#Autumn in Philadelphia

[oceangirl24]

Saudade: Losing Audrey Part I

Audrey's removal was temporary...

...He pulled into the driveway and turned off the vehicle but didn't get out of the truck. He felt disconnected from his body and couldn't make any part of himself move.

"Jon?" Shawn put his hand on his shoulder and gave him a shake. "What happened in Feeny's office? Where's Audrey?"

He wasn't prepared to answer these questions. He wasn't prepared to shatter Shawn's hopes for the future.

Jon stared at the windshield and wondered when it started raining.

"Jon. You're freakin' me out. Where's Audrey?"

"Gone." His voice was thick with emotion, and it was hard to get the word out.

"Gone?"

"Feeny knows."

Shawn sat back and frowned as he studied his teacher. "How much does he know?"

"Everything," Jon sighed despondently. "Except that I was gonna propose next month and that we were gonna adopt you."

He tipped his head back over the top of the car seat and stared at the ceiling.

"Hmm," Shawn replied, rubbing a finger over his lips. "So, he doesn't know about Saturday?"

"No."

Shawn nodded, unsurprised. "When is she gettin' back?"

Jon flinched at the question. "She isn't."

..."Man's gotta god complex," Shawn remarked rolling his eyes. He turned sideways to face Jon and rested his arm on the back of the seat. "Who died and made him Audrey's dad? Last time I checked, Pops was still kickin'."

Jon snorted in distaste at Shawn's word choice regarding Richie. "George thinks he knows best."

"Maybe in school stuff." Shawn paused to watch his teacher's pained expression. Jon was taking this incredibly hard. It surprised him when, by Shawn's estimate, it was only a few weeks they'd be without her.

It wasn't ideal but it also wasn't a tragedy.

A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Jon's got it so bad for Aud, he thought gleefully.

But his teacher wasn't smiling, so Shawn didn't tease him.

Instead, he said thoughtfully, "The school year's almost over. What's Feeny gonna do if we take off to New York as soon as the last bell rings? Call the cops and report us for intent to form a family?"

"My office now, Mr. Turner. I do not care what you are doing. I do not care what state of dress you are in. My office.  Now."

Jon felt the way Shawn looked: sick and helpless.

"Can I ask what this is about?" he ventured, bracing to be yelled at for insubordination.

"You lied to me, Mr. Turner," he replied with disgust. "You told me there was no romantic relationship between you and Miss Andrews. You have fifteen minutes to get to my office or I will come to you. And you do not want that."

The sound of the receiver dropping roughly into its cradle echoed in Jon's ear as he tried to wrap his head around the unspoken threat in Feeny's words.

"What?" Shawn jumped to his side and grabbed him by the shirt sleeve.

Numbness settled over Jon.

"He knows."

Shawn was positive he could feel Jon's fear and it made him shudder.

"He knows what?"

"Everything."

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[pangeen]

" The Halls of the Forest " //© William Smith

[harrisx28]

Fall at Laurel Hill in Philadelphia🍁

[c0mmencement]

tumblr, my beloved: i’m a brunette again for the first time in six years

[oceangirl24]

Thank you. I am very much looking forward to reading this as soon as I can.

Happy New Year!

Breaking the Fourth Wall – A gift fic in a special format

Fandom: Gravity Falls

Rating: G

Summary: Something sinister lurks for the girls and Pacifica, and Audrey steps up to face the threat.

Dedicated to @mercedesaria, for her love of a 90s-2000s sitcom.

Thanks to @bonpocalypse for giving an initial read and vetting through this story!

Notes: Audrey, who is more on the forefront here, makes her first appearance in Six and Seven, in which she bullied young Nilam until Great Grunkle Ford mediates the situation. Aria wrote a review saying how she was “very partial to that name”, given she writes a series featuring Audrey whom Jonathan (rather reluctantly) takes under his wing as a teacher-student. The two grow closer over time as the events unfold. Truthfully the name was taken from Pau’s next-gen comic which features a similar flashback of Cedric being bullied by a girl of the same name. Nevertheless, I decided to flesh out Audrey more, particularly in Episode IV: Death and the Maiden, and also in this gift fic.

For this work, I took a look over a few episodes of Boy Meets World, which is a sitcom Aria based her fanfiction series Autumn in Philadelphia from, and decided to write this story in a screenplay format. Canned laughter, recorded applause… those are something you can find from a 90s/2000s sitcom, while the sitcoms of the 50s were filmed before a live audience. Other inspirations also include DuckTales 2017 episode Quack Pack (although that's more of an 80s sitcom) and Wandavision.

I had an idea of the four friends doing a social studies project on the 90s/2000s and hence they reenacted a few scenes. The one they are reenacting at the beginning is from Boy Meets World Season 2 Episode 20 Pop Quiz, as the headmaster admonishes the two students for their appalling grades. Something unsettling happens, and it turns out to be a glitchy showman from Zoe’s video app that decides to take control of this show. I debated various ways on how to deal with him before deciding upon a game show. The scene featured at the end is transcribed right from Mercedes Aria’s Autumn in Philadelphia Trilogy – Squirrelly Funerals and Nutty Neighbors.

To Aria, you’re a dear friend, and I’d like to thank you for your incredible support and the valuable feedback you’ve provided on several of my writings. As of late, I had the opportunity to delve into your own stories, which are nothing short of extraordinary especially since I garner deeper insights from watching the show. I love how you integrate your OC into the canon – how Audrey becomes a mother figure for Shawn and is a close partner of Jonathan. It’s a pleasure to have you not only as a writing friend but also as someone whose work I admire wholeheartedly. I look forward to many more exchanges of creativity in the future.

I hope you'll enjoy this gift fic. And Happy New Year!

[davidwallacesgf]

“oh my god, i do not have time for you.”

