#Driving School Narre warren

[anytimedriving]

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[bikashdas]

How Manual Driving Lessons Are Vital?

[warcorrespondence]

You've probably seen that post that goes around, you know the one: It's all fun and games in hbowar until you want to see two women have a conversation.

Well, @mercurygray/mercurygray set out to fix that. The Darkening Sky is full of women having conversations about real things.

fandom: band of brothers

pairing: Dick Winters/OC

mature, 220612 words

This epic asks the question: what would it be like if women went to war with Easy Company? No, but really though?

There are a lot of OCs, and a personal challenge I have with reading OCs is that I already love the canon characters. So for me, OCs have more work to do in fanfic than they do in novels, because they have to shoulder aside my blorbos. (This is me - there are a lot of OC writers and readers in this fandom and bravo to you all! I’m simply explaining a barrier I have). 

But fairly quickly, they established themselves, and over not too long a time, I grew to love them.

The main relationship is between Joan Warren, niece of General Pershing and society gal of Nixon’s ilk, and Dick Winters - she’s flirtier than he is, and more outspoken, but just as driven and in essence just as private. It takes them A WHILE to get going, because it would - these are two serious people with serious things to do, and they take love seriously too.

And all right, I’m just going to put it out there - was it a challenge, as a card-carrying winnix girlie, to hop on board that train? 

…not really? 

It helps that Nix ships it (which, like everything here, is shown and not told, and with delightful subtlety). It helps that Joan is awesome, a fully-fleshed out character with flaws and frustrations, narrative drive as well as personal drive. It helps that this is just another world where the Nix-Dick friendship didn’t develop that way, from Toccoa onward. There is no "We'll go to Chicago, I’ll take you there." It’s not what happens. 

(This fic also doesn't straightwash - there's not a ton of focus on m/m or f/f relationships, but they're there).

But Joan and Dick, much as I love to read about them, are not the only focus of the story. POV shifts all the time, sometimes to Shifty, sometimes to minor characters like Aldbourne residents or land girls, and we get an idea of what the war is like for them, as well as their perspective on Easy Company in all its camaraderie and complexity. 

It probably goes without saying that in a fandom full of heavily researched fics, Merc’s stands out as being the most meticulous. She knows her shit, and I knew that going in. But there’s a difference between throwing in facts and details for the sake of it, and doing it to further the experience of the reader. I felt like I learned things, but never like I was being taken to school - when I learned something it was because I was gaining context about a beloved character or understanding more about how the world would work for women in these circumstances. And they don't all have the same experience! Life for Lieutenant Joan Warren, reluctant media darling, is very different than it is for Sergeants Billie Mitchell or Marj Gordon (just to name a couple of my favorites).

These women never stop being women, and being treated that way, for better or worse (often worse). And there's something heartbreakingly frustrating but also beautiful about that.

Marj’s new haircut looked good on her - Doris wasn’t proud of a whole lot, these days, but any time she caught sight of Marj with her helmet off she had to smile. I did that. And she looks damn good. Marj’s honey-colored pageboy was starting to get a little long at the edges, but only enough to make Doris regret not bringing her scissors so she could do everyone else’s. Her fellow sergeant looked…free, without the hair, released from some burden of responsibility to look like she belonged somewhere else and might well be there soon. Why didn’t we do that earlier? Doris wondered to herself. It’s a war, not a beauty pageant. We’re not winning awards.  Because we’re still women, and we still want beauty. Because it’s hard to change something like that.  Because we all want to go right back to the way it was when this is over - even if we know we can’t. The way it was. The phrase made Doris want to laugh. They weren’t those women and men any more, the kids who’d arrived at Toccoa, and it was foolish to think they might be. Look at any of them, bruised and scarred - look at Marj! And even if they hadn’t changed, the people at home would have. (Look at Marj, again - and fuck Allen, while they were looking.)

[themarginalthinker]

Hello two things- one. Will we see Charlie's sire in the fic? And two will we see This Warren of mine soon?

Will we see Charlie's sire in the fic: well, that's a slightly complicated answer. One, that's spoilers, and two, yes and no? One of the major Themes of This Warren Of Mine is exploring the community of the Nosferatu. They are an extremely tight-knit clan I think that to not at least know your Sire's name is considered really rare and something to maybe look at with pity. Another Theme is one of alienation from a group that you are supposed to fit into, and finding your own voice among the many. The push and pulp of conformity for unity and nonconformity for individual identity.

The fact that Charlie functionally doesn't have a Sire is purposeful and feeds into these themes, as well as being a large part of what will drive her narrative - the desire to understand her place in the world of the Nosferatu, and struggling with her own identity within that.

So, will we see her Sire? Who knows! I certainly ain't telling ;)

As for the other part of this ask - I assume you mean about when I'm going to update the story. Well. Unfortunately, writing is slow, and I'm working on other projects, and work a full-time job, hopefully soon to be starting school on top of that. I cannot give dates or even estimations for stuff like that, and as well, I'd prefer if questions about when I'm going to update not be sent. The simple answer is, I don't know, and asking again and again isn't going to make it happen faster, I'm afraid.

Thank you for the ask!

[brightestcare]

Community Activities in Narre Warren South

Community activities Narre Warren South are a great way to keep kids active and engaged. These include music programs that improve self regulation and memory, and Peaceful Kids, a mindfulness and positive psychology program.

Keen fisherman will love the recent trout stocking of Berwick Springs Lake, a tranquil setting within a suburban township. The reserve also features a number of ornamental lakes and wetlands.

Berwick Springs Park

The huge and scenic Berwick Springs Reserve is hidden away from the busy Clyde Road congestion. The wetlands run right across the middle of this large estate making it perfect for an afternoon stroll or 5km run, or for a family picnic. The lake along Berwick Springs Promenade is especially lovely and on sunny afternoons ducks and birds flock to it. There are plenty of benches around the lake and on summer days the water fountain turns on and sprays a cooling mist over you as you walk by.

There are also two fenced playgrounds, one at the northern end near Berwick Springs Promenade and the other closer to the centre of the park at Moondarra Drive. Both have slides, ladders, monkey bars, a tunnel, climbing net and a curved set of variable height stepping stones. There are also swings, including one for toddlers. The area is popular so on weekends and holidays you can expect to see lots of like-minded families.

Berwick Springs Wetland Reserve

Tucked away from Clyde Road, this huge reserve is a quiet spot to enjoy the outdoors. The wetlands span across the entire estate making this a perfect spot for an afternoon stroll, a 5km run or a picnic. There are multiple different paths which are all bike and pram friendly, allowing you to wander at your own pace.

There are a number of benches overlooking the lake's central lake where ducks and birds flock on sunny afternoons. There is also a large archway covered in lush greenery which makes an impressive entrance from Berwick Springs Promenade on the western end of the park.

The reserve has a small sand beach at the entry along with a jetty jutting out over the lake. During my visit I was delighted to see a pair of black swans lingering by the sand and water. The park has a number of circular fenced platforms overhanging the lakes along Moondarra Drive where you can sit and relax.

Casey Central Park

The park is a beautiful location for families and has something for everyone, no matter the time of year. Visitors can explore popular attractions on guided horse-and-carriage, bike, running and fitness tours, have a picnic, play on the playgrounds, visit Central Park Zoo or swim in the pool. There are also a number of sports and recreational activities available, including a skating rink and yoga classes.

The new community recreation park will expand the range of outdoor recreational opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. It will complement existing facilities in Casey, as well as broader Gungahlin and Canberra region recreation areas. Feedback from the community and stakeholders was sought on the indicative designs for the park ahead of construction commencing in 2023.

Parking is free and conveniently located on one level. There are almost 1400 spaces, including disabled and parents with prams parking. There are also numerous taxi ranks throughout the centre, including outside Blooms The Chemist.

