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@clownfields
YOU & YOUR FRIENDS ARE A BLIGHTED CROP.
#clownfields, a multimuse for characters from adam cesare's 🤡 IN A CORNFIELD series. portrayals are primarily book based with few movie influences. triggering themes present (murder, parental abuse + neglect, suicidal ideation, & more). any clown imagery will be tagged as 'clown tw.' as told by cj, 25+, she/her.
RULES ♦︎ CHARACTERS ♦︎ PROMPTS
i feel a lot about janet/cole and cole/matt/ronnie and how cole's grief for janet and his resentment for matt + ronnie do very much go hand in hand, not just because of their friend group as a whole and how he always felt a little closer to him (and tucker) than he was the others, but because of the way things went down that night.
he was with janet and then suddenly he wasn't. because suddenly he was with matt and ronnie, who were trying to isolate him and deliver him to his father to die.
and cole knows realistically that there was nothing he could've done to save janet. he knows that being by her side likely wouldn't have changed anything. but it's the not knowing what could've happened, had matt and ronnie not betrayed him (and all their friends in the process) by joining in on all of this. the point to cole is that he wasn't with his friend while she died, he was trying to fight alongside people who apparently weren't his friends, and he's just stuck with that forever.
and i have soooo many more thoughts on the cole/janet of it all when i can actually speak on book 4 but it just really gets me that janet is shot right as cole's being taken away from her by the people who betrayed him. because this from book 2 is literally always on my mind:
some of the most homoerotic moments in clownfield happen on the way to the party and that goes for the book and the movie. between the janet/quinn stuff and the cole/matt stuff in the book and then the rust/cole scene of all time in the movie. quinn's entire inner monologue is just obsessing over janet and repeatedly asking herself why she's doing that and then clocking the matt/cole tension as something beyond just two rivaled friends... just the gayest ride ever
❝ you've been repotted. you won't fit in the old container. ❞
🐣 @clownfields / janet (the force of such beauty by barbara bourland)
janet makes a face of disgust, the words a little too grating for her to take seriously. but it's not like they're... wrong. janet murray is not the same girl she was before her step-father tried to help kill her and all her friends; she is not the same person she was when her mother admitted to her own part in it.
she's not the same person she was before she knew any of that, on founder's day, nearly bleeding out in that field, redneck rust her guiding light.
but she's still janet, more herself than she's ever been, maybe because she finally can be, without the confines of that house, the judgements from the people in it. not that she'd ever given much merit to alec murray's words.
"i moved out of a shit town," she argues, shaking her head. "it's not that deep." but it is. because it was a town she's made her own, a town she ran, she used to think, and now... she's not really sure where home is.
"Her tone was why people thought she was such a bitch. Her tone and that she kind of was. Whatever—it was fun to watch the sheep quiver."
i asked adam if quinn was in love with janet and he smiled and said "that's a good question. what does your headcanon tell you?"
well adam my headcanon tells me that quinn was in love with janet. so thank you
ginger was janet's first kiss (annabeth, pre-gingerfication) when they were in middle school. they were better friends then (i get the impression that ginger was kind of just on the outside of the friend group, invited to the parties but not a part of The Crew™️ / their yt channel). janet was kind of responsible for pushing her a little farther out of their circle because she was paranoid about What That Kiss Meant and simply just didn't have time to deal with all that. she lies about who her first kiss was, obviously, but people are also pretty trained to not ask her about her love life in general because she's typically mean about it in response, mostly performatively talking about how she's too good for the boys in kettle springs. and frankly she is, anyway <3
she didn't really have feelings for ginger though. the kiss was more in response to something ronnie did and her mixed up, confusing feelings for ronnie (in which she both desires her but also kind of hates her). ginger did have feelings for janet though, which made it all hurt a lot more, because janet was vaguely aware that ginger was into her and she used that. but not totally out of malice, mostly out of her own jumbled thoughts and feelings about herself.
They blinked at each other for a moment, watching the hole in the ground where the silo had been. There was no way Rust had gotten out of that alive. “Well, he did it. He blew them up,” Cole said, more to himself than anyone else. “Crazy fucker sacrificed himself to stop them.”
