#nica stamatis

[hephaestuscrew]

Nica sees the moment when she threw her letter to Dmitri into the river as symbolic of the futility of her life and the pointlessness of her hopes. But in watching her throw that bottle, Tyrrell found enough hope to keep on living.

Nica sees herself as like that bottle, heading in the wrong direction, entirely at the whims of fate. She focuses her sense of despair on that memory. But Tyrell saw it as an act of "bizarre optimism" and for him, that was enough.

The moment which Nica thinks of as representing her inability to have a positive impact on the world is the same moment in which she inadvertently saved an man's life. The dramatic irony is so bittersweet...

#Greater Boston #Nica Stamatis you have a more positive impact on the world than you know! #She doesn't even really remember her interaction with Tyrell #but for him it was so important #They both attach such significance to the moment #but that's not in the action itself #It's the subjective meaning they each give it #Again it's all about the stories we tell ourselves #Nica's narrative makes perfect sense to her but it's not the whole truth #Also I wonder whether Tyrell will pop back up at any point #Greater Boston podcast #Greater Boston spoilers #Nica Stamatis

[greaterblogston]

Has Nica ever read Homestuck?

She was just about to get into it when the entire global internet shut down (reminder - our crossover with Big Data).

#homestruck #big data #nica stamatis #ask greater boston

[applebunch]

wait hey i just realized that greater boston has 5 seasons like the 5 stages of grief. hm. oh no. i kinda wanna see if there’s actually anything there, so im just gonna speculate...

season 1: denial. leon’s ghost isn’t yet confirmed to truly exist, so his haunting is much more... metaphorical in tone. there’s a seance made in an attempt to speak to him and a persistent theme of michael claiming/believing himself to be haunted by leon’s ghost, saying he’s still there, helping him, which sounds pretty denial-y to me. (yes, even though he was right. he was both right and also in denial. you understand.) (chelmsworth tries/succeeds at starting red line, and leaves before he can become mayor. michael tells him that there will be consequences, and chelmsworth ignores him.)

season 2: anger. red line is officially a thing, and so is leon’s ghost. i don’t remember a lot about what specific events occurred in season 2, actually, other than that there definitely was anger, i think? the anger isn’t exactly unique to this season, tho, there’s a lot of anger in season 1. emily feeling angry about her marriage, isabelle, angry about injustices, nica, angry about being abandoned, lashing out at complete strangers all of the time.  i guess anger might be the driving point of season 2? it’s why emily is even a problem, and why nica stoops so low. (one thing that IS unique to season 2 is that this is where EVERYONE starts being angry at CHELMSWORTH for leaving them behind,)

season 3: bargaining. (chelmsworth comes back, with the intentions to make amends!! he even offers gifts!! he is turned down. hard.) michael gets to talk to leon again and michael pleads with leon to play chess with him, forgoing sleep and food. one game? it’s just good to hear your voice again... and leon, at first, relents, but once the game is done, leon tells michael that he needs to let him go, once it’s obvious that this isn’t good for him. again, michael’s pleading- no, he’s bargaining, that there’s so much value in the way that michael’s person-hood is being overwritten with leon’s own, in the way he’s losing himself in leon’s thoughts, his feelings, his memories. leon’s a CHARACTER again, and his friends are looking for him. sure, leon’s a ghost, but he’s right there! within arms reach and not behind the inconceivable barrier between life and death! it’s almost like he never died! ...but.

speculation:

season 4: depression. it’s not safe to hold on to leon that way. as evidenced by michael and poletti, talking to leon is too dangerous for most people. it hurts them. badly. deeply. leon is dead. he killed himself, and his return as a ghost doesn’t change that. everyone has to move on, for their own sake and his. leon hasn’t exactly “come back to them.” not by choice, anyway, and he’s leaving once he gets the opportunity to do so. that’ll probably be pretty disappointing, and, y’know, really depressing.

season 5: acceptance, leon doesn’t want to roam this world as a ghost anymore, and wishes to return to his rest. he needs help to do so, and he’ll most likely need it from those who loved him most. they finally let him go, and accept that, this time, they’ll really never see him again.

