Jun. 19th, 2020
Eerie Indiana Feedback Friday!
Jun. 19th, 2020 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's Friday, Eerie fans, and it's a great time to look back on all the sweet fanworks you've created over the years. Why not revisit some sweet artwork, admire someone's crafting efforts or leave an appreciative comment on an uploaded video?
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For this challenge, create a fanwork based on one of the (sixteen!) Eerie, Indiana tie-in books.
Eerie Indiana Drabble: Another Kingdom
Jun. 19th, 2020 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The trees grew thicker here, and what little sunlight filtered down through the overhanging branches became green and murky the further it penetrated.
Knots in the gnarled wood looked like screaming human faces, and in the spots where the bark had rubbed away, viscous red sap oozed like blood from a welling wound, filling the air with the copper tang of old pennies.
The path that Janet was on was lined with sea glass, and despite the blazing August heat and the many days that had passed without rain, the ground under her feet was damp, and smelled of salt.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Knots in the gnarled wood looked like screaming human faces, and in the spots where the bark had rubbed away, viscous red sap oozed like blood from a welling wound, filling the air with the copper tang of old pennies.
The path that Janet was on was lined with sea glass, and despite the blazing August heat and the many days that had passed without rain, the ground under her feet was damp, and smelled of salt.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: A Royal Audience
Jun. 19th, 2020 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Harvest King was waiting for her beneath the spreading canopy of an old oak tree. His crown of green was bright with gold leaves of almost-ripened corn and in the places where it's twisting vines grew straight out of his head, blood-bright berries clotted and clustered.
"You came," he said, and it's almost the voice that Janet remembers, undercut with the howl of a hunting wolf and the wind up on the mountain.
He holds out his hand, which is pale and pink and human, and when she reaches for it she touches the whirring blades of a thresher.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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"You came," he said, and it's almost the voice that Janet remembers, undercut with the howl of a hunting wolf and the wind up on the mountain.
He holds out his hand, which is pale and pink and human, and when she reaches for it she touches the whirring blades of a thresher.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Changes
Jun. 19th, 2020 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Janet jerks her hand back, her eyes full and spilling over with the shock and the pain, and a sense of betrayal that almost drives out the crashing grey waves that have nearly drowned the brown of her irises.
Her fingers are hot and slick with her own blood, and even now it's a relief to feel the heat and see the colour, because it means the Baitshop hasn't yet managed to crawl all the way inside her.
Then the deep gouges are healing, and instead of scar tissue there are thin lines of gleaming scale in the knitted flesh.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Her fingers are hot and slick with her own blood, and even now it's a relief to feel the heat and see the colour, because it means the Baitshop hasn't yet managed to crawl all the way inside her.
Then the deep gouges are healing, and instead of scar tissue there are thin lines of gleaming scale in the knitted flesh.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Spares and Repairs
Jun. 19th, 2020 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Oh," says the Harvest King, speaking through her ex-boyfriend's face, and if she needed proof that this isn't really Marshall - at least, not right now, and she tries not to think that it might not be ever again - it's in the smooth, even tone of his voice.
Marshall, who tensed up if he thought Melanie was playing pinfinger a little too fast, wouldn't be this calm after almost maiming her.
Although, given what the things in the lake have done in service of their "repairs", maybe it still counts as a maiming.
She flexes her hand, whole but still damaged.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Marshall, who tensed up if he thought Melanie was playing pinfinger a little too fast, wouldn't be this calm after almost maiming her.
Although, given what the things in the lake have done in service of their "repairs", maybe it still counts as a maiming.
She flexes her hand, whole but still damaged.
Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Harvest
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Napping
Jun. 19th, 2020 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The fox had gotten into the Lost and Found box and built itself a burrow there. It poked it's head out from under a heavy winder coat, the bright colours faded but the fleece lining still thick and warm.
"Whaaaat?" it growled, it's tone more akin to a sleep-deprived teenager than a talking animal.
It opened one amber eye, prepared to give the Loyal Order's bartender a piece of it's mind and perhaps a taste of it's small, sharp teeth.
