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The video opens with tim speaking into the recorder: ‘statement of joe spooky, regarding sinister happenings….’

Jon’s face appears, very close to camera. he looks haunted.

‘Er zit een spin / in een hoek op het plafond / hij rilt en trilt een beetje…

Dik en zwart / en z’n poten staan wat krom / ik ril nu ook een beetje…’

[PANIC]

‘OOOOO nee, hij kruipt omlaag! straks komt hij dichterbij! / verstopt zich snel en maakt een web / en loert vandaar naar miiiiiij…..’

Elias is having a great time with his fear punch card

‘Er zit iets op je borst / je houdt je adem in / het kriebelt oh het kriebelt, het is een grote spin / nu kruipt hij in je hals / hij zoekt het hogerop / hij heeft behaarde poten / en een dikke KOP’

[offended annabelle noises]

‘Ben je bang? ben je bang? / voor een monster op je wang? / ben je bang voor een spin in je kop thee?’

‘NEE!’ yells jon, off camera. The camera pans; we see him, contrary to his statement, frantically checking the cup of tea martin just brought him for spiders.

‘Ben je bang, ben je bang, ben je al een beetje bang? / ben je al een beetje bang dan?’ Martin, timidly: ‘….ja?’ Jon, loudly, glaring: ‘NEEEEE!’

I’m absolutely losing it at the idea of Elias singing ‘monsters te koop’

‘Monsters te koop / moonsters te koop / in allerlei soooorten / ik heb een hoop / monsters te koop’

As he sums them up various avatars wave at the camera

‘Monsters met één oog / monsters met drie oren / monsters met een dikke lip en monsters met een hoorn / monsters met bobbels / in alle maten / monsters met zweetvoeten

MONSTERS MET GATEEEEEENNN’

[Dramatic zoom on Jane Prentiss]

Trevor & Julia singing ‘s Nachts Is Alles Anders

‘Dan weeemelt het van de vampieren / ‘nachts is alles aaaanders / vampieren hebben geen manieren >:( ‘

i could go on honestly

The final song is De Griezelbus and it’s performed by a whole bunch of avatars travelling though the apocalypse in a van like in that one tumblr post. Michael ends the song by singing ‘maar de allergrootste griezel is m’n zus’, at which point we cut to helen doing some funky poses that should not technically be possible in this space. she covers up the camera with one enormous hand

Hell, people who have played the games only with a certain LI are still valid.

People who who have no interest in the romance aspects at all are still valid.

Queer coding has been a part of queer media for ages, usually pushed and pioneered by queer people for queer people in order to have something when the alternative would be nothing. Yes, now queer communities are seen as a a valid and exploitable demographic but that was most definitely not always the case, and in the past queer and queer ally creators have done amazing work creating things they could sneak right under the noses of their conservative and homophobic audiences and bosses. 

Even now, actually, it’s often frankly unclear how much actual freedom writers or other creators really have when bigger companies are in the picture, and it’s very possible that example of “queerbaiting” are not at all the fault of people directly involved with the project but rather indicative of those people doing their best to push boundaries where they can against implied or explicit mandates not to. 

So, before slinging around the “queerbating” like a buzzword, please remember your queer history, and also keep in mind even today who often really holds the power behind various media. It really can’t be overstated how much actors, writers, directors, and even show runners are–in the scheme of a massive production company–on the lowest rungs of the ladder. 

Sure, someone might be more technically accomplished than you - you might not be able to colour as nicely or craft a sentence that rings as poetically - but art is only really secondarily about that. It’s firstmost about what you, uniquely, have to express, and how the precise way you express it might be what others need to relate to it - even if it’s less flashy, less “beautiful”, and gets fewer notes.

I promise you this: there are obscure fanfics with only a handful of notes that are the read-and-re-read favourites of someone too anxious to comment. There are drawings done by 14-year-olds in poorly-blended markers that are someone’s favourite because they spoke to something that nothing else did. There are covers of songs where your voice cracks and you cringe every time you hear it but someone thinks the way it cracked just at that moment added beauty to the song. There are angsty three-line poems you wrote at 4am that someone once called “pretentious emo trash” that are loved by someone else going through the same thing as you.

And I guarantee you, there is something unique about your art. Even if you’re “saying something someone else has said”. Even if you’re the thousandth person to take on the subject. Even if you feel like you’re not at all unique. You’re bound to express something, however subtle, that didn’t exist until then.

Personally I headcanon that tiefling magic starts to manifest around puberty, but if that wasn’t the case, they’d just have to suck it up and tiefling baby-proof the hell out of the place. B) Have no vases and stuff that might fall over and break during tremors. Have sturdy furniture. Lock doors and windows. Avoid having open flames around. Shove cotton or something into your ears.

I call this piece: Totally Flattering Pictures of Gratuitous Pirate Costuming

Why?

HOLD ON I -

I am apparently Very Hazy today

Because I seem to have GRIEVOUSLY MISUNDERSTOOD that questions thing

You’re…………supposed to answer as many questions as you have mutuals, aren’t you.

That’s what that title means, isn’t it.

…

Yeah.

I definitely did that wrong.

BUT HEY

I LIKED ANSWERING DUMB QUESTIONS OK

then i did it wrong too.