this is a request for employees of a local gas station!! pls keep reading. // on the outskirts of magnolia, as you’re driving back from austin, there’s the worlds most nondescript looking gas station. it’s just a few miles outside of town, down the road from the first motel in magnolia, and it always seems to attract it’s own fair share of daytime weirdos, late night drug addicts, truckers, and travelers alike.
it’s not the cleanest place in the world, or the cheapest, but it’s there and it’s convenient...ish. they sell your typical snacks--candy, chips, overpriced bottles of soda. cigarettes, too, if you ask the attendant nicely (though you might not get a nice answer in response, depending on when you drop by). there’s a coffee pot for weary travelers, but there’s usually more cigarette butts than coffee in it.
the sign outside of the building only half lights up, and though the owner says he’s working on it, he’s been saying that for two years now. he doesn’t seem to care about much other than making money and coming in every day at exactly 6 o’clock to pick up his after-dinner pack of cigarettes. he’s sleazy and sexist, but nobody says anything anymore so long as their pay checks are on time (and they almost always aren’t. but, at least he doesn’t take out taxes).
currently, there’s 5 employees, working on a rotation in various 8 hour shifts so that the place can stay open 24/7. the first anyone learns working here is how to use the shotgun behind the counter. there's been two attempted robberies in the past three years, and the owner will fire anyone who lets there be a third. there's also a baseball bat hidden somewhere in the back office, though calling it an office feels a bit generous. it’s really a room the size of a closet with a small plastic table and matching chair (chair, singular), a rotational fan, and a small 2002 television with a vhs player built in.
there’s two security cameras, one outside and one inside, but whether or not they have a tape in them is a crap shoot. though they’ve all have had different experiences, there’s something all 5 employees can agree on: anything and everything can, will, and has happened here, and you’re just lucky if you’re not around to see it.
as mentioned, there are currently 5 employees: 3 full time employees, and 2 part time employees. they all keep the same shifts and schedule every week, which you can view here. there’s no benefits to this job, unless you count being able to shoplift cigarettes and cheap beer without question a benefit, no pto, no vacation, nothing just...cash, delivered in a yellow envelope each week in the back office with your name on it, no taxes taken out, no questions asked. if you want time off, you have to plead and beg someone to take over your shift, and pray that they say yes.
the employees can be pretty open, though you have to be at least 21 to work here, given they sell alcohol, and i’d like to see some age diversity (give me a 30 year old who’s bored with their life and hates that they’re working at a gas station of all places for $8 an hour, or a 45 year old who is almost overly chipper about working here every day, please). and at least two of the remaining three employees should be male. the owner’s pretty sexist and always seems surprised whenever one of the female employees is working and manages to not burn the place down from her womanly hormones, constantly asks if they’re ‘’on the rag’’, and no one even bothers telling him about the creeps and weirdos that come by anymore because he just laughs in their face.
after that, everything from face to personality to what they do in their free time to how they interact with the other employees is really open. it seems like their shifts were designed to be as inconvenient as possible, it’s a thankless job, the pay is shit, the customers are often bizarre at best and yet somehow, they’re all here anyways. it’s the kind of office bonding you won’t get anywhere else.
again, you can view the schedule here (and..yes..i really did make a schedule i can’t help myself), and feel free to message me if you’d like for your character to work in any of the existing slots!
employee #1, full time. reserved for cora
employee #2, full time. reserved for katie
employee #3, part time. reserved for brittany
employee #4, full time. lisbon keating, 22, played by mickey.
employee #5, part time. matilda last name, ##, played by nisha.
