#to add to the he murders everyone

[mihotose]

I Know kim and harry literally index the case using the date 08/03 suggesting this is the date of day 1 however ruby's diary entry says M's peone is coming to martinaise to investigate on the Ninth (and besides, it doesnt fit with the date of death being the fourth and that the corpse has been hanging for seven days as of day 1). might the index just use eg the date the corpse was reported to the rcm rather than the date assigned officers actually make it to the scene

#in which case day 1 is on the eleventh right... #lely was murdered (4th) -> cuno threw rocks at the corpse for a few days before klaasje decided to call it in (8th) -> #harry arrived in martinaise (a few hours later on the 8th?) -> harry has a three day long bender and wakes up the morning of the 11th #that being said ruby's diary entry about being holed up 'here' (taking this to mean the fisher shack) is from the 12th #so maybe klaasje called it in say 11pm on the 8th and the dispatched harry the morning of the 9th #plus the three day bender would have the kineema waking up harry and scaring away ruby to the feld building on the 12th #I Sure Feel like this is something that should be very simple that im just not understanding bc im tired #or maybe it was obvious to everyone else this whole time. not sure! #gemitus #disco elysium #maintagging yeah sowwy 👍 #i think the fact that he was killed at night probably adds some rounding to the mix here

[hajihiko]

Oh my god i completely forgot that Fuyuhiko almost killed himself that one time to apologize. This boy this way too intense.

IM SAYING LIKE!!! He JUST got out of the hospital after being repeatedly slashed/stabbed (I think?? Lotsa blood at least), missing an eye. And hes like "I figured you wouldn't accept my verbal apology. And I agree! *CUTS STOMACH OPEN*"

AND then hes like "ah this was stupid. I inconvenienced everyone"

Bro are you good.

#Yakuza pain tolerance indeed #Hes so fuckin intense I wanna psychoanalyze him #Hiko why do u fling ur life around like that. Is it bc you think you're invincible or do u have a death wish #He reminds me of my 1st serious end character a lot lol #Follows Peko to her execution and gets seriously injured (accident born from desperation) #Stabs himself as atonement (honour thing?? Does the fact that Peko is dead have sth to do with how ready he was) #FTE tells Hajime 'I'm giving you half my life so you dont die' and 'dont die *without* me' #Hiko your relationship with death is a little unhealthy I think. #Peko and Fuyuhiko both value the other's life way beyond their own #I FORGOT TO ADD: Tries to get Peko out of her punishment from the moment she commits the murder #Knowing it will mean the death of him and everyone else #Not an art

[sparklecryptid]

Because I'm in the mood for angst at the moment - well, I suppose I should preface this by saying that I generally like Regis? It's just - sometimes, it's just *so satisfying* to /blast/ the occasional character. (Usually those in some position of authority.) So - remember the Regis-Kills-Ace-Before-Ace-Is-Implausibly-Resurrected scenario? Imagine if that happened in All The Bastards (1/2)

(2/2) None of the Bastards will ever forget this. Or ever trust Regis

-

It takes a second for Ardor to realize what has happened. In the second it takes him to realize that there is a hole where Ace’s presence in his magic once sat like a gathering storm Jules eyes have widened to saucers behind her thick glasses.

“No,” she says and it’s desperate and pleading and she looks at Ardor for assurance when Ardor has none. He’s frozen and curling his magic inward to look for any sign that Ace is still there. Any sign that his brother is being cruel and not dead. “No. No! Where did Ace go? Ardor - Ardor please where is he? Why can’t I feel him anymore? What happened to our brother?”

Her voice break at the end and Ardor can do nothing but catch her as she throws herself into his arms and sobs.

-

Persephone is cleaning. It’s her day off and she has plans with her husband and Ace and Nyx for dinner. She thinks that she’ll make something rice and some sort of meat and sauce. As for vegetables - perhaps some sort of tomato? Or maybe corn.

She decides on corn eventually and is in the process of pulling the cobs out of the fridge when death latches onto the bond she has with her siblings and she spares a moment to panic before the chill leaves. For a moment she thinks it was a fluke but then she realizes she can’t feel Ace anymore. All of her siblings are alive. She can feel their magic thrumming through her bonds like a live wire. Her siblings are fine.

