#curly schneider

[naomullen]

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[falsenote]

Death Watch (1980)

[ladylooch]

Love & Fairness -[Nico Hischier]

A/N: OPE! I LIED!!!! We do have a full fic for Sunday! The Nico and Lexi angst I've been hinting at for months from that original lil blurb. Hope you all enjoy a little roller coaster for our perfect parents.

Word Count: 4.3k

Timeline wise: Nico and Lexi are married. Lucie is between 1-2. Mack and Sophie are not born.

The night is coated with cozy nostalgia in a dimly lit Hoboken restaurant. Lexi sits with her former nursing coworkers, discussing the most ridiculous patient and staff stories from the hospital since the last time they all connected. Lexi is embarrassed to admit that she hasn’t been able to attend one of these meet ups since Lucie was 3 months old. Her daughter is over a year old now. But life has been hectic with her and Nico’s new addition, plus the long stretches of hockey the Devils have been playing. 

It’s all worth the sacrifice to watch Nico hoist the cup above his head. Soon, Lexi thinks. Soon he will reach his dream and then maybe the pressure can ease a bit. 

With two fingers, she twirls the stem of her now empty martini glass as Gretchen whines about the limited available to take time off with how short staffed the hospital is. 

“We need more people. They can’t even find nurses through the program Lexi came here on.”

“Really?” Lexi’s eye raise in surprise. “It was so competitive when I started there.”

“The pandemic has thinned the desire. Plus working conditions are awful.” Lexi nods. The circumstances weren’t great when she left either.

“Honestly, even if we could find part time people it would help alleviate the pressure.” Ashley mutters, throwing her curly red hair back over her shoulder. The table pauses. Then collectively, they all glance Lexi’s way, including Shawna, who had been relatively quiet.

“What? Me?”

“You were just talking about how boring and mundane your life has been. Maybe… coming back part time would help fulfill your sense of purpose.” Ashley shrugs. 

“Lex, things haven’t been the same since you left. We could really use your sunshine right now.” Gretchen adds on. 

“I am raising my daughter. That is my priority.” Lexi hears herself say the same thing her and Nico have talked about since Lexi became pregnant. But inside her body, a bubble of hope and excitement fills her chest. It starts as a tiny, translucent circle and begins to grow the more the two women encourage her to reconsider. 

“Raising Lucie is incredibly important.” Shawn agrees. “This wouldn’t detract from that, especially on a part time basis. Think of your immediate impact! You haven’t been out of the industry that long. All your certifications are still relevant. You could easily slide in a few days a week, for 3-4 hours at a time. They’re even allowing part-timers to build their own schedule from week to week. It would be the perfect fit for you!”

“And they have daycare in the hospital now! You could bring Lucie there. Socialization is so important for babies. You could have it all right there rather than scheduling a million mommy and me play dates.”

Lexi stares at her three friends in front of her, a slight smile on her face. The gears turn in her head, consider, contemplating, feeling excited at the prospect of returning to a profession she spent so many hours of her life working in. But the though of Brady looms over her head. Losing him took Lexi a long time to get through. She still wakes up at night sometimes, hearing the flat line of his monitor.

“I don’t think I could go back to pediatric. Not with Lucie.” Lexi shakes her head, sighing.

“You wouldn’t have to. They are fully staffed.” Gretchen assures. She begins to dig around in her purse. “Look, just call Aly. She would be excited to hear from you. The rest could easily get worked out.” Lexi takes Ally Schneider’s card, her former boss. Ally had been the one who held Lexi after she lost Brady. She was the one who sent Lexi home and she was the one who accepted her resignation a week later, with full grace and understanding. She would be compassionate and supportive of Lexi being a mother. Maybe this could work. 

In a quiet room, in the back of her mind, a part of her pauses at the thought of bringing this up to Nico. He is so proud of Lexi being a stay at home mom and wife. He shouts it to anyone who will listen about Lexi’s important role in their household. She does worthwhile work for them. He puts he on a pedestal because of it.

Lexi decides that she will talk to Ally first, before she approaches it with Nico. After all, her friends have a clear agenda here. Maybe it wouldn’t be as simple and flexible as they are portraying. 

So Lexi decides, before she talks to Nico, she will talk to Ally. 

- - -

Later that week, Lexi steps out of her evening shower, onto the white, memory foam mat. Nico waits outside the glass enclosure, holding up a fluffy towel for her to step into. He wraps it around her back, then lazily stuffs one corner over the other into her breasts. Lexi grips the towel closed, knowing it won’t stay up like that. That may have been her husband’s agenda.

“Thank you.” She sighs, getting on her tip toes to kiss him. He crushes her into his chest, using his tongue to trace along her lip, then dash into her mouth. Lexi melts into his sexy warmth. Nico grips the towel at her hips, pulling her flush with him. 

“You’re welcome. Luc is sleeping.”

“Finally.” Lexi sighs. 

They had a hard night with Lucie. She was fighting sleep from the moment dinner ended, rubbing her eyes, and saying no to bed time, even to daddy. They both took turns rocking her, putting her in her crib, but nothing was giving. Finally, Nico took her to the couch with a warmed up blanket from the dryer. Lexi disappeared upstairs at Nico’s request. Between now and then, their little girl finally succumbed. Nights like this are becoming more prevalent for Lucie. Lexi is not surprised as their little girl is more toddler than baby these days. Both her and Nico need to buckle up for the upcoming roller coaster of their daughter growing up. She smiles at the thought. There is no one else Lexi would rather do this with. 

How will you going back to work effect her? An inner voice whispers like a siren.

Lexi raises her green eyes to the mirror, staring at her expression. She looks worried. And she is. Because she has a job offer expiring tomorrow that she still hasn’t talked to her husband about. She never expected to walk out of her meeting with Ally three days ago with an offer of employment. She had told Ally she needed time to talk to Nico, but then the Devils lost two back to back games and Nico’s mood has been less than desirable for the conversation. 

Beside her, Nico grabs his tooth brush then dots toothpaste on the bristles. Lexi assesses his mood, seeing him relaxed although a bit tired.

“Can we talk about something?” She begins while dabbing a finger into her moisturizer. She presses three generous dots in a triangle, then begins to smooth them into her face.

“Mhm.” He says around the tooth brush oscillating against his back molars.

“I think…” Lexi starts, then swallows loudly as she stop herself. Nico continues to brush his teeth, looking at her in the mirror. She pretends to smooth out more of her moisturizer on her neck. Her heart flutters heavily against her throat. When she doesn’t continue, Nico turns fully to look at her.

“What?” He mumbles around the white foam in his mouth. Her tongue caresses the side of her mouth anxiously.

Why is this so hard to spit out?

Nico spits out his toothpaste, then wipes his mouth.

“I think I want to go back to work.” She finally sputters out. Nothing about her voice sounds confident. Nico whips his head in surprise at her. He opens his mouth and then closes it, pursing his lips. Lexi immediately sense his annoyance.

“Okay? But, we have talked about how important it is for you to stay home with Luc? You’ve always agreed to that.”

“Yeah….” She trails off, sticking her tongue into the pocket of her cheek so it juts out. “But I’ve been thinking about what I want lately, as me, and I really miss working with patients and having a place to go outside of here.” Nico’s eyes widen, and he looks away, sighing. 

“Okay.” He shakes his head. “I thought you were done with nursing after Brady.” Lexi doesn’t flinch at his name, but her heartbeat patters more heavily in her body.

“I thought so too, but it’s been calling to me the last few months. And I have an opportunity to go back.”

“I don’t see how that is going to work for our family.” Nico shrugs simply, already seeming done with the conversation.

