#meanwhile callie is going through the Horrors

[arolesbianism]

You guys know not of the catastrophic squid sisters brainrot going on in my head rn

[noveratus]

Happy homestuck day!

To celebrate, I decided to write my own idea of what I wish the epilogues/sequel would have been like. I tried to stick to only "canon" characters, but I did alter their personalities and backstories past the canon events. I hope you enjoy!

"A young man stands in his room. It so happens that today, the 7th of July 2007 is this young man's birthday. Though it was 13 years ago that he was given life, it is only today that he is given a name!

What will the name of this young man be?"

Tavros Crocker grew up hearing about the story of gods and heroes who, over a thousand years prior, created the entire universe and defeated an Undefeatable Demon known as Lord English. Most of the gods have disappeared, but the legends say that they are still alive somewhere in the universe, with the only known remaining hero being Jane Crocker, his mother and owner of the most influential company in the world. In his 15th birthday, he receives a mysterious message from a Troll claiming to be Vriska Serket. She tells him to get the "others" who he assumes to be the Legendary Heroes because Lord English is coming. 

Tavros proceeds to try to tell his mother, who immediately dismisses him, telling him it was likely someone lying and that she has no time for these child stories since she has an empire to run. Frustrated, he vents to his online friend, Harry Anderson, who shares an admiration for the heroes, except for Tavros' mother, who he believes to be evil. He immediately believes his friend's words and says they should run away from home to save the world together, also giving them a chance to meet in person for the first time. Tavros is reluctant at first, but upon being convinced by Harry that the fate of the universe is in their hands, he runs away from home much for his mother's horror. 

Harry Anderson lives on the other side of Earth C with his mothers, Roxy Anderson and Callie Anderson. Roxy helped Jane with her campaign, leading her to later regret her actions after seeing how far the woman would go, so with her wife's help, she became a thief who would steal from Crocker's business to give it to those who needed it the most. While Harry admires his mothers, he also somewhat resents them for not giving him the attention he wishes they did, even if they are ultimately supportive. 

He sees Tavros' message as an opportunity to perhaps get their attention while also saving the world, so he gathers his best friends from drama class, Avril Thorpe, Silas P Beauregard III and Imode Kurita, and leaves to rescue Tavros from his mother, stealing a spaceship in the process. They also end up being followed by Jane's 'personal hound,' tasked with bringing Tavros back home, Yiffany Longstocking. She acts as an antagonist to the group until being eventually convinced to help them save the world.

Eventually, they are also joined by Vriska "Vrissy" Maryam-Lalonde, the daughter of Kanaya and Rose. Vrissy wishes to see Earth instead of being with her mothers, and the group are the perfect excuse to escape. She also becomes their self proclaimed captain and has a romantic relationship with Harry.

In the 2000 years that passed, Roxy and Callie decided to continue on living hidden amongst humans and trolls. Jade and Dave have left the planet to find a way to extend Karkat's life span. Meanwhile, Rose and Kanaya spend their time exploring the universe, looking for another habitable planet along their daughter, Vrissy. Dirk and Jake have been training in a far off planet now populated by robots, awaiting English's arrival. Jane took control over Earth through her baking empire, controlling the geopolitical scenario with her son, Tavros, as well as Yiffany, a human-dog hybrid created to be as strong as Bec Noir using his dna as well. Terezi's fate is still unknown and Gamzee has somehow survived all this time and works under Jane. John is still on Earth, living all alone in a replica of his original home. 

John is the first adult the group finds and the only one who agrees to help, however, he decides to go find Terezi, imagining that the group can bring his friends around on their own.

 Dirk seems to believe the group at first until realizing who Tavros and Yiffany are. He believes that they were sent there by Jane to get Jake to return to Earth, banishing them from his planet before they can even talk to Jake. 

Jade and Dave have used their powers to create a bubble in which Karkat can exist despite how long it has been. The two of them refuse to help out of fear of what might happen to Karkat if they ever stopped concentrating. Dave does give Harry his sword, but says that is all he can do. 

Much like Dirk, Kanaya and Rose think that the children are being sent there by Jane, who was the reason they had to leave in the first place due to how she acted towards trolls, wanting to limit their reproduction. When they attempted to reach their friends, they all turned their backs on them for their own selfish reasons (except for Jade and Dave who had already left Earth with Karkat.) So now they travelled the cosmos looking for a place that trolls could live without prejudice. They refuse to help. 

Jane believes that Harry and the others have kidnapped her son, who she refuses to listen to, so they continue to try to escape her. 

