GRAVEYARD SLOT.

I'M LOST INSIDE AND NO LONGER CONVINCED THERE'S A WAY OUT.

[therealmuslimshady]

When bae’s tryin to be cute but you know that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.

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[casshoward]

HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U (2019)

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i don't want to think about dj on the drugs bc that’s just a lot of her crying and feeling guilty and feeling like a traitor to the group .... and that’s before the side effects of her connection with the sleeper being severed start and she ends up puking blood and icky stuff, bleeding from her nose and ears, and basically having a really bad trip where she thinks she sees her sister.

and then i really don’t want to think about her realizing that the sleeper knows about the drugs because of her and it’s all her fault because the group trusted her.  honestly, i can see her splitting off from them for a while over it, because she would really see herself as a liability and a traitor and a real danger to their cause.  giving in to the sleeper completely for a while and just going on a total rampage or something.  it’d let her go after she’s sustained a whole lot of injuries, hasn’t eaten in several days, and is half dead so she can deal with the aftermath and guilt as punishment.  she’d probably end up crawling to atlas because she thinks he might understand, and he’s the only one she knows dealing with this shit who isn’t part of the group.

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ehem ... i've mentioned before that dj has a serious problem with seeing the worst parts of people, and that’s partially why she believes so passionately in the supernatural and any otherworldly means of manipulating or influencing people.  most true crime incidents that she investigates lead her to attributing the horrible acts to ghosts or possession or aliens or anything really other than the fact that there are simply awful, terrible people in the world.  she got bullied a bit as a kid because she was just too nice and reluctant to fight back so she was a very easy target to push over.  as a way to cope with that, dj just made up reasons for why they must’ve done those things.  at that point she wasn’t super into ghosts or anything, so she mostly just blamed herself, thought that she must’ve done something wrong to warrant being treated that way.  eventually, she found conspiracy theories and urban legends and ghosts and stuff and it was all just a perfect outlet to pin the blame of all the negative acts in the world on.

the sleeper only further solidifies this belief, especially after she’s possessed.  so she would absolutely, never blame anyone for anything they do while being controlled by it.  she knows how it feels and honestly would be the best person to get possessed around?  because the sleeper could make you beat her within an inch of her life, and she’d still just smile and say that it’s fine and she knows you didn’t do that.  even just other shitty things people do, she’d just be ‘oh that’s just sleeper influence’ because she just can’t accept that there are fundamentally bad people out there.  she would have to completely change her entire view of the world to do so, and that would make her have to face the fact that she’s done bad things just because the sleeper pointed her in that direction.  because she has done some things without it directly controlling her, attacked some people because it told her to and she figured it was better to do what it wanted to prevent it from punishing/taking full control and potentially doing worse things.  right now she attributes all of her bad decisions made out of her own free will, even if influenced by the sleeper, to be its fault and not hers.  

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@intcrference​   texted in:    [text] Wait… are you serious? from:    texting starters / always accepting !

[   ✉   ➥  jersey devil    ]   deadly.  we think the drugs can block it out. [   ✉   ➥  jersey devil    ]   i know no one else would tell u, and u deserve to know. [   ✉   ➥  jersey devil    ]   ur just as much in this mess as the rest of us. [   ✉   ➥  jersey devil    ]   i’ll get them for u if u want.  just.......let me know.

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@dcadhand​   texted in:    [text] I hate my life right now about as much as Robert Pattinson hates Twilight. from:    texting starters / always accepting !

[   ✉   ➥  mothman    ]   that’s a lot...... [   ✉   ➥  mothman    ]   u want me to come over??? [   ✉   ➥  mothman    ]   i can bring snacks n we can binge 👻 adventures!!!!!! [   ✉   ➥  mothman    ]   but if u wanna be alone i get tht......i’ll just hug u from afar!!!! 🤗🥰

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@offaired​   texted in:    [text] 🚫 talk rn... 2 busy eating ice cream n watching house hnters intnl from:    texting starters / always accepting !

