#mick c art

[mickc-art]

My attempt to draw the Classic Who Doctors in Over the Garden Wall artstyle

[mysteriesofthemiseries]

Miniature portraits of Lady Désirée de Guerre and Lord Nicholas Cornwallis-Perkins, Viscount Mousehole, by Marie-Françoise de Guerre, Marchioness de Guerre, 1810

Both miniatures were exchanged by the couple after their betrothal. Lord Mousehole received a portrait of his dear Désirée as she received a portrait of a young viscount.

[thisismeracing]

King of my heart | ms47 | part 01

Pairing: hamilton!reader (she/her) x mick schumacher

Warnings: curse words, twitter environment (somehow I feel like this should be a warning lol) not proofread etc etc. Minors DNI!

series masterlist | my masterlist | part 02

Summary: there’s a new presence at the paddock, but what nobody knows is a)it's not really her first time around; b)she’s a Hamilton; and c)her open presence will now cause a shift in the place. Everyone knew that pilot-related girls were off limits, especially a sister’s pilot, but that did not scare Mick and Y/n away.

a/n: none of the pictures used are mine, they are all from Pinterest and other apps. everything else is made up by me and I do not give permission for it to be published on a different platform. I would appreciate it if those things could be taken into consideration 💛

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theofficialyn on Sundays I do be wearing black 🖤

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user1999 omg are these heels from the new collection??? I love it!

interlandos OMG LEWIS LIKED!!!!

⤷ formulaoneforever its not that deep, bruh, I liked lewis last post and were not dating...

⤷ ynnature yeah but did you watch the race from the paddock? @formulaoneforever

⤷ formulaonerorever ok you got me there 💀 but I still think its not that deep!

f1forlife this is giving me rooting for mercedes energy...

perfectyn silence, mother is mothering

lewisunshine is it true youre dating lewis????

⤷ leclercsson yeah because she would casually answer you in here, honey... Istg ppl lost their minds

artisticform1 anyone else from brazil and thought about that art piece (abaporu) with how her feet are close to the screen 🤣🤣🤣

⤷ user0 not funny but I will laugh

user7 I dont see all that beauty, she’s just...average.

⤷ royaltyn shut up

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Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers: For the first episode's Easter eggs it's here

For the second episode's Easter eggs it's here

For the third episode's Easter eggs it's here

For the fourth episode's Easter eggs it's here

For the sixth episode's Easter eggs it's here

For the seventh episode's Easter eggs it's here and here

For the eighth episode's Easter eggs post it's here

For the ninth episode's Easter eggs post it's here

For the tenth episode's Easter eggs post it's here SPOILERS if you haven't seen this week's episode obviously

We start off the episode with this shot of Superman with the drawn on glasses. A good homage to what Lois did in the 1980 Superman II movie...

where she not only drew the glasses but also a full suit and hat on a picture of Superman.

Next we see Jimmy waking up and seeing someone debunking his conspiracy theories on Sub-Diego.

Sub Diego was an actual place in the DC universe before the New 52 reboot. In Aquaman #15 and #16 (2003) , shown here (W: Will Pfeifer, P: Patrick Gleason, I: Christian Alamy, C: Nathan Eyring, L: Jared K. Fletcher for issue 15, Nick Napolitano for issue 16). The underwater city is actually San Diego, but is buried underwater thanks to a tidal wave and makes its first appearance in Aquaman #15 (2003). There was a lot of casualties from this.

When we get to our title its "You Will Believe A Man Can Lie" a reference to the tagline for the 1978 Superman movie.

As seen here on the poster, it says "You'll believe a man can fly".

Next we see our villain, well one of the villains, for the episode, Heatwave.

In the comics Heatwave makes his first appearance in Flash 140 (1963) (cover art by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson, and Ira Schnapp). Heatwave aka Mick Rory is a Flash rogue usually acting as a rival to Captain Cold aka Leonard Snart. In MAwS, their Heatwave shares the same last name and powers, but MAwS Heatwave is gender flipped. You might have seen Heatwave in the CW DC comics shows where he is played by Dominic Purcell in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.

Lois, later in the episode, name drops Heatwave's name. Gotta be honest when Heatwave showed up I was like is that Rampage? Cuz the MAwS design looks vaguely like Rampage.

If she does show up in MAwS, I'll talk more about her in another post, but for now, Rampage aka Karen Lou "Kitty" Faulkner, makes her first appearance in Superman #7 (1987) (full page here: W&P: John Byrne, I: Karl Kesel, C: Tom Ziuko, L: John Costanza).

Steve drags Jimmy to film his debunking Flamebird videos and references Starro who I talked about here.

Lois, later runs around with the Daily Planet police scanner trying to catch Superman and the dispatcher reports that a robbery is in progress at McGuinness Luxe Garage.

This is a nice reference to Ed McGuinness who was the artist for Superman, Action Comics, and Superman/Batman in the early 2000s. If you've seen Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, then you'll know the movie takes inspiration from his character designs in the first arc of the Superman/Batman comic series. The Superman/Batman #1 (2003) cover here is done by Ed McGuinness, Dexter Vines, and Dave Stewart. I like Ed McGuinness's pencils, very stylized.

Heatwave name drops Livewire and the Gazzo mod family. Both of whom I've talked about here and here respectively

Heatwave has been running away from Deathstroke here who has been taking our her crew. Notice that Slade Wilson doesn't have the half black half orange helmet yet that almost every Deathstroke depiction always has.

He, Amanda Waller, and the General who I totally think is General Sam Lane, Lois's dad, are fans of DBZ cuz of the scouters they're wearing.

Later in the scene we see the General again he's totally General Sam Lane. I'll talk more about him when we get a double confirmation through a name drop/reveal in a later post calling Amanda Waller, Mandy. What a fucking bold thing to say to Waller! Like damn! power move right there!

Superman and Deathstroke are fighting under a highway and we see the traffic is heading to Bludhaven!

Very good reference to my favorite character in all of pop culture, Dick Grayson aka Nightwing. Nightwing makes Bludhaven his city to protect. The city makes its first appearance in Nightwing #1 (1996) (the panel here - W: Chuck Dixon, P: Scott McDaniel, I: Karl Story, C: Roberta Tewes, L: John Costanza). Fun Bludhaven fact, its crime rate is WORST than Gotham! Also HIGHLY recommend reading the new Nightwing run cuz its fucking amazing! Won a few Eisner Awards (think the Oscars but for comic books) recently and I am not just saying that because I am a Dick Grayson fan.

Near the end of the episode, we see Lois willing to jump off a building to prove that Clark is Superman. A lot of discourse was happening online over this, but I do want to say this is pretty on brand for her to do.