Finally, Harry learns that his mother, Roxy, is in fact one of the gods of legend, however, he refuses to go to her for help since it would go against one of the very reasons why he went on this mission. He has an argument with Tavros, and the group splits up, with Harry and Vrissy going to a planet where life appears to have just started. As he walks through the primitive life forms, he tells his girlfriend that even if they did manage to convince his mother, there was no way she would be enough to defeat him, even with John. He doesn't want to lose him mom more than he already has. As they walk through the planet, they come across a frog temple with some mysterious writing that appears to be code. Harry recognizes this as what might be the code for SBURB, and he comes up with a new plan. He gets Tavros and the others to come to the planet, thinking he would apologize, but instead, he reveals his new plan: For them to become the gods. If they play the game and become gods and heroes, they can defeat English themselves. At first, there is reluctance, but Harry manages to convince Tavros who agrees and convinces the others. Tavros then makes the game using his programming skills, and they get ready to play it in the ship, not realizing what would happen to the planet if they did. 

Meanwhile, John finally returns with both Terezi and Vriska with him. He expects the group to have gathered their friends so they can all battle together, but is surprised to see no one there. He comes to Roxy to try and understand why, but she reveals surprise at this and that it is new information. It is too late, however, for all across the universe. Lord English's arrival is felt, and all the gods realize they made a huge mistake. At the same time that English arrives, the children start their game, starting a new session and destroying the world they find themselves in before it even has a chance to fully develop.

Like that, the past players are pulled back into the game, with seven new ones and a boss that is impossible to defeat. 

[dreadedender]

Skeleton Bones- HS Cherubs AU Animatic

I posted the first 6 panels of this animatic here a while ago, but I ended up going through with drawing more 😂 This idea started when I listened to this song and realized it could fit the cherubs really well. Then I started creating an AU for them.

To repost the loose idea for this:

A Callie and a Caliborn from seperate timelines meet and find that they don't hate each other anymore because they've both gone through a lot without the other. Caliborn has been humbled after getting the instant gratification of killing everyone, but bearing solitude afterwards, stuck with a mind-ghost Dirk to be his unkillable Jimminy Cricket. He becomes maaaaybe just a bit remorseful, though he's still a brat that wouldn't admit it out loud.

Meanwhile, in her timeline, Calliope got her Caliborn to agree to working together, and underhandedly, successfully killed him before they had a chance to godtier. She ascended by herself, but she didn't get to celebrate her victory. She watched her worst nightmare play out as she got shunned by her 'friends'. The more they spoke with her through her journey, the more it was clear that she was actually... sinister. Callous with life, justifying cruel ends and too wrapped up in fantasies to see the horrors she had committed. They turn their back to her and Calliope's hopes of friendship are crushed.

Needless to say both ended up in doomed timelines where they are still alive, but stuck.The two had gone through lots of self-hatred and anger but they've mellowed out by the time they meet and kinda get swept up with their God-Tier powers bringing them both, against all odds, to the same place and time.

Somewhere they can get a fresh start, and actually become helpful and accepted by the rest of the cast. Idk how this would work, truthfully, but I'm apparently a sucker for the these AUs. :'p

[karkles-does-things]

So like what are the vein/vine thingies on Callie's face from your TikTok thing? Was the mask possessing them? And why was Simeon crying (apart from the fact that Callie is ripping him to pieces ajsnnd)? Who was that other dude next to Simeon?

*pulls up PowerPoint presentation* I am so glad you asked :-)

Okay okay so one at a time lol I’ll go in order of essentials

First of all no the mask has nothing to do with what happened the mask has never done anything wrong ever <3

The guy next to Simeon is the Captain of the military unit they were traveling with. The three of them got separated from the rest of the group a while ago, and agreed to regroup at this place called The Asylum, where Callie heard the Weird Shit that’s been going down is coming from. Simeon knows where the Asylum is so he‘s been leading them through the death swamp.

Callie Simeon and the Captain (his name is Larry) dick around in the death swamp for a while and get into and out of trouble a bit before ending up in this place I’ve been calling Clown Town

With a bunch of clown-shaped spirits of “fuck your sanity and fuck you”

The veins and fluid leaking from Callie’s various facial orifices are actually a result of the evil brain parasite that crawled into their nose the day before this scene goes down 😊😊😊

See the Clown Town clowns agreed to give them safe passage through their territory in exchange for the three of them going on a harmless little nature hike that turned out to be a face-your-fears-fest

So the three of them trip balls about what they’re all afraid of and long story short Simeon is like “HA JOKES ON YOU I definitely as taking them everywhere BUT The Asylum I’ve just been leading them around in circles lol”

And of COURSE all the hallucinations end right there because the clowns arranged all this for maximum drama 👌👌👌 because they’re dicks

So the Captain flips his shit because he’s been worried as hell about his men and he and Simeon start throwing down

Meanwhile Callie has been doing their Very Best emotional repression for a while now because Simeon maybe kinda completely tried to fuck them over in the LAST shitty town they went to

And they forgave him (or tried to) but like. They don’t even know the extent to which it hurt them

So at first Callie’s like “noooo ahaha why fight aha”

But then something happens not sure what, just something really tiny? Like they go to get between the boys and one of them shoves them back probably idk

Point is Callie finally FINALLY snaps. Just fucking. “aren’t you tired of being nice don’t you just wanna go ape shit” and commits a FUCK ton of arson. Legitimate murderous intent.