[   ✉   ➥  illinois hellhound    ]   wat??? [   ✉   ➥  illinois hellhound    ]   u planning on getting ur own beach house lol??? 😂 [   ✉   ➥  illinois hellhound    ]   it’s nbd.  just thought u might know where ur bro is.  he’s late for the show. [   ✉   ➥  illinois hellhound    ]   have fun!!!!!!! 😊😊

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all of dj's contacts in her phone are named after a cryptid that reminds her of them sorry i don't make the rules  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[casshoward]

[lunarchld]

Send my muse one of the following texts to see how they react:

[text] I can’t take you seriously when you’re using that many emojis.  [text] Im not drunk eveyone is just blurry [text] Could you be anymore dramatic?  [text] You need more friends… or a therapist…  [text] All you do all day is sit around and google pictures of baby animals!  [text] I just miss you. That’s all.  [text] New rule.. every time you say his name I get to punch you. [text] You’re going to hell for sure now.  [text] Why is there a life size cardboard cut out of Harry Styles in my bedroom? [text] I really don’t care…  [text] Oh no, I’m not doing that again. [text] I’ve seen every episode of Grey’s Anatomy like 3 times. I practically have a PhD. [text] Do whatever you want. I don’t even care anymore.  [text] Can’t talk now.. too busy eating ice cream and watching House Hunters International.  [text] We’re not watching Frozen again.  [text] I have no idea what you’re talking about…  [text] You’ve got waaaay too much time on your hands.  [text] Are you trying to bribe me with sex?  [text] I just don’t think moving in together is a very good idea… [text] Because you’re pissing me off!  [text] You left your sweatshirt here. It’s mine now.  [text] I need to tell you something but you have to promise not to get mad.  [text] What did I say about sending me pictures like that while I’m at work?  [text] Wait… are you serious? [text] I accidentally just called my mom a bitch to her face and now I have to run away. [text] I’m just saying that you look a lot better without clothes on! [text] I know that we don’t always get along but I really do miss you.  [text] Pictures or it didn’t happen!  [text] I’ll accept apologizes in the form of food or sex.  [text] I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry please just pick up the phone. [text] That’s really inappropriate…  [text] I don’t know if I should be embarrassed or proud…  [text] You’ll never guess who just texted me.  [text] I hate my life right now about as much as Robert Pattinson hates Twilight.

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just out here thinking about why exactly dj is so susceptible to the sleeper other than being one of the ones to kick things off ... and it has a lot to do with her already being worn down from her parents’ deaths and having to take care of her sister.  she’s already burning at both ends trying to juggle two jobs, investigations and research for dead air, taking care of her sister, and for a while she was dealing with high school too.  i can see her relationship with danielle and maybe even jun suffering from her just doing things all of the time, and not having time to sit and just hang or watch movies.

she blames herself for pulling danielle out of the car, but not being able to get her parents out, too.  so by the time the sleeper blinks the deadlights at her, she’s too tired to fight very hard and, though she’d never, ever admit it, ... it doesn’t hurt when she’s being controlled.  even when it’s just chilling in the back of her head it dulls a lot of her guilt, makes her feel a little less tired, a little more like the super positive, childish, fun-loving teen she was before her parents died.  it does it to make her dependent on it, to make her fight less when it takes the reigns, and it works.  but every time she comes back, she’s a little more dead behind the eyes, a little more hollowed out.  less messy emotions leaves more room for it to fit inside, y’know?

dj is so violent when she’s being controlled, because she never properly got over her parents’ deaths and then all of this plus her sister’s disappearance gets thrown on top of that.  she had to go from a carefree teen who wanted to make a spooky podcast with her best friend to basically a mother literally overnight.  she didn’t have time to go through the grieving process.  she had to pick up where her parents left off and immediately move on with her life so that she could take care of her sister.  all of the new responsibility also weighs really heavily on her, and she has a lot of internalized anger against herself, her parents, and even danielle.  she never takes it out on anyone but herself by pushing herself harder and harder because she is never performing well enough at anything she does because she’s just so tired.  the sleeper just taps into all of that and pushes it out as overly violent actions.

