#invasion of the boy snatchers

[goryhorroor]

day 14 of horror: horror movies + deeper meanings

[joshoconnaissance]

@pscentral event 22: 2023 wrapped ↳ Nine films I watched for the first time in 2023 (letterboxd template) (follow me on letterboxd)

[charlottesweetly]

Guy who's only ever seen TGWDLM: this is just like in TGWDLM

[porcelain-rob0t]

since you lovely people gave me horror movie recommendations, ill give some of my own!!

Autopsy of Jane Doe (a recent favorite, suspenseful and has supernatural elements but a lot of the scary stuff is done through implication)

Videodrome (for the freaks out there)

The Fly (im a sucker for anything by David Cronenberg)

Phantom of the Paradise (my favorite horror musical, the music and costume design are amazing)

Ginger Snaps (really compelling story about 2 sisters, once inseparable, growing apart. also werewolves)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (really spooky, its a classic)

Frankenhooker (batshit. absolute nonsense. its so fun)

Re-animator (Re-animator)

Altered States (local man takes so many drugs in a sensory deprivation tank that he devolves into a caveman)

Terrifier and Terrifier 2 (not so much a narrative film as it is a showing of the sickest and nastiest practical effects)

Vampire Clay (BONKERS)

Killer Klowns From Outer Space (real good fun with awesome practical effects)

Audition (Takashi Miike is a fucking menace, great film)

The Lost Boys (punk vampires in the 80s, what else do i have to say)

House of 1000 Corpses (i love you Rob Zombie)

The Love Witch (gorgeous, looks right out of the 60s but with a modern twist)

Suspiria (the original and the remake are great but are basically 2 completely different movies)

Teeth (its teeth)

Vamp (Grace Jones is a cool vampire lady)

The Stuff (BONKERS FUCKING YONKERS)

Mandy (Nic Cage goes crazy with it)

Perfect Blue (rest in peace Satoshi Kon you were a genius)

The Brood (David Cronenberg back at it again)

Arabella Black Angel (classic giallo stuff, murders and the most stunning Italian women you've ever seen)

Poughkeepsie Tapes (found footage thats actually scary)

mother! (most anxiety inducing thing ive ever witnessed, i never ever want to see it again. horrifying. be careful, besties)

Tetsuo the Iron Man (the most bizarre body horror ive seen, its great)

Bone Tomahawk (awesome Western horror)

Tenebrae (Italy loves violence)

there's probably more im forgetting but i can always add more later

[astroboyart]

Donald Sutherland passes away at 88

Sources: Keifer Sutherland (X), several reputable news outlets

Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88 from an unspecified long illness according to his son, Keifer Sutherland, as stated on his social media accounts.

Donald Sutherland was best known in the world of Astro Boy as voicing President Stone, the major antagonist, in the 2009 Astro Boy movie.

Outside of the world of Astro Boy, was much more well known for his acting roles spanning across 7 decades, starring in movies and TV shows such as The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Kelly's Heroes, Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Italian Job (2003), Pride & Prejudice, and The Hunger Games to name only a few.

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Yo Fairy bois Or SK Bois!! (either one is good) What was the scariest movie you ever seen? And got a fave alien invasion movie?

(SK AU)

"Ooh, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a good one!"

"The ending is just top notch."

[gone2soon-rip]

DONALD SUTHERLAND (1935-Died June 20th 2024,at 88).Canadian actor and anti-war activist whose film career spanned over seven decades. He received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Critics Choice Award. He has been cited as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award.

Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films such as The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), and Kelly's Heroes (1970). He subsequently starred in many films both in leading and supporting roles, including Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975), Fellini's Casanova (1976), 1900 (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), Eye of the Needle (1981), A Dry White Season (1989), Backdraft (1991), JFK (1991), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Without Limits (1998), The Italian Job (2003), and Pride & Prejudice (2005). More recently, Sutherland portrayed President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise.

He was the father of actor,Kiefer Sutherland,best known for his role as Jasck he tv action series,24,and films such as Stand By Me and The Lost Boys. Donald Sutherland - Wikipedia

[skinks]

I’ve realised recently that animorphs is responsible for exposing me to the type of horror that freaks me out more than anything else; stolen identity. Invasion of the Body Snatchers shit. I was reading Animorphs so young that the concept of what the Yeerks did to people broke my brain somehow. Anyone you know, anyone you love, they could be gone, possessed, mind-controlled, corrupted - and you could never know for sure. All you’re left with is a death sentence of paranoia over whether they’re acting just a little different today, and who might be next.

