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It is Femslash February (I'm a few days late, I know, life got weird...) and I thought it would be fun to offer a challenge to all of us Eerie fans to write some femslash for this fandom!

No formal prompts, just a general celebration of all the wonderful F/F pairing possibilities* in Eerie Fandom!

I've added a new collection on AO3 if you'd like to use that when posting!

(*Genderswapping characters counts)

Miss Annabelle Lee's eyes were wide and shining, the pupils so dilated that their blackness almost matched the bags underneath them.

"How wonderful," she said, holding up a bulky plastic-wrapped package labelled 'Sexy Shakespearean Death Scene'. A dress whose fabric was carefully dip-dyed to resemble water damage, a poisoned dagger and a flower crown were prominently advertised on the front.

"We have that in Romeo and Juliet too," offered Radford. "And a Titus Andronicus accessories set that includes a pie with little doll's limbs poking out of it."

Miss Annabelle Lee paused, considering.

"Tell me," she said. "Is it... sexy?"

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Time ticked on, far too slowly for Marshall's liking. He'd been sure that this was math class - in fact, out of the corner of his eye he could just see Tod McNulty paging through his "Introduction to Algebra" textbook with an expression of increasing bafflement - yet here was Miss Annabelle Lee droning in dreary delight over yet another messy death in yet another work by William Shakespeare.

He'd never even heard of half of these plays. Sometimes he thought Miss Lee was making up new ones to justify yet another lesson spent describing gruesome and drawn out deaths to them.

Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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Episode 7 of Eerie Indiana "Heart on a Chain" pic.twitter.com/g3JLtmn2CC
— James Gormanley (@JamesGormanley) November 8, 2020

It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Principal Togar versus Annabelle Lee

Join me on a retrospective journey through a favorite 90s series of mine as a child, that I probably overanalyzed as an adult, in this week's Marilynn Monday feature- Eerie, Indiana Pop. 16,661https://t.co/L60NQ1kfWU
— Regretta Morose (@scarymarilynn) June 15, 2020

The episode with the heart charm legit terrified me as a kid. We didn't have cable so while everyone else talks about Are You Afraid of The Dark and Goosebumps I was living my best life with all 19 episodes of this.
— The Soda Jerk (@TheSodaJerks) June 15, 2020

That one is really unnerving and heavy. From the base story, to the deep-set eyes of the teacher, to the weird POV camera use when Marsh's family is talking to him. It's for sure a creepy one!
— Regretta Morose (@scarymarilynn) June 15, 2020

On ForeverWare ladies:

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On colour co-ordination:

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On pickle-lifters:

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On Annabelle Lee:

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It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Principal Togar versus Annabelle Lee

Eerie, Indiana left me wanting more, tbh... teacher resigned.
— eli bot (@REALelibot) September 2, 2019

Eerie, Indiana was a good change of pace. teacher resigned.
— eli bot (@REALelibot) June 27, 2019

okay but YO this episode of eerie indiana got me FUCKED UP

Starts off with narrator Marshall talking about his first kiss with a girl named Melanie in a cemetery. And then he starts rambling about the thin veil between life and death.
We’re introduced to Marshall’s new best friend Devon, who’s a Too Cool type who’s smart but a risk taker, and whose motto is “Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Good Looking Corpse”
And Melanie, new student, comes to class but the teacher (who’s obsessed with death for some reason?) warns about her heart condition.
Cue a cute montage of Marshall and Devon playfully showing off for Melanie to impress her, buying her gifts, asking her out. But Marshall and Devon don’t fight over her. Devon’s like ‘hey i know you like her but can i ask her out’ and Marshall’s like ‘yea man we cool’
Then Devon gets hit by a car.
Marshall runs to the hospital only to find Melanie there because they “found a heart donor” for her.
A very quick scene where we see that Melanie has acquired some very tomboyish traits ever since her heart transplant because yeah by the way Devon just died. No ifs ands or buts.
Melanie and Marshall get together but every time they try to kiss, Melanie feels her heart doing something “weird.”
The rest of the episode is Melanie learning to deal with grief and come to terms with the idea that she doesn’t want to be dating anyone right now and wants to work on herself.
The kiss from the cold open happens right on top of Devon’s grave, a sweet goodbye kiss. There’s tongue.
Melanie gives Marshall the heart locket that Devon gave her.
Marshall leaves the graveyard because he wants to look for UFOs.
end of episode.

