insurance lady or 3 you can call to set up appts & referrals or check on them to see where they're stuck #I could write a poem dedicated to all the wonderful women in social services who are literally saving my life every time they call

[akkivee]

in the chapter where ichiro and kuukou meet for the first time and duke it out, kuukou is initially overwhelmed by ichiro’s strength, but upon the rematch, kuukou had clearly memorised ichiro’s moveset in that brief skirmish and was able to tie with ichiro at the end so i believe kuukou’s got a bit of a tactical brain to back up his strength as well—

#this is vee speaking #sometimes i take the hypmic characters and treat them like action shounen characters lmao #less who would win if they fought (i’m not that dudebro fan enough lol) but i do think about where their battle prowess lies #like i think the top three strongest characters are rio rei and ichiro in terms of power output!!!!! #rio rei and jakurai are the most tactical!!!!! rio jakurai and juto are the most trained!!!!! #samatoki ichiro and kuukou’s street fighting skills are unmatched!!!!!! that kind of thing lol #i wish i was better brained at skill set stuff because i’d love to lose hours of my life sticking together teams based on abilities lol #like mixed up teams are neat to look at based on what abilities they’re working with #team ichiro might be a little cracked lol with ichiro and jyushi having damage dealing moves and rosho’s being an atk stat raiser lol #team samatoki would probably be insane lol like rei is so versatile he can cause the enemy to attack themselves #or trigger an enemy’s ability prematurely to get samatoki’s ability output on max and doppo has the greatest damage output #that kinda thing makes me happy to think about lol i really do wish hypmic had a game like that too lol

[girlwithfish]

remembering when i applied to uw seattle on a whim cuz i hated where i lived romanticized the west coast plus my 2 close onljne friends live on the west coast and i wanted to get so far from north carolina when i was 17 and i didnt think id even get in nd then i did and then i had a huge fight w my mom abt it. my lady bird 2017 moment

#anyway my life would have been so different if i had went to seattle ljke lol id be a pnw bitch..! #I wld love to visit someday bc i think seattle is neat but #i probably wouldnt have even been able to handle that big of a move considering how badly i adjusted to going to school 3 hrs away and being #depressed and lonely and anxious and dysfunctional my first year of college lmao..i was shooting too high #Hah #that fight was actually traumatic a little 4 me and also makes me realize how i neber saw conflict ever get #resolved growing up 👍like ever #jt was always like a huge explosion of anger where im made to feel like shit and get criticized and my self worth and character r attacked #it Feels and then i go cry in my room and then we act like it neber hapepned and its neber spoken abt again and i just #live in fear of wondering when the next thing will turn into smth that will set her off #🤓🤓🤓🤓no wonder i am so avoidant of conflict im #anyway that post made me think a lot abt how my life wld b so different if i had went to Washington lol

[juleteinthrum]

Zasr? Zadr? Zatr? Is it not enough to be a gay little bug

#this is a shitpost about how im tired of za*r dnis like. im sorry lol #in reality i dont really ship anyone crom the show bc they're all kinda self centered assholes doomed by the narrative and built to hate- #each other but like. im a fictive and i. dont care. i had the relationships i had with the beings i knew and thats all it is #me and dib had something. me and skooge had something. me and tak and (other) Zim are together in this life. #also its. made up. sillies. fictions. there is fighting! over sillies! #domt come at me ik theres real and good reasons to have dni for those ships and its fine like pls set ur boundaries #but literally im so exhausted this is my source like why is the fandom im from so aggro and mean. #“why is the mean aggro nihlist cartoon fandom so aggro mean and nihlistic” you know what im here for shiny colors and silly autistic bug bo #ys #zims stink #actually plural #invader zim #zadr #zatr #zasr #dni #discourse #? like. idk please be nice to me im so so so tired i literally dont even ship in this fandom i just exist #other fandoms tho. like bbc sherlock bro come at me ill kill you