All of them are fine except Ace. Ace’s magic has vanished and Persephone swallows the lump in her throat. She puts the corn down on her counter and reaches for her phone.

He doesn’t answer.

Persephone’s can feel the rage in her welling to uncomfortable levels. Ace is hers. Her brother. Her brother. Hers.

He doesn’t get to die without them. He doesn’t get to die when she can prevent it.

Persephone calls Ardyn.

He doesn’t answer either.

-

Thanatos is fine.

He is fine.

His little brother could be dead - could because unless there is a corpse in front of him Thanatos is not going to believe Ace let something as stupid as death take him - Ace could be dead and Thanatos knows that he should do something. He knows that he is shaking and that his eyes are glowing and maybe studying forbidden magic was a bad idea because the ground beneath his feet cracks open.

He usually has more control than that. But his brother could be dead.

His brother could be dead.

Thanatos lets out a hysterical laugh and blindly reaches his magic out for Ace’s. If Ace is alive Thanatos will find him. If Ace is dead Thanatos won’t find anything.

Thanatos doesn’t find anything.

He reaches out again, latching onto Ardyn’s magic and Thanatos makes a truly stupid decision. Without a beacon, without anything to guide him but his Uncle’s magic Thanatos forces himself into a warp and finds himself in Regis’ throne room.

“Hey,” Thanatos says as he stumbles in between Regis and Ardyn, “Where the fuck is my brother?”

-

Mercury and Jupiter are in Niflheim when Ace’s magic fades.

An MT helmet is crushed in Jupiter’s grip.

“Hey,” Jupiter says, “Can you find out where Uncle is?”

Mercury is frozen in spot. Stilled for once as too many scenarios run through her mind that she hadn’t ever needed to think about before. Ace was never supposed to die.

“Hey!” Jupiter drops the helm and stalks toward her sister. She grabs Mercury’s face in her hands. “We aren’t gonna find out anything if you freeze up! Where the fuck is Niflheims Chancellor?”

Mercury pushes Jupiter away and pulls out a cellphone.

“Give me a minute.”

-

Bard pause. She thanks her audience and stands up. She packs her instrument away and calmly makes her way to an alleyway. A quick soundproofing spell ensures she won’t be overheard.

She takes a breath.

She screams at the top of her lungs. What happened to her brother? Why can’t she feel him? What happened to her brother?

She doesn’t know. She opens the group chat to find everyone freaking out but neither Thanatos or Ardyn are online.

Neither is Ace.

Bard takes another breath.

Her brother has to be fine.

He has to be.

#all the bastards verse #Thanatos logs on after Ace wobbles into the throne room and goes: hello family. do you want to commit treason with me. #everyone bombards him with questions. #Thanatos says that they should all come to insomnia immediately because yes ace did die but as you can all tell he is back online now #‘actually’ Thanatos adds ‘ meet us in lestallum cause I’m not letting ace stay in this fucking city’ #they go to lestallum #Thanatos promptly bundles ace up in so many blankets despite his protests #the other siblings walk in on blanket burrito ace #and wait for either the ardyn that is hovering and still murderous or ace to speak #‘so-‘ ace starts #‘Regis killed him’ thanatos supplies helpfully before ace can try and damage control #there is no damage control here #Ardor has to be pinned down because his first instinct is murder #Jules cries

[kareenvorbarra]

hmmmmm ketil anime backstory bad

#it adds nothing to the story and interferes with his character progression imo #the point of ketil is that nothing that bad has happened to him until now. he's done everything right and it's always worked for him #and when it goes wrong he completely breaks down and makes all the worst decisions for everyone around him #also it ruins the conversation between sverkel and arnheid :( which is so good and understated in the manga #all he says to her is 'it's your decision' and 'i wish i could help.' manga!sverkel genuinely feels for arnheid. she's a real person to him #but anime!sverkel bringing up ketil's sad backstory when arnheid is going through all that just feels super insensitive #obviously ketil has nothing to do with arnheid losing her family and he didn't enslave her himself #which imo is part of why arnheid has been able to accept being with him! she knows she could have ended up with someone much worse #but like. he owns her. she has to devote her life to him whether she wants to or not. #it feels super gross for another character (and the story in general) to direct her/our sympathy onto ketil in that moment #her son was murdered so that she would be more desirable to men like him! this scene should not be about ketil's pain! #(also the line about why hjalti was killed was conspicuously absent from the anime which takes some of the teeth out of the whole storyline #fandom musings #vinland saga

