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rules / muses / prompts. canon multimuse, as told by cj (she/her, 25+). primary themes include found family / reclaiming, discovering, & owning your identity / choosing survival in excruciating circumstances / adapting to new surroundings & people / + more.
current muse priority: from characters (updated 4/12).
sporadic activity + muse inspo. slow ooc replies + follow backs. primarily at @clownfields, @itchose, & @ladyintree
in my julie era so what if i changed my url. what if
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in my julie era so what if i changed my url. what if
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FROM, 4x05 "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been"
are we sure this is a good idea? @doomdays, jade + henry.
"i'm not sure anything constitutes a good fucking idea in this fucking place—"
as jade realizes his voice is steadily rising in pitch, he cuts himself off abruptly with a half-gasp, the noise bubbling in his throat, brows furrowed in frustration. one hand delicately raises after a beat of silence; jade turns halfway from the bar to face henry, corners of his mouth turning up into a sheepish smile. "sorry." a cursory apology, but sincere. "not your fault. i shouldn't be yelling." god, what a place to learn that lesson. misery sweeping over his expression, he turns his attention back to the mess of a bartop, half-empty bottles littered around, fingers wiggling over the selection until they grasp around the neck of a bottle of dark-green glass, fuller than the rest, the liquid sloshing as jade raises it triumphantly to henry. "come on, henry. take a little break with me. i'm fucking sick of thinking."
henry blinks once, then twice, the action over-exaggerated, a subtle hint to jade that he's doing a lot right now, though it's something henry's come to expect from the other, even if he's not sure he'll ever really be able to keep up with it. it certainly makes things interesting, and despite these outbursts, henry finds his company strangely comforting. "i was starting to believe that was your baseline..." he notes, teasing, letting out a strained chuckle.
he places his hand over his chest as he looks at the bottle, then with a sigh, he gives in. "i'm not sure that'll help," he mutters, then motions jade closer anyway. "but these bottles..." he scoffs, bringing his hand to his forehead, rubbing it as he thinks of all the times he'd driven himself crazy, trying to make sense of them, wondering if miranda ever did. "—well, i could use a drink, and you could use a break."
while i think that sara's connection to the town could potentially lead to her being the only one to spot something off with sophia, i feel stronger about her ostracization being what brings her closer to her + makes her trust her more. sophia (from sara's perspective) has her own fresh perspective of sara, her perception of her is not as soured as the rest of the town's is with sara. the man in yellow using the town's whispers about her and claiming they're wrong + that she's seen sara's kindness means that sara has this one person she may actually be able to connect with on a level she can't with anyone else.
people like boyd may trust her despite the "horrible" things she's had to do there but sara doesn't get to just exist in this town without people knowing the worst things about her, she never gets to know if these people who have learned to trust her still harbor these bad thoughts about her.
there's genuine hope in sara when she's asked to let sophia move in with her because this is the one person who may just trust her as a person, rather than just as a weapon in the town, and sophia, ironically, is the only one that sara believes may see her as a simple human being. which could very much backfire on her, obviously, but the man in yellow choosing to be close with sara, both physically and emotionally, is something sara thinks is good but will likely be brutal in the end, especially if the man in yellow is able to use her to do her biding just as the town does.
the next episode telling me exactly this!! but sara still addresses it immediately because she's not interested in "hiding" from the things she's done because they're a part of her and they're a part of what's happening in this place and how it is capable of weaponizing its residents and it's important that people are aware of it (even if many people don't believe it).
sara could've easily just accepted that sophia thought she was kind and went with it and been relieved that someone just wants to take a chance on her. but it was so important to her that this person who is new to town and has claimed to trust her knows what everyone else knows about her, that she's making this decision fully informed because it's the only way that sara can truly let her guard down, too.
and all it really takes is one person to be this "kind" to her for sara to believe sophia is worth the same sophia is offering her. saw some reactions to this episode about how sara's failure to do her task hurting someone she cares about being sophia made no sense because she just met her — but this is exactly why sophia is able to manipulate her the way she does. she gave sara hope and someone to believe in her despite everything and of course sara is going to care about her.
Do you know the story of Abraham? He was a simple man, with an unshakeable faith and obedience to God. One day, God tested Abraham, ordering him to kill his only son, as a way to prove his faith. But at the last moment, God intervened and offered a ram to be sacrificed instead. You see, God never intended for Abraham to kill his son. He simply needed to know if he would.
sophia gave sara a seemingly meaningless, easy task that shouldn't actually hurt anybody just to see if she could still weaponize her and to see just how much sara had come to care about sophia. sara passed both of those tests and i'm terrified of what's to come for her (positive).
can you all watch him for a second
while i think that sara's connection to the town could potentially lead to her being the only one to spot something off with sophia, i feel stronger about her ostracization being what brings her closer to her + makes her trust her more. sophia (from sara's perspective) has her own fresh perspective of sara, her perception of her is not as soured as the rest of the town's is with sara. the man in yellow using the town's whispers about her and claiming they're wrong + that she's seen sara's kindness means that sara has this one person she may actually be able to connect with on a level she can't with anyone else.
