#maggies ghost

[sunshowersanddandelionwine]

au where ghost, who either never enlisted or is discharged/retired, works as a scare actor in a local haunt. he really enjoys the play pretend part of haunted houses, where yes people scream at the sight of him masked, covered in fake blood, and wielding a (chainless, but still loud) chainsaw, but they also laugh at themselves or their friends or just because. It’s safe, there are rules, everyone knows that when going in so everyone is on the same page.

Or at least, everyone should be. Because there’s always Those Guests, the ones who drag unwilling partners or friends with them just to watch them scream. Or the ones who try to show off for their less than enthusiastic partners and just run off screaming. Ghost has a knack for breaking these kinds of guests, and takes a bit of selfish pleasure in doing so.

That’s what he thinks is going to happen when he sees a small group of maybe four or five teenagers coming through his section of the maze. One of them, clearly the ringleader, is talking a whole lot of shit, playing himself up for the “entertainment” of the girl next to him who looks like she’d rather be anywhere else. So ghost revs his chainsaw, and gets ready to pounce.

The shriek the ringleader lets out is nothing but satisfying, cracking on the high note as the whole group hightails it out of there. Well, almost the whole group. As it turns out, the ringleader isn’t above sacrificing his date to spare himself, and all but throws the girl at Ghost as soon as he pops out. Ghost nearly drops his saw trying to catch her, who goes down like a sack of bricks.

The girl, who Ghost learns is named Maggie, twisted her ankle pretty badly when she was pushed, is a chatterbox once she gets over the whole “chucked at a masked serial killer by her kind of sort of not really boyfriend”. He ended up carrying her backstage once they both realized she couldn’t put any weight on her ankle and she rants about the guy and his bullshit without seemingly taking a breath. Ghost manages to butt in, asking if she has a way home. Maggie, unsurprisingly, says that her not boyfriend gave her a ride, but she could call her older brother to come get her.

They wait backstage for him to arrive, and Ghost finds he doesn’t mind the chatter. His opinion of Maggie’s “friends” gets lower and lower with every word, but he’s not going to tell her that. He can’t, not with how on a roll she is.

Price, who manages the haunt with his partner Nikolai, lets the two of them know that the brother is here, and Ghost can hear him cussing up a storm down the hallway.

He’s not prepared for John MacTavish to storm in, furious and ready to kill. Maggie looks entirely unsurprised, maybe even a little annoyed. There’s banter between the two, that good natured sibling rubbing that only comes when you know a person their entire life, but Ghost can’t hear it. He’s just bluescreened in the corner, because holy shit.

John finally looks at him to thank him for helping Maggie, and he stops cold. Ghost is half worried the whole blood and guts getup is enough to earn him a right hook to the face. Instead, a faint blush rises on John’s cheeks.

Maggie is so done with this, and hobbles out with the help of the entirely too entertained Gaz and Roach.

After much stumbling over his words, Ghost manages to earn himself both a hastily scribbled phone number on the back of a haunt flier and a tentative date the next week. Not at a haunt, thank god. John leaves with a wave and a bashful smile. Ghost can’t do much more than wave back.

Well. Back to work, he guesses.

(And if ghost goes back to stalk and scare the piss out of Maggie’s “friends”, that’s just between the two of them)

[thesafireartist]

Shhhh it's still Halloween in my heart so this is not late whatsoever

For @emthimofnight's Discord Halloween tournament! I've been trying this new rendering technique where I skip the lineart and just go right over the sketch layer, and I quite like it!

Bonus Stellar the simp and Saiya the massive hater:

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

(when Minerva McGonagall gets to Heaven)

The Marauders: PROFESSOR…! Sirius: We always thought you were immortal! Minerva: Even cats only have nine lives, Mr. Black…

[operas-phantom]

Mid-performance photos will always be strange to me.

I sang a combination of Music of the Night and Silent Night to @angeliquedaae and @aurelio-the-propmaster and @eddiekaspbrak-official (daily notice, Eddie; your performance in Christmas Carol was beautiful and we would love to have you here at the opera house) and @an-american-songbird-in-paris and @maggiemelodies09 (truly, I am thankful for having THIS MANY friends somehow.. and many more that I wish could have came), and someone took this photo of me mid-song.