I am making NONE of this up.

anyway you should watch eerie indiana

When I read a brief synopsis for the seventh episode of “Eerie, Indiana”, I was intrigued. It’s not every day that you find a show geared toward young adults (and, perhaps arguably, even younger than that) willing to tackle the subject of death at all; it’s even less common to see a show do it in such a frank, straightforward way. I was finally starting to appreciate the town of Eerie and its characters, but this wallop of an episode helps to prove just how daring this show really was, at least in terms of its intended age group. Its characters aren’t mindless caricatures quickly thrown together for the sake of ratings, but rather fully realized people. Even the adults in this show, such as Marshall’s family members, who are usually made stupid in shows so that the younger characters—the ones audience members would be most likely to relate to—can be intellectually superior, are immediately likable, and always encouraging to their son's interests, no matter how weird or “out there” they may be.

In this one, there’s a new girl in town, and both Marshall, and his friend Devon Wilde, are immediately smitten with her. She is Melanie, but she is no ordinary girl: she has a weak heart, and is on a list to receive a transplant that can elongate her life. Unfazed by this development, the two kids engage in friendly competitions, each one trying to impress her more so that they win her fragile heart; it’s Devon’s wild-child persona, vs. Marshall’s good-guy routine, and just like in real-life, it’s obvious which one she favors, and it ain’t Marshall.

Then Devon is struck and killed while carelessly riding his skateboard in the middle of the street.

One thing that sets this apart from similar shows of its ilk is the relationship between Devon and Marshall. While they both are fighting for the same goal, they still put their own friendship above all else: Devon even asks Marshall if he minds if he asks Melanie to the school dance, and Marshall puts aside his own feelings to let it happen; Marshall is upset when a careless Devon nearly gets run over by the same milk truck that finishes him off a little while later. It never devolves into a mean-spirited rivalry, which is the standard story arc that these stories lead to, and it's refreshing that “Eerie, Indiana” doesn't sinks into that same level of tired mediocrity.

After Marshall learns that Devon was struck by a truck, he rushes to the hospital, where he meets Melanie, who informs him they found a heart for her. At that precise moment, Marshall puts two and two together, and figures out that Devon has passed on, and it is his heart that will be implanted inside her. It's pretty heavy stuff so far (oh, it gets even stronger), but nice to see a television show that doesn't assume its audience is comprised of idiots that need everything spoonfed to them, so I can definitely appreciate the strong subject matter.

Anyway, after she receives the heart, Marshall notices that her personality changes. She's no longer a shy, innocent girl, but a daredevil who takes chances and whose favorite line is: “Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse”...which happened to be Devon's favorite quote! Marshall doesn't like this change, and urges her to let him go and move on. He assures her that everyone is sad he's gone, especially him since he was one of his best friends, but that life doesn't wait and it's the only thing she can do. She reluctantly agrees to try to do so by kissing him...only to have her heart malfunction. It's just a minor glitch—the moment they pull away everything returns to normal—but it's enough to cause alarm. Is Devon controlling her from beyond? In the end, Melanie agrees to let Devon go, but tells Marshall she isn't ready to be in a relationship so soon, and they part ways, with Marshall joining Simon and Melanie going her own separate way.

[SPOILER ALERT]
But as sad as this episode already is, it’s about to become emotionally shattering: As Simon and Marshall happily make their way for the cemetery exit, we see a figure walking slowly in the background, heading toward an off-screen Melanie. After a little bit of squinting, I realized it’s the FUCKING GRIM REAPER. Then, a light shines on the angel on Devon’s gravestone, complete with the heart pendant that Devon got for her, at which point a lone tear drips down, indicating that he is claiming her so that no one else can have her. Holy shit.
[END SPOILER ALERT]

This is about as perfect as a thirty-minute episode of young adult/children's TV can be, with heavy subject matter handled with maturity and an uncommon straightforwardness that flies in the face of the bland watered-down sameness of many such shows, even today. The way the Tellers handle Marshall's new “girlfriend” the few times she is over, is so adorable, you just can't help but fall in love with them. I know early on in the season I mentioned that Marshall and Simon are completely boring and don't have the kinds of personalities that make good leads in a show, but it is these exact traits that have actually made me completely change my mind: They are you and me. They are everyday children with wild imaginations and big dreams, kids with big hearts and a loving family (well, not in Simon's case, but the Tellers frequently take him in as their own).

This show has slowly been growing on me, and I was beginning to realize its potential; not even I could have realized the near-perfection that it was capable of when everything came together in harmony. This is a devastating, must-see episode, and the pinnacle of what "Eerie Indiana" had to offer.

SIDE NOTE: After harping on how weak Joe Dante-directed episodes were compared to others, I have to immediately take that back, as he was the director of this one. It's not just the pinnacle of the series, but might be the pinnacle of his career.

EPISODE RATING: 10/10

It's the 14th of the month, and that's the date we put aside to think about all those amazing minor characters, places, organisations and general backdrop that make Eerie so compellingly watchable.

This month's theme is: Annabelle Lee

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