Related to mimic horror is doppelgänger horror, which also freaks me the fuck out. Jordan Peele’s Us is an obvious example, but again as a child I read a horror story about a boy trying to leave his town through a mountain pass, and realising he’s being chased by this shambling, threatening figure. The boy runs until he reaches a dead end at the edge of a cliff - looking over, he sees his own crumpled body at the bottom. He turns to see the grotesque figure approaching him and realises that this too is himself - mangled and bloody from the fall to the rocks below. The story ended there and lodged itself in my brain.

How do you know if you are you? What if your parents were replaced with people who acted differently? How do you know you won’t be replaced? I think these concepts nagged at me due to (childhood events) and also - I can’t overstate how much puberty/adulthood/compulsory femininity hung over my happiness as a girl like a guillotine. “Oh you’ll change your mind” “You’ll grow out of this [tomboy behaviour]” “You’ll like boys/makeup/dressing up when you’re older” “Your biological clock will make you want kids eventually!” on and on and on. No matter how much I cried and protested that I knew myself.

What does this do to gnc children? To be confidently told by adults that you will be changed whether you like it or not? That the world and even your own body will decide it, against your will? Soon your body does start to change and it’s the most fundamental betrayal. The dysphoria and dysmorphia sets in and now your own reflection isn’t right. For years I was terrified by this. An accidental glimpse of Tetsuo mutating, screamingly aware of it, haunting me at school. Nine years old I was Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers, sweating and paranoid that one day I was going to be replaced by an unrecognisable hyperfeminine version of myself, so different in every way that mattered to my own identity that I might as well be dead.

I would love to write a horror story about this stuff from the pov of a masc teenage girl… stepford high school… this must be a common fear for gay/gnc children, right? That adulthood meant either being forcibly replaced by a wrong and mutated mimic of yourself, or death? I never succumbed to the body snatching, but there were consequences. For so long the prospect of adulthood was a dark void of nothing. I was either to be the shambling wretched doppelgänger or the body at the bottom of the cliff

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 201-300

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Return of the Living Dead had the most votes with 1763 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

The Shining was the most watched film with 78.96% of voters saying they had seen it.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

The Human Centipede was the least watched film with 74.6% of voters saying they hadn't seen it.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

The Shining was the best known film with only 0.48% of voters saying they'd never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

Late Phases was the least known film with 86.64% of voters saying they'd never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

Detention (2019) Deep Freeze (2001) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) The Boy (2016) Spree (2020) They Look Like People (2015) Proxy (2013) 28 Days Later (2002) Grave Encounters (2011) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Nosferatu (1922) The Toxic Avenger (1984) The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) Haunt (2019) Blood Quantum (2019) Videodrome (1983) Splinter (2008) The Last Days on Mars (2013)

Late Phases (2014) The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) Watcher (2022) The Blackening (2022) No One Will Save You (2023) The Sadness (2021) Sleepwalkers (1992) Mimic (1997) His House (2020) Get Out (2017)

Barbarian (2022) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) Men (2022) Phantasm (1979) The Belko Experiment (2016) The Purge (2013) The Strangers (2008) The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) Overlord (2018) Sinister (2012)

Candyman (2021) The Shining (1980) Doctor Sleep (2019) The Stuff (1985) The Blob (1988) Signs (2002) The Visit (2015) The Fly (1958) Sleepaway Camp (1983) The Brood (1979)

Intruder (1989) The Evil Dead (1981) Evil Dead II (1987) Army of Darkness (1992) Evil Dead (2013) Evil Dead Rise (2023) Pontypool (2008) Final Destination (2000) Final Destination 2 (2003) Final Destination 3 (2006)

The Final Destination (2009) Final Destination 5 (2011) StageFright (1987) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) Centipede! (2004) Excision (2008) Return of the Living Dead (1985 Frankenhooker (1990)

Crash (1996) Orca (1977) Wish Upon (2017) Things (1989) Cooties (2014) Glorious (2022) Terrified (2017) Diabolique (1955) In My Skin (2002) Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)

