#Elliot Myers

[kuruka1559s]

PART 2

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(Yeah… enjoy)

“CAZZO VUOI!?” (THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!?)

“Barbara! Sei ancora li’ a ragionare riguardo i libri e a farti ricoverare dalla perdita della rissa?” (Barbara! Are you still there reasoning about the books and getting recovered from the lost of the fight?)

“Primo, ho vinto IO la rissa, quindi manda Velvette a fanculo!” (First, I won the fight, so tell Velvette to go and fuck herself!)

“Ok, ok, calmati! Sono venuto a dirti che stasera c’è la serata karaoke e sei invitata!” (Ok, ok, calm down! I came here to tell you that this evening there’s a karaoke party and you’re invited!)

“Va bene ho capito. senti, sali un attimo, ti devo mostrare una cosa!” (Ok understood. Hey, get up here for a sec, I have to show ya something!)

“Ok arrivo!” (Ok coming!)

He yelled back.

“What just happened?-“

“Everything is normal, a friend of mine is coming-“

“ECCOMI QUA! ATTESO OPPPURE- CAZZO È QUELLO!?” (HERE I AM! AWAITED OR- THE FUCK IS THAT!?)

“THE HELL-“

“CALM DOWN YOU TWO!”

I suddenly yell.

Blake calms down as keeps staring at Daft.

“Wha… what are you…?”

“Blake calm down-“

“I’m not calming down Barbara. Look at him! It’s a skeleton! We aren’t safe! Have you heard of the prophecy!?”

“No…?”

“When she will reveal herself to a monster things will get worse and worse, and the apocalypse that happened 500 years ago will happen again and be worse than ever!”

“Apocalypse…?”

“Now that I think about it…”

“Blake you’re going to deep in this-“

“I’m saying the truth. These books… all that these books say…”

“BLAKE!”

Daft

St Hyppolitus, Rieti

“BLAKE!”

Yells Barbara.

Blake stops talking.

“Calm down. I’ve done months of research for this but nothing wrong will happen to us…”

“What if something does happen Barbara!? What if this ‘she’ will show up and everything will get worse and worse!?”

Affirms the guy called Blake.

I’m so confused….

Wait.

This she…

“I’ve seen something today. In this weird world.”

“What is it?”

“This she…… showed up. After you won the fight, Barbara.”

“What?”

“It’s that weird Japanese girl. That girl isn’t a human. It’s not physically possible! When I looked at her… her eyes were red and she had an inhuman smile.”

“What you are saying is that… no. No way. Nononono..”

“Barbs?”

Mutters Blake after my affirmation.

“What you are saying isn’t possible. No way!- think about it! You’re saying that now that the woman of the prophecy showed up…! Everything… everyone….!”

She keeps saying incoherent nonsense, such as ‘death’ and ‘destruction’.

“Uh… is she normally like this?”

“No.. well, she laughs like she lost her mental sanity, but it’s not a problem for us…!”

“I see… well… she mustn’t be having an ICE moment.”

“…. You’re no different than her.”

I laugh a little.

Barbara exhales and inhales, trying to calm down.

“What time is it.”

“Uh… midday.”

“Lunch time, good… good… I need to calm down.”

She mutters, she clearly seemed stressed.

We get out of the cabin and get back in the kitchen.

“Blake, want to eat with us?”

“I don’t want to bother you with your theories so I’ll get back in Fiumata.”

“Ok, be safe.”

She affirms, giving him a small smile. Blake smiles back and gets out of the house, stealing some grape from her plant.

“Hey! Grape stealer!”

Barbara yells jokingly, and Blake laughs loudly.

Then… she falls on the ground.

Barbara

St Hyppolitus, Rieti.

“Hey! Grape stealer!”

I yell jokingly, making Blake laugh loudly.

Then..

All black.

And a guy.

Not… a normal guy.

A skeleton.

But… not Daft.

He was tall like me.

He wore a jacket, it’s hood was filled with fur.

He had his hood on.

He seemed disoriented.

Like me.

Something was wrote on his left eye.

‘Who are u?’

“I’m… Barbara Myers.”

‘Nice to meet u’

“My pleasure…”

‘Ajay’

“Ajay.”

‘Ye’

“Yeah..”

‘Where are we’

“I don’t know. Do you?”

‘I literally asked you if you knew.’

“Yeah, right, sorry.”

‘Np’

“Np?”

‘No problem.’

“Yeah, right..”

AWKWARD AS HELL OH MY GOD.

Ajay looks around.

“Maybe…”

I mutter, he looks at me.