In Superman II, Lois does something similar and Clark saves her. its just in MAwS, Clark flies to save her thus ruining the secret identity, while in Superman II, Clark does save her but he is still able to get away with it thanks to him playing it more subtly.

Don't know why people we're in such a fucking fit over something that Lois has done before.

In the after credits scene, Jimmy, who planned a sasquatch finding adventure with Lois and Clark, but they were dealing with their shit and Jimmy was by himself, decides to do the finding on his own and meets a giant gorilla. In the first episode Jimmy mentions an intelligent gorilla in France and my guess is this is Monsieur Mallah. You can read more about him here. If you made it this far down, I appreciate you taking the time to check this post out and if you want to see my other MAwS Easter Eggs posts - Episode 1 is here

Episode 2 is here

Episode 3 is here

Episode 4 is here

Episode 6 is here

Episode 7 is here and here

Episode 8 is here

Episode 9 is here

Episode 10 is here

[thegallavault]

currently locked in The Gallavault 🔒📚✨

COOPERATIVE GAMEPLAY by GRAYOLA ↳ ↳ with cover art by C-NORD

Multi-Chapter | Rated: E | Word Count: 422K | Completed in: 2021

At nineteen years old, Ian Gallagher’s stuck. Stuck in a minimum-wage job he hates. Stuck in the same boring routine--sleep, wake, work, take your meds, Ian!, try not to lose it day after day after day. But after his little brother introduces him to MICK MILK, a frustratingly hot horror gamer he watches on YouTube, Ian's life will never be the same. ❤️

[ download from The Gallavault | leave love on AO3 | reblog the art on tumblr | follow the creators @/gallavichy & @/c-nord]

[milflewis]

hey i was wondering if you could do a blog rec list maybe? no pressure though! you just have good taste in drivers and shows and stuff imo and seem to know a lot of cool people here!

ah ofc! not really sure how to do these tho so sorry if it’s shit lol or if i forget anyone!

writer blogs

@hungerpunch valewis. dantteri. valtteri blog. lo’s writing has literally made me sit and stare at a wall before. @husbono sewis. smick. posts seb, lewis, mick, alex etc. i live for whatever genius edit idea natasha will bless us with next. @vettelsbitch maxiel. sewis. seb blog. every other month c comes into the gc like. guys. i had this idea for a fic and now i’ve slipped and accidentally written 10k. pls help. and it’s always the best thing ever. @rosyjuly smick. sewis. posts seb, lewis and mick. whenever i see that rosy has answered some fic prompt or smth and there’s a little readmore under the cut! pure delight i’m telling you. @thelittlebirdthatkeptsomanywarm sewis and slagclaren (will forever be grateful to a for writing a fic based on one of The lewis/jenson commercials). @traincoded also has written a slagclaren fic that filled the void of Another batshit insane commercial. @lewishamil10n valewis and sewis writer. always has the Correct Takes. @effervescentdragon sewis. brocedes. sebchal. charlos. pretty much whatever is poking at akira’s brain at that moment is what she is writing. @azzy421 mainly sewis. the writer of the lucky thirteen au! @trailsofpaper also mainly sewis. the writer of The sewis Knight au. @tinytauris and @yukierres are both doing god’s work filling the yukierre ao3 tag. @collarboen sewis and is also a miles/lewis truther! every single one of these writers have knocked me the fuck out with their writing. just saying.

artist blogs

@andreagrimes writer. also a valtteri blog and v v funny. their style of drawing is one of my fav. @russilton writer. george/lewis blog. mark also bullies kyle on main so like. follow him even just for that lol. @ilikecarsandlike4people and @storm3326 they both do v different kinds of doodles and art styles and i love them both

gifmakers

@ferrawri this is fran. if i loved her less i could talk about it more. posts daniel, lewis and motogp. mostly fabio and marc. @userhamilton posts seb, lewis, mick and lance mainly. has only one wrong opinion but that’s about the sebstache and i’ve given up trying to get ppl to see that light on that. @mickschumachergf posts v cool gifs of lewis and seb and mick etc. and is into fe! (also v funny and sometimes does these cool gif sets with subtitles or smth different and funky with them and they’re fantastic everytime). @formulaonedirection posts mainly lewis and lando. (her tags? genius and comical). @eliotheeangelis posts old f1. a godsend truly

editors/graphic makers

@queerbenched the funkiest graphics. @brawn-gp v v cool edits. @ivettel the most insane gif-editor i know. like half the time i’m like literally HOW are you doing this. fairly sure pure magic (and sooo much skill) is the answer. and writer and seb main. @yukierree v cool and colourful graphics and edits.

lewis blogs

@teamroscoes and @l8tof1 are The lewis blogs. @localoptimist and @lewishcmilton are v funny and have the best takes on things. @4405x sewis main. @sweetaswithscottymac also into fe! @vvettell also posts about seb and alex and fe! (also v funny and nice and i love seeing her takes on stuff)

seb blogs

@wdcseb also a writer! of the sebchal agenda. @unhinged-vettel v funny and really cool edits. @seblicha also v funny and chill

mick blogs

@princemick if you follow me you should definitely follow kyle lmao. at least just for context. they also make cool gifs and graphics too ig. @acrosstobear The Mick Blog . @mickbetsch the coolest gif-edits fr.

yuki blogs

@tsuchansworld and @tsu22 are both yuki blogs and are always correct. @lewki The yuki and lewis blog.

valtteri blogs

@eleyhsa and @garnetaldebaran are The valtteri blogs.

alex blogs

@raceweek her text posts never fail to make me laugh. @alxalb the funniest tags.

fe blogs

@sweetaswithscottymac also posts about lewis and indycar. @mickstart also has the Best michael schumacher takes and just takes in general. @andrelottering also a writer and i think into indycar too? (pls i’m so sorry if i’m wrong)

[therogerclarkfanclub]

(Top image, left to right: Molly Clark, Roger Clark, Helena Nolan, Sami Dahdouh and Mick Mellamphy)

Roger received the George C. Heslin Artistic Leadership Award for his outstanding work in the theatre, film and motion caption industries. The award was presented at Origin Theatre's Annual Gala in New York.

Other honorees include Consul General Helena Nolan and her Husband Sami Dahdouh, who were presented The Tom Moran Business to Arts Award, for their exceptional contribution to Irish Arts, Culture and Theatre in our community in New York.

[bodybeautifulbymills]

David Bowie

Bowie never laid out any definitive labels for his gender or sexuality. He walked back his statement to Watts by telling Playboy he was bisexual in 1974, then later in Rolling Stone he declared he had been heterosexual all along. But he never owed us an explanation.

Sukita, M. (1977). David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita.

