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i saw this scene and immediately started thinking about your chess posts :) especially in the context of sadie spying on leo for paul and then leo/abi just happening to be sitting right in front of the chess set.
Even more interesting than that, they're sitting in front of the black pieces who, historically, make the second move. Perhaps suggesting that the first move, has already been made....
Correct me if I'm wrong, bestie, but are Elle and Leo the only children Paul has actually physically tried to stop from leaving/walking away from him? I don't recall him ever doing that with anyone else.
I don't recall him ever trying to physically grab Cam, Andrew or Amy the times they tried to leave him. But I think it was only when Elle and Leo tried to leave him that it really rang true for him exactly how little he has outside of them. Sheer unadulterated desperation he has rarely reached with his other children.
speaking of barbie dolls, did you ever have the christmas barbie? the one with the white stocking legs.
Just guessing as to who you're asking about -- '96 Holiday Season Barbie? No I don't have her :( but she IS adorable! I love the superstar face, with that bouncy 90's kanekalon hair? so cute X) do/did you have her?
i'm thinking a lot about 2019 leo lately. like, that year was terrible for his morals, his relationships, his mental health and general wellbeing but was absolutely glorious for his messiness.
When you sent me this ask on the 20th of Febuary 2023 you single handily manifested the Leo return.
okay, i keep seeing you talk and post about it and i have to ask... what is eerie indiana and should i watch it? :))
what is Eerie, Indiana? Well. on a surface level Eerie Indiana is a family mystery show produced jointly by Hearst Entertainment and NBC in 1992. A show that the network was unable to properly advertise due to the 'tween' audience not yet being a thing it ended up being pit against 60 minutes (and in one case literally not even being aired at all so they could air the speech of a presidential hopeful /conspiracy theorist from jail, and another not being aired due to the network pulling it due to content, it was released by Fox in the 1998 reruns) essentially dooming it to fail. Despite this, NBC ordered a half season and a re-tooling of the show to introduce a more serialized set of storylines rather than episodic. Sadly, this wasn't enough to save the show and it was cancelled after one, single, glorious, practically perfect season in 1992, running for a mere 19 episodes.
Created by Jose Rivera and Karl Schafer (who most recently did Z Nation) the show is made up of immese talent at the very start of their career. I can't even tell you about the amount of talent on this oddball little show. Joe Dante (of Gremlins fame) directs and even acts in one episode. Bob Balaban directs some episodes, Claude Atkins plays a ghost cowboy, Anita Morris plays a sexy secret agent, Ray Walston plays an alien (i mean. duh.), René Auberjonois plays a literal devil business man named 'The Donald', Tobey Maguire (your beloved) plays a ghost who haunts Marshall and makes his family say slurs, Vincent Schiavelli plays an evil dentist, Future Scream Queen Danielle Harris plays a heart transplant recipient...The twist? The heart came from one of Marshall's best friends. and, best of all, John Astin (THEE JOHN ASTIN. GOMEZ ADDAMS) plays the mysterious owner/operator of The World 'O Stuff - the local hangout - for the final six episodes. Like the talent here is truly unreal. (did I mention John Astin?)
with a cast headed by Omri Katz (who you might know from Hocus Pocus) the plot of the show follows the adventures of Marshall Teller (Katz), his best friend/kid sidekick Simon Holmes (Justin Shenkarrow , you might know as the voice of Harold in Hey Arnold) and in the last six episodes, his homoerotic nemesis Dash X (Jason Marsden, you might know him from his many iconic voice roles - notably Max in a Goofy Movie, and also as Thackery Binx in Hocus Pocus) an alien with no memory of his past. On the surface, Eerie is a normal if slightly the Burbs esque small town, but once you look a little closer you start to see...Some cracks. A cult of housewives sealing themselves and their families in giant tupperware so they don't age. A Mayor who sends young men up to wolf mountain to ensure low taxes and they...Don't come back. A mysterious Loyal Order of Corn who...Run Things. Marshall and Simon investigate their strange hometown and are literally Just Trying to Get Through This Bestie. In one episode, Marshall goes where lost items go. In another, his friend Steve's retainer starts picking up the traitorous thoughts of the local dog population.
Eerie is a cult classic in basically every sense of the world. After you've seen it, you can see it's fingerprints all over the 'kids with bikes' genre. Stranger Things, Gravity Falls, Goosebumps (the show) all of them owe a massive debt to Eerie Indiana. The show itself is massively intertextual. It references everything from little shop of horrors, to the Howling, to the Twilight Zone to the Fly. But you don't need to have that knowledge to enjoy it, Eerie is a family show. By that I mean it was created for viewing by the whole family, not specifically teens or adults only. If you like Round the Twist (predates Eerie by 4 years), than you'll like Eerie.
in 1998 there was a controversial reboot made in Canada staring Bill Switzler and Daniel Clark. It too only lasted a season. I love TOD but many hate it. Lastly, should you watch it? YES! I recommend Eerie to everyone I know basically. It is a little dated in parts, and some of the themes are really heavy (Child abuse and neglect are very present, long running themes in many episodes - I actually agree that Broken Record should have been pulled from airing because i find the ending very upsetting) Marshall, our protagonist is a very sweet, empathetic teenage boy character who I NEVER saw on television when I was growing up in the era of the Dan Schnider mean spirited sitcom. He's sort of an asshole sometimes but hey - he's a teenager. Simon is just adorable and literally deserves the whole world. Dash X is very cool, mysterious, gay and totally unhinged. Every character on this show is written fantastically, there are no half hearted performances, everyone is selling it the entire time. I'm very fussy about television, but Eerie is a show that I think is genuinely nearly perfect. I almost am glad it was cancelled so no one had a chance to ruin it lol.