people like boyd may trust her despite the "horrible" things she's had to do there but sara doesn't get to just exist in this town without people knowing the worst things about her, she never gets to know if these people who have learned to trust her still harbor these bad thoughts about her.
there's genuine hope in sara when she's asked to let sophia move in with her because this is the one person who may just trust her as a person, rather than just as a weapon in the town, and sophia, ironically, is the only one that sara believes may see her as a simple human being. which could very much backfire on her, obviously, but the man in yellow choosing to be close with sara, both physically and emotionally, is something sara thinks is good but will likely be brutal in the end, especially if the man in yellow is able to use her to do her biding just as the town does.
of course donna is the one expected to take care of julie and ethan if they lose both their parents. of course she's the one tabitha trusts most. of course donna already knows it would be her. she's already the one looking out for them when their parents aren't around (physically and mentally). donna loves those kids and would take them in without hesitation but it would also break her to watch them lose another parent. i'm hoping donna finds the note tabitha left before she can retrieve it herself. i think donna and tabitha deserve to have a real conversation about it.
"do you remember what dad said to us, the night that mom went to the bottle tree and didn't come home? he said all we have in this place is what we believe. so, we have to believe good things." julie using this to comfort ethan about not knowing where their dad was after she'd been so angry with the way jim failed to take care of them then is so interesting. her father's words were always a bit stronger than his actual acts. she knows her father cares and loves them but he's also so lost. have much more to say about her relationship with her father but probably after she spends this entire season killing herself trying to save him ❣️
"it's been a long time since i've had a roommate" is played as such a silly line and it is silly but it's so devastating because henry's been alone for so long. he had a wife and two children, a full house + family he loved, and then one day they were just gone, taken from him, with no explanation and no sign of where they went or if they're alive, or anything. and he's spent a majority of his life just living with not knowing anything except that he'd never see them again.
and he was so lonely and so isolated and then out of nowhere, after all this time, found out what happened to his family + reunited with his son who has grown up since the last time he saw him and after that break through they had in the season 2 finale, it's so special for the both of them to be moving in with each other and taking that step in rebuilding (or restarting, really) their relationship.
the first person he lets in again after 40(?) years is the same son he lost. it's been a long time since i've had a roommate, his family, and now he's found (what's left of) his family again and he's finding himself again through it.
"we have to stop meeting like this" + "when did you come from this time" + the man in yellow taunting her about how she's fighting a losing battle... and posing as the only other teenage girl in the town besides her is such a dangerous combination. he's going to use that against her. she has been so isolated in the sense that for a while she was the only teenager there, until elgin, and now it's going to be so easy for sophia to connect with her. no more perfect disguise for TMIY to take than the one kind of person that julie has been desperate to connect with since she'd gotten stuck there. i was already so stressed to see how her storywalking era goes but this adds another terrifying layer. yay
You're a Storywalker. Someone who can visit chapters of the story that already happened. But you can't change them.
FROM ▪︎ 4x01 "The Arrival"
ellis hasn't even been able to grieve his own baby, or what he thought was supposed to be his baby. he's only been focused on fatima — on how to help her, how to understand her, how to figure out what he needs to be for her and what they can do. but it's all been way over his head, and he's made it very clear he has no idea what he's doing or what he's supposed to do (and frankly how could he in that position...?)
and he feared the worst from the beginning.
"it's just weird. you know, it's like, uh, I just... there's a person growing inside of my fiancee, and anywhere else in the world, I mean, that would be great. you know? I would be thrilled, which I am. but here, you know, I just... I just keep expecting that at any second, it's gonna come bursting out of her with, like, with fangs and claws."
but he tries so hard to be positive about it because that's who he is, and it comes so easily when it's him and fatima, and he works so hard to counteract all of her fears about it and be positive for her — to the point that they end up having these same fears but ellis is trying so hard not to project them, because he doesn't want to put that stress on her.
"he's happy again. actually happy. and he's working so hard to be encouraging, and i can't... i can't tell him how scared i am. what if there's something wrong with the baby?"
he trusts fatima and he wants to believe her; she's worried that she's losing her mind or that something really awful is happening but he refuses to believe something's wrong with the baby because he can't think of it that way, he doesn't want that stress on fatima. when things start getting worse for her, it's "it doesn't have to mean something's wrong with the baby" while she worries that means something's wrong with her, and that's what he puts all his focus in after that.
because once they find out there's no baby, it gives them so much more to worry about with fatima and what she's going through and it's all ellis can think about. he can't consider that they lost a baby, or that they might have never had one, because he's spent all this time believing that there was a baby and trying to stay positive about it and now he has to put all his energy into trying to take care of fatima no matter what, even when everyone's warning him that he may be in danger.
and he's messy about it. trying to steal drugs even if there's no way to know any of it will help, because he just has to do something. "you're not the one that's sitting there watching her go to pieces" — ellis is always the most desperate when he's trying to help / understand his family (even when, with his dad, it was desperately pushing him away.)
