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letterstothemidnightsociety · 4 years

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It’s week three of my Global-Pandemic-Induced decision to rewatch all of Supernatural, and so I’m still attempting to make this watch more productive than the last show that I binged.

So I’m on disc two now - that’s episodes 5 - 8 for those of you watching on Netflix. By the time we get to this disc, we know the basic formula for Supernatural as a series - Two Hunks + Fighting Evil to the Power of Acceptable Levels of Gore x Missing Dad = Ratings Gold. Or at the very least, good enough ratings that we’ll give you a season (or fourteen). And then...well...then.

Episode five is “Bloody Mary”, easily the scariest episode of this first season and, based on the nose dive that the formula takes after season 1, probably the entire series. Maybe it’s that the Bloody Mary legend was one that really got me as a kid, maybe it’s just that I don’t do so hot with ghosts, but guys this episode still made me turn on all the lights and avoid all my mirrors. I accidentally turned this episode on at 9pm and regretted it immediately. I walked away at one point to go clean my kitchen to strategically miss some of the spookier points and I walked back in during an even spookier point. I was mad that there were no commercials at the commercial break cut-to-black! The first time I watched this episode, I’m pretty sure I watched it through my fingers. This most recent viewing, I ALSO watched it through my fingers. Guys, THIS EPISODE.

I will say it a-hecking-gain: This episode scared the SHIT out of me.

AND THEN, THEN! Then this show has the gall to go ahead and drop a major season/character plot point right there in the middle of all this content that I am actively trying not to look at: SURPRISE! Sam has premonition powers and sorta kinda knew that his girlfriend was gonna die a terrible death weeks before she dies. Because sure, why not?

Ohmiglob the DRAMA.

I’m gonna take a moment to say that, yes, technically this piece of plot gets dropped within our first six episodes, so we can still safely say that, you know, they’re still setting up the story for the rest of the series. It’s not like a sudden twist they drop half way through the season, it’s being laid down as ground work. And I know that this turns out to be a MAJOR issue for the next four seasons at least, but can I just say: Kripke, you’re really throwing a lot at us. I mean, OK. here’s what we’ve got -

The Winchester’s lost their mom at a young age to some evil thing. Cool, got it.

THEN they have daddy issues with C-minus Single Dad John Winchester. Alright, that seems logical.

The brothers hunt bad guys looking for the thing that killed their mom. Ok still on board.

There’s family drama, relatable.

Dad’s gone missing and we gotta find, ok ok ok.

Also Sam’s girlfriend dies in a fire, alright, so we’re looking for that thing now too.

OH! And now Sam has magic powers.

I mean, it’s a lot, right? We got a lot of layers here. That’s all I’m sayin.

So “Bloody Mary”, right? Big episode, big bad guy, they kinda loophole their way into defeating her but I’m not mad. Big reveal at the end, so kind of an important lore episode. And then...well...then we get the following episodes:

“Skinwalker” - gross-out fx, establishes Dean as a lonely asshole with a lot of APB’s out on him

“The Hook Man” - takes the Urban Legend angle of the show and dials it up to 11

“Bugs” - Does what it says on the tin.

Now to be fair: all three of these episodes have at least ONE shining moment that reveals a little more about the characters we’re working with, and that character development plays out in important ways in the rest of the season/series. But all three of them are arguably---

FILLER EPISODES-ODES-ODES-ODESSssssssss.

Alright, maybe that’s unkind. Maybe we should call them standalones or self-contained. A Filler is an episode designed to “fill out” your season. It doesn’t necessarily move the overarching story of the season forward, although it may contain some concepts or revelations that are important later. I’d argue that Supernatural has only ever had two kinds of episodes - Series Arc and Filler. Not that that’s a bad thing - I like a filler episode now and again. Depending on how heavy your season gets (and by all accounts Supernatural gets pretty heavy), they can be a nice breath of fresh air - also known as a Breather Episode. Or they can be just for fun. I’mma reference “Once More with Feeling” again because sure, why not throw in a musical episode in season 6 of a show about vampire slaying, that’s fine. I wanna reference something from Community here too, but honestly anything after season 2 could probably be called filler or self contained, so who even knows. I’ll point at the Voltron episode where they spend a day in the mall to gather some unobtainium for the ship and wacky shenanigans ensue. Point being, they can be times to break the mold and experiment and have fun with what you’re writing. Or they can be ridiculous nonsense. Mileage may vary.