Narre Warren South Tennis Club

The Narre Warren South Tennis Club is a great place for kids to stay active during school holidays. There are a variety of activities and lessons available for kids of all ages. The club also offers a range of competitive leagues and tournaments. Its members regularly compete in BDTA and WDTA competitions. The club also houses Millennium Tennis Academy, which provides professional coaching services for adults and children.

Getting to Berwick Springs Park is easy with Moovit. Moovit’s all-in-one app gives you fast and accurate step-by-step directions from any transit station to your destination. Over 1.5 million users, including locals from Narre Warren South, trust Moovit for their public transit needs. Try it for free!

[semdrivingschool]

How to Manage Your Nerves in a Driving Test? Tips to Pass At One Go

There’s no denying the fact that nervousness or driving jitters are real, and most new learners face it. The good thing is, professional driving instructors at a driving school in Berwick know it and will do their best to help you calm down.

However, no amount of teaching can change the fact that managing your nerves on the day of the test and in general is crucial. So, that makes it extremely important to practice the ways of managing your nerves. There are a few reasons why:

Driving in an unfamiliar place

Dealing with complex roundabouts

Drive on highways at night

How to defensively drive for avoiding collision

Most importantly, how to pass your driving test at one go! This is all the more reason to learn managing your nerves from skilled instructors at a driving school in Narre Warren. We have jotted down a couple of tips to follow.

Take a Good Night’s Sleep and Plan Ahead

You might find it pointless, but curbing your binging spree on Netflix, and getting a good night’s sleep is extremely crucial to de-stress your nerves before the test. Moreover, plan well in advance of your driving test. If there’s a lot going on in your life right now, it’s best you postpone the test.

Avoid Caffeine and Alcohol

Yes! Caffeine.

As surprised as you may feel now, having a few rounds of coffee before the exam makes your nerves jittery. You may feel nervous or overthink. And, do not even think of alcohol for even a sec! You’ll be straight away disqualified from the driving test or even get blacklisted. So, going to parties or arranging one at home is a strict no-no!

Follow these tips and join a reputed driving school in Berwick; you’ll be good to go.

[bookmaxicabmelbourne20]

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NOTES

The narration of the inspiring audio or so (Molly) is listening to is the first thing that sets the scene, Narrative Devices – Mis en Scene: meanwhile the camera shows us the surroundings that adds upto

Molly’s character, giving us a first impression of her being a hardworking and very determined person. The picture of Michelle Obama and other successful women(?) and more feminist posters, female empowerment themes, the valedictorian label(?) in the coat showing how she’s in the top of the class and academically focused. All of this while the audio Molly’s listening to enhances the point of the props in her room. All these production elements tell us more about the character.

There is a wide shot while she’s seated in the center, it looks like she’s meditating or listening to the self affirmations. Her being in the center as the composition gives us a sense that she’s focused on herself and a sense of importance as the first main character that’s been shown.

The next scene where Amy is introduced as she’s in the driveway and Molly comes down the stairs: The mis en scene of the surroundings says a lot about them. The car looks pretty old and uncool not some bougee person’s vibe. Also kind of the wide utopian America – not the ghetto. Two identical houses back to back kind of like a housing scheme. Amy and Molly’s outfits and styling showing us more about their character – like the geeky nerds vibe. And their random kinda out of nowhere dancing??

The close up shot for a few secs as the car drives away shows more mis en scene elements that we can notice– the car bumper stickers : the semiotics - black lives matter( someone who’s woke and open minded), I like big Books sticker(nerds, bookworms, educated). Number plate California(the location, whereabouts the film is set in), The Elizabeth Warren 2020 (she’s a US Senator, also served as the first special advisor under Pres. Barack Obama – shows how they’re liberal, democrats) etc.

They park in front of the small board that says reserved for class president.

As the car drives into the school parking lot and in the school hallway scene, there are a few noticeable camera cuts. The typical American highschool environment with the chaotic students just carefree and all.

The Principal Brown’s room as Molly and Amy walks in and stands near the door, over the shoulder shot as the conversation happens back and forth – the background meme poster “too cool to stay in school?” with the group of chicks with graduation hats and one chick separated from them – influencing more to the ‘you have to be good academically in order to be successful through life’ idea.

Principal Brown with the brown sweater over the shirt and tie – kind of geeky wear. And he seems quite uninterested and sighs as Molly is pushing through and asking for budget numbers on the last day. He seems to avoid all the serious talk especially on a day where they can just chill, they’re done with highschool and all and tries to pass their question to the Vice President. indirectly suggests them to have fun like the rest of the students and graduate and get through the day without anything horrible happening as he closes the door on them. Furthermore suggests how Amy and Molly are just very serious about the student gov thing even on the last day, only realizing to have fun and chill later on.

The classroom scene introduces us to a lot more side characters in school and stereotypical character traits. Mrs. Fine as the black teacher who seems to be in close and good terms with Amy and Molly. Triple A/ Annabelle the sexualized one, Hope- the one who picks on Amy, Theo- the comedic lighthearted guy . Jared the one with the ego thinking he’s popular and fun that gives Miss Fine a gift when he’s not even her student. The token black guy, the preppy kinda gay character.

Molly’s character traits; thinking she’s so smart and dismissing Theo when he was talking to Miss Fine and later George, furthermore showing how she’s a bit arrogant kind of putting others down thinking she’s superior. She doesn’t see other ppls pov to have fun or take things lightly or how others experiences are subjectively valuable to them than her own perspective of whats standardly good or more important. Even when she asks Nick about the school gov thing while he’s having fun with his friends she thinks he’s just stupid and doesn’t care about work – while actually it’s not that deep it’s the last day and no one really wants to focus on those things and just have fun unlike Molly (also Amy who agrees with her)

Utopian/nostalgic themes – Amercan dream highschool.

The change of music and beat as the scene focuses on Amy staring intently at someone, furthermore grabs our attention as the low angle slow-mo shot of someone on a skateboard and a wide angle and close up shot introduces us to Ryan. The mood changes as it shows a sense of love interest/crush of Amy towards Ryan and kind of how she sees her. the music abruptly cuts off as Molly tells her to go talk to Ryan, bringing us back to reality. Amy is more hesitant to do so but Molly insists - Amy’s character is a bit more shy nerdy type meanwhile Molly is more straightforward(?). LGBTQ themes. The music begins again as Amy stands up and approaches Ryan, kind of setting that mood.

The food they’re eating for lunch is quite questionable since its just some fruits, chips and a drink.

When Amy is hesitant and unsure if Ryan’s into girls in the first place but Molly counters by saying she wore a polo shirt to prom and Amy says that’s just gender performance not sexual orientation. More themes? LGBTQ? Individuality? Self discovery? Acceptance? As Molly says it’s a bit shocking that Amy is into Ryan and that’s not what she anticipated.

The dramatic music with the lyrics ‘I got money’ (adding upto the obvious fact she’s rich) and slow motion shots followed by over the top acting introducing the rich popular highschool diva Gigi– mis en scene of the character- blonde, furcoat, sunglasses, hat, jewellery and overall styling making her stand out, acting like she owns everything. The spray painted car (Jared drives and Gigi was sitting out of one window) Gigi’s idgaf attitude even towards Jared showing like she’s superior cuz she’s like the stereotypical ‘pretty popular girl’. Molly and Amy’s disappointed head shakes.

The gender neutral bathroom. Gender equality, Setting of the things written on the bathroom walls – All Gender Glory Hole, Small detail of Molly correcting the ‘your ugly’ saying how did they graduate 6th grade. (kinda questionable how she naturally has a marker in her pocket to write that but also, she’s the academically kinda extreme student so??)

Molly overhears the students talking about her in the washroom as she’s inside a stall and how she acts like she’s just all that only with her academics and is like a butter face for personality and laughs about her.

