here we go, lads, ep2 and i am more scared than ever 🙃
still on the ew august train, but then also what’s the deal with his mum? do i…feel slightly sorry for him? maybe i did for a millisecond before i realised that he hasn’t paid simon yet for the booze and now has him stealing his dads meds. wtfwtfwtfwtf also wtf at the scene where he did a speech about him during rowing practice? but wille was cute there so fine
also since we’re on the topic of neurodivergence, how has anyone watched this without getting ridiculous amounts of actually stressed/anxious?? this goes for anything but also this show like? i’m struggling!! i love it but im in pain!!
i’ve seen lots of posts about felice (i know, spoilers but i can’t help it sorry) so i’m guessing she becomes a beloved character, and i’m slooowly starting to see how we get there which is exciting! her and sara’s relationship is cute so far (except for if she’s only doing it as a roundabout way to get at wille which i can see happening 👹) but then also ? more gay? would be cute is all im saying. fine if not but ya know
and then finallyyyyy the end scene !!!! ended me !!!! willes gay panic and then panic at simon possibly leaving, him Holding Onto Simon for dear life that was the cutest shit i’ve ever seen they’re so awkward i can’t i love them so much already
(but also we get a kiss in ep2? oh no. oh. dear.)
also also just from a geeky actor pov, i can tell that there’s just So Much depth and backstory to each of these characters it must’ve been so fun playing them cause you get to just fully immerse yourself in the character and know exactly where their arc is going and god good writing makes such a difference for literally everyone involved 🥹
i think those are all my thoughts thanks for indulging me, gonna go rewatch that final scene now x
S1EP18 of Supergirl, World's Finest: Barry says, "I have to consume about 10,000 calories a day." (The average person needs roughly 2000-3000 calories.)
Pause. Wait a minute.
Opens S1EP2 of The Flash, Fastest Man Alive:
"I passed out again?"
"Total metabolic failure brought on by acute hypoglycemia."
"I'm not eating enough. So an I.V. bag and I'm good to go?"
[Chuckles] "Try 40."
Then...
"I've done a few calculations. You need to consume an amount equal to roughly 850 tacos."
According to Google... The average taco is 150 calories (though this includes cheese and Cisco mentions that he didn't include cheese so maybe a little less.)
So: 150 x 850 equals... 127,500?! What the Fuck. What The Fuck.
Okay, back to those IV bags. From what I've read, you treat hypoglycemia (Which is how Caitlin refers to Barry's issue, "acute hypoglycemia) with D5W, which is an IV solution with 5% dextrose (a sugar) in water. The IV bags that they show are 1000mL, though they don't say D5W, they say Sodium Chloride (Saline) which I think is used to treat dehydration. Which we could either pass over or we could assume Caitlin actually got it wrong and that's why he needed forty of them or the saline was just as effective as giving him the D5W.
This also raises another question, as we pan over to the empty IV bags that he used while he was passed out... How quickly does his body process those? How long was he laying there? He passes out when its dark out and its still dark out when he wakes up so...
And my FINAL QUESTION: Does hypoglycemia make sense as a symptom for Barry not eating enough? Is Team Flash's solution to his hypoglycemia even sensical? I wish I knew more about how any of this stuff worked so I could effectively call bullshit. I think it makes sense but I honestly don't know.
that electric undercurrent still hasn’t faded. with the storm clouds that roll in, it just builds and builds, hanging in the air and electrocuting the meat of an arm when it gets too close to metal. the humidity sits thick, waiting in the clouds, and everyone keeps looking up and expecting that downpour. some folks seem uneasy, crawling in their skin. they all seem to be around the same age, but nobody puts two and two together.
instead, everyone watches as the clouds change from grey, to purple, to a brackish green; the sky’s imitation of a bruise now healing. and then one day, deep in the week, lightning flashes snake-fast and blinding, the footsteps of thunder following behind a beat too slow, powerful enough that the ground underneath the town trembles like a quake. the clouds open in a monsoon and the river overfills.
