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( open starter /@goldenshq  )

“ i guess i was dumb for thinking i’d be learning anything at this summer internship — all i have done is make copies and go on coffee runs. ”

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It’s not… not brimming with options.

SCHITT’S CREEK // 2x07 requested by @katherinerps

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( astra )

— * OPEN STARTER ! / @goldenshq​

‘ okay but consider this — a tattoo of david bowie on my right arm. i know what you’re thinking, i’m gonna regret this when i’m seventy ‘n my skin’s all wrinkly and shit but like … david fucking bowie, right ? ’ ��

“ but ( and yes, this is important ) ... which bowie ? are we talking aladdin sane ? halloween jack ? ”

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banana, blackberry + papaya !!

banana: favorite horror movies?

“i’m not a huge horror movie person, but i watched carrie with my mom when i was a kid, and i’m still scarred from this one scene of the mom standing behind the door ready to kill her. like — i still see it in my nightmares.”

papaya: what song describes your aesthetic?

“friday i’m in love, the cure.” 

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mango, pineapple, kiwi

mango: what is your trademark?

“my trademark?” he purses his lips thoughtfully, “i — do i have one? i think...i feel like...i just think someone with a trademark is someone who is...you know. unique. unapologetically themselves. i just think...i don’t know sometimes i feel like i’m just a carbon copy of who i surround myself with, or the things i consumer — and if that’s the case, can i really have a trademark?”

pineapple: sexual orientation?

“that’s, uh, well. i guess i don’t exactly know. i’ve never really tried to think much about it — i just know i’ve had feelings for...well, anyone and everyone, i guess.” 

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blackberry, kiwi, apricot!

blackberry: is your life an action film, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or drama?

“probably a comedy. but like a really miserable comedy. maybe it’s more like a dramedy.”

kiwi: what’s something that fascinates you?

“you know, i recently read robert graysmith’s book about the zodiac killer, i couldn’t get enough of it. i guess i’m sort of interested in all of that stuff, crime and serial killers and the psychology behind it all.”

apricot: what do you do when you’re sad?

“i cry. no, kidding.” (he’s not) “i usually draw. or write.” 

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send me a fruit

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[   jordan fisher, cis male, he/him   ] ⁠— * oh, here comes CALVIN ADLER ! the twenty-one year old scorpio is often referred to as the recluse. people say they have a tendency to be overwrought and meticulous, but from what i’ve seen, they can be insightful and quixotic too. when they walk by, you’ll probably hear it’s only natural by crowded house playing out of their headphones, but they’re also associated with ink stained hands, glasses that always seem to slip down your nose, and sound of cracking the spine of a new journal. i hear they’re studying graphic design & english and want to become a graphic novelist when they’re older, but who knows what will become of ‘em ! 

hi !! i’m sam and i’m so unbelievably excited to be here !! i’ve been eyeing this group for far too long...i had originally intended to apply for the recluse before the first round of acceptances, but didn’t end up getting to it so when i saw the skeleton was still open...i had to apply ! anyway, i’m a cap sun, taurus moon, aqua rising...we stressed in this home. i live in the wondrous state of california that the group takes place in, i love it dearly, and i am just so so excited to finally get to play my bb calvin ! if you wanna plot (and i’m hoping to plot with all of y’all) you can hmu on discord @ capricorn dad#1278

FULL NAME : calvin jones adler

NICKNAME : cal, cj, he’ll take anything. nicknames are endearing to him. 

BIRTHDAY : tuesday / november 3, 1970 / 4:41 pm

ZODIAC : scorpio sun, capricorn moon, taurus rising 

NATIONALITY : american

RELIGION : christian 

SEXUAL & ROMANTIC ORIENTATION : pansexual, panromantic 

HOMETOWN : san francisco, california 

ACCENT : standard californian 

LANGUAGES SPOKEN : english

MAJOR : graphic design & english

MINOR(S) : fiction writing 

HOBBIES : drawing comics, writing in his journal, 

PETS : a twelve year old tabby cat named pickles

CHARACTER PARALLELS : charlie kelmeckis (perks of being a wallflower), cameron frye (ferrie beuller’s day off)

background/about

born and raised in san francisco. calvin is an only child. his father (robert adler) is a loan officer at a bank and his mother (diane hawke) a professor of english at san francisco state. they were your average, middle class family 

his parents had him pretty late in their lives — they were both already in their 40s. they didn’t meet until they were in their early-mid 30s, got married in their late 30s, and enjoyed a few years of marital life without children before actually trying for a child. not that they had to try hard — calvin was conceived within a short few months of their decision to try for a baby

growing up, calvin had always been a pretty sensitive kid. he was quiet and shy, even around his own family. the one person he could talk and talk to for hours was his maternal grandmother. she had been an english teacher too, like his mother, but she taught high school. she had this one specific rocking chair, and many of his childhood memories are sitting right there curled up in her lap while she read a book to him or told him stories. she had a really vivid imagination, and everyone says that’s where he gets it from. 

