#....another sammy lawrence LMAO

[reanimationstation]

@wally-franks-stan your ponies r so good i had to draw ur pony motw joey and our sammys interacting. and our normal sammys interacting! sam on sam violence

[queenofcats17]

I would actually like to see Sammy get extremely embarrassed by his parents lmao!

Okay! Sure!

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Sammy tried very hard to keep his work and private life separate. The less people knew about him the better. If he could have, he would have chosen to never be talked to at work by anyone other than Jack. He didn't do small talk and he didn't give out information about his personal life.

Which was why this was his absolute worst nightmare.

His parents had come to the studio.

He'd told his parents about where he was working, of course, but he hadn't expected them to actually visit the studio. They lived in Missouri for goodness sake! It wasn't like they could just drop by on a whim!

"They planned this," he groaned to Jack as his parents happily chatted with his coworkers. The two of them were at a table in the corner, away from the crowd that had gathered.

"Probably," Jack agreed, taking a sip of his coffee.

Sammy groaned louder, resting his forehead on the table.

"Y'know, I always thought Sammy's parents'd be just as prickly as him," Wally was saying. "But you guys are pretty nice!"

"Oh, Sammy's always been like that," Mrs. Lawrence replied. "Y'all shouldn't take it personally. He just values his privacy."

"He's really a very sweet boy," Mr. Lawrence agreed. "He was always helping people out at the church."

"Do you have any pictures of him as a kid?" Norman asked.

Although Sammy wasn't currently looking at him, he knew without a doubt that the projectionist had an enormous shit-eating grin on his face.

"I'm so glad you asked!" Mrs. Lawrence lit up, producing a collection of photographs that she happily displayed to the assembled employees. "This is him in his suit on Easter Sunday when he was 11. He was an altar boy that year for the first time." She held up an old photograph of a young, rather cherubic-looking Sammy in a little suit, staring at the camera with adorable seriousness.

"Oh, he was so nervous," Mr. Lawrence said with a gentle chuckle. "But he did so well!"

"He was a real cute kid," Tom remarked. Sammy could hear the barely contained smile in his voice too.

"And this one is him when he started playing the organ for the congregation." She held up another photograph of what looked to be a teenage Sammy seated at an organ. His focus was solely on the keys and he once again looked adorably serious.

"This is Hell. I'm in Hell," Sammy said, covering his head.

"Aw, c'mon. It's not so bad," Jack tried to reassure him.

"My carefully crafted reputation is in shambles. I am never going to live this down. It is exactly as bad as I think it is."

Sammy was absolutely right that no one present was going to let him live this down. Sure, maybe not everyone would comment on it all the time, but this would be remembered. They finally had something embarrassing to hold over Sammy's head, and by god, they were going to hold it.

The Lawrence parents, either unaware or uncaring about Sammy's dramatic distress, simply continued to share their photographs, commenting about how nice it was to finally meet all of Sammy's coworkers.

[inkdemonapologist]

I want.... a Lawrence & Fain shirt to exist...... but since this is unlikely to come into being, maybe for now we can all console ourselves with, this legally nonspecific musician duo, with a cool random splatter design that doesn’t foreshadow anyone’s tragic fates, that is available now on several products in my redbubble store,

[abyssalautistic]

April 3: Talk about special interests. Do you have any? What are they? How long have you had them? What does it feel like to have special interests? What does having special interests mean to you? Talk about your past special interests

i have. a Lot of special interests, though some are on and off. my biggest and longest lasting spin is animals!! i literally cant express how much i adore animals and i really love researching them, there's such a wide variety of creatures!! i've been enthralled with them from a very young age, instead of watching cartoons like a normal kid i'd watch david attenborough documentaries!! my first word was actually "bird" lmao (i'm bambi i guess)

animals make me feel really really happy!!! i think about them and am filled with wonder and joy!!!!! sometimes it's hard though because i love them so much i can't put it into words and i get really emotional over it. i have a lot of hyperempathy for animals too

i love them so much that it extends to their bones / feathers / shells etc, which is why vulture culture is another big spin. i have loads of cool animal skulls, my dearest being my common seal skull! i feel hyperempathy towards my skulls too and will often talk to them or apologise if i handle them too roughly, as weird as it sounds. bones and feathers also are stimmy for me, with their textures and weight. my vc blog is @blackvulturez!