I am sharing it with you all because Aurelio and Christine said it was nice because I looked so happy. Lovely on them having noticed; I AM happy.

[lots-of-fandoms-ps-help-me]

"He liked how he looked on her arm."

DECLAN. LIKES HOW HE. LOOKS ON JORDAN'S ARM.

Declan you fucking whore . You slut . I love you i love you i love you .

[celestialcrowley]

My mom and I were finally able to watch the final episode of Good Omens season 2.

Before we dive in, my mom is very — how do I say this — anti on certain things. My friend said it perfectly. He said she gave him the homophobic put the fear of God type vibes when he first met her.

I don’t believe anything will ever fully change her opinions or views of us. I’ve not even referred to myself as aromantic / asexual in her presence, and I doubt I ever will. I simply tell her I’m done dating. It’s clearly not in my future, and, after trying it a couple of times, it just isn’t something I’m interested in.

I hope that one day she will open her eyes and realize that it’s all fine. Whatever we are. It’s okay.

My mom enjoyed season one. When I asked her what she thought of Aziraphale and Crowley, here’s what she said. Not her exact words but close enough to what I can remember.

“Aziraphale seems like he’s afraid of getting into trouble with Heaven, but not enough to keep him from going against God’s orders.”

Just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing.

“Crowley isn’t as evil as he paints himself to be.”

Just a little bit a good person.

The only thing, as far as I’m aware, that didn’t quite sit right with my mom is that God is a She.

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey…

I was terrified for her to watch the second season because of Maggie and Nina and That Big Damn Kiss. She’s told me some less than desirable things previously. Here are a handful of them.

“I won’t watch shows that have gay couples in them.”

“I will watch them, but I’ll just turn my head away when they kiss.”

About my friend who is a lesbian —

“Your friend just says that, but she doesn’t actually know what she is.”

Okay, mom. You go ahead and keep telling yourself that.

I am certain, despite my fear, that I wanted her to watch Good Omens so badly because I thought maybe it would be the golden ticket. It’s uniquely different.

We have been gifted with Anthony J’I’m Not Actually Either Crowley and Mister AZ Smitten I Believe Fell, The Almighty God She, Nina I’m Not Your Type and Maggie You Have No Idea.

I was expecting my mom to frown upon Maggie and Nina’s story in season two, but she didn’t. She actually didn’t even have anything negative to say.

Y’all should have seen me when That Big Damn Kiss was coming up. I was fidgeting probably as bad as Aziraphale was when he was gathering up the courage to ask Crowley to dance with him.

I don’t think I’ve ever fidgeted that much in my life.

And then it happened.

That Big Damn Kiss

And she watched all of it. She didn’t look away. She didn’t make a face. She didn’t say anything negative.

I don’t necessarily think her views have changed because she laughed at something my uncle told her about a former coworker of his. This coworker used to go by Craig, but he later came out as trans and asked to be called Cindy. My uncle said, “The best we can do is Crindy.”

Most of my family are homophobic, and I don’t care for it.

I don’t know if it’s the way Neil Gaiman has written Good Omens, but I was surprised that she watched the entire show, had nothing negative to say and even added that she needs to watch all of both seasons again to better understand it.

That’s something, I suppose.

Maybe she’s coming around.

Thank you, Neil Gaiman.

You truly are a legend. 💚

[randomfoggytiger]

The Rules of Ghosts and Spooks

While thinking over the ending of Closure, I was struck with a realization.

The late Tena Mulder appears before her son in the same spectral form Samantha also later visits with... which should be impossible, as she and her daughter died from different causes. But if, as the show posits, they are, that suddenly broadens out the horizon of paranormal visitations... and oddly, fits into established lore.

WHO SEES THE DEAD?

Previous to Closure, Mulder hadn't been able to see ghosts without the help of Native American rituals or varied paranormal means. It was his partner, Scully, that was constantly visited by the unnatural (posts here and here.)

