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so I got a new hyperfixation

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back like 3 weeks ago, i made a miner scales meme that ended up being reused a lot so uh...

here's a full new version of it.

i don't know wtf i can even do with this, but I did make these after the fact:

oh, and of course...

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Emo RD Rambles 3: Patient Playlist

Welcome back to Emo Cannot Write For Shit So You All Get His Rambles. With an additional thing at the end winkwink. This is really really long so let's get cracking.

Today's concept: Ian and Ada approach the idea of creating a Patient Radio - a playlist made of the long term patient's favourites songs to 'maximise comfort'.

As a beta for the Radio, they leave a sheet of paper in the connecting hallway for patients to list suggestions of their preferred music, around three or four songs maximum. Some already have ideas in mind, while others struggle.

This is just a silly idea I had when wondering what type of music the main RD cast listens to; excluding the songs they're actually involved in. This also created some funny writing prompts that I may use for a small comedic anthology. For example:

Hailey is the first person to write anything down: and she's pretty basic (sorry). Her style is very mainstream, involving those pop songs you'd hear on the radio. From there, a few folks follow, with varying genres and tastes. The next day, however, more folks have added some ideas, including Logan. You can tell Logan has visited - because there is now a messy heart drawn next to Hailey's suggestions.

Also, Logan suggests similar stuff to Hailey, with the addition of maybe an anime opening or two.

Cole... suggests his own music. For the sake of both his ego, and the declining state of the patients, he's given a stern 'no'. Of course, it's Cole, so he angrily scribbles out his suggestions and leaves the paper be. He's surprised when 'Unreachable' comes on via the Patient Radio - and, sure enough, someone's written it down past his scribbling. More specifically, Samurai. He even signed it! (By that, I mean the writing is just "Unreachable- Cole Brew (SAMURAI)". All of Samurai's suggestions are signed this way.)

Insomniac writes down only one suggestion: a traditional Japanese folk song (or 'hōgaku'). This would be fine - if he wrote the song's title in Romaji. Instead, the song is written in pure, specific kanji characters.

Ada returns to Ian come the night with a new version of the paper: "Hey, so, uh- I got the paper back today and there's some new stuff from the swordsmen. Any idea what this is?" Ian turns, "Hah?" before seeing the kanji. There's a slight pause before he just casually goes, "Oh! This is (insert Japanese title here)! That's easy, I'll type it up." Ada learns that Ian learnt how to read kanji entirely just for the songs he listens to that are in Japanese.

Oh yeah: the moment this song plays on the radio, the Insomniac falls asleep. Hell, he sleeps like a baby. Unfortunately, they can't play it on loop, but now they know he appreciates a lil' lullaby.

Speaking of Ian and Ada, they decide to add some of their own songs to the mix (Ian mostly - he felt it was a little unfair that the patients get to listen to banger tunes). Ian adds quite a variety, but we cannot ignore the fact he adds maybe one or two vocaloid songs.

Ada, unfortunately, is a little embarrassed of her status as a former theatre kid, still musical lover. She, instead, uses a few common songs from the radio to add to the list. Ian convinces her, after a little while, to add a really popular song from her favourite musical. I do not know what musical this is.

There's a surprising amount of patients that add jazz to the radio, or at least music from the 1950 to 1980's era. For one, the Stevensons' accidentally add the same song to the list twice, given Mr. Stevenson can't read his wife's handwriting that well anymore (I'll elaborate on why later). This also just so happens to be a song that played in their wedding. They have a ball dancing to it.

Additionally, the Miner also includes a bit of Rock 'n' Roll or otherwise jazz into his suggestions. They're very old for the 30-something nut, but it adds up. He also, thanks to Cole, includes a little chiptune.

Hugh somehow adds the tutorial theme. You know, the tutorial song from Rhythm Doctor. Nobody recognises the title, or the artist, but everyone in the ward has a mutual moment of "I swear I've heard this before". Hugh doesn't comment.

There's a slight cultural shift once Insomniac includes his traditional tune. It's not the only Non-English hit, and Ian/Logan do add a couple of Japanese songs to the pile.

In Nicole's case, she ends up not sure what to suggest, but still wanting to take part. So, she ends up adding a Chinese pop song, quote: "I don't know any Chinese myself, but my mom would put this on a lot, and I didn't have anything else that'd be good for a hospital radio."

Lucky adds two jazz, and a rock song to the radio. The biggest issue is that he originally aimed to add a Spanish song from his childhood, but got caught in his own head, scribbling it out halfway. The good thing? Miner is able to read bits and pieces, writing what he could make out - angering Lucky into writing the full title. He jumps when it plays on the radio days later.

I believe that's everything I had listed. Thanks to RDL for allowing me to compile all of my thoughts before adding them here, as these are now far more conjoined.

Oh, right! The bonus thing! Considering the song suggestions were taken on a piece of lined paper, I thought it would be fun to visualise what I believe the main casts' handwriting would look like:

If you have any thoughts/additions you want to make, you have full reign to send me asks/reblog this with whatever you like. Have a good one, lads - EMO

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I’ve been having Thoughts recently and would like to share them. This time, they’re based off of a singular question:

What happens after Act 5?

And I don’t mean “Oh, what happens immediately after Act 5?”, I mean “Oh, what happens long after Act 5? What happens when people start recovering, and need to get discharged?”

In short: what’s the post-timeline story?

(this is a long post: my bad)

My answer to this is very Lucky-centric.

To summarise; after the baseball crew slowly begin to recover, getting discharged (this likely starts with the teenagers, whether it be because of Logan and Hailey finally getting together, or because they’ve reached a medical compromise so they can return to school) and moving on, Lucky decides to start training other new patients. He essentially becomes a physiotherapeutic coach for the patients to practice ball and get back into shape.

The main part of this story is the dynamics that result as people drop off. Namely, Lucky and Nicole end up quite close as they are eventually the last two remaining members of the baseball crew in the hospital, as they work there. While, obviously, they’re in contact with those that have left, they still grow close together.

That is; until Nicole tells Lucky she’s been offered a job somewhere else. Not even a barista job - something she actually wants to do.

That’s the core part of it. Other stuff includes:

The result of the teenagers being discharged. Namely, Logan and Hailey wanting to continue to visit, but still being forced to loosen the baseball meetings to twice, maybe once a week. The foreshadowing, I suppose.

The moment the baseball crew is finally so low (so more than just the teenagers have left now: supposedly the miner, Lucia and Cole go next) that Lucky has no choice but to either close it… or commit to what he now wants to do. He picks the later.

The gradual change of the original baseball crew now no longer being involved with baseball at all, returning to being regular patients or being discharged. Lucky is now better with people, while still harsh in his coaching, but has fully accepted where he’s at.

Not really placed anywhere in the timeline but the moment Lucky visits Miner and realises he’s packing his stuff, learning he’s being discharged soon. (Miner is a fun case as, seeing we meet him on the train, this leads me to assume that he lives quite far away from Middlesea, meaning regular visits are impossible. Also Lucky now has to start stretching himself).

The moment it’s just Nicole and Lucky left in the hospital at all. The conversations they have - the fact that THIS is when Nicole finally starts calling him coach (I imagine she refuses to while she’s actually part of the team) - so on so forth.

There’s a lot of ideas I have for this. I might develop it more, who knows?

Also obviously this weird post-timeline AU is not considering act 6+ but will do whenever we get more info on those. For now act 5 is just “the last act” in this scenario. Whoops.