alias: mickey
pronouns: she/her
timezone: est/gmt -5
favourite plots: anything really angsty?? big MESSY friends groups and anything with lesbians
one thing you most want to see on the site: unique site events?? and cute codes tbh. i’m not really picky these things just enhance the experience for me
your favourite tv show(s): this is going to sound so niche but my favorite tv show is halloween wars on the food network followed by a close second cutthroat kitchen. watch both pls youll thank me later
a gif to describe you:
ok but give me a plot where two female singers (or actresses???? or one singer one actress or whatever we can discuss this slash i don’t have 2 much of a concrete character idea) are kind of privately dating??? they are both in the closet but one really wants 2 come out and they’re a like Pushy person but they’re trying not to push it but they can’t help a lil bit but they don’t want to come out until the other does bc they want to come out like...as a couple like they want to say i’m gay AND i’m dating ____ (and bc there will be speculation that they’re dating once it’s confirmed she’s gay b/c i feel like there r already hella rumors). and the other is rly fucking terrified bc they come from a traditional family and i imagine they’re much more like aimed at the Youths with their career so they think it would hurt them wrt jobs and stuff and seeing how other lgbt ppl are hurt by the industry and they’re scared bc theyre in a really good place!!! and they don’t want 2 ruin that.... and this is just kind of a loose outline but there will be lots of drama and also lots of cuteness and also some leaked pap photos that just ruin whatever fucking plan they had originally
alias: mickey
age: 20
timezone: est
identifiers: infp, libra w/ aquarius moon, ravenclaw
about you: cis she/her, gay as hell, english lit major (i know u probs couldn’t tell my url doesn’t give it away at all or anything i try to be pretty discreet keep it on the down low), loves destroying the patriarchy, making film bros uncomfortable. eats 2 much cheese + hot sauce and owns too much makeup
favourite plots: i love really super angsty plots but also in general just really realistic plots? like cutes where they’re allowed to get angry and frustrated at each other or disappointed and sad but still love each other at the end of the day, etc!!!! i also also also love super complicated/fucked up family plots that are full of drama!!!!!! also also love anything pertaining to wlw (did i mention i’m gay as hell)
favourite faces: honestly there are too many so just...ladies [heart eyes]
site previews you’d like to see? def def membergroups + the application. also if there is a points system it’d be cool to have that ahead of time so we know what to expect on the site!
your most used emoji: the upside down smiley face cause i’m a menacing bitch
really quickly some things i would love for maggie:
moms club!!! i feel like mostly single moms but not single moms are welcome too, basically where they’re all friends and meet once a week to drink wine and complain about how much it sucks to be a mom
her ex-husband??? this is not a Super Need but if you would like to make him hmu
some sort of cute romantic thing bc the girl needs it but again this is not a Super Need
a nanny/babysitter who is literally maggie’s lifesaver and second favorite person on the planet who probably does not get paid enough because maggie has two three year old boys and though she loves them they are a Fucking Handful
maggie frazier is just days away from a mental breakdown, but if you try to talk to her about it she will usher you into her house for tea and one thing will lead to another and you’ll end up talking about your divorce or your kids or your mother-in-law who’s sick and you’ll leave feeling better for having talked to her but will be hit by the sudden realization that you never talked about maggie or her life once.
and that’s exactly how she’d like it to be.
maggie (short for magnolia) is 30 now, but she spent the majority of her life in hickory creek. she was born and raised here and she’s made it her job for the last 30 years to know every single person in town, all 9,973 of them. the only time she’s ever spent away from hickory creek was when she was in college/medical school, but even then she was always close by at the university of connecticut for both undergraduate and medical school.
maggie has always been extremely involved in her community and she loves her hometown so, so dearly. in high school she was That Girl who was seemingly involved with everything at once; she was a three sport athlete, president of the science club, treasurer for the senior class, editor of the yearbook, co-president of the environmental club, tried to volunteer at least 10 hours per week around hickory creek, the list goes on, and on, and on, and on, and that sense of involvement sticks with maggie even now as an adult. hickory creek is her home and she wants to give back to it as much as she has gotten from it, and she loves this place and the people here so much that she would do absolutely anything for them.
