#annabelle wadsworth

[thelaurenshippen]

I love terrible women. women who aren't just 'strong female characters' but who are deeply, severely flawed and maybe, at their core, trying to do what they think is right but very possibly failing. I love women who are selfish and possessive and angry and feral and destructive. and if there can be two of them that are insane about each other? even better.

this month's mixtape is Joan/Wadsworth! sign up here if you want a playlist in your inbox every month

[kentrl-z]

how i've been seeing the bright sessions characters in my head (10/11)

[patricia-von-arundel]

Don't fuck around, Flanagan. You don't want to find out.

Do not fuck around.

You're at 50:50, but The Haunting of Hill House was a really bad 50, so...

...And also, what in the fucking hell is the setting???

You know what? I don't fucking want to know. 🙄

"Loosely based," oh kiss my ass...

WHY IS HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN THIS FUCKING THI-

I need Xanax before watching this. Arthur Pym. Dupin. WHY? Do we also get Richard Parker? We get Annabel Lee...

Hey, Flanagan, why dontcha try some Faulkner next? Hey, want to go see Rowan Oak? The old Oxford Post Office? Lunch at Venice Kitchen? Good pizza.

And thin ice...

...It took me a minute to realize the last was an ad. You can laugh.

Anyway, I'm not supposed to be doing social media right now anyway, and I'm having enough brain shit going on without thinking about Hill House.

(And also about the trash human beings who liked it, but that's kind of funny, because neither had read the book. Not enough pictures, I suppose.)

[eddysocs]

Introducing: Leticia Meadows

Fandom: Clue

Face Claim: Annabelle Wallis

Full Name: Leticia Alma Meadows

Nickname/Alias/Pet Names: Lettie

Age: 29

Myers Briggs Type: ESFJ

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Love Interest: Wadsworth

Occupation: Journalist

Collections: Music Boxes

Style/Clothing: Always dressed with an air of grace and refinement, Leticia may not be the richest woman in the room, but she always looks the part. She adores furs and pearls as well as silks and satins.

Signature Quote: "If one wants answers, they have to be open to harsh truths, regardless as to whether they want to hear it or not."

Plot Summary: Leticia Meadows arrives at Mr. Boddy's mansion as the only one not being blackmailed. She couldn’t resist the temptation of the mysterious invitation and wants the exclusive scoop on what goes down there. Little does she know, she’s Wadsworth's secret weapon. He invited her to write tell alls about all the guests, should they not comply after learning they’re all being blackmailed. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Forever Tag: @arrthurpendragon, @baubeautyandthegeek, @foxesandmagic, @carmens-garden, @fawera, @themaradaniels, @that-demigirl, @iloveocs, @bossyladies, @b1rvt4, @getawaycardotmp3, @misshiraethsworld

[cabinetofoldsecretloves]

'Ah! What pleasant visions haunt me As I gaze upon the sea!'- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Annabelle & M Via Flickr: I'm haunted and bewitched by the beautiful celestial image I witnessed with my family on April 8th, 2024, of the solar eclipse. I find myself painting white suns these days. Even after bringing an unwanted hitchhiker home from the event, the tick : ) He, as well, was curious and wanted to see. I suppose he had an excellent place to watch from : ) The cliff and water need more work. Maybe add something else to the painting as well. WIP ACRYLIC PAINTING 10 X 8 CANVAS

[manyfandomocs]

The Bright Sessions Fancast

(For my The Bright Sessions fanfics, here are the heard characters)

(for those that are actually familiar with The Bright Sessions, this is only for the original series so no AM Archives or College Tapes rn and I'm probably missing a few minor characters but maybe I'll do them another time) And as with my last fancast, anyone is free to use these

