#school spirits dawn

[writerxwren]

I love the implication here that nostalgia can sometimes be just as much of a trap as trauma can. Anything that keeps you stuck in the past will prevent you from moving forward, even if it's good, and that's a bold thing to say in this day and age when we've created an entire culture around worshipping nostalgia to the point that it's actually kind of destroying our ability to form meaningful cross-generational connections with people. Everyone is competing over which generation's nostalgia matters the most and it's driving more wedges between us than it is building bridges. We're meant to learn from each other and our experiences, not fight each other because of them.

What's interesting about the characters all being from different time periods is that even though most of them are trapped in limbo, they're also all "living" in the present moment, which in a way forces them to have to connect with each other despite their generational differences. Those differences end up taking a back seat to their shared humanity, and the connections they forge are not only the heart of the show but also what enable them to be able to make progress past being stuck in an endless loop where nothing about their lives (or afterlives) ever changes or improves. I've never seen a story tackle this idea before the way this show has and yet again I'm so impressed at it for exploring concepts other stories either aren't brave enough to delve into or haven't even thought to touch upon. Themes like this are why this series is so compelling to me even as an adult viewer

[notzoeysblog]

spoiler for the school spirits finale

i was so happy when dawn was back she lit my favorite character!!

but fr are we gonna talking about the ending like when are they going to confirm a season 4???

[generalwasteritersblog]

This here is a girl who deserved the world. Dawn was true to herself right up until the end. She was mocked in life, mocked in death, yet found appreciation in her surroundings, rarely ever showing any anger or malice for the way she had been treated in life and death.

Dawn was a fighter, and she never gave up, hope was what kept her going, maybe not the hope for crossing over, but the hope that things would get better, she always believed they would.

She did things that no other spirit could or had up until that point, what even Janet wasn't brave enough to do, she confronted what happened to her, and learned to live with it. She found beauty in every situation, and while she died of electrocution, she knew it wasn't what she deserved.

Dawn truly was a good friend, and she deserved to be treated as such.

Sincerely, the General Waste

[reading-backstage]

school spirits spoilers

the main message of the show being that you can’t just ignore the past and move on, you have to address it.

the school doing it by changing the mascot from devils to bandits, turning the counselors office into classrooms, turning the chemistry lab into a bunker.

and the ghosts embody it through mr martin’s “guidance”. wally never told anyone he didn’t like football. rhonda never came to terms with her murder. charley never got over emilio. dawn never got reassured. mina never got appreciated. mr martin and janet never told anyone the truth about their deaths.

and mr martin wanted them to just move on. not try to come to terms with their life, just restart and ignore the past.

and maddie forced everything to change because she refused to just ignore her murder. she had to understand her past and her death before she would be okay moving on and starting her afterlife.

and she then caused everything else to do the same. simon and her uncovered mr anderson’s scam, and the mascot switch. simon and maddie realize the counselors office just got turned into classrooms. maddie’s prodding sent charley, rhonda, and wally straight into mr martin, and the schools attempts to ignore the past.

wally opened up to maddie. so did rhonda. charley got closure with emilio. dawn opened up and crossed over! mina was appreciated for the first time. maddie prompts everyone to go through newspapers until they found out the truth about the fire.

maddie is the catalyst for the entire school to address the things they tried to ignore, including her death.

[spacey-llama]

i havent posted about school spirits on here but after uhhhh 4 months i finally finished the 2nd chapter to my dawn x rhonda fic!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

these two are my fave pairing please join the dawn x rhonda nation

[lovelyypythoness]

I’m just gonna say this before I start episode 8 of School Spirits

Since the second or third episode I haven’t trusted Mr. Martin And I feel like that part where Dawn said that a ghost can temporarily possess a person is important to his character