she knew from an early age that she wanted to become a doctor and eventually maggie settled on becoming an ob/gyn, in part because she’s a Mega Feminist and proud of it and believes women should have equal access to healthcare opportunities. her absolute dream is to start her own practice designed specifically to provide top quality healthcare (including prenatal care and birth control access) to low income women at affordable prices, and though she isn’t there yet, she’s working on it! she just finished a three year residency with a hospital in a larger town near hickory creek (but close enough where she could commute) and she’s now working as a ob/gyn in hickory creek.
her parents were - are - nagging, perfectionist control freaks, who pushed their (only) daughter in every way they could. they say it’s because they want her to be her very best and maggie believed them, though they haven’t ever stopped pushing. maggie merely got lucky that they had the same aspirations for her that she had for herself (largely, to be a doctor), but that never, ever stopped them from clashing, and that certainly didn’t stop the insecurities that she would never be good enough (for anything and anyone) from growing.
maggie went to the university of connecticut so that she could be close to her parents - who, as endlessly as they frustrate her, she loves dearly - and it was also just a great option. she met her (now ex) husband while they were both undergraduates, and their relationship progressed relatively fast. they got engaged their final year of undergrad, married while they were in medical school, and it was their final year of medical school when maggie discovered she was pregnant with their two children (two twin boys, who maggie loves with all of her heart and soul).
after they graduated from medical school they moved back to hickory creek, because maggie was determined to raise her sons in the same community that helped raise her, they bought a house, maggie began her residency, and a year later she discovered her husband was cheating on her (with a 19 year old college student) and wanted a divorce.
things were moving too fast, he didn’t want such a cookie-cutter life, he hated this town -- these were the only excuses maggie actually heard from him before she tuned him out and signed the divorce papers. he wanted nothing to do with the raising of their children and gave her complete custody, she changed the boys last name to her own (they were only 1 at the time, which helped) and to this day, not a single person on the face of this earth other than maggie and her ex-husband truly know why they got divorced.
she’s too proud to say it out loud - she’s maggie frazier, these things don’t happen to her - and admit what happened, and though lots of people (take her best friend arden alcott, for example, who doesn’t fully know, either) know bits and pieces of the truth, maggie and her ex-husband are the only ones who know he cheated on her.
it’s been two years now and this has been weighing on maggie a lot lately. he moved to new york and lived his Fabulous Bachelor Doctor life and maggie is left with two children, a mortgage she can’t afford, her mother’s constant nagging, a career that isn’t going as planned, and a looming mental breakdown.
this is nowhere near where maggie pictured herself at this point in her life, but it’s what she’s got, and she’s trying to roll with it.
maggie has always been the mom friend - not just of her friend group, but in general - in every sense of the term. hello, this is maggie, and she’s your mom now. she is probably the most caring, selfless person on earth, and that alone will be her downfall. she’s the friendliest person you’ll ever meet, and just a single five minute conversation and you’ll feel like you’ve known her your entire life (though if you’re from hickory creek originally, you probably have). she’s more than just friendly, she’s open and welcoming, and she tries her hardest to be a positive force in everyone’s life.
maggie is the dictionary definition of responsible, and she’s always seemed like she has her life put together. she was the most adult teenager you’ll have ever met and now she’s the most adult adult you’ll ever meet (at least on the surface). she’s wise and always seems to have the perfect solution to everything and is always willing to give advice to anyone who asks for it.
she keeps a number of different journals for a number of different things, color codes everything, is generally the most organized person on the face of the planet, is one of those people who seems to be good at every single thing she does and is currently managing to hold her life together by a very thin thread.
it isn’t that maggie’s in a horrible place right now - she’s got the sort of stable life she dreamed of, more or less - but she’s been really mentally fragile since her husband left and she hasn’t talked about it with anyone. maggie has a hard time opening up to people - even those closest to her - and she doesn’t articulate her feelings well. and she always feels as if other people’s problems are so much more important than hers. she needs to take care of other people first and then herself, but the problem is that she never actually gets around to taking care of herself. and it feels silly, because it’s been two years, and he has clearly moved on, and she is moving on with her life, but she, herself cannot move on. she’s trying to force herself to by not dealing with it. it’s going wonderfully.