[nelyoslegalteam]

Hi hello, here have an excuse to talk about murdoc harfoot-brandybuck of the easterly inn <3

jaz i love you so much you KNOW i have been waiting for someone to send me this EXACT ask. how the FUCK do i explain the character i have been playing for three years now.

so murdoc harfoot brandybuck of the easterly inn is my player character from my friend group's adventures in middle earth campaign (loving referred to as the mirkwood campaign), gmed by the absolutely wonderful @potatoobsessed999. he's very much still evolving, even as we get closer to the campaign's conclusion, as he absolutely has been over the last three years, but i will attempt to describe him, is he is my absolute favorite of my (like two) tolkien ocs, and may very well be my favorite oc of mine of all time at this point.

murdoc, as his name makes apparent, is a hobbit. he has been raised by his uncles and aunt, a family of upper-class inkeepers, as the heir apparent of the family inn. before i knew anything else about who i wanted him to be, or who he was going to become, murdoc was meant to embody the idea of home. he's creature-comfort, he's hospitality in its purest form, he's the maker of stews and the finder of comfortable places to sleep and the brewer of teas. this is the absolute core of who murdoc is: where he is is his home, and who he's with are his people, and he will do absolutely anything and everything to keep it all safe.

when murdoc was about the hobbit equivalent of a teenager, his more adventurous uncle got it into his head that he too should have a great big adventure just like his drinking buddy and idol bilbo baggins, and up and moved the family inn out of the shire and to a northern corner of mirkwood.

when murdoc was about the hobbit equivalent of, say, a human eighteen-year-old, he began to have extremely disturbing prophetic dreams.

so what do you do when you're a foresighted hobbit in the middle of a famously dangerous forest whose aforementioned foresight has every last bit of you screaming that it is now your responsibility to keep this place and everyone in it safe? you join an adventuring party, serve as an emissary of radagast the brown, have a sort of falling out with radagast the brown over realizing that his boss is evil and nobody believes you yet, adopt the ghost of actual maedhros feanorion (who is possessing your best friend's sword, as one does) as your new dad, and do a bunch of arson and protective rage murder as you develop greater and greater paranoia about whether you will be able to see coming the threats you will need to see in order to keep the people you care about alive!!!!!!

some more fun things about murdoc, in no particular order:

yes the fact that his name is Like That is on purpose. he's a pretentious piece of shit who named himself. his name is extremely reflective of the fact that he is just Like That. (also his partner is a huge nerd who got way into hobbit history around the time murdoc was picking his name and it is just as cute as it is stupid)

languages that murdoc speaks, in the order in which he learned them, include: westron, fucking spider, quenya, and sindarin. he has the most perfect most annoying feanorian accent when speaking in quenya. yes, i rolled to determine this.

(in murdoc's defense, he learned quenya because he wanted maedhros to be able to speak his first language with someone, and it was something to bond over.)

maedhros helped a very afraid and traumatized murdoc begin to interface with his foresight by acting as an anchor point for him while dreaming, to help him develop greater control over what he sees in them and to use his foresight on purpose.

murdoc did use the realization that this meant that he can see maedhros in his dreams as an immediate opportunity to hug him ;w;

murdoc's foresight cannot see nazgûl. anna, my beloved gm, has used this for effect emotional and horrific.

murdoc harfoot brandybuck of the easterly inn does in fact introduce himself to everyone he meets as "murdoc harfoot brandybuck of the easterly inn"

this resulted in murdoc being put on the entire-ass council of mirkwood because everyone assumed that this was an important title and the easterly inn must be a small fiefdom

murdoc did not correct anyone about the fact that the easterly inn is very much not a small fiefdom

murdoc has a +13 intimidation, making it his highest stat. i'm not sure what stats our gm gave to @jaz-the-bard for maedhros, but we have talked about it at some point and murdoc's is apparently higher

murdoc has a feat that lets him vanish into thin air. it's not magic or anything. he's extremely not a ringbearer. he's just That sneaky.