David Bowie embodied the fictional character of “Ziggy Stardust” for only about 18 months circa 1972-1973. Yet it’s usually an image of that garishly made up, flamboyantly dressed androgynous creature adorning t-shirts when one thinks of the musician.

While he might have not realized it at the time, Bowie, who died on Jan. 10 after an 18-month battle with cancer, anticipated today’s continuing gender binary dialogue. Besides leaving behind an impressive body of music that rarely was commercial (“Let’s Dance” a notable exception) and mostly experimental, perhaps Bowie’s greatest achievement was opening people’s minds to sexual identity expression.

He clarified his sexuality in a 1993 Rolling Stone interview: “I think I was always a closet heterosexual. I didn’t ever feel that I was a real bisexual. It was like I was making all the moves, down to the situation of actually trying it out with some guys … The irony of it was that I was not gay. I was physical about it, but frankly it wasn’t enjoyable. It was almost like I was testing myself. It wasn’t something I was comfortable with at all. But it had to be done.”

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). David Bowie talks about his sexual orientation. [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/zZdNxKkMiRE?si=mEy8vl-7qHy3yTns [Accessed 25 Sep. 2023].

‌He married his first wife Angie in 1970, and she gave birth the next year to their son “Zowie,” and proudly co-parented him during his toddler years. Angie, who he divorced in 1980 at which time David gained sole custody, claims responsibility for his feminine fashion style.

Bowie appeared to be giving fellatio to Mick Ronson’s guitar as he kneeled, gripping the musician’s buttocks, an iconic rock image if there ever was one.

1979 on Saturday Night Live he wore a military uniformed skirt. His backup singers were Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias – dressed in drag. Bowie’s music video for his ironically titled, hysterically funny “Boys Keep Swinging” and its trick cinematography featured himself as his own backup singers, as three different female personas.

Indeed, Lady Gaga learned from Bowie how to get media attention by being outrageous in what she says and what she wears (e.g., dresses made of meat and condoms), was appropriately selected to pay musical tribute to Bowie with a four-song performance at this year’s Grammy Awards in February.

More than five years ago she nearly broke the Internet, regarding a social media rumour that she had a penis: “My fans don’t care if I’m a man, a woman, a hermaphrodite, gay, straight, transgendered, or transsexual. They don’t care! They are there for the music and the freedom. This has been the greatest accomplishment of my life – to get young people to throw away what society has taught them is wrong.”

Segal, C. (2016). David Bowie made androgyny cool, and it was about time. [online] PBS NewsHour. Available at: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/david-bowie-made-androgyny-cool-and-it-was-about-time.

[vgdensetsu]

Streets of Rage 2 illustration by Mick McGinty, used as a temporary cover in advertisements and catalogues. Sources: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/mick-mcginty-streets-of-rage-2-original-sega-genesis-ad-art-sega-c-1993-/p/7348-18004.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 https://comics.ha.com/itm/miscellaneous//p/7348-15001.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

[thebtseffect]

Comp Reading Lists

In an attempt to self-study several areas and expand my own knowledge, improve my ability to do research, and keep current with fields of interest, I'm building my own "comps list" here of relevant books. There are so many academic articles that I'm not sure if I'll include them here, but I'd like to at least track my reading of books. Comps lists are typically for Ph.D. students studying for exams, but I thought it might be a useful tool for me too. If you have suggestions, I welcome them.

BTS Studies

BTS, Art Revolution, Jiyoung Lee.

BTS and ARMY Culture, Jeeheng Lee.

BTS: The Review, Youngdae Kim.

Philosophizing about BTS, Cha Minju.

Bumping into BTS, Ji Kim, Mick Shin, and Jane Do.

Map of the Soul - Persona: Our Many Faces, Murray Stein.

Fan Studies

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Henry Jenkins.

A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams.

Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Mark Duffett.

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams.

Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans, Mel Stanfill.

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, Jonathan Gray, Cornell Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington.

Fan Cultures, Matt Hills.

Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline, Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael.

The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, Lisa Lewis.

The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse.

Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms, Brit Kelley.

Fandom as Classroom Practice: A Teaching Guide, Katherine Anderson Howell.

Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies, Jungmin Kwon.

Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture, Judith Fathallah.

Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande.

Game Studies

Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture, Megan Condis.

Learning in Video Game Affinity Spaces, Sean Duncan.

Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity, Shira Chess.

Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming, T.L. Taylor.

Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Video Games, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux.

The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture is the Worst, Christopher Paul.

My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft, Bonnie Nardi.

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds, Celia Pearce.

Ethics, Psychology, & Philosophy

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, Joan Tronto.

Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, Murray Stein.

The Ethics of Care, Virginia Held.

Research Ethics in the Real World, Helen Kara.

The Portable Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Kaufmann.

General Reading & Methods

Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You, Thomas Mullaney and Christopher Rea.

The Practice of Qualitative Research: Engaging Students in the Research Process, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber.

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation, Sonja Foss and William Waters.

Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Series Books, William Germano.

Learning to Make a Difference: Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces, Etienne Wenger-Trayner and Beverly Wenger-Trayner.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method, Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie Nardi, et. al.

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, James Paul Gee.

[brokehorrorfan]

The Changeling will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) on October 25 via Severin Films. The 1980 Canadian horror film includes a slipcover (left) and a soundtrack CD.

Peter Medak (Species II) directs from a script written by William Gray (Prom Night) and Diana Maddox. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, and Melvyn Douglas star.

The Changeling has been newly scanned in 4K from the internegative with 5.1 and stereo audio options. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Peter Medak and producer Joel B. Michaels, moderated by Severin Films' David Gregory

Interview with director Peter Medak by filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano at Mórbido Fest 2018

Exile on Curzon St. — Peter Medak on his early years in London

The House On Cheesman Park — The true story of The Changeling

Interview with music arranger Kenneth Wannberg

Interview with art director Reuben Freed

The Psychotronic Tourist on The Changeling

Master of horror Mick Garris on The Changeling

CD soundtrack composed by Rick Wilkins

After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.

Pre-order The Changeling.

[mickc-art]

Helluva Boss Redesign: Prince Stolas

His redesign is heavily borrowed from Paimon’s design than Stolas’. I decided to add some glam and Bowie themed motifs since Stolas is more space oriented (which explains the cold palettes, his forehead, his eyes and his collar).

Without his cloak, Stolas has a waistcoat (or spacecoat) underneath which is inspired by the Thin White Duke, one of Bowie’s personas.

His human disguise/form still have glam and Bowie motifs but his appearance is based on Jemaine Clement. He won’t wear cloak in his human disguise but it depends on the time period.