And then when things calm down a bit they kinda kick themself for even trusting either of these fuckwads in the first place and. Leave.

But the problem is that since their fear hallucination already involved a lot of body horror they deff did NOT think that the worm crawling into their nose was something that actually happened and they end up slipping into delirium and fucking collapsing an embarrassingly short distance away.

Morning comes, Callie’s gone, the Captain and Simeon freak the fuck out, aaaaaand they find them like that.

Simeon is crying because at this point he officially gives a shit 😔😔😔 maybe even more than one

Hope this clears things up ^_^

EDIT: THIS HAS BEEN REWORKED SIGNIFICANTLY BUT I AM STILL LEAVING THIS UP

[phantomphangphucker]

A Bottle Of Rum Named Chuckles - Phic Phight

Prompt Creator: @bibliophileap Prompt: A sibling is genuinely disconcerted by another sibling’s laughter. Summary: The Fenton parents are out of town so Danny gets his drink on, but he's a laughing drunk and Jazz comes home from university a little too early.

Warnings: Drinking, alcohol, unintentional self-harm, broken bones, impaling, blood, one instance of vore, Danny is very drunk

also on my AO3 at GothMoth.

Danny glides smoothly down the steps, today’s a day with the house to himself. Jazz? Off at college. Mom and dad? 4-day convention. Sam and Tucker? Well, they’re not really friends anymore. So today’s a day to himself, a rare one at that. So as Danny saunters over to the fridge he sticks his hand straight through the floor pulling out a bottle of rum. Spinning the bottle in one hand as he opens up the fridge and grabs some milk. Placing the bottle on the table, Danny turns around and goes to make himself some cereal, but is suddenly struck by an idea. Spinning back around, bowl of dry cereal in hand, Danny cracks open the rum and pours it into the bowl. “Hey if cheesepuff bacon smoothies are great, this ought to be better.”.

Halfway through his cereal he’s finding it hard to keep eating through his giggling. “It’s just” chuckle “god so” chuckle “like look at the fuck rocks man” chuckle. Rum cereal abandoned, Danny wanders the yard pointing at random rocks and wobblingly arranging them in poorly laid out constellations. Laughing and grinning he flops on the grass surrounded by his rock stars.

Eventually, the hot sun forces him inside as he opts to play some games. Not being bothered enough to move them from his room, he plays up there instead. He doesn’t really play Doom anymore, he’s more into single player stuff now. He does however, take the bottle of rum with him. After a few hours, Danny is solidly fucked up, so much so that he doesn’t hear his sister coming home early. She does however, hear some creepy ass giggling ringing throughout the house. “Christ did someone stuff one of those broken demon Elmo dolls into the walls or something?”. Jazz moves around methodically trying to find the sound just as Danny burst out into another fit of laughs and giggles. He managed to get a famous glitch in his game, one where the characters limbs and head fly and stretch out all over the screen. In his laughter Danny accidentally crushes the rum bottle against his chest, splashing the little remaining rum and glass all over himself. “Aw man....” Danny goes to stand but immediately pitches forwards slamming face first into his wall. Laughing even more erratically, cause he can see himself in the door mirror, Danny just slowly slides down to the floor. Laying in a heap of limbs and laughs.

Jazz meanwhile is standing awkwardly on the other side of his door, somewhat in shock. At first, she thought there was some weird new ghost after Danny but after listening close, “the ghost in you sure shows in funny ways” Jazz mutters quietly. With a soft though unnerved smile on her face Jazz goes back downstairs, looking to make herself some toast but promptly notices the milk jug and very disgusting looking half-eaten cereal. “What the hell was that made with?” She grumbles at the offending cereal, well aware of Danny’s strange taste, as she puts the milk away. “I wonder if his ghost half has anything to do with his tastes” she taps her finger on her chin and shudders, as yet more booming laughter erupts from upstairs. She elects to smell the cereal for clues rather than taste it, cause Plasmius knows what’s in there. Jerking back she realizes that whatever it is, it’s definitely alcoholic. “Where’d you even get that little brother and why” she shakes her head as she goes up to confront Danny. Whom she’s now certain is laughing so much because he’s drunk. And she’s totally right on that part.