[naggingatlas]

you dont think its possible to feel like youre having a heart attack from a deltarune animation set to living fucking tombstone wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong

#^ read wrong the way wayne says years inside the ring years inside the ring in the sweepstakes #the hyperlink one. its the hyperlink one the other one sucks gallons of ass in comparison im so sorry to the creator im typing w my nerve #endings #like i saw it and was like oh cute its that song i liked a couple years ago yea it fits him ^u^ cool outro BUT #THEY DIDNT INCLUDE THE PART THAT JUST. COMPLETELY RIPS YOU TO SHREDS DUDE LIKE IM SWEATING THINKING ABOUT #IF I FALL I THINK ILL FLY. TOUCH ME. MIDAS. MAKE ME PART OF YOUR DESIGN. NONE TO. GUIDE US. I FEEL FEAR FOR THE VERY LAST TIME *AND* #ITS THE FUCKING SNEO BATTLE. LIKE THATS ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL PIECES OF DELTARUNE FANART THATRE POSSIBLE TO CONCEIVE. #AND THE SOUND DESIGN AND INTERPRETATION OF SNEO'S ATTACKS INTO A MORE PHYSICAL PALPABLE SETTING ITS total schizo mode activation #i saw it when i woke up today (4hoursago) and having gotten to the sneo fight just before bed yesterday it made my whole body tense up and #i just had to go try beat him again. and i did w sound off listening to ordinary life. and i added 3 more stages to my average score #did not fucking beat him obv both the secret bosses are insanely difficult for a mediocre bullethell player but. #really boosted my confidence. i gave jevil off to danny for him to beat. i want to beat spam myself. i need to #honestly dont get people who dislike spam unless theyre only familiar w like. the fanon interpretation or whatever its absolute garbage #a lot of the time but in game. hes just the funniest most peculiar fucking character as everyone in deltarune is. yea hes overhyped but #for a reason baby. hes well written in the parts that we dont see and well executed in the parts we encounter. everything surrounding him #is just so beautifully purposefully out of place and uneasy and psychotic its beautiful. how the fuck can u say he's boring. how. #i adore toby's decision to make this chapter's secret boss much more prominent than jevil i hope they get some interaction as effed up #roomies of kris's pocket lint. not in a shippy way tho thatd be hilarious but just. oh ure kinda like me huh. mb we could be friends #and then they turn into a cartoon fight cloud and u randomly hear their screams when checkin the inventory #but seriously making them at least amicable towards each other would carry a lot of meaning & strengthen the #'if freedom is being completely cut off from society and more importantly your friends for the rest of ur life is it really worth it #for just a glimpse of heaven of ultimate knowledge or maybe peace' narrative of jevil and spam #honestly i think the fact that u probably have to seek out the secret bosses to get the best true ending and that theyre so so #much harder than anything else in their chapters and that theyre all connected to gaster and it makes me think #they carry much of the burden of deltarune's subtext's meaning i mean the subtext carries onto the text onto the main gang's #realtionships uhmmmmmm idk i have to work ill prolly. make a post about this when im finished w everything. and a comic about the sbs.

[deansblorbo]

Oh god please noooo not today

Its literally my exam tomorrow and my family is falling apart i dont wanna deal with it now

#All i want is some comfort today i'm literally terrified its my exam tomorrow #Why is it that i have to be the mediator between their fights #I'm literally sitting here as if i am some couple therapist who has to deal with the tantrums of these people #Like just leave me alone from this i've been dealing with this since i was like 5 i just dont want to anymore i have got enough on my mind #Just when i thought my parents were going together okay again its just going downhill again #Both of them cant set aside their ego and they just go on with it ig #But they don't realise how much i'm getting hurt inside #Like they are the only immediate family i have and i had to deal with their fights and shouts almost my entire life #I feel like i regret vacating from my hostel now it was enough hell there but it was just loneliness atleast i had some peace there #My life is such a mess idek what to do i'm tired of bs