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD (2025) dir. Eli Craig
oh my god 🤦 can you stop being so fucking‼️ stupid 😤 no ✋ you know what 🫤 you're 🫵 stupid! because you threw away 🗑️ everything we had 💔 for WHAT! 😰 no, no 👆 we 👋 never had anything 🛑 oh BULLSHIT! 😠😠😠😠
ohhhhh🏳️🌈❓
happy pride to her
it seems as if the reluctance that kettle springs had first met his self-defense courses with has slowly begun to dissipate, though ruston can see that not everyone is quite onboard with it just yet. he's grateful for jerri, and how many of the attendees seemed to have spoken to her, rust sure that most of the class has been populated by her word-of-mouth; he certainly isn't doing advertising of his own, beyond the neatly scrawled note left on the community notice board, which he'd only done at glenn's insistence. he's trying. trying to reintegrate into this town and appear as everything's fine; as if being back isn't cleaving him in two, albeit slowly. these classes are a nice reprieve from cole's complaints about casting or rants about the wardrobe department; from parson's babbling on the radio at all-hours, even when rust requests silence. he's glad to have some time away from the uniform and station, though he's sure the moment he goes outside, he'll hear parson or billy over the radio, needing something from him, and it makes him groan internally already.
he's grateful for jerri's presence in general, but even moreso in this moment when he can use it as an excuse to delay that. cole's busy, anyway, though rust does quickly check his phone to see if cole has sent a message, but he must still be with production for that video meeting for the international investors... there's a frown on his face at the sight of no new notifications, but when jerri begins to speak, he tries to brighten, sliding his phone back into his pocket and turning back to packing up the table of refreshments he'd set out on impulse, trying to make this seem a little more fun. "you're a better judge of that than me," rust admits, laughing softly, not bothering to try and tell jerri she doesn't need to help, because he knows her, knows she won't listen; rust wouldn't, either, when it comes to helping her. "of course your friends listened to you," rust goes on easily, readily naming them as such, because why wouldn't they be? jerri's a good friend. any of them would be honored to call her their friend... "might have to turn someone away to give glenn a spot," rust jokes in a deadpan, flicking his eyes across the room, then focusing on jerri again, and taking a chance, channeling cole for a moment. "not sandra, though. she has potential." this said casually, like he and cole haven't discussed jerri's crush a half-dozen times.
she sees him look at his phone, and even though it's been years, the situation much, much different, every time she sees that, she can't help but remember what he looked like on halloween that night, waiting for calls and texts from cole hill that never came. she knows why cole's busy now, she's sure there's nothing to worry about, but it still makes her even more eager to keep offering a distraction for rust, understanding that he's the kind of person who just needs something to focus on.
"well, nobody complained, at least," she corrects herself with a small grin. it does make her feel good to hear rust call them her friends. she supposes some really are, that she's finally finding some place among her peers, for the first time in a long time, even if it's been hard really getting herself out there. but her relationship with rust and cole has helped, so has her work with mayor maybrook, and jerri feels... proud, of everything. she beams at the idea, the respect for glenn something that means a lot to jerri too. "he'd be so humble," she teases.
the mention of sandra still makes her heart race, her expression shocked, even if she wanted rust to bring her up first. but still, this feels more direct than she'd expect from rust, maybe more from cole, who would certainly have a taunting grin on his face. jerri can feel her face heat up, and it's not just from the workout, bashful as she sighs a little dreamily. "she's a natural," she insists, her nose scrunching, and she wonders if rust had noticed jerri getting a little distracted from his lessons — she hopes he didn't take it personally. "she looked so pretty," jerri blurts before she can stop herself, a hand moving to hide half her face with a groan. "how do you manage to teach when cole's training?" she asks, nearly whining, wondering if it's different for rust — if years of being in a relationship no longer has them longing for each other the way she feels like she's doing for sandra.