maggie is, above all things, selfless. she will drop any and everything to help people, and she doesn’t ask for anything in return (maybe a hug). she loves taking care of people and it is where she feels the most natural and most at home. when her life is a mess - like it is now - she compulsively takes care of people. she wants to help as many people in her life in as many ways possible: it gives her life purpose and she just loves everyone around her so much and she wants them to know it.
maggie, in spite of all of her Super-Woman-Care-For-Everyone-Do-Everything-Well-Super-Mom-Ness isn’t perfect, and the Super-Woman act is taking a clear toll on her. she tries to do everything for everyone all at once and she runs herself thin, and normally she can manage the stress and the burnout, but it’s starting to become too much. she doesn’t ever allow herself to be imperfect - she has carefully squeezed any imperfections out of her life - but she is and she knows it (though she tries not to let anybody else).
she’s judgmental and competitive and stubborn and emotional and all of the things that make people human that she suppresses in part to maintain the image that she’s living her best life and is 100% Happy All The Time. it’s hard for anyone to say that they actually know maggie because she hides the non-superwoman, non-everybody’s-mom part of herself so well, and she doesn’t like to open up to people, and on some level has issues trusting others. as open and welcoming as she is, maggie is relatively closed off, too.
but even given all of that, maggie is friendly and optimistic, and she tries her absolute hardest to be a bright spot in everyone’s lives. that’s why she’ll have plenty of friends of all sorts and all ages. maggie tries her hardest to know every single person in hickory creek, and may even be your doctor now! she’s super open, friendly and welcoming, and can hold a conversation with a brick wall. she is a golden retriever personified: excitable, optimistic, gets excited when you ask to go on walks. even with all of the stress it can cause, maggie absolutely loves being the Mom Friend and she loves taking care of people, so please, let her take care of you. she’s fiercely loyal and protective to those she cares about - which is everyone - and she really just wants to help. she just wants everyone to feel as comfortable around her as possible, and wants to be the sort of shoulder they can lean on if they ever need anything. maggie doesn’t expect that in return and she doesn’t even want that in return, necessarily.
this is why it can be hard to get to know her: you’ll know super woman mom maggie, who will lend you a tent because your daughter wants to go camping in your back yard, or who will bake you your favorite type of baked good in bulk for your birthday, and who will invite you over to drink wine and watch gilmore girls reruns, but maggie never, ever, lets that facade fall, and even those who are closest to her she doesn’t let see the most intimate parts of her life. maggie is an odd person where you can have known her for her entire life and feel like you’re best friends but still feel like you don’t know her at all. she considers all of her friends close friends, but her life never seems important enough to actually bother with.
maggie likely won’t have too many enemies but that’s not to say they won’t exist. she is hyper competitive, though it is hard to actually bring out that part in her (but once you do, she can’t really turn it off). even though she can seem like the nicest person on earth she’s judgmental as hell and there seems to be something selfish about her obsessive need to take care of everybody. she is by no means perfect, despite the facade she tries to present, and there are surely a number of people who can see right through her.
as far as lovers go, things are complicated. maggie hasn’t had too many serious relationships outside of her ex-husband, and well, that turned out poorly. this is super open, and i may post a request for the ex or someone new later on, but maggie is open to plotting as well! people who had crushes on her in high school/college (since she went to college nearby), people who have crushes on her now, just give me whatever you can think of! maggie can be really clueless and is really bad at picking up on hints/romantic clues. she’s also always considered herself too busy for relationships and especially now so, but anything can happen (and it’s ironic because she prides herself on being a matchmaker and on giving solid romantic advice, oops).
favorite type of plots: this is going to sound super cliche but i really, really love plots that allow you to explore like. the complexities of life like EVERY single emotion you know? not just happiness or sadness but bitterness and betrayal and frustration and those like small little moments of happiness! idk just plots
things you want to see in a site: i honestly really love really detailed world building, especially with small town sites? it’s just my fave
fictional character counterpart: kelly kapoor, the business bitch
sooooo i kind of want a group of characters based on the tv show bojack horseman and if you’d like to indulge me and my terrible whims that would b dope
friends, romans, countrymen, lend me ur ears, what i have here (other than a shitty graphic) is a request for ur favorite indie rock band, sour cherry.