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[pepprs]

like . omg i know i need to stop POSTINGGGG but god thinking abt the argument w my parents last night and all the implications of it hurts so bad it’s unreal it hurts literally so bad. and it is ruining my life in so many ways and ive been fighting back tears all day bc of it. Lol

#purrs #i think im a burden to everyone and that everyone thinks im stupid and young and naïve entitled selfish annoying etc etc but really it’s #just my parents who think that and the fact that they do means that there is something fundamentally wrong with me so i carry that into #every relationship im in and isolate myself and hold back from saying how i feel and setting boundaries and i am so sad and tired all the #time that i never talk to anyone and i beat myself up for making mistakes and for having thoughts and feelings and i hurt the people who #love me by denying myself to them and not believing in their love and it fucking sucks and i hate that i will never fully recover from the #damage and i hate that the damage is over the STUPIDEST fucking shit in the whole world that is literaly nothing compared to some of the #horrors in the human experience like it’s just 2 bad fights with my mom and my brother being born and my grandma dying and how my mom did or #did not parent me 100% to her best ability during all of those moments and suddenly im fucked in the head for life over DUST BUNNIES. over #DRYER LINT. CRUMBS! specks of dirt. like are you kidding me. catapulting myself into the nearest viper pit rn i think. but also it’s 1:30 am #and i am working tomorrow and ive had an exhausting soul crushing week and i need to go to bed and i am running away from everyone and #everything in my life and it just is a hard time to be a person right now anyway so like maybe i need to just go to sleep and reblog some #posts and play animal crossing in all my free time and throw my phone into the river and be normal for 2 seconds. ok. #* 3 bad fights w my mom. but also a lot more but especially those 3 ♥️

[nullcanary]

"Now all my other gods are dead. Hallelujah, to the apocalypse in my head!"

#just finished my first playthrough #what a wild journey this has been #this game has given so much enrichment to my life #this game pulled me out of the deepest depression ive ever been in #and then momentarily put me back in one after the malenia fight because reptile brain was like youve been running from a tiger for 4 hours #my stress response was so on edge for a week yall #but thats a different story lets not digress #I'm making art again... i literally thought i lost that spark #im WRITING again?!?? a FEW things too?!? yall whats in this elden juice?! #i finally have an oc of my own to cherish #ive connected with talented inspiring and clever creators of various forms of fanworks #truly the game just turned a light on inside me again that said 'youre allowed to feel again' #it just happened to be the correct combination of so many nuances that mattered to me already and them dialed them up to 10 #the astel fight was my absolute favorite #when i watched the trailer it was what captured my eye the most #when going through armor sets i saw the Preceptor's set and thought 'holy sh!t thats my aesthetic' #and now i have an irl version of it that i made with my own hands #ive never had the opportunity to be obsessed with a single character before and thats so weird to only realise after succumbing to varrérot #truly either reigniting interest in old joys or discovering completely new experiences #oh yeah and lastly im so flippin into IAMX now hes almost all ive listened to since the year began and thats also because of varrérot #tag rant over #elden ring #i have very normal feelings about frenzied flame #lord of frenzied flame ending ie third impact lmao #iamx stalker lyrics in header

[unproduciblesmackdown]

nonzero people podcasting about goosebumps the musical & it’s never enough. neither extensive enough nor enthusiastic enough & that’s coming from me which is the entire explanation for the assessment. 