PLOT PROGRESSION SCRIPTS
if your character is named as part of the plot progression script, please complete a thread/self-para having to do with it as detailed below. please note, these threads do not have to be overly-long as they do need to be finished before moving to s3. if you feel a few reblogs or shorter reply finishes up the script, that's fine! we ask that you prioritize any plot progression scripts as they need to be finished before we move to episode 3.
REPOSSESSION
— starring: dove, stag— cast: dove and stag are open for application!
— director's notes: please write either a thread of the above scene, or a self para each of the events after pre-plotting what transpired. director’s note: dove has to get away with the theft of the object. please tag it as s1ep2:flock. note that chronologically this happens before any other thread in episode 2, even if it gets up on the dash later!
stag hears a thump in their house. after their barrage of nightmares, this rattles them more than it usually would. they bunch up their blankets between their hands and listen harder. another series of thumps. the camera shifts angle and we pan to dove rifling through stag’s home. they’re looking for stag’s missing heirloom. the antlered creature visiting them in a dream again, like a god to a prophet, commanding them to find it. then bring the relic back to them, to the top of the mountain.
THE RITUAL
— starring: cottontail, angora, marsh, brush
— cast: @blushedstars, @bemarred, cottontail and brush open for applications!
— director's notes: you can write a group thread, a normal thread, or a self para of the ritual itself, the hallucinogenic aftermath, or both. you’re welcome to write more than one thread if you desire (ie: writing one thread as a ritual with muse a, hallucinating with muse b, and the next day with muse c). this is flexible and up to you, though at minimum 1 thread/self-para is required. please tag it as s1ep2:rabbits
you’re all drawn to a new page in the book. to perform it, step one notes that you need to be somewhere sacred. you all assume it must mean the berry bushes and trek into the woods. on the way, you see a rabbit. it bounds off kilter but pauses and looks back at you with milk-white eyes. an omen, cottontail whispers, and you all nod together as one before you follow it up, high in the mountains where the dirt turns red. the rabbit stops at the edge of a grave, so you do too.
you can all feel it. this is the sacred place.
step two, collecting bushels of flowers. the purple, vining masses surrounding the grave make it obvious that those must be it. you all tug them up and pile them, join hands in a circle around the mass and repeat the words in the strange language of the book. then, marsh takes a lighter out from their pocket and sets it on fire. the smoke spills up, a flood from below. you all inhale it and it stings the inside of your nose. angora is worried at first, that’s its toxic. before anyone can mention dousing it, or leaving, lightning streaks down from the sky right in front of you and wedges itself into that tree. it groans, and splits in half.
everyone’s skin feels like it's sparking, and that’s when you notice the animals, or creatures, or things coming out from the forest. some are more bones than pelts with distended jaws that clack as they cackle. rabbits on two feet whirling around them like they’re dancing. i think…it was hallucinogenic. that plant. brush says. i think the ritual worked. cottontail replies back. but what it did, exactly, nobody can say for certain.
OVERGROWTH
— starring: magpie, fieldmouse
— cast: @ech0h, fieldmouse open for application!
— director's notes: please tag is as s1ep2:forest
fieldmouse notices that the mushroom sample they’ve taken has multiplied. and then quadrupled. fieldmouse created a small vivarium for them, to give them more space as they document. it doesn’t make sense, but they have real time proof of it. they become even more enthralled. they almost don’t open the door for magpie when they come knocking, with advice they shouldn’t know. “hey, i heard you found some of those mushrooms near the marshlands. they grow better in the air.”
ODDITY
— starring: cat, fox
— cast: @fatedandbound, @saintsons
— director's notes: please write a thread of the scene below, your characters reactions, and what - if anything - they plan to do. please tag it as s1ep2:invasive
things have been odd around town. it was always a little off, but that was in the time slowed way of separation. not…this. it’s a coincidence, really. fox is at the cafe, sorting through everything that had been sent to them in the mail. looking for clues. one letter slips down to the floor next to where cat is sitting. they stare too long at one of the strange letters and fox hurriedly yanks it back. they move to ignore them when cat moves to the chair opposite them and pulls out their phone. “you got sent those, right? me too. sorta. it called me.” they pull up their phone and navigate to the call log to show the voicemail saved in their phone.