‘?’

“Maybe we just have to… wake up.”

‘Wake up?’

“Yes. I passed out, and I got here.”

‘Same.’

“Maybe we should wake up… and then everything will be over.”

‘Yeah’

He nods.

We both close our eyes and then open them again.

It didn’t work.

“FUCK!”

‘WOAH WOAH! LANGUAGE!’

“You never cursed in your entire life!?”

‘No i didn’t!’

“Wait.”

‘Hm?”

“How old are you?”

‘I’m 20 yrs old’

“And you NEVER cursed.”

‘Never.’

“I don’t believe you.”

‘I- ugh.’

I start laughing, the sound echoing in the void.

Ajay blushes a little from the embarrassment, and looks away.

“What? Embarrassed just from me laughing?”

‘Shush!’

I try to calm down but it’s very hard, his face was all red from the embarrassment, just for me laughing!

“Ok, uff.. wow… ok I got it.”

‘Good.’

“How much time has passed in your opinion?”

‘5-10 min?’

“Yeah that’s probably correct.”

Suddenly, a laugh echoes in the air.

‘What is happening?!’

“This voice is familiar..”

I step a little bit away from him so at least he could still hear straight and not become deaf, I’m a champion at yelling.

“VELVETTE IS THAT YOU!?”

‘HOLY-‘

“VELVETTE! I CAN HEAR YOU LAUGHING!”

no answer.

I keep calling out her name but I get no answer, suddenly Ajay grabs my arm and puts his hand on my mouth, shushing me up.

‘Idiot! There’s no one in here!’

I take off his hand from my mouth and answer him.

“There is!”

‘There isn’t, idiot!’

“Brat!”

‘Stupid!’

“Dipshit!”

‘Dumb!’

“We‘re so close right now that if we’ll keep getting closer we’ll kiss!-”

‘Wh-‘

He disappears.

I woke up.

That wasn’t a good timing for sure….

“BARBARA!”

“OH MY GOD-“

“You finally woke up! I’ve been trying to wake you up for hours!”

“What happened…?”

“You passed out, and you’ve muttered random sentences while you were unconscious.”

“Like?”

“Like ‘there is’ and ‘What embarrassed from me laughing’ or something like that…”

“Oh god.”

“Well, you should also be worried about your face. It’s all red.”

“What?”

“Your face is red.”

I sit up, and I start feeling dizzy.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaack……..”

I lie back down on the couch.

“doing good?”

“No…”

“Want to eat something?”

“Yes..”

“Ok, I got you.”

“Something sweet…”

“There’s only donuts.”

“Black frosting?”

“Yeah.”

“Gimme.”

Daft gets back in the living room and hands me the donut.

“Nom.”

I start eating it, as Daft snickers.

“You don’t eat donuts, you devour them.”

“Not my fault if I love donuts.”

“Yeah I know..”

“Time?”

“A quarter to two pm.”

Answers Daft.

I groan loudly and then try to sit up again, succeeding.

“Finally…”

“Yeah… you wanna stay here for a while?”

“No, I have to check what happened to my face and then take care of the homework…”

“Oh.. ok.”

“When my brother comes don’t be scared if he yells, mkay?”

“What does that mean?!”

“He always wanted to meet one of the Sanses.”

“Ooooookaaaaay…”

“So… watch out for him.”

timeskip to the party cuz this chapter is being too long- lmao

Barbara

Fiumata, Rieti.

Evening.

Party.

FUCKING KARAOKE.

God, I don’t know why they just keep asking me to go to parties but I still love to go there, because…

I love the reactions of the other peasants.

When I wear my special clothes.

I look at the clock.

5 pm.

My brother isn’t back, is he?

“Daft! Hey!”

I exclaim while going downstairs.

“Yeah…?”

“Is my brother back?”

“No…”

“You were sleeping, were you?”

“… yeah.”

“I knew it!”

“Now, I’m tired okay!”

“Yeah you deserve a nap. I’m going out, the party in the plaza is starting.”

“Oh, uh… skeletons allowed?”

“Skeletons are allowed.”

“Ok, then I’m coming..”

He affirms.

I wait for him at the entry door, as he gets up from my couch.

We start walking to the karaoke party.

“Are you really sure that my brother hasn’t came home?”

“Totally sure.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

“You swear on your lazy bones?”

“I swear on- HEY!”

He yells at me, while I start laughing.

We then reached eventually the plaza, of course it was filled with people and there was a big stage with the karaoke settled.

I like karaoke, but not when I have to sing in front of the entire village.