Meanwhile, Danny has been intentionally flinging himself around his room, trying to land it the most awkward and absurd positions possible. He’s so utterly plastered that he never even notices all the glass from the rum bottle embedded in his chest, making him bleed profusely. Him flinging himself around isn’t helping either. And his future self will not thank him later for the massive amounts of blood smears everywhere. Not to mention all the knock over things and glass. Eventually, he winds up leaning against the mirror on his door making faces at it and smearing his face around. Resulting in many muffled giggles.

Jazz, standing in front of Danny’s door can actually smell the alcohol through the door now. Scratching her nose she swings the door open, catching Danny totally unprepared as he staggers backwards; straight out the window. Running over to the window she looks down and sees Danny laughing his ass off on the ground covered in blood and glass. She physically shivers from the combination of Danny’s demonic ass laughter and the visuals.

Jazz bolts all the way down the steps and outside, running up to Danny who’s now standing up and wobbling all over the place. Seeing Jazz he shouts “is afff uckin airy! Whooooo!” Throwing his hands up in the air, Jazz runs over and hooks an arm under his right armpit. “Danny what the hell, let’s get you inside before anyone sees” Danny lightly giggles “leds meh to dis lits airy”. Jazz practically has to drag Danny into the house as he flips between muttering about fairies, or “ariy” as he’s calling them, and laughing. Effectively, slowly unnerving Jazz more and more; as well as making her unimpressed with his drunken state. Jazz sets him down at the table and points at the half-eaten rum cereal. “Just how much have you had Danny?” She asks in an unimpressed tone but she’s to creeped out to sound threatening. The only response she gets from Danny is “Is callied it Chuckles” then he sticks his hands out spreading them apparent vertically to about the high of his rum bottle. Jazz isn’t quite sure what he means for a second but then pinches the bridge of her nose. “Christ Danny, and what was it exact-” Jazz gets cut off by the sight of Danny pulling somebody horror shit, spreading his mouth inhumanly wide and straight voreing the entire bowl whole. Rum, cereal, spoon, bowl and all. Jazz having never bared witness to his body horror crap nearly vomits, which causes Danny to go into another fit of laughter. She sickly looks over the counter at him as he laughs himself so hard he falls off the stool. “Ok, now your creepy laugh is also pissing me off. I’m creep out, disgusted, disturbed and angry all at once.” Jazz shakes herself off and tries to push away the lingering shivers Danny’s laugh sends across her skin.

Danny starts crawling forwards on the floor but Jazz rushes over and sits him up on his knees. “Don’t do that” she scolds “you’ll rip yourself up more and-” looking down at the floor “-dear god... make more of a mess”. Turning her head away from Danny, arms still on his shoulders, she mutters “how the hell am I going to clean this up”. Danny chuckles slurring “clench ‘n exbird outwash fix erry”. Jazz just stares at him, “ok, I got bleach but the rest is lost on me”. Danny just shouts “exbird outwash!”. “Danny, what even is that?” Jazz sighs exasperatedly, as Danny starts making gargling sounds but then chokes on his spit. Resulting in yet more laughter. “Einstein, lend me your strength” Jazz groans as she jerks away from the sound of Danny’s laugh.

Eventually, she manages to get Danny sitting upright. Slowly pulling out shards of glass, though Danny is not making that easy. Danny’s rolling his head all over the place, occasionally flailing his arms around, and talking mostly gibberish, interspaced with giggles and laughter. “Danny, I will tail you for a week and throw psychology terms at you, if you ever even consider getting wasted around people who don’t know about this ghost shit.”. Finishing her threat with flawless timing as Danny straight up phases through the floor. Jazz, sighing, gets up to walk down to the lab. Looking around she fails to see him till she hears his wild creepy giggles coming from the ceiling. Looking up she sees Danny dangling with one foot still stuck in the ceiling. “Imma uckin chandii!”. Sighing “ yes Danny you are definitely a chandelier, for sure, 100%”. Danny just shouts “yay!” As he swings his hands up towards the ceiling smashing them so hard Jazz hears cracking and Danny, with a chunk of the ceiling, crashes to the ground. She stares at Danny and mutters “you could kill a many without a second thought and I don’t even think you’d notice the impact...”. Just as Danny rights himself, smashing apart the other bits of ceiling. Which suddenly brings Danny’s fingers into view. “Oh my god Danny, you freaking broke your fingers”. Deciding she’s had enough, Jazz digs through the lab until she finds what she’s looking for. An Ecto-shield blanket, “mom and dad say it’s for keeping out mosquito ghost but it should make a fine Danny burrito”. Jazz walks up behind Danny and quickly wraps the blanket around him. Danny just squirms, falls to his side and starts flopping about like a fish. Sighing Jazz grabs the Fenton fisher anti-ghost fishing line. Line in hand she picks up Danny and walks up to his bedroom. “You need to eat more Danny, and real food not junk food. My textbooks weigh more than you.”. Once in Danny’s room, she ties him to his bed headrest with the ecto-line. Danny naws at it while giggling and making exaggerated chewing and biting sounds.