Joan Bryant Dr. Bright, therapist - Lucy Liu

Samantha Barnes, time traveler - Alycia Debnam-Carey

Chloe Turner, telepath - Ashleigh Murray

Caleb Michaels, empath - Mason Gooding

Robert Gorham Damien, mind manipulation - Jack Falahee

Mark Bryant, mimic - Harry Shum Jr

Frank Sawyer, empath - LaKeith Stanfield

Rose Atkinson, dreamwalker - Maisie Williams

Adam Hayes, student - Jordan Fisher

Owen Thompson Agent Green, bureaucrat - William Jackson Harper

Annabelle Whitney Ellie Wadsworth, director of the AM - Viola Davis

tagging @randomestfandoms-ocs @ginevrastilinski-ocs and @cecexwrites because Maddie and Cece convinced me I should do this and Greta wanted more fancasts lmao

[rp-oc-bs]

A thing

Emma Molloy’s related people

Milly Shapiro

Miranda Lambert

Lucy Molloy

Abigail Shapiro

Carrie Underwood

Violet Wakeman

Emma Howard

Cassie Levy/Joanna Christie (Katie); daughter named Oona Nora with boyfriend Jeff Summers (Kai)

Cait Fairbanks (Christy)

Logan & Nora Wakeman - Christy & Kai

Gabriel Egbert & Jill Paice

Seth Monroe

Jack Broderick (Christy)

Santino Fontana (Kai)

Kendra Monroe - Kai

Analise Scarpaci

Annabelle Madden - Christy

Ava DeMary

Laura Osnes

Shiane Parkington / Ramsey - Katie

Beatrice Tulchin

Phillipa Soo

Charlotte Daaé

Oona Laurence

Samantha Hill (Katie)

Christine Dwyer (Kai)

Anjuli Kaur - Katie

Frenie Acoba

Aurora Hamilton / de Chagny - ???

Anna Kendrick

Melissa Frost - Christy

Bailey Ryon

Amelia St Clair

Sophia Gunnusa

Leonardo Ethernington - Kai

???

Natasha Alkaev/Ethernington - Katie

Jeanna de Waal

Hailey Leo - Kai

???

Hamlet Madden - Christy

???

Nathan Johnson

Kat Schwartz (m) - Kai

Marcus D’Angelo (child)

?? (adult)

Hayden Whittaker’s related people

John Lloyd Young

Charlotte Daaé - Katie

Oona Laurence

Samantha Hill

Allegra McKenna - Katie

Erin Mackey

Devonnny Hamilton - Katie

Hayley Westenra

Dimitri Saylor

Jarrod Spector

Andy Jay Matthews

Shonn Wiley

Zachary Davison

Erich Bergen

Carson Spencer’s related people

Corey Cott

Ellie McDaniel - Katie

Kara Lindsay

Jeremy Wakeman - Christy?

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Irena Klein - Katie

Laura Osnes

Katherine Erwin - Katie

Hannah Elless

Amanda Wells’ related people

Lisa O’Hare

Ariana Wakeman - Kai

Lauren Worsham

Dustin Wind - Christy

Bryce Pinkham

Autumn Wadsworth - Christy

Catherine Walker

Emily Webster

Kristen Beth Williams

Misc people, different full name

Joshua Abram Hoff

Matthew Hydzik

Alix Heisburg - Katie

Autumn Hurlbert

Timothy Andersen

Wesley Taylor

Athena Gomez - Avery

Krysta Rodriguez

Ellie Wilson - Avery

Sandra Mae Frank

Elijah Marlow

Kevin Massey

Samantha Underwood

Alex Caldwell

Megan Kaufman

Veronica J Kuehn

Adrian Gardiner

Reeve Carney

Lillian Bishop-Levitt - ???

Annika Larsen

Charissa Hogeland

Adrian Blakeney - Katie

Carrie Hope Fletcher

Penelope Bernardi - Avery

Jennifer Damiano

Emi Hashimoto

Yuga Yamato

Sylvia Morris

Ruby Lewis

Ariana Wakeman - Kai

Gabriella Pizzolo

Lauren Worsham

Josiane Richard - ???

Kara Lindsay

[thefigureinthecorner]

my art for i live in a hologram with you by @whats-a-terrarium! it's a owen/joan/ellie high school AU, it's Very Good from everything i've been able to read so far and i highly recommend it!!

