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Imagine you're just a normal person and you decide to take your family to the local theatre to see a show. It's going to be a delightfully fun time for the whole family. But then things just start going wrong, not in the normal way where somebody forgets a line, a sound cue goes off early, or someone forgets when to come in. No. Like the ENTIRE set starts falling apart, one guy can't seem to remember his own lines (he remembers other peoples' lines??? for some reason???), one guy can't enter the stage, one guy keeps cheesing at the audience, and multiple people get knocked out and injured. You're thinking about calling an ambulance or something. But they just keep going. By the time they get to the end you're surprised that they are still alive and actively fear for their safety. You later learn that this is NORMAL??? That they are getting funded because two of their members are nepo babies and they had appeared on the BBC multiple times??? There are people who go and see the shows because of how awful they are??? They are the living embodiment of Murphy's Law??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???

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I feel one of the most underrated aspects of Mischief Movie Night In is Henry Shields' constant unparalleled determination to either play the villain or else make things as un-family-friendly as is humanly possible.

Or both. Usually both.

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My Cornley Drama Society family headcanons:

Warning: Their parents suck and none of them have good relationships to their families.

Chris:

Starting off with the man whose parents canonically suck. They were definitely very strict and conservative (*cough* tories *cough), and I mean they canonically didn't show Chris affection. But I feel like Chris is probably in denial about this because whenever you hear him talk about his parents it's very clear that they suck but he just talks about it like it's normal (ex: "my mother, like all mothers, abhors any physical contact"). Most of the others have picked up on the fact that Chris's parents suck but whenever anyone talks to him about it he gets really defensive really quickly. I think that somewhere deep down he knows that his parents are bad but he just forces himself to believe that they're not because he can't deal with the idea that they are. He also gives me major only child vibes.

Robert:

Robert canonically has a sister, but I feel like he probably has another sibling as well because he really gives me ignored middle child vibes. I get the feeling that his parents were kind of neglecting towards him and discouraged anything he did so now he is just desperately trying to prove himself to them, or at least prove their low opinions of him wrong. Sibling wise I think he probably has a younger sister and an older sister (the older one being the one who briefly dated Chris, and the younger one being Lucy's mother). When it comes to Robert's relationships with his sisters I feel like he's probably a bit closer with his younger sister.

Dennis:

A while ago I posted about the fact that I believe that Denise, the female variant of Dennis, is his sister and I still stand by that. He's probably the younger of the two. I think his parents got divorced when he was quite young and he doesn't really see his dad nor has a very strong connection to him (a big reason for why he seems so fine with calling Robert dad). From the small details that we've heard about his mum I don't think she's a good parent either, considering that the bits of information we've been given about her are:

She dated Robert. I hope that most people can agree that dating your sons friend and co-worker (and also future roommate, which I just want to mention cause I think it's funny) is maybe not the best thing to do.

During a performance of The Murder at Haversham Manor she straight up got up and left

When Dennis thought that Vanessa proposed to him he called his mum who said that she didn't believe him because she thinks that Vanessa is a solid eight and Dennis is a two. Which, surprise surprise, is a really shitty thing to say.

So yeah I don't think she's great either, but just like Chris, I think that Dennis is a bit in denial about this. But whilst Chris is kind of actively trying to convince himself that his parents are good, I feel like for Dennis that has never occurred as a possibility. It's so deeply engrained in his brain that this is what parents are supposed to be like that he's never even entertained the idea that his parents weren't actually that good at being parents. He just thinks that this is how all parents act, and to be honest being in the Cornley Drama Society hasn't really proven this theory wrong.

(Also Rennis exists. Do I know much about him? No. But he's important. Trust me.)

Max:

Max's family gives me "uptight old money family" vibes, and I feel like growing up he didn't fully feel like he fit in. I also headcanon him as being/having (idk) AUDHD and considering that I once again don't feel like a strict family was perhaps the most comforting and supportive environment. But still he tries to be around his family as much as possible in hope that it will make them closer, but honestly he is probably closer with his aunt than his actual parents. Sibling wise I think he has two older siblings, on sister and one brother, who are both probably a lot closer with their parents than Max is. When they were quite young they behaved quite similarly but as they grew older both of Max's older siblings stepped into a more responsible role and they grew apart from Max.