The crazy thing about these episodes is that they most closely resemble what Kripke intended the show to be in the first place. Kripke wanted a show that revolved around characters investigating American urban legends. What is more quintessentially urban legend than Bloody Mary, the Hook Man and curses from ancient Native American burial grounds? These were stories that I as the viewer was already sort of familiar with because I’d heard of all of them before. What I appreciated, specifically about the Bloody Mary episode, was that they a) acknowledge the fact that these are Urban Legends (capital letters and all) and then b) acknowledge that the legends vary wildly so a part of their job is figuring out what is true and what is rumor. I guess you could also call that a cop out but when I was a kid, I was told that Bloody Mary was the ghost of Queen Mary of England who was sister to Elizabeth I and was also violently anti-protestant. WHERE did I get this story? I have no idea. But I also have no idea where Sam got the “mutilated bride” story from either.

In an old article I found circa season 2, Kripke actually talks about preferring standalone content to mythology/lore episodes in television. Both as a creator and as a viewer, he wants a show where people can jump in at any time and “join the party” wherever they are. That’s the beauty of procedurals - you don’t need to start from the beginning to enjoy them.

But what really got me personally hooked on the show was the mythology, was the season long arc to find John Winchester and whatever killed their mom. Those mythos episodes were where the meat of the show was for me - it usually involved a lot of feelings and a lot of character development which is still mostly my jam. If I’m obsessively watching a show, it’s because I’m connected to the characters and watching them struggle through the challenges in their path, not because I want to see what monster they kill next.

And again, I’ll reiterate that each of these episodes contains an important nugget of character. In “Bloody Mary”, easily the least likely to be called Filler, we find out that Sam has weird magic powers that are the real source of his guilt over Jessica’s death.

In “Skin”, we find out a lot about Dean’s inner landscape from the DopppleDeaner, who reveals that Dean is probably most afraid of people leaving him (be still my 19-year-old heart).

Wasn’t mad about this bit...

Coulda done without this bit tho...

In “Hookman”...alright, you kinda got me on “Hookman”, but we do get the first appearance of the rocksalt shotgun and Sam talks with a girl about her dad issues which is really Sam talking about his own dad issues in the language of tv shows. Also, he maybe starts to move on from Jessica???? It’s unclear, and also a little weird but I guess he’s only 22 and that’s not that far off from 18/19.

Really, WB?? Sneaking into sorority houses?

And then in “Bugs”, yes, even in “Bugs”, we get juicy little bit of tension between the brothers as they advise some teen boy about family dynamics. The fight shows a lot about what each character feels about their own experiences growing up the way they did, how they manage the expectations from their own father, and how they believe those family dynamics should exist. I mean I guess you could also argue this is the episode that plants the seed for Wincest, but I don’t really want to go there, let’s not talk about it.

This kid’s like, “This is...not a conversation about me and MY dad, is it?”

So they could be worse. I mean the last two definitely aren’t great, and we’ll see how they measure up to the Monster Truck episode later in the season, but they’re not bad episodes.

So let’s flash forward to Now again - have we seen the end of Filler Episodes?

As I have mentioned in previous posts and will probably continue mentioning in future posts, the 22 episode season is not the norm anymore. A lot of articles I’ve read point to Breaking Bad as the first American show to really break that mold. Breaking Bad released only 7 episodes in it’s first season in 2007. When you’ve cut your story down that much, there’s no room for filler - you’re basically producing a 7 hour movie.