“Well, can we talk about it? Because I talked with Ally-” 

“What does you talking with Ally have to do with our family? Because you and I have already discussed this, before we had Lucie. You said you would stay home because I’m gone so much. How…” Nico scoffs, looking above her head, trying to find his words. “So what, someone else is going to come here every day and watch her? Or we drop her off at some day care center where random people are raising her?”

“They have a daycare at the hospital. She could go-”

“No. Our daughter deserves better than that.” Nico shakes his head vigorously.

“So you just unilaterally decide this for me then?”

“So you unilaterally get to decide to go back to work?” He shoots back at her. Lexi stand up completely straight, rolling her shoulders back.

“You don’t own me.” She hisses out unexpectedly. Immediately, she wants to take the words back at the fire igniting in Nico’s eyes. His cheeks begin to turn red in frustration while he forces a hand through his long, brown locks.

“When did I say that?” Nico snaps. His tone and voice are reaching places Lexi has never heard from him. Her eyes narrow at him, then she turns to leave the bathroom. Nico is hot on her heels. “You’re putting me in a position to be the asshole, Lex. You and I agreed you would stay home with our kids.”

“Well I need something more!” She huffs at him. “Emma gets to go be-”

“That’s Emma and Timo. Not us.” She startles, feeling like a scolded child by their parent. Tears begin to fill her eyes at the shame of his disappointed scowl.

“I’m allowed to change my mind.” She whispers to him, hating the way her lip trembles.

“Yeah you are, but not when it ruins our kid’s life.”

“Nico, that is so unfair.” Her tone wobbles at her words. Nico’s jaw tightens at the two drops that escape her lids. He looks away, large eyebrows jumping as he tries to brush the effect of her emotions away.

“I don’t care, Lexi.” Nico shakes his head again. “The answer is no.” 

Lexi shakes her head in disgust before heading into their master closet to change. She cries as she pulls on her pajamas. When she returns with tears on her face, Nico doesn’t even care.

Instead, he climbs into bed and turns his back to her like a cold, distant monster.

- - -

Nico and Lexi don’t talk the whole next day. Not even about Lucie. They move around the house, avoiding each other. She goes to the store to grab groceries; he stays home with Lucie. They sit silently, watching TV during dinner. Lucie doesn’t seem to notice, snacking on her food and playing with her toys like everything is normal. 

This continues into the following morning when Nico has to head out on a five game road trip. He dotes all over their daughter as Lexi’s resentment for him breeds into an ugly, angry tyrant in her mind. She doesn’t even let him kiss her cheek when he is about to leave. She slides away from him, turning her back on him like he did to her two nights ago. His heavy sigh makes tears sting her eyes, like she is the one in the wrong here.

“Lex.”

“Nothing about this will be resolved before you leave in the next two minutes. Travel safe.” She responds without turning towards him.

He stands there for a few more moments, rubbing his hand along Lucie’s head as she munches on her oatmeal. Internally, Lexi wonders if he will try to find some middle ground regardless of her words. But then Nico leaves without apologizing, or saying I love you, or providing any comfort like he usually does. She feels herself hating him a little bit more.

She doesn’t watch the Devils games that week.

She is so angry with Nico. They do nightly FaceTime calls with Lucie, but Lexi don’t speak to her husband. Nico gets more and more frustrated with her. It begins to bleed out onto the ice against the St. Louis Blues. Nico gets two penalties in the game, including five minutes for fighting. Of course, Lexi doesn’t know this because she is watching. She knows because Emma Meier shows up at their door with a bottle of rose the next day.

“What is going on?” She asks when Lexi opens the door. Lio is on her hip, munching on an apple sauce pouch as she strolls in. Emma is in dark wash, tight designer jeans and a tan, long sleeved crop top. Her hair is straightened and perfect, not even a hint of frizz from the rainy humidity earlier in the morning. She puts the bottle of rose on the counter, then goes to put Lio next to Lucie. She’s pulling her skin tight jeans back up her waist as she looks expectantly at Lexi. “Nico wouldn’t share anything with me. Timo couldn’t get it out of him either.”

“Of course not.” Lexi snorts, then rolls her tense neck muscles out. Emma nods her head at Lexi to continue. She sighs, crossing her arms over her chest. “I want to go back to work and the dictator of this house said no.” Emma widens her eyes. 

“Nico said no?” The words seemingly taste awful to her as she says them. 

“Yep. He told me if I go back to work I’m ruining our daughter’s life.”

“No.” Emma’s mouth opens in shock.

“Yes!” Lexi exclaims, reaching for the bottle of wine. She twists the top open, then takes two really big glugs. The acidity burns at her esophagus as she puts the bottle back down. Emma picks it up, taking a more delicate sip. She slowly blinks and shakes her head.

“Wow, I’m surprised.”

“Me too.” Lexi responds, sighing heavily. Tears prick at her eyes as she recounts the conversation from last week. She purses her lips, looking back at Emma.

“I don’t understand why he gets to make this decision for me?”

“He doesn’t.” Emma says simply. “This is your life. You have the right to do the things you want to do with it. Your partner needs to be supportive of that.”

“Nico doesn’t seem to see it that way.” Lexi looks out into the living room, watching as Lucie coos at Lio, holding up a large, red lego block. Lio takes it from her, then puts it next to a blue one.

“Oh we can’t do that one. Rangers colors.” Lio shakes his head. “Grab a green one, LuLu.” 

“I’ll talk to him.” Emma insists after pouring two glasses of rose. “He is being unreasonable.”

“Actually, I’d prefer if you didn’t.” Lexi sighs, tracing a circle onto the marble counter top, then looks up at her. “I think it would just make it worse.” Emma scans her sister-in-law, then nods in understanding.

This is one they’ll have to work through on their own.

- - -

The night Nico is due home, Lexi stares at the ceiling, replaying everything that has happened in the last two weeks. Life went from the mundane, same day over and over again, to this angsty, aching storyline of push and pull between a husband and wife. She went from having no job prospects, to receiving an offer, to turning it down. She hasn’t even told Nico. She doesn’t want to. Doesn’t feel like he deserves to know with the way he has been acting.

Her phone lights up the room as the garage camera catches Nico returning home from his late night flight from Colorado. Tears curve into the water line of Lexi’s eyes. Normally, after a road trip this long, she would gallop down the stairs excitedly to throw herself into his arms. He could catch her. They would make out like teenagers against the refrigerator, then he would carry her upstairs to make love. 

Not tonight.

Her brain traces his path through the house from memory, knowing when he stops at Lucie’s room. Five minutes later, she hears him rustling with his bag outside and closes her eyes, pretending to be asleep so she can avoid an interaction with him. Her lip trembles as she shakily swallows to wet her dry throat.

Nico comes into the bedroom almost completely silent. He drops his things in the closet and presumably changes. Lexi’s chest aches when he comes to the bed and grabs his pillow afterwards. His footsteps are so silent, when his voice speaks from next to her, her heart jumped into her throat. 

“Lex?” She startles at his touch. Nico grimaces. “I’m sorry… When I went in to kiss Luc, she was hot. She has a fever.” Lexi moves to get up. Lucie was fine when she checked her a few hours ago. “No, please. I’d like to take care of her myself.” 

“You can bring her in here.”

“No, you deserve to sleep.” He reaches out tentatively for her cheek, cupping it briefly. “Goodnight. I love you.” It’s the first time he’s said it to her directly in a week. He moves to pull away and she grips his wrist.

“I love you too.” She earnestly looks into his deep, brown eyes. “But I am also so mad at you.”

"I know. You have every right to be.” He maintains direct eye contact when he says it. Lexi’s eyebrows furrow. “We will talk tomorrow.” He leans down tentatively and Lexi goes the other 50% until their lips meet. The kiss is sad and achey. Their lips crave the taste of the other, but can’t go all in like they want to. Lexi pulls away first, stroking her nose along Nico’s. She can feel his lashes against her forehead. Then he pulls away to go lay on the floor of their daughter’s room.

