#dear evelyn

[oswednesday]

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[withswords]

Sparrows come home to roost.

From the small town of Keen's Cross, Indiana came a missing persons case that rocked the country. A housewife and mother of two, married to the beloved town pastor, vanished, leaving behind only a cache of disturbing journals. Police and FBI searched fruitlessly for months for any trace of Naomi Payne.

That was 20 years ago.

Sparrow Payne has returned to Keen's Cross after a long absence to inherit the family home. With their father dead and mother gone, all Sparrow has left is their baby sister, Evelyn. But the discoveries they make while attempting to reopen Naomi's cold case may threaten to rob them of even that.

DEAR EVELYN is a new horror podcast about the darkness at the heart of small town America. New episodes are live on the 15th and 30th of the month.

[existentialterror]

Light's ARG notes - Dear Evelyn

Dear Evelyn (spotify link) is a horror podcast with a few ARG elements! It's just coming out and it's really good. I know some of the people involved (though don't know anything else about the podcast itself) and really like the other podcast on their network, the Creepypasta Book Club. Check em out! There are also some ARG elements. (It looks like you can listen to the podcast without engaging with any of the ARG elements, at least for now, but it's early on and anyways I love an ARG.)

Under the cut I'm dropping a lot of spoiler notes on Episode 1 "introductions" and Episode 2 "The Attic", which is all that's out so far. Really just my notes on the characters and what we know about everything.

I'm taking a break for this in between working on the shorthand code, which... might take me a while. I know nothing about shorthand and never claimed to be good at codes in the first place. XD

Characters

The Payne family

Sparrow Payne - The voice of the show. Sending recordings to get back in touch with their younger sibling, Evelyn. Their father has just died and they've moved back to the old family house in Keen's Cross, Indiana.

Got emancipated at 16, hasn't been back since. Refers to themself as "the scary one" of the siblings.

Evelyn Payne - Sparrow's younger sister. Was more online at a younger age. Also left Keen's Cross early and has been estranged from everyone. Things are really tense with Sparrow, who doesn't even know their address, which Sparrow thinks is fair.

As a kiddo, really morbid and into scary stuff. Made up and was scared of "Gabe the Cave Monster".

On a post-it note on the wall of Evelyn's room, in her handwriting, is "Pale_Horse1392".

Pastor Roger Payne - Sparrow and Evelyn's dad, who recently died. Was always a hardass but really became a pious dick after his wife vanished.

Naomi Payne - Sparrow and Evelyn's mom, who went missing when Sparrow was - I forget but I want to say like 12 years old.

Into new age stuff, not as into the religious stuff, which was a point of conflict in her relationship with Roger.

Wrote extensive diaries.

Sparrow is pretty sure she's dead.

Other characters

Mrs. Rapperty (sp?): Next door neighbor, lives alone in big dirty house. Recluse. Now maybe has Alzheimer's or something. Said Naomi was so beautiful but that she lost the faith and left the kids - all of which was news to Sparrow. She seems to know something about Naomi.

Jake Petty: Gay kid that the kids knew when they were younger, stayed in Keen's Cross. Closer to Evelyn's age.

Officer Petty: Jake's dad. Cop.

Pastor Drayer (sp?): The new pastor. Was really curious about Evelyn at Roger's funeral, despite having never met either of the Payne kids.

The missing person case

According to news report at the end of "introductions", Naomi was: Reported as missing:

4 days after last seen

3 days after authorities were notified

Reported to outside authorities (like, police in another town) BY one of the kids hitchhiking to a nearby town. Guessing that's Sparrow, since Evelyn was very young.

Sparrow tried to get help and answers as a kid but doesn't seem to have known much.

Since she died, the entire case has been publicized and become infamous online, which Sparrow hates. A lot of stuff like Naomi's journals are digitally available.

Naomi's journals

Naomi wrote some every day, almost.

Some missing ones mentioned in "The Attic", including various years. The journals are indexed with letters.

Also lots of albums, almost all of the mom. Lots with the mom and some baby in places that don't look like Keen's Cross, which is confusing to Sparrow.

A lot of the diaries were made public but not these ones Sparrow just found in the attic.

Sparrow mentions one specific entry - 1992 (May 18) - Talking about Mt St Helens erupting, on its anniversary. Naomi tried to get others to leave town - something bad is happening here too.

An excerpt of one of the diaries, written in shorthand, was shared with the episode description. I'm still trying to figure out what it says.

The Payne House

Dad left the kid's rooms mostly untouched since they moved out.