Jazz attempts to study while she watches her brother and waits for him to sober up. But it’s difficult with all the usual sounds, gibberish and increasingly disturbing laughter. “God, it’s like it gets more and more unnerving the more you hear it”. She mutters into her book, trying her damnest to focus without completely ignoring her inebriated brother.  Eventually, she gives up on that endeavour and elects to inspect the glass she’s managed to get out of Danny’s chest. Fully expecting it to be window glass, she’s shocked to find it's from a bottle. Sticking a few pieces together she realizes it’s from a bottle of rum, high proof rum at that. “Danny what the hell?! How did you even get this! Mom and dad don’t even like rum!”. The only response she gets out of Danny is more giggling. “And how long has this glass even been in your chest! Did you drink the whole thing!” Danny giggles enthusiastically which Jazz takes as a yes. “Danny! That would kill a full grown man!”. This time she actually gets a response out of the drunken lad “Tis tooo lats, ta jib allreds don.”. Jazz groans leaning back in her chair, “even wasted enough to kill a normal person you still make death jokes”.

Things continue on like this for a while till Danny eventually starts to slightly sober up. Which takes an impressive, and scary to Jazz, single hour. “Wyys my handz harts” Rolling his head around “and wyts wit blankie?”. Jazz snorts as she walks over to him, “little bro, you smashed your hands into the ceiling”. Looking up at her, his head limp, “wyys i dos dat?”. Shaking her head, “I really don’t know Danny but it might have something to do with thinking you were a chandelier.”. Danny just looks more confused now, but Jazz, noting his limpness unties him from the headrest and lays him down in bed. “I think you best just sleep, little brother and please, no more laughing”. Danny just tiredly sticks his tongue out at her. Jazz falls asleep herself, knees folded on the ground with her head resting on Danny’s bed.

—Next Morning—

Danny wakes up to a whole lotta pain. “What the...” He trails off as he pushes his blanket off himself, yanking his hands back hissing. “Fuck me” Danny mutters as he looks at his hands, nearly every bone is broken or chipped and his advanced healing has only fucked his fingers up more. Healing them incorrectly in almost every way, “how did I even? and how am I supposed to fix this?”. Then looking down at his chest he groans “seriously? Did I get into a boxing match with a bunch of mirrors or something”. Swinging his legs out of bed he walks to his mirror. He’s peppered in bruises, some that are extremely weird. He has bits of drywall in his hair as well. Shaking his hair out he turns to take in his room and just stares. Half his shit is on the floor or on the opposite side of the room than where it started. Blood is smeared almost everywhere, bits of glass are stabbed in the walls, his window is destroyed and there’s both ecto-line and an ecto-shield blanket on the floor. “Yeah I’m just not going to deal with this now, or possibly ever” Danny mutters as he opens his door with his mouth, keeping his hands up around his chest not quite touching though. As he descends the stairs he’s already thinking of ways to easily just hide the mess but once he reaches the living room his mind blanks. “Oh fuck” he breathes out, seeing a long blood streak on the floor, some glass and bigger bits of drywall.

Danny stares down at his hands, and that’s how Jazz finds him when she steps out of the kitchen. Mop in hand Jazz watches Danny as he stares at his hands muttering to himself, looking horrified. Danny slowly lifts his head up and just mutters at Jazz “what the fuck”.