Funhouse (2019) Blood Rage (1987) Carnival of Souls (1962) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Horror of Dracula (1958) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) City of the Living Dead (1980) Piercing (2018) Spider Baby (1967) The Haunting (1963)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) The Blob (1958) Tourist Trap (1979) Death Game (1977) Knock Knock (2015) Funny Games (1997) Funny Games (2007) The Company of Wolves (1984) The Stepford Wives (1975)

[dwampyverse-tournaments]

Best (Standard) Phineas and Ferb Episode Tournament | Round 2

June 10

My Sweet Ride vs. Moon Farm

Gaming the System vs. When Worlds Collide

The Lemonade Stand vs. The Ballad of Badbeard

Picture This vs. The Doonkelberry Imperative

June 12

Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Max Modem! vs. Tree to Get Ready

Lotsa Latkes vs. Lost in Danville

Magic Carpet Ride vs. Greece Lightning

Journey to the Center of Candace vs. Elementary, My Dear Stacy

June 14

I Scream, You Scream vs. Hip Hip Parade

Troy Story vs. Sipping with the Enemy

We Call it Maze vs. Bad Hair Day

Got Game? vs. Traffic Cam Caper

June 17

Tri-Stone Area vs. Nerdy Dancin'

Just Our Luck vs. Swiss Family Phineas

It's No Picnic vs. Where's Pinky?

Great Balls of Water vs. Road to Danville

June 19

Unfair Science Fair Redux (Another Story) vs. The Inator Method

Let's Take a Quiz vs. Knot My Problem

Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror! vs. Perry Lays an Egg

The Belly of the Beast vs. Happy Birthday, Isabella

June 21

Escape from Phineas Tower vs. La Candace-Cabra

Monster from the Id vs. Flop Starz

Candace Disconnected vs. Ready for the Bettys

Day of the Living Gelatin! vs. Out of Toon

TBD

Bullseye! vs. Steampunx

Attack of the 50-Foot Sister vs. Bowl-R-Ama Drama

Split Personality vs. Isabella and the Temple of Sap

Just Desserts vs. Happy New Year

TBD

Doofapus vs. Crack that Whip

Toy to the World vs. Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers!

Mom's Birthday vs. Tour de Ferb

The Best Lazy Day Ever vs. Vanessassary Roughness

TBD

Bully Bromance Breakup vs. Robot Rodeo

Oh, There You Are, Perry vs. Finding Mary McGuffin

Interview with a Platypus vs. Thaddeus and Thor

Backyard Hodge Podge vs. A Real Boy

TBD

Rollercoaster vs. Gi-Ants

Bubble Boys vs. Comet Kermillian

Cheer Up Candace vs. Drusselsteinoween

She's the Mayor vs. The Baljeatles

TBD

Phineas and Ferb Interrupted vs. Misperceived Monotreme

Fireside Girl Jamboree vs. Are You My Mummy?

Does this Duckbill Make Me Look Fat? vs. The Bully Code

Run, Candace, Run vs. Hail Doofania!

TBD

Ferb Latin vs. That's the Spirit!

Candace Loses Her Head vs. Brain Drain

At the Car Wash vs. Minor Monogram

The Lizard Whisperer vs. Doof 101

TBD

Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon vs. Voyage to the Bottom of Buford

Skiddley Whiffers vs. Blackout!

I Was a Middle-Aged Robot vs. Candace's Big Day

Make Play vs. Unfair Science Fair

TBD

Undercover Carl vs. Phineas and Ferb-Busters!

One Good Turn vs. Norm Unleashed

Cranius Maximus vs. Delivery of Destiny

Last Train to Bustville vs. Road Trip

TBD

Chez Platypus vs. Meatloaf Surprise

Thanks But No Thanks vs. It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World

Agent Doof vs. Put That Putter Away

Hide and Seek vs. Ferb TV

TBD

Doof Dynasty vs. The Doof Side of the Moon

Don't Even Blink vs. I, Brobot

Tip of the Day vs. What Do It Do?

Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face! vs. Remains of the Platypus

[tuttle-did-it]

Murder, She Wrote episode ‘Ever After’ guest stars:

Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Orange is the New Black, Warehouse 13, Dragon Age 1 and 2, Murphy Brown, Ryan’s Hope, Heartbeat, Throw Momma from the Train, Cheers, St Elsewhere, Mrs Columbo, etc)

Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives, Everwood, Quantico, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI, Spin City, Boy Meets World, Melrose Place, Knots Landing, One Life to Live, etc)

Kevin McCarthy returns (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Innerspace, Addams Family Reunion, Batman the Animated Series, Father Dowling Investigates, Matlock, Simon & Simon, Dynasty, Fantasy Island, Twilight Zone The Movie, etc)

Michael McGrady (Ray Donovan, The Perfect Couple, SWAT, FBI, SEAL Team, Chicago PD, Agents of SHIELD, Mob City, NCIS, Castle, Body of Proof, CSI Miami, Lie to Me, The Mentalist, Leverage, Bones, CSI, 24, Providence, The X Files, etc)

One more of Kate because she's stunning.

S8 E15 1 Mar, 1992

[meat-wentz]

hi mx meat ^_^ do u have any horror movie recs for someone who’s trying to get into the genre? classics and such?

omg yes yes yes!!!!

slashers: halloween (1978), a nightmare on elm street (1984), the texas chainsaw massacre (1974), scream (the ultimate slasher, i would watch this after watching the first three listed here), black christmas (1974), you’re next, and a couple of 00’s slasher remakes i think everyone should watch at some point for being total encapsulations of how mean the 00’s were: house of wax (2005) and sorority row (2009)

zombies: night of the living dead (1968), dawn of the dead (1978), day of the dead (1985), 28 days later, train to busan, shaun of the dead, return of the living dead

paranormal: the shining (1981), poltergeist (1982), the changeling (1980), the innocents (1961), crimson peak, the devil’s backbone, ju-on, ringu, pulse (2001), talk to me, candyman (1992)

vampires: the lost boys, interview with a vampire (1994), near dark, fright night (1985), dracula (1931), bram stoker’s dracula (1992), buffy the vampire slayer (1992), the hunger, let the right one in

dark magic/possession/devils and demons: jennifer’s body, rosemary’s baby, the exorcist, the witch, the craft, the omen (1976), evil dead (1981), evil dead 2, suspiria (1977)

creatures: ginger snaps, the thing (1982), alien, aliens, american werewolf in london, the mist, the faculty, the fly (1986), invasion of the body snatchers (1978), it (2017), the babadook, jaws

other: teeth, donnie darko, american psycho, get out, the rocky horror picture show, the phantom of the paradise, carrie (1976), videodrome, may, it follows, hereditary, saw, hellraiser (1987), child’s play (1988), final destination (2000), psycho (1960)

here’s a lil smattering of what the genre has to offer!! i tried to give you some range in eras and subgenres and mood while also maintaining a pretty classic intro list to horror! i hope you enjoy a few of these and if you like one, the best thing about horror is there’s literally 100+ more movies just like it out there, so if you ever need a more niche curated list once you’ve found out what you like just hmu again and i gotchu!!!!! <33333

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

📓

hi you are literally my favorite fanfic author and I love your writing and characterizations so much!!

Hiii thank you, you are too kind!! I’m so glad you like my works!!

(Also if y’all have preferences as to fandom with this ask game let me know. If you’re not on anon I usually try to figure out what fandom you’re following me from so that way you aren’t getting a response about a fandom you’re not a part of but if you have a request from a fandom I’ve written for before I’ll do my best to pick an unwritten fic from that fandom. Absent direction we’ll go with Jujutsu Kaisen for this one since I’m hyper fixated on that right now)

Fic where Fushiguro is unleashed into junpeis school like an invasive super predator.

Yuuji accidentally sees Junpei’s cigarette burns from the bullying while he’s hanging out at his house. And he’s instantly like Come To Jujutsu High This Is No Longer A Murder Investigation It Is Now A Recruitment You Are My Boy Now And Forever Ijichi This Is Junpei Hes Getting In The Car Too Junpei You Are Getting In The Car Too and he gently kidnaps junpei away to the school. He's so damn nice about the kidnapping that everyone cooperates with it. He's just that lovely of a guy.

Nanami: I’m sorry did you not only tell our prime suspect about the investigation but also bring him with you to the school

Yuuji: you don’t have all the facts

Nanami: which are?