#i yell into the abyss #greater boston spoilers #greater boston #i can imagine that season 4'll pretty depressing. after all‚ people ARE going to die in it‚ you know? #there's going to be more ghosts. (in one way or another.) #i really don't attribute many notable things to season 2 because 1 and 3 has the strongest impressions on me #so im not sure if it even fits all the way lol #again. from what i remember. people were a Lot Angrier in season 1 #but im pretty solid on season 1 and 3 #especially because of michaels part in both #and chelmsworth's cringe fail moments certainly help to keep my theory on track #who knows though? #leon stamatis #michael tate #nica stamatis #greater boston podcast

[leonstamatis]

greater boston (podcast) is like. your actions, however small or seemingly inconsequential, have weight. your decisions matter on a grander scale than you know. sometimes you throw a message in a bottle into the ocean knowing it doesn’t mean anything, knowing it cannot find the person you meant it for, and sometimes that very act of throwing the words into a void is an act of inspiration. and sometimes that message ends up doing more for someone you never meant to find. and sometimes you are no one but in losing you the world turns upon a new axis, and sometimes you are both the sasquatch and the sasquatch hunter and by searching for something you become it to someone else. and sometimes the greatest tragedy you can imagine is just a blip on the radar for someone else, and sometimes a blip on your radar is the end of someone else’s world as they know it. and sometimes the city is a train is a city is a home is more than it was ever meant to be and the tracks are being built beneath it as it runs and that is okay, except for when it isn’t. and sometimes the most important conversations must happen in the most ridiculous of places, and sometimes the robots know a surprising amount about cheese.

#greater boston #tam.exe #i REMEMBERED. NICA STAMATIS. SEND HELP. #I LOVE HER…. I LOVE HER. MY GIRL.

[somuchbetterthanthat]

I love that the three Stamatis Siblings are all on the aro-ace spectrum, I love that out of all f them it's Leon who has kinky sex and girlfriends and a qpr best friend, I love that Nica probably grew up with tons shit of expectations of what she should want but her big dream was being celebrity (even if it crashed and burnt pretty hard) and she never mentionned or seemed to care about relationships, I love that Dimitri Stamatis probably forget that sex or romantic love is a thing unless abruptly reminded for x or y reasons.

#the difference between Nica and Dimitri is that Nica will always be all too aware of societal expectations and how she's not fitting in #she might learnt not to care fully down the line but she's /aware/ #Dimitri just. it went all over his head. what's romance compared to mysteries and adventures? #Leon is ace and a romantic; Nica is grey-acearo #dimitri is plain acearo #mama stamatis always talked about /Nica/ having children which add further stress unto their relationship #greater boston #as you can see i'm thinking about gb today #i miss it

[seaweedsawyou]

Emily Bespin. Cringe fail mayor of train city. Horrible racist piece of shit building her free workforce on prison labor. Spent all the money on robots and baseball instead of paying wages. Queen of nonsensical pet names. Her husband left her with a cheese robot in his stead, and she still loves him way too much. Came thiiis close to making an actual friend, but then promptly threw her into jail. "Keep red lining on". "Red lines matter". Who's doing it like her?? Can't wait till she gets crushed between the cogs of her capitalistic ghost robot prison industrial complex by meta textual demons

#greater boston #thanks sam musher for bringing this shitty lady to funny shitty cruel life #I am tired of pretending I dont love her. emily is no nica stamatis but still #she's like if clementine kesh was a bluff city character #pod heaven

[clonerightsagenda]

Nica Stamatis?

(Ask meme here)

First impression

Greater Boston is so cruel (complimentary) for making our first look at Nica basically the only time she's happy and confident. She's going to be famous! I don't think I knew quite what to make of the podcast or its characters then but man was I not prepared for the journey she would go on.

Impression now

:( <3 She goes through so much! She is complex and messy and interesting! She drives people away and lashes out and wants to be noticed but doesn't know how to ask. I am so sad about her. Actually I think she's doing a little better by the end of season 4 but I didn't retain that season very well, I need to relisten sometime.