cryptozoology and mythical animals also is a big spin of mine!! i've always been fascinated with things like dragons and sea monsters and chupacabras. i am a very strong believer in a lot of cryptids like nessie and bigfoot. especially sea cryptids, seeing as the ocean's so big and unexplored. it's funny because this spin includes ghosts and aliens and i'm incredibly easily scared lmao i can barely watch buzzfeed unsolved without freaking out a bit. still, as much as it frightens me it's very interesting!!! a part of me hopes i'll see a ghost one day. i think i did see a ufo when i was younger but i'll leave that for another post (feel free to ask though)

those are my Big Three Spins but i have others too. my current "fandom" spin is cookie run!! my cr blog is @wiindarcher for those interested, since i'm pretty active on it currently. i also love furbies, plushies / toys, pokemon, warrior cats, mlp, httyd, tlk and fnaf! though i don't think much about fnaf nowadays. also i feel like bambi and moana might be kind of spins too? a past spin of mine is batim, i still like it but i'm just not That into it any more. sammy lawrence did help me choose my name though!! thanks mr lawrence

hoo that got long but such is the way of infodumping lmao

[displacedprincess]

BDRPWriMo Task #21

I did one part of this task already, 10+ characters I’d like to play. Now this list, will be 10+ I’d love someone else to play!

Any fc ideas I put are ofc hypothetical lmao

SO HEEERE is a list of 10+ characters I selfishly want to see here! Yes all o fthe open Elena of Avalor characters are on the list but! That’s not all!

1. Arista Triton (fc suggestions by McKala: Loey Lane, Johanna Braddy, Iskra Lawrence) 

Someone bring me my twiiiiin! Complete the Triton family, y’all! We’re so close! And really don’t take my fc suggestion too serious - as in, serious at ALL. I just like making fc idea lists when I’m bored. I wanted to attach potential fcs to all my Wanted Characters in case somebody was considering the characters but were stumped for ideas.

Ask Avarick, Sam, Lauren, and Kiara- I am always down to make a fc list.

2. Haley Long (fc suggestions by McKala: Chou Tzuyu, Wong Viian, Cao Lu)

Another teen! A dragon! HOW COOL. Give Pet her baby sister 2k19

3. Jafar (fc suggestions by McKala: JOHN ABRAHAM omfg, Omar Lofti, Adrian Pasdar)

Now that Arawn’s dead (rip), Swynlake needs a new evil sorcerer! And it’s a chance to do some cool worlbuilding for Agrabah, like Team Avalor’s done with Avalor!

4. Jasmine (fc suggestions by McKala: SO MANY. including Njoud Al Shammari, Dalal AlDoub,  Adila Sedraïa, Sonita Alizadeh, Claudia Doumit)

I’m honestly shook Jasmine’s not taken yet y’all! She’s a great character, you can go so many diff directions with her and HEL-LO worldbuilding!

5. Star Butterfly (fc suggestions by McKala: Prilly Latuconsina, Kiana Lede, Rola, Liza Koshy, Normani Kordei, Anastasia Tsilimpiou, Zara Larsson)

Y’all, again. The worldbuilding! Potential! Here! you can make her a magical princess from a another dimension how DOPE

6. Alonso Cordoba (fc suggestions by McKala: Taylor Zakhar, Diego Tinoco, Maluma, Carlos Valdes, Rafael De La Fuente)

Come play the snobby Avaloran noble turned refugee, childhood frenemy/pain in the ass of Princess Elena! Join Avalor Squad and get a piece of Avalor worldbuilding. Help me develop the Avaloran nobility, the pop culture, the youth culture. Being from Avalor is a cool enough plot, with the coup and civil conflict now, but being nobility? With a potential connection to the princesses? Woooo!

7. Armando Salinas (fc suggestions by McKala: tricky, bc he has to be Latinx and body diverse, but I have three possible ideas in mind and I can make gifs for them! They’re Harvey Guillen, Andrew Garcia, and Erik Griffin. 