Yuuji: I love him

The thing is that Yuuji sweeping him up to the school with him butterfly effects it so that way they discover sukunas finger before his mom is killed by a curse. This also means that Mahitos in the wind and they’re still trying to lure him out. Gojo and Nanami think that Junpei as bait will work, but Yuuji refuses to let him go back to a school where he’s getting hurt alone That’s His Boy Now.

At this point Gojo decides that he can instigate the funniest deep cover mission of his career and says that fushiguro is PERFECT for this job.

He will not explain why.

Yuuji, bouncing with excitement: what do I say to him I haven’t seen him since I got my heart ripped out and died in front of him

Junpei: wait what

Yuuji: I’m so excited

Junpei: go back to the heart thing can we go back to the heart thing

Fushiguro is pulled for a deep cover mission and gets the fun, confetti filled surprise that it’s with his dead best friend.

There’s a lot of shouting.

He refuses to do anything until Kugisaki is brought in too and told yuuji is alive, are you fucking kidding.

There is more shouting.

Now all three of them are going undercover in Junpeis school as a protection detail, ostensibly against mahito but really, it’s because of the bullies. Yuuji has Marked Them For Death. That’s His Boy Forever And Always. He’s only known Junpei for a day but if Anything Happens To Junpei He Will Kill Everyone In This Room And Then Himself.

and so the Junpei Protection Squad is born.

THEIR PLAN IS THUS:

They don’t care about their records. This is a deep cover mission. They go to fucking wizard school. They’re taking junpei in the divorce. There are no consequences for their actions. They can and will cut loose over his safety.

If anyone so much as looks at him weird Yuuji and Kugisaki will descend on them like vengeful gods and kick their fucking ass.

Meanwhile fushiguro will remove junpei, who they’re so happy is here junpei we’re all SO HAPPY you’re in the squad now, from the situation and summon a dog for him for love and happiness. Junpei Fushiguro can summon dogs at will they know it’s the sickest fucking power ever it’s so cool.

That’s it that’s the plan there are no further details to the plan.

The thing is while Fushiguro is the angry emo child of them all, he’s also weirdly the politest of them all? Like, if they’re taking down a purse snatcher, yuuji and Kugisaki are the ones wrestling them to the ground while fushiguro is politely returning the bag. They dont think he has it in him for delinquency. he's just a polite dude even if he's an angry one. he's very organized. he reads nonfiction for fun. he's not a delinquent. He will be in charge of leaving the scene with Junpei so he doesn’t have to become a Delinquent like them.

Fushiguro, who has figured out that gojo pulled him for this mission because he was the most notorious delinquent for thirty miles in middle school: *sweating*

THE ISSUE IS THUS:

Kugisaki and Yuuji are bad at this

They are completely inexperienced in delinquency and it shows

Dear fucking god the incompetence

What do you MEAN you threw down the gauntlet to some bullies and then let junpei go to the bathroom ALONE

Oh god he has to do everything around here doesn’t he

Junpeis trying his best. He actually feels really weird about this all. On one hand he has friends and is going to wizard school after this? On the other hes the embodiment of an angry schnauzer and doesn’t vibe with being a princess in a tower. But also he’s cornered by like five guys twice his size and doesn’t have a huge amount of options to defend himself. This is when the Squad arrives.

The thing is that one of the bullies cornering him presently was a bully in Fushiguro's middle school, for all of ten minutes, because Fushiguro kicked the ass of every bully in the area and forcibly installed his own regime of peace like an angry sea urchin. The reaction of seeing Fushiguro here, with him well within punching distance, while he's fucking with someone who is apparently a personal friend of Fushiguro Megumi is around the kind of reaction that someone would have during the Resurrection when 72 hours previous they were the guy holding the hammer and nails. he apologizes profusely, cries hard enough to pass out, and has to call his mom to come pick him up. He immediately drops out of that school and is never heard from again.

It makes an impression.

Yuuji: :o

Kugisaki: :o

Fushgiuro: *sweating* we're late for math

This basically is enough on its own to signal a struggle for dominance within the school's bully hierarchy that fushiguro doesn't actually want to be a part of. The sister he never once mentioned before this moment is going to be sad at him if she finds out he did this again. he's trying not to do this again. his sister will be SAD.

But also his delinquent instincts run deep and he succumbs before lunch is over. Fuck it he's returning to his delinquency days and taking over the school. Kugisaki stop filming this.