Favorite moment

Nica gets so many great monologues, but I remain haunted by the story she tells at Leon's funeral and how she concludes "In that moment, I was famous." It ties back to her intro monologue in a brutal, unexpected way and sets up how the rest of her story so far will be her dealing with being infamous due to her poor choices. The funeral episode is where I first realized how good Greater Boston was going to be.

Idea for a story

I would have loved to see how Nica would've handled it if she's gotten 'possessed' by Leon the way Michael did. I think that might make her worse actually.

Unpopular opinion

Not enough people talk about Greater Boston for me to know what standard opinions are, but in-universe I think it's interesting that people talk a lot about the things Nica did wrong assisting the Lottery but don't dwell as much on Leon helping. Iirc Leon was the one who helped frame Isaiah which - as Isaiah notes - could have gotten him (a Black teen) killed.

Favorite relationship

Nica's connection with Emily is so interesting. She's spying on her but then genuinely becomes her friend, and Emily is awful but Nica gets why she's awful and sympathizes with her even while she's stabbing her in the back. Emily is still on her way to rock bottom, but I think if anyone is willing to extend a hand when she hits it, it'll be Nica. Emily will probably spit on it when she does, but you never know.

Favorite headcanon

Nica is probably still banned from several Italian restaurants on the North End. Some crimes can never be forgiven.

#perpetual perpetual ladies night #ask meme #greater boston

[podcastgirlsweek]

Little Miss Enemy of the State

Time for this weekend's handcrafted poll!

Watch this blog for a new poll every weekend and the PGW event in July!

#I pride myself on creating tough choices #wtnv #wolf 359 #the penumbra podcast #arden pod #woe.begone #alice isn't dead #greater boston #taz #ars paradoxica

[specialagentartemis]

sometimes you listen to some songs and the song = blorbo connection gets increasingly obscure.

Like yeah "Burn It Down" by Vixy & Tony is a Renee Minkowski song, that's fairly straightforward, the spirit of the song - self-confidence, claiming who you are, becoming who you are - is kind of a recurring theme of hers.

"I Hope You Don't Mind" (also Vixy & Tony) is a Nica Stamatis song, a little bit more obscure but the idea of waiting and wishing and resenting and being sad at home, being hurt by someone not being here, "find a message in a bottle wonder if it's meant for me," it's very Nica.

"We Are Who We Are" (Vixy & Tony) assumes the subject is an ordinary human nerd in our world but like besides that it is strongly a Murderbot song, about finding solace and strength and self-understanding in stories and then fandom.

"Likho's Lullaby" (I am listening to Vixy & Tony's album "We Are Who We Are" while I do spreadsheet entry okay) is an Alexander Hilbert song. Or maybe, rather, more accurately, a Dimitri Volodin song. I can't justify this it's just vibes. It's sad and suspicious and resigned, for something as sweet as a lullaby.

and then another song I've had stuck in my head for the last several days, "Nobody's Side" from the iconic 1986 cold war musical Chess is about losing faith in your partner while politics spiral out of control around you and everyone is devolving into factionalism and leaving you in lurch and it is sort of a Viktor Arcane song and sort of a Vi Arcane song but deep in my heart I know that it is, truly, an Emma Emmerich/Naomi Hunter song from my MGS4 AU that lives in my head where E.E. survived MGS2 because god damn she deserved to, and then started an inadvisable but very satisfying affair with Naomi Hunter which makes nothing actually better

#I save my nichest posts for midnight #Emma Emmerich Lives AU is real in my heart. also E.E./Naomi is real. in my HEART #this is because I love both E.E. and Naomi even tho Kojima does not #This is different from Naomi Hunter Was The Real Hero And Also Everything Else of MGS4 btw because that’s just Facts* #*20% legitimate analysis 70% wild extrapolation past the bounds of logical conclusion 10% making shit up #E.E. Lives is simply an AU dear to me

[tanoraqui]

Other things I like to think happen in the wake of Leon Stamatis’s final death:

The will Uriah Connolly found wasn’t the first anyone had seen of Leon’s will, because of course Leon had updated copies backed up with his lawyer, bank, and a public notary. Instead, it was a draft of his next update, which he hadn’t yet finalized enough to officialize—not fully legal, but clearly intended. To Uriah’s mild embarrassment, it included 6 months of rent and etc. utility payments to himself and other relevant parties on behalf of Michael Tate and/or anyone else who might be sleeping on Leon’s couch at the time of Leon’s death.