❝ of course they’d stop calling, if you talk to them like you talk to me. ❞
🐣 @clownfields / janet (the force of such beauty by barbara bourland)
janet's head falls back with a sigh, feigning disinterest. "that's dramatic," she insists, then shaking her head, as if that can't be it. "she..."
it feels strange, talking about this part of her life that she'd tried to avoid for so long, enough so that she almost drops the conversation entirely, but she trusts lana. at least, as much as janet can trust someone.
"—i don't date," she corrects herself, nearly groaning, but her life before all this became more clear to her can't quite compare to what possibilities janet really has now. and there's a brief moment of uncertainty on her features now, despite all her efforts to seem unbothered.
"so, fine, maybe i just don't know how to talk to her," janet sighs, rolling her eyes, as if lana had forced this out of her, though she didn't, janet's just a little more desperate to talk about this than she'd anticipated being.
the last members of the class have left for the day, the highest attendance of rust's training so far, which jerri can't help but credit to herself in part, based on how many of her classmates had joined by her recommendation. she's hesitant to say they're... friends, but it's the closest she's ever felt to feeling like she has real friends, anyway.
it's sandra's attendance that jerri really wants to talk about, but she's hesitant to bring her up first, even if rust's aware of jerri's feelings for the older girl. it's rust's boyfriend who seems to be more apt to tease her about it, and maybe some part of her does want to be teased this time, just for an excuse to talk about her, but she tries to focus on how successful the class was otherwise.
the age rage was impressive, really — teenagers, her classmates, some of rust's classmates, and even a few adults. she's proud of @baypen, and she only hopes he feels that pride, too.
"everyone seemed really excited to be here," she says, staying back to help rust clean up now, like she does every session, a responsibility not given by rust but one she'd taken on herself. rust is family to her, so this feels like it should be her responsibility too, anyway. "i didn't think the people i told to come would actually be here," she admits, wincing a little at how pathetic it sounds, really, but she doesn't expect ruston to judge her. "but it looks like we've got a full class now. even mayor maybrook promised me he'd come sometime this week."
someone: i am watching your clown movie me (cracking my knuckles): here are movie janet's top 50 crimes
"Why was it so hard for him to act? It wasn’t the killing. He’d killed before. Plenty of times in the last year. It was harder for him to end it with Cole, though. Never seemed like the right time. Never seemed like all the pieces were ready. Why was that? It wasn’t the act of killing itself. No. He looked forward to that. But when the light went out from his son’s eyes... what would be left for Arthur Hill to do?"
Clown in a Cornfield (2020) written by Adam Cesare / (2025) dir. Eli Craig
🏳️🌈 + quinn
quinn had her first girlfriend when she was a freshman in high school, but she was afraid to tell her father. not because she thought he'd be disappointed or angry or unsupportive — she knew he'd be supportive — but because he's terribly unfunny (to her. not to me) and embarrassing and she expected him to overdo it all and go out of his way to show he's supportive and inevitably make a fool of her.
and quinn has never been the kind of person who wants to make a big deal of anything so she wasn't interested in whatever conversation glenn would try to stumble upon having. again, she knew he'd be supportive, she was just dreading how awkward he'd be about it.
they broke up a few months later, and she only told her mother about it, and she regretted not being able to talk to her dad about it, but at that point it felt like she'd been hiding something from him and it made her feel bad and she didn't want him to think she didn't trust him.
🏳️🌈 + tucker
tucker had a crush on ruston when they were younger, but it was around the same time that rust + cole stopped being friends, and cole started hanging out with tucker and that friend group more, and tucker didn't really ask why cole didn't hang out with rust anymore but he'd decided to himself that rust was off limits. because cole was his best friend now and his friendship was so quickly important to him, and whatever happened between them wasn't his business but if cole had decided he didn't like rust anymore, then tucker wouldn't let himself go there.
unfortunately as they grew up, tucker found himself more attracted to rust but hinting that to cole almost felt like a betrayal to him, especially since cole always seemed a little annoyed whenever tucker would tip toe around the subject. and his feelings for cole were stronger anyway, so the rust of it all didn't really matter.