The moment of realization – when Molly brags that she got into Yale cuz she focused on her studies than messing around, but alas the other students who had fun and messed around also did well in their academics and got into good colleges and also Yale, just like her. They had a more balanced school life than her. She’s in total disbelief as she thinks they don’t even care about school while Annabelle moves closer and counters by saying ‘we just don’t only care about school’ and everyone walks out, leaving Molly alone in the washroom.

Point of No Return. The close up shot of Amy in the center as the background noise fades out and intensifies and her parts of her affirmations replay in her head. She doesn’t even blink as the camera zooms in and all her academically superior complex crumples right in front of her in disbelief as the realization dawns within.

[mi4017minadigajaweera]

Booksmart - Film Analysis Initial Notes of the first 10 minutes

The narration of the inspiring audio or so (Molly) is listening to is the first thing that sets the scene, Narrative Devices – Mis en Scene: meanwhile the camera shows us the surroundings that adds upto Molly’s character, giving us a first impression of her being a hardworking and very determined person. The picture of Michelle Obama and other successful women(?) and more feminist posters, female empowerment themes, the valedictorian sash in the coat showing how she’s in the top of the class and academically focused. All of this while the audio Molly’s listening to enhances the point of the props in her room. All these production elements tell us more about the character.

There is a wide shot while she’s seated in the center, it looks like she’s meditating or listening to the self affirmations. Her being in the center as the composition gives us a sense that she’s focused on herself and a sense of importance as the first main character that’s been shown.

The next scene where Amy is introduced as she’s in the driveway and Molly comes down the stairs: The mis en scene of the surroundings says a lot about them. The car looks pretty old and uncool not some bougee person’s vibe. Also kind of the wide utopian America – not the ghetto.  Two identical houses back to back kind of like a housing scheme. Amy and Molly’s outfits and styling showing us more about their character – like the geeky nerds vibe. And their random out of nowhere dancing shows how close they are connected as friends and such.

The close up shot for a few secs as the car drives away shows more mis en scene elements that we can notice– the car bumper stickers : the semiotics - black lives matter( someone who’s woke and open minded), I like big Books sticker(nerds, bookworms, educated). Number plate California(the location, whereabouts the film is set in), The Elizabeth Warren 2020 (she’s a US Senator, also served as the first special advisor under Pres. Barack Obama – shows how they’re liberal democrats) etc.

They park in front of the small board that says reserved for class president. - Molly's the class president

As the car drives into the school parking lot and in the school hallway scene, there are a few noticeable camera cuts. The typical American highschool environment with the chaotic students just carefree and all.

The Principal Brown’s room as Molly and Amy walks in and stands near the door, over the shoulder shot as the conversation happens back and forth – the background meme poster “too cool to stay in school?” with the group of chicks with graduation hats and one chick separated from them – influencing more to the ‘you have to be good academically in order to be successful through life’ idea.

Principal Brown with the brown sweater over the shirt and tie – kind of geeky wear. And he seems quite uninterested and sighs as Molly is pushing through and asking for budget numbers on the last day. He seems to avoid all the serious talk especially on a day where they can just chill, they’re done with highschool and all and tries to pass their question to the Vice President. indirectly suggests them to have fun like the rest of the students and graduate and get through the day without anything horrible happening as he closes the door on them. Furthermore suggests how Amy and Molly are just very serious about the student gov thing even on the last day, only realizing to have fun and chill later on.

The classroom scene introduces us to a lot more side characters in school and stereotypical character traits. Mrs. Fine as the black teacher who seems to be in close and good terms with Amy and Molly. Triple A/ Annabelle the sexualized one, Hope- the one who picks on Amy, Theo- the comedic lighthearted guy . Jared the one with the ego thinking he’s popular and fun that gives Miss Fine a gift when he’s not even her student. The token black guy, the preppy kinda gay character.

Molly’s character traits; thinking she’s so smart and dismissing Theo when he was talking to Miss Fine and later George, furthermore showing how she’s a bit arrogant kind of putting others down thinking she’s superior. She doesn’t see other ppls pov to have fun or take things lightly or how others experiences are subjectively valuable to them than her own perspective of whats standardly good or more important. Even when she asks Nick about the school gov thing while he’s having fun with his friends she thinks he’s just stupid and doesn’t care about work – while actually it’s not that deep it’s the last day and no one really wants to focus on those things and just have fun unlike Molly (also Amy who agrees with her)

Utopian/nostalgic themes – Amercan dream highschool.

The change of music and beat as the scene focuses on Amy staring intently at someone, furthermore grabs our attention as the low angle slow-mo shot of someone on a skateboard and a wide angle and close up shot introduces us to Ryan. The mood changes as it shows a sense of love interest/crush of Amy towards Ryan and kind of how she sees her. the music abruptly cuts off as Molly tells her to go talk to Ryan, bringing us back to reality. Amy is more hesitant to do so but Molly insists - Amy’s character is a bit more shy nerdy type meanwhile Molly is more straightforward(?). LGBTQ themes.

The music begins again as Amy stands up and approaches Ryan, kind of setting that mood.

The food they’re eating for lunch is quite questionable since its just some fruits, chips and a drink.

When Amy is hesitant and unsure if Ryan’s into girls in the first place but Molly counters by saying she wore a polo shirt to prom and Amy says that’s just gender performance not sexual orientation. More themes? LGBTQ? Individuality? Self discovery? Acceptance? As Molly says it’s a bit shocking that Amy is into Ryan and that’s not what she anticipated.

The dramatic music with the lyrics ‘I got money’ (adding upto the obvious fact she’s rich) and slow motion shots followed by over the top acting introducing the rich popular highschool diva Gigi– mis en scene of the character- blonde, furcoat, sunglasses, hat, jewellery and overall styling making her stand out, acting like she owns everything. The spray painted car (Jared drives and Gigi was sitting out of one window) Gigi’s idgaf attitude even towards Jared showing like she’s superior cuz she’s like the stereotypical ‘pretty popular girl’. Molly and Amy’s disappointed head shakes.

The gender neutral bathroom. Gender equality, Setting of the things written on the bathroom walls – All Gender Glory Hole, Small detail of Molly correcting the ‘your ugly’ saying how did they graduate 6th grade. (kinda questionable how she naturally has a marker in her pocket to write that but also, she’s the academically kinda extreme student so??)

Molly overhears the students talking about her in the washroom as she’s inside a stall and how she acts like she’s just all that only with her academics and is like a butter face for personality and laughs about her.

The moment of realization – when Molly brags that she got into Yale cuz she focused on her studies than messing around, but alas the other students who had fun and messed around also did well in their academics and got into good colleges and also Yale, just like her. They had a more balanced school life than her. She’s in total disbelief as she thinks they don’t even care about school while Annabelle moves closer and counters by saying ‘we just don’t only care about school’ and everyone walks out, leaving Molly alone in the washroom. Point of No Return.

The close up shot of Amy in the center as the background noise fades out and intensifies and her parts of her affirmations replay in her head. She doesn’t even blink as the camera zooms in and all her academically superior complex crumples right in front of her in disbelief as the realization dawns within.

[yourlocaldrivingacademy]

Starting off with driving can be a hassled up task. Paddling the accelerator correctly. Learning to coordinate between the clutch and accelerator. Training your mind to have patience on the road. And whatnot!

[adventuredriveschool]

What Are The Advantages Of Automatic Driving Lessons?

Learning how to drive can be a challenging experience as there is a lot to learn. You must learn how to control your car, identify hazards, know road rules and regulations and adopt safe driving techniques. While learning, you’ll probably start planning what type of car you want to drive, and whether to get automatic or manual driving lessons. If you don’t want to drive your car manually, then you must learn to drive in an automatic car. Make sure to attend driving lessons from the driving school in Cranbourne East to simplify your learning experience. While there are advantages to manual driving, this article is going to provide advantages of getting driving lessons in an automatic car. Here are the advantages of automatic driving lessons.

