Can Someone Please Tell Me If There's A Backstory On How Hitch Got Recruited Into Spectrum? I Feel Like

someone make this a fic pls 

pls lmk if this is wrong but i think ruby stopped skateboarding after ftf which is just so tragic bc imagine ruby skating through the hallways at spectrum or smthing while waiting for LB to yell at her 

was the nintendo even out in the 70s?? what did people look like in the 70s??

anyway these are not very canon-esqu but i don’t care, they all look like this in my mind (or something like this) 

sometimes you have to ignore the canon timeline of ruby redfort and have clancy and elliot find a beanie boo with heterochromia and IMMEDIATELY buy it and give it to ruby. inspired by this exact beanie boo i saw at work last night. its name is heather. 

DA reasons to improve your life:

1. Getting rid of many forms of social media will make you inconceivably mysterious. Are you an immortal that only texts and writes letters? Are you too busy devising a scheme or researching a lost civilization? Perhaps then you will exist more as an idea than a product of consumerism. Art was never meant to wear a price tag anyway.

2. Exercise to prepare for the day you have to leap onto that moving train to catch the figure who stole your carefully-curated research. Walk through cemeteries, the woods, museums—anywhere that allows you to appreciate the aching, fleeting beauty of the earth. Get your heart racing to remind yourself that you are, against all odds, alive.

3. Dressing with confidence will have you walking with purpose and others guessing what your purpose is. Why do you always look so put-together? Where did you get that haunting ring? Who’s chest wore that cardigan before you did? Where are you going with such enviable pride? They do not have to know that you wear a Philly’s baseball hoodie to study late into the night.

4. Journaling madly and keeping lists of everything can nearly guarantee that your teeming brain will live on, immortalized, for an archaeologist one thousand years down the line to unearth a detailed account of a most interesting ancient life.

5. If you learn small psychological, herbal, and folk tricks to cure headaches, sooth stomachs, and ease minds, and perform them with utmost flare, many will believe you to be magical in nature. You do not deny it.

6. Tea is a wonderful method of hydration. Tears are a wonderful method of dehydration. Balance, my darlings.

7. Stare at yourself in the mirror. Stare for hours—or maybe it will be only seconds. Stare, face lit by candlelight and stars, until your reflection whispers declarations of love to you instead of declarations of war.

8. Reading increases neuroplasticity. It also increases an optional knowledge of dead languages, forensic science, the blue-ringed octopus, Harry Potter’s favorite dessert, and why Orion Lake was not made for a deadly boarding school. Read late into the night; that isn’t particularly healthy, but, like I said, balance.

9. Lay in the sun for ten minutes each day. You are now a cat; watch the birds with lethal curiosity; stretch with all the laziness in the world. Vitamin D is good for you, and so is contemplating the simple needs of all living creatures.

10. Eat fruits and cheeses; bread and honey. You are a Greek muse. You dine in the halls of Olympus. Somewhere in the distance, Apollo plays his lyre. You want to sit here, in this stunning palace in the great wide sky, forever. You also want your daily intake of vitamins and minerals.

Stay healthy, stay curious, and stay painfully aware of the aesthetic manipulation of self.

Rr character ask - LB

3, 12, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 29.

Thanks :)

again, sorry this took so long!

3) A song that reminds me of them: Little Dark Age by MGMT

12) Sexuality hc! idk, she seems like a bit of a 'whatever,' kinda person. All I know is that she was very very in love with Bradley Baker :(

18) How do you think they were as a kid? (Like, were they shy, noisy, wild, etc) Exactly the way she is as an adult. Kinda like how I imagine Ruby to be but like, reversed.

20) A weird headcanon: I think it would be very cool if LB was like, an early punk?? Kinda sorta?? It's set in the early 70s so punk was barely a thing but I just like the idea of a vaguely punk LB

24) What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone? Life became easier after Bradley was presumed dead.

29) How do you think they would be as a parent? (and if they are a parent, how do you think they would be if they weren't?) She wouldn't be the sort of mum to sugarcoat things yk, she'd always just say it as it is. No bullshit, but loves her kids v much and would do anything for them

Everyday I’m amazed at how Lauren Child managed to create such a likable character as MOUSE HUXTABLE while still making her such a minor part of the story with almost no contribution to the plot-

I love Mouse, you love Mouse, we love Mouse, etc

this was funnier in my head

ya know that one tiktok edit audio where its like 

seek them out know one by one, dropping bodies like a nun etc etc, 

if that doesn’t have major lorelei von leyden vibes idk what does tbh. 

i hate to say it i really do but idk how much i would actually like ruby irl, like she’s a snarky rich kid who thinks she’s better than everyone else 😭😭

i’m re reading pick your poison rn and i’m remembering how everything from the last books are all tying together and it all just makes so much sense and I just- 

these books are so good, not just for kids, they’re actually good books and not enough people recognize this