#mbts

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. - .+ MARY BELL TOWNSHIP (MBTS) : toyhouse

cw: heavy surveillance (truman show style) + psychological torment. idk how else to describe it man 1950s suburban town that's like if sitcom logic was happening in real life. cameras are recording all the time and everything you do is broadcast for the other people in your town to watch. after the main character walks off set, the focus shifts to pansy stock character norman lee, who now has to fill in the shoes her brother left. she does this extremely poorly. hijinks ensue (adultery, transgenderism, suicidal ideation, being terrible at her job)

. - .+ COTARDVERSE : toyhouse

cw: abuse, death, liveleak dark web shit, csa/sexual assault, substance abuse, true crime freakism, murder, + a generally bad time had by all mid 2020s iowa. twins cotard and capgras festinger cope in vastly different ways after the accidental death of their father. cotard in particular gets really into online gore spaces and lets this kind of consume her entire life until she's completely desensitized to every bad thing that can physically happen to a person. eventually freakmodes so hard she starts trying to solve the disappearance of a true crime youtuber she thinks got murdered, and starts self projecting and mindmelding with her in the process.

. - .+ STRANGEST THING WAS I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING (STWIDRA) : toyhouse

cw: murder, neglect, possession shit, apocalypse shit, medical malpractice(??whatever’s happening with bunny) + probably more 1980s medium to small usamerican town where stranger things happens. i stole stranger things for this. high school freshman arthur kessler goes to hell and comes back wrong, while psychic lab rat apocalypse preventer girl bunny escapes her lab and gets taken in by arthur's friend group as a replacement for him. and then arthur comes back and it gets weird

. - .+ 16 MIRRORS : toyhouse

cw: that shit that happened to your best friends in middle school where they suddenly stop being visibly queer and get popular early 2000s minnesota. adam and sarah are two high schoolers and also neighbors living in incredibly different social spheres. adam (known to everyone as sarah) is extremely popular and well liked and kind of a dick, while sarah (known to everyone as adam) is socially ostracized and bullied incessantly. through a chain of events, the two become very close friends, if only in secret, and explore their own identities using each others.

. - .+ TALKING HEADS : toyhouse

late 1970s/early 80s vaguely post apocalyptic but i never talk about that part. my most unserious project to date. what if the songs by talking heads were awesome women who worked in the same office building and did jack shit

MARY BELL TOWNSHIP: this ones the og babyyy + is currently in the process of being revamped. imagine if a 50s sitcom was the town you lived in and all your neighbors are watching you on tv all the time and you can't trust anyone. and you're transgender

COTARDVERSE: identical twins cotard + capgras deal with the trauma of their dad's gruesome death in completely opposite ways. featuring internet friendship substance abuse and unethical internet usage

TALKING HEADS: i dont have a better name for this one. office job in which everyone is based on a talking heads (+adjacent) song. considerably less kms than the others on this list!

RAINFOREST FLOODS: you know what why don't you just go here