The Kernel stared down at him, bushy eyebrows raised beneath the impressive weight of his jewelled and ornate Corn Hat.
Ongoing Verse: Microwave
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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
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"Whaaaat?" it growled, it's tone more akin to a sleep-deprived teenager than a talking animal.
It opened one amber eye, prepared to give the Loyal Order's bartender a piece of it's mind and perhaps a taste of it's small, sharp teeth.
The Kernel stared down at him, bushy eyebrows raised beneath the impressive weight of his jewelled and ornate Corn Hat.
Ongoing Verse: Microwave
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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
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The sound of sausages hissing in the heavy cast-iron pan drifted out through the hairline crack in the almost-closed kitchen door, accompanied by the savoury aroma of fried grease and onions.
In the living room, a great Hellhound sat inside a circle of salt, commanded to stay and none too happy about it.
Dash, who had been similarly banished, could sympathise.
"What do you say?" he asked the massive three-headed beast. "I break the salt-line, you rush in there and distract him, and I raid the fridge while you do it?"
Sparky's three heads drooled, and his eyes shone red.
Ongoing Verse: Microwave
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In the living room, a great Hellhound sat inside a circle of salt, commanded to stay and none too happy about it.
Dash, who had been similarly banished, could sympathise.
"What do you say?" he asked the massive three-headed beast. "I break the salt-line, you rush in there and distract him, and I raid the fridge while you do it?"
Sparky's three heads drooled, and his eyes shone red.
Ongoing Verse: Microwave
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Movie Night
Jun. 19th, 2020 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The wind was howling outside, and now and then above the unceasing shriek and roar they could hear other sounds.
Rattling came from behind the tightly-drawn drapes as the storm flung up handfuls of gravel to skitter across the glass.
Something scraped along almost the entire length of the house, probably just a tree branch but the noises put Marshall in mind of bony fingers twisted into skeletal claws, so that he shivered and burrowed deeper into the nest of blankets piled over the sofa.
Simon knelt beside the old VCR, still blinking 12:00. He held up another videotape.
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Rattling came from behind the tightly-drawn drapes as the storm flung up handfuls of gravel to skitter across the glass.
Something scraped along almost the entire length of the house, probably just a tree branch but the noises put Marshall in mind of bony fingers twisted into skeletal claws, so that he shivered and burrowed deeper into the nest of blankets piled over the sofa.
Simon knelt beside the old VCR, still blinking 12:00. He held up another videotape.
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Shelter
Jun. 19th, 2020 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All the cushions had been removed from the old sofa, leaving only the frame bookended by tattered and threadbare arms in leaking upholstery.
The cushions themselves, faded and stained and bearing the patchwork scars of a dozen amateurish attempts at repair, were stacked into two neat columns directly in front of the settee.
An eiderdown in a cover of royal blue stretched across the entire thing, and a single lamp blazed just beyond the entrance, casting a warm soft glow against the tired fabric walls.
Simon set the plate of cookies Mrs. Teller had given him down, and climbed inside.
Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers
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The cushions themselves, faded and stained and bearing the patchwork scars of a dozen amateurish attempts at repair, were stacked into two neat columns directly in front of the settee.
An eiderdown in a cover of royal blue stretched across the entire thing, and a single lamp blazed just beyond the entrance, casting a warm soft glow against the tired fabric walls.
Simon set the plate of cookies Mrs. Teller had given him down, and climbed inside.
Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers
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Whenever she made brownies now, Marilyn Teller always added the peanut butter chips last, sprinkling them over the top of brownie batter just after it began to cook.
She watched as the golden-yellow drops began to melt, deforming in the heat of both the oven and the semi-solid cake mix below them. She used a spatula to nudge them here and there, herding the greatest concentration into the furthermost corner of the pan, and then dropped in a few more for good measure.
Simon always liked the crisp edges of a corner piece best, and peanut butter was his favourite.
Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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She watched as the golden-yellow drops began to melt, deforming in the heat of both the oven and the semi-solid cake mix below them. She used a spatula to nudge them here and there, herding the greatest concentration into the furthermost corner of the pan, and then dropped in a few more for good measure.
Simon always liked the crisp edges of a corner piece best, and peanut butter was his favourite.
Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Too Hot to Sleep
Jun. 19th, 2020 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The sun had risen hours ago, and though it was still early in the morning by every single one of Marshall's watches, the heat in his bedroom was stifling.
He rose, flinging off the thin coverlet with it's hand-scrawled mathematical notations designed to induce a deep sleep while also keeping the Sandman's gritty fingers out of the sleeper's dreams. Apparently it's protective qualities didn't do anything to combat the lack of air conditioning.
When he pulled back the curtains, the light outside speared through the glass like one of Algernon the Invincible's finishing moves. Marshall ducked back, cursing the summer.
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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He rose, flinging off the thin coverlet with it's hand-scrawled mathematical notations designed to induce a deep sleep while also keeping the Sandman's gritty fingers out of the sleeper's dreams. Apparently it's protective qualities didn't do anything to combat the lack of air conditioning.
When he pulled back the curtains, the light outside speared through the glass like one of Algernon the Invincible's finishing moves. Marshall ducked back, cursing the summer.
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Time
Jun. 19th, 2020 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It wasn't that the Garbage Men were faster than she was, Janet thought, bounding through drifts of red-gold leaf litter that layered the forest floor in a crunching, crackling blanket of noisy traitors.
It was just that, as the arbiters of all that was correct and orderly in matters of time and space, they knew exactly where she would be at any given moment.
She pushed up the sleeve of her oversized sweater, checked the three watches strapped there. Clock-faces of sea-glass and sand stared back, unnumbered, handless and blank.
Janet knew she had to get back to the lake.
Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: The Children
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It was just that, as the arbiters of all that was correct and orderly in matters of time and space, they knew exactly where she would be at any given moment.
She pushed up the sleeve of her oversized sweater, checked the three watches strapped there. Clock-faces of sea-glass and sand stared back, unnumbered, handless and blank.
Janet knew she had to get back to the lake.
Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: The Children
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Time Canoe
Jun. 19th, 2020 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
One of the Time-o-Saurs had broken loose, tearing through a weak point in the net of dino-proof twine that held their reality separate from what Marshall still, despite everything, thought of as "regular Eerie."
The first thing it had done was come for the time canoe, still stored at the very back of the cupboard under the stairs in Marshall's parents' house.
Luckily, the regular canoe his dad had bought under the influence of The Donald's subliminal advertising had acted as an accidental decoy, and the Time-o-Saur had left clutching it's worthless orange prize, leaving their secret weapon behind it.
Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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The first thing it had done was come for the time canoe, still stored at the very back of the cupboard under the stairs in Marshall's parents' house.
Luckily, the regular canoe his dad had bought under the influence of The Donald's subliminal advertising had acted as an accidental decoy, and the Time-o-Saur had left clutching it's worthless orange prize, leaving their secret weapon behind it.
Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Early Dark
Jun. 19th, 2020 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It was 3pm on a warm day in the middle of June, and already the streetlights were on.
Strange trees loomed dark and uncanny against a grey and louring sky, and as the wind whistled through bare branches and stirred drifts of sun-bleached garbage from the overflowing gutters that ran alongside the pavement, Marshall Teller zipped his green overcoat up as far as it would go and jammed chilled fingers even deeper into his pockets.
The last sunrise had been almost a month ago, replaced by perpetual gloom that waxed and waned on a twenty-four hour cycle. Wally was missing.
Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention
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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Strange trees loomed dark and uncanny against a grey and louring sky, and as the wind whistled through bare branches and stirred drifts of sun-bleached garbage from the overflowing gutters that ran alongside the pavement, Marshall Teller zipped his green overcoat up as far as it would go and jammed chilled fingers even deeper into his pockets.
The last sunrise had been almost a month ago, replaced by perpetual gloom that waxed and waned on a twenty-four hour cycle. Wally was missing.
Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention
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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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