But if, as Closure posits, Samantha Mulder's form was a ghost-- albeit a form of starlight-- like Tena's, that leads us to some interesting conclusions.

Mulder saw the ghost of his father on an astral plane, missed the ghost of his mother in his sleep, and saw the ghost of his sister in the forest.

Scully saw the ghost of her father and daughter, and heard the voice of her deceased sister.

The victims of various paranormal visitations or reincarnated spirits only saw their would-be attacker if they had a personal connection to that phantom or were about to join them in the afterlife.

The victims of said visitations or reincarnations who were unharmed were being warned about an impending same fate (Elegy.)

In short, The X-Files posits anyone can see a ghost... but only under very specific conditions.

The ghosts Scully and Mulder saw were both linked back to themselves-- each visitation was from their loved ones.

The MOTWs followed this schema, too: villains saw their victims (Beyond the Sea, Miracle Man); the dying saw ghosts if near them (Elegy); gray-area characters saw the ghosts of the people they've let down or betrayed (Fresh Bones, The List.)

(If that be the case... guess S9 Krycek was pretty close to Mulder.)

But what sets apart the Clyde Bruckmans or Melissa and Maggie Scullys-- and even Scully herself-- from the common man?

There seem to be select groups of the population with inherited or developed supernatural ability, be it experiencing visions from the future or sensing presences from other living entities. The maternal Scully lines canonically to fall into this category, with Maggie receiving foretellings in her dreams and Melissa communing with her sister's aura or Scully herself being pulled into unwanted visitations with the Dead: bearing witness to Luthor Lee Boggs's transformations, being visited by Mulder in her dreams and elegies in her waking nightmares, hearing her sister's voice, seeing her daughter's form, and foretelling the deaths of her father and partner.

Mulder doesn't fit into the former category (until S9-- curse you, Krycek-- then never again) because his visitations were "only" personal in nature (i.e. his family.)

CONCLUSION

Which leaves one to wonder... how many ghosts have Mulder and Scully been visited by and not seen?

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

[andy-clutterbuck]

𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲 - 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 | for @lovablcstar

[widowshill]

1966 PARALLEL TIME.

In another version of Collinsport, Maine, where the road diverged in 1956: or, rather, Roger Collins swerved from it. devised with @tortoisesshells <3

DRAMATIS PERSONAE: 

BURKE DEVLIN: husband to LAURA, father to DAVID, and chief financial officer for Collins Enterprises. ELIZABETH'S friend and personal advisor; ROGER'S friend, adversary, fixation, and supervisor.

ROGER COLLINS: part-shareholder and glorified office boy at the Collins cannery. uncle and father-figure to CAROLYN; soon-to-be divorcé; the last Collins.

ELIZABETH COLLINS STODDARD: has majority control of the business and the household, depending steadily on her brother. facilitated ROGER'S engagement with family friends in London, but the marriage produced no children.

CAROLYN STODDARD: sole heiress to Collinwood, the business, and fortune. student at Bryn Mawr college. sometimes-girlfriend of JOE HASKELL on school holidays.

VICTORIA WINTERS: secretary, companion, and all other duties as assigned. MRS. STODDARD'S primary liaison between Collinwood and the cannery.

SAM EVANS: artist and part-time illustrator for Rumson Publishing Company. father to MAGGIE EVANS, whom he helps put through night classes.

BILL MALLOY: ELIZABETH'S fleet manager: oversees daily operations and management of the boats, leaving BURKE to the finances. safe harbor for Collinsport strays.

[nehoyy]

[acosmicvoyager]

[sunshowersanddandelionwine]

scare actor au thought:

Someone (idk who maybe Nikolai) gets the idea to have a family friendly haunt every Friday before sunset. No gore, no jumpscares, just some trick or treating stations and other kid-friendly activity. And they go all out. Everyone’s in costume -yes, even you Nikolai this was your idea now you get to deal with it. There’s a petting zoo, pumpkin decorating, hayrides, you name it. The walker brothers bring puppies and Riley the dog is the center of everyone’s attention. It’s a whole thing.