"what am I supposed to do? huh? tell me, what the fսck am I supposed to do? I don't know. okay, I saw it! I saw what happened with your fսcking worms! and I saw what happened to... I saw what happened to mom, when she... which fսcking nightmare am I supposed to be afraid of? which? you know, she's fսcking falling apart right in front of me, and I don't know what to do. I can't do anything to help her. dad, I don't know how to help her. don't let this happen, dad."
it's the way he and his father are both seeing the similarities between fatima and ellis's mother, and his father is seeing the similarities in the dynamics and trying to understand what he could've done differently with abby — and ellis also knowing it's his responsibility to do differently, to try to protect fatima from a similar fate. he refuses to leave her side even when all signs point to her being dangerous, even fatima herself saying she's putting him at risk by being with her. he can't know that she won't hurt him but he believes she wouldn't anyway. and so much of this is about him still not quite processing what happened with his mother but also at the same time trying to correct what happened to her with his own wife. because "when she died, the way she died, i can't go through that again, i won't."
and he's so ready to take the fall for fatima's crimes just to spare her even though it doesn't fix anything and it doesn't actually help her other than not turning the town against her. and logically he knows that. but he has to do something. because he thought they were having a child together and instead, his wife is sick and all signs are pointing to her having a mental break that feels all too familiar and he needs her to be okay and he can't think about the baby, or the baby that never was, or the baby that could've been.
and now that he knows what that was and what fatima had to go through after what they'd thought it'd been, he's really still not going to process what he "lost." because maybe he didn't actually "lose" anything. because it was never theirs.
Look, I know you're scared, man. What am I supposed to do? Huh? Tell me, what the fսck am I supposed to do? Okay, I saw it! I saw what happened with your fսcking worms! And I saw what happened to... I saw what happened to Mom, when she...
FROM, 3x07 "These Fragile Lives"
hello for the 2 months i will be preoccupied packing, moving, + settling into a new apartment but since i haven't really been around Anywhere for a while here's a little note about What's Going On Where if you care 🫂
@clownfields — primarily checking in here. these books are still my comfort zone & with the new book coming in august i don't see that changing anytime soon 🫶 if you hate clowns i don't really post clown imagery. firmly team clown killer.
@doomdays — season 4 of from is here next week so i'll probably be here a little more 🙂↕️ but right now i just haven't had a lot of muse characters here.
@ladyintree & @itchose — tai exists in my head always but generally only popping into these blogs atm when there's bts content. my brain can't fathom condensing these 2 blogs so they both exist still💗
in the beginning he would hold his breath, steeling for rejection. now, perry matches her grin with a smile of his own, giddy and relieved for the reprieve donna offers from home. weeks have come and gone, seasons on the verge of changing, and he's still not accustomed to it: sleeping in the bunkhouse, his father snoring lightly just feet away. (he wonders, idly, if royal knows how frequently he comes here; what royal would say if he did. but then perry shakes the thought of his dad away, not wanting to know the answer). it's home but it feels alien, like another world; all of wabang does, in truth, but somehow, not here.
"no occasion," he reassures her, still beaming. "and i'm sorry to say i don't think i'm leavin' just yet. y'all are gonna be stuck with me for the time being." it's said with the attempt to be jovial, but perry can't dispel entirely the wistfulness from his tone; he may have a routine here, might even be comforted by the work and his dad and donna, but he can't pretend he doesn't long for home - for his daughter. tightening his jaw just slightly, perry clears his throat, nods softly before setting the bottle before her with all the reverence of an offering. eyes shimmering slightly, perry swipes a hand across his cheek and murmurs, "i got time for a drink or two. ain't workin' tomorrow."
there’s something in his grin that makes him feel like family— a sentiment that isn’t entirely unknown to donna, because it’s how she treats anyone close to her, and given how often ben seems to walk in that door, it’s easy for him to fall into that category. royal worked his way into donna’s heart just as easily, too. without her sister here, she needs the sense of family, the sanctuary of a community.
❝ i’m just that damn special, huh? ❞ she asks with a chuckle. ❝ ah, you’re welcome to stay as long as you’d like— s’pose i can’t speak for the abbotts, but hell, i’ll do it anyway, ❞ donna teases, because she imagines that the abbotts are likely better off with ben’s help, anyway. she hopes that’s the case — if he’s just as courteous with them as he is with the lonely lady at the butcher shop. she rolls up her sleeves, gives him a small nod, and grabs two glasses for each of them. ❝ stay, stay, please. shop’s about to close, anyway — they really gave you a day off? ❞ she asks, amused. ❝ then i guess you will be enjoying a few. ❞