Sandra:

Sandra definitely strikes me as one of those girls who grew up in a household with just brothers and felt like she kind of had to fight for attention. I think she's probably the youngest, or at least like second youngest since I think she probably has like five brothers. Growing up I think she kind of had to fight quite a lot for her parents attention and that theatre was kind of an attempt to get that attention. Like if she succeeded she would finally be given just a sliver of that attention that her brothers basked in all of her life. And this has resulted in her not being very close with her brothers, and actually resenting them a bit which is something she feels quite bad about cause she knows that it's not their fault. Her and her family still meet quite a lot, but even as an adult Sandra tends to feel quite ignored. I think that this is 100% a thing that she and Robert, and also subconsciously Chris, bonded over.

Jonathan:

I'm kind of pending a bit between two ideas when it comes to Jonathans relationship to his family:

Jonathan is an only child but who is and has always been very neglected by his parents to the point where he often wonders if they even remember that he exists

He has an insane amount of siblings, like six or seven, and is one of the middle ones. Once again this leads to him being extremely neglected by his parents and once again wondering if they even remember his existence.

But either way I don't think his parents were all too good.

Also if we go with the second headcanon I think that that would have led to a similar relationship to his siblings as the one that Sandra has, where he kind of resents them for getting all of the attention growing up, and this was probably something he and Sandra bonded over.

Vanessa:

Vanessa strikes me as the type of person who endlessly defends her parents even thought they weren't the best. I feel like they were quite absent, both literally and metaphorically. When they were there they were "okay", but that was honestly so rare that it's not enough to attribute them the title of "good parents". But nonetheless Vanessa still defends them, and when someone tells her that they weren't good parents she kind of dismisses her experience and says that "others have it worse". She just in general strikes me as the type of person to ignore most of her issues because in her opinion she doesn't have it bad enough. Also gives me major only child vibes. I think her whole family relationship was something that she and Chris really bonded over, cause they had a lot of similar experiences but they're also both too deep in denial to accept that their parents are actually in the wrong. So instead they bond over their "normal" family experiences and the fact that they think it's weird that everyone else thinks that their parents suck.

Annie:

I think Annie's parents got divorced when Annie had already moved out, and her dad then got re-married and had a new kid that is now like twenty years younger than Annie which she finds quite strange and a bit uncomfortable. I think they probably still care a lot about their half-siblings and is very caring and nurturing but does find it quite odd to be so much older. On top of that I don't think her dad was there a lot when she was a kid so she feels quite distant from him and doesn't have a great relationship with him, and this got even worse when he got new kids and she saw how much more present he was with them in comparison to her (just thinking about the quote/monologue in The Good Place when Eleanor talks about her mum, "I just wasn't worth changing for"). So I think Annie probably has a lot more close relationship with their mum. Sibling wise she only has one sibling, her half-sister, who is really young (I don't know what age the Cornley Drama Society members are so I'm not sure what's reasonable).

Trevor:

Sibling wise I think Trevor is probably the oldest of three, one of his siblings being his younger sister named Tessa and the other one being his younger brother named Dale (who was mentioned on the in-character twitter account that Rob Falconer had for Trevor). His parents got divorced when Trevor was like twelve and his dad left a little while after that and none of them have seen him in years. His mum was pretty strict when they were growing up and Trevor essentially tried rebelling in a quite constricting household by striking out and doing things that he actively knew that his mother disapproved of. It's also canon that his mother cut contact with him and I feel like this is a consequence of Trevor not fitting into her box, and I think she probably cut contact with her other children as well. Then as she got older she developed several different medical conditions that resulted in Trevor and his siblings having to check in on her quite a lot, which is something she resents and actively tries to avoid so she'll sometimes just disappear and essentially runs away so she doesn't have to see her kids. Long story short: He doesn't have good parents either.

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Memes to cope with the new hohr ep

But first, s1e49 in images (no spoilers)

(spoilers below the cut)

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[Slight spoilers warning] MMNI Dec'24 #1 Gifs!

There's too many gif-able moments for me to resist - no story spoilers at all, just image gifs :)

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i’m having thoughts, it’s time for another very sad june ramble. big big hohr episode 49 spoilers. you have been warned.

i know we’re all devastated, so here’s some stuff to avoid thinking about:

whatever you do, do NOT think about sweet, sweet gluebrick who, before his conversation with avon was so ready to give up completely and let eric win. how ready he was to get hurt for the sake of his friend and that friend’s true desire.

do NOT think about that sweet boy then being told not only that either him or one of his friends will die very soon, but that they will be unknowingly fighting with everything they have in order to reach that point. he cares about them so much, he’d do anything for his happy boys, but gluebrick has to deny them everything they want in order to save their lives and he can’t even tell them why.