The cast and crew also get to invite their families for free.

Which means that Joseph and the rest of the Riley family get to meet soap and the mactavishes for the first time

Ghost was a little worried at first, because joseph can be wary of strangers at first (and he didn’t want Tommy to scare soap off), but he didn’t need to be. Johnny has two older sisters, Joan and Mary, who have kids around Joseph’s age and they get on like a house on fire.

He was right to worry about Tommy, but not for the reasons you might think. He and Maggie get along really well. TOO well. Now it’s a Thing and they’re all suffering for it. Beth is having the time of her life.

(If Joseph and Soap’s twin nieces Agnes and Jules find their uncles snuggled up together in the barn, that’s their little secret.)

[duskooky]

I've wanted to draw her for a very long time now but never had the time or motivation to really, so I kept putting it off :,) I still need to remake her official reference sheet as the previous one is old, ugly and outdated - but I'm currently low in energy so maybe next time lol

Felt like drawing some chibi art so I made this thingy, not the best but should still work as reference

[sylvies-chen]

the carl mention in this ep is still weighing on me so much because it was just so beautiful the way his memory lives on but also it got me thinking: you ever think that lori would be so relieved right now that rick and michonne have found each other because michonne is for rick what lori couldn’t be for him and also because there is at least someone other than rick who is still alive to mourn her son when so many others either can’t or aren’t…

[operas-phantom]

They gave me a phone.

So this is Tumblr. Cool. Can people see this? If you’re seeing this, hi, come by my opera house, yes it is mine, I’ve lived there longer than everyone else so it is mine. It honestly got a bit boring listening to Carlotta What’s-Her-Name continue to absolutely murder any type of operatic symphony with her harsh voice, so I’m on here now after extensive Google searching on what I can do on this bad boy.

Uh I’m he/him. My name’s Erik but nobody really calls me that anymore, and the only reason I’m letting people here say it is because I honestly think that like 2 people will see this post anyway, but it will be a learning experience for me anyhow, and perhaps I can get new ideas for the things I write on here. The Internet is a crazy place (and so are my adventures; I’ve found out through this that there are many versions of me, including @erikaskblog. I am down to interact with anyone, but no NSFW please— also, I am bisexual. My other friends include Christine, naturally, @eddiekaspbrak-official and his Losers Club from an apparent “other world”, as well as my best friends, @totally-penelope-and-not-a-siren—that’s Calliope, a siren with a sense of humor who keeps me on my toes, and a former would-be love of mine who I sometimes mentor, @maggiemelodies09. Maggie is open for anyone worthy to court her; she bears such a strong resemblance to dear Christine and I will cheer for anyone who supports her kindness. Then there is my muse and a non-singing angel who I suppose might be called a “boyfriend”, @aurelio-the-propmaster. Also my other friend, @an-american-songbird-in-paris who knows Aurelio and who also composes. Him and I should one day collaborate.) No, I will not list all my “frenemies” or enemies, but I have them too. They are not welcome in my opera house.

If people do end up commenting on this, please do not go wild in the comments or bully each other. I’ve had enough of hearing people insult each other and call each other names for one lifetime, unless I have to do what I have to do. However, I have been made aware that some people are shockingly enough fans of me, even after seeing my face— I normally hate people seeing it, I attempt to shun it from my very being after all —and I will likely post pictures of myself on here in order to share the happenings of the opera house with the world. I would place the screen names of all said “phangirls” here, but hope instead they find this nonetheless. I appreciate you all caring for me. PLEASE come to my opera house, you all.

I am not entirely sure if Christine is on here, but I do hope she is. I am now over the fact that I cannot have her and focus my attention on other loves instead but cannot help caring if only in a strictly platonic yet protective manner— I care too much about my friends, hence why I have placed their usernames here. They are wonderful people.

𝓢𝓪𝔂 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭𝓫𝔂𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓴𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮..

[browzerhistory]

ok systems if your headmates were pokemon (assuming they aren't already) what would their types be