ectoberweek24
day 7- ectology
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summary- Sam and Tucker keep searching for more information
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part 7 of AHINWTG
Sam dragged Tucker to the library. She was exhausted. She had hardly been sleeping. It seemed that every night was another nightmare, but she couldn’t remember what they were about when she woke up. She couldn’t count how many times she had thrown the planchet out the window, burned it to ash, buried it, tossed it in the pond at the park, or otherwise tried to destroy it. But each morning, it was back on her desk.
She still hadn’t been able to make herself open the file they’d stolen from the school.
She dragged Tucker to the library’s basement where they kept all the old records no one really cared about, but the library still kept for some reason. At least, it was helpful to them now.
“Sam, what are we doing here?” Tucker asked. “On a Saturday. We’re supposed to be relaxing, playing video games and eating junk food.”
“You mean doing homework, which you’re going to procrastinate anyway. So stop complaining and start looking through the newspapers and other files for any mention of the Fentons.
Tucker grumbled, but started going through boxes filled with what looked like random papers.
An hour went by and still they had found nothing.
“Saaaammm!” Tucker said, collapsing dramatically on the floor where he had been sitting going through a file box. “This is boooring.”
Sam said nothing. Her movements were just as quick and focused as they had been when they had first started searching. She needed to figure things out, she needed to know what was going on, otherwise she’d go mad with the lack of sleep.
“Keep looking. I’ll buy you Nasty Burger for lunch.” she said, already grimacing at having to spend money on meat.
Tucker perked up and kept searching.
Another hour went by, and Tucker had started to fidget. He was going through files much slower than Sam. He was about to complain or ask for a break or anything really to break up the monotony when Sam stood up suddenly.
“I found something.” she said, walking over a desk in the basement corner and shoving some dusty files to the floor. Tucker winced but leaned over to see the article that Sam was pointing to.
It was just a small article talking about an accident that had happened in the park. It stated that the Fentons claimed they had been testing one of their inventions which had apparently decided to explode. The article treated this like a common occurrence going on to note that no one had been hurt this time.
They returned to their search with more vigor, finding three more articles. One had to do with the Fentons wanting to construct some strange addition to their house, but that the housing committee had stopped them. Another was an article about how their daughter, Jazz, had won an academic award.
The third paper looked like someone had spilled ink on it. They could only make out part of the article which said something about the youngest Fenton making a discovery about a gorilla that was being temporarily kept at the zoo a few towns over. The picture and his name were blotted out with ink.
They searched for a bit longer but found nothing more.
As they sat eating at Nasty Burger Sam’s expression stayed puzzled.
“What’s wrong?” Tucker asked.
“I couldn’t find any mention about the Fenton parents deaths, or anything else about them. I checked all the obituaries. But I couldn't find any mention of them. And there was also a whole year’s worth of newspapers missing.”
“You’re looking too much into it Sam. The library probably just lost the box, and the newspaper might have forgotten to publish the obituaries.”
“Maybe.” Sam muttered. But she didn’t look convinced. Something was strange, and she would just have to keep looking.
this is the most complete file i can find after scouring the internet for months 😭
i was content to accept that the light novel would never be officially translated or available for overseas AND THEN FUNIMATION DISTRIBUTED ENG VERSIONS FOR UK PREMIERE. now im furious that they didn’t do that for US release too…if you went thru the whole trouble of translating it officially you may as well make it available for countries outside the UK too…😭😭 i just heard that from twitter though and i havent seen anyone actually getting a copy of the eng version so maybe it was all a lie and i hallucinated the whole thing…but anyway this doc doesn’t have full translations, just the more important (ie satosugu and also rika yuta stuff) snippets…cry with me friend
(also thank you for following me back?! ;_; love your art to bits its such candy for my eyes)
dude im sry but im reading ur asks rn and losing my mind. the entire stsg narrative could almost read like a shakespearean tragedy by definition lmao (tragic hero, moral struggle, things ending badly for everyone/unnecessary loss of life, etc). ppl trying to say it wasnt a tragedy bc geto chose to be evil is ? incomprehensible. his choices were PART of the tragedy. the fact that he felt like he had to make that choice at all and lost his faith/idealism is part of the tragedy. the fact that their ending could have been avoidable but was basically set up to happen from the start bc of the poor choices of multiple characters is the tragedy. im so disheartened rn, come on yall please learn how to read 💀
no yeah it's nuts how that anon was so laser-focused on insisting that tragedy by definition is a lack of choice, when in various literature works and other media the tragedy occurs because of the choices the characters make. acting like geto's choice existed in a vacuum, like he just chose it out of nowhere with no build up nor consequences for characters who had no choice in the matter, like come on. comparing it to mai's death was such a strange move too like... theyre not even consistent with their definition. mai chose her death. she chose to save maki by ending her own life, and as sad as it was, that was still a choice she made on her own volition.
every time you write anything new i honestly want to print it out and eat it so i can enjoy it that much more
honestly I think I’m going to screenshot this and possibly put it on my testimonials page because it’s both super flattering and made me laugh which is the best combination
two scenes from @izanyas’s mermaid!izaya fic, moonglow, that i wanted to draw as soon as i read them!! *_* (i took some artistic liberties... because i forgot to check the descriptions until after i’d started coloring...) please give it a read, it is a really charming and lovely fic!
im obligated to say yamamoto, no matter how much i love tyl yam. tyl yam is amazing in small doses and i love that finely aged emodark flavour but for a Daily Meal i would much rather consume normal’s well exceptionally well-rounded and flavourful depths