Daft was kinda shocked from the quantity of people in the plaza, even if it’s not as much when it’s summer.

“OH MY GOD!”

Yells one of the peasants.

“THERE’S A KID! HE’S FALLING!”

Keeps yelling, while pointing at the small cliff In front of the houses at the side of the stage.

There was a kid holding on the edge of the cliff.

Wait a second..

“BROTHER!”

I suddenly yell, sprinting through the crowd, when suddenly, one other kid steps on his hand, making him fall.

No…

No…!

NO!

While running to the spot, someone catches him, it was Blake, he was one of the hosts of the party, so he had to be close to the stage.

I stop running, in tears.

“I got you.”

He says, while holding him bridal-style, sitting on the ground.

My brother was embarrassed, he didn’t want to be held like this, stared by everyone.

I get close to both of them, while Elliot hugs Blake.

“I was so scared…!”

“It’s okay kid, you’re safe and on the ground.”

“Yeah…”

He mutters, hugging him tightly.

“Brother…!”

“Sis!”

He yelps, looking at me in tears as he gets up, and hugs me.

“I was so scared…!”

“Me too P…”

I mutter while hugging him, burying my face in his long hair.

We kept crying for a while, I was so scared of losing him.

He’s everything I got left, after all.

Daft eventually reached us, and of course, scaring the hell out of everyone there.

Why?

He’s a skeleton.

We’re humans.

“Is he okay?”

“Yes… he is..”

“That’s a relief.”

“Yeah…”

Daft

St Hyppolitus, Rieti

“Is he okay?”

“Yes… he is..”

“That’s a relief.”

“Yeah…”

She mutters, her voice shaking from the fear.

Well… would you look at that.

A party like this got ruined.

I look back at Barbara’s brother.

He was small, I must say.

Incredibly small.

“Who was the kid that pushed you?”

“It… wasn’t a kid.”

“No?”

“No… it was… a skeleton… he had an empty socket and orange fur, from what I remember… a kid accidentally stepped on my hand, he tried to catch me afterwards..”

“So that means I’m not the only skeleton in the timeline.”

I affirm.

The kid nods.

“What’s your name?”

“Elliot..”

“You were brave, Elliot.”

“Was I?”

“Yeah. Normally kids would yell for their mom and be in tears and start whining, which of course is okay, but you weren’t.”

“I almost shat my pants though..”

He mutters, and Barbara looks at him, while I start laughing.

“P!”

“WHAT!? IT’S TRUE!”

“DON’T SAY IT OUT LOUD!”

“OK!”

He yells back.

My poor non-existent ears….

“What are you guys gonna do next?”

“I dunno.”

“BACK TO THE PARTY!”

“YOU ALMOST DIED, ELLIOT!”

“I DON’T CARE!”

Yells Elliot.

… he almost died and he still wants to party?

The humans here are kinda crazy…

“Well… I guess…?”

“Barbara could you PLEASE not act like a child!?”

“It’s still a party!”

“But-“

“Come oooon!”

“Fine.”

I affirm after the constant incitement.

“YES!”

Yell the two brothers.

“WHO’S THE SLOWEST IS THE DUMBEST!”

Yells Elliot while he starts running.

WAIT A SECOND-

I Immediately turn around to look at the kid.

“HEY NO FAIR!”

Yells Barbara, as he goes after him, leaving me alone.

“HEY!”

I yell and teleport in the plaza.

Elliot and Barbara were already there.

“HA! MISTER SKELETON CAME LAST!”

“NO FAIR!”

I yell back at him.

Wait.

Why mister skeleton…?

“I have a name, haven’t I told you?”

“Nope.”

“I’m Daft.”

“Ooooook! Then you came last, Daft!”

“Ok but STILL! I’m NOT dumb.”

“Your name means silly or stupid! So you are!”

Affirms Elliot, while Barbara was laughing her ass off.

“Stop it.”

I tell her annoyed.

OF COURSE SHE DOESN’T STOP.

WHY WOULD SHE!?

I groan loudly.

“So, enough with the chit chat! It’s time to PARTY BABYYYY!!!!!”

Yells Elliot after suddenly sprinting in front of the stage, joining teenagers who were already dancing.

Of course, everything was in Italian.

“Don’t worry, this lame group dances will soon end. At least if someone decides to sing something…”

“Will you?”

“I dunno. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t.”

She teases.

(DOING IT AGAIN.)

(PART 3 HERE.)