Now notice I said American TV show. I’m pretty sure for most of the rest of the world, 22 episodes is way outside the norm, but really I can only speak to UK TV. Seasons in the UK do not last as long as seasons in America. Doctor Who, one of, if not the, longest running show on BBC, aired its first season with 42 episodes, which is mind boggling. But since the series revived in 2005, it hasn’t had more than 13 episodes in a season. Spooks/MI5 never had more than 10 episodes. The IT Crowd only aired 6 episodes per season. Broadchurch had only 8. And because I must complete the Superwholock trifecta, Sherlock seasons were only 3 episodes a piece. These are the shows that spring to mind while I’m writing this, but you get the idea.

So why does American broadcast TV have such long seasons? Well, the answer is: moneymoneymoney.

We live in an age of “prestige” TV. Some throw around “Golden Era”, but there’s been like, a Golden Era of television every 10 years since tv’s became household commodities, so that phrase basically means nothing. TV today is more similar to long-form film making than it was a decade ago. We associate terms like “film” with other terms like “art”, and sometimes we forget that television is, and always was, a business. It’s a business that’s making a lot of money entertaining you for hours on end, but a business nonetheless. I’d argue that it doesn’t mean it’s not art, but I don’t think we can separate the art and entertainment value of tv from its actual monetary value.

Strategically, the 22-episode season was to get a show to a magical number of total episodes - 100. Once you hit the 100th episode, somewhere around season 5 (thanks math), then you can sell the show in syndicated reruns. This is also referred to as second-run syndication or off-network syndication. When a show is syndicated, that means the production company that produces the show can now sell the right to air episodes to other channels. Think channels like TBS or TNT or even USA Network - they don’t really dabble in producing their own content, they just repackage content from other networks to plug in to empty slots in their programming. And because these channels can air episodes 5 days a week, 365 days a year, that means the production company can actually make more money by selling the show in syndication than when they sold the show to the primary network. The more episodes you have in a season, the faster you get to syndication, and sometimes that means a show that’s on the brink of cancellation due to poor numbers may still get greenlit for another season or two if they’re closer to that magic 100th episode. For a show like Supernatural, that has a very procedural, not-super-heavy-mythos, structure, you can do very well in syndication. Just cuz another network agreed to air your show doesn’t mean they agreed to air it in order, so procedurals work better in syndication than your season-arc shows do. And that’s why we have episodes like Bugs, that have nothing to do with the overarching plot of the season and also phone in some questionable CGI.

Apparently they DID use real bugs to shoot this scene and everyone got bit to hell but the bugs didn’t show up good and they went with CG anyway?!?

But these days, you don’t have to hit 100 episodes. Sometimes only 80 episodes will do. Sometimes, you run a streaming site and you don’t have to worry about reruns at all because your revenue isn’t generated from air time or even ads, but from subscription prices. Honestly, when you think of it that way, it makes way more sense to greenlight shorter seasons so that you have the budget to buy more and more diverse shows that will appeal to a broader audience of viewers.

So if Supernatural was produced today, would we get these off-shoot, self-contained episodes that have little to do with the plot of finding Sam and Dean’s dad? It’s hard to say. Knowing what I do about Kripke’s original plans for the show and his thoughts on procedural standalone episodes in general, its possible that he’d still try for a traditional season aired on a traditional TV network. But in that same interview I quoted above, he also mentions that the only way to get into a show with a heavy mythos is to buy the DVDs. We don’t need DVDs anymore - we have Netflix. And Hulu and Prime and any number of other streaming services that pick up any show they can get just to have a larger library of content and attract new viewers. I think a good indicator of what Supernatural would look like if it aired today is Hulu’s Helstrom - a show about two siblings with a childhood marked by strange and terrible happenings, who spend the season trying to defeat an evil demon. This show is a Hulu original that dropped all 10 episodes on October 16, 2020, and damn if that doesn’t sound familiar. I told a friend, “it’s like Supernatural but more emotions.” (Her response was, MORE emotions?!?!?) And before you dive down the rabbit hole, the characters in Helstrom made their debut in a Marvel comic back in the 70’s, so you can just chalk it up to nothing new under the sun.