A Simpler Learning Experience

The main advantage of automatic driving is how much simpler the experience is right from the moment you get inside the car or when you turn on the engine switch. In the case of the manual transmission, you need to hold the clutch down at the time of ignition, and then while you drive, you need to spend your time juggling gear shifts and clutch whenever you decrease or increase the speed. When it comes to an automatic car, this process is handled by the car itself, which lets you focus more on the traffic, road, identifying potential hazards and communicating with your driving instructor.

Focus More on Developing Hazard Perception Skills

Automatic cars don’t need that much coordination as manual driving cars, since you won’t have to divide your attention between internal things like clutch and gear shift timings, engine sounds, and external things like traffic and hazards. Automatic driving allows drivers to focus more on the road, traffic, and potential hazards.

Keep Both Hands on the Wheel

With an automatic car, you can able to keep both your hands on the steering wheel for much longer as you don’t require changing gears manually. For the learner drivers who get very nervous, this can help them to increase the level of confidence to have more control of the car at all times.

If you are looking for the most comfortable setting, getting automatic driving lessons is the best option. This will also help you to gain the experience and confidence you need on the road to maintain proper safety.

Automatic Is More Common in Australia

In other parts of the world, manual driving is still the most used option, and some vehicles such as vans or trucks with manual transmission are still more popular. But, when it comes to Australia, cars with automatic transmissions are more common than manual cars. Moreover, you will find many driving schools in Narre Warren South that includes driving instructors offering lessons on automatic driving at reasonable rates, which is significantly less when compared with manual driving lessons. This is mainly due to the limited supply of driving instructors offering manual lessons.

Hope, you came to know the advantages of automatic driving lessons. If you like the content of this article, don’t forget to share it with your friends, and get back to us!

[anytimedriving]

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[my-makeshift-masquerade]

So, Warren the Worm’s Friendship Episode gave me PTSD Flashbacks and I NEED TO SHARE WHY.

The friendship episode, at least for the first chunk of it, parodies kid’s edutainment that teaches social skills. If you don’t know the specific genre I am talking about, then be grateful. This shit was cringe af and probably led to way more bullying in schools than it ever could’ve prevented.

I defended myself from being beaten up when I was in the fourth grade, using self defense techniques I learned in a class because I was that worried I’d get beaten up. I got punished for it by having my recess in extended day revoked every other day. Instead of being outside, my bully got to play with my friends while I sat in a cramped dark office watching these sorts of videos. My mom moved me out of that school after the year ended, but I still remember these anti-bullying videos very vividly.

The “Okay Stop” format is basically what all of them used, rewinding and showing good/bad ways to handle bullies. Of course, none of these covered what to do if the teachers didn’t help you when you told them, or when you were going to be hurt by said bullies. Instead, all the “solutions” boiled down to the victim saying “Hey, bullying is not cool, man. It is not groovy to hurt people’s feelings.”, and then the bully would magically be like “Oh, sorry, dude. That was lame of me. Let’s go play together instead.” Sorta like how Warren dubs over Yellow and Red to have them say the ridiculous shit he wanted them to.

You can imagine how this sort of scene would unfold if a victim was using this against an actual bully, especially when that bully was trying to punch or kick you in the face… Yet, this is what they taught children was the only “appropriate response” beyond going to tell a teacher. I’m autistic, and let me tell you using the “social skills” I was 1984-style brainwashed with for 50% of my recess time did not end well for me. It taught me there was no use defending myself at all… Many other adults solidified that belief as I grew up.

Warren is interesting to me because he shows just how even in adulthood certain people take advantage of the “rules” of friendship and relationships to sway things in their favor…then they become the exact people who are deemed “experts” on relationships. His backstory isn’t a sad one at all. His friends just didn’t want to be part of his pyramid scheme and he got butthurt. They apparently apologized but Warren said it was “too late for them”, which isn’t a very “good friend” thing to do. There’s even a slide where his friends are just petting a rabbit and he looked jealous!

The fandom simping for this guy is oddly fitting to the meta narrative of the episode, too. Warren drives everyone away from him, acts pitiful despite manipulating and controlling every social situation he is in, and yet… Y’all find him attractive or endearing? This is exactly why people fall for these so-called pick up artists, relationship experts, and similar personalities online, despite them being blatantly unhealthy and harassing people. This is the “Oh he’s just a poor skrunkly wittle meow meow uwu! I can fix him!” mentality at work.

The fandom’s very predictable reaction to this character is only making the satirical message of the episode even stronger! This show is GENIUS.

[rheaitis]

growing up gay on the internet

(apologies if you’ve seen this on twitter)

The first time I told a girl I loved her, she'd been telling me stories from fanfic she'd been reading. Not right then, a few hours before. When I told her, she stared at me, horrified, and said, "You're trying to make everything like that fanfic." [friends to lovers, slow-burn] Harry Potter, of course. I think Ron/Harry? Of course because everyone I knew in school read Harry Potter, often in great heaving knots gathered around OotP till teachers intervened. Many of us then read fanfic because we just wanted more stories in that place. 

I read in other fandoms, at the time X-Men. I am still angry about X3, not just because X3 was bad, but because it wasn't Minisinoo's Grail in re Warren Worthington III.  Not that I expected it have a queer Warren. I didn't know at the time that Warren is canonically queer in at least one timeline, and I never expected satisfying queerness from media in any case. This was 2004, early 2005, and wee teenaged Rhea knew better. I was wrong, but not about the movieverse unqueering X-Men. (Incidentally, if you haven't, please watch @eruthrosish's amazing Straightening Up the House, which talks about just this)

But anyway, back to 2004-05, a very little and increasingly angry Rhea trying to explain that it was love! Uninfluenced by fanfic! All me, baby! I mean, it wasn't true, a lot of that was very definitely the fanfic. Where else was I gonna find models of happy queers? Not in Indian media, for sure. In American... Tara Maclay died, Will Truman never got any dates, Lex Luthor was only coded queer. I was years away from reading queer lit, and even there fandom was my guide. 

I was lucky, insofar as I went to a single-sex school where a lot of people were gay-for-the-stay, including the girl I was confessing to. But for-the-stay, mostly, leading to my current consternation about the batch group chat I've just joined. The girls I kissed, tho, the girl I was in love with, they weren't thinking of queer futures, and all my dreaming happened with my nose pushed up to the screen of boxy desktops with limited or paid-by-the-hour internet. The last three years of school, I skulked around fandom. I read everything. First as much queer Harry Potter stuff as I could find, then whatever my favourite authors had written in other fandoms, then whatever their friends had written in those. The Magneto in my heart is penknife's wry, wounded one written in the wake of the 1st film. I read *so much* in so many fandoms, wandering around forums and livejournal blogs and the personal & communal websites where people like @astolat and @rageprufrock and @seperis hosted their fanfic. Smallville and pre-Cas SPN and SG1/SGA. 

And of course, Harry Potter. We rp'ed Harry Potter en masse, in 04-05: my batch the Marauder generation, our juniors the protagonist's. Rampages and letter-writing and patched-together friendships across school, and in the middle of it, I with my trove of queer fic in a dis/similar school.

This is not, btw, to commend fandom, then or now, but especially then, 5-2 years before RaceFail. (i-was-there-gandalf.gif) Even in my limited (by pocket-money) and very single-minded experience, it was misogynistic & racist, but I could see a brown girl on TV any time. Probably as a joke if she was dark and fat like me [by the standards of my community at the time] but there, anyway. There and straight. Fire had come out when I was learning I liked girls, but it wasn't exactly accessible. Girlfriend had just been released & I hated it.