[mzradyer]

sarge x chief inspector

pip fitz-amobi and ravi singh from a good girl's guide to murder by holly jackson

[mastersoftheair]

from david shield's instagram

[vani-is-typing]

so i lowkey gave up on the agggtm adaptation after finishing episode 3 of the series. i was at the very middle of the show, and so disappointed by all the unnecessary changes they'd made from the books, and the snowball pacing was doing nothing to engage me whatsoever, in fact it was one more reason that i turned away from it. the only thing redeeming i think i found was the dynamics of pip's friend group. it was fun whenever they were all on screen together.

i heard someone online talk about pip and ravi's chemistry together being another redeeming point, and i thought about adding that as well, but looking back it was only okay, nothing out of the world. the fact that they were spending a lot of time alone together probably helped this person believe that their chemistry was excellent, when it was only fine. the actors tried their best, of course, but they are also very young and i personally think they were having a hard time conveying the kind of under the surface tension i would've loved to see.

lastly, i also heard someone online say that stanley forbes just never showed up. that was probably the most crushing thing i heard in the time after episode 3 and about to go on to episode 4, eventually stopping me from continuing because stanley is my man yo. you can't do me like this. you can't literally handpick one of the most memorable and important characters from the books and just kick them to them to the curb. even if stanley does end up hopefully inevitably in season 2, which i don't know yet if there will be one, it seems very sucky to me that he wasn't there at all this season, when the show is just taking off.

now although i have more to say from the first three episodes i saw of a good girl's guide to murder, i will refrain from doing that because incorporating all those things into this post will take a lot of time and make it so much longer. also, i'm waiting on the premiere of the umbrella academy season 4, if that wasn't already crystal clear enough from my last post, and will be pouncing on it the moment it's available, so i can't scar this beautiful waiting time by writing down and explaining the flaws of a show i didn't like, in length.

that'll be all. i do think i will complete watching a good girl's guide to murder someday, most probably if there's a season two later on, because then i'll need to know the show's altered version of what happened before. if there never comes a season 2 after all, then it's really in the hands of fate if i finish agggtm or not.

i will probably end up doing it though, like five years down the line. i can't handle unfinished shows, or anything else. see y'all.

[confused-book-noises]

Watching agggtm is insane like

Elliot Ward being a cute lil dad

Me:😳

Jason bell existing

Me:😨

“Have you guys heard of the duct tape killer?”

Me: 😰

[your-worst-boy]

literally literally literally that opening scene from Euphoria where Rue's mom is trying to make her feel better abt being neurodivergent

where she says "oh, there's been LOTS of amazing, talented people who are just like you!"

and then it's a montage of like the saddest fucking artists ever who ended up killing themselves like gooooOOOOOODDDDD

u see how they even rubbed salt in the wound throwin' Job in at the end 😩 plssss

[talknerdytome18]

Since AGGGTM will not be going to Netflix until August 1st, I will be specifying if any of my future posts for the show have spoilers or not. I am lucky that I will be getting it on July 1st (Australian here!), but I am aware that some of my AGGGTM mutuals/followers are going to have to wait until August 1st.

It's simple: if the title of my post says "contains spoilers for AGGGTM show", DO NOT read it unless you've watched it. If you haven't, then scroll away and don't be tempted by spoilers <333 granted we all know the basic story but there are going to be new elements that I'll most likely be talking about!

However, if I'm just talking about the book (for example, just a rant post about how much I hate that loser Ant Lowe), then that will be specified too! It'll all be specified in the title from now on <333

With that being said, here's the trailer from Netflix <333 - Em

[sillyengineerperson]

Okay right, so i finished agggtm (show) last night and ahhhhhhhhh my god i don't know what to think. Like it was really good. Max Hastings was portrayed as a fucking dick perfectly, Ravi was funny and just awsome, it was really hard to see matthew baynton as Elliot Ward but he did it amazingly, I can't tell whether i like emma meyers' british accent or not (it was really iffy for me), not all the characters were how i imagined them but i didn't want them to be because i like being able to separate the show from the books, the CLUES REFERENCING TO AGAD AHHHHHHHHH (if we don't get to season 3 i will cry), naomi was yes and looked very close to how I imagined her, Pip Cara and Lauren's friendship and how they all look after each other is so perfect and I genuinely hope they don't go with Lauren's plot in the books for season 2 because my poor heart can't take it, josh!!!!!!!! i love him (it's a shame he wasn't watching disney channel like from one scene in the book but i think i'll live), WHERE WAS JAIME?? like he was mentioned but wasn't actually there lol (thats basically a summary of how the second book starts), I wish they'd given becca more explaining time because where they left it just make her seem really awful but from the books she shows more remorse and explains more of her choices to pip (e.g what happened to barney) so then i think it will be easier to explain her character later on. NAT👏DA SILVA👏DESERVED👏MORE👏SCREEN👏TIME👏especially more than fucking daniel