Big Mood, guys. Big Mood.

I’ll close this one by reiterating I don’t mind a filler episode. Some fillers can be weird and great and wonderful. I’d say “Tales of Ba Sing Se” (Avatar the Last Air Bender, Season 2) is a great example - with the possible exception of Appa, the vignettes presented in “Tales” are basically side quests that have nothing to do with the main quest of season 2 and only serve to develop characters. The stories are sweet and touching and also light and fun.

I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying! It’s ok, I’m also crying.

And the longer a show runs, the more likely you are to run into these fillers - episodes that take a break from the main action to bring something that’s new and out of the box and possibly/probably writers getting bored with the every-day formula of the show. I think season 1 of Supernatural does a decent job of balancing the two styles of episode so that neither gets boring. In fact, I’m pretty Supernatural was what taught me the difference between the two episode styles in the first place. And the first time around, I was hyped for those season arc episodes, because back in the late 2000’s, I hadn’t seen a lot of TV content like that. Now, 15 years on and mired in a sea of seasons that stick mainly to a season arc story with little to no room for breathing, I think that if all TV became nothing but season arc episodes...well, it’d get pretty boring.

#Supernatural #Supernatural Season 1 #Bloody Mary #Hookman #Bugs #Skin #Jensen Ackles #jared padalecki #kripke #helstrom #Filler episodes #TV #TV history #Supernatural Rewatch #CW #Sam #Dean #Winchesters

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qelizhus · 4 years

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ten questions tag game

tagged by @septemberliterature, thank you!! answers & your questions will be under the cut, tagging some folks who’ve tagged me recently: @raevenlywrites, @snowsqueens, @andiwriteunderthemoon & @n1ghtcrwler (and anyone else who would like to do it!)

i. which oc would you get along the most with? hmmm probably tyren; they’re a lot more... chill compared to most of my ocs, which is nice.

ii. if your wip’s genre changed, what would it change to and what would change and what would be kept the same? ooh good question. i think it’d probably go to adventure? like right now it’s not really an exploration-type adventure, but it could be if i played a little harder into the “finding xyz characters”. so if i got rid of the sorta “survivor’s guilt” motivation, i guess.

iii. is there an idea for a wip you’ve been thinking about but haven’t done anything beyond that? yes! it’s gone under a few name changes (as they all do), but now it’s sitting under the title ‘decadence’. it explores sentient magic (and what i hope is magic realism bc that stuff is fun) and identity (both interpersonal and intrapersonal relations). i haven’t officially started writing it because i’m not sure what form i want it to be in (POV, novel vs collection of short stories, etc.)

iv. what’s a song that perfectly captures your wips? ohh man. i have no idea. i even have a wip playlist, but i don’t use it lmaoo

v. if your wip was a movie or tv show, who would be the actors for your characters [basically face claims]? im gonna b honest and say that i don’t really pay attention to actors (like i know.... ten? actors by both name and face and works), so. not sure.

vi. how do you come up with your titles? poorly. jk. well, i pretty much have a notes folder for random og fiction stuff that comes to mind, so if i’m in need of a title i’ll look in there, or i’ll leave it untitled/titled with the most self-explanatory thing until i come up with something better. even then, it usually takes multiple changes before i get set on something (both the odes and decadence are temporary titles; i’m not 100% set on the latter and definitely want to change the former)

vii. if your characters were put in a reality show type setting where they all lived together, what would happen? hmmmmm. i don’t my main cast for the odes are particularly chaotic or intentionally mean/mischievous people, so it’d probably go over OK. unless u start bringing in the side characters with known bad relations w the main cast.

viii. what ocs from different wips would or wouldn’t get along? why? ...so most of my decadence characters don’t have proper names yet. i’m thinking servitude wouldn’t get along with yara, because yara’s self-confidence and the values she puts in herself would probably make servitude uncomfortable, because that’s something she’s not accustomed to seeing is an option. long story there; just look at her name. on the other hand, i think storm-speaker would get along with tyren, because they’re both very righteous people.

