small town au davey is the good smart kid who crashed and burned so hard once he was no longer in a small town where anything above average is astounding and the pressure is too much. jack was the troublemaker who everyone brushed off as a lost cause because everyone knew he came from a rough home. they reconnect as adults when jack has settled into adult life and davey is the one floundering, wondering where he's supposed to go from here when he feels like he's let everyone down but he doesn't know what he could have done differently.
been very slowly going through the phryne fisher novels (on blood and circuses rn) and its reminded me of one of the episodes in season 2 of the tv adaptation (i think? maybe season 3) where the plot revolved around university students at a Melbourne college abd the murder of a professor, and one of the main characters who is briefly posited as a murder suspect is an autistic woman working as a student helper to the professor (its not like. explicitly said bcos the show is set in the 1930s) and its somehow... one of the more accurate and sensitive depictions of an autistic person ive seen in tv media? shes shown to be stand-offish and awkward and uncomfortable in social situations and the character that torments her about this is very clearly The Bad Person And Asshole. When questioning her about the murder Phryne actively finda a way to talk to her in a way shes comfortable with (both nose to nose against a wall, some distance from one another, not making eye contact, speaking quietly because this entire situation has pretty much sent her into a meltdown ). when they realize shes at risk of being harmed phryne has her stay at her home. shes shown to be incredibly passionate about her area of study in the university (a bit of it plays into the savant stereotype which is one of the few issues prevalent in media about autistic people like the good doctor, etc, but uts not presented as like "oh shes autistic BUT shes really smart about this thing and basically a superhero so its okay") shes shown to have specific dietary requirements shes adamant about (jam sandwiches only.) and the other characters are like "oh! weird. actually, thats not my business. let me grab you one." and she develops a really lovely friendship with phryne that ties into the whole plot and motive for the murder (another professor killing the murdered professor so he can prevent information which disprove his biological and sociological research which is based entirely on eugenics and psuedoscience, which the murder victim found disgusting and didnt want taught when his assistants existence literally disproved that bullshit) and i don't know how to finish this i guess i wasnt expecting a genuine attempt at properly representing autistic people in this show about murders in the 1930s
Feeling the darkness again have to blorbo post real quick sorry. I think if the charltons did a group new years party there'd end up being at least one casualty
the key club sponsor takes this shit so seriously but it is also the least of her priorities like i think i talked abt this when it happened but we had this event for 8th graders w a bunch of other clubs and all the other clubs had big trifold posters and fliers to talk abt their clubs and we didn鈥檛 get to make one bc she only told us we were doing it the day of the event and when she was supposed to bring us the fliers she didn鈥檛
eating up the TINIEST CRUMBS of sklonpok we get in fearful symmetry. this is not the point of this scene but oh my god this is all i have. this is the FIRST TIME WE SEE THEM LIKE. INTERACT IN CANON!!! did that festival happen? no probably not! would i like to believe it did? yes 100%. guys its so bad ive been living like this for the last 2 years.
The sort of fast paced, quick reunion I want involves tension and stress and feeling rushed. I don't see how tomorrow's episode could set that up seeing as they're not the center of that story