This is OFFICIALLY BANANA JEGGINGS, because banana pants are way too normal. GOOD GRIEF.
"Lara attempts to diffuse the situation by offering Nicole her own toothbrush" -- I began quietly screaming at this point. Nope. Nu-uh. Not even happening. ...who loans a toothbrush to ANYONE, not to mention someone not their flesh and blood? Why can't that kid put some toothpaste on her finger like everyone else!?
Also, Dr. Zhivago as childhood entertainment is... apparently less random than we think? Himself remembers watching it as a child (sans slumber party, sadly). Apparently some 80's kids actually DID this??? But, honestly, I'll bet Christopher Pike - a man born in 1955 - remembers when it came out and his Mama wouldn't let him go see it. Coincidentally that's the same year people last played Charades because they WANTED TO and not because they were driven to it by narrative forces...
WOW... the 7-year-old drinking and vomiting is just... `\()_o)/`
True story: I set my own nightgown on fire once... not when I was ten, either. I was over thirty, and should have known better than to be standing in front of lit candles on the hearth, but there you go. Nightgowns that aren't all natural fibers go up FAST and they MELT. I was shocked and understood VERY clearly how people get burned badly from that. That being said, I still have, like, eight fat candles in the fireplace hearth but I've stopped dancing around in front of them like some extra from a stock photo shoot.
So, if this is indeed Nicole returning to mess them all up On The Anniversary Of, I don't get why she'd start with a.] a vaguely threatening snowman (unless "Some say the world will end in fire,/Some say in ice" and okay, yes, I am WAY overthinking this, as I doubt Christopher Pike novels are known for their literary allusions...) and b.] Dana, who was almost as non-present as Mindy? So confused...
I *ALSO* was so upset about the toothbrush thing, but then wasn't sure if I was being weird??? So if we're weird, at least we're weird together.
I am SO excited to hear that there was at least one child watching Dr. Zhivago for kicks in the 1980s, I love it. And just wait, I read ahead and Charades is about to make a return in the next chapter, sigh.
RIGHT ABOUT THE SMALL CHILD DRINKING AND BARFING??? Her age isn't given, but if we're right and Celeste is Nicole (or something), she's a sophomore and the rest of the girls are seniors, so... yeah, two or three year age gap. O.o
The speed with which some fabrics go up is TERRIFYING. (And I swear I am not basing that statement purely on watching Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II 900 times. (That prom dress—and Mary Lou—turn into a towering inferno FAST.) And I know that a lot of kids' clothing is treated, but adult stuff must not be? So, so scary. (I pretty much only do those tall prayer candles now, partly because the price can't be beat and partly because I feel like any other style of candle is just asking for Lemon to set her tail on fire and then run around the house setting everything else on fire.)
If it *is* a revenge thing, Dana disappearing first tracks for me because in a lot of revenge slashers, they get taken out in order of how much the injured party blames them. So the most innocent get taken out first to make the more guilty ones suffer longer? Like in Christie's And Then There Were None, which has NATURALLY been loosely adapted into a gazillion different horror movies, heh.
This is OFFICIALLY BANANA JEGGINGS, because banana pants are way too normal. GOOD GRIEF.
"Lara attempts to diffuse the situation by offering Nicole her own toothbrush" -- I began quietly screaming at this point. Nope. Nu-uh. Not even happening. ...who loans a toothbrush to ANYONE, not to mention someone not their flesh and blood? Why can't that kid put some toothpaste on her finger like everyone else!?
Also, Dr. Zhivago as childhood entertainment is... apparently less random than we think? Himself remembers watching it as a child (sans slumber party, sadly). Apparently some 80's kids actually DID this??? But, honestly, I'll bet Christopher Pike - a man born in 1955 - remembers when it came out and his Mama wouldn't let him go see it. Coincidentally that's the same year people last played Charades because they WANTED TO and not because they were driven to it by narrative forces...
WOW... the 7-year-old drinking and vomiting is just... `\()_o)/`
True story: I set my own nightgown on fire once... not when I was ten, either. I was over thirty, and should have known better than to be standing in front of lit candles on the hearth, but there you go. Nightgowns that aren't all natural fibers go up FAST and they MELT. I was shocked and understood VERY clearly how people get burned badly from that. That being said, I still have, like, eight fat candles in the fireplace hearth but I've stopped dancing around in front of them like some extra from a stock photo shoot.
So, if this is indeed Nicole returning to mess them all up On The Anniversary Of, I don't get why she'd start with a.] a vaguely threatening snowman (unless "Some say the world will end in fire,/Some say in ice" and okay, yes, I am WAY overthinking this, as I doubt Christopher Pike novels are known for their literary allusions...) and b.] Dana, who was almost as non-present as Mindy? So confused...
I *ALSO* was so upset about the toothbrush thing, but then wasn't sure if I was being weird??? So if we're weird, at least we're weird together.
I am SO excited to hear that there was at least one child watching Dr. Zhivago for kicks in the 1980s, I love it. And just wait, I read ahead and Charades is about to make a return in the next chapter, sigh.
RIGHT ABOUT THE SMALL CHILD DRINKING AND BARFING??? Her age isn't given, but if we're right and Celeste is Nicole (or something), she's a sophomore and the rest of the girls are seniors, so... yeah, two or three year age gap. O.o
The speed with which some fabrics go up is TERRIFYING. (And I swear I am not basing that statement purely on watching Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II 900 times. (That prom dress—and Mary Lou—turn into a towering inferno FAST.) And I know that a lot of kids' clothing is treated, but adult stuff must not be? So, so scary. (I pretty much only do those tall prayer candles now, partly because the price can't be beat and partly because I feel like any other style of candle is just asking for Lemon to set her tail on fire and then run around the house setting everything else on fire.)
If it *is* a revenge thing, Dana disappearing first tracks for me because in a lot of revenge slashers, they get taken out in order of how much the injured party blames them. So the most innocent get taken out first to make the more guilty ones suffer longer? Like in Christie's And Then There Were None, which has NATURALLY been loosely adapted into a gazillion different horror movies, heh.