The next morning, Lexi is up first. She pokes her head into the guest room, seeing Nico and Lucie have moved there together. Lucie’s bare feet are pressed into Nico’s chest, cheeks pink, hair wild like it had been sweaty and dried sometime during the night. Lexi creeps in, pressing a hand to her toddler’s forehead. No fever. With that comfort, she tiptoes from the room again. 

Downstairs, she makes herself a berry smoothie and settles into the couch with a book. She stays there for a bit, then begins to feel antsy waiting for her loves to wake up. She heads back upstairs, unpacking Nico’s bag completely and getting started on his laundry. She bring his three suits to the downstairs closet for dry cleaning to pick up tomorrow.

It’s almost lunch time when a sleepy Nico and Lucie come downstairs together. Lucie smiles at her mama around a pacifier in her mouth. Lexi arches a slender eyebrow at Nico. Lucie hasn’t had pacifiers for 6 months.

“I lost the battle.” He groggily mumbles. His long hair is flopping every which way. He hands their daughter over to Lexi, then kisses her head. “ ‘m gonna take a shower.”

Nico disappears back upstairs while Lexi gives Lucie some of her leftover smoothie. She sucks it up happily, babbling for some banana when she is done. Lexi is cutting that up when Nico returns downstairs. His hair is slicked back from his shower. He is dressed in new lounge sweats while texting on his phone.

“Do you want a smoothie?” Lexi asks him.

“No, I’m going to make myself some eggs. Do you want any?”

“No, I already ate.”

“Okay.” He wraps an arm around her waist from behind. Lexi resists the urge to tense, trying to purposefully relax her upper body. Nico rests his chin on one of her shoulders, then turns his nose into her neck.

“I was completely out of line last week.” He murmurs while staying there. Lexi scoops up the banana pieces and puts them in a small bowl for Lucie, then slides it across the counter to where she is in her highchair. Lexi puts the knife down and turns so her and Nico are facing each other. He keeps her enclosed in his arms with a palm resting on the counter, on either side her.

“Do you only love me because I’m the mother of your child?” Lexi ponders.

“No, Lex. I love you. The person. So much.” He finishes with a whisper. His eyes trace her face earnestly. Lexi nods. 

“I turned them down.” She admits.

“I’m sorry.”

“And I’m sorry if I have a hard time believing that.” Lexi says pointedly. 

“Fair.” Nico nods then swallows hard. “But I am.” 

“Can I get an explanation?” Lexi asks. She reaches her hands out to rest on his hips, gripping the waistband of his joggers as an anchor.

“I’m having a hard time with how much I’m missing of Lucie growing up. And I put that fear into you last week. Like… I’ve been able to fall back on the idea that you’re here. And if you go back to work, what will I have to ease my failures as a father?” He touches his chest delicately. Lexi lowers her gaze to his beaded bracelets. She moves one of her hands up to hold his wrist. “If this is what you need to do… to be happy… to feel what I get to feel when I step onto the ice every day, then I am in full support of you.”

She stares at his chest, letting his words sink in. As he always is, Nico is patient. When her eyes meet his again, they stare at each other wordlessly for a moment. She is wary. He can sense it.

“I know I hurt you and I’m so sorry.” He whispers. She nods her head in recognition of his apology.

“Nico, you are an amazing dad. It makes me really sad you feel like you’re failing our daughter. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.” She shakes her head, blowing out a sigh. “And I wish you would have shared that with me before it turned into this.”

“I’m embarrassed.” He shrugs. “I’ve been good at everything my whole life. Working so hard to overcome any obstacles.. but there are things I can’t give to Lucie and it kills me, babe.” The way he says babe wrecks her. Lexi moves his hand to the side so she can slide against his chest. Her fingers clutch at his muscular back and dig into his scalp as she cradles their heads together.

“She is so lucky to have you, Neeks.” Lexi turns to kiss his stubbled cheek. He buries his nose deeper into her collar bone as she stroke along his spine. “I am too.” His large arms wrap around her waist, enclosing it completely.

“Tell me again?”

“Hmm?”

“Tell me you are thinking about going back to work.”

“I’m… thinking about going back to work?”

“Okay. Whatever you want to do is what works for our family. We will figure it out.” Nico murmurs. “That’s what I should have said to you. I’m sorry I didn’t.” Lexi smiles against his cheek. Nico turns, capturing her lips. 

“I accept your apology.” She murmurs. “But I really did already turn Ally down.”

“I’ll call Ally. Tell her your husband was a fucking idiot last week, but he’s done with that.” Lexi chuckles, top teeth dragging over her bottom lip. 

“I would like to try it. See if we can find a balance?” 

“Yes, 100% yes, baby.” 

Across the counter, Lucie squeals excitedly then throws her banana bowl onto the floor. 

“Oh! LuLu is in too!” Nico cheers. “Yay mommy!!!” He claps around her back. Lexi chuckles, a whole body rumbling one as her and Nico separate. Nico grabs Lexi’s phone, sliding it across the counter. “Call Ally.” 

Ally extends another offer to Lexi immediately on the phone. 

Within an hour, Lexi has signed an offer letter and has orientation scheduled for the following Monday. Nico brings her to her first day of work, packs her lunch, and spends the whole time Lexi is working with Lucie in the day care, spending time with the kids, signing autographs for staff members and patients alike. By the end of the Lexi’s four hour shift, he is exhausted.

“No wonder you need a break.” He mumbles, exhaustedly running a hand over his hand. “And she isn’t even tired.” He points out about a babbling Lucie in her carseat. 

“Welcome to my life.” Lexi smirks, then clicks her seatbelt in place. Nico wraps her hand in his, bringing it up to kiss along her knuckles. “So what’s for dinner stay at home dad?” Nico balks at her.

“McDonalds.” He chuckles, turning out of the parking lot.

With ease, the Hischiers settled into this adjusted life, until two pink lines show up a few months later on a test in their master bathroom.

Read more Nico and Lexi here.

[wonderlandleighleigh]

Prompt if you like!: Schneider's of Stars Hollow Universe, Rory Gilmore's infamous 8th birthday party ("the cops shut us down- and arrested the clown")

love your writing xoxo

Lorelai stares in shock as the clown is guided into the police car, the officer's hand settled into the curly red hair as he helps the clown not to bump his head.

"How the hell...?"

"Drug dealer," Lenny comments from behind her. "He offered me coke. Taylor saw and called the cops."

Lorelai's mouth falls open as she turns around to look at Lenny. "Holy crap!"

Lenny shrugs. "You just never know with clowns."

[naomullen]

Such a cutiepie 🐤

the making of LIFAD

[dear-indies]

Hi! I was looking for a FC for a college student? She's Japanese (I would prefer if she's Okinawan/ryukyuan but I know it's hard to find) and is 22, her personality is very clever and charismatic and a bit like a renegade. I would prefer if she had long thick curly hair (I initially used Mika Schneider but I decided to move on) but understand if it's impossible Thank you so much in advance!

Fumi Nikaidô (1994) Japanese Ryukyuan / Japanese - is the youngest Ryukyuan person I could find who fits the vibe!

Miyawaki Sakura (1998) Japanese.

Motola Serena (1998) Japanese.

Nagano Mei (1999) Japanese.

Tanabe Momoko (1999)

Kato Cocoro (2000) Japanese.

Asuka Kawazu (2000) Japanese.

Murakami Erica (2000)

Emi Fujita / 7_emil_y (2001) Japanese.

Hitomi Honda (2001) Japanese.

The long and curly hair was so hard to find for no reason!!

[marimayscarlett]

My cousin went to tonight's show, I'm going to the last one, and she said RammFamilies were there. She was sitting bellow Ulrike and there was girl with curly hair that she thinks was Maxime. There were other kids that might've been Schneiders boys and other family members but she didn't recognise them.