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WHICH FLOWER ARE YOU?

TULIP

You are bright and colorful, with a chaotic and unpredictable streak. While you love simplicity, you are not by any means simple. You have a beauty that radiates and are likely the most charismatic of your friends. You have never been too interested in romantic love, instead finding love within your friends, family, and most importantly yourself. You've always dreamt of making an impact, being remembered and adored. You fear that those you love, could never love you the same. But stop and look around love, you have the aura to command attention, and entire countries declare you theirs. You are already, inherently important and cherished. 

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@intcrference​ called in:    ❛ it’s just silent, no sound at all. it’s like something’s waiting. ❜ from:    house of leaves starters / always accepting !

         ❝  it’s kind of nice ...  ❞  if she forces herself to ignore the hairs on the back of her neck standing up, and the feeling of unseen eyes on them ... it’s pleasant.  it’s as close to normal as she’s felt in a very long time, and it’s concerning how hollowed out and formless she feels without puppet strings to hold her up.  she lets out a breath she didn’t know she was holding, smiles at the lack of constriction around her lungs.

         ❝  you can’t tell me that this doesn’t feel better than being dragged around by IT ...  ❞  there’s a sort of desperation in her gaze when her eyes meet his, a searching for something human, something to give her hope that he isn’t so far gone as he seems.  dj presses herself further against the tree she’s leaning on, feels the stinging bite of sharp bark on her palms.  everything is so vivid ... there’s no numbing haze, no static dampening her vision, her thoughts feel like her own.  has grass really always been so bright green  ?  she can’t remember, can’t remember anything before the world turned dull and dark and cold.  she knows that it wasn’t always like that, but it’s so hard to REMEMBER.

     ❝  i miss the BIRDS, though ...  ❞  the woods are unnaturally silent.  there are no bird calls, no squirrels chirping.  there’s not even a breeze to rustle bushes and leaves.  there’s just ... nothing, nothing but them and IT.  she wonders if the animals abandoned these woods because of it’s presence ... or if they’re scared of THEM.  they would be justified, even if everything is calm for the moment there’s still a tension in the air.  and ... in a way they’re more dangerous than the thing in their heads.  they can hurt, kill, in ways that it can’t.  ❝  there used to be these DEER that would come around every morning, too ... i hope they’re okay.  ❞  

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@dcadhand​   called in:    ❛ not seeing the rip doesn’t mean you automatically get to keep clear of the hey-i’m-bleeding part. ❜ from:    house of leaves starters / always accepting !

       ❝  NO ... I’M NOT -  ❞  it isn’t hers.  it isn’t hers.  it isn’t her blood.  her hands are shaking, dripping red.  it’s in her hair.  it’s on her shirt.  it isn’t hers.  dj doesn’t realize when she starts crying, when her breaths start coming in gasps even without an unseen monster curled around her throat.  she SCARED.  she’s so scared of what she could’ve done ... of what she could do again.

       ❝  it’s not mine ... jun ... that isn’t my fucking BLOOD.  i -  ❞  she searches through her own unfamiliar mind, sifts through fuzzy memories overlaid with static.  it lets her see.  it lets her see what SHE DID.  the girl works - worked at the post office.  she knew danielle.  she offered to take dj out for a coffee.  it doesn’t let her see everything; her brain skips like a faulty vhs tape.  it only shows her the highlights ...