Inside his head, Danny is just screaming over and over again, because she should not be here and there’s a massive really bad looking mess and he was completely wasted and -. Jazz cuts off his thoughts as she answers him “I don’t really know Danny, you were so messed up I could barely understand anything you said. You called me an “airy”, ate an entire bowl whole, punched a hole in the ceiling while pretending to be a chandelier I think, flung yourself out your window, and I think you stabbed yourself with a bottle of rum.”. Danny just stares at her, his mouth hanging open, so Jazz elects to continue “you were already covered in blood and glass when I got here and there was a bowl of cereal mixed with, what I assumed was, rum. Seriously Danny what the hell and where did you get rum?”. Danny just mutters “uhhhh from the floor”. Jazz crosses her arms “Danny, that makes about as much sense as whatever-” clearing her throat to attempt the make the freakish sounds Danny made “-exbird outwash fix erry” is.”. Danny shakes his head “Wow, sounds like I had fun”. At Jazz’s highly unimpressed face, Danny goes to run a hand across the back of his neck but winces instead. Eyeing Jazz again, he goes for a more serious response. “I guess I’d need context for those, uh, words? And I literally got it from the floor. The bottle was inside the floor.” Danny looks away sheepishly. “You mean to tell me you hid booze in the floor?” Arms crossed stiffly. “Heh, yeah” Danny shrugs “wasn’t really expecting anyone home so soon.”. He finishes. “Clearly, if that had been anyone who didn’t know about you, you’d be in massive trouble. I’m pretty sure you drank the entire thing, which should have been deadly. That combined with everything else...” Jazz trails off as Danny waves a mutilated hand at her “ya ya I get it, I’m lucky it was you”. Jazz sighs grabbing her mop again, “I would tell to help but I know your injured, are your hands going to heal fine?” She asks laced with genuine concern as she starts mopping the blood streaked on the floor. “Well, first you might want some of my hidden mouth wash”. Jazz stares at him “ok what?...is that what you said earlier?!”. Danny shrugs “maybe, expired mouth wash is pretty good as a cleaner”. Danny jumps up through the ceiling startling Jazz, he returns the same way. Flicking a bottle of mouth wash at her, that he was previously held by the cap in his mouth. Jazz, mixing it on the floor, “oh wow that’s just plain weird and I don’t even want to know how you discovered this”. “Yup” Danny says curtly as he looks around for any other damage. “So, your hands?” Danny snaps his head back to her, “Uhh well I’ll have to re-break, like, everything and place it all back the way it’s supposed to be but it should be fine, I think.” Danny says awkwardly. “Danny, Christ, how are you even ok with doing that, none the less how are you going to do it with both hands messed up?” Jazz glares at him, still mopping. Shrugging “uh painfully?”. “Oh my god, Danny.”

Danny sidestepping her gets a bowl, cereal and milk all out with a combination of footwork and his mouth; Jazz watching him all the while as she mops. “That better actually be milk and I’m rather concerned by how good you are at that”. Sitting on the table top Danny pours the milk with his toes. “You’re going to be pissed if I tell you “practice” aren’t you?” Glaring at him as he sits down with his cereal, eating by scooping his tongue around. “Of course, you shouldn’t have a reason to be used to it.”. Danny grunting, “well I do, resident superhero ghost boy here”. Jazz chuckles lightly, which reminds her of something, “hey Danny, has anyone ever told you your laugh is extremely creepy and unnerving?”. Danny coughs on a couple of frootloops, “What? No, why?” Chuckling again Jazz shakes her head “you were laughing, giggling and chuckling like your life depended on it. Genuine laughter too, but for whatever reason, it was spine chilling.” Pausing to look at Danny “you sounded like a demonic broken Elmo doll”. At that Danny chuckles deeply a bit “seriously?”. “Yeah, you even laughed as I tried to fix your wounds and you laughed really hard when you fell out your window and crash into the yard.” Danny chuckling again, Jazz noting that it actually is still slightly creepy but nothing close to before. “Wow that’s got to say something about me, don’t go analyzing me though.”. Rolling her eyes “I’m more focused on fixing your mess Danny, the lab is literally missing a third of its ceiling and I had to tie you to your own bed.”. Danny goes wide-eyed laughing, “so that's why there’s ecto-line on the floor.”. Jazz just shakes her head as Danny continues more seriously “was my laugh all creepy just now?”. Jazz pauses “slightly I guess but nothing like last night. It was like the more you laughed the more completely disturbed I felt. Now your laugh just has the same slight offness it usually does.” Danny looks incredulously at her. Noticing she sighs and stands up, one hand in her hip “Danny, basically everything about you is slightly off or creepy. But it’s so minimal you really have to pay attention to notice at all. And paying attention to you is my sisterly duty.”. Danny rolls his eyes but visibly relaxes some, “geez thanks.”. Jazz sighs as she heads down to the lab to collect the ceiling debris. On her way coming back up she hears cracking sounds. “Hey, Danny what are you doing?”. The cracking stops “uh, fixing my fingers”. Jazz just sighs.

End.

[aion-rsa]

How Ghostbusters: Afterlife Honors the Original Legacy

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For director Jason Reitman, the first official announcement of Ghostbusters: Afterlife was, by blockbuster franchise standards, quite modest.

“Before we ever started shooting, the way we debuted the idea to the world was we shot this little teaser in secret, with Ecto-1 in a barn,” says Reitman, talking to Den of Geek by phone. “At the time, I remember thinking, ‘Okay, we have the script, we’re going to make this really fast. We’re going to put it out into the world before anybody knows it, and this whole thing is going to fly by.’”

That was back in early 2019. Now, more than two and a half years later, Reitman says, “I wish I could go back and pat that director on the shoulder and just be like, ‘All right, calm down. Be patient. This is going to take a minute.’”