ix. how do you come up with settings? pretty much the same as titles. dreams, shower thoughts, etc... though ofc i’m certain there are influences from the real world/media works i’ve seen, but i just haven’t actively used them.

x. if all your ocs decided to bake a cake together, how would it go? a lot of discussion on what cake should be baked that it probably wouldn’t be baked. if it does get started, probably two or three of them would actually do the baking and everyone else would just not do anything lmfao

my questions to yall:

why do you write the genre(s) you do?

what genre(s) do you like to read but haven’t yet written? is there a reason why you don’t write it?

do you listen to music when you write? if so, do you have a set playlist for each wip and listen to it, or something else?

how do you design a character? do you use personality “definers” such as zodiacs, personality tests (myers briggs, enneagram, etc.)?

when designing an oc, do you set out to figure out their likes and dislikes (hobbies, food preferences, etc.) or do you let it come to you when writing/other?

is there any other media format that you’d like to try (screenplay/cartoon/etc.)?

do you participate in writing activities such as nanowrimo?

if a character doesn’t entirely fit your wip at the time, what do you do with them? cut the character entirely (and/or save for later) or change their personality/whatever aspects don’t fit?

what inspires you to write?

how did you come up with the concepts for your wips?

#tag game #qtalks #the odes #decadence #taosw #txt

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dieting-inspo-blog · 5 years

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Because no one else seems to care

Tuesday

I walk home from the bus stop after school with 2 friends of my older brothers, on the way home I see my brother (about 50 meters ahead of us) realising he ditched school but then he starts stumbling, physically unable to walk straight. He’s walking with a random girl (she seemed totally ok physically) the guys didn’t really know her. We run up to him and immediately realised he’s off his nut, he was on something. I’ve seen this from him once before but this was a bit different. One of his friends goes and talks to him as I and the other friend are slowly walking towards home. One of the friends sorta knows who the girl is and says that she’s not a good person, he refers to her as a ‘junky slut’ she’s a druggie kid. We ask her what happened, what he took. She told us that, they were at our house for a bit then he took a bunch of pills out of a drawer, she didn’t wanna say anything cause it was the first time they met up and she didn’t wanna judge. At this point we just want to get him home, we were about 100 to 200 meters away, we’re literally dragging him because he didn’t wanna go. Not that there was much of a struggle anyways. As we get into the driveway I see a tear roll down his face, with a blank, empty face and that broke me inside, all of us kinda just stoked for a sec abd was like ‘(insert name) are you alright?’ When we get inside we go into the lounge room and sit him on a foot stool and he starts to flop over as he’s passing out. We took off his jumper and shoes, his friends had to physically pick him up and drag him off and onto the long couch cause as soon as he sat down he was out. At this time dad was already in his way back home after his friend called and explained the situation. Dad gets back, I’m standing at my doorway and I see him kind of slapping him around a bit and calling his name in an effort to wake or stir him, even lifting an eyelid open but his eyes just roll into the back of his head. He calls a close family friend who’s a nurse. After checking him out a bit she says to call the ambulance immediately. He had od’ed. He admits to taking 4 or 5 endon and 2 pear ciders but we knew there was more. 5 out of a pack of 6 ciders are missing from a pack that he must have bought, after looking through the bins we find a full tray of 50 of lorazepam Gone but he must have been taking that over a long period not all that day. All of it is my mums old medication from 7 years ago when she was stage 3 terminal cancer then eventually died, being put to sleep by the same medicine.