I can't think of anything else but I definitely need to talk about this more

[downthetubes]

American cartoonist Russell Myers gains Guinness Book of World Records fame

Congratulations to American cartoonist Russell Myers, who has been formally recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for the "Longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author"

Congratulations to American cartoonist Russell Myers, who has been formally recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author“, for producing his “Broom-Hilda” newspaper strip since 1970. Broom-Hilda follows the escapades of its eponymous character, a 1500-year-old, cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling witch with a penchant for finding love…

[goklerdeyasayandeli]

My screenshots of: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024) on Netflix

[kuruka1559s]

I decided to write the dialogues in English because I’m too lazy to write the translation, you know? Some of them will be in Italian, Mkay?

Barbara, Ellie, Elliot, Ori and Velvette belong to me!

Daft belongs to @fuzart !

Stripe belongs to @iknkeli

Quill belongs to @bokzbandeet

Ajay belongs to @lazy-skullz

SMILETALE

Chapter 1

Barbara

Rieti, St Hyppolitus

My birthday.

It’s… my birthday.

I never liked birthdays.

Especially because… my dad died, during my birthday.

It’s odd how we can lose our loved ones in a second.

Just a second.

That’s what happened to me, and my brother.

That’s why we’re orphans.

I sit up from my bed, and my brother slams the door with a plate in his hands, a small cake in it.

“HAAAAPPY BIIIIRTHDAY TOOOO YOUUU”

“Brother please-“

“HAPPY BIRTHDAYYY TOOO YOUUUU”

“P-“

“HAPPY BIIIRTHDAYYY TOO BARBARAAAAAAAA”

“Elliot…”

“HAAAAPPYYYY BIIIIIIRTHDAYYYY TOOOO YOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!”

Beams Elliot, while Ellie was clapping her hands.

I sigh and smile warmly.

Elliot gets inside and hands the plate to me, I grab it.

“Come on! Blow it!”

He beams eagerly, jumping from the happiness.

I blow the candles and the kids clap their hands.

“Made a wish?”

Asks Ellie, I nod.

My wish was to be a rock star, in the future.

Even if I know it won’t come true.

My brother hands me a big wrapped gift, I grab it.

“Maybe this will help you to achieve it! Come on, open it!”

Beams Elliot.

I open the gift.

It was an electric guitar, with cables and case included.

What the…

“Bro how did you-“

“AWESOME RIGHT!? I even have the cables and everything that you need to make the guitar work! See?”

Beams Elliot, interrupting me.

He shows me the cables, while I’m grabbing my new guitar.

Its colour was blue electric.

My favourite colour.

“AAAAND! FROM ELLIE….”

Yelps suddenly Elliot, grabbing another gift, but smaller.

He hands it to me, and I open it.

“A NECKLACE! Inside you can put a picture of your lovey dovey bf!”

Beams Ellie.

Weeell…

Yesterday we did something, that they don’t want to know.

…

We f-cked.

WHATEVER! THOSE ARE DETAILS! SILLY LITTLE DETAILS!

I grab the necklace and smile, it was heart-shaped, and it was yellow.

“It’s beautiful, Ellie.”

I mutter, Ellie smiles happily.

I sigh softly and get up.

“Today I have to go to School, BUT WE’LL BE BACK SOON!”

“K.”

“BYEEEEEEEE”

Screams Elliot, before running downstairs with Ellie.

They left.

Then, after some minutes, someone knocks at the door.

“Uh… excuse me? Someone here?”

“Yeah. I’m coming!”

I affirm, going downstairs.

I look at the guy.

Daft

Rieti, St Hyppolitus

I look at the girl.

She was… weird.

She had extremely long cyan hair, an eye without pupil and the left eye red, she was wearing an orange hoodie.

“Hi.”

I said.

“Hello.”

She says back.

“I… I’m Daft, it’s nice to meet ya.”

“I’m Barbara.”

She affirms, as I offer my hand for a handshake.

She shakes my hand, and of course I had to use that trick.

The cushion in my hand makes a so-called fart, and then she start laughing.

I smile a bit.

“Oh my god! The cushion in the hand trick?!”

“It’s always funny.”

“Ice one.”

“Thanks, kid.”

I state, after letting out a small chuckle at her pun.

“Let me guess, Daft, your real name is Sans?”