Ben Affleck produced a eulogeic biopic of his friend Matt Damon. He considered starring in it as Matt Damon, but eventually decided (on advice of his new friend and formal jail neighbor Nica Stamatis) to direct instead. To Nica’s discomfort, he wrote in Nica in as the misremembered role Matt Damon initially gave her. He offered to let her play her own part; she declined. She asked Nicole if she wanted it and Nicole thought about it seriously but also declined—she likes being a newswoman.

“Matt Damon: The Story of Matt Damon by Matt Damon’s Friend Ben Affleck” may not have been a perfect movie, but it was made with so much obvious love that it won several major awards and launched Ben Affleck back into a real directing career.

Michael invited Autumn and Ada to the premiere. Carrington Vanderbilt, the man Matt Damon died trying to save, had minimal screen time, but in what he had, he was presented as a regretful and loving failure of a husband and father who is robbed of his chance to apologize just as Matt Damon is robbed of his chance to continue being Matt Damon. (Ben Affleck had consulted on the script with Nica, who'd forwarded him to Louisa.) On balance, it was…

Yeah, it was even weirder and more awkward than their first Wonderland date. But in a good way.

Michael and Autumn resumed dating shortly thereafter. He moved in with her and Ada in Providence and they got married in Wonderland. Tyrell was their wedding planner, of course. Louisa broke her own rule to photograph her best friend’s wedding—they were going to hire someone else; they did hire someone else, and Louisa kept telling the other person they were doing it wrong, and taking over. Phil smuggled himself back into Boston to sit on Autumn’s side of the aisle.

There are exactly 2 photos of Phil at the wedding: 1 from the other photographer of him throwing a delightedly laughing Ada (ringbearer ofc) in the air, and 1 clumsy one from Louisa of Phil tripping on a stray streamers and faceplanting in one last pile of cheese. There’s a less clumsy, though still not professional, photo taken by Gemma of Louisa in her Best Woman dress bent over with laughter as she wrestled her camera into place for that shot. Wendell has it framed.

Louisa and Wendell neither get married nor have children, though they do get a beagle. Bagel the beagle helps Louisa sniff out clues (usually food) and likes to harmonize with Wendell. Wendell actually makes this work, musically. He briefly blows up on TikTok for being “the guy who sings with his dog.”

Meanwhile, the Redsistance is still hard at work helping people get by, a task that has alas grown no easier with Emily officially resigned and living in New York. However, typically, it’s MD:TSoMDbMDFBA that really kicks off the downfall of the Bespin regime and everyone associated with it. She basically killed Matt Damon, and that other guy, the loser dad! Legion remains present in everyone’s homes, and its shops are still everywhere, but the people boot out Mayor and elect something like a moderate Democrat, who promptly drops 95% of the exploitative fare and jail things, and un-exiles the Wonderland community…though doesn’t do much to re-provide housing for them…(to be fair, other people do live there, now)…

That’s manageable, because also meanwhile, Dimitri and Mallory have befriended the secret rodent civilization living in a parallel city below Boston (as secret rodent civilizations live beneath most major cities in the world). They—the rats, mostly, but also mice, squirrels, etc—have become allies and business partners with the Wonderland community, much like at the end of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Pratchett).

Btw at some point Dimitri and Nica went on a road trip down the coast, maybe to visit relatives in Virginia. Along the way, they met the Jersey Devil (literally some sort of supernatural creature), and Mothman (a now-old man who played a prank with a good costume in the 60s and felt obliged to keep it up. Dimitri puts him in touch with Darby Cooper and they become happy penpals for the last years of Darby’s life.)

Isaiah and Melissa become a crack political activism team. They don’t always agree on exactly what the best path forward is, but they agree on most of their goals and it sometimes seems like they can almost read each others minds.

