I know you're hurting.

the day that i l o s t you... (it's clear as the day we met.) H O W could I E V E R.... f o r g e t? ; indie multicharacter blog for Dan and Diana Goodman from Next to Normal. read rules before rp, please!

[iknowyourehurting]

+ oldastime-foreveryoung

              "--Gabe, will you help clean up the table?"

[officialannieodair-blog]

goodnight if Dan was alive right now (he is don’t even start with me) he would be sleeping alone

[iknowyourehurting]

+ missingallthefun

               "—What do you m e a n  by “you’ve never been able to cook”?                                                         I can too cook. I made Thai food yesterday!                                                         ---------------Never mind the burned chicken.                                                        ...Sue me for reading that that the oil goes                                                        before the chicken."

[iknowyourehurting]

G O O D M A N S ;

“ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ [вℓєє∂ιηg]?

             ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ [bruised],

                    ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ [ｂｒｏｋｅｎ]?

      ᴅᴏᴇs ɪᴛ ʜᴇʟᴘ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ,

                                     ѕσ αм ι.”

i. Indie, selective Dan and Diana Goodman (next to normal) multicharacter rp. ii. 7 yrs of RP experience ; 3 on Tumblr. iii. Canon & OC friendly ; multiship welcome - though OTP is Diana/Dan.

vi. More than willing to interact with blogs with other  Diana/Dan blogs! v. Multi-verse is totally cool, as well!

          ;    rules            x              about              x            ask       ;

[doctormadden]

Alfred Turtle auditions For Next to Normal.

I have no words.

[x]

[iknowyourehurting]

; like for a starter! please specify the muse otherwise i'll just stick you with one.

[iknowyourehurting]

G O O D M A N S ;

“ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ [вℓєє∂ιηg]?

             ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ [bruised],

                    ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ [ｂｒｏｋｅｎ]?

      ᴅᴏᴇs ɪᴛ ʜᴇʟᴘ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ,

                                     ѕσ αм ι.”

i. Indie, selective Dan and Diana Goodman (next to normal) multicharacter rp. ii. 7 yrs of RP experience ; 3 on Tumblr. iii. Canon & OC friendly ; multiship welcome - though OTP is Diana/Dan.

vi. More than willing to interact with blogs with other  Diana/Dan blogs! v. Multi-verse is totally cool, as well!

          ;    rules            x               about              x             ask       ;

[oldastime-foreveryoung-blog]

[ He slips in quietly through the door, crouching behind her and looking out the window. A smile creeps across his face, and he gives a soft laugh. ]

Spying on your own daughter. My, my, Mother - what have you come to?

[iknowyourehurting]

[ Diana knew that it wasn’t practical, nor was it completely trusting of herself to be crouching by her window and spying down at Natalie, but— God. There was this guy and it just… The situation reminded her eerily enough of herself. ]

Jesus, Gabriel. You scared the shit out of me. I— when did Natalie get a boyfriend? How did I miss this?

[officialannieodair-blog]

Visit Original Link

my friend jude and i were reading the online screenplay of next to normal and since jude’s playing gabe and I’m natalie in streamed spotlight’s n2n we recorded a thing!

it’s very choppy so excuse that

[ripleyreflects]

HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY ALICE RIPLEY♥

Decemeber 14, 1963

[youcantalktobirds-deactivated20]

Hehehe I’m bringing these back, because Alice is my favorite human being ever, so. :D

[iknowyourehurting]

#everyone go listen to di

#40-year-old suburban housewives have good tips on this stuff

[iknowyourehurting]

DIANA'S HELPFUL TIPS: #2

Don't you just hate how sometimes text posts can reblog as link?

Diana Goodman to the rescue!

I know, sometimes when you're on your modern iPhones it makes it hard to make it reblog as a text, but for those of you who don't know, this is how it's done.

Damn, I reblogged a post and it says that it's a link! Never fear, there's this button on the top right hand corner, it look like this:

Go ahead and click it.

There will be a little check mark right next to the thing that says link. What you need to do as click text, this one.

Soon, you should be able to see the whole post!

It's also helpful to cut your posts, which consists of you highlighting the posts

and deleting the highlighted text.

There you go! You're ready to go.

[iknowyourehurting]

DIANA'S HELPFUL TIPS: #1

Hello! I'm Diana, and I've seen a lot of questions about formatting for this website. I'm kind of a huge computer whiz (I've re-wired several computers without them blowing up), and I guess I just wanted to help anyone if they need it!

Great, first off: if you want the small text like I'm typing with right now, first type in your post/word/whatever into text and click this nifty little html button right here

See it? Great, awesome. Now, once you've clicked, you'll see something like this:

All you need to do is type _{before the test and} after the text, like this.

and then you can publish!

[iknowyourehurting]

PSA:

PLEASE DO NOT PLAY A CHARACTER WITH MENTAL ILLNESS UNLESS YOU'VE DONE RESEARCH ABOUT IT OR HAVE A PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH IT. Even then, it's important to research about it. It's very easy to mischaracterize things like this; and because it's something so real to so many people, it's always nice to stay on the safe side with these things. It's so important to remember that these things are very real and very prominent in others lives, and it's hurtful for this to be brushed off of someone's shoulder.

Please, be considerate.

[danxgoodman]

[ there were candles on the table, and that alone worried him - the thought of Diana and fire brought back jarring memories he’d tried so hard to forget. there was a reason he had opted for the electric stove instead of the gas this time around. ] 

                               ——Di?

[ the worry was hidden from Dan’s tone; he was well-practiced. it was all for Diana’s sake - he thought that it would only add insult to injury in worrying so outwardly. they both would pretend that she was capable of daily activities and household chores - sometimes, she was, and he couldn’t help but hold onto hope that today would be one of the days where she wasn’t flying. 

                 he never knew until he walked in the door. 

                                  should he have started taking preemptive measures?

              or should he have just ignored it? 

                                 she had to get better sometime.

               didn’t she? ] 

[iknowyourehurting]

     [ The manic state that Diana held herself in was clearly no match to the hidden yet prominent worry that Dan held himself in. Though, Diana of course hadn't thought to recall that Dan even held any concern at all, something that she- and others- had convinced her to do.

                                               She was flying, all right. 

              And her feet wouldn't hit the ground.

     She wouldn't let them.

                                                                           Not now.

                         Not when she felt even a hint of happiness, however unhealthy. ]

--Dan!

     [ The smile was clearly manic; almost like it was so many years ago.

                              Sometimes, Diana liked to pretend that she was the same Diana that she was, pre-Goodman, pre-Dan...

                                                                                     pre-Gabriel. 

                         But she would soon find herself snapped out of that dream, not exactly hitting the cold harsh ground of reality, but continuing to fall down the dark abyss of the unknown that is mental illness, that is depression, that is mania...

                                                 The thing that became Diana Goodman.

                    Her life was like a cliff. Something happened, she jumped off, and there was no bungee chord this time.

                                     There was nothing but the little ledges that she hit on the way down, the rocks that traveled down with her and weighed her down. ]

[iknowyourehurting]

.::H E A D C A N O N::.

Since Diana left, she tries her hardest to communicate with Natalie. She knows that it will never make up for the past years, but she can try her hardest to make it up for now, when Natalie needs the most support. Dr. Madden had no assistance with this, but he does help motivate her when she starts to go back to her own habits. She's not perfect at support, but she wants to try, at least. And that's a start.