All I wanted from fandom was to be flooded with stories of queerness, the possibility that I could become an adult without suddenly wanting to kiss (or marry!) men, that it didn't have to be a phase I would grow out of, or an entanglement, like Ma said, from which I could escape. A paucity of imagination, perhaps. I didn't know to demand canonical queers till I was in college. I still barely know how to demand canonical Indian queers. All I wanted was girls kissing girls, not as a game or dare or all the excuses the girls kissing me used. Queer love, queer domesticity, queer pining that ended in mutual confessions, fandom's favourite games. I'd have done so much better in my board exams if I hadn't been spending every free minute reading about Remus/Sirius or Lex/Clark or Jack/Daniel. (Notice the lack of f/f)

A note also in memory of all the we're-not-gay-we-just-love-each-other fic that I very possibly read against the grain as people escaping the shackles of comphet because of the strength of their love. (I didn't know the word comphet. What I was thinking was very awkward.)

Fandom found me friends. Fandom found me community. Fandom raised me in the bits of my life I couldn't admit to any of the adults around me. But honestly, fandom's job was done the moment it gave me access to queer texts, queer narratives I never expected from canonised media. I could go home from school, ferret my pendrive from its hiding place, and just spend a couple hours every day reading about Sirius & Remus raising Harry, Clark & Lex driving to the ocean, Jack & Daniel wandering alien sands. Queer people! Not defined/restricted by queerness! okay fine, cis white dudes, primarily. but that's a fandom problem, and I was used, anyway, to all my English-language media being about white folk. Queer POC still blew my mind in 2015, desi queers still do. Queer people! Who can pronounce my name maybe?! 

If you'd told me at 15 that I could read published books that had queer people in them... Well. And again, fandom did that work for me as well. That's how I discovered queer lit beyond, like, Oscar Wilde. Fandom recc'd me Maurice & Mary Renault & Sarah Waters.

I usually conclude this kinda spiel by saying fandom helped me find love, and that's true, but only in a roundabout way each time. The first girlfriend I had was the girl at the beginning of this story; three years after we broke up, I met @filianoctis and immediately told her Renault stories: the novel, first, and then fic. Yes and no, basically. But fandom let me imagine it, in all the stories of queer adults buying groceries and making beds, drinking beer and raising kids. Desire I knew I had the first time I wanted to kiss a girl but a future was harder to imagine. The first time I told a girl I loved her, the 2009 decriminalisation was four+ years away. I had no queer adults to turn to; I wasn't entirely sure adults could be queer. Nothing in my experience suggested it.

Except fanfic.

[dalekofchaos]

My problems with LIS:BTS

I love Before the Storm, but I do have some problems with the game in relation to the first game. Here I will explain the problems i had with BTS and why I think Deck Nine did not understand the characters. This is very long, if anyone has the time to read it all, I’d like you to finish to the end! 

1. Continuity issues

Rachel’s parents. I always got the feeling Rachel’s parents were neglectful, which REALLY showed when Chloe said they are in denial that Rachel is missing. Rachel having neglectful parents and Chloe having an abusive stepfather and abuse enabling mother, would show just why Rachel and Chloe wants to leave Arcadia Bay. What happens in BTS? Rachel has kind and loving parents and a bio mom that is a horrible representation of drug addiction(everything about how D9 wrote Sera sends a horrible message, wtf D9?) and all of sudden James just pretends that Rachel isn’t missing? The fuck? Also, Rachel’s parents are not called James or Rose. Rachel’s student information we see in Episode 3 about her parents is not readable, but he Initial letters of the names written within the Parent(s) field on Rachel’s file do not appear to match the names James or Rose (or even Sera)

Rachel’s address. Rachel’s  Blackwell Student Information Sheet shows Rachel’s home address. Rachel Amber has an address of “6 Sa(?)u/n(?)tle Road, Arcadia Bay, Oregon”. There is a piece of paper covering the Home Address field, but we can make out a “gon” from the end of “Oregon”, so we know it is within the state. As her address in the top-right corner is different to what appears to be the dormitory address on the other student files, we can assume that “6 Sa(?)u/n(?)tle Road” is implying her home address (just like on Chloe’s file). However, in Before the Storm, her home address is 2420 Blackfriars Road, Arcadia Bay, Oregon.

My friend/one of  my Amberprice favs @thelittle-scribbler​‘s idea of Rachel’s parents makes more sense. “the idea I had of Rachel is that she was a relocated student from Cali from a very problematic absent family who didn’t give a fuck about her, coz well they gave up looking for her! And if her dad was the city da, he would have never gave up on the search and also, he would have known about her being involved with drug dealers. Unless he got his ass fired after hiring those guys to kill his ex wife lol”

Chloe’s blue hair. In Episode 3 of Before the Storm, Chloe is shown dyeing her hair blue for the very first time. However, we know that in Life is Strange, Chloe had been dyeing her hair with a blue streak on or before her 16th birthday (two months before Before the Storm takes place). indicating that Chloe had already been using blue dye in her hair by the time of her 16th birthday. It would have made more sense if we had seen Chloe with a blue streak in Before the Storm Episode 1.

Max’s contact of Chloe. "You were happy to wait five years without a call, or even a text.“ In Before the Storm’s Episode 1, "Awake,” Chloe’s phone clearly shows that Max has been texting her during her time in Seattle and had even initiated text messaging after admitting to being “bad about emailing”. Max has texted Chloe on the following dates in November 2009: 2nd, 13th, and 28th. Max was supposed to have not emailed, called or text Chloe ever since she left for Seattle, it should end in  9/28/2008, but it began again a year later.

Joyce and David’s relationship.  In Before the Storm, David and Joyce are currently unmarried and had started dating not that long before the game’s events that are set in May 2010 (Chloe is 16 years old at this time). David is also about to move in to the Price household, which is seen happening by Episode 3. But in Life is Strange, a chronological timestreammontage shows that Joyce and David were already married before Chloe’s 16th birthday. A picture of a married Joyce and David appears prior to an image of Chloe on her 16th birthday in this timestream montage

The Blackwell problem. Victoria Chase’s sole reason for being at Blackwell is Mark Jefferson. Jeffershit is not in BTS. Victoria is introduced as a sophomore at Blackwell Academy in Before the Storm and wants to be in theater for…reasons, but the age for Victoria in the first game suggests she should be a freshman in BTS. Warren is a Blackwell student at age 13. Max is said to be a sophmore with Chloe in her own school in Seattle at the time, but problem there is Max turned 14 in 2009 after the September 1st cutoff date. This means that she wouldn’t be starting high school until September the following year (fall 2010). The normal age requirement to start high school as a freshman is age 14 (i.e. turning 14 before the September 1st cutoff). It is currently unknown why Max has advanced two grades in 2010. She has a 2.8 GPA on her 2013 student information sheet, which suggests she is a low B / C / high D student (not an exemplary student). Her GPA is also said to fluctuate and she acknowledged in 2013 that she should be doing better. and there’s the fact that Chloe is in Blackwell with some of the characters in the first game  and dialogue (or text messages) between these characters seems to suggest that she did not know them as fellow students or even classmates prior to the original game’s events. For example, Stella is in Chloe’s class photo, problem with that is that Stella doesn’t even know who Chloe is, she just refers to her as “some girl” Warren. Warren does not know who Chloe is at the beginning of Episode 2, yet in BTS class photo he is seen with Chloe.  Other dialogue gives the impression that Warren does not know Chloe beforehand. For example, the text messages Max receives from Warren in Episode 4 if she kissed Chloe/but declined Warren’s invitation to the drive-in or didn’t kiss Chloe/ but accepted Warren’s invitation.  There is no mention of the fact he knows Chloe from when she was going to Blackwell, her complete change of appearance, or that he’s surprised that Max knows her too! There are also a couple of points in Life is Strange where, if Warren knew Chloe from the past, he would have likely opened a dialogue with her about that it’s good to see her again or even asking how life is outside Blackwell. Not even Chloe seems to recognize Warren, as she refers to him simply as “your friend” to Max. Justin.  When Max encounters Justin at the Blackwell Campus in the first episode of Life is Strange, “Chrysalis”, she has the option to talk with him about Rachel and “her punk friend”, as Max does not yet know the identity of the blue-haired punk girl that she had saved in the bathroom earlier. "I can’t remember her name… But she was hot. Tats. Blue hair. Hardcore. She stopped hanging out with us after Rachel disappeared… or ran away.“ As we see in Life is Strange, Justin refers to Chloe in a very vague way as Rachel’s "punk friend” and as though he only knows her second-hand through Rachel. Yet the Before the Storm prequel game puts Justin in the same Blackwell student photograph as Chloe (standing directly in front of her), furthermore implying they are in the same classes. He would have had frequent contact with Chloe as a classmate of just that handful of students. Also in Before the Storm, Chloe interacts with Justin at Blackwell and they seem very familiar with each other. Justin refers to her as both “Chlo-ee” and “Price”, so he definitely knows both her first name and surname. They also are texting with each other in Before the Storm. Then again, they ARE friendly with each other in episode 4, Justin not remembering who she is in episode 1 might be the case of him being blazed and just narratively teasing Max of the girl she saved. Nathan. In Life is Strange Episode 1’s Cliff chapter, Max will ask Chloe about Nathan. Chloe will tell Max:“I met him in some shithole bar that didn’t card me. He was too rich for the place and too wasted. And he kept flashing bills…” in Before The Storm, Chloe knows Nathan from Blackwell.  but the way she describes her predicament to Max sounds like she is describing her first impressions from the first time she ever met or had one-to-one dealings with him (i.e. no previous encounters before that).