Mark Wahlberg starts vengefully stalking the guy who plays Matt Damon in MD:TSoMDbMDFBA, and ends up with a restraining order from Boston entirely. Fuck Mark Wahlberg.

Nica works in the Redsistance but she also goes back to work in Singer’s Sewing Machine and Vacuum Repair. Yeah, she’s rehired partly because of the amazing advertising of MD:TSoMDbMDFBA, but also because she was the best damn sewing machine repairer they ever had. She starts part-time—she’s also busy with the Redsistance; an unnoticeable, forgettable face is a real asset—but it’s not long before she’s full-time, and not long after that it becomes Singer&Stamatis Sewing Machine & Vacuum Repair. She keeps the name when old Mr. Singer finally retires, though she branches out to repairing more odds and ends of common household mechanisms.

It’s an innocuous little store. In the back room, while the proprietress repairs, she also hosts visiting revolutionaries, politicians, and the press, Hollywood directors and local artists, and one famously missing man who always comes home between adventures—who sometimes tugs her out, laughing, onto the road with him. She also welcomes anyone in the neighborhood who needs a good listening ear.

At some point, someone dies. Probably suddenly, maybe violently (they ARE all making trouble for powerful people, after all). Don’t ask me who; I refuse to contemplate it! Instead of moving on, however, they’re caught by Gemma in another crystal ball.

She hunted down the original supplier who made them for Magic Staples, see. “What the fuck, Gemma?” ask multiple people. “So we can say goodbye in our own time,” she says.

“…and it was an incredible tactical advantage for a bit there,” she admits. “Just briefly! Until they’re ready to move on!”

“…and I wanted to see if I could still do it,” she eventually confesses. (It’s all fine, though. Mostly, they all just get that extra chance to say goodbye, then Gemma breaks the ball.)

It turns out that the person who used to bless those crystal balls is the same seer who sold Dimitri those parting puzzle boxes. They’re completely unhelpful, information-wise, but they do advise Dimitri to visit China. Dimitri is still pretty busy fighting omnipresent capitalism in Boston, so he books a flight rather than try to get a job as some sort of sailor again. His plane goes down over the Pacific, but only one passenger is lost…Dimitri, of course.

Nica fights to remain calm. She’d know if he was dead, she’s sure. Somehow. Anyway, it’s Dimitri. Adventures just happen to him. He’ll be fine, and he’ll come home.

She’s right. Dimitri arrives home about a year later having found Amelia Earhart on one of those one-coconut tree islands where time doesn’t really move. (She, too, is Like This.) He brought her home with him. Dimitri and Amelia get married couple years after that.

They try to use Dimitri and Amelia's weird tropiness to bust Ethan's evil necromancy/mind control/cheese robot lab on Coney Island. Surely THAT'S a mystery to reveal to the world! Their attempts at contrivance keep failing, though; eventually they conclude that this sort of thing depends on whatever-it-is being an unsolved mystery to Dimitri and Amelia themselves (until they solve it). And they already know about the evil necromancy/mind control/cheese robot lab.

Fortunately, while Legion did immediately use its massive information-gathering reach and money to purchase as many of those fully functional glass balls as they could, and hired some skilled but unscrupulous psychics to summon ghosts into them, it turns out that it's an incredibly rare ghost who has both the wide-welcoming compassion and clockwork-like mind to function as the massive inter-human connector that Ethan and Legion seek. Leon was, as we all knew, both incredible and unique.

It all comes to a head at last when a young girl's grandmother dies, in one of NYC's many districts of immigrants. The grandmother was special because, among other things, she was strict and precise but always loving, and enough of a witch to own a really good old crystal ball (not one of the half-plastic knockoffs you get these days). The girl is special because, among other things, she, too, has some innate supernatural talent, and she doesn't want to let her grandmother (and sole guardian) go, and also she can talk to animals like the youthful protagonists of the Rescuers movies.

Cheese robots steal the crystal ball containing her grandmother's spirit. Her friends among the secret rodent city underneath NYC reach out to their allies in Boston for aid. The Bostonian rats tip off their trusted humans. Legion is still a massive evil international corporation which may or may not actually be run by humans, but its necromancy/mind control department is broken for good by the power of bildungsroman.