has a rivalry with one of The Eagles^tm. over hospitality.

fire motif fire motif fire motif

his primary weapon is an enchanted dwarven bow. he shoots flaming arrows.

lover of a good molotov cocktail to solve all his problems very fast

special interests include teas, cooking, and linguistics!! likes to research all the local plants and come up with tea brews that remind him of people or places, or pair well with certain things. came up with a brew for himself that he only shares with people he trusts and cares deeply for. i do in fact have little snippets for points at which he has shared it with each member of the party.

i did once storyboard an edgy animatic for him to the killers' jenny was a friend of mine. i am still very proud of it, and lament that i cannot animate. or do art at all.

i have been playing this character through a literal global pandemic, the completion of two entire degrees, my first adult job, and literally so much other life stuff. sometimes i think about how long i've had him for and how much he's changed, very organically, in that time, and get entirely too emotional about him tbh.

murdoc operates, i would say, from a very genuine sense of care for others, eclipsed by a rather marked lack of estel. for about the whole three years i've had him, i would say i've felt genuinely none from him, and i did not think it was there.

the last time i played him however, i did.

anyhow!!!!! this post would not be complete without this lovely art of our party - i don't know that the artist we commissioned is on tumblr, but "hey can i share this?" was met with an enthusiastic "go for it!" so!! on top is my boy, and left to right down are the bearer (@thymo-leonta), déorwyn (@shadowkat2000), ríros (@jaz-the-bard, who also plays maedhros), and ioreth (not canon ioreth jdjdndn, whose player is definitely not on tumblr).

anyhow i love my party and this game and my friends and my stupid murder arson hobbit inkeeper boy so so very much <33333

and thank you jaz for literally just giving me an opportunity to talk about him lmao, get you friends who send you asks about your ocs even though they literally know so much about your ocs >:p <33

#i am SO proud of my boy ;ww; #i based him off of bilbo initially but. he’s so so maedhros coded tbh #also he's just tumblr sexyman bait i'll be real #but like #what everyone WISHES tumblr sexymen were #he'd cook for you he'd take care of you. he's also covered in blood and surrounded in flames and full of murderous rage! #he's EVEN transgender. what MORE could you want??? #anyhow i ALWAYS want to talk about him so!!!!!!!!!!! #please keep asking me things i could talk about our d&d campaign literally ALL day #mirkwood campaign #nelyo askbox #i am going to come back to add in artist commission info if i can get it! haven't talked to them in a while but #i know them from undergrad. i'll find out if they're still active!!

[polyboros]

thinking about her (nightblood)

#kbitycus talks #reading warbreaker was slightly jarring if only because i was like 'why is everyone he/him'ing my favorite fucked up sword' #i know nightblood doesnt care. on account of the being a sword thing? it did just catch me off guard #seeing her in her original element was both eye-opening and FASCINATING. and adds so much to what happens w her in stormlight #and szeth was already such an interesting character but the fact that he's pretty normal about nightblood is so. (gestures) to me now #this is my acquaintance the sword it wants me to kill people. however i simply will not do that most of the time. #and then like. uses her in the most consequential ways possibly because szeth has a way of committing only the Most plot important murders #she just wants to fight evil. and eat investiture. ok? normal-style

[nejackdaw]

Sometimes I like to think about Charlotte showing up at the fort and she and Celann just stare at each other for a minute baffled. This has been an incredible way to further develop Charlotte but I keep coming back to

Charlotte: your hair got long

Celann: yours got short

(Their hair is nearly the same length as each other's)

#celann #every time i imagine it i add something to charlotte #shorter hair. muscles. heavy fur cloak. sword. muddy well worn boots. etc #theyre the 'someone will die' 'of fun!' meme but in both directions #hes deranged and shes tired of being nice and wants to go apeshit #so much has changed and so much hasnt #hes haunted and shes freed and they both have the sickness of murder in their hearts #but she still likes to embroider and animate her little objects and he likes to sing for her and make her laugh #anyway i think its funny because shes like. a hunter and animal gore doesnt bother her #but celann is back there covering his mouth like 'GODS would you stop STARING AT IT' #and celann can viciously mutilate someone and shes covering her eyes like 'that is UNNECESSARY put that AWAY' #she sits on the table with her feet on the bench and he likes to lean against her legs #hell ambush her to pick her up and spin her around so shell laugh and shell pull him into a kiss so hell get embarrassed #hes the ultimate wife guy. everyone would be so sick of him. like hes pathetic and deranged but you WILL hear about his fiancee #i wake up at 3am and this is how i get myself back to sleep btw. deranged fail wifeguy