Chloe is left handed in the first game and right handed in BTS. Yes she does use her left in some points, but Chloe’s dominant hand in the first game is her left hand. Throughout BTS, Chloe smokes and drinks with her right hand, lights the Amber House candles with her right hand and even writes graffiti with her right hand. In the first game Chloe smokes and drinks with her left hand and lockpicks with her left hand. DONTNOD confirmed she was left handed. I am just baffled by this decision. The only time I remember Chloe using her left hand as her dominant hand in BTS is when she burns evidence for Damon.

Chloe is expelled in 2011 in the first game. Chloe is expelled in 2010 for BTS. Max looks at a report card in Chloe’s bedroom which shows that Chloe was still attending Blackwell Academy up until the end of her junior year, which was in May 2011. BTS gives us the choice to defend Rachel and get expelled or suspended if you don’t. There is also no mention by the Principal of a recent suspension for “spray-painting graffiti in the parking lot” as was clearly mentioned on her school file in his office in Life is Strange, nor any mention of the “police reports.” Although the suspension is temporary and she is to be hopefully reinstated in the fall to start her junior year on condition of her good behavior, the suspension was not over graffiti. Being expelled in 2010 completely contradicts the circumstances of the original game, and the suspension (although being the least non-canon consequence) is over the wrong reasons. Even if Chloe was suspended, it is not unreasonable to believe that she would be expelled anyway over the extensive graffiti she left in the bathroom.

Chloe being good at chemistry. It is never stated in her report card in the first game if she were ever good at chemistry. Chloe comes off as someone who doesn’t care about getting grades, hell Chloe seems only interested in the Arts class as shown in her report card. A friend pointed out to me it kind of feels like “BtS took away a lot from Warren, as if it were a "competition" "Warren is good at chemistry" and so the BtS crew thought "Let's make Chloe good at chemistry too!" Another point is also that Warren has green as his personal color, and in Farewell Chloe he wears a green shirt. Chloe in episode 1 uses Warren's phrase "Power". I don't know, I felt like they took things from Warren to give to Chloe, and that really pissed me off.”

Chloe knows about Pompidou’s name despite not knowing the pupper’s name in the first game. Also "The only way you know my dog’s name is if you broke into my RV.“ Why would he say that if he told Chloe Pompidou’s name?

Frank was just a drug dealer to Chloe and who she and Rachel hung out with in the past. Now Frank kills someone to protect Chloe. Chloe and Frank are not friends. 

2. The first LIS game told a different story for Chloe and Rachel’s relationship

Chloe’s “Rachel was my angel” comment showed a lot to how Chloe loved Rachel and how much she meant to her.  Chloe tells Max that Rachel entered her life when was at her absolute lowest and that it was she who helped her deal with the grief of having lost her father but the entire game is centered around Chloe being the one who is supporting Rachel as she deals with a serious family drama of her own.  What Before The Storm should have been. Rachel helping lift Chloe through the worse point of her life. If Rachel had stopped Chloe from committing suicide… as was the commonly believed interpretation to what happened between Chloe and Rachel up until BtS, then Chloe’s ”“she was my angel” would have meant it was truly special and real. But instead they bump into each other at an illegal concert and Rachel distracted some thug who works for Damon and we spend the game finding out who Sera is in a reveal we all saw it coming and only to have Rachel taken out of the third episode where Rachel never talks to her and makes the whole thing feel pointless. What the game should have been was Chloe and Rachel together having fun rocking out, becoming girlfriends and Chloe starting to live again and show that Chloe Price loves Rachel Amber and Rachel loves Chloe.

3. Deck Nine did not understand Chloe.

I don’t feel that Deck Nine did Chloe justice. The writers attempt to evoke empathy with Chloe feeling grief which is done via exactly one emotion- which is a very childish understanding of how loss and coping works. She had no character arc, considering she was the exact same character that we already knew in LiS Episode 1 (A bitter disaffected teenage youth with no regard for authority) so we didn’t get to see Chloe evolve into the character we loved in the first game. She just already was it.  The gameplay undid the narrative we were given about Chloe being a loner in that you can talk to and make friends with pretty much anybody and they all acted like they liked and were genuinely happy to see Chloe. Very rarely were there interactions with Blackwell students that ended with Chloe’s presence not being welcomed, only Wells, Victoria and Nathan showed contempt for Chloe(even with Nathan that goes away when he claps for her at the play)  The reason this is done is because the game wouldn’t be fun if Chloe actually was a loner. The core mechanic of Life is Strange is being able to talk to people and experiment with your surroundings. A game where nobody wanted to talk to Chloe works against the core mechanic. But in making her the main character it undoes the weight of the narrative of Chloe being alone until Rachel/Max. I just strongly feel that Deck Nine did not understand Chloe as a character and did not do her justice. We should’ve gotten Chloe at her lowest, evolving from Max’s best friend to the character we know in the first game and Rachel helping lift Chloe through the worse point of her life.  Chloe and Rachel together having fun rocking out and Chloe starting to live again and show that Chloe Price loves Rachel Amber and Rachel loves Chloe. Chloe losing Rachel and showing how Chloe has to deal with Rachel missing, how she became in debt to Frank and how she got involved with Nathan and how Chloe ends up in the bathroom. 

4. There is no plot...until the last minute

The biggest problem I have with BTS is there is absolutely no plot. In the first game we absolutely KNEW what the plot was. There was a storm, a missing person/serial killer and all of our friends have problems that Max has to help them with. In Before The Storm....there really is nothing. We go to a concert and because we ruined an asshole’s shirt, we were threatened and saved because Rachel was there. Then the rest of episode 1 spends on spending time with Rachel. Same with episode 2. They only gave the plot at the last minute cause Deck Nine probably went “oh shit, we just realized we don’t have a fucking plot” then we spend the majority of the game trying to get the identity of the woman Rachel’s scumbag father was seen kissing. Turns out the girl is Rachel’s biological mother! James and Sera's story doesn’t make any sense. He still loves her, gives her a final goodbye kiss and then orders some drug dealer to kill her because she was a drug addict?! Damon was hired to kill Sera and protect Rachel, but stabs her instead?! He wants Sera to die because she was a former addict....despite Sera wanting to be clean and Sera doesn’t want her to ruin Rachel’s life???? What kind of fucking message is that to send to people struggling with addiction??? They dropped the fact that Sera was supposed to have powers and it was passed down to Rachel and that Rachel is the storm. Hell, Rachel was taken out of the final episode 90% of the fucking episode. Damon was a lazy thrown at the last minute villain. The first game shows you what’s at stake right away, with Before The Storm there’s no clear danger, conflict or mystery. We only get it halfway through the second episode and even then it’s a bad mystery and conflict and  if it takes that long to add conflict or mystery, then I really think they failed the game. The best parts about the game are Amberprice, episode 2, Steph, Mikey & Drew and Samantha. But that’s kind of it. Before The Storm was kind of a disappointment. 