Wow there HAS to be more body diverse Latinx men out there. But!!! Join the Avalor party y’all!

8. Taranee Cook!!!! (fc suggestions by McKala: Karidja Touré, China Anne McClain, Sammi Maria)

H O W are the guardians still just me and Silv? Come grab Taranee, Cornelia ,and Hay Lin for a w e s o m e plots, woooo!

9. Hay Lin!!!! (fc suggestions by McKala: Janice Wu, Lauren Tsai, Brianne Tju)

Join me and Silv! Play a Guardian! Travel across diff dimensions, weeeeee! Have the power of WIND, WOW

10. Cornelia Hale !! ! ! (fc suggestions by McKala: Ludovica Martino, Lulu Antariska, Zara Larsson, Liana Liberato)

Again! Come play one of the remaining three guardians of the veil. Corny has the power of EARTH, how NEATO is that!?

11. Professor Guadalupe “Lupe” Mendoza (fc suggestions by McKala: Rosario Dawson, Charo Bogarin, Jessica Alba, Velina Hsau Houston, Lana Parrilla)

COME PLAY A COOL AVALORAN WOOOO

Join me in Avalor world! Lupe Mendoza is so cooool, she’s a professor, a scholar, a genius, a really cool lady forced to flee Avalor because of the new dictatorship. I wrote her, Armando, Alonso, and the other upcoming Avalor skeletons wooooowooooo

12. Aladdin! (fc suggestions by McKala: Derrick Monasterio, Toni Mahfud, Jade Hassoune)

Y’all again! Think of the worldbuilding you’d get to do with Agrabah!

13. Li Shang (fc suggestions by McKala: Shawn Dou, Lewis Tan, Osric Chau)

Y’all how do we not have any Mulan characters yet??? But I would pay someone physical money for a Li Shang ahhhhh Free URL for you - thetimes-theyare-ashangin

14. Olivia da Silva (fc suggestions by McKala: Marina Nery, Bruna Marzenique, Bruna Tenorio, Barbie Ferreira, Cierra Ramirez)

I made this skeleton woowoo! Come play an Avaloran character! A young sorceress honing her craft! Worldbuild Avalor with me, yaaaay! I put Brazilian-preferred on the skeleton for fc suggestions because the Avalor we’ve crafted in game is a bilingual society in South America with Portuguese and Spanish influence about equally. It’s not requiiired, like you can change her last name to be Spanish and not Portuguese, but! I tracked down a ton of Brazilian fcs with resources so!

[inkdemonapologist]

Do you think Jack and Sammy's relationship could possibly be a little strained in the canon? I mean, it's kind of obvious that Jack is a little envious of the attention Sammy gets, and when they start working at the studio together, its seems like the two keep distance from one another? Like, you have Jack working far away from the music department in the sewers by himself, and it's also interesting to note that Sammy never mentions Jack in the tape recordings either in the game.

(Grain of salt, as always, that I haven’t gotten to read through TIOL for myself yet -- I’ve had excerpts transcribed and shared with me, and the scenes with Sammy and Jack are ones I’ve seen big chunks of, but u know, general disclaimer!!)

I don’t agree with the conclusion that it’s “obvious” that Jack is envious, though that does seem to be the popular takeaway! I think it’s just one possibility, and I definitely read it differently myself. But, I do think this is a very possible and easily supported reading of the text and game -- 

-- the idea that Jack and Sammy are partners with opposite personalities who need each other but also grate on each other; Jack putting up with Sammy’s general condescension and disrespect because of his musical skill, and Sammy dealing with Jack because he needs someone to Handle People for him or else he’d drive away every potential job -- and once Sammy has Joey and the music director job, he no longer needs Jack for that. Jack’s audiologs then follow a really easy arc, too -- Jack complains about how aggravating working in the music department is, Jack runs off to the sewers to get away from Sammy’s nonsense, Jack sees too much in the sewers [and probably gets murdered], Jack is gone by the events of DCTL and never mentioned or noticed despite previously being important enough to have “meetings” with Joey every day. There’s definitely evidence to support this reading!

It is also… not how I read it!