Wednesday

He wakes up in the hospital and says to the psychiatrist talking to him ‘I can’t believe it didn’t work’ this wasn’t just an od it was a suicidd atenpt. Dads girlfriend is talking to him in the er and he tells her that he’s gonna get out of here as soon as he can so he can try again. I get to go in and see him there for a bit but I have nothing to say. I just sit silently crying as he sleeps. Around 3 he gets admitted into the children’s psychiatric ward since he is still 17. When he’s signing the papers he makes the comment ‘this is a nice prison’ and ‘I’m not crazy I’m just depressed’ when we talk to the people close to us they all say ‘I don’t want to go to another (insert last name) funeral’

Thursday

The doctors want to send him home for the weekend but we think that he’s just pretending to be ok so he can get out and just expect to come home and have everything be how it was before but nothings ever going to be the same again

I feel dead inside, I can’t do this again, if I’m being honest I’m not sure if he’s even going to make it to see his 18th birthday. I’m 14 and I don’t know how to deal with this, my dad is very angry and can’t even bare to look at my brother. Family friends are suggesting o get out of the house for a while so as not to accidentally get caught in his line of anger. When mum died he always seemed so angry at me and ny brother but I didn’t truly understand what was happening at tgd time, I was only 7.

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blookmallow · 6 years

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more Spooky Woods Adventures... this one went rly long

this time we’ve got ginger

huh

this looks....like a grave? but doesnt seem to do anything. hm

i tried walking the wrong way/away from grandmother’s house but

eventually i just ended up back at the phone again so i think you just loop back if you walk far enough out :’)

i went back out into the woods on the right again (same as i did with rose, ruby was the other side)

well theres the bathtub i found before, so

more evidence to the “everything is actually in set locations it just changes based on who you are when you find it” theory and also the fact that the road loops because i went the same direction as i did with rose and ended up here

oh wow that is........a Lot of bullets, what happened here,

interesting, but. doesnt seem to do anything this time

found a campground and a campfire, you can open a shed and sit by the fire but again nothing seemed to be happening

ive been getting weird shadow images of other sisters sometimes?? i wonder if its hinting at who i need to be for something to happen here

o H GOD

I DONT KNOW WHATS HAPPENING BUT I DONT LIKE IT :’)

thats the grandmother but im not. sure why she is manifesting on my screen suddenly

im not sure what the grandmother represents either, maybe something to do with the “wolf disguises himself as grandma” thing (grandmother herself is not always the wolf though because she was clearly there when i walked through without leaving the path and every time it acknowledged a Wolf Encounter i didnt see her in the house)

ohhHHHH SHIT I FOUND A GRAVEYARD!!!! FUCK YEAH

we got skulls. we got headless angels. we got ominous lighting. i love it. i Love it

well im hopelessly lost

ive passed through like four different Areas of Interest and yet have had nothing major happen yet ??? im finding a bunch of Memory Items and whatever those little flower tokens are but nothin else and this forest is REALLY hard to navigate in any kind of efficient way

like its definitely mostly designed for “wander in and see what you find” you’re probably not meant to carefully examine every inch of it and map it out logically but right now im just lost as shit :’)

i eventually ended up back at this wall near the bathtub where i started from and realized i could interact with the wall now, when it appeared not to do anything when i was rose, but this also didn’t trigger the Bad End scene either so i think there are objects out in the woods that only particular sisters can interact with even if it’s not where their Ending is

oh my GOD i kEEP ENDING UP BACK AT THIS GODDAMN CAMPFIRE NO MATTER WHERE I GO :’ )

i got stuck walking in circles for a rEALLY long time i just. no matter what i tried to do i would always either end up back at the bathtub, the campfire, or the graveyard

theres like. wispy things that appear on the edges of the screen sometimes but i couldnt figure out if they were trying to lead me somewhere or were just Aesthetic, theres occasionally like. a ‘map’ thing that appears briefly that shows you a dotted line of where you’ve been walking and a star marking where you are but i cant figure out any way to intentionally bring that up, it just sorta appears sometimes when it feels like it and disappears quickly so i dont really have time to sort out which direction i need to go

mostly it just would be a sudden absolute tangled mess of me walking in circles and Sometimes id get a brief hint of which direction might lead to Somewhere I Haven’t Already Been To 800 Times