5. Forced to give David a chance

Deck Nine doesn’t understand that Chloe does not have a good relationship with David, or even Joyce. Deck Nine forces us to be nice to David and every time we choose to pick the most Chloe like choice we are punished.  The game outright makes us look like jerks for being true to Chloe’s character regarding David.  Deck Nine screwed up everything when it came to Chloe and David. Before even meeting David in episode 1, Chloe’s only complaint is he calls her “girly” that...that’s it? The only thing I felt they got right was his comment about  “vacation from not having a father figure” and saying he’ll show what a stable home is like.  The way he said that he can FINALLY show Chloe what a stabilized home looks like…..like she didn’t have a stable home when her father was alive. That really got under my skin. But let me explain, Deck Nine did not understand Chloe’s relationship with David and did their best to villainize Chloe for not giving him a chance. I do not want to feel bad for David. Stop trying to make us feel bad for this abusive piece of shit and make Chloe out to be the villain for not giving this asshole a chance.  He emotionally, mentally and physically abuses her and joyce normalizes it, violates her privacy, installs cameras in the house without her or Joyce’s knowledge cause he will not trust her and Rachel,  David makes Chloe feel like a prisoner in her own home. David getting a job at Blackwell makes her want to get expelled, whenever he is around she does not feel safe. He makes her so afraid that she feels like she’s living with a Nazi. They are not meant to have a good relationship. As for Joyce. The fandom likes to paint Joyce as this great mother to Chloe, and she was when William was alive but she chose her own happiness and interests over the safety and well being of her own daughter. Joyce enabled an abusive stepfather and ignored her daughter being hit and verbally abused (and there is a word for that: culpability. Joyce is guilty of child abuse. If we do not back up Chloe in episode 1 and we tell Joyce David hit Chloe, Joyce just brushes it off like it’s not a big deal…and this is who the fandom perceives as a good mother? What Deck Nine should have done is have it open with it stated that Joyce and David are married.  Chloe’s life is a living hell. David does not understand nor does he care about Chloe’s depression and grief for losing William and Max moving away. Show that David physically, mentally and emotionally abuses her. Joyce normalizes it like saying “you keep pushing him, what did you think was gonna happen” you might think that’s out of character for Joyce, but she put her own interests over the safety and stability of her own child. Joyce didn’t want to be alone anymore, so she settled down with the first guy that came her way. The abuse is normalized in their household and Chloe’s definitely internalized it. Keep in David’s comment about “vacation from not having a father figure” David violates her trust and feelings and boundaries and bosses her around and calling her a loser who has no friends and burdens her mother. Show why Chloe is terrified of him to the point where she labels him a Nazi and to the point she feels like he will kill her if he finds Max in her room, so make a hint that David starts to put surveillance around the house because of his unwillingness to trust Chloe and Rachel. Chloe and David do not have a good relationship and fuck Deck Nine for making us feel bad and look bad for not giving David a chance. Fuck you.

6. The choices D9 made with Nathan make no sense.

I already explained why Nathan being in Blackwell with Chloe doesn’t make any sense, but the choices Deck 9 did with Nathan doesn’t explain anything about the character he would become in the first LIS. If Nathan had to be in the game, I don’t think Samantha should’ve been in the game. Nathan’s social circle is Rachel, Victoria and Hayden. There is no missing persons posters in Arcadia Bay aside from Rachel. Samantha being the first Dark Room victim does not hold up. And that’s the problem, we don’t get to see Nathan being friendly with Rachel, Victoria or Hayden. We see him being bullied by Drew North. Wouldn’t it make much more sense for Nathan and Victoria to be bullying Drew and Mikey and Chloe and Steph defending them and Nathan and Victoria trying to get Chloe expelled for that? Okay if what they were trying to do was  a timid Nathan who slowly gets to become the king of Blackwell who was being mentally and emotionally abused by Sean and Jefferson, it did not work. We never see Nathan with his friends. We never see Nathan with Rachel aside from one picture. We do not get to see Nathan and Hayden. Nathan and Victoria are as close as brother and sister, we never get to see that and I think that’s where BTS failed Nathan. Hell, if they were to keep Nathan’s character as it were in BTS, I think Chloe and Nathan should have been friends. I cannot find the video because the person who made it deleted their YouTube account, but a few years ago when BTS was first out, someone made a video suggesting that Chloe and Nathan could’ve been friends in Blackwell. The video was SO convincing that I was so on board with the idea and Samantha pointing out how similar they are. If Hell Is Empty wasn’t a bad episode, maybe they could’ve gave Chloe and Nathan a chance to talk. depending on our choices it could go good or bad. If it goes bad, then they remain on bad terms. But if they are on good terms depending on our choices, you are given a choice to choose to become friends with Nathan. They bond over their similar music taste, their mutual love for Rachel and find common ground with everyone expecting the worst out of them and their abusive father/stepfather. And Nathan could thank Chloe for stepping up for him. And they share a smoke together. I think Chloe and Nathan being friends before their lives goes on a downward spiral and hits rockbottom would’ve been nice and sure as hell would’ve been better than giving Chloe, Stalky McFuckboy as a “friend” instead

7. Deck Nine does not understand Rachel Amber

I don’t feel that Deck Nine understands Rachel Amber as a character or understands what made the fanbase love her from the first game. Rachel is a character shrouded in mystery. The vibe I got from Chloe indicates that Rachel Amber saved her at her lowest and made her feel like she could live again. I also got the vibe that Rachel had neglectful parents who cared very little of her and Rachel was tired of the pressures of being little ms perfect and the bullying she suffers at Blackwell. So Chloe and Rachel wanted to be free from Arcadia Bay. Chloe wanted to be free of an abusive step-father and her mother who allows the abuse to go on and Rachel wanted to be free from everything at Arcadia Bay. Started a knew life as a model in LA. It was their Santa Monica Dream. The characterization of Rachel Amber in BTS just feels like D9 does not understand Rachel. Rachel Amber is meant to be a morally grey character. There are hints that she wasn’t this perfect angel Chloe thought she was and then backed away from that perspective out of fear fans would be angry at their depiction of Rachel. Rachel Amber who I knew in the first game was just not there. She had no interesting perspective or enlightenment to offer to Chloe or be the positive force to Chloe or even showed why she was this mysterious chameleon who fit in so perfectly with everyone who was adored by everyone. She was just a pretty looking character model with a great voice actress that would sometimes say very wistful, wide-eyed things. She would also quote boring poetry. Rachel in BTS has no aspiration to be a model and instead of Rachel helping Chloe deal with her grief, the game makes it about Chloe helping Rachel with her family drama. We never get to see Rachel meet Joyce(Joyce in LIS makes it seem like her and Rachel got along) we never get to see Rachel defending Chloe from David or Rachel as this ambiguous character. She’s portrayed as this character that must be protected at all costs, like she’s neither ambiguous nor does she have any agency. It is perfectly okay to show her drift away from Chloe.  Yes they were in love and had this great relationship and they loved each other. It’s important to see and know the people we romanticize are not who we thought they were. Rachel was looking for a way out of Arcadia Bay. She first thought both her and Chloe can escape to LA together. But over time she did not think that was possible anymore. Chloe dodges her car payments and her family is in debt and Chloe is in debt to Frank. She still wants to leave with Chloe, but Rachel needed an alternative way so she and Chloe can escape. So Rachel turned to Frank, she used him for her drugs because as  time goes on, Rachel turns to drugs to numb the pain. She parties with The Vortex Club and as Nathan said “Rachel partied like a fiend on her own.” Hell, she was so desperate to leave Arcadia Bay she even asked the trucker to take her to LA. Then, Rachel meets Mark Jefferson. Rachel saw him as her way to LA. She wanted to have her pictures modeled by a professional, which he was, but Rachel never saw him for what he was. A sheep in wolf’s clothing, a monster. He saw her as the perfect subject. A human chameleon with many visual possibilities and he felt they had a connection. Manipulating her into believing that he is the father figure that James never was for her. Rachel wrote a letter to Chloe in the shack but discarded it. She feels that he changed her life but the discarded letter shows that she felt ashamed about the whole relationship. Her shame indicates that she was apart of the Dark Room. At first she just saw it as a big photography project outside of school, but then Rachel started to look into Jefferson’s past models and figured out something was wrong. In Jefferson’s own words “Not like Rachel, who was always looking in the wrong places. Poor Rachel.” Jefferson of course finds out because The Dark Room is under 24 hours surveillance. So out of fear of Rachel telling everyone, Jefferson kills Rachel, doses Nathan and poses Nathan’s unconscious body with Rachel’s lifeless body. The vibe I got from the first game is that Rachel and Chloe have this very important and special bond. But Rachel just wanted to be free of Arcadia Bay by any means necessary. Rachel would go far to get what she wanted. Someone who is willing to lie to the people she cared about to satisfy her own needs and goals. Personally, I see Rachel as being okay with manipulating everybody BUT Chloe, which gives everybody a foothold to try and gaslight Chloe and Max about her, trying to get them to doubt that Rachel genuinely cared about Chloe.  Rachel wanted a way out and she thought she had her way out, but in the end she played with fire and got burned.