         SHE SMASHED THE GIRL’S HEAD IN WITH A ROCK,  stood and stared into the eyes of the storm until the screech of static forced her own to close.  it took the girl.  it must have taken her, because dj woke up in the cornfield alone.  she doesn’t know how, she doesn’t know if she did something, and it won’t let her see.  that’s the worst part ... knowing that she did something horrible, knowing that it could let her see but that it won’t.  she’s more useful when she’s drowning in guilt and floods of what-ifs, she’s weaker.

         there’s something missing when she looks back up at jun, the fear in her eyes is gone, replaced by an inhuman calm.  she blinks slowly, like she’s just woken up.  she isn’t crying anymore.  she doesn’t feel anything when her gaze returns to the blood on her hands, just the numb haze of static.  ❝  ... i don’t know whose it is.  ❞  

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LIST OF THINGS ON DJ'S TAPES

her staring at the camera for five hours straight without moving except to tilt her head at thirty minute intervals.  she leaves the room, can be seen on another camera leaving her trailer, and comes back an hour later with her hands covered in blood.

on several occasions she takes her handheld camera and films herself following jun.  honestly, she’s been stalking the whole gang, scoob.

she’s also filmed herself hiking through the woods to an old radio tower.  she’s never been to the radio tower before.  she doesn’t know how to get back to it.

she’s filmed herself following and killing multiple people.  she has showed up back at home after several hours, sometimes days, with blood on her hands/clothes and has woken up in the woods/a cornfield with only her camera.  so it’s hard to determine exactly how many people she’s killed/attacked.

puking up unusually dark blood in the bathroom along with something more solid and sticky.

probs has footage of atlas doing something sus.

scribbling in her journal for hours on end.  it’s all puzzles and codes she can’t solve, seemingly random words, drawings of a radio tower and eyes in the corn, people’s names, and the frequencies that are part of the ‘game’ that brought back the sleeper.  she’s scared to let jun see them, because she knows that he would be able to figure them out and dj is worried that they’re a confession of something horrible she’s unknowingly done.

she handcuffed herself to the bed once in an attempt to keep herself from going anywhere.  she gave the key to jun so that he could unlock her in the morning.  somehow, she got her hand out of the cuffs and disappeared for a couple of days.

having a full-blown conversation with the voice of her sister over the old radio in her sister’s room.  it isn’t her sister of course, but it sounds like her.  dj vaguely remembers following danielle’s voice, but nothing beyond that.  this led to her disappearing for the longest she ever has: two entire weeks.  she wakes up in the woods with a dead video camera that isn’t hers, covered in blood and mud, and with a gun.

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@offaired​   called in:    ❛ i guess i’m hoping the weapons will make me feel better, grant me some kind of fucking control. ❜ from:    house of leaves starters / always accepting !

         ❝  I UNDERSTAND ...  ❞  dj would be a hypocrite if she said otherwise, pretended that she didn’t sleep with a baseball bat next to her bed to stave off persistent paranoia.  she doesn’t mention that the bat is GONE and she doesn’t know where, or that its disappearance coincides with her own vanishing for several hours.  the concern lingers in the back of her head, sitting alongside the residual static of a sleepless night spent somewhere she cannot remember.  she stares at her hands lying in her lap, wonders if there’s traces of blood left that she cannot see but liu can.

         ❝  ... but is that SAFE  ?  ❞  it’s blurted out unintentionally, but it’s something that has to be asked.  especially now ... she frowns, worries her bottom lip between her teeth because she doesn’t want liu pushing her away for such a pointed question.  she cares.  she cares too much, and she always has.  her heart bleeds out for strangers, and tears itself apart for the people close to her.

         ❝  i’m not saying that i don’t TRUST you, but ...  ❞  she trusts liu, because dj knows her.  she knows her temper, her abrasiveness, feels confident enough that she would be able to tell if something wasn’t right ... but she also knows IT better than she ever wanted to.  she knows how quickly it can slip inside, unseen, unnoticed.  first you hear the static, a soft background noise blanketing your every action.  then ... static becomes the only thing you hear.  by the time you realize it’s there ... it’s already too late.