Hi and thank you for your message! Always nice to hear that family and friends are there to enjoy the show and support the band 🤍 Since I think in every state of Germany the school summer holidays have started by now, it's nice that the kids who are still in school can now attend some of concerts 😊

[longhairstyles1]

romy schneider in ludwig (1973) x empress elizabeth of austria painted by franz winterhalter

[umbrellamedic]

💔

end  me   ‘  💔  ’   to  generate  the  angsty  way  that  our  muses  kiss.  after consulting the random number generator we get: 3. a  violent  kiss.

The mutt doesn't know why her mission is compromised. She's unaware of any backdoor deals between Umbrella and Shadowlaw. All she knows is that she arrives not to find her target, but someone that leaves an annoying itch in the back of her head to look at. Tall. Curly hair. Her head tilts and behind her muzzle she's frowning; confused. She is sent to kill Jill Valentine- quick, no weapons, no trace that can lead back to Umbrella. This is an impediment. The sight of him leaves a name on the tip of her tongue just out of reach. Annoying.

Only distantly it occurs to Schneider that her opponent could shoot her at any point. Instead he matches her punch for kick for punch for kick. It's exhilarating the way only a good fight can be; so much so that her frustration at being delayed in her mission is little more than background noise. He can shoot her at any time; she can employ the psycho powers that have been forced into her. Neither does; it's a fight in the purest iteration.

Her muzzle takes the impact of her boot, the final blow that finally breaks it; there's going to be a bruise to show for it at some point. Somethings shifts behind the stranger's eyes. Recognition? Suspicion confirmed? Schneider doesn't know exactly what it is, but she senses the pause and sees the opening. Instead of another attack- on some level she knows she needs to kill this man and find her true target- her body moves on its own and her lips crash against the man's. All tongue and teeth and desperation and need that leaves the mutt growling and smiling and tasting blood.

[bread--quest]

[IDs: A series of screenshotted Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook posts, with mini drawings of various Blaseball players on them signifiying which player is “saying” which part of the posts. All the players are colored in shades of pale blue and pink. 

1: A Tumblr post from aquaflv saying “had a women in STEM moment last night by figuring out why the PS4 wasn’t turning on (it was unplugged)”. The player attached is Anathema Elemefayo, a gorgon wearing cool shades.

2: A facebook post from someone who’s name has been obscured reading “just fell down the escalator @ laguardia & the first thing i hear is “yoo people got places to b why would u fall down the escalator”. smh welcome to new york.” Andrew Solis, a human, is the one replacing the original posters name (indicating he’s the one who fell down the escalator), and Sandie Turner, a merperson, is at the bottom of the image, with a sketched speech bubble indicating they’re the one saying “people got places to be”.

3: A tweet reading “pro gamer tip if you’re eating cheeze-its with one hand and holding a micro SD card in the other hand avoid getting distracted by a third task”. The player attached is Wyatt Mason IX, a human with long curly hair wearing headphones and a hoodie.

4: A tumblr post from somanyjacks-writes, reading “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase “self care” doesn’t resonate with you, try calling it “system maintenance” and see if that clicks. The player attached is Theodore Cervantes, a cyborg human preparing to pitch a ball.

5: A tumblr post from venasaurphobia, reading “my friends: they were totally flirting with you just then. me: they were mocking me at best and most likely casting a curse on me.” The player attached is Winnie Mccall, a human with large bat wings blowing a bubblegum bubble.

6: A tumblr post from frawgs, reading “what if i died and came back to life would that be fucked up or would i still be hot”. The player attached is Clare Ballard, a humanoid with large angel wings and multiple flaming halos.

7: A tumblr post of a conversation between chilewithcarnage and midlifecrisis2021. chilewithcarnage is represented by Schneider Bendie, a human, and midlifecrisis2021 is NaN, a glitchy black void shaped like a small human. chilewithcarnage says “there is no discourse between gen z and millennials. we are siblings. come on lil bro, i’ll take you to amc. yeah we can go there early and play the arcade games before the movie starts. midlifecrisis2021 says “can we get popcorn and a drink to share :)”. chilewithcarnage says “we sure can buddy, we sure can”. End IDs.]

new york millennials as various text posts......part 1?

[wishesinthedark]

My theory is that Dan Schneider had a weird…interest in? Relationship with? Sean Flynn, aka Chase Matthews in Zoey 101. I'm not going to say obsessed with or in love with or whatever, and I'm certainly not going to speculate about whether sexual abuse occurred; what we do know about Dan is that he, in addition to being a misogynist, is emotionally abusive and vindictive. And I do think that, for whatever reason, that the latter manifested itself very strongly here. I will attempt to write this in the best chronological order I know how, and will likewise clarify what is speculation and what actually happened.

In a January 2004 interview with the Sneeze, Dan is asked about his Better Off Dead costar Diane Franklin and says: She was very much my "type." She was small and cute with dark curly hair and [a] cute face.

I'm not sure when auditions for Zoey 101 had started and if this interview came before or after, but sometime later Dan meets Sean at an audition and is reportedly "fascinated" by his hair. To be clear, I'm not implying this was immediately a sinister interaction, but it is potentially notable context.

May 17 – May 21, 2004: Zoey 101 pilot is filmed.

From June 14 – June 18, 2004 they film the second episode. Dan has posted five photos of Sean from this week on his website and socials, based on the shirt Sean is wearing in the episode. Again, not implying this was outrightly sinister, but it could be seen as somewhat excessive.

Nothing particularly notable happens during Season 1. While one could argue that Sean's screentime increases as the season goes on, this could just be because he ended up being one of the stronger actors in the ensemble and was always intended the male lead. However, it is worth noting that Sean was rumoured to have dated Kristen Herrera (Dana) around this time, and frankly it's kind of obvious when they're on screen seeing as they are often seen standing next to each other. This is especially true in the last couple of episodes. Kristen's speaking time also steadily declined as the season progressed. Correlation is not causation, and Kristen apparently had a tendency to forget her lines so I can see that they would cut them for pure pragmatism, especially as Dan was known for doing an excessive number of takes and running overtime and overbudget.

Going into the second season, Kristen has been replaced by Victoria Justice. The reasoning for this has always been very vague. She apparently said she left due to family reasons, while Jamie Lynn's memoir said she was gone because the "producers wanted a change", whatever that means. The timeline is even more confusing. Based on a 2005 interview, Victoria's audition process happened pretty quickly, and there's also the fact that Kristen was apparently involved in the Season 2 promo shoot that they ultimately photoshopped Victoria into. She also attended the Kids Choice Awards back in 2 April 2005.

Either way, Season 2 begins filming from May 23 - May 27 2005 and Kristen is not there. Season 2 also marks the shift into Zoey 101 being much more Chase 101. To be clear, Dan just seemed totally disinterested in Jamie Lynn as an actor which, as someone who has watched the show, is kind of fair. So the first episode opens on Chase riding his bike, follows him for the next 2-3 minutes, and then finally lands on Zoey because she's his love interest and he needs to fall down some stairs. Also she's the main character or something. Nicole says something dismissive about Dana not being able to annoy her from France (which is in no way Alexa's fault and I'm incredibly sorry she had such an awful experience on the show that Dan enabled if not encouraged), we literally never hear about Dana ever again after that one line, and then the subsequent three episodes are pretty Chase-centric.

(Some quick anecdotal stuff:

In one of the podcasts they did Dan says that Jamie wasn't in "Time Capsule" as much because she was at cheerleading camp, to which Sean interjects that he was in the episode a lot despite having finals that week, which is a lot to unpack but the first bit makes me laugh because Jamie is frankly in Time Capsule just as much as she in other episodes. Dan also apparently heated the water up for Sean and Chris during the rain scene and phrased it as "the nice thing I did for you" which I hate and Sean has a fun Freudian slip where he says "Dan being the nice guy that he was…and is." This isn't evidence of anything but Sean being a bit of a snarky sixteen year old boy which will come up later.)

