“A willing suspension of disbelief is imperative when dealing with a murder mystery dinner party peopled with dead literary figures, fictional characters, and a ghost who can conjure soup from thin air and maintain just enough corporeal integrity to hold a martini glass at a jaunty angle.”
Headcanon that two or three times a year the Ghostbusters do like an open house for girls interested in science and the station house is just FLOODED with girls, wee ones all the way up to awkward high schoolers and college kids.
Each Ghostbuster gives a 20 minute lecture on their particular specialty–Erin does a boiled down Physics lessons, Abby talks about the supernatural, Patty talks about history, and Holtz gives gadget demonstrations. And for 80 minutes all the girls watch in wonder because they have FEMALE SCIENCE HEROS. Then after they do a Q&A and after that do photos and autographs and station tours. They raffle off a ride in Ecto-1 to a lucky group of three kids.
Each time they do it it gets more and more popular until they literally have sign ups and a waiting list for it. The women are just flabbergasted by how popular it is, but then they remember how going into STEM was for them (or in patty’s case, how awful STEM was to women) and they get why their open houses are important. So they keep doing them. And girls keep coming.
90% of the time I don’t even think about it. I mostly follow people because of shared interest, and when collective squee is happening no one’s checking ID.
5% of the time I notice, but because I’m on the other side of it. I follow several people who are significantly older than I am, including the person from whom I reblogged that post.
The remaining 5%: Yeah, sometimes. But it’s like that post (that I can’t find now, because I can’t find anything on Tumblr) about how you don’t stop being 1, or 2, or 20. Those earlier selves live on inside you. On the (few) occasions when I notice how young some of you are, it’s more that I’m recognizing and relating to things I still feel in myself, even if it can be hard to see those things in a mirror.
“After reading the script, Gene Wilder said he would make the film under one condition: that he would be allowed to somersault in the scene when he first meets the children. When asked why, Gene Wilder replied that having Willy Wonka start out limping and end up somersaulting would set the tone for that character. He wanted to portray him as someone whose actions were completely unpredictable. His request to somersault was granted.”
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) dir. Mel Stuart
I am Western lawman turned bounty hunter Ezekiel Farmer. I have no monetary stake in the death of an orangutan! Also, he’s an orangutan. He has no money. Use your head!
Shipwrecked Comedy and American Black Market proudly present: Chapter Two of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party – “The Masque of the Red Death”
Dinner is served, darkness descends, and the game is afoot as Edgar, Lenore, and their guests struggle to figure out if this sinister turn of events is even part of the game at all.
Written and Created by Sean Persaud & Sinéad Persaud
Featuring: Sean Persaud, Sinéad Persaud, Mary Kate Wiles, Sarah Grace Hart, Whitney Avalon, Ashley Clements, Tom DeTrinis, Ryan Garcia, Lauren Lopez, Tara Perry, Joey Richter, Blake Silver, & Clayton Snyder
Directed by: William J. Stribling
This episode’s transmedia prompt is: Red Herring. If you would like to participate, you have until Saturday September 3rd at 11:59 pm PDT to get in your entries, and Sunday September 4th each member of Shipwrecked will pick an entry to be featured and reblogged here on Shipwrecked’s official tumblr. Entries of all types are encouraged–fan fic, fan art, crafts, playlists, whatever our prompt inspires you to create! Be sure and tag your entries poe party ftw to be considered.
Agreed 100%. A small, probably-pedantic-seeming correction, tho: Pemberley ain’t the creators of MFL, just the distributors. I’d hate for the awesome folk at Cherrydale – the actual creators, and wd have been the ones who reblogged the post that retained your caption at the MFL blog – to be erased or mistakenly criticized by proxy here.
i, of course, use “creators” to refer to the creative team, including pemberley digital who distributed the show.
trust me, i feel like im being enough of a dick to cherrydale without having to be told.
Ooh. Thank you, @ai-firestarter, for pointing that out (about PD not having been the actual creators in that case). My hypothetical fandom lawyer for PD was going to have a real Hamilton Burger moment when that fact came out in court.