[inamindfarfaraway]

Are we going to think about the implications of most of the shoppers in Black Friday being parents, presumably of fairly young children?

I don’t believe a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hatchetfield at the end. It makes no sense for Russia to target a random small town on an island instead of an actually important (to the mundane world) place. I generally don’t like the accidental nuking of Moscow and WWIII breaking out, because it kinda makes all the characters’ development and accomplishments feel wasted if Wiggly still in a way succeeds in bringing Earth and humanity to ruin, but I digress. The town is not destroyed.

Which gives the ending much more weight to me. It means that everyone has to live with the consequences of their actions. Or… not live, as it were.

Imagine you’re one of the rioters who got a Wiggly and ran, which many did, hence the cult hunting down the last one left in the building. That means we’re talking about 849 people. Imagine triumphantly opening your front door, finally crossing the threshold into the safety of your home with your precious cargo, your beloved child’s dream toy. Except your child never even wanted it. You were so swept up in your desire to make Christmas perfect that you never even bothered to ask them before putting so much time aside to get ahead in that line, time you could have done so much more with. What kind of a parent are you? The adrenaline crashes and the spell breaks and the realization hits you like a hammer to the teeth: it was all for nothing. You’re exhausted and injured. You attacked your fellow human beings like a starving animal. For those moments, you genuinely did not care if anyone else was okay. All your morals just - evaporated. And it was all utterly, miserably pointless. You can lie, downplay it, put all the blame on mob mentality and your sleep deprivation, but you can’t forget. You can never forget.

Imagine you’re one of those rioters' partners or friends, shaken to learn that someone so close to you, who you love and trust and have always believed to be a good person, could be capable of such callousness and violence over something so arbitrary. Imagine the questions that raises. What if they hurt someone again? What if they hurt me? Or, if they themselves aren’t any more evil than I thought… if I’d waited outside that store all night or longer, would I have snapped like that? What damage could I inflict in the right circumstances? I’m a good person, aren’t I? Is every good person just a bad person waiting to happen?

Imagine you’re one of the kids, having to go on knowing your parent, your hero, drew blood in your name. Imagine hearing about the riots on the news and the spike of terror as it registers that your parent could die at any moment, bruised and trampled on a cold floor. And you wouldn’t be there. They come home at last and you rush into their arms. But far from relieved, their eyes are haunted; they’ve stared into hell and seen their reflection.

Imagine you’re one of the kids, waiting for your dad to come home. Things have been rough since he lost his job when the plant closed, and he’s been really stressed and to be honest so have you, but at least you’ll still spend Christmas together, right? Right?

#why believe everyone died when there’s so much ANGST to explore? #always think about the implications #you have to admit burning to death because you became a rioter and then a cultist #due to an eldritch god slowly eroding your free will and humanity until you’re a hollow mindless shadow of your former self #is a horrible way to go #now add a family back home to make it even worse! #ex-plant worker probably wanted the wiggly because he couldn’t afford many nice toys for his kid(s) and just wanted them to have one #in a trying time #so that + financial stress + having waited outside toy zone for ages and such would make him the first to snap #and quick to fall under wiggly’s influence enough to commit unprovoked murder without a second thought #starkid black friday #black friday #black friday meta #black friday spoilers #hatchetfield #hatchetfield series #hatchetverse #the cultists had the biggest holes

[ruairy]

.