Inspirations: https://pin.it/6wrhEji

[mysteriesofthemiseries]

Viscount Mousehole as Apollo, by Sir Lawrence Campbell, 1811

[Image description: A full-body portrait of the gloomy Viscount Mousehole cosplaying as Apollo whilst leaning to a column. The muse was nude but covered by a dark navy blue scarf. His head was wrapped with laurel leaves. His head glow like some portraits of Apollo during the Renaissance to Classical periods. The subject stands against the moors where the clouds formed against him. /end of ID]

[hackneyreviews]

- The 2nd half of the song is the good stuff. Rock and Roll. I can wax poetic about that if you want.*

- The lyrics are a reminder of why some of the best Stones songs bury the vocal so it blends into the rhythm section. The delivery is peak Mick, but to what end?

- I miss the now dead drummer Charlie Watts. I'll never forgive the band for not retiring the name of the Rolling Stones when he died. ** Can I really tell the difference or is it just the narrative? Does anything in pop music exist without the narrative?

- I do admire them for not writing an obvious song. Do they have an agent? I imagine the agent saying "Write a big one! You've been the devil, you've got the giant lips. Yer the OG rockers. Lean into it!"

- A lot of their hits have this quality of being off and sideways. The devil one is a Samaba. (I can wax poetic about this too)***

- Still for all that... the first two mins of the song are petulant and small. It's musical virtues are buried. It's lyrical content amounting to: My partner is mad at me and I don't know why and I don't really care to find out why? Just no there there for me.

- C -

- Having Sydney Sweeney star as the male gaze object in the music video was a very savy move. A different actress and I think it this plays much worse. Total understanding of zeitgeist

- B+

* At min 2, the guitar takes center stage, and it is the sound that reconfigured my brain. The sound of rock and roll. The mystical amalgamation of kinetic energy and languid phrasing. Of deep passion and hunger. Of indifference that promises inner peace.

The sounds mesh with the rhythm section, elevate it, are of it, and pull it's themes into a blurry focus. Before the drums and bass were a little funky, now you can hear they have been in the pocket all along.

It contains contradictions without a care or second glance. Let other art forms be coherent.

The guitars are not soaring. They are gritty and sporadic, coming in and out. Not promising anything or leading anywhere. Simply being.

But with an attentive passion that fact is mesmerizing. These notes could be your life.

The music is as if it was always meant to be there. As if rock and roll was not created but found... found to be the heartbeat of the universe.

In other words, it's the Rolling Stones doing what they do, what they make seem easy, and what few others have achieved.

**What is that sound? From the telegraph: "In other words, it’s an unconventional set-up. This means that the bass player in the Stones must act as a kind of flexible glue, bonding these elements together.

In a band, the drummer and the bass player meld to provide a solid rhythm section, a foundation on which the rest of the band can lay their sound. Jones and Watts did this in the Stones but there was a catch: the jazz-loving Watts always used to play just behind the beat. And Richards has always played his guitar in a languid blues-influenced style that flits between rhythm and lead guitar and has always been characterised by loose phrasing."

For the first two mins most of these musical charms are hidden. If you listen carefully they are there, but not easy to detect.

The funky baseline, the slightly odd drumbeat, even Mick Jaggers *almost but not quite* a parody delivery are all buried by the insipid lyrics that are put front and center in a pop song that says too much and yet not enough.

Is this song just a long whine ?

A repeating riff. If I work at it I can find the interesting dynamic core, but why would I work at it?

To a casual listen it sounds innocuous and inoffensive. Like something cooked up in 10 minutes at a rock and roll guitar camp and then copy and pasted a few times using Garageband.

If it wasn't the Rolling Stones it wouldn't get a second listen.

*** Wild Horses is great, but listen to those words... it's not a love song I would want to play at my wedding.

The philosophy of You Can't Always Get What You Want is deep but full of strange asides and unsatisfying conclusions.

Gimmie Shelter is about how love and war are just a kiss away - which feels right but... What does that even mean. Etc...

#music

[foreveralwaysanauthor]

Through the Valley Deleted Scenes

After a nearly 2-hour trip out to Boston to visit my mom's friend and her daughter (Instagram pictures to come), I have finally gotten this post together and ready for reading! At first, I was just going to keep them short and summarize them all, even the ones I had written things out for, but decided that it wasn't fair to keep all the scenes to myself. Some of them are entirely written out while others are just summaries because I didn't have anything for them, ideas that I never fleshed out, or just snippets of conversation that never got incorporated. They're sorted in chronological order so that it reads a bit easier. I hope you enjoy them!

The earliest section of Through the Valley that was changed from my original plans was Vivien meeting Royce and Bentley for the first time in part 3. Originally, it was going to happen in part 2, but I quickly changed it. Also, they were going to meet in Hobby Lobby, but since I was basing it on a real mall and I needed them to be in the same general area as they were when Mick and Viv fought the infected the day before, I had to change it. This is what that scene would’ve looked like if I hadn’t changed it:

"While the others took clothing and things from JCPenney, Mick gave me her walkie-talkie and told me I could explore the hobby store on the next floor down. I think she was just trying to spare me from repeating what had happened yesterday, but once she told me about how stores like that were usually left untouched during raids, I wasn’t going to argue the matter. I left most of my weapons with her in case she needed them, but kept the gun strapped to my thigh and my pocket knife. If the store had been cleared out by the other girls yesterday, I didn’t have much to worry about.

It was nice to look through places that hadn’t been entered in years. Looking around the dusty entrance of the Hobby Lobby, I shrugged and turned my Walkman on, listening as I Was Made For Lovin’ You by KISS came through one of my earbuds. As I walked through the store, I found it exceedingly difficult to fight the urge to grab things off the shelf to bring back to base. I wasn’t much for arts and crafts anymore, but I knew a few people who had offered to teach me things before that might’ve taken half of the store home with them if given the chance. The store wasn’t nearly as ransacked as some of the others, but there were quite a few empty shelves past the handful of cash registers. I have to admit, it was nice looking through all of the supplies they had. 

As I made my way through the embroidery section of the store, I found a set of fresh footprints in the dust that had settled on top of the linoleum floors. It didn’t have the stumbling, dragged steps of a runner, and, based on the prints, there were two different sets of shoes. One set looked like the hiking boots Mick liked to wear while the other looked fairly similar to my sneakers. Deciding to follow the footprints, I was almost in the paint section of the store when the sole of my sneaker screeched against the floor. Instantly, I heard someone take off in a run. Following the sound, I tucked my earbuds into my shirt and kept a hand over my holstered gun, spotting a head of blonde hair as whoever it was ducked into one of the Halloween display coffins that had stayed in the store since before the outbreak.

Nearing the display with a shake of my head, I announced, “Look, I don’t care who you are, but if you’re planning on jumping out of there to scare me, it isn’t going to work. Just come out and let’s talk.”