I take Joey’s story of what happened mostly at face value, and we absolutely do see them getting irritated with each other here (Sammy doesn’t wanna be part of Jack’s comedy routine, Jack is frustrated when Sammy gets fixated on recognising Joey from his old job), but the whole scene with Sammy and Jack has to be at least a little filtered through the fact that Joey clearly has just the biggest crush on Sammy Lawrence. Jack is nice, but he’s not Interesting to Joey the way Sammy is -- unreadable, mysterious Sammy who won’t give him the time of day. So is it any wonder that the guy who thinks Sammy understands his vision, that Sammy is like a god, that Sammy is so unknowably brilliant, is going to zoom in on the strain he sees between Sammy and his much more Ordinary partner, the ways they don’t match and shouldn’t work, the way that Sammy was always better suited to be his? The tension makes for a more interesting story for Joey anyhow!

You can certainly read Jack’s ��haha that’s nice but let’s return to a conversation I’m in” interruption as being jealous of attention, but to me it’s actually a kinda funny and candid comment (that, if u want, could hint at sentiments of “wow y’all are getting pretty gay over there please remember I am also here” that Joey for obvious reasons glosses over lmao). I ALSO can’t stop thinking about how surprisingly direct it is, like, Jack’s figured out how to stay casual and jokey while also expressing his frustrations very directly and unambiguously to his neurodivergent partner -- “don’t cut me out of the conversation, talk about something I can talk about too” -- and Joey caught that it wasn’t really a joke, but despite his obsession with What’s Sammy Thinking, he doesn’t report Sammy being annoyed at this interruption and redirection. To Sammy, this was normal, and he gets back on track afterwards.

I know I said before that Sammy’s autistic but it’s REALLY getting harder and harder to read him ANY OTHER WAY, which makes me squint a bit at how much Joey reads into Sammy’s “seriousness” and “unreadable” emotions. Meanwhile Jack doesn’t apologise for Sammy’s behaviour, even when it’s weird or rude, and in fact speaks with some fondness, as if this is just how Sammy is -- you could read his comments about Sammy as sarcastic or exasperated, but I love the idea that he’s just… used to this and takes it in stride? Like, nah, he wasn’t snubbing you when he didn’t shake your hand, he just doesn’t shake hands. That’s just Sammy. There’s frustrations between them, but ultimately they handle this whole thing as a pair -- Jack handles the friendliness, the performance, but he trusts Sammy when Sammy barges in with questions and demands, and he doesn’t always know what’s in Sammy’s head but he rolls with it. It seems like there has to be a lot of trust, and so much that seems unspoken? Like, this is such a HUGE SHIFT IN JOB, and they don’t even discuss it with each other -- Jack clearly wants the job, but waits until Sammy’s satisfied that it’s good for him; Sammy makes his demands and just leaves, Jack takes that cue and shakes Joey’s hand -- it’s as if they’re two parts of a whole and they both know it. Like when old married couples only look one way when turning into traffic, because they know the other is looking the other way and they don’t even have to check….

I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS,,,,,,, ANYWAY,,,,,,

I’ve talked before about my pre-TIOL takeaways on things like the audiologs between Jack and Sammy (suffice to say, I don’t think it’s surprising that these two prefer to have some space and quiet when they’re working), but really, there’s never… been any canon at all for their interactions before, haha. Seeing them as a pair like this has given my Jack x Sammy heart more fuel than it had ever hoped for!!!

But questions about what I think might be true in “the canon” are something I’m never sure how to answer. Like… just in the sense that, while I do get a kick out of working within the canon info whenever possible, I definitely didn’t get into this fandom to puzzle out what was intended! When I first got into BatIM and delighted at the evidence for Joey x Henry and Joey x Sammy, it wasn’t because I thought those things were intentional -- quite the opposite; at the time, I strongly suspected they were an accident. When I’m figuring out my own headcanons, I’m not trying to figure out authorial intent; I’m usually looking at the canon we have and trying to find something that makes sense with what we know that’s the most compelling to me! Not necessarily trying to do My Own Unique Take, but also I’m not really here to try to guess how the franchise is gonna go or what the True Canon is or anything.