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scary-senpai · 1 year ago

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speaking of giant meteors...

(not fandom-related by fandom adjacent, involves some writing stuff):

I'm in the writing program at Second City, and we're putting together our grad show (which is virtual! so in theory anybody can make it). The teacher selected the final sketches from all the work we've done over several terms. He selected two of my scenes:

one of my scenes was about a failed grocery shopping trip (which had unintentional but obvious OPM vibes), and that actually got used in our audition packet which was really cool

the second scene he selected was about a questionable medium and their "mystic fishbowl" that allegedly provided visions of the past and future. It has some Mob Psycho elements going, but it was mostly inspired by a Past Life Regressions workshop I attended with my mom. It was supposed to be about (white) people doing spiritualism badly, but the teacher really liked the idea of someone coming to a psychic for comfort and learning that all he's ever done was die in infancy, which was part of the original joke--assuming we did have accurate past life readings, most of them would be boring, and probably short. Anyway, I wrote the scene and I have mixed feelings about it, and also I needed a new ending (in the original version, the medium learns she can't actually communicate with ghosts, she just has co2 poisoning and the only message from beyond is 'check your fucking carbon monoxide detector!', but I think it would also be neat to do a reverse Scooby Doo, like 'you're right! I'm not a white, upper-class capitalist! I'm actually a ghost--and I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you meddling kids!') anyway it doesn't matter because I have a new running joke, and the joke is "this character keeps dying" and if that's the joke, well, there's really only one way to end the scene. Oh, and also, this 'fishbowl of misery' psychic reading is all being done over Zoom--

#my writing #wilf #non fandom #non fandom but #if you're following this blog you're probably my target audience #i also had to change this character's name and it made me sad #selim is my self insert character #i made her for werewolf the apocalypse she's basically me in my twenties in an au where i can shapeshift into a monster sometimes #and she wanted to pick a more werewolf-like name but thought 'selene' was too cliche so she picked this one #bc she's also a weeb and selim is the fuhrer's son in fma #but it's also a male turkish name and i didn't want to give the wrong impression #really she's just an impulsive kid that can't identify a co2 detector and is too afraid to ask #and is willing to ignore increasingly severe co2 poisoning symptoms because what if THIS TIME IT'S ACTUALLY A GHOST #btw most people who think they are haunted have co2 problems and not ghosts

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