i mean i got loads of memory items for whatever thats worth :’|

they seem to carry over into the next run too i got the two-headed bear with ruby and its still here

i eventually managed to find my way back to the Ominous Scarecrow, which i thought at the time was just another strange place in the woods you can find but doesnt really Do anything but, at a loss for anything else to do, i went over to it and this time it DID trigger an Ending

so its possible i might have already found the Ending locations for other sisters and just dont know what they’re for yet

also sighs i found this like. really early on with rose and yet could not find it for AGES with ginger even though i was on the same side :’ )

also i never saw the swamp with the boat at all with all that wandering so its possible some things might only appear to certain sisters. but then again its also possible i just never walked the right direction considering how fuCKING LONG it took me to find this

im also not sure if you can find your way back to the path again after a while if you go out too far into the woods, it might start looping at some point like the road did bc i tried several times to get back to the path in an attempt to start myself over/get unlost and could never find it

aAAGHh WHY

also the mystery girl (who i found a LOT wandering through the woods all that time, she was almost always/maybe Always there whenever i found anything interesting anywhere, sometimes id find her just dancing around but she wouldnt lead me anywhere and was just sorta There) is now wearing red, which ive never seen before

i dont remember exactly what happened here but they laid down in the grass together and then

g oD HONESTLY IM JUST GLAD FOR THIS TO BE OVER I HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE WOODS FOR 70 YEARS

oh god ok

thats. not normal

in all my wandering i apparently managed to. do whatever it is needs to happen in order to unlock the secret rooms, so i went through a lot more of the house than i have before (you dont have free movement in the house, you can only keep moving on a set path)

ominous scarecrow is now tiny and under the bed for some reason,

theres Strings everywhere?? also i think that’s the boot i found somewhere in the woods?

??????????????

4535 meters is apparently about 3 miles which honestly isnt as bad as i thought :’)

i dont know what the ranks mean, i got loads of memory items/all the special rooms/found the End and its a B so /shrugs

i dont have any idea what this story was about either. ginger’s kinda tomboyish and graffities up the wall/etc so i guess maybe her thing is Rebellious Disobedience, maybe the girl in white becoming a girl in red could be something to do with falling to peer pressure (but ginger/all the sisters are already Red, their names are all variants of red, they’re all ‘red riding hood’ figures, so the mystery girl wouldn’t be a symbol for Peer Pressure herself? maybe she’s someone who was hurt because of something ginger did?) but. i dont know. i genuinely dont know :’)

like this game is aesthetic as fuck and its really interesting but i very much do not understand the narratives

its definitely Supposed to be surreal and open-ended so maybe im not supposed to understand, i dunno

#lucy plays the path

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franeridart · 7 years

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Hey!!! I hope this isn't weird but, What bands/singers do u like?? My music doesn't makes me exited anymore, which sucks! So im looking for new people to listen to! And i remember u putting a link of one of the new songs of all time low to your kiribaku art and i love that album also you are one of my fave artist so i thought i could ask u too! If u don't mind ofcourse!!! I hope this doesn't bother u! (I guess this is kind of useless info ahhhh i hope u don't mind!)

It’s absolutely not weird so don’t worry about it, but it’s!!!! sort of an hard question to answer because more or less anything that can fall under the very huge umbrella of the rock label is fair game for me haha the two bands I’ve been calling my favorite for longer right now are Alter Bridge and Tremonti, lately I’ve been really into Nothing More, I have a super weak spot for Halestorm too right now - I like most post-hardcore, but Pierce The Veil and Bring Me The Horizon are my faves? But, well, all this stuff is really different compared to All Time Low… since you liked them you could try Tonight Alive or One OK Rock! You Me At Six work too I think, and… Andy Black’s solo album was more pop-ish but on the same genre too, so try that one maybe! Oh and Young Guns!!!! I love Young Guns how could I forget them, they’re in this type of punk too!