Bunch of stuff in the attic that is padlocked shut. Wild!

As of "The Attic", at Evelyn's suggestion, Sparrow found the key taped to the underside of Dad's night stand.

The attic contained a bunch of Naomi's things and diaries, mostly untouched in interceding years. Unclear how much of this, if any, the police ever saw. There are sections of the diaries - like in shorthand - that definitely never appeared online, and that Sparrow never saw before.

pale_Horse1392

Right, so in the description of "introductions", there's a link to this image:

The QR code goes to this youtube channel, which contains (at time of writing) only this cryptic video.

So I'm thinking pale_horse1392 is either Evelyn, or someone Evelyn was in contact with as a young person.

Riddle

If you click on the drawing of Gabe the Cave Monster in the episode 2 notes, there's a link to a riddle. I also have not figured out the riddle.

[cyanwyrmy]

Introducing my concepts for Eddie Dear’s Parents!

Jeanette “Jeanie” Dear is Eddie’s Mama. She is a writer and comic book artist, most often writing and drawing for newspaper columns. Jeanie is 4ft tall and bi and trans!

Evelyn Dear is Eddie’s Mom. She’s a friendly and hardworking mail-carrier who ain’t afraid to speak her mind. Evelyn is 3.5 ft and bi and demisexual!

There’s other stuff too…they are childhood friends, they have southern accents, and they of course adore their son, Eddie!

What do y’all think of my designs? I’m really excited to see what Eddie’s parents look like in the official canon :o) In the meantime, Jeanie and Evelyn will be Eddie’s mamas in my mind!

[pinknyellowblob]

eddiez moms…

designs by the one and only @cyanwyrmy !!!!! i love them a lot

[applestede]

So it’s come to my attention that Mary probably won’t be in S2 which, bummer.

But I hope she can at least have some passing good mention, or some indication that she and Stede are on speaking terms.

First of all, no matter what they think of each other, they still have kids, and I would hope that Stede would want to be at the very least aware of what was going on in their lives, even if he isn’t really their father figure anymore.

But I also think that Mary and Stede could be really good friends regardless, especially since that pressure of being in a marriage that neither of them wanted and neither of them enjoyed is gone. You can see a glimpse of that camaraderie toward the end of episode ten (the conversation about love, and the whole faking his death thing.)

She could easily send him letters using some sort of pseudonym or another form of don’t-reveal-my-ex-husband-isn’t-actually-dead deception. They could gossip together.

I just think they could have a really strong bond when there are no expectations put on them.

[sillymoonboi]

The shading hurt my hand😭

Anyways dazzle fanart

[lyledraws]

Evelyn and Caleb share a tense, yet tender, moment on the Clawthorne couch. Based on a moment from @litfeathers Chapter 19 of Birds Fly in Different Directions.

Don't know what it is about Birds Fly that makes me want to draw it so much. Maybe it's just because it's such a good fic!

[prosebushpatch]

new otp is Gaius and Evelyn from Rune Factory 3. like, i'm sorry, he has a hard time expressing his feelings because she assumes every gift he gives her is a commission to turn it into an outfit? And she, the resident fashion designer who uses fish and fondue for her out-there fashions seems to relish the challenges he gives her? But when he gives her an engagement ring, one he made as a blacksmith meant to suit her perfectly, she considers this the hardest commission he's presented her with yet and after asking you to suss out the kind of girl he likes, SHE DECIDES TO WEAR THE RING AND WALK SIDE BY SIDE WITH HIM AS HER GREATEST ATTEMPT AT COORDINATION YET. HELLO?

[blackcatarts]

cca antagonist save me. evelyn crawford. eve save me.

[oswednesday]

Sparrow finds an unexpected lead on Naomi's case.

check out Sparrow's photos: https://jawscast.neocities.org/dear_evelyn_resources

Dear Evelyn is a JAWScast network podcast produced on the traditional lands of the Darkinjung people.

Writer/Producer: Jonah Tennant (He/They) https://withswords.tumblr.com/

Sparrow Payne: Tempest Wisdom (Any/All)

Music Credit: The Slow Fall by Patricia Taxxon

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[withswords]

𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚒 𝚙𝚞𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎

🐦‍⬛🥛 <- milkshake that will make you so so so sick

[askdrunksally]

Hey eddie let frank take care of the baby he loves children even if he won't admit it

[after getting Eddie to calm down, they managed to get Evelyn to sleep, Sally however, is still drunk]

[supernovastudiosstuff]

What if I said Caleb is Evan Hansen coded. What then.