on the same topic but a completely different point, i was just appreciating how extra fun i always find understudy buddy to be. and obviously i would like to think that maybe tina & the unit that is brooke & zeke are like, more neutral to amicable after the show lol. tina is a lot of fun as is, like, automatic shoutout to any character just being like, getting in the way being offputting / a pain and all powered by one’s own intensity, that’s fun & funny & who among us? and like yeah she’s also definitely doing the mean girl thing like, in the song as mentioned lmao like please, rein it in. and maybe she will, but then when other suspects are being kind of crossed off the list just before thee play she manages to just be regular supportive towards brooke, so that’s promising lol. and also just shoutout to the Fun of a lively antagonistic role, great stuff, delightful number for her there, and sure helping ramp things up. and zeke and brooke not just showing up for this one horror musical (also i would love to shoutout zeke’s plight there lmfao like, the experience of original readers of poto where the twist is “nah it’s not a phantom it’s just some wet pathetic guy” like he’s so hyped to be The Ghost Lead and then he’s like oh god i’m a romantic lead in a hole & i’m five & it’s embarrassing & i even know my counterpart irl (the bestie) like i guess technically the role’s a ghost by the end & good for the mystery mask wearing element being exciting still) but that they were unnamed ensemble members in guys & dolls & saw that through, they’re bringing support & appreciation for the theatre, & on the flipside tina might just enjoy the theatricality & attention from it but she was having a great time informing everyone that on top of their haunted school it’s a specifically haunted (cursed) play, so maybe she can also relate to zeke and brooke’s horror genre appreciation. and she might warm up at all to zeke when he’s cleared about the fact he wasn’t trying to prank their efforts into oblivion, at least to the same degree she can manage to provide regular supportiveness to brooke when it comes to it. and on the one hand, despite brooke and zeke sure seeming like that hell of an established unit like probably just have their [socializing at school] foundation covered by hanging out w/each other, they could let brian in on that easily enough for something of a triumvirate, but now not only are they bffs since 5ever who love a genre together, they sure had an Adventure in emile messing up by [you never try to scooby doo villain your way through it] but also doing it all wrong where they think You’re the danger here & that you’re going to murder them, plus it’s scary for real exploring the darkness elevator underground tunnels anytime, but also now they have this off the shits experience with that new guy friend who was a ghost for real. kind of its own bonding element & maybe you wouldn’t exactly let anyone else in on it, much less like, tina lmao. she might be interested in The Legend but she was also super interested in telling everyone all about it, and idk, difficult and weird to explain, thing it’d all be quite the stuff to process for one lol like sure we love drama and ghosts and attention too but it’s A Lot. ghosts are real and i online dated one except across time rather than space and he was just some guy hanging out and i also hung out with him sometimes but then in the end it got weird b/c he was the suspicious understudy all along and this role is really not coming through....but also hey, could talk about it all eventually, and tina’s got plenty of context already. next year’s cast n crew party for the last show, be like hey guess what, b/c we’re solidly amicable now also

plus being extracurricular buddies like, ms. walker head in hands dealing with these three menaces lmao....although zeke wasn’t Really up to that much, tina’s sure committed to the show, etc. and it’s like, being a student or teacher or anyone else at a middle school is just always gonna be like that. could really be worse, she can handle it. and maybe she can know of the lore also, she’s out here engaging in irl drama and lore about like avenging her grandmother’s theatrical aspirations, or none of this would be going on lol. get used to these three and actually they’re reliable really, maybe tina will have learned to better accept not getting the dream role, which will be an easier time for everyone. but it’s just always gonna be a handful lol but all these kids were also all about putting on the play too, actually, yes maybe some problems arose from messing around with the platform but they could’ve been worse problems (queues of ghosts in line for their turn at finally achieving one last goal of performing their part in this one damn play lol) and does seem like it’s engineering issues inherently rather than Just messing around backstage unsupervised which isn’t often otherwise going to be fatally risky, and maybe just give people a rundown about the riskiness of things that Isn’t emile’s botched effort where he mostly just made children afraid of Him. like idk, i did shop class throughout middle school, we avoided injury w/successful cautionary rundowns. brian’s one other last goal could’ve been about safety measures, but whaddaya gonna do. anyways point is, hanging out after school for theatre purposes and having an understanding and bonus patience affordance with the teacher in charge of this and maybe everyone gets to know the Real Ghost Story or maybe it’s zeke & brooke’s personal inside secret, it was already a shared adventure for all involved even if they didn’t get the Full story the way those two did, all of them are up for Drama and for Horror, they’re good to go. and good for them