LMAOOO the lawyer deserves a vacation for having to deal with the gang all the time

[unusual-suspects]

snapshots of my adventure this morning c:

[phillypeel]

10.19.24, Market Street, 2:27 pm

peel waiting for the bus

[oceangirl24]

Saudade: East River Drive

"You remember our first week at school after a summer of travelin'?" Jon asked Shawn as Audrey and Julia joined them in the living room.

"Oh, yeah," he chuckled at the memory. "That was not fun."

"Humph," he replied, feigning grumpiness. "You sure seemed to be havin' fun treatin' me like your personal school assistant."

A grin lit up Shawn's face as he thought about all the times he tried to use living with a teacher to his advantage.

And all the times he failed.

"You weren't a very good one," he said cheekily. "You wouldn't keep track of homework for me in any class, not even yours. Your excused absences and late notes stunk, you didn't respect personal holidays, and you withheld snacks." On this last remark Shawn gave Jon a look of teenage skepticism.

Jon shook his head and laughed. "You know each one of your siblin's gave me that very same look when I told them no snacks for the first time."

"Snacks are not as big a deal as you seem to think they are," Shawn grinned. "I can understand you threatenin' to take them away from me- you had no clue what you were doing. But after Julia? Dad, come on!"

"I thought one of you could be swayed!" Jon put his hand up defensively while laughing.

Shawn rolled his eyes good-naturedly. "You're lucky you got Mom, or you would have no control over the household."

Jon laughed out loud. "Don't I know it!" He paused a moment then said with a playful gleam in his eyes. "You remember right before Mom got assigned to me what you used to do with your bad grades and pink slips?"

Shawn hung his head in faux embarrassment. When he looked up, he was struggling not to laugh. "Yeah, no matter what trash can I hid them in somehow you found them."

"You weren't nearly as clever as you thought you were," Jon said, shaking a finger at him. "For one thing, you forgot I was a teacher and could talk to your other teachers whenever I wanted to so tellin' me they weren't givin' you your work back was just dumb. Two: you told me I wasn't givin' you your work back. And three, as soon as I saw you dump the work I did give you back in the trash can right outside of my room I knew I only had to check the cans outside all of your classes to find all that missin' work."

He and Shawn were both struggling to breathe from laughing so hard. Audrey laughed along with them while Julia looked on in fascination.

"Hey! I did get around you for a while," Shawn shot back defensively. "Once I figured out how you were gettin' those papers back."

"Yeah, you did," Jon admitted shaking his head. "You hit 'em under the floorboards."

"You did what?" Julia asked, sitting up suddenly. Growing up as she had, loose floorboard that could be used to store things under were the things of television and movies.

They never had anything that cool in their house.

"Hid 'em under the floorboards," Shawn confirmed, pointing to the kitchen. "There was a loose floorboard by the end of the counter. Dad used to hide extra cash under them, and I hid my bad grades there."

"Yeah, it was a good plan and it worked," Jon said with admiration. He chuckled. "Until I need cash and gotta bunch of F's instead."

"Ooo! Is there anything still in there?" Julia jumped up before she finished the question and ran to the kitchen....

Shawn took the flashlight and peered into the empty space. After a few minutes he sat back.

"Yeah, I didn't think there'd be anything in there," he remarked sounding disappointed.

Julia snatched the flashlight from him, shoved him to the side, and peered in much further than he had. She stuck her hand down in the space and began to feel around.

"Be careful," Audrey warned. "There's no telling what might have moved in after we move out."

Undeterred, Julia continued to search.

"Ooo, hey, what's this?"

Gently she put her hand on his arm and pushed it down so that she could see what he was looking at. When she saw the card, her mouth fell open.

It was the card for Dr. Amsden. The one that had been on her refrigerator until she hid it from Jon, he found it, and brought it back to the apartment.

"How'd that end up in there?" Julia asked after Audrey explained what it was.

"We hid my paperwork for treatment and things like bills in there," she replied. "Just in case someone came over, we didn't want it where it could be easily found."

"Katherine found it anyway," Shawn said bitterly as he stared at the card. "I guess this fell out and got left behind."

"What's Daddy got?" Julia asked.

Audrey and Shawn turned to Jon, but he was no longer with them. Instead, he was sitting on the couch staring at the papers in his hands.

He was trembling.

"Jon?" Audrey was at his side as quickly as she could manage. "What is it?"

He just shook his head. His eyes were full of unshed tears.

Audrey settled next to him and took the papers. His hands fell into his lap, and he stared blankly at the TV set.

"Mom?" Shawn asked worriedly. He sat next to Jon while Julia took a spot on the arm of the couch next to Audrey.

Audrey read over the papers several times before answering. Then she shook her head in disbelief.

"We always wondered what happened to this," she said so softly Shawn and Julia had trouble understanding her.

"But what is it?" Julia prodded.

"The legal guardianship paperwork."

Shawn wasn't able to respond right away. His brain froze and it took a while to start back up.

He'd never thought about what happened to the unsigned papers.

Unsure of how to respond, he said what he felt was the most appropriate. "How'd it end up there?"

"I put it there," Jon said without emotion. His skin was pale, and his eye held a haunted stare.

"But why?"

"The darkest night," was all he said.

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[emmathegrosssadhumanbeing]

Walking away from reality 🌞

[prettydaddy-halloween]

[pangeen]

" Autumn Rocks " //© Chris Henry

Original Audio

[harrisx28]

Fall in Philadelphia🍁

[secondsofpleasure]

liminal spaces / 10.2023

[davidwallacesgf]

the fact that them putting wine into their veins WASN’T the physical, pain, and endurance test ??? 😭

[sarahcornell]

philadelphia museum of art, october 2022

shot by sarah cornell