#college mystery

[luckythe7thson]

A new novelette, supernatural, thriller where two college kids must face to forces of magical evil.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

[jajablonski]

Setting the stage: J.A. Jablonski (Jude) writes in three different genres (mystery, speculative SF, and magical realism) while trying to still keep one foot in the academic scene by researching material culture in utopian fiction. In 2024 I plan to focus on the first two (though it's possible that a hybrid fantasy story about a girl with synesthesia & an odd, one-eyed schoolfriend may find it's plot along the way!). For more about me, see the links here: https://jajablonski.com/linktree/

[academic-vampire]

The Secret History

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 313

You know what? Snake Danny. But not just any snake! Space naga. The world serpent, but literal- a moving galaxy, comets caught in the wakes of his movement, stars nestled between his scales. He’s like a giant cosmic LBM, wandering throughout time and space while he learns how to be an Ancient. 

He’s having fun! Learning so much and it’s a great way to chill for the weekends… er, or whenever he is seeing as sometimes Clockwork sends him off to not break a timeline or something. Who knows or cares, he was in space! 

Sometimes Tucker and Sam joined too, and honestly it’s all so much fun- especially now that they can make their own portals! C’mon he wants to check on this cool dimension he visited a while ago! 

[niinaro]

Idk if someone did that before

[papenniesandbentoboxes]

I just saw people saying they were going to pirate the new game. Do not pirate Mystery of the Seven Keys. If you want more Nancy Drew games, then support HeR by buying the game they made. They are not a big company like Ubisoft or EA, which have millions and millions of dollars. They're a small indie company. I'm completely for sticking it to the greedy game companies that decide to steal from you because apparently buying is not owning, and they can take your shit without your permission, but small studios? Nope.

[toastereno]

i said i would post my piano covers here, so...what better song to start with than the iconic one from psmd? :'^)

this was all done by ear (except for the beginning where i used bespinben's score because those chords are tough to figure out, so shoutouts to them)! this song holds a special place in my heart for many reasons: it's the reason i played psmd and restarted playing the piano, just to name two!

by the way, there's a little surprise at the end 😊

[poorslaindoll]

So I heard we were redesigning the Scooby gang for funsies. And character design is my passion so… Have this college au!

I honestly think that Velma would be the only one who’s actually a criminal justice major or going to school for a similar field, but I also think she’d minor in like robotics or something. She’s got a full scholarship bc she’s like a super genius or something.

Daphne is a fashion design major but dabbles in a few other things when she isn’t doing mystery stuff with the gang. I’ve always seen her as a jack of all trades type who can pick up skills p easily tbh. She’s just girlboss like that. Also the fact that Shaggy wears socks and sandals drives her nuts.

Fred is a theater kid and if you think otherwise you’re wrong. Idk much about theater majors but I think he’d focus more on the technical side of things, but he’s still a pretty good actor.

Shaggy just seems like they’d be the type to be a culinary arts major bc y’know… food. He’s also on the college track team bc that also makes sense to me. And Scooby is their emotional support dog. Anxiety service dog??? (I’m not all that familiar with the terms and what is considered like a service animal or not so I’m so sorry if that’s not correct.) Also baggy clothes to hold all the snacks.

I imagine that the gang is still solving little mysteries while in school since chaotic stuff just gravitates to them via the power of being main characters, but I also think it would be fun to have like an overarching mystery as well. And I think it would include the gang noticing that despite the normal lifespan of a dog, Scooby doesn’t seem to be getting any older…

[winteroceangalaxies]

Look, say what you will about kids books being silly or whatever, but genuinely one of the most important lessons I’ve learned and used in academics is the concept of “use the test to take the test” from The Mysterious Benedict Society.

There’s a scene in the beginning of that book with an intentionally wildly difficult test for the kids, but the trick of the test is that the answers are “hidden” in different questions (the answer for one question is in the introduction/description of another question).

Now, I haven’t had any trick tests like that, but the principle absolutely works in normal tests. Every single time I am not sure of an answer, I go through the rest of the test to see if there are any other questions that hold hints that I can (at least try to) logic out the answer to the initial question. This is why I always double-check my answers.

I am in university and I am pretty sure that extra time to compare information between questions just saved me a couple of points. It sure has countless times in the past.

Thank you reading! thank you lessons from kid’s books! thank you Mysterious Benedict Society!

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

So can we talk about Mystery Inc's ending? Cause this has bugged me for years.

Velma and Marcie are dating and set to participate in a competition. Fred and Daph are set to be married. Fred calls Mr Jones dad, prompting him to admit he thinks of Fred as his own son. Shaggy is an award winning chef. They all have friends and families with plans for the future.

And then they just up and leave without telling anyone. Can you imagine? You and your girlfriend are going to participate in a beloved past time and then she just disappears? Your son is set to marry, he has a promising sports career ahead of him and bam, he's gone. Hell, Daph was set to babysit literally the next day! When she didn't show up, they probably contacted the families and then realized they were all missing!

The gang wanted a mystery and instead left one to be solved. They probably got a manhunt for them, seeing as how they're friends with the town sheriff and mayor and three of them are kids of rich families. And seeing as how they didn't know any of that and were all confused, they probably seemed suspicious as fuck.

[jajablonski]

That adage "write what you know" is often taken too literally. Instead, write what you've seen and heard, what you've been and where, what you've eaten, what and whom you've loved. Write large. Take it all in then let it seep back in whatever way suits the story. I made myself into Poe's Red Death character some many years back. In Bk 1 of my academic mystery, I took the costume and its making and gave it to a character. She wears it Halloween night, the night an arrogant and much disliked gentleman meets a rather gruesome demise. You can read about the costume's creation over on my art blog, Dante's Wardrobe.

[nebulous-rain]

stream doodles!! my blog is so dry

[cosmiiqueer]

the amount of mcsm fanart i would be making rn if i didn't have frickn classes and burnout because of said classes

[cottageivy]

ava, end of september, first semester of college