For context, my theory is that Dan's writing reflects who he's interested. I don't think he's ever been properly interested in someone without talent (Amanda Bynes and Jennette McCurdy being the most obvious examples), and I think he genuinely enjoys writing parts for people that he sees potential in. He does this a lot, like how Gibby in iCarly was supposed to be a one-off character and by the final seasons had been upgraded not just to recurring but to main cast. On Zoey 101, it happened twice: first with Erin Sanders, who had the role of Quinn especially created for her because Dan was impressed by her audition (and specifically fought for her even though there wasn't enough budget), and secondly with the role of Stacey in Season 3, who ends up being in more episodes than Paul Butcher despite him being the brother of the title character.

And the writing reflects this. In Season 2, Dan is credited with writing three episodes (he would have edited all of them but theoretically wrote the most for these two): Back to PCA, Robot Wars and Spring Break Up. Spring Break Up, the first Zoey 101 "movie" is very neatly divided into two plots: Chase angsts and Quinn is quirky (Zoey reacting with a blank stare is, for some reason, not movie plot material). Yes, of course the other cast members do things: by this point Dan has discovered that Sean and Chris play off of each other really well, and Paul screams a lot. But for the same reason that people noticed Alexa's role in the film seems very diminished, it seems worth noting that the entire A-plot is Sean's. It is his emotions and actions that matter; Chris is great but literally all he does is say "tell Zoey you love her". Does Zoey love Chase back? Irrelevant! That would require Jamie Lynn to act and Sean has angsting to do because Dan has decided that he has The Range.

And so, after the iconic scene of Zoey's TekMate falling into the fountain, we move into Season 3. Jamie Lynn against doesn't show up until three minutes in because, again, the boys are way more interesting and Sean in particular has grown up in both looks and in acting ability. The show immediately announces its shift into teen dramedy (even Spring Break Up was still primarily comedic) by having an episode where Sean's character gets a girlfriend because his character is the dramatic and emotional heart of the entire show and the closest Dan has ever come to a cohesive plot in his life. Season 3 also has episodes like "The Great Vince Blake" where Zoey gets relegated to the B-story (possibly a first and only for the series?) while Chase gets the A-story; more dramatic moments for him in "The Radio" and of course, the ending of "Chase's Grandma" which features him crying in the rain, still to this day one of the best and most memorable scenes (for all the right reasons) from any Dan Schneider show. (In a 2020 interview Sean said he knows Dan is particularly proud of that episode.)

Season 3 is also notable for being the longest season at twenty-six episodes compared to every other season's thirteen. Correspondingly, production continues past summer until the December 2006-January 2007. The set had also changed from Pepperdine in Malibu to Santa Clarita, which was three hours away from Nickelodeon studios and was twice as hot, so that half of the casts' memories of the show is dancing to the macarena in 113 degree heat. I bring this up to illustrate that the conditions for this season are arguably tougher than they'd been in previous seasons, especially if you add schooling and any personal troubles (ie normal teenage troubles like family tension, dating etc - Dan isn't responsible for everything), and you're probably not having a fun time. Which is maybe why all of the season 3 photos Erin posted on her website back in the day feature Sean not smiling, or even managing to rival Jamie Lynn in how disinterested he seems in the teen nick podcasts from that period. Perhaps relatedly, the second half of Season 3 shifts its attention away from Sean and more onto Chris and the rest of the cast and is the poorer for it.  I would also argue that Sean's performances worsen, his weight visibly fluctuates and his clothing gets visibly tighter.

At some point, Sean decides to pursue school instead of returning as a regular cast member in Season 4, as otherwise he wouldn't have had enough credits to graduate on time (also he went to a very expensive Jewish school and presumably someone wanted to get their money's worth). While there were probably multiple factors related to that decision, the story has been consistent since 2007, though lesser known and less speculated about than Alexa's departure. I believe it; I am, however, very curious as to when the decision was made. Apparently, the season three finale was written to set up Sean's absence in Season 4, which means it would have been discussed likely around October-November 2006. I can't confirm if the show had already been renewed for Season 4 by then, and it was theoretically also open-ended enough to work if Sean had decided to come back for Season 4. That said, I've also heard that Season 4 was essentially already written by the time he decided to leave (suddenly) and that's why it is Like That (which we will get to). But we will go with danwarp.shows because they do have an impressive amount of detailed knowledge. 

This brings me to my theory that Dan wrote Goodbye Zoey asking Sean to stay (and lowkey assuming he would). That boy gets three different scenes that basically say "look at my dramatic range! Put this scene in a demo reel!" including the big "I was in love with her from the moment I met her" monologue. Sure, dramas often have a big episode before they kill a character off but a) it's a kids show - and a tween show at that, we're not talking Degrassi here and b) it doesn't feel like an episode that is about to transition a main character into a glorified cameo. The episode as a whole is some of Dan's best writing and it feels like he put effort into it - which is saying something, especially compared to later shows. Plus the plot is literally about Zoey moving to a very fancy school in London which Chase doesn't want her to go to because he loves her

Also Sean gets to wear sweatpants for a good chunk of it which, after the tightness of his jeans for the latter half of the season, might have been perceived as a gift.

So Dan, who has a giant ego and a temper the size of Jupiter, has maybe put actual effort into a script and is used to always getting his way. And Sean still says nope, I'm outta here. Do we think Dan responds to this well?

iCarly's first season starts production in January 2007, with the second episode filming in March 2007. It is an episode called iLike Jake starring Austin Butler, and Erin Sanders pays a visit to meet her new costar. Whether Dan had actually held auditions for James or if he just saw the first pretty boy on set and went "you did well with the one line you had in Quarantine, you're hired" I do not know. But Austin Butler gets hired as Sean's replacement, James, who kisses Zoey within two days of knowing her while Chase had to wait 3.5 years for her to even notice him. Some people have argued that this happened because Season 4 was already written so they just swapped out Zoey and Chase with Zoey dating a rando, which is certainly what it feels like, but again, there are conflicting timelines here.

Season 4 of Zoey 101 starts filming in May 2007, and kicks off with one of the only table reads they ever did (unlike the other shows they did not get rehearsals due to filming on location). It is for the episode "Fake Roommate", named after the life size doll (???) Michael and Logan get of Chase to try to avoid getting a new roommate for hot tub purposes. This doll later gets peed on by a dog (???), and then dragged off screen by another dog (where are they coming from when no one is allowed pets on campus???). Literally why do we never talk about this. Why was this one of the only episodes to warrant a table read? Is this wacky comedy or is it Dan fantasising about humiliating a 17 year old child? Is this Dan taking it well? I would like to know. 

Season 4 continues. The vibes are Off, the comedy having completely changed from the teen drama of the previous season to parodies of The Sopranos and the View. Dan is less involved due to working on iCarly, where he can begin his emotional torture of Jennette, and so George Doty runs the writer's room.

Sean comes back to film Trading Places in June 2007. I don't know when his school finished or if he had to complete summer school, but if he didn't then he might have been able to film more episodes. Either way, Dan relegates him to the last 10 minutes of the episode, where he gives a heartbreakingly good performance, and the show actually feels like how it did in the best parts of Season 3. It feels a lot like he is acting in a completely different (and better) show than literally everyone else, but I digress. 

Sean doesn't return again until August 2007, when they're filming the final ever episode Chasing Zoey (and no, Jamie Lynn is not pregnant). For those that haven't watched the show and/or weren't there in 2008, this was a deeply hyped up episode. People wanted to see two things: Chase return to get together with Zoey and the gang's reaction to Quinn and Logan secretly dating. Specifically, they wanted a resolution to the perceived "love triangle" of Zoey/James/Chase - did Chase know about James? Did James know about Chase?