And Yuuji and Kugisaki would help but somehow it was decided by the rumor mill that they + junpei were Fushguro's mob wives (Yuuji Climbed On Top Of Him and pressed his forehead directly to fushiguro's and said "fushiguro fushiguro what are they talking about what did you DO to them" and everyone decided that he had to be a mob wife to not get his ass kicked for this and Junpei and Kugisaki were picked up by the rumor mill due to proximity) and this is quite frankly the funniest fucking thing that's ever happened to them. actually you know what? YES. they are his mob wives. they are each other's mob wives too. They're living a slice of life student anime bliss while fushiguro is getting in fights behind the school three times a day minimum. they love being mob wives. there's so much power and so little effort and endless potential to tease fushiguro with. they're taking videos for future blackmail.

Of course Mahito eventually has an entire attack, but he puts his filthy bitch hands on fushiguro and sukuna immediately rocks his shit so hard that the curse is simply Blitzed in a matter of seconds.

and then Sukuna has to cover up the fact that he's willing to protect fushiguro so he pretends that this is just a capricious whim because Mahito was annoying and has to save everyone to cover it up. He can be helpful sometimes. Ohhh look at him he's soooo helpful you know what just shut the fuck up and be grateful. he hates all of you.

Kugisaki: so are we going to talk about it

Fushiguro: under no circumstances no

kugisaki: okay but that was WEIRD right

Fushiguro, hasn't been this distressed since the last time he had to deal with sukuna: stop talking about it

Junpei, who no one told about sukuna, has had a long day: sorry who was that. why did he rip off his shirt.

[augustjustice]

i HAVE to go with steddie bodyswap 👀

I'm so glad you asked about this one! Bodyswap is one of my favorite tropes, so this fic is a bit of a pet project for me. It's set post-S4, around April. Eddie is still trying to finish up his final senior year, and the boys each get a taste of each other's respective struggles with school/parents/chronic pain, etc while their friendship is still somewhat new but they're already steadily growing closer. There's also a lot of silly shenanigans with the rest of the ensemble figuring out what's going on with them along the way, and a little bit of plot explanation for why exactly this happened.

A decent-sized chunk of shenanigans below the cut:

It's not his finest moment. 

Because Eddie is only half paying attention when Robin turns pointedly to Steve, frowning as she gives him a curious, probing look. 

"Hey, Steve," she starts slowly, a questioning lilt to her voice, "did you hear about Tammy Thompson?"

Steve snorts, shooting Robin a coy, teasing look. 

"What, is Muppets Live back in town?" he asks expectantly, like he's waiting for her accompanying cackle of laughter. 

It never comes. 

Instead, Robin's eyes widen as she breathes out, "Holy shit."

Fuck. 

"Holy shit, I'm not crazy."

Then she wallops Steve hard on the arm. 

"Ow!" Steve shouts, clutching Eddie's shoulder a tad dramatically as he pouts at her. "What the hell was that for?!" 

"That was for lying to me, Steve Harrington," Robin snaps pointedly, and Steve's eyes widen as the penny drops. 

"Oh, shit."

"Oh shit is right," Eddie agrees from Robin's other side. 

Robin turns and smacks him too. 

"Damn, Buckley, put those guns away," Eddie complains. 

"I'm mad at you, too, Dingus #2."

"I think, technically, I'm Dingus #1 right now."

"Hey," Steve protests with a laugh, "You can't steal the top spot from me, Munson. I'll always be Dingus #1."

"You're damn right you are," Robin interjects. "And also, can I just say…what the fuck, you guys?!" 

"Steve?" she confirms again. 

Steve looks sheepish, giving her that awkward little wave he sometimes does, wiggling all of Eddie’s ringed fingers in a way Eddie really doesn’t think he should still find endearing when Steve is wearing his body.

“Hey, Rob.” 

She whips back around to Eddie, looking almost bug-eyed.

“Eddie?”

He gestures to his own borrowed body with a dramatic flourish.

“In Harrington’s handsome flesh.”

“Oh my god, that really is you inside of there.”

“‘Fraid so,” Eddie tilts his head in acknowledgment. “We’ve gone full Invasion of the Body Snatchers on you, Buck.”

Steve’s brow creases, face screwing up in genuine confusion.