#goosebumps the musical #like let's do a play by play of the show And this kind of meandering musing about any and all elements lmfao #funny when the [just some guy] was clearly not at all intending to murder them but so far as they know he might've. which yeah terrifying #and their Real Ghost was a just some guy new friend. brian truly just hanging out like yep what's up everyone. yeah i'll paint a set #and i can't get over book brian being all the more just So Nervous in general lmao that's like his whole thing #like is this some extra anxiety you get when you die & then have been a ghost abt it? maybe. or maybe he's just already like that. #either way lol. i Love how they talk abt maybe encountering an actual ghost via the platform & brian's like omgg nooo stopp ;m; too scary #if you're a kid who would've been scared of ghosts then....just b/c you happen to be one yourself. still like omg no stopppp #but zeke & brooke aren't too overly terrified of this possibility of Real Ghosts though it Is clear they're both scared in the abyss there #like. yeah fair. you're like eleven and that is scary for anyone and does involve various elements of not insignificant danger #and it's more fun when they Aren't utterly unfazed by everything happening in the story ofc. which they are not #and who knows maybe zeke's a bit put off about actual ghosts lmfao like he Did get ghost attacked. whoops #hopefully as simply disorienting as alarming rather than like yeah i had a whole fight for my life back there while gradually smothered #things that have you looking up folklore abt ghosts' breath stealing ability. like fatally or just a lil sip... #well i don't know. where is the fog patch haint warding tradition recited humorously from perhaps my grandma as the lore source there lol #not online i suppose. go figure. anyways theatres & ghosts & superstitions? already going on. the ghost light for sure. just add some more #and be all the more earnest with it lol. hey why do you always say ''brian no more of that shit please i don't care if you wanna be man 7'' #might still be more like ''i hope emile who's an alive guy out there doesn't try to kill me :/'' lmao fr.... #maybe he makes himself scarce a while but returns also. kids probably wouldn't tell a soul so long as he doesn't try to scare them abt it #kind of difficult to ask these children straightforwardly to just not say anything to anyone once they know you're here but #they probably don't wanna go exploring back down there again. did that. just don't haunt the plays or seem like you'll kill them #and like who knows maybe a lot of ghosts w/goals hanging around & they're generally Just Ppl in gb situations thusly #your new friend even if they're really more Mortal than you for the temporariness of it all; ideally #given that they Do have some goal to fulfill & then they'll peace out a ways. really hardly the worst gb style of situation to be in #it's the drama & mystery & theatrics....& the fun of like layers of genre awareness lol. you like horror & you know you're kinda in A Story #the play; the play having a mystery history & possible curse; school's haunted; someone's sabotaging you; fake janitor; suspicious behavior #and a couple of protagonists who are liable to go looking for some degree of trouble for the fun of it.... #anyways what a setup. lot going on lol. lot that Did go on. including the show; congratulations to everyone just about

[amphiptere]

OK as much as I will forever adore really long books, I have yet to read one over 600 pages that couldn’t benefit from some significant editing down.

#mine #THIS DOES NOT COUNT ORDER OF THE PHOENIX OR WINTER BY MARISSA MEYER #order of the phoenix is perfect and winter is not but it's not that it's too long so much as it doesn't focus enough on the right things #ok winter did need a bit of editing down but also more content added to flesh out winter and jacin's relationship #and the setting didn't hook me enough i think that's an important factor in my enjoyment of a book #it was just a generally unpleasant setting #compared to the others in the series which were interesting and felt warm and cool to learn about #luna was cool to learn about sure but the novelty wore off quickly and it was just barren and uninviting #250 pages into cot now and i feel like it's not really even started #stuff's happened but a whole lot of nothing much has also happened and that needed to be cut down #plus a few more fight scenes added. we've had one. ONE. #tldr long books for life but the really long ones do tend to ramble and they should not do that #short books can ramble too but at least they ramble for fewer pages #some of the most boring books i've read were under 300 pages #(@ silas marner) #books