8. The last episode

It was lazily thrown together. The actual GOOD aspects were cut altogether. Rachel does  not dye Chloe’s hair. Chloe and Rachel do not work on the truck together. Rachel does not stand up for Chloe against David. Rachel and Chloe do not kick Eliot’s fuckboy ass. Rachel has to be taken care of instead of Chloe and Rachel working together to save Sera. All the good Amberprice stuff is in the montages. Hell Is Empty was a huge disappointment.

9. Unlike Max, Chloe has no agency in defeating the villain of the game.

The difference between LIS and BTS is the player has a hand in defeating their villains, while in BTS, we do not. Max Caulfield who was tied up and was about to be killed, guides David in defeating and capturing her abuser and villain of her story Mark Jefferson. Max is instrumental in defeating the villain of her story. Chloe Price is knocked unconscious and saved for doing nothing while Frank kills Damon Merrick off screen. Chloe is not instrumental or has any agency in leading to the defeat of the villain(the rushed villain at the last second) of her story

10. Farewell. 

While Farewell is cute and tragic to play, it ultimately does not make any sense. If this is the same day as Max’s last moment with William and before Joyce comes home to tell Chloe the news of William, WHY are Max and Chloe in different outfits? Wouldn’t it make more sense for this to be Max’s last day in Arcadia Bay instead of the last day of William? I feel this especially cause in the BTS Graffiti side of the notebook, it is shown that there is one final episode under episode 3, I kind of feel like this was meant for Farewell and it was meant to be Max’s Farewell, but something changed. It also kind of comes off as wanting the player to hate Max for not staying to say goodbye. What I would prefer is this takes place on Max’s last day in Arcadia Bay and despite William’s accident, Chloe wants to do her best to make sure her best friend gets the best damn send off before her farewell. And Max and Chloe part on good terms instead of Max’s asshole father preventing Max from saying goodbye lol

[voidwaren]

so I don’t know if I’m going to keep it strictly SKYRIM themed because I kind of want to implement ideas from other video games and nix the general idea of a dragonborn (but keep dragons in the narrative, so no simply throwing back to Oblivion or what have you), BUT the kids are definitely getting thrown SOMEWHERE and it’s SKYRIM-LIKE so

yeah. here’s idk 700-ish words or so. there will likely be a minor prologue before this, but this is what I have set so far for the opening scene. (very likely to change tho. esp since this is queued and I’ve likely already changed shit oops.)

Warren Graham was cold. Freezing cold.

More than freezing cold, actually. He was so cold, he was shivering in his sleep, and he was dreaming of being stranded on a rock in the middle of the ocean with nothing but waves as far as the eye could sea. Which was weird, because he rarely dreamed, and when he did it was usually of mundane things like quizzes and laundry and reminding Max that the drive-in was prime real estate for some choice movie-binging, only for her to smile at him and tell him she was already booked that weekend, but she’d try to make sure her schedule was clear for the next time. This dream made no sense, and the cold made even less. It was the middle of September, school had only been in session for a handful of weeks, cold weather shouldn’t be anywhere close, never mind freezing.

So why was he so freaking cold? Clearly, he needed to wake up and find out.

Warren stirred to the sound of someone groaning, only to abruptly realize it was him when a hand clamped over his mouth and stopped him. His eyes flew open and immediately met another set, blue and wide with panic, clearly begging him to shut the hell up. Though he was somewhat disoriented from just having awoken, his instincts must have chosen to kick in right then, because Warren went rigid in response, his heart starting up a thundering beat in his chest like that would do anything to keep him safe. The eyes watched him the entire time, not once wavering from their silent plea that Warren not make a sound. It took a moment for Warren to recognize who even was staring at him so intently, because the owner was not someone he very willingly ever bothered to interact with, never mind look at, but when he did, he suddenly wished he had not. It made the fear that much more dire.

Nathan Prescott. Those eyes belonged to Nathan Prescott. And they looked terrified in a way Warren had never thought Nathan Prescott was capable of being.

Oh, fuck.

Warren pulled back slightly from the face so close to his that all he could see were those blue eyes ringed in pale lashes, and the hand followed his movement, the fingers tightening slightly until he could start to feel the tips of Nathan’s nails biting into his cheek. He stopped moving immediately.

Nathan’s eyes darted away, turning their attention to somewhere over Warren’s shoulder, and Warren, unable to see what exactly was causing Nathan so much panic, took the moment instead to stare at the bleeding cut he just realized was slashed along the length of Nathan’s jaw, starting at his ear and forking into two lines as it curled below his mouth and chin, like a poor imitation of a bolt of lightning. Dried blood ran in lines all along the lower half of the cut, bathing what Warren could see of Nathan’s neck in a clotted mess of burnt red that was already flaking from his skin.

Where the hell had he gotten something like that? And, Jesus, how long had Warren been out for the blood to be that dry?

Warren swallowed, far louder than he intended to, and Nathan’s eyes snapped back to Warren again, his brows almost meeting on his forehead from how severe his expression was.

Shit. Shit. That was not a good sign. Not coming from someone like Nathan Prescott.

Warren stopped moving. Nathan, without blinking once, flicked his eyes back over Warren’s shoulder, watching whatever the hell must have him so spooked.

A minute passed. Then two, then three, and then so many that Warren started having trouble keeping track without counting the seconds. And still, Warren didn’t move.

It wasn’t easy, not by a long shot, but he concentrated so hard on doing so that when Nathan finally relaxed enough to remove his hand from Warren’s mouth, Warren almost jerked in surprise. Nathan pressed a finger of the same hand to his lips, like Warren wasn’t going to stay as quiet as he possibly could until Nathan spoke first. He wasn’t an idiot, and he’d seen this situation many times before across various forms of media to know what exactly not to do. Talking? Stupidest of stupid moves.

Warren wasn’t going to say shit. Nathan must have realized this shortly after executing the shushing gesture, because he quickly removed the finger and almost looked annoyed at himself for doing it at all.