(detailed image descriptions for this got very long so they're under the cut; summary IDs are below)

[First ID: A digital drawing featuring Annabelle Wadsworth, Joan Bryant, and Owen Green cuddling in bed, with Annabelle and Joan sitting and Owen in their laps. The entire image is cast in golden light. END ID]

[Second ID: A digital drawing featuring Annabelle Wadsworth and Owen Green sitting at a kitchen table and Joan and Mark Bryant standing at a counter in the foreground. END ID]

[First ID: a digital drawing of Annabelle Whitney, left, Joan Bryant, right, and Owen Thompson, bottom center, sitting on a bed. Annabelle is a tall Black teenager with curly hair peeking out from a muted purple satin bonnet and wearing a light purple tank top. She sits slightly behind Joan with one arm supporting her weight behind Joan's back and her other arm resting on her lap and looks down at Owen lovingly. Joan is an East Asian teenager with pale skin and chin-length dark hair who is wearing a light blue t-shirt and dark shorts. She sits to the right of Annabelle with her legs outstretched in front of her. She looks down at Owen lovingly, and has a hand on his hair. Owen is a pale teenager with short ginger hair wearing a light short-sleeved shirt. He is laying on his side, turned away from the viewer, so that his head is in Joan's lap and his arms are curled around her legs. The bed has a white metal frame and large fluffy pillows and sheets. Behind them to the left is the outline of a nightstand with a lamp and two pairs of glasses on it. Directly above the bed is the bottom half of a window with the shades closed, through which soft warm light streams through. The walls of the room are tan. End ID]

[Second ID: a digital drawing depicting, from left to right, Annabelle Whitney, Owen Thompson, Joan Bryant, and Mark Bryant, in a kitchen. Annabelle is a 17 year old black girl wearing a purple satin bonnet, a purple tank top, and black sweats that stop just past her knees. She is barefoot and sitting at a circular, wooden dining table, in the middle of the kitchen. She's smiling and looking over at Joan. Owen is a 17 year old white boy with close-cropped red hair. He's wearing square glasses, a white tee, and black fleece pajama pants, and he is barefoot. He's sitting on Annabelle's left and has his left arm resting on the table, holding up three fingers with his right hand. He's also smiling and looking at Joan. Joan is a 16 year old East Asian girl with shoulder-length black hair. She's wearing glasses and a light blue tee that has 3 white, decorative hearts in the top left corner, and black pants. Her right hand is picking up a frying pan. Her left hand is aloft, holding a black, plastic spatula. In front of her right arm is a stack of pancakes. She's looking over her shoulder at Annabelle and Owen, mouth open, mid-sentence. Next to her is Mark, a 13 year old boy with close-cropped black hair. He's wearing a red tee, and has his right arm resting on the counter, his left hand reaching toward the pancakes. His mouth is ajar, his eyes focused on the stack of pancakes. The kitchen has olive green walls and a white, tile floor. Behind Annabelle and Owen is another counter with a microwave, toaster, a roll of paper towels, and a knife block. Above that are light brown cupboards. The sunlight shines down on Owen through the window on the right side of the piece. end ID]

[incorrectatypicals]

Ellie: If Owen and I were both drowning, who would you save?

Joan: I don't know, both of you?

Ellie: No, if you could only save one of us.

Joan: Well, I would probably save Owen because he can't swim that well and I happen to know you're an excellent swimmer.

Ellie: Suppose I was holding an anchor? Who would you save then?

Joan: Why don't you let go of the anchor?

Ellie: It's a family heirloom.

Joan: I'm leaving.

[radiosandrecordings]

Okay this is a take straight out of the shower but I really wana talk about podcasts and the usage of calm, well spoken, soft voiced villains.

Because that’s mostly all of them?

Like, most major podcasts these days the villains all seem to fall into the same category, vocally at least. They’re overly polite (at least at first), very calm and composed, and hell, half of them can be described at chipper

Elias TMA. Wadsworth TBS. Carter W359. John TAZ. Even dating back to Kevin WTNV, and a million others I’m sure

There’s two main ways I think this theme has cropped up; one by the virtue of the story podcasts are often trying to tell, and by the way they’re trying to say it.