don’t think about gluebrick apologizing with every hit, trying over and over to reason with them and put all of that emotion into his voice, but the happy boys are spurred on by lofty desires and they don’t know that gluebrick is fighting not out of just desire, but pure terror.

don’t think about a boy who was damned to hell for ending lives saving his friends by choosing to end his own. don’t think about how quickly he made that decision, either.

who was, through his tears, so happy to die, because he “saved his best friends”.

don’t think about eric and how many times he’s snapped at gluebrick during their journey, how many times he’s talked down to him, and how the last time he did so it wasn’t with disdain or exasperation but with awe and heartbreak. who, when confronted with the consequences of love and the foolishness that follows, says nothing except that they are glad to be foolish. the happy boys are indeed happy fools.

don’t think about ghoul, who wanted so badly to be a leader, and to foster that mutual trust with his friends, and who failed to listen and now has to watch the consequences of that lack of trust. who probably realized that the last real interaction he’d have with gluebrick would be to insult him and to bicker, who can finally hug his friend but only after his body has gone cold. don’t think about “i’ll never forgive you.” “you will.”

do NOT think about henley, who had been left behind and pushed aside for all of his life, who was finally starting to understand that his friends were there for him and that there might be a path towards healing. who had finally made that choice to save gluebrick, knowing he was admitting to himself that he cared. who found people who loved him just as much as he loved them, maybe even more. who was so hesitant, so apologetic when fighting them. who heard gluebrick call him his best friend, and didn’t deny it. who, amidst all of his walls and his denial, trusted gluebrick enough to potentially sacrifice his son’s life, and who told him exactly that so gluebrick would know how much it meant. who sounded so small and so scared when he realized that this person that he’d relied on and stuck with and LOVED was leaving just when he’d found him. “hold on, gluebrick, you can’t die.” CAN’T. like it’s completely incomprehensible that he wouldn’t be there, for a stupid joke or a hug when henley needs him. who, when he reached for gluebrick’s tail with his own (a point of connection that had followed him throughout hell, that had been a source of comfort and warmth), found that there was no tail to hold. gluebrick had lost his tail in the prison compound, and henley can do nothing but grasp at air.

don’t think about how the last thing the happy boys saw of gluebrick was all of his love. don’t think about the fact that his love was so powerful it glowed, that the love inside him was enough to make the world seem empty by comparison. that their shining star, the warm, smiling goofball who had always, ALWAYS been there with a helping hand or a gentle encouragement, was just as bright on the inside as he was on the outside. that he died loving them, and probably with a smile on his face.

i hope eric realizes that love can come in many forms, and you cannot take it for granted. that it is indeed foolishness, but the best kind.

i hope ghoul finally understands the stakes of all of this, and that his happy boys mean too much to him to continue on his selfish streak. i hope he listens to gorm the worm and holds his friends together when they need it the most.

i hope henley goes batshit fucking crazy and fights his way out of hell to try and find a way to get gluebrick back. i have a feeling he’s going to sink in on himself even more, and it might be impossible to ever get him out. he was so close.

(and definitely don’t think about how it was always going to go this way. gluebrick blew himself up in the reactor in order to spare thunden (and, by proxy, eric). gluebrick used his dying breath to potentially end his life so that the happy boys could escape lady ingano. gluebrick gave himself up against ice tyson to save henley’s life, and, in doing so, discovered that his DIVINE PURPOSE was to defend others, and to sacrifice himself for that goal. it was written into his bones that he would give up everything for the people he loved. it was never going to be anyone else.)

yeah. don’t think about that.

gonna go cry again now.

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the cornley cast's shimmies during peter pan goes wrong closing bows!

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I love to watch the goes wrong show when I'm having a bad day because no matter what kind of day I'm having, chris bean is having a worse one

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this is in the top ten tweets of all time if you even care

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thinkingg. abt them

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Cornley drama society text posts but they're all autism related because I will once again die on this hill

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hello enjoltaire nation, today I give you another offering

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made the horrible painful decision a few weeks ago to draw full character evolution charts for each of the happy boys, so here are the first two!!

i’ll keep the descriptions mild here, but if anyone in this tiny fandom is interested in the finer details/design choices i made, let me know and i’ll ill make a separate post :)

guide: left to right -> ep 1 onwards, skulls represent remaining soul lives!

HENLEY WHISPERS

+ close ups!

GLUEBRICK BUMBLEDUNG

+ close ups!

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more <3 i can’t stop making these help

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part one of cornley text posts <3

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legally obligated to draw trevor’s stupid little costume in The Most Lamentable because it’s perfect