Dan does not care. These questions did not get answers. Instead, Michael learns to drive a stick shift for the first 30 minutes, and Chase comes again in the last ten minutes (meaning he doesn't even get a "special guest star" credit in the first part, ie every time Nickelodeon didn't air it as a movie). He and James do not interact because Austin Butler falls off the movie because he served no purpose and has no personality, Zoey doesn't say I love you to anyone, and no one is there when Quinn and Logan announce they're in love.

One gets the sense that Dan was not particularly interested when he wrote this. If nothing else, the finale is horribly lazy writing that barely delivers on the bare minimum of expectations and seemingly deliberately gives no one anything that they want. Yes, Dan himself cameos and screams in a taxi with Victoria because he's about to make Victorious, but it doesn't really make up for anything else. Despite being on-screen for less than ten minutes, Sean also has to wear a custom-made wig because god forbid a teenage boy get a haircut (just put in a joke about people not recognising him without the hair! It would have presumably been cheaper!)

I assume Dan was mad when Sean left. It is hard for me to not interpret a dog urinating on a stand-in as anything other than Dan quite transparently announcing that. Add Austin Butler to that: his good looks, his blondeness, his abs, the fact that this is emphasised heavily in the show, and him getting with the main character in record time and kissing in front of the fountain (Zoey and Chase had history there, man!) all seem like choices you don't make unless you are filled with some degree of spite. One of the episodes Dan is credited with brings back a character that beat up Chase in the previous season as a love interest for Victoria. Feels like you could have just…given her Austin Butler, but sure.

So I assume there was some kind of argument when Sean confirmed he was leaving. But I also wonder if they had another, potentially worse, fight after Sean filmed Trading Places. First of all, Sean cut his hair after that episode was filmed, which would have been an effective "fuck you" to Dan. His performance in Chasing Zoey also feels "off", despite being only a couple of months after he'd filmed Trading Places (in comparison, there was a six month gap between filming his final episode of Season 3 and Trading Places). Secondly, the last few episodes before the finale feel like filler: in one, coffee gets banned so the boys and girls create cafes in their dorm rooms, and in the second one Michael overcomes *checks notes* his fear of rollercoasters and the episode ends with an unexplained musical performance. Hell, those last two barely even have any Quogan moments in them, which was the closest Season 4 got to a plot or effort. It wouldn't surprise me if Sean had been contracted to appear in more episodes, or even just as a surprise in the last five minutes to lead into the finale, only for Dan to get so angry that he broke contract just to limit Sean's time on-set.

The point is, it feels like something went down.

So Zoey 101 ends. Jamie Lynn gets pregnant and overshadows most of Season 4 so that people only ever ask about the pregnancy and not Sean's absence, and Dan blows up with iCarly's success and popularity. In 2009, he begins working on Victorious.

Despite not even mentioning Zoey 101 for a good few years, it did seem to be the blueprint for Victorious. Going beyond the previous cast member in Victoria, it was another ensemble compared to the duo of Drake & Josh and the trio of iCarly, and it has the same basic structure: four girls (Jade and Cat being the obvious equivalents to Dana and Nicole) and three boys (hot one, black one, and Jewfro one - I assume this is how Dan's reductive and racist brain works). Furthermore, Daniella Monet is cast, who had previously played Chase's girlfriend. Apparently, the team do not recognise her, a point I find dubious and dismissive seeing as she was in three episodes of Zoey 101 with a major part (and they apparently remembered Austin Butler in Quarantine), but ok.

The similarities between Matt Bennett and Sean Flynn are immediately obvious to most people, and jokes about Robbie being Chase's cousin ensue, but not on the show itself. In fact, the closest Zoey 101 ever gets to being mentioned in Victorious is in Blooptorious, wherein Victoria's role as Lola gets referenced, and Rex/Christopher Cane simply responds, "I never watched it [Zoey 101]," which is honestly hilarious to me Dan hates it so much.

In the first season of Victorious especially, Robbie is a loser. In Tori the Zombie, a Dan credited episode, multiple jokes about the tightness of his jeans and his acting ability are made. Girls never pay attention to him because, why would they, when they could have Beck? He is effeminate because he talks about wearing "male makeup" and leather pants. The Slap emphasises that his hair is not a perm, but all natural baby. His last name is also Shapiro, which is relatively close to ‘Sean Rio’.

While Victorious sees a cameo from Josh Peck, it sees none from any Zoey 101 cast members, even though Chris Massey visits Victoria on-set and Erin and Victoria stay friends while Erin films Big Time Rush down the road. Abby Wilde does cameo on iCarly, lisp returned despite being written out in Chasing Zoey, and the character of Quinn Pensky gets a three second easter egg in iWas A Pageant Girl, but that's about it. 

For some reason, Jack Savatore (aka Mark del Figgalo) does end up having a cameo in one of the last ever episodes of Victorious. Sean apparently had always kept in touch with most of the cast, but he was apparently especially close to Jack. Relatedly, Jack and Sean both end up at the Season 3 Victorious wrap up party, and Dan posts a then/now photo of Sean and Victoria. It is July 21, 2012 and Dan has not publicly acknowledged Sean Flynn once since 2007.  He then posts a headshot of Sean on Facebook with a caption about him being "grown up and looking cool" in August 2012. I do not have broader context for that.

Victorious gets cancelled and Dan starts working full-time on Sam & Cat in early 2013. One of the other characters introduced is Dice. There are multiple jokes about how Dice is a hair model and his adult friend Goomer (who has the IQ of a potato) gets very angry if you make fun of his friend's "beautiful, beautiful hair". It's a joke, but the canned audience cheers as Goomer beats up the guy anyway.

Despite "relentlessly" emotionally torturing Jennette and Viacom launching an internal investigation into his abuse, in 2014 Dan gets awarded the first (and last) Lifetime Kids Choice Award. A lot of former cast members return to congratulate him: all of Victorious, Drake & Josh, a spattering of iCarly (not Jennette) and from Zoey 101? We have Chris. Just Chris.

In 2014, Dan starts work on Henry Danger and Gameshakers. While Gameshakers stars veteran Nick actor Kel Mitchell, the demographic is firmly younger than Victorious and Sam & Cat and he has seemingly started in on a new generation both in terms of actors and audience. Still, he regularly uploads "throwback" content for his new website, featuring never seen behind the scenes for previous shows such as All That, Drake & Josh and Zoey 101, which comes as a surprise to me, the only Zoey 101 fan left alive, because I honestly didn't think he would have had any photos of a show he seemingly does not like. He also begins wishing people happy birthday: happy birthday to Victoria Justice, Eric Lange, Erin Sanders, Avan Jogia and Sean Flynn.

In 2015, he seems borderline nostalgic for Zoey 101, a show he barely if ever mentioned (I once asked him in a Q&A what his favourite episode was and he said "I don't remember, I'd have to look them up" a statement I do not believe). He posts a behind-the-scenes video for a Halloween episode and a fun facts video, where he mentions that Sean wore a custom wig in the finale and is the grandson of Errol Flynn, because no one has heard that 2984 times. He doesn't post any photos taken after Season 2 on his website, with the exception of a couple of photos of Abby Wilde because he's weird about her too.