To my surprise, I heard a male voice ask, “How do we know you won’t try to kill us?”

With a scoff, I replied, “What am I going to do - wrap you in ribbons and stab you with safety scissors? That’s all there is in this store.”

“You have a gun,” another voice stated.

“And I’m a terrible shot,” I added. “Trust me, I’m far better with a bow. Now, am I going to have to pretend I’m talking to Count Dracula all day, or are you going to come out so we can talk?”

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Another one of the first deleted scenes was going to be around this same time frame, but with one of my favorite movie quotes. Basically, it was going to be a bit of back and forth between Vivien and Royce following the conversation between Kat and Patrick in 10 Things I Hate About You. When I realized that I didn’t like it for the two of them, I was going to alter it a little and use it for something between either Vivien and Aiden or Mick and Aiden, but it never worked out, so here’s the quote:

Him - “You’re not as mean as you think you are, you know that?

Her - “And you’re not as badass as you think you are.”

Him - “Ooh, someone still has her panties in a twist.”

Her - “Don’t for one second think that you had any effect whatsoever on my panties.”

Him - “Then what did I have an effect on?”

Her - “Other than my upchuck reflex, nothing.”

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I had this whole arcade scene planned in the mall, but I completely scrapped it because it made very little sense with the rest of the timeline. You can pretty much tell I was building up for it toward the end of part 3, but I decided it wasn’t going to work out with everything else I had planned. It was pretty much just the Troublemaker Trio (Royce, Vivien, and Bentley) hanging out in the arcade while the others searched the rest of the mall. Vivien would’ve shown the boys how to bowl, play pool, and throw darts in the arcade (based on the Round One arcade that I go to in the mall the story is based on). One of the more important scenes would’ve been Vivien teaching the boys to play arcade games with their imagination because the games are broken. Here’s a little snippet of that:

"It was sort of upsetting, you know, seeing an arcade empty and untouched. The one back at the stadium was always full of people, especially on weekends and after school got out. Round One had probably sat abandoned for a lot longer than the mall itself since it wasn’t really a “useful” place in the apocalypse. Isn’t it funny how many arcades had shooting games, especially ones based in worlds filled with zombies, but these places were deemed “useless” and “pointless” by the media after the outbreak? I mean, I could understand why, but still, I think they should’ve kept arcades open as a sort of morale booster for people. 

As we passed a machine labeled “The Walking Dead,” I thought about how ironic would it have been if someone was inside when the outbreak started. Peering inside the machine, however, I spotted only cartoonishly red blood splattered around the inside to add to whatever ambiance the makers of the game were trying to achieve. As we kept walking, I found myself wondering how many people had been inside the mall during the outbreak. Based on the handful of crusty copper stains that dotted the once blue and white carpets, my guess would be a lot.

Most of the claw machines had the glass shattered and the toys were stolen, but there were a couple that had at least one prize still hanging on by a thread. The prize room itself had very little left, but I was able to snag myself a new skateboard and a stuffed purple Yoshi from the top shelf while the boys looked around. Eventually, we met back up at the ticket counter where the boys were looking through whatever was behind the counter.

Upon noticing my return, Bentley leaned over the counter and pressed a few red cards onto the white surface. “What are these?” he asked.

Picking up the card, I chuckled, “These are game cards. People would pay real money to put tokens on the card, then they’d be able to go play as many games as they could with what was on the card.”

I could practically feel the excitement rolling off of him in waves. “Do you think they’ll still work?”

With a shrug, I said, “We can try. If you find a machine that’s working, let me know and I’ll show you how to work it.”

Bentley’s smile only seemed to grow as he pushed himself over the counter and made his way over to the arcade machines, a handful of red cards clutched tightly in one fist. Royce rounded the counter and joined me as I walked past the pool tables to where twelve lanes of bowling sat empty. “You’re pretty good with Bentley,” he remarked as we climbed the steps to the bowling alley.

“He’s the same age as my brother and sister, so it comes naturally to me, I guess,” I replied, grabbing a purple ball from the rack and making my way to one of the lanes that had pins still standing.

“What are you doing?” Royce asked.

“Bowling,” I replied. “Grab a ball and I’ll show you how.”

Royce contemplated the idea for a moment before shrugging and grabbing a ball from the rack of greens. Standing at what had once been the sixth lane, I stared down at the pins that were illuminated under a dull, flickering light. I took a few steps toward the end of the lane before releasing the purple ball, watching it roll its way toward the pins, knocking a group of them over with a satisfying clatter.

When I turned to Royce, I found him watching me with a curious smile. “What?” I asked.

“Nothing,” he chuckled, “you just looked so serious watching the ball roll.”

Without missing a beat, I shot back, “I take my balls very seriously, Royce.”

Obviously taken aback at my choice of words, Royce let out a squawk of a laugh before joking, “So do I.”

With a smirk, I took a seat and watched Royce make his way to the lane next to mine and let his ball roll toward the pins. Just as the ball collided with the pins, I felt someone drop into the seat next to mine. Finding Bentley had made his way over, I greeted him before turning back to Royce, finding all but three pins had fallen. After congratulating Royce, Bentley led us over to the arcade game he wanted to play: The Turning. I’d played it before in the arcade back at the stadium, but this one had a static-covered screen like many of the others in the area.

After pressing a few of the buttons and even resorting to kicking the machine, I muttered, “It’s not working.”

“What?” Bentley asked. “Don’t tell me it’s busted.”

Placing a hand on his brother's arm, Royce sighed, “It’s busted.”

Bentley let out a long, upset breath, “Man, I thought I was gonna be able to play it.”

Taking a look at the disappointed shine in Bentley’s eyes, I said, “You still can.”

“How?” he asked.

Taking a deep breath, I pulled Bentley over so he stood in front of the machine. “Close your eyes.” Before he could ask me why, I said, “Just do it.”

“Okay,” he said softly, closing his eyes and turning toward the screen.

I took Bentley's left hand and wrapped it around the joystick. “Use this to move.” After taking his other hand, I moved his fingers over the corresponding buttons as I told him, “This is your punch. This is your kick. And you block with this.”

“Alright.”

I caught a glimpse of confusion in Royce’s gaze as I gestured for him to stay quiet. Then, trying to force all of my game knowledge to the front of my mind, I began, “First, you have to choose your character. You’re playing as the person who uses people’s pain as a weapon, Tormentra.”

After a moment of silence, Bentley’s eyes flutter open and he looks at me in disbelief as he says, “Am I supposed to be picturing all this?”

“Eyes,” I reminded him.

“Okay, okay, sorry,” he replied, closing his eyes again and turning back toward the screen.