“… yeah, how do you know?”

“Heh. Well, It’s uhhhhhh… hard to explain. May I know how you managed to get here?”

“I wanted to use a shortcut to get home, but instead, I got here.”

“Oh… well… maybe if you do the same thing here, you can get back in your timeline!”

“Timeline?”

“A way to say your universe, ya know?”

“Oh..”

“Can you do that thing of getting a ‘shortcut’ again, right?”

“Weeell…”

“DAFT.”

“Nope.”

“ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?”

She screams in anger, after sitting down on a chair and sighing, trying to calm herself down.

She has anger issues.

Yep.

Totally.

“Sorry for that outburst.”

“No problem.”

“Can you explain to me why you can’t?”

“I can use one shortcut per day.”

“So tomorrow you can?”

“Yeah.”

“Good..”

She mutters.

I look around the place, it was a small entry who lent to the kitchen, it was pretty clean, and organised.

“Ya like it?”

She asks, I nod in approval.

“Glad to know. Sooooo…”

She mutters as she fidgets with a part of her hoodie.

“I could introduce you to the guys of the village or… nothing.”

“Meeting the others sounds good to me.”

“Yeah! Then… let’s go, I guess. My brother is coming back at home at 2 pm… meh, we have time. Come with me!”

She affirms, after we got out of her home.

We walk through her small garden, with grapes hanging on some bars.

“Soooo… up or down?”

“You choose.”

“Up, then.”

She affirms, after we start walking up a small hill, who reaches a small square, there were girls talking onto some stairs and guys playing soccer.

“Well this place is oddly… nice.”

“Yeah! This small village is called Saint Hyppolitus, it’s a small village but our lives here are nice!”

“I see… well, what do you usually do?”

“I take a walk, chat with my friends, start a fight…”

“I see- WAIT A SECOND START A FIGHT!?”

“DON’T YELL!”

“UH- right- sorry. Start a fight?!?”

“I’m not the classic girl to take a BONE with.”

“HA! good one.”

I chuckle.

A girl stands up and reaches us.

“Oh my god!”

“What?”

“Is that… a skeleton!?”

She gasps, pointing at me.

what have I done wrong now? I thought monsters were into this village.

“Ignore her, she’s stupid. The only thing that saves her is her looks.”

“Well Barbie, looks are everything for a woman.”

“Oh my satan…. Velvette, it isn’t, didn’t you hear the thousandth time someone saying that looks aren’t everything or are you just too dumb to understand that!?”

She affirms, a tone of annoyance in her voice.

So, the girl called Velvette was blonde with green eyes, she was short but for sure she totally knew how to make a stupid man fall head over heels.

“So… who’s this guy you brought with you Barbie?”

“Her name is Barbara, and I’m Daft, nice to meet you. Even if I don’t like you.”

I muttered the last part so that only Barbs could hear me.

Hm.

Barbs suits her.

Ok.

“Daft?”

“Velvette…”

“何！？Daftは愚かな名前です！マイクはもっとフィットしていたでしょう!” (What!? Daft is a stupid name! Mike would have fitted more!)

“What did she just say? And why has she even started talking Japanese?”

“You don’t wanna know, plus, sometimes she just starts talking Japanese randomly because she can’t talk in English.”

She sighs and then starts talking Japanese.

The heck?

“ベルベット、これについて話さないでもいいですか？それは愚かで奇妙です。さらに、私は別の戦いが起こってほしくない.” (Velvette, can we not talk about this? It’s stupid and weird. Plus, I don’t want another fight to take place.)

“あなたがこのように話し続けるなら、私はあなたのお尻を叩くでしょう、そして私にそのような話をしなければよかったのに！” (If you keep talking like this I’ll beat your ass and make you wish to have never spoke to me like that!)

“ベルベット、やめてくれませんか-気にしないで。” (Velvette can you please stop it- nevermind.)

She suddenly starts to crump the knuckles of her hands.

“What is happening?”

“Our little Velvette right here wants to put up a fight.”

“And you will stop it right?”

“…”

“Right Barbara?”

I ask again.

Oh for hell’s sake…

“There’s only one way to make her REEEEEEEEEEEEASOOOONNN!-“

She suddenly dodges a punch and blocks her fist.

I take a step back, as a guy walks towards me.

“Daft right?”

“Yeah?”

“Nice to meet ya, I’m Ori.”

“Ok Ori?”

“Who do you think will win?”

“I think Barbara?”

“Yeah me too.”

He affirms skeptically.

“Come on babe! Kick her ass!”

