Bowler, Street Cricket, Addison Place, London, 1957
Photo: Roger Mayne
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As much as I like asshole big shot Spamton headcanons, I love the idea he was kinda normal and down to earth or more anxious/pathetic even more.
Like a lot of people make him an asshole to explain why no one helped him or why he avoided getting help cause it meant admitting to his shitty behavior. But from how everyone speaks about him before he went missing he was a decent guy, unlucky but they refer to him as prestigious and speak with regret over his downfall. He was probably a normal but shady guy (due to the phone) who was more an oddity than nuisance to those around him. A lot of him being a jerk as a big shot headcanons sorta stem from the idea he did something to deserve it or his hubris being his down fall and other than him clearly not having money to fall back on I just don’t see it that way.
A crux of Spamton’s character is that he is ultimately helpless and not in control of what happens/happened to him despite the knowledge he had been bestowed. That everyone is a puppet and he was punished for trying to be something more, something that he wasn’t. It’s a lot more bittersweet and tragic if he genuinely didn’t do anything crazy or sleazy until after his fall cause it just reinforces the idea that no matter what he did or who he made connections with or who helped him, he was never in control and someone else pulled the strings.
Spamton playing by all the phone’s rules, everyone else’s rules and still getting the short end is so befitting of his story and fits to why as a literal puppet he seems to out right refuse to adhere to any semblance of the norm or rules of convention.
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Okay a quick little intro post before I log off for the night; prob will fix this later
So hi! I'm Kelpie or Kelp and this is my writeblr! (my main blog is @tomatoe-copia so if you get notifications from there, it's me!) my pronouns are they/them!
I write a lot of stuff that tends to be targeted more toward young adult fiction at the moment. There's also a focus on fantasy, sci-fi, and dystopian in a lot of my wips currently.
I'm not great at writing yet since I've only been doing it for roughly 6-ish years but I'm probably going to post some original work anyway. I still have a lot to learn though so this will be mostly fun posting and OC brainrot.
I'll try to tag each piece of media with both the character names and the wip tag I end up choosing for ease of searching for both me and you.
More info about my wips under the cut!
My main two stories (with names) currently are:
The Dark Place
A teen dystopian sci-fi where a government will buy children from poor families to experiment on them for militaristic purposes. Members of their experiments, however, have slowly been breaking out of their testing facilities over the last 8 years and how slowly been building a resistance called The Dark Place.
Main Characters: Pipe (Peter) Braun, Solstice Basara, Jace Ivord, Caroline Darling
This one is a joint work with a friend of mine!
Westwood
Set far in the future, the entire solar system has been conquered by humanity. Anywhere and everywhere is capable of being traveled to. For triplets Violet, Bell, and Senna Carter, however, they've been stuck on Mars for as long as they can remember. But when their father gets a new job as a biological history professor at the mysterious (and private) Westwood University in New America on Earth, they get the chance to leave just in time for their freshman year of college.
Violet, struggling through the first semester of college, meets Talia Maitra-West, her English tutor, and also the granddaughter of the Dean.
Senna, known for his graffiti murals on Mars, finds himself ostracized in his traditional art classes until he meets the mysterious Corbyn at a party one night, a body modification apprentice in the nearby college town.
Bell, goes missing right after spring break.
The police are convinced everything is fine, but when Azaria, Bell's best friend, turns up at Violet's dorm with her phone, the remaining five's worlds are turned upside down.
Main Characters: Violet Carter, Talia Maitra-West Bell Carter, Azaria Lee, Senna Carter, Corbyn Kassa
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honestly, screw seaside / oceanside wellness, addison should run a center for women's health just like when arizona and nicole herman did. in fact, she should ditch seaside and go to new york. she'd be happiest there making real impact on marginalized groups. like cmon, girl didn't wanna live her cushy comfy life in california anymore when there are people's rights being taken away. activism would've made her the happiest honestly and i know for a fact they were too scared to delve into all that on the shows
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I don't know why, my brain just will not let go of the little fact that rearranged SPAMTON is POSTMAN.
it's probably not the case, but these little what ifs. What if he really was just supposed to be a mail guy? Live a maybe unsatisfying but alright life.
WAIT A DAMN MINUTE i never even realized
the thought of him supposed to be living a life that’s NOT full of him being desperate for attention and fame bc he’s so discarded makes me. makes me. :,)
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