Eddie definitely shouldn’t find the way his nose crinkles and mouth goes all crooked, the way they always do, cute. At this rate he’s gonna develop some kind of a complex. 

“I thought it was Freaky Friday?” Steve says quietly, like he’s talking more to himself than he is to them. 

The back of Robin’s head hits the wall with a thud, like she’s been physically hit full force with the reality of the situation. 

“And here I thought alternate dimensions beneath our feet waiting to swallow us whole was as weird as it was gonna get around here, but, no. We’ve officially found a weirder place. Somebody alert The Weekly Watcher.”

A moment passes, and then her eyes widen in what looks to be slow dawning horror. 

"Wait!” Robin jabs a finger in Eddie’s direction. “I told you about–but…oh, god, it wasn't you."

While Eddie blinks owlishly at her, she jerks her head around to look at Steve, doing that thing they do where they have a whole silent conversation with just their eyes and eyebrows. 

"God, this is weird," Robin confesses when they seem to have settled whatever just happened. 

"Yeah," Steve agrees with a sigh, "tell me about it."

[thecaptainoutoftime]

"All of this started when Mrs. Brummel did a wet n' wild in the boys locker room?"

"I think so. Everyone's been acting really weird, especially the Faculty."

"Tell me about it, it's like they've all turned into fucking pod people or something."

"Into what people?"

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Small town gets taken over by aliens… That was a joke."

"Look what if it really happened?"

"What if really happened?"

"I think something's taking over our school."

Happy 25th Anniversary to The Faculty

December 25th 1998-December 25th 2023

[leam1983]

The Season

Halloween season is the one time in all the year where you can stop pretending. So, it follows that it's the one time of the year where I let my ears loose, wash away all this Caucasian-toned body makeup, grab my cane and take a stroll through the old neighbourhood. By which I mean the Gay Quarter, naturally. We've gotten close to a few people close to the condo, but I'm not exactly willing to lay it all bare in front of them, just yet...

If you caught my previous in-fiction spiel on the date of my fortieth, then you know I escaped from a lab and pass for human thanks to the loving care of Walt and Sarah, but it doesn't exclude the fact that I tend to get antsy around Montreal's Animal Control specialists and anyone with a panel van and coveralls. Considering what I do for a living, you can imagine how I feel whenever I end up supervising calls to Metris and Mercedes G70 owners... What if what our business sold helped to sell to the City the exact van that ends up coming for me, loaded with tranq rifles and cartoon nets?! Luckily, our old neighbourhood is a little too urbane to be easily accessible to surface-dwelling rodents, so most pest-killers tend to make their way in from downstream. That means I should be safe.

And, well, for the most part, it works as advertised. If Walt or Sarah - or both - are around, I pass for a charming little animatronic critter in a shrunken-down and tailored suit, a nicely-contained eidolon of Chaos that smiles and nods as we pass by our old bakery and our favourite groceries - and that sometimes rips tightly-contained grins of badly-repressed terror out of the occasional sack of meat I'm not entirely sorry about having terrorized...

Call it a perk of the business. You show up to set up a dealership's IT stack and, well, if you pass for human, all you have to do is look mildly concerned when some unfortunately perceptive Sales rep points at you like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, swearing up and down that you're not human in front of his peers...

Well, Matthew, dear boy, I didn't want to be put on the spot like this, you see, but - putting your entire infrastructure at my mercy does make me just a tiny bit more than strictly human, doesn't it? Tell the fellow who comes by with Toner cartridge refills to be careful - god complexes don't flatter anyone.

And, well, sometimes you're out and about a few days before the local Inversion Festival, and you find someone who's not quite ready for the 24-hour switcheroo. Someone who looks at your mottled and flaring ears, your excessively numerous teeth and your still-polished manners and presentation, and who thinks they'll blow the lid on you...

Keep in mind, Matthew here is a placeholder - but there's a dozen people like him in any workplace or neighbourhood. Would-be Robert Olmsteads to your own little Innsmouth, hopeful ersatzes to George Gammell Angell who amusingly come forward as bastions of vacuous ignorance and bigotry - and the best way to sock one in their teeth is to show them how nothing they could ever do will ever get to you.

So, a joyous season to one and all. Air out your skeletons, the poor dears deserve some fresh air...