It’s taken somewhat more than a minute: like so many films, Ghostbusters: Afterlife was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic from its original summer 2020 release. But in another sense, it’s taken more than 30 years – not just for this long-awaited second sequel to the original 1984 Ghostbusters to arrive, but for Reitman to embrace what in some ways is the mythology most closely related to his family name.

Reitman’s father, producer/director Ivan Reitman, was behind the camera for the original film, which he and his iconic cast – Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, the late Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Rick Moranis – turned into a comedy classic for the ages.

Jason Reitman was not even seven years old when Ghostbusters came out in June 1984, yet his memories of being on the set are still vivid to him. “It was extraordinary,” he recalls. “It became my introduction to what it meant to make a movie. It was my introduction to really knowing my father as a filmmaker.”

Even though Reitman at first resisted the idea of following in his father’s footsteps and began pre-med studies when he got to college, the lure of the entertainment business was perhaps too great. He enrolled at USC and began shooting short films and commercials, eventually making his feature directorial debut in 2005 with Thank You for Smoking.

Yet while that was the beginning of a successful string of sophisticated satires, comedies, and dramas for Reitman that included such acclaimed films as Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), and Tully (2018), Reitman says that the subject of Ghostbusters would come up constantly.

“From the moment I had shown interest in filmmaking, people wondered whether or not I would direct one of these movies,” he says. “Like any young person who has tried to define themselves outside the framework of their parents, I ran away from that… I really wanted to establish my own voice and my own sense and style of filmmaking.”

Meanwhile, the franchise itself seemed unable to move smoothly forward either. The first sequel, 1989’s Ghostbusters II, was, like the first one, directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Aykroyd and Ramis. While it scored at the box office (albeit earning far less than its predecessor), the film was scorned by critics and was generally considered a lackluster follow-up.

Although Aykroyd, Ramis, and Ivan Reitman continued trying to develop a third film for years, the death of Ramis in 2014 and an all-female remake (directed by Paul Feig) of the original film released in 2016 seemed to bog those plans down – until it was announced in January 2019 that Jason Reitman would direct Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a direct sequel to the first two movies set 30 years after the events of Ghostbusters II.

So what changed the younger Reitman’s mind about getting involved in the franchise? “I really didn’t imagine myself making a Ghostbusters movie, but then this character came to me, and that character became undeniable,” he says. “I think it didn’t hurt that she was the same age as my daughter.”

The character in question is Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), who moves with her single mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and her brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) to a dilapidated farmhouse in rural Oklahoma due to financial difficulties. The house is their inheritance, left to them by Callie’s late father, Ghostbusters co-founder Egon Spengler (Ramis).

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With the help of a local teacher (Paul Rudd), the Spengler family will rediscover their patriarch’s history with the Ghostbusters and learn why the house is apparently the source of some very unusual paranormal activity – which may be the reason Egon purchased it in the first place.

The film’s storyline mirrors Jason Reitman’s own complicated relationship with the franchise from both a familial and professional perspective: “Certainly, I think it is not an accident that I have questioned my whole life whether or not I would pick up the proton pack,” he says. “And we are introduced to a family that is considering the same thing.”

Although Reitman (who co-wrote the screenplay with Gil Kenan) was working within the parameters of a franchise for the first time, he says he approached the project the same way he’s developed all his other films.

“I come at things from character, and I come at things from the story,” he explains. “You look at all my movies, they’re all character-based movies. So as soon as I knew Phoebe, I was like, all right, I know my way into this. It wasn’t through ghosts and it wasn’t through lore. It was through a family.”

Saying he was “heartbroken by the death of Harold Ramis” and that Egon had always been his “favorite Ghostbuster,” Reitman theorizes that those were two of the reasons why he decided to make the family at the center of the movie the Spenglers.

Yet just as important as honoring Ramis’ memory was honoring the legacy of the original movie as well, which is perhaps how Reitman (and his dad, who is the film’s producer) got Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, Weaver, and Potts to reprise their original roles (all five had briefly appeared in the Feig film, but as different walk-on characters).

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“Gil and I wanted to make a movie that felt as though it clearly was being made by people who loved the film as much as the viewers,” says Reitman about including the original cast, choosing his words carefully. “We wanted to make a movie that felt as though the storytellers were handing everything you loved about Ghostbusters back to the audience sitting in their chairs. It felt impossible to do that without including the originals, even though this is very much a story about a single mom and her two kids.”

Reitman is, of course, reluctant to speak any further about the role of the original cast members in the movie, or how much we find out about what they’ve been doing for the last 30 years, which brings us back to where we started: with his original intention to make the movie quickly and spring it on the world with little fanfare (filming was actually completed in the fall of 2019).

“(It was supposed to) arrive on everyone’s plate before they knew it,” says Reitman. “It was just going to be this kind of hopefully lovely surprise. And now there’s been years of buildup and opportunity for people to talk about it.”