2015 also sees the release of the "What Did Zoey Say" video, which is an abomination for what it did to Chase's character. It is a direct sequel to a Season 2 episode and seemingly ignores the fact that the finale had Zoey and Chase getting together, or that Trading Places had them saying I love you because at this point Dan just sort of pretends Season 4 doesn't exist (I would find all of this more forgivable if he acknowledged not just Season 3 but how good half of it was). To be fair, it was also done in like 12 hours and solely because Dan kept getting harassed on twitter about it. The short is filmed in September, though apparently only because someone else suggested the fans would like it (despite him posting twenty one Zoey 101 related instagram posts up to that point during the year and publishing the fun facts a video a month before). Dan posts a photo of Sean and Chris with the casts of Henry Danger and Gameshakers. It is the closest Sean or Chris ever get to starring in an episode (in comparison, Matt Bennett and Nathan Kress have a brief part in both Sam & Cat and Gameshakers, while other actors like Jerry Trainor popped up in cameos and blooper episodes).

(I also want to note that Teen Nick messed up the airing of this, resulting in "betrayed" fans harassing Dan on twitter even more, so it got to the point where he uploaded it onto his Youtube channel and literally started replying to people being like "I'm good a guy! I didn't lie!" Like a) my guy, you are not a good guy, and b) how are you so touchy about what people say about you on twitter when for the past year every second tweet has accused you of being a pedophile??) 

The following year, Henry Danger has its first hour long special titled "Hour of Power" (filmed in July 2016 and airing at the end of the same year). It is worth noting that at this point, Dan can barely write for shit, a trend which started with iCarly and only got worse. Any emotion he was able to tap into in his Zoey 101 monologue days is gone, and he is increasingly unable to keep any plot in line or fetish at bay (see the episode of Henry Danger where Henry eats a banana while sitting in an older guys lap because I don't fucking know). He is also stupid on anger and ego, as seen in the Season 2 episode Henry & the Woodpeckers where he announces that he has personally been reprimanded for yelling at children by Nickelodeon executives multiple times, but haha, it's an episode about participation trophies in sport! He is so clever and subtle, guys.

Hour of Power starts with Ray, the middle aged superhero Captain Man, trying to fight a bad guy  named Drex without Henry, his sidekick Kid Danger, knowing about it. Why? Because the bad guy *drum roll* used to be his sidekick. Why is this such a shocking revelation that Henry drops his ice cream to the ground? Mostly so that Henry can be hurt because he thought he was Ray's first sidekick, because that matters for some reason (?), and then they play into the "jealous married couple that isn't actually married or even romantic" trope. Even though Ray is in his mid to late 30s and Henry is a child, but ok.

See, Drex seemed perfect but he actually had a dark side. And one day he and Ray fought and it was so bad that, if Ray wasn't indestructible, he would have been destroyed, whatever the hell that means. And this all happened nine years ago, which would have been 2007 for those counting at home. So Ray needs to fight him alone, because it would be weird if his current sidekick met his former sidekick, but Henry refuses and says, "Let's go meet your former sidekick…that you used to love," which seems oddly out of place even in the episode's context. So they go to Schneider's Bakery, both the name of Dan's own production company and a tribute to his grandfather's real bakery, because Drex "loves this bakery as much as [Ray] does" and they used to go there together twice a week, and then Ray gets stuck in a trap because the actor needed to go be with his pregnant wife in real life and we know Dan loves putting actors in boxes.

The episode then derails into a whole thing about Drex "spanking [Ray's] boyish sidekick" and then Henry gets superpowers and spanks Drex and also all of this is filmed and put on the news because Dan is fucking weird about technology and he has no filter and his mind is polluted.

Anyway.

Listen. I know I am reading too much into this. I have zero proof that this episode set up is based on anyone, let alone a specific person, other than that the Vibes are once again very firmly Off and it feels a little too specific. It could be about anyone, because I don't believe Dan only limited his abuse to cast members, and I admire any crew, extra or offset person that was brave enough to stand up for themselves. That said, it would make sense to me if it was about Sean. It’s likely he was able to stand up for himself in a way other people weren't: he's a double nepotism kid whose father is a TV producer with presumably a bit of power in the industry, and he was not acting for money the way cast members like Jennette were. Even in the very short Season 2 podcasts, Sean does seem to stand up to Dan more than the others. In one, Dan tries to make fun of him and Matthew for "not being man enough to do your own stunts" and Sean immediately responds saying Dan is the one who won't let them (to be clear, Dan is not in the wrong here, though he has been accused of endangering other, female actors by pressuring them to do their own stunts. But don't pretend like you gave people the choice of opting in or out).

It also tracks with Dan's weird relationship with Zoey 101. There are a myriad of reasons for him to not like it: it's not a sitcom and that's what he likes; the show had been mired in controversy because of Jamie Lynn's pregnancy (and he was probably sick of people accusing him of fathering her child by people who don't have eyes), as well as Matthew Underwood's multiple arrests, and the overall cast's general lack of success that we will assume was not due to Dan blacklisting everyone to Antarctica and back. Except for when he does seem to like it or at least be influenced by it. Likewise his reluctance to acknowledge the existence of the bad Season 4 but the very good Season 3 makes sense if he feels it was "tainted" by the apparently very traumatic memory of a 17 year old boy telling him to fuck off, I guess? (Dan if I'm wrong and you're reading this post something nice about Sean Flynn in Season 3 right now)

Dan and Nickelodeon "part ways" in late March 2018 because Dan screamed at a lot of wrong people after Gameshakers got cancelled and most of his supporters in high places left and got replaced. Also, he'd been an arsehole for twenty years and apparently hadn’t been allowed onset with actors for years (!!???!), not to mention the #MeToo era and his rife misogyny and harassment. He goes dead silent on social media and deletes almost all of his tweets, which is in no way suspicious. Eventually after a year, he begins sporadically posting on Instagram with comments turned off, including a return to his classic "happy birthday" messages. Drake Bell gets one (that is STILL up), and then he posts one for Sean.

Less than three weeks later they have the now notorious reunion (excluding Alexa and Kristen). It's dumb - what reboot is he gonna do to help your careers when he literally just got out ousted guys?? The only justification I can think of is that they went because he'd been ousted; he was no longer (as) powerful and the footing is maybe a bit equal now, so maybe they can control it. Sean wears like three layers of clothing again like he did at the 2012 wrap up party despite it being California in July.

Covid happens, putting a dent in the Victorious reunion that moves to Zoom. Dan also begins to properly up the birthday posts: you get a birthday post! You get a birthday post! We have details, we have fun facts, we have photos of other cast members with Dan. A lot of them are very nice, even personalised (while others, like Austin Butler, have a weird "from Team Danwarp" caveat). Sean gets called "one of my best casting choices ever", which seems like a weird thing to say about someone who's most notable post-Nickelodeon role was a minor part his dad got him on Devious Maids. It also seems pretty significant from a guy that cast Amanda Bynes, Kenan & Kel, and Ariana Grande; plus genuine but less recognised talent such as Jennette McCurdy, Liz Gillies etc. See, Dan is very involved in casting - he's talked about auditioning over forty girls for the role of Megan in Drake & Josh. He is genuinely involved in it and actively proud of it when it works out. He's also never really qualified who he considers his "best" casting choices, even though we can guess. But apparently Sean is up there.

(this was deleted/archived on instagram as of late March 2022, coincidentally the same month Sean got married, with a bunch of other birthday posts including Jennette's.)

I am definitely reading too much into it, but I maintain it's weird.

A final coincidence I find interesting: while Dan was not involved in the final seasons of Henry Danger due to being ousted (though he was allowed at the wrap up party for some reason), it seems worth noting that one of the final episodes has Henry and Ray arguing because Henry won't be able to graduate high school on time "due to [his] commitment to this job [as sidekick]". Ray replies "well you don't seem very committed to me" and Henry quits. Ray then proceeds to refer to him only as "the quitter" for an episode. Again, Dan didn't write this - it ends with Ray apologising and acknowledging that Henry 'was thirteen when [he] took that oath, [he] didn't know what you were getting into' if you wanted proof - but I found the parallel interesting all the same.