Resuming my storytelling, I brought back my action-movie voice and said, “Tormentra stands on the edge of the Shadow Temple, an ancient, mythical building where they hold the tournaments of the immortals. Your opponent, Blackfang, steps out of the temple. He’s this super ripped dude with three arms.” I watch Bentley’s eyebrows scrunch as the silence in the room grew. Then, I added, “He’s out for your blood.” The concentration on Bentley’s face grows and I notice his grip on the joystick tighten as I pull my walkman out and raise the volume so the music could be heard as I talked. “The music kicks up as Blackfang gets into his fighting stance. Are you ready?”

Bentley’s head tilts down as a smirk pulls at his lips. “Bring it,” he claimed confidently.

I quickly gesture for Royce to read the side of the machine and he soon smiles as he says in a deep voice, “Round one. Fight!”

Smiling, I watch Bentley’s smirk disappear and his fingers hover over the buttons as I begin narrating again, “Round one begins. Blackfang rushes towards you. He throws a double punch in your direction. Jump up!”

Bentley’s reflexes on the joystick are quick as he pushes it up. Soon, I find myself narrating the entire battle from start to finish. I guess Mom was wrong, video games can help you in everyday life. Between the excited concentration in Bentley’s expression and the fond look in Royce’s eyes, I find myself glad that I spent so much time in the arcade back at base. By the end of the third and final round, Royce and I give the order for Bentley to, “Finish him.”

Bentley moves the joystick and presses a couple of the buttons before pausing as I say, “The screen turns dark. Tormentra’s spirit power begins to glow a bright red. The magic pierces Blackfang’s torso again and again until his heart flies out of his chest. Tormentra’s spirit wolf bites his head clean off. That is an Ultra Kill.”

“Oh, nice!” Bentley exclaims.

“Tormentra’s wolf howls as the screen turns black. You win,” I finish.

“Heck yeah, I win!” Bentley says with a brilliant smile as his eyes slowly open.

“Did you have fun?” Royce asks with a grin.

Bentley is quick to nod as he turns to me and says, “I wanna go again.”

With a chuckle, I nod and say, “When we get back to the stadium, you’ll get to play the real thing.”

“Really?”

All he needs is a single nod before he launches himself at me in a hug, squeezing me so tightly that I worry my ribs will crack. “Thank you, Viv!” he exclaims.

“Anytime, Beemer.”

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Some of my favorite cut scenes revolved around music, but most of them weren’t written out at all and were scrapped at the plotting stage. The only cut song that I wrote anything out for was Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Taylor and would’ve been in the mall in part 4. The first part is similar to a scene in The Last of Us: Left Behind, but I did change a lot of it to fit what I needed. I took this scene out because I realized that I didn’t want to have the whole story take place in the mall and the way I wrote it made me feel like it would’ve kept them there a lot longer than they needed to be, especially since they already knew about Miles being in the hospital. Also, if you can’t tell by the grouping in the first paragraph, Lugnut wasn’t in the picture when I wrote this out.

"The mall was fairly easy to navigate even with the lights off. We had flashlights and, while it wasn’t much, it gave us enough light to see in front of us. Mick, Butchy, and Lela had split off to do heaven knows what on the top floor, leaving me, Royce, and Bentley to explore the bottom floor. I guess you could say we got the short end of the shit stick, but we seemed to be managing just fine. I had my bow, Royce had his pistol and some earbuds, and Bentley’s rifle was easily accessible from his backpack. 

As we entered the Target, we stayed on guard, but didn’t see or hear any infected in the area. Toward the back of the store, I found a line of speakers that seemed to be what was playing music throughout the electronics department. While the guys looked around for anything of importance, I headed over to the speakers and hooked one of the smaller ones up to my walkman through the slot next to the headphone jack, turning the volume up as the last song I had been listening to began to fade out. 

“What are you doing?” Royce asked.

Instead of answering, I pushed myself onto the glass case that held some of the more expensive electronics. “Come on,” I told them, “get your asses up here!”

“Isn’t that dangerous?” Bentley asked.

“There’s no infected in here and the glass is bulletproof,” I replied. “We’ll be fine!”

Bentley turned to Royce with a grin and tried to pull his brother along, but Royce seemed glued to the floor. I shrugged and danced along to the music as the next song on my cassette began playing. Soon enough, I was joined by Bentley who had left his backpack on the floor and taken to hopping around to the beat of the music. Royce took a bit more convincing, but eventually, he left his things and joined our little dance party, claiming it was “so stupid” as he pushed himself onto the thick, glass case. After dancing around for a minute, he seemed to change his mind, laughing and bouncing around with us as we jammed out to the mixtape Mick and I had made ages ago. Then, in the dip of silence between One Way or Another and Holding Out for a Hero, Royce froze and gestured for us to be quiet.

“What is-”

“Wait,” he interrupted, hand latched onto the hoster of his gun.

Almost as suddenly as our fun started, it came to an abrupt halt as the sound of groaning infected reached my ears. We quickly threw ourselves off the glass, grabbing our backpacks and whatever else we’d taken before sprinting toward the exit of the store. Bentley gripped onto Royce’s arm as he ran, pulling Royce to move faster as the hoard chased us down. Once I felt like there was enough distance between us and the infected, I nocked an arrow and turned to the group behind us, firing off an incindiary round and delighting in the flames that erupted from the now screeching crowd, but that only held them back for so long. Music was still blasting from my Walkman and I let it drive me to move faster, propelling myself to at least attempt to fill the gap between me and the boys.

As I ran, I heard yelling from above and, once I spared a glance to the next floor up, I found Mick, Butchy and Lela had made their way to the space above the food court and were trying to ecourage us to make our way to them. There was no way we could take the escalator up since the steps had collapsed in on themselves, but there was a staircase on the other side of the gap. I yelled for Royce and Bentley to head to the stairs and, in an instant, they headed for the other side. Sparing a glance at the hoard, I realized how screwed we - scratch that - I was. 

Sucking in a breath, I fired off another arrow, but didn’t bother to watch it explode as I took off again. The distance between me and the boys had gotten so big that they were already propelling themselves up the stairs, but as I watched Royce run up behind Bentley, a couple of steps before the middle landing creaked eerily. Picking up the pace, I heard gunshots echo through the building, making me shriek and duck as I ran. Looking up, I found the others shooting whatever ammo they had at the infected.

From their spot on the middle landing of the stairs, Royce and Bentley yelled for me to run faster as they readied their weapons. My lungs screamed and the stitch in my side only seemed to worsen as I forced myself to move faster. As I made my way to the stairs, I slowed, but only enough to make it up without slipping. However, luck didn’t seem to be on my side. The creak from before sounded deeper this time as the steps closer to the landing crumbled to the floor on the next floor down. With my only other choices being to join the rubble or get pulled apart by the infected, I pushed off the stair closest to the gap, hoping my aching legs would propel me far enough to reach the landing.