The director says his original hope was that “no one was even going to know that the originals were even part of it,” adding, “I don’t really want to give away anything further, except to say that this is not a movie about the originals. This is a movie about the Spengler family, but it will touch upon everything that you love about Ghostbusters.”

And that, in the end, is what making a new Ghostbusters movie – and adding his personal take on his own family’s legacy – is all about for Jason Reitman.

”I know that my personal goal was to, one, make my father proud, and two, give audiences another trip into the world of Ghostbusters,” he concludes. “I hope they feel like it’s authentic. I hope they love it as much as we loved making it. The best Ghostbusters movie has already been made. It came out in 1984. Now I’m just excited for audiences to take another trip into this universe that we all grew up on.”

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife is out in theaters on November 11.

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#TheFosters Season 4 Winter Premiere Review & Discussion

The Fosters winter premiere was filled with everything from horror to drama to suspense and of course so much love. It was a strong start to what looks to be a promising end of their fourth season.

 SPOILERS AHEAD!

Alright, so the episode starts off with Callie in this guy’s car. I still remember yelling at my computer during the season 4a finale, trying desperately to stop her from getting in, but of course my efforts were useless. As they're driving, supposedly looking for Mariana, Callie get’s a phone call from Aaron, explaining that there was more DNA found on the murder weapon. Not only that, but the DNA was from someone related to Martha. Now who do we know that’s related to Martha and looks crazy enough to commit murder? Oh maybe the guy driving the car! This moment had me terrified, but here’s Callie handling this situation like a pro.

And then comes the crash. Oh. My. God. This scene absolutely blew me away. I was so panicked I only realized that my hands were over my mouth when it was over. Cinematically, this scene was amazing. All of the confusion and panic portrayed so well through the way it was filmed, I definitely felt at least a little bit of what Callie must have been feeling. 

I was pretty proud of Callie when she automatically called 911, possibly saving lives again with that quick thinking attitude, but her rash decisions really hit us hard as she decides to flee the scene. You never leave the scene of the accident! That bit of information really comes back to bite us at the end of the episode. 

Meanwhile, as Callie is being kidnapped, Jesus is in the ambulance with Stef. Now I gotta be honest here, I wasn’t ready for how dark this season got in such a small amount of time. Never would I have believed the Fosters would kill off a main character, but the deeper we get into this episode, the fewer chances of survival there seem to be for Jesus. The seizure in the Ambulance was pretty terrifying, but I lost it entirely in that hospital room when it showed the foam coming out from Jesus’s mouth plus Stef’s panic? One of Stef’s most reliable characteristics is her ability to remain calm in these sorts of situations. As soon as I saw her start to really loose her cool, I was done. It’s one of the key scenes that made this episode so raw and powerful. 

Another really powerful scene was the Surgery scene. The contrast between the robotic movements of the sergeants and the raw emotion of all of the family members was just so incredibly powerful. Absolutely one of the best scenes of the show thus far.

Now I don’t know about you, but I was expecting a bit more of an emotional break down from Mariana. Her twin may or may not make it out of this situation alive, and yet she doesn’t seem as worried as we all know Jesus would be if the positions were switched. I think this is definitely going to come out in the next episode. I really want to see that realization moment for Mariana, that ‘Oh my god, I might have to live without him’ moment. But for now, Mariana seems to be too affected by the pills to really grasp the severity of the situation, which may or may not be a good thing.

Now I’ve never felt like more of a mother hen, than watching Jude get high with Noah during this episode. The entire time the camera was on the two, I couldn’t help but think that Noah is a horrible influence on Jude. He deserves to experiment as much as the next kid, but it’s so hard to watch him going through this phase after getting to see him grow up all these years. I’ll get over him growing up soon hopefully, but I don’t think I can ever get behind this Joah ship. 

Lastly, theres Brandon. Honestly, this kid just can’t catch a break! I guess everything that’s happened to him has ultimately been his fault, but not getting to go to Juilliard after having gotten accepted was one of the hardest things to watch in this show. Now, I have to say, I’ve never really been behind his relationship with Courtney. When Brandon decided to go into his audition no strings attached, it was the first time I felt proud of him all season. Him going back to her this episode sort of reversed that. Brandon really needs to figure his own life out now before trying to drag more people into it. He needs to step back and just be himself for a while. 

My predictions for the next episode are: 

Mariana’s going to have a break down and it’s going to be alone. Jesus has been there for her allure life, and I think a scene of her just completely loosing itby herself, would just really drive that home.

Callie is in so much trouble right now. I don’t know how Stef is going to help her because of her previous conflict with Grey but U guess we’ll find out. 

All in all, this really was one hell of a season B premiere. I am so ready for this season, I think it’s going to be flipping fantastic. So excited for Episode 12!