sour cherry are the loves of my actual life, and they very loosely sound like arctic monkeys. they don’t sound entirely like am: they sound mostly like their suck it and see era with a little bit of favourite worst nightmare sprinkled in. so far, sour cherry has released five studio albums and one ep; they’re signed to some random indie label that really got a fucking deal when they signed sour cherry because no one knew what they were getting themselves into until just a few years ago.
sour cherry is from the u.k. originally, founded by lead singer george quincy delaney (or just george delaney, but he’ll answer to either george, quincy, or delaney) and the guitarist when they were in year 11 (so roughly when they were 16 years old). now, fast forward twelve years later, and their newest album tongue tied was one of the most anticipated albums of the summer and an instant hit, their latest single bad habits sold a shitload of copies and dominated the charts, and their instagram comments are filled with the emojis and fan wars of 15 year old girls everywhere.
their fanbase was pretty young when they exploded onto the scene with their last album, oxygen (stylized as O2) but that was about three or four years ago and as sour cherry has grown and matured, so has their fanbase, and they’ve become pretty well respected in the music industry, and are generally considered one of the great rock bands of our generation.
sour cherry are all really, really serious about their music, and for them the band is about expressing themselves as artists and not so much about the fame (though that’s a plus). they’re kind of pretentious but they’re perfectionists - especially george - and that’s what makes all of their music so satisfying to listen to. after they became really big with the debut of O2 they kind of decided to take a little hiatus so they could make their next album as great as possible, and also so they wouldn’t let fame get to their heads.
they’ve been working for the past few years and the result is tongue tied, which dropped at the beginning of august. it’s a little bit different from their usual sound; normally sour cherry sounds kind of like the suck it and see era of arctic monkeys, that kind of intoxicating, syrup-y slow indie rock, that just feels so satisfying to listen to, where nothing feels out of place, but tongue tied is that and a little bit more. tongue tied is a little bit more gravel-y, a bit more gritty. it’s an indie rock album for when you’re trapped in that hot, thick, suffocating heat that just engulfs the end of the summer, the no man’s land, and you can’t escape it (and no man’s land is actually one of the songs on the album). it’s a bit more conceptual but not necessarily a concept album, and they’re all really, really, really proud of it, and so far it’s been meet with stellar reviews.
sour cherry was founded by best friends, george and the guitarist, when they were around sixteen, and they kind of merged with a band that had just broken up at their school, which is how they got the bassist and the drummer.
george does most of their songwriting, but they’re incredibly collaborative and work really, really fucking well together, and they mesh well musically in a way that’s hard for them to explain to most people. they’re basically psychically linked, and it’s in part because of how close they are.
they’ve all grown incredibly close in the twelve years they’ve been together, and they treat each other just like family. they’ve known each other for practically their entire lives, and they have no secrets. they’ve had a lot of ups and downs and george can be a pretentious control freak asshole or someone’s not being serious enough or someone ate the last slice of pizza, et cetera et cetera, but they’re best friends and they’re not going anywhere.
all of the members should be 27-29, and are all b/c-list, depending on how actively they engage the public with social media, other projects, etc, but they’re definitely not a-list, even though they’re on their way
a couple of things i would love:
i would love for either the bassist or the drummer to be female! i have some really specific ideas for the guitarist so i would really prefer he be male, but i’d love love love for the bassist or the drummer or both to be female
george is probably the least public person ever. like ever ever. he’s so bad at social media. i’d love for just one (or two) of the band members to run their twitter account, because they’re all secretly old men who yell at the sky when their computer won’t turn on but they don’t understand because they typed “ON” at least six times. kind of like how dan from bastille is THE twitter guy for bastille, you know? bonus points if their twitter handle is just like dan’s (bastilledan), so it’s like sourcherrydan (or sourcherryputtheirnamehereithinkyougetit)
i would love for at least one of them to be a pretentious 60′s/70′s/80′s baby like george is. please
they’re all really passionate and knowledgeable about music, and probably all have a solo project of their own, or are part of like a supergroup because they literally can’t ever stop producing or thinking about music. it’s all they know/do and is the foundation of their friendship
oh and i don’t know if i mentioned this but they’re all british. they’re very very very british. most of them have at least one apartment in london and one in new york, and they all co-own a house (see: mansion) in los angeles that they bought after O2 released, where they’re hoping to build a recording studio.