The air in my lungs left me as the upper half of my body slammed into the concrete landing, my legs dangling uselessly in the air as infected stumbled their way up the stairs behind me. I heard a few rounds fire from one of the brothers’ guns as the other pulled me onto the landing. As he helped me to my feet, Royce asked, “Are you alright?”

“Peachy,” I panted in response.

“They can’t make that jump,” Bentley declared, lowering his gun as Royce pulled me toward the next segment of stairs.

“Good,” I heard Lela say.

As we joined them, Mick nodded and said, “Once they’re all down on that floor, we can burn the shit out of those fuckers.”

“Good riddance,” I breathed as I practically collapsed onto a bench near the top of the stairs. With how many infected had chased us and no sign of where they’d come from, the mall wouldn’t be safe until we could completely secure it and close up whatever hole they were coming in from.

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Another thing that I swapped was Miles being immune. Originally, it was Royce, but I decided I wanted the whole drama in the Trauma Center so I traded Royce for Miles. In the very beginning, I had written down that I wanted Royce to breathe spores while with Vivien in the Trauma Center and have this moment where she’s having flashbacks of her time with Lexi and he has to help her out of it and tells her about his immunity. Sadly, I don’t have anything written out for it, but it was a solid plan until I finished working on part 4.

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Now, for the most part, part 5 didn’t have many deleted scenes, but there was a segment in part 5 where I was going to have them go through the MGM casino/movie theatre and shops in Springfield on their way to the hospital, but it’s too far out of the way and felt kind of pointless to keep.

Part 6 was going to have a few more Vivien and Carrie interactions, but I was really excited to write out the action in the Trauma Center, so they never got written. Mostly, it was going to be Vivien tailing Carrie around while she visits other patients, pestering her about how she knew Butchy and the gang, if they were trustworthy people, and things like that. It was going to show a bit more of their friendship, but I ended up adding the ideas to my “write later” folder and never actually going through with them. Instead, I ended up working more on Vivien’s relationship with Miles.

Part 7 is another one that didn’t have much taken out. The only thing I took out was a scene where they find what remained of the very first person to be brought to the hospital with a bite - a little girl named Kona. That’s right, Kona was going to be Patient Zero instead of a recurring character. It was going to be this very sad moment where the kids of the group find this girl who was maybe four, strapped to a hospital bed in a small room with only her stuffed animal by her side. Due to paperwork and notes in the room, they would’ve found out her name and how the hospital had decided to run vaccine tests on her, but the tests failed. Originally, it just going to be a little nod to her existence, but I love writing Kona’s character, so I ended up just completely scrapping that idea and making her Vivien’s roommate.

Part 8 had quite a bit changed, but most of it was just things I added to the part, not deleted scenes. There are a few that didn’t quite make the cut, though, here they are:

(When Vivien sent the video of the concert to Mick)

As I stood from my desk and crossed over to my dresser to grab something to change into, I heard a noise from my desk. It sounded different from the usual ping I got, telling me the message couldn’t be sent and that it would keep trying. It was a sort of deep swoosh sound With a shrug, I pulled my dad’s old shirt and a pair of shorts on and made my way back to the desk, picking up the phone and finding that not only had the video gone through, but I had received a message as well - ‘Can’t talk. Ilysm. Miss u - M.’

Staring at the little gray message in confusion, I came to the realization that I had received a message from Mick’s phone number. I had accidentally sent things to myself over the months, but this wasn’t one of those times. The contact at the top of the screen was Mick. I checked it a few times to make sure before digging my nails into my arm to make sure I wasn’t dreaming or making this shit up due to lack of proper sleep. Putting together that I was, in fact, seeing something that was real, I felt even more confused. Did that mean they were over the border? If they were over the border, that meant they would be home soon. A million thoughts ran through my head at once, but only one thing remained: they were coming home.

(This is the same premise - Vivien getting something from Mick for the first time - but this one was in August and she would’ve gotten it around the time Mick’s phone was being fixed in Littleton)

Nothing really eventful happened in the beginning of August, but I did get a ping on my cellphone one day that sent me into a frenzy. Kona and I had been eating some lobster that we’d caught on one of our fishing trips when my cell phone buzzed on the table. Guessing it was a text from one of the other girls, I picked up the phone and checked my notifications only to find a text from the only contact I had labeled as Mickie Mouse. The message wasn’t even a text, it was a picture. The picture was of a white, brick house with a group of people standing in front. Every person in the picture was decked out in winter gear, but I could make out everyone in the shot. Mick, Butchy, Lugnut, and Lela were standing to one side while Miles, Royce, and Bentley stood with a woman who was just a little bit shorter than Miles, and two graying people who each had an arm wrapped tightly around Miles, Royce, and Bentley. It seemed as though they’d found the rest of the Murphy family.

I tried sending something in response, firing off a barrage of messages that all came back saying they couldn’t be delivered. I stared at my phone in complete confusion and showed Kona what had happened. I showed Mick’s parent’s the next time I saw them, but it didn’t make any sense. How come I’d gotten the picture if I couldn’t send anything in return? I tried sending a picture of me and Kona, but that didn’t go through either. At least I knew they were alive. I could cling to that hope until they came back.

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The ending was originally going to be Vivien smashing her Walkman and leaving the stadium for her home in Sanbornton, never wanting to see or hear from anyone else again. She was pretty much going to become like Bill from The Last of Us - a man who secluded himself in a tripwired town, living out his days in solitude, angry at the world and everyone in it. However, I felt like that wasn’t the best outcome I could’ve gone with.

Another ending that I tried was the “Everyone Dies” ending. Vivien was going to join the group on their Canada trip and, on the way back home without Mrs Murphy, they’d lose the people around them. Lugnut would’ve been shot just over the border, Butchy would’ve died protecting the group from a hoard of infected, Miles was going to die in the car crash, Mick would’ve died in the jump from the bridge, and Royce would’ve drowned in his frantic search for Bentley in the waters. Basically, the only people to live would’ve been Vivien and Bentley. Like the other ending I mentioned, they would’ve gone back to Sanbornton and lived out their time there in peace. Vivien would’ve trained Bentley with whatever weapons they had, taught him to scavenge the way she’d been taught, and use the radio to find people in need of help. They would pretty much follow the same lifestyle the group had been living before - helping people in need and then returning home. While I loved this ending, I could nerve bring myself to write it out. It felt too out of character for many of them to die the way they would’ve. In the end, it joined the scrap pile 

Here are some of the cut songs and what would’ve taken place:

One Way Or Another would’ve been playing over the speakers in the mall while both the Hunters of Artemis and the Rodent crew were playing cat and mouse with a group of hunters that broke in. In the end, our favorite groups would’ve hunted down the hunters and returned to the safe houses. I took it out because it felt like it would’ve taken forever to get through and I wanted them to go to the hospital at that point.