#in my dream bg3 palace my tav and my durge are both in the party at the same time and my tav is lpvingly making everyone home cooked meals #every night and braiding shadowheart and durges hair #while my durge id in the bg fish eye lense facing covered in tears and blood #astarion is watching durge from his tent like lol this freak is hilarious #funnily enough the only person i have at high approval on my durge run is gale #even after scripted npc killing #everyone was lile ew get away from me (except astarion who was like lmaooooo and the. proceeded to hate my durge anyway #bc they keep trying to be good deapite the horrors #he just rolls his eyes as he sets up his bedroll in the blood murder circle that no one thought to clean up #gale was like um pls keep ur distance but also ur still my buddy my pal my little guy #i like gale more and more honestly #i bet he teamed up with astarion to keep the murder blood circle in camp saying it adds to the decor #durge is crying and throwing up #tav is nervously stirring a bowl of soup for dinner #theyre all having a great time

[bother-blame]

out of context this looks like they're having a dramatic breakup

#im sorry to everyone who wanted me to be normal about these two #i think i was up until the 'we're the same' scene #spoilers #b plays rgg #lost judgment spoilers #also their conversation before this got me thinking #yagami is probably so intolerant towards kuwana's idea of justice because his parents were murdered by someone who also wanted justice #i mean i think he also you know. thinks murder is wrong. that's also a very solid reason to not want people to commit murder #but i think that his backstory adds another layer to it #i might try to make some gifs later

[gazelessmenagerie]

( I cannot decide if I hate or love the fact some of these assholes are some of the most terrifying existences in their respective places. In particular when I binge watch some horror stories and think how that’d apply to some muses or the nature of deaths. )

#|| Tag: OOC #( just dont mind me. i'm going on a damn tangent bc thoughts but idk if I'm going to do anything with this ) #( this is me saying if n'oodle was placed anywhere else with water.. everyone would die aflsdngj ) #( the amount of drowning in some of these horror stories /granted they were cave diving accidents and tragedies/ just puts into scope how ) #( devastating water is and just. frick. ) #( I cannot begin to describe the thoughts happening right now but they are producing serotonin and yknow ) #( just me fucking loving the fuck outta that blind guy for his fight and everything. ) #( but also holy shit.. the way he can murder someone with ease is going to be horrific in the right circumstances ) #( not that he already didn't make it horrific with the canteen and crushing someone's head into one with geb but oooo ) #( it just adds a lethality to him that gets overlooked until its too late. like you think the water is shallow and swim to touch the bottom #( but it keeps going deeper and deeper until you're out of breath and the water has you in its grasp ) #( that slow realizing terror. just <3 blind man can get it and it just makes it that much more terrifying with how calm he is.) #( just really love incorporating why he acts like that when water is both soft and yet terrifying as fuck. ) #( esp when you're lost in the darkness and cannot see. just oooo. thinking too much but it feels great. ) #( okay that's probably the end of my surprise tedtalk as choppy as it is bc idk I just need to get my brainrot out. )

[death-himself]

My favorite is that hes just. Some kid

Like who let him outside, he's standing there awkwardly where are his social skills

he’s that kid that snuck his 3DS everywhere to avoid social interaction. he had no friends, the only people he talked to were his parents, then the one time he goes outside he drowns in a lake

that’s my boy

#ben drowned #creepypasta #also if you wanna add slender mansion into this he’s just some annoying ghost child #the only one that doesn’t murder ppl he just fucks with everyone #slendy only keeps him around bc he doesn’t know how computers work and ben’s tech savvy

[todayisafridaynight]

I may just be delirious but I kind of feel like there's something there about some of the most traumatic events in Arakawa's life arguably stemming from/being made worse by being loved too much.

Like, Toshio's death, right. The death of a parent is always always going to be traumatic, particularly when your other parent is abusive, but I feel like being there, being the first to the scene, made it so much worse. Especially when it should've been a good memory.

Non-zero chance I'm just projecting because I was there for my own father's death and I was around Arakawa's age at the time, but it's like... it did have very specific life-long effects, didn't it... the way he keeps coming back to Peking duck and talks about it like he's had it before when he can't even bring himself to eat it unless he's with family (and indeed, never did, up until right before he died)...

And then there's his former patriarch. Of course, he seemed to see Arakawa as more of an object--fully under his control and something to be thrown away at the first sign of autonomy. But I feel like, before then, Arakawa must've been his "favorite," if he was willing to arrange a marriage between his daughter and Arakawa. Which I expect is what made his reaction when Arakawa told him he was (technically) having an affair with Akane and wanted out of the family that extreme in going as far as to send men after Akane and Ichiban.