If you're interested (and I hope I've sold you) then you can buy it on youtube, basically. It was previously on Amazon Prime but isn't anymore sadly. You can pay through the nose for an expensive DVD set like I did or.....You can do the smart thing, google it and watch on like. Kisscartoon lmao. Eerie is a show I am so so passionate about so if you're interested PLEASE watch it and feel free to join in discussion here on the hellsite, or you can go to Dreamwidth (@froodlemonkey/@catschimericalcreations runs this and has a MASSIVE back catalogue of fics, art, meta, random twitter posts, scripts, even the first Eerie Fanfiction...which was published in a ZINE in the 90s! seriously if someone has ever said anything about eerie ever than Cat has catalogued it with her extensive, fantastical tagging system) or even discord but like yeah. Eerie is amazing and you should like totally watch it :)
Elle Robinson is coming back for the finale 😭😭
The way I woke up this morning to basically everyone in know pinging me abt this love you guys 🥺😭
Now…
WIP Wenesday....Except that it’s saturday.
i was tagged by @theloversthedreamersandme82 to post a small piece from my current wip. so here’s a few lines for a fic called ‘The Ballarat Eight And Other Portraits’ (just over 5k)
“It’s telling me that these eight people were painted together. Perhaps they were friends.
“Friends?” Charlie asked, seemingly startled from his monologue by the question.
“Friends.”
“...I think so.”
“Don’t you think that’s a nice thought? That if there was another Charlie, and another Lucien, than they were also friends?”
“I...Yes. That’s a nice thought.”
I tag....Oh man there’s no one left to tag...Ummm @cutiesonthehorizon and.... @froodlemonkey ok there’s some people who do the writing stuff.
just curious how/why you are so captivated by the supporting characters of the show. do you like lucien and jean too?
I’ve started this several times to no avail, but let’s try again.
I’m sure you could psychoanalyse me, if you wanted and you might find something like ‘she feels like a supporting character in her own life’ and not be 100% wrong; but here’s what I think.
I like Jean. I like Lucien. Can you imagine watching the show if you didn’t like Jean and Lucien? It’d be unbearable, and a waste of your time. I like them, I was happy to see them get together. Their progression as characters is cool. But I don’t really find them that relatable.
That’s not a them problem, or a problem with the writing, I mean clearly not you’ve got eyes (presumably, you could be using a screen reader in which case you’ve got ears) Jeanuary is the most active the fandom ever is because people LOVE Jean. I get it! I assume they feel the way about Jean that I do about Mattie and Charlie. I’m always happy to see the fandom being active, because now there’s not new episodes of the show on the horizon we have to try harder than before to keep a fandom going. I didn’t participate as much as I did last year, because I had lots of personal stuff going on (shock horror amiright?) but i totally get it. I totally see what people love about Jean, but I just don’t feel it. Maybe I’m just too young, and in 25 years (we’ll still be here in 25 years right you guys?) I’ll get it. Maybe when I’ve been married, or when I’ve had kids, or if i have to get divorced or maybe it’ll just come to me one day. Or maybe it won’t. But I like Jean anyway.
I know what I like about Lucien, but I know it’s different to how most of the fandom feels about it. But I’ve got friends who feel the same way I do, so it’s not an uncommon way to feel about the character. I don’t really look at him like a shipping character, or a love interest I see him as a father figure character who I want to be father figuring for other characters. Lmao, psychoanalyse that.
But as for Mattie and Charlie, I relate to them. When I first started seriously watching TDBM (after getting over how upset I was about Danny/Rick Donald leaving), I was 16/17, i was in a new school in a new town, i was socially isolated, i was lonely to the nth degree and I was just….I was depressed. I saw that in Charlie, who was also new in town, and lonely, and not socially apt. I still see that in Charlie. That was something that I could relate too, he was a character I could project on to, and he was also...pretty handsome and I don’t say that lightly.
When it comes to Mattie, I get it. I get her arguments with her father over her studies. But I also aspire to be her. (I was saving this for mattie march but whatever) She’s relentlessly optimistic, and kind even if other characters tell her to be more realistic. She’s empathetic, and sweet and she can stand up for herself. I wish I was like that. I’m critical of everything (myself most of all), I’m blunt and I always struggle to find the positives in life but I want to try. I do try. I don’t always succeed but I’m trying. And…..well cate wolfe is beautiful and im but a mere lesbian.
As for Munro, i just like a good villain. Nothing complicated there.
They’re characters with stories to tell that are worth loving. To me, they aren’t really secondary characters. B team, sure, but I never think of them as less than any other character because to be honest, I don’t think I’m meant to. It’s testament to the skill of the writers on tdbm that even their secondary characters are real, fleshed out characters with stories and lives. They don’t exist in the show just to support Lucien and Jean, they have their own things going on. Even if I don’t always like those things. (*cough* charlie and rose *cough*), they’re never abandoned by the narrative, and there’s always space for them to come back.
Anyway. TL;DR: they’re right there, I find them relatable, yes I like Lucien and Jean. thanks for the question :-)