Another One Bites the Dust was going to take place in an abandoned hideout in the sewers. They would’ve found their way to a gated door, but upon opening it, it triggers a heavy metal door to drop, separating the group in half with Vivien, Butchy, Miles, and Lela on one side and Mick, Royce, Bentley, and Lugnut on the other. Mick and her group get chased away from the metal door by clickers who found them with echolocation while Vivien and her group watch them run away. They navigate their way to a room that leads outside and meet up with the others there, leaving the area and using an old vending machine to keep the infected inside the building. At this stage, I was pretty much taking ideas straight from the first Last of Us game and took this out for that reason.

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This was going to be either on their way to the hospital in Springfield, through Boston to get to the stadium, or in a city on their way to Canada. It was just going to be them running from a group of hunters and, sadly, I have nothing else for that idea. It was just running and hiding, I guess. That’s literally all I have written for that scene lmao.

Finally, Hit The Road Jack (cover version by 2WEI) was the last song I would’ve used and it was going to be in the main story, but I liked it better for the epilogue. This was the song I listened to while writing the car crash/running from Xander’s group/jumping from the bridge scene. It felt very fitting as I was writing, but there was no way for me to use that song since Royce had no Walkman and there wasn't a radio or speakers they could use. Also, the cover version wasn’t released until after the outbreak would have started (2013).

Sadly, that's all that I've got in my notes folder and my Google Doc. I really wanted to expand on a few of these a lot more than I did, but my family is busy planning a fundraiser for a family friend as well as trying to get my sister's new house ready so that she, her husband, and their three kids can be settled in before winter hits. I haven't had the time to sit and write for a few days, but that should change soon! I'll have more things ready to post - maybe a few Halloween-themed stories - in the next week or so, hopefully. I hope you liked the deleted scenes and I hope to post something new soon.

[scarisd3ad]

Found you

Season one

- 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹�� 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲

𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 -

Oc cast list

Y/n hopper

𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 -      alive

𝗔𝗴𝗲

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟭 -    16

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 -  1967

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 -  kiddo

                     y/n/n

                    little hop

                    Hop

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 - hawkins Indiana ( 1968 - 1972 | 1979 - )

                    Hopper residence (1968 - 1972)

                    Hopper's cabin ( 1979 - )

                    New York (1972 - 1979)

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 - single

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 - Diane hopper (mom)

               Jim hopper (dad)

               Sarah hopper ✞ (sister)

𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - joyce byers (friend / mother figure)

                              Will byers (friend)

                              Jonathan byers (best friend)

                              Michele turner (best friend)

                              Olivia Sanderson (best friend)

                              Liam Sanderson (brother figure)

                              Steve harrington (ex fling / friend)

                              Nancy wheeler (ex best friend)

                              Mike wheeler (friend)

                              Dustin Henderson (friend)

                              Lucas Sinclair (friend)

                              Chrissy Cunningham (friend)

Eleven (friend)

𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - the hopper family

                      Hawkins middle art club

                      (Formally)

                     Hawkins high art club

𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - student at hawkins high

                         Student at hawkins middle

                         (Formally)

𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 -      female

𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 -       y/h

𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 -  y/e/c

𝗛𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 - y/h/c

𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀

Player by - you

Michele turner

𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 - Alive

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 December 27th 1967

𝗔𝗴𝗲

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟭 - 15

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀- Mick

Mickie

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 - Turner house (1970 - present)

Hawkins, Indiana

Dallas, Texas (1967 - 1970)

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 - dating olivia Sanderson

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 - Lily turner (mother)

Dave turner (father)

Caleb turner (older brother)

𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 -

y/n hopper (best friend)

Olivia Sanderson (girlfriend)

Steve harrington (friend)

Liam Sanderson (brother figure)

Nancy wheeler (ex friend)

Joyce byers (friend)

Jim hopper (friend)

                       Will byers (friend)

                        Jonathan byers (friend)

                        Dustin Henderson (friend)

                        Mike wheeler (friend)

                        Lucas Sinclair (friend)

                        Eleven (friend)

                        Tommy Hagan (classmate)

                         Carol Perkins (classmate)

𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 -  hawkins high girls soccer team

𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - student at hawkins high

Physical information

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 -             female

𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 -             5'5 (165 cm)

𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 -        Brown

𝗛𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 -       Brown

𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀

Played by - Amanda arcuri

Olivia Sanderson

𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 -              alive

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 -                1967

𝗔𝗴𝗲

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟭 -          16

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 -            Liv

                         Livie

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 - Sanderson house

                      Hawkins, Indiana

      𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 - dating michele turner

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 - Mary Sanderson (mother)

                 Bill Sanderson (father)

                 Liam Sanderson (younger brother)

𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 -

                 Michele turner (girlfriend)

                  Y/n hopper (best friend)

                  Carol Perkins (friend)

                  Tommy hagan (friend)

                    Eleven (friend)

                  Steve harrington (friend)

                  Nancy wheeler (enemy)

Joyce byers (friend)

Jim hopper (friend)

                   Will byers (friend)

                   Jonathan byers (friend)

                   Dustin Henderson (friend)

                   Mike wheeler (friend)

                   Lucas Sinclair (friend)

𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - Sanderson family

                       Hawkins high cheer squad

                       Hawkins middle cheer squad

                        (Formally)

𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - student at hawkins high

                           Head cheerleader

                          𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 - female

𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 - 5'4 (163 cm)

𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 - green

𝗛𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 - blonde

       

                                      𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹

Played by - Elle fanning

Liam Sanderson

𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 -           alive

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 -             1967

𝗔𝗴𝗲 -                16

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 -          Li

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 -     Sanderson house

                         Hawkins, Indiana

      𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 - dating nancy wheeler

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 - Mary Sanderson (mother)

                 Bill Sanderson (father)

                  Olivia Sanderson (older sister)

𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 -

                 Michele turner ( friend)

                  Y/n hopper (sister figure/friend)

                  Carol Perkins (friend)

                  Tommy hagan (friend)

                  Steve harrington (friend/enemy)

                  Nancy wheeler (girlfriend)

           Jim hopper (friend)

                 Jonathan byers (enemy)

𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - Sanderson family

                       Hawkins high football team

                        Hawkins high basketball team

                      Hawkins middle basketball team

                        (Formally)

𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - student at hawkins high

                          𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 - male

𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 - 6'0 (182 cm)

𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 - green

𝗛𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 - blonde

                                     𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀

                          Played by - Lucas till

(The rest of the cast is played by themselves)