Sorry, this isn’t exactly just my faves haha I love music too much, it’s hard to pick a limited number of artists for me rip

Anon said:HIIIIIII!! First of all, i love you and your art. Now, where is the bokuroo???? :C please draw some bokuroo, i miss those two! Maybe some fluffly? But also kiribaku is good, i started shipping those two thanks to you! And sorry for my bad english. Bye bye!!

Hi! Thanks for liking my stuff!!! And I’ve talked about why I’m not drawing much Haikyuu lately right here but to make it easy because of some reasons inspiration is really low in that fandom for me right now so!!! I’ll have to ask you to be patient with the lack of content that might not be changing until Bo and Kuro start being relevant in the manga again

Anon said:Fran… it’s not bc the heat is killing YOU that you have to kill US, what’s with all the beef suddenly. seriously. > : C (jk thank you for it hhh)

LMAO is this about Deku it feels like this is about Deku hahaha

Anon said:I feel like your art style has changed a bit over the few months, all in good way tho! The characters’ dimensions seem to be more dynamic, little things like hands and limbs in general feel very natural. Your Bakugou and Kirishima are both very consistent too and have a nice design to them!

This is my favorite ask ever, I’ve read it fifty times and I’ll probably read it more in the future thank you so much??? I’ve actually been feeling like my style has gotten all over the place lately so knowing you find it consistent and natural means so much to me ;A; you really did make my day, thank you!!!

Anon said:Story challenge! Take your favorite otp’s/ot3’s and give one of them cancer

*sweeps angst under the closest carpet* anon this is weird for some reason I can’t seem to be able to read your ask

Anon said:I swear to the gods Your art is too pure You are responsible for 2/5ths of my bnha pix folder. I loooooooooooooooovvvvveeeeee bakukamikiri now because of yooou *crys because my art isn’t as good*

SOB thank you so much oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:This episode was so intense wow. Can I just say that I absolutely adore Todoroki. This boy deserves so much love

I KNOW RIGHT he’s such a good boy such a pure nerd such a strong sprout I love him so much I’m so so so glad he’s healing !!!!!

Anon said:Hello, can I marry your art? Especially Bakugou with undercut, he stole my heart *^* and holly fuck, you have a big plus from me for knowing “Shark Boy and Lava Girl”. Before I found it, I thought I can’t love you more. How foolish of me. (And you drew my smol yellow husbando from Haikyuu, god bless you my dear)

I don’t know who the yellow husband is exactly but I’m!!!!!!!!!!!! super glad you like my stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much holy smokes!!!!!! *O*

Anon said:I had to babysit earlier and the kids were watching lab rats. The line “They’re a boy band I’ve been working on, and the twist is, one of them’s a girl” gave me the biggest bakusquad vibes I’m crying

I’ve been laughing at this ask for seventy-five years you don’t understand hahahaha it’s so accurate p l e a s e best description of the sqaud I’ve ever read lmao

Anon said:I LOVE ALL OF YOUR ART IT’S SO COMFORTING AND CALM AND SMOOTH im crying

THANK YOU OH MY G ODS AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Anon said:I love the way you draw Denki’s hair. I feel like over time, Hori has gradually made the spiky back pieces blend more with the length of the back of his hair, but I personally love it where it looks more like cowlick-y (… I guess I’m making that a word) and messy like how it always looked in the beginning and how you draw it. Why is this boy so unbearably cute?

Ahhhhhh thanksss!!!!!!! I’m glad you like how I draw him cause honestly Horikoshi has no clue what he’s doing while drawing him so actually finding a way to draw his hair that worked was hard - Hori sort of… does whatever! I’ve re-read the first volume lately and Denki didn’t even use to have hair long enough to tie??? He looked so funny, really haha I’m sorta tempted to draw him like that…

#fran answers #really denki's hair is a mess #back during the 1a vs mirio chapter there was a panel in which he didn't have spikes at all #he looked so cute???#honestly hori could draw him however and i'd still adore it #he's always so pretty #ahhhhhhhhhhhhh #anonymous

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