[zyrafowe-sny]

I love how Dana reassured the fans several times that they are welcome to keep headcanons that conflict with her post hoot answers.

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

New OUAT OCs

this is all @the-witching-ash's fault for encouraging me to make a new oc to ship with Graham and now instead I have 10...

Angel Dearly | Anita Dumas in Long Live: Anita Radcliffe in the Enchanted Forest but has not married Roger so keeps her maiden name, Dumas. In Storybrooke she's a waitress at Granny's Diner who dreams of moving away and becoming a fashion designer. Shipped with @the-witching-ash's Roman Taylor | Roger Radcliffe and is Anastasia Dearly | Adelaide Dumas' granddaughter*

Named Angel for its similarities to Anita; Dearly for Anita's last name in the live action movie, and Dumas for Alexandre Dumas the French author/playwright

*this is specifically in Long Live/the crossover, theoretically she has a solo verse shipped with Graham but I only care about the crossover

Alissa Thorn | Priscilla Page in Dear Reader: Priscilla Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest, in Storybrooke she is the middle child between her sisters, her job is still TBD

Named Alissa as it means Wanderer, and Priscilla's place of power is the open road

Corrina Mills | Persephone in Rite Of Spring: Regina & Zelena's younger half sister, named after her mother Cora. She is Persephone in the Enchanted Forest and in Storybrooke she's Corrina Mills, Regina's younger sister and the only person who can leave Storybrooke without any issue but she either always finds herself returning without meaning to or she forgets about Storybrooke when she's out of the bubble and forgets about the "real world" when she's in Storybrooke. Her father is Rumplestiltskin, and she is most likely going to be shipped with Graham

Named Corrina both for her mother, Cora, and because it's a variation of Kore, which is another name for Persephone

Dove Thorn | Robin Page in Dear Reader: The youngest of the Page/Thorn sisters. In the Enchanted Forest she is Robin Page (from the Fables comics), and in Storybrooke she is Dove Thorn, Alissa & Evelyn's younger sister who works somewhere in the Sheriff's Department.

Named Dove as it is a type of bird, like Robin

Eilwony in Rabbit Heart: Eilwony from the Black Cauldron. She was a captive to Regina in the Enchanted Forest and is still captive through the curse. Because of being in Regina's castle, she was not affected by the curse and has kept all of her memories, but she can't escape or do anything with that knowledge until Henry Mills finds her and helps to rescue her. Daughter of a magic user, but I haven't decided which one yet.

(name does not change as she does not have a Storybrooke version of herself)

Evelyn Thorn | Hillary Page in Dear Reader: The oldest Thorn sister, she's Hillary Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she's Evelyn Thorn, who "recently" took over her mother's job as the elementary school librarian.

Named Evelyn after the most iconic librarian around, Evelyn O'Connell from The Mummy

Mirella Gold | Christine Daae in Once Upon A Song: Christine Daae (Phantom Of The Opera) in the Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin takes on the role of her phantom in many ways. In Storybrooke she is Mirella Gold, who works as a personal assistant (tbd to who) but dreams of becoming a songwriter. She is raised by Mr Gold, but I haven't decided yet if she knows that she's adopted or believes that he's her father. Might be shipped with Graham.

Named Mirella after Mirella Freni, considered one of the best opera singers of all time

(in my heart, @the-witching-ash's Adelaide | Anastasia is her music teacher 🥺 )

Nieva in Eatnamen Vuelie: Nieva is Elsa's daughter, who Elsa does not know exists, and sadly that's all that I know so far!

Named Nieva as it means Snow, her name does not change as she does not have a Storybrooke version of herself

Paige Thorn | Prose Page in Dear Reader: Prose Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she is Paige Thorn, English teacher turned school librarian who "recently" quit her job to open her own bookstore, leaving her eldest daughter to become the new librarian.

Named Paige as a pun on Prose Page's last name

Sadie “Sugar” Monroe | Charlotte LaBouff in Sweet Nothing: Charlotte LaBouff in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she is Sadie Monroe (but everyone calls her Sugar), a pageant princess rich girl with a heart of gold. She is an event planner and organizes plenty of town events and fundraisers, and will be shipped with either Graham or David.

Named Sadie as it is a common Southern girl name and nicknamed Sugar because it is a common nickname in the South (both chosen as a nod to Charlotte LaBouff being a Southern Belle), last name Monroe as Lottie's design was inspired by Marilyn Monroe

(ps thank you @ginevrastilinski-ocs for the help is naming Nieva and Sugar!)