Didn’t have very many friends in elementary school. maybe one or two (wc?) friends/neighbors that he walked home with, or ate lunch with in the schoolyard, but he certainly didn’t have a best friend. he always felt like he was missing out on that, but didn’t really know how to take matters into his own hands. his mother would always say, “just march right on up to those kids and say you want to play with them!” but cal didn’t have that sort of mentality or charisma or bravery. 

He wasn’t tormented, but he was bullied by his peers. He spent recess drawing comics, which was looked at as weird. If he wasn’t drawing comics, he was reading them. One boy, Gage London, had been somehow so offended by Calvin reading his comic at lunch that he’d stormed over and ripped it in half, and then in fourths, and had walked away laughing, leaving Cal in tears because...he cried a lot. And his comics were special to him. (bonus wc: your muse gave Gage a piece of their mind? stood up for Calvin?thank u)

He didn’t join the group until he was a freshman in high school, though he may have known your muses prior to that, depending. He tended to blend into the background, so if they had no idea who he was, that would make perfect sense too. The group were the first people to ever take him to a party, where he surely avoided alcohol like the plague because he was nervous, and stood on the sides, watching everyone else, only speaking when spoken to. 

He was 16 the first time he got drunk, obviously with the rest of the group or at least with some of them. It was...a whirlwind of a night. He was drunk on a mixture of wine and cheap vodka, and for a good hour, he felt on top of the world. You would have thought it was a different Calvin. Flash forward an hour later...he had his head in the toilet and was moaning about how he would never drink again. He now knows not to mix drinks like that, thanks very much

He is to this day not much of a talker. He’s a quiet observer but that means he notices the little things. He’s very intuitive and picks up on group dynamics more than the average person might (so if any of y’all were secretly dating...eye emoji...he probably found out LOL)

He feels A LOT. Any emotion he feels, he’ll feel it tenfold. So whether it’s good or bad, happy or sad, he tends to find it draining and overwhelming. He will feel everything very deeply, so as much as he might appreciate constructive criticism, he’ll probably start crying while hearing it. He cries a lot.

So, in regards to feeling things deeply, he falls in love...a lot. Maybe it’s not love and he’s confusing it with infatuation, but it feels like love. He’s probably been in love with half the group for at least one point in his life. He definitely never came clean about any of his feelings for anyone, sooo...

Speaking of that! He’s not quite positive about his sexuality. He knows he’s not attracted to just one gender, because he’s felt a deep love for both. but he also doesn’t know how to put a label on it. he doesn’t feel straight or gay or bi, but he’s figuring it out. 

Senior year, Calvin received his acceptance letter plus a scholarship to attend New York University. He was ecstatic about it. New York was his dream. But he didn’t tell anyone in the group. It wasn’t that he didn’t want them to know, it was that he didn’t want to say goodbye. They were the closest thing he had to feeling like a true family...they were his found family!! And he didn’t know how to leave. But he knew (or thought) when he went to New York, he wouldn’t come back. So he kept his acceptance a secret until the night before he left for school, and when he told them, he had shown up at each of their doors to say goodbye. 

He went to New York, and like he had expected, he didn’t return. His family didn’t have the money to fly him back for all the breaks, so he stayed out there during the winter breaks, and for the summer holidays he found internships which required him to stay in the city. He kept in touch with most (if not all) of the group via letters and the occasional phone call, but even those became sparse as the years went on. 

It’s been 3 school years since he has been back in San Francisco, but he has just returned after finishing his junior year at NYU. He’s back in San Francisco after receiving an internship at the San Francisco Chronicle. 

He’s come out of his shell a little bit more since moving to New York. After all, it is the city. He’s still fairly quiet though, still quite sensitive, and still feels things very deeply. Basically, he’s the same old Calvin, but he can actually start a conversation now. 

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Jordan Fisher featured in an Domino’s commercial

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“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via goodreadss)

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Jack Kerouac, from “Mexico City Blues,” originally published c. July 1959

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JORDAN FISHER as JOHN AMBROSE MCCLAREN

P.S. I Still Love You (Premieres Feb 12, 2020)

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The Politician | 1x01 “Pilot”

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Can you give me three fun facts about yourself?

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Herzog, Saul Bellow