Ultimately, I have no idea who Dan did or did not abuse. I think he's a generally abusive person, to the point where probably most cast members have at least one story of being uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean he wasn't charming or kind or loyal when he wanted to be. Abusers are like that. I am inclined to think that he treated the people he hated and the people he liked the most the worst, and that you probably faired the best if he just ignored you.

[emysteri]

The lord of the drums🔥

Christoph Schneider in Rammstein - Pussy (Official Making Of)

[wonderlandleighleigh]

(an alternate Gilmore Girls season 3 opening)

“Who is she?” 

Lorelai follows her daughter’s gaze across the town square and takes a breath. Rory has been away all summer in DC, and has missed...well...a lot.

The girl in question is a little shorter than Rory with curly blonde hair and a big smile, and she’s sitting on a bench with Jess as she sifts through a pile of records. 

“That...uh...well, honey, that’s...Ella. She’s Mr. and Mrs. Schneider’s granddaughter. They came to Stars Hollow early so she could spend the summer here with them.” 

Rory blinks. “Oh.” 

“She’s very sweet,” Lorelai tells her. “She plays guitar and sings, and she hangs out with the town troubadour sometimes, but mostly...” 

“Jess,” Rory finishes. 

“Yeah.” 

“Oh.” Rory takes a breath. “When does she go home?” 

“Well...” 

“She’s staying,” Rory surmises. 

“Ella’s dad left back in May,” Lorelai explains. “So Midge thought that bringing her here for her senior year would be a nice break. A slower pace where she can make some new friends...” 

“Right.” 

“And Jess has calmed down a little, now that he has another New Yorker to hang out with,” Lorelai goes on. “He’s been way more bearable to be around.” 

“Good.” 

“Right. Yes. Good,” Lorelai agrees. “It is good.” 

“Yes.” 

“Good. Okay.” 

[the-ghost-king]

what are your headcanons for nico and will’s appearances? like height, facial features, hair, body type, etc. i sometimes struggle to describe them in writing and i would love to hear how you visualize them! you have great descriptions

I'm going to use a mixture of text, reference images, and previous posts I've made to put this together so buckle up anon, and towards the end I talk a bit about how I describe Will and why:

A post I made which talks about all the canonical times Will's looks were discussed, canonically we know Will resembles his mother, and that he has an "athletic build"

And I'd like to start off with some photos for facial reference purposes (quick thing, you might have to click on the photos to view them properly lol) :

I would say Will probably has a more square or oval shaped face, probably a combination type. Although Niels Schneider's facial features aren't how I would describe Will's facial features, the actual shape of his face/head is about what I would say Will's face looked like. (Photo above on the left)

Max Barczak is also commonly used in face claims for Will and I see why, again Barczak has a more squared off face although he holds less "weight" in his face than Schneider. (Photo above on the right)

I don't think that either of their facial features really fit Will's face entirely, and to be honest I can't be like "he has this exact nose" but I often explain him to people as "girl next door pretty- but a boy" and I regularly use Penny from "The Big Bang Theory" (Kaley Cuoco) as a reference to explain what "girl next door pretty" is.

I think his facial features would be more like Charles Vandervaart, or Justin Barnhill... They all have something similiar about their faces, also maybe it's a bit weird to say but Will having something very "Harry Styles" about his face kind of makes sense to me....

Will definitley has curly or at least wavey hair, I know being told "shaggy hair" doesn't mean curly, but I also don't want to think about Zac Efrons early 2000s shaggy hair on Will- so Will has curly hair because it's 2021 and love wins. I don't know exactly what cut he would have, but something a little bit athletic but also a bit overgrown I'm sure.

I like the style below for Will, but I don't know how the "modern mullet" would look with Wills face shape... It's a thought though

As for the use of the word "athletic" and "sporty" when describing Will's build, I don't think this means he's super buff- he's a himbo but he's built slightly more for track and field than football if you can understand. I don't think his body is like ripped, but he probably has some slightly defined muscle... I can't find anything without the guy not being weird about having his shirt off, or any with their shirts on so I don't think I care to put a photo of that in...

I did find a reference image for drawing that works, but after trying to reverse image search it multiple times, I can't figure out where it came from and I feel a little iffy about using it, so here's a link to it on pintrest. I think the guy in the center is probably closest to Will's body type but it's a drawing so of course it's slightly exaggerated in some places... I can't really find any decent reference photos for this, but yeah he's dorito shaped... Small hipped, big shouldered himbo, no thoughts boyfriend cute.

Whenever I'm describing Will I usually say he has "honey blonde hair" or refer to his hair (and sometimes skin) in comparison to "gold" this is because honey was considered divine by the greeks, they mixed it with wine for their gods (Apollo was known to be fond). Also, if you've ever used honey and pulled it out of the jar, when it looks a little thin dripping of your utensil it looks like amber. Gold is a reference to the fact that they also thought gold was divine. On top of that historically speaking may ancient cultures and religions believed gold belonged to the sun god of their religion, so it's a quick nod to Apollo as well. I mentioned amber above in reference to honey, and amber is a substance related to Apollo and Hielos and the sun ;)

I'd reference to Will with Golden/Copper/Bronze skin tones (yellows, oranges, reds) just because all of those things tie back into his godly parenthood.

Although I would reference his looks in relation to his mom more, we don't know much about her other than she also has slightly curly hair and Will shares some facial features with her. It doesn't make sense to compare Will to his mom in a story where she's not present, or other characters don't know her- the only exception I could see to this would be Nico thinking Will reminds him of Naomi, but this only works if Nico has met Naomi (and it works better if the reader of your fic has too). Obviously rules in writing are made to be broken, so do as you wish if it sounds good and feels right, but I just personally avoid Naomi comparisons for a reason.

On the topic of Will's eyes, "sky blue" obviously works because of the connection to Apollo, but "sapphire" might also be an okay word to use although blue eyes aren''t usually so dark. (fun fact: Sapphires used to be called hyacinths! Priests of Apollo had to wear them!)

I generally tend to think of Will as quite tall, but to be entirely honest I have like 3 different versions of Will in my head and I never specify which one I'm talking about. All of them are basically the same with small differences except for their universe, but height is a debated topic between me and Will's design.

Sometimes I'm like "yes he's like 6"5 and bonks his head on doorways" but other times I'm like "he's only like 5"9 which is fairly average" so idk. I do generally try to keep him at or above the American average for white males because it just feels right? There's some weird connection between the sun and height via symbolism but I can't put it in words...

Also when writing Will I take time to compare him to sunlight, plants, music, and "meter" (like in poetry). This could be a gesture he makes, or the movement of a muscle when he smiles, the way the scene around him works, or I've referenced his heartbeat to pentameter and his voice to the flow of poetry.

It's also important to note how you'll describe him in relation to others. For example I take time to compare Austin and Will to warmth, and light, and growth, while I'm more likely to say words like burning, heat, and intense, when talking about Kayla. In reference to Naomi I use words like steady, true, even, kind, measured, and use these for Will as well. I do take time to play off the light/dark aspect with Solangelo a little bit, but not entirely, there's more to them than that- Solangelo tends to be compare:contrasted in my writing.

This is good character writing and design even for oc's, compare them to the people aorund them and figure out what words they have in common and which ones they don't? It works for me and it helps keep your symbolism and references consistent.

Alright anon, one last thing, the best drawing of Will I have ever found was done by @/tanjatoons here, I have yet to find any art that get's how I picture Will to that close besides this one.

[ritterintahlia]

Johannes Vermeer -- The Geographer (1668/1669)

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Having a fleeting, superficial look at this piece, it looked like Doom Schneider when he has shoulder-long, curly hair.

[theelliottsmiths]

Bad screenshots because he's a cutie and I love the little bun (schneider wear it down to one side and curly please)