He yells.

She kicks Velvette, as she thumbs up at Ori, with a smile, though, Velvette strikes a punch right at her nose, making it bleed.

“Shit-“

She mutters.

She takes off her hood, and she stays in her black tank top.

(Creator note: come on simps, let yourself be heard.)

Ori catches the jacket.

“戦いに集中しろ、バカ!” (FOCUS ON THE FIGHT IDIOT!)

Yells Velvette.

Barbara wipes with her hand the blood coming out from her nose as Velvette strikes another punch right at her jaw, she dodges it and contrattacks.

We kept watching, and after a while, Barbara strikes a punch that goes right on the side of her face and knocks her out, a bruise on Velvette’s cheek.

“That was easy…. Weirdly easy. Hm, well enough.”

“Awesome as always baby!”

Says Ori as he kisses Barbara’s cheek.

Ooooooooh.

They’re a couple.

I’m so stupid sometimes.

Heh.

I shrug and go close to the couple.

“That was an extremely short fight Barbara.”

“It was.”

“Good job by the way.”

“Thanks.”

Ori chuckles.

As the lovebirds kept talking I look down at Velvette.

She was keeping her eyes on me, not blinking.

…

Her eyes were red.

She had a big smile on her face, almost unnatural.

She didn’t look like a human at all, saliva came out from her mouth as she kept smiling.

What the…

I look at Barbara and I turn to look again at Velvette.

She had blue eyes and she wasn’t smiling, she wasn’t drooling at all and she wasn’t looking at me.

She isn’t human.

“Daft, you good?”

“Huh?- oh, yeah, I’m…. Good.”

I affirm.

Ori’s phone starts vibrating.

“Whoops!- uh… phone call from work- hah! Uhhhh…”

“You can go babe.”

“Thank you-“

Replies quickly Ori, he kisses Barbara’s cheek again and gives her the hoodie, after he leaves.

Barbara’s nose restarts bleeding.

“Your nose.”

“Hm?”

“It’s still bleeding.”

“Oh-“

She mutters as she wipes it with the back of her hand.

It… didn’t work.

I sigh and she shrugs.

“It’s NOT a big deal! It’s just some blood!”

“Aha… look down at your clothes.”

She looks down.

“It has some blood on it. So what?”

“I- oh my gosh, do you have something, I have nothing in my pockets.”

“I have bandages at home.”

“Let’s go.”

I sigh, and Barbara, follows me.

“There’s no need, you know?”

“I know. BUT!”

“But?”

“You can’t let the blood keep streaming down, or you’ll pass out.”

“NAAAAAH! I’m fine!-“

She exclaims before tripping and falling on the ground.

Dammit-

I help her to get up and I make her arm wrap up around my neck, she groans.

“La testaaaaaaa… porca puttana…!”

“What?”

“Hm? What…?”

“What did you say?”

“My head. I’m feeling dizzy.”

“From nosebleed?”

“Yep…”

She mutters as we kept walking back home.

Once we got in, I made her sit down on the couch and grabbed a tissue, I handed it to her, she grabs it and puts it on her bleeding nose.

I sit right next to her.

“Thank you..”

“You’re welcome.”

I reply, and we stay silent for a while.

“I have a question, Barbara.”

“Hm?”

“How do you know about this thing of… timelines?”

“Well, in my studio there’s a book. An… odd book.”

“Odd book?”

“Yes. On it there’s wrote: “Undertale”. It talks about a human fallen in the underground, and that meets monsters. People say that it’s just an urban story, but I believe that this is real. So, I kept researching for info, I wanted to know more. And I found out about this… timelines. Odd, hm? Underfell, the edgy version of the original one, Underswap, the characters, but with swapped roles… all of the timelines have their own book about it. And I searched in my studio and I found out that I had them all. Thousands of books, all with their own name. And I founded an odd one.

Smiletale.

That book was empty.”

“Nothing was wrote in it?”

“Nothing. All blank.”

“Well that’s weird.”

“Yeah… there’s also one called Undercrime. I’ve ridden it. There was a character with your name: Daft Sans.”

“My name!?-“

“Your name, yeah.”

She chuckles.

“It says you have also a friend, Stripe. He’s not the only one… there’s also Quill, no?”

“How does it know!?”

“I dunno. It just says it like it was normal.”

Barbara

St. Hyppolitus, Rieti

He groans.

“Could you bring me in the studio?”

“Yeah sure, the nosebleed stopped after all.. I’m doing better now…!”

I affirm as I get up from the couch, Daft doing the same.