and lastly, they get high all the time and their weed dealer is practically the fifth cherry. the sixth is george’s sister, murray, who is good friends with the entire band, and has probably slept with any of their sister’s at least once. she also kind of serves as their photographer whenever she’s around, because murray is the most effortlessly cool person ever and photography is one of her many talents
if you want to make any of them, just hit me up, and like i said, i have a couple of specific ideas for the guitarist, but other than that, this is kind of open!
and finally heres a brief discography/history for them, because i’m a nerd who thought this out way too much
their first album was called last first because they thought they were being clever. in retrospect, george hates the name, but the other members won’t let him change it, no matter how bad he wants to. the album art features francoise hardy because she is actually the love of george’s life.
next came venus, which was definitely not about a girl. this is the album that helped them get big in the u.k.
then came strawberry blonde, which was definitely not about the same girl, just in a different context. the album art features the girl that this album definitely was not about. this album was pretty experimental but did pretty well in the united kingdom, it’s kind of that awkward middle growing pains album, but george wouldn’t change a thing about it.
then came their last album, oxygen or O2, this is the album that really did it for them and put them at their current fame level and garnered mass international attention, and cemented their place in the hearts of indie rock lovers everywhere.
their fifth studio album, tongue tied, dropped this august, and their tour starts soon. it is without a doubt their best album to date, was really well received critically, and is expected to do a full sweep at just about every major awards show this year.
they also have some shitty garage band quality music that came out before first last that you can find on the really dedicated tumblr fanpages, but it’s not that great and it’s not from any collective album or ep.
and finally last spring (april 20th, 2015 to be exact) they released a 6 song ep, which they made out of pure boredom and after realizing there are no good contemporary rock songs to get high to. so they made some good rock songs to get high to. its called songs to get high to.
hello babes here are some of the characters i will have plz love them
alice king self destructive television producer (for all u bachelor/ette fans, STAY TUNED) who calls herself a feminist but it’s literally her job to make girls cry for television every week
george delaney Super High Strung Anxious Creative Type who smokes too many cigarettes and says things like “french new wave” and “omelette du fromage” and somehow has millions of fans. in a band called sour cherry who probably were your favorite band in high school when you wore too much eyeliner (and probably still ur favorite band)
catherine nolan a film actress who takes herself too seriously and seems to be permanently nominated for an oscar but never fucking winning. huge perfectionist and somehow really easy and really hard to work with at the same time, huge ecofeminist, wants to get a phd in environmental sciences/maybe political ecology but wants to win a fucking oscar first so do you see her dilemma
Concept: an immortal who doesn’t shy away from photos or paintings. Draws self portraits on cave walls. Photobombs everything with a pout and a suave pose. Commissions numerous portraits of themself as a literary Romantic before faking their death. Tries to be at least slightly famous every time they have a new identity. Creates a conspiracy blog linking all their past photos together before mysteriously disappearing in mysterious circumstances. Mysteriously. Usually only disappears for 10 to 20 years after “"dying”“ before making another appearance. Everyone else in the immortal community lowkey hates them. “Ah, fuck. You’ll never guess who’s resurfaced again.” “Fucking… Dave?” “Fucking Dave.”
i rly want george to have been nominated for or won best original song at the oscar’s a couple of years ago (btwn 2013-15) so if u have a movie that needs a cool af song plz hmu