Number one is how they’re saying it, the most simple reason: it’s an audio medium. You can’t convey bulk and strength through a voice very easily, and often if you succeed you end up with something deeply unpleasant to listen to (See TMA’s Jared). It’s a necessity of the medium that they’re easy on the ears.

So what’s to be done to convey their innate villain-ness? Well you make them just. Too nice. So nice it’s a little unnerving, really. Kevin WTNV is the best example, his trademark wide smile evident in every word he speaks. And this clashes horrifically against Cecil, or any other protagonist facing this kind of villain, who just speaks... normally. They get nervous or uncomfortable facing off against this figurehead of power who just blatantly refuses to crack, always calm and composed in a way that becomes terrifying the longer the veneer is kept up. Because what the hell do you have to do to crack it, if your villain is so confidant they can remain mild and benign in conversation?

The second reason is more to do with the messages podcast so often are trying to convey, and another thing all these characters have in common. They’re all beaurocrats of some kind. They all represent a company, or a corporation, or some grand scheme in charge. Shorthand? They’re all metaphors for capitalism.

And what’s more terrifying about capitalism than just how.. unphased, everyone at the top is? How the world could be (is) crumbling and they’re just unperturbed, smiling away down at every inconsequential thing beneath them. They’re entirely relaxed in their positions of power.

They don’t need to convey physical power to be scary. They don’t even need to demonstrate that much intellectual power, though depending on the character that can also be a common attribute (especially in ‘mastermind’ characters like Elias and Wadsworth who rely on manipulation). They just need to have a confidence behind their words that the protagonists don’t. They can send chills down your spine because oh god, what if they’re right? They hold so much conviction behind their words because they exude this sense of I’m winning and there’s nothing you can do about it.

This is even worse when the characters finally snap. Because the absolutely horrifying reveal of that soft, mild mannered voice threatening you? That’s fuckin excellent storytelling.

[grilledcheesebasic]

does anyone else get the vibe that ellie is really invested in joan in a way that, if pressed, she would say something like "of course I couldn't date her, I was her superior, that would be unethical"

which almost anyone else would respond "THAT'S where you draw the line morality-wise but..."

[whats-a-terrarium]

[textsfromtheatypicals]

Rebecca: Anything special planned for Valentines Day?

Wadsworth: Does testing the strength of my coworker’s marriage count?

[ask-tbs-highschool-au]

Introduction (OOC)

Hi! I’m Luna (@whats-a-terrarium).

Welcome to my new sideblog! As the title implies, it’s an ask blog for The Bright Sessions High School AU. Feel free to ask some questions to:

• Joan (Junior)

• Sam (Sophomore)

• Mark (Sophomore)

• Chloe (Freshman)

• Owen (Senior)

• Frank (Sophomore)

• Rose (Freshman)

• Damien (Sophomore)

• Ellie (Senior)

• Adam (7th Grade)

• Caleb (7th Grade)

• Alice (5th Grade)

[sinceyouaskedme]

highlight of The Infinite Noise was clearly Wadsworth showing up for exactly one scene just to confirm my headcanons and then tease Adam about his "potential paramour"

[spacetrashpile]

The Bright Sessions Characters as Weird Things My Friends Have Said

Joan: Movies make me feel emotions and emotions are stupid.

Sam: I am 3 1/2 stupid white people.

Chloe: My statue of a child is better than your statue of a child, suck it.

Caleb: This is top bunk erasure and I won't stand for it.

Adam: I mean, you're just gonna be sun food anyways

Mark: God says "fuck off"

Rose: Lesbian is such a fancy sounding word. I love it. It makes me think of someone being like "I'm a lesbian, I live in the 50s and I have a rich husband-" wait no

Damien: A child is an investment and if they die before their expiration date they aren't worth it.

Frank: Your life is meaningless. Buy a yearbook.

Agent Greene: Worms... but with legs.

Wadsworth: No one would be surprised if you punched a small child.