We get out of the dining room, and go upstairs, where there are the bedrooms, at the left of my room there was the door who brought to a small place outside and there was a small cabin.

My studio.

“In here.”

I open the door and show it to him, it’s a minimal room, with a desk with the computer, a big bookshelf filled with books.

“Undertale, Underfell, Underswap, X-tale…. There are thousands of them..”

“Yes.”

“Caretale, Underink, Undercrime- Undercrime!”

He goes up to the bookshelf and grabs the book of Undercrime.

“This book was made by a girl named Fuzart…?”

“Maybe that is her art-name..?”

“Art what?”

“Whatever- weeeeeell… read it, hm?”

I tell him.

He opens the book.

“This is insane…!”

“It actually is. I’ve been trying to figure out why and how did this happen. Why did these… writers create these timelines with such tragic stories. And why is the Smiletale empty?”

“Maybe it’s because… the player hasn’t ended the route.”

“What?”

“The route. At the end of the book there are the possible routes.”

“And?”

“In the book of the Smiletale there aren’t the possible routes. Maybe it’s because they didn’t still end it.”

“Then what is the player waiting for?”

“I don’t know.”

“I just want everything to be fine for my brother’s sake and of the other villagers, I just have to-“

A familiar voice interrupts me, before I could finish talking.

It was Blake.

WHAT NOW!?

(Ok guys, the first chapter is VERY LONG. So I’m framing it in more parts.)

(Part 2 here)

(Pilot here)

[chris0xd]

omg, new arts.😨 If anything, I'm not shipping Elliot and Oliver!! Just a rofl??😔

[mastersoftheair]

episode 3 promo (from the instagram stories of spike white, george smale, nitai levi, andrew whyment, and freddy carter)

[vani-is-typing]

I just saw the first episode of the adaptation for a good girl's guide to murder, and you know what? I think it is indeed a good girl's guide to murder — book to tv adaptations.

Because i tried my level best to give it the benefit of the doubt the moment they straight up showed us, like in the very first shot of the proper opening, it was Andie walking with the back of her head all messed up. But then the show just jumped straight into things, exposition be damned.

It was such a sudden start, followed by such a choppy and trippy directing style along with characters being thrown in your face left and right. That's literally the advantage of a series, that you can take your time with exposition and introducing characters, and the show gave us the perpetrators within the very first episode, probably within the first twenty minutes of the show.

Seriously, the casting for Elliot Ward, the vibe the show character gave off, and the camerawork done around him; I wouldn't need to have read the books to know that this man, this sus as all hell man, was somehow involved with the whole Andie-Sal case.

If only they'd told us he was a teacher right away too, and I would have immediately found him to be the guy who wrote Sal's confession, because it was so "literate".

I'm not even going to get into how ludicrous and tacky the whole Hastings silver whatever party add-on was to the script, and the way Pip showed in that star costume to Ravi's.

Honestly, I feel that in the show, most things Pip is doing are very un-Pip-like, because Pippa is supposed to be a compulsive character, not impulsive. Everything she does seems to be done recklessly without much forethought, or if there is a thought process going on, we as an audience are not privy to it, which is a bad move that does not allow us to truly know her character in the least.

I understand the show makers were trying to take a different, creative angle, which would be more suitable to their storytelling methods and perhaps, what they thought would be more compelling to the audience, and it might even have worked—had this show not been adapted from a very well-loved book series.

Many people watching the show have already read the books, with some reading them just to see the show and how it compares. This translates to, we have pretext. We know what the book's flow was like, that the show's flow should have been like. We understand the essence of every character, the vibes of every scene, and the overall themes and tension at play throughout the story, which unfortunately for me were not captured by the show at all.

It's a shame, because the actors seem to be trying their best, the show makers probably tried their best to make this engaging and interesting, to have us on the edge of our seats even with most people already knowing what will happen by the end, but it fell flat because they mangled the story so much, that it lost both the mood and momentum, and the mystery, that so many people out there, or at least I, stayed with the books and loved them for.

Now, since we can't end on such a sad note, I'll tell you about my favorite moment from the first episode, which was when Nisha Singh, Ravi's mom, opens the door for Pip and Pip goes, "I have some information for Ravi" and Nisha's like, "From a galaxy far, far away?" because Pippa's dressed like a bloody blinding star.

This was the only scene I liked so far after having seen the first episode because it made me go, "ha! Now we know where book Ravi gets all the sass and charm from."

So, anyone else watching it? Or seen it already? Warn me about how much worse it's gonna get from here. Ciao!

[robinxmob]

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