The last one I can immediately think of is not exactly traumatic for him, though it is traumatic For Me so I'm counting it, but it's of course what we were talking about with Jo hesitating so much at the thought of killing Arakawa that he passed up the chance to save him.

I Dunno I Am Delirious but... there's a pattern somewhere in there... Anyway. Uh. "Happy" Father's Day am I right

happy fathers day :]]]]

#snap chats #I HAVE NOTES DOWN HERE AS ALWAYS I PROMISE JUST. no better way to cap off a post with a smile :) #plus yk. i dont have any major notes to add thats not restating but i do enjoy Restating so in the tags we go #also ngl im a lil tired so if im gonna look right silly cause my brains functioning like a bowl of cereal ill do it down here as per usual #totally waited to answer this when its technically fathers day my time and i didnt just stare at a wall #listen if someone has a proejcting problem its me alright. its ok if someone else has a turn at it esp when its within fair grounds 🥴 #in any case Yeah.. everyone loves patterns ones a coincidence two's a pattern three should incite murderous intent #i definitely wouldnt call it delirious thinking Thats My Job right LMAO #in all seriousness the importance of at least one positive adult figure in a trouble child's life cannot be understated #im pretty sure i talked bout that already so i wont give the whole lecture again LMAO #in any case its not unreasonable to want to assert love being a theme with arakawa- if not a detriment in some way #it was arakawas intense love for akane that inadvertently fractures their family to be #it was arakawas love for masato that didnt allow him to be harder on him when he should have been and caused both their eventual downfalls #and of course- as mentioned- while not a result of arakawa's own feelings #it was ultimately jo's. //vague hand gesturing// towards arakawa that stopped him from killing him outright #yet jo's love for masato that didnt allow him to lie and go directly behind his back #so yeah love just. works against arakawa unfortunately. an especially sad thing for a troubled child #because as a troubled child that's all you ever really want isnt it- to love and to be loved without worry #so its a cruel irony in that despite arakawa's childhood and general growing-up it didnt stop him from trying to love his family #it makes me wanna throw up (depressed) #in any case i have to stay up a little longer so i can steal water for later SO im gonna be up to uhhhh idk :) Stare At My Wall

[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

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definitely the funniest thing about the last richard episode is that everyone is like "oh my god the bad guys threw richard out of a car on purpose, they attempted to murder him by pitching him off a cliff, this is the last straw, this blatant murder attempt will not go unanswered!” and eventually richard is going to have to make a choice.

#aio #richard maxwell #jason and eugene and jack: it's so awful that the way they tried to get rid of you was to kick you out of a moving car off a cliff :( #richard comma sweating: haaaaaa............. yeah. so nefarious. #TO BE FAIR: they were definitely going to murder him. would have ended up dead anyway. #it's just very funny that everyone adds 'richard is in a coma because he was thrown out of a car' to the list of actual crimes committed #a much less funny crime would have been added if richard hadn't jumped but he very much did the jump himself #i don't think richard is stupid enough not to notice where they were when he escaped #i just think that maybe he did the risk-reward math and decided if he was going to kick it he'd rather go out on his own terms #and also hey if he doesn't survive and it gets messy then more people are likely to find him and suspect foul play! #............yes i am procrastinating the end of my malachi's message rewrite with thoughts about my ghost au. why do you ask. #my fic #mythtakes

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i fear he will be murdered for closing the door

#yj spoilers #he could've just faded into the bg and been all 'i didnt see what happened bc my one single leg can not carry me outdoors' #but since he SLAMMED the door closed to avoid seeing it. i fear they will hear the door slam and go wild #thats a lie i dont think they will immediately rush him and murder him However. i do think. they will be upset #he's already been ousted by the group when laura lee stood up to him. he may not be an outsider but hes still. hes. #he is. inherently due to his age and his gender and his previous position of authority he is inherently the other #his disability both adds to that (everyone else is able) and removes from it (they rally around him when he is not capable himself) #but his horror at their act of consumption will only further outcast him and i fear it could be the last straw #if he does not participate in future horrors. i fear he will be the meal next time #ooc.