DELIVERY
— starring: lynx, hare
— cast: @willowhour, @ssaecularis
— director's notes: please write a thread of the above scene, lynx will snap out of their trance after handing off the electronic and will have no recollection of doing so. if hare refuses to follow the instructions, lynx will immediately re-enter the trance until the action is completed. please tag it as s1ep2:invasive
hare is around town, trying to outrun the feeling of eyes on their back. lynx stops in front of them. their eyes look unfocused, almost like they’re daydreaming. but in their hands they hold a tablet and hold it out to hare. carefully, hare takes it. as soon as the electronic is in their hands it starts setting off a notification bell. you look up at lynx, who nods, and gestures toward the I ACCEPT button now flashing on the screen.
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GENERAL SCRIPTS
below are general scripts, which are claimable scripts for anyone who does not have a plot progression script. if everyone without a plot progression script has already claimed a general script and there are still some available, then those that were named in plot progression are also free to take one. please reply to this post with which role you would like to claim!
for all general script threads, please tag them as s1ep2
the rain refuses to stop. it thunders down against the town and soaks into the earth, until it's soggy and gushing up mud between the cracks of old pavement. both muses decide to head out to the river to check the overflow level. on the way back out muse 1 slips into the river and is carried downstream, muse 2 struggles to get them out again. it seems like the river doesn’t want to let them go.
— muse 1: doe, won gaeul / @adoeration
— muse 2: open
muse 3 and muse 4 both saw the lightning streak down from the sky, so bright they could barely look directly at it. when they closed their eyes after, they still saw it imprinted into the black of their eyelids like a brand. it had felt important, but neither of them could explain why. they decide to hike up the mountain, even in the middle of the rainstorm, and see what it hit.
— muse 3: open
— muse 4: open
muse 5 and muse 6 are at the cafe, working on their laptops, so the internet should be fine. but both of their screens start loading slowly. the video playing on muse 5’s fractures from the video they’re watching to a fixed image of a forest. almost like it’s a hidden camera. muse 5 notices a figure just out of frame, an antler that looks too long. not like a deer. not like a regular one. it freezes, turns its head toward the camera, and the computer force shuts down. blue screen of death.
on the other side, muse 6’s music playing through their headphones changes into a chant. it’s not a language they’ve heard before. it builds until it starts to hurt their ears, but they can’t seem to stop listening. at a discordant yell, they lift up a hand and yank them free. both muses look at each other, equally bewildered. maybe they should try to find that spot in the woods. probably they shouldn’t.
— muse 5: elk, han seongmin / @shuteyed
— muse 6: open
muse 7 and muse 8 are wandering the edges of the woods, the rain now a slower, lazier drizzle, when they hear a whisper. muse 7 swears it’s someone they know. it whispers again, traveling along on the wind. they move closer. the voice shifts in cadence, less beckoning and more scared. a sharp “help!” that’s hard to ignore. muse 8 throws themselves into the woods before muse 7 can stop them. they follow after them, until they’re both lost and deep in the woods. the voice has abandoned them. they must make their way out of the woods before dark. they can feel it in their bones. every so often, voices chatter around them like laughter.
— muse 7: open
— muse 8: open
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CLOSING CREDITS
outside of the above scripts, general or plot progression, you are of course welcome to start any original threads that have to do with current events/lore or your muses backstories as well!
please note that if you have a plot progression script you can choose between waiting a bit to see if the canon is claimed or writing a self-para about the above script, if you choose to write a self-para and are unsure of some aspect of what happens or how a character would react you are welcome to im/message the main and we can supply you with additional information or choices that unclaimed characters will make in the moment.
there may be additional submits that happen over the course of this and other episodes. however, these will be more random than compared to episode one and will be weighted to be given to those who do not have a scripted thread in an episode. these will more so be for fun, unless stated otherwise, without needing to be fulfilled.
finally, all choices (including those the admin made for the unclaimed characters) have been added to the wiki, so if you're unsure of what went down in episode one or just need a refresher, please check there! :)