Emily files for divorce.

#greater boston #ficlet #my fic

[waveridden]

New Kid blessed the Somerville Sasquatches. A rogue umpire incinerated the Sasquatches’ least idolized player, Leon Stamatis! Mallory Monomynous joined the team as a replacement.

A Greater Boston / Blaseball AU. 10k.

(Happy belated birthday/happy early anniversary, @leonstamatis!)

#god how the fuck do i tag this #greater boston #blaseball #waveridden.fic #michael tate #leon stamatis #nica stamatis #dimitri stamatis #louisa alvarez #charlotte linzer coolidger #gemma linzer coolidge #greater boston fic #gb fic #@ alexander and jeff and anyone else on the show: i am so sorry for writing 10k about a horror sports simulator au of your show #anyways i am so happy to share this it was really fun #also! if you only know blaseball OR gb i have mini-primers in the a/n for this fic for both pieces of media

[hephaestuscrew]

I relistened to Greater Boston Episode 1 yesterday and it reminded me that something I think this show does really well is the way it portrays the kind of shared mythology that can develop in families about the family members.

Like just in that first episode, we are told that Leon was the kid who refused to open his own presents because he hated surprises, Nica was the kid who hid the fuses so she could keep telling stories, and Dmitri was the kid who tore the answer pages out of the riddle book to maintain the mystery. And each of those stories have stuck with them and affected how they see each other and themselves as adults. They remember the games they played together as kids, they remember moments from their shared childhood, and they have taken those memories with them as part of their dynamic and their identities as adults.

It's such a good portrayal of the complicated way in which siblings can impact on each others' self-perceptions. Dmitri defines his own love of mysteries in contrast to Leon's dislike of uncertainty (i.e. "Disillusionment has never been a gift worth sharing… That idea probably makes no sense to you, does it, Leon?"). Leon defines his own unadventurousness in contrast to Dmitri's and Nica's different kinds of boldness (i.e. "He’d never been an adventurer, not like his little brother Dimitri, who had disappeared into the mysterious labyrinth of the world, nor a thrill-seeker like Nica, who grinned wider for every inch the line advanced"). Nica defines her (perceived) failure to take decisive action in contrast to Leon's and Dmitri's different ways of taking action (e.g. the whole anecdote in Episode 9 about Leon rescuing Dmitri from the snow while Nica didn't do anything when they were children).

There's this particular way in which some people understand themselves and their family members, where it's like 'I know that I'm not particularly [insert character trait] because my sibling is the [...] one'. I've noticed it in my own family and I think the Stamatis siblings definitely think that way a lot. Those anecdotes from when they were kids are still a big part of how they see each other, and the way each of them see themselves is shaped by the way they see their siblings by comparison.

#Greater Boston #greater Boston podcast #long post #Most of the examples here are just from the first episode #but I think this kind of thing crops up a lot particularly in Season 1 #and that first ep is literally called Family Riddles #I'm just very interested in how families often have a shared story about who they each are that's somewhat based on events from years ago #and sometimes that story is fairly accurate and sometimes it's Very Much Not #I think with the Stamatis siblings it's usually fairly reflective of who they are #they do understand each other pretty well #but it can also be kinda limiting to be tied to those ideas from childhood #like with Nica and that story about the snow #She'd feel better about herself if she let go of thinking that event defined her #Anyway this also links into themes about the stories we tell and who tells them and how #which I've talked about a little before #but I've already rambled enough #Leon Stamatis #Nica Stamatis #Dmitri Stamatis #Stamatis siblings #the empty man posteth

[greaterblogston]

Nica finally reads the farewell letter Michael sent her in 'Farewell Nica,' a mini-episode out November 15th. 

#nica stamatis #greater boston #mini-episode #season four #greater boston season 4 #michael tate #podcast #greater boston podcast #greater boston audio fiction #audio drama #fiction #fiction podcast

[applebunch]

michael and nica have quite a few fun parallel points but one of my favorite ones is that they have VERY different relationships with “being the sidekick”

#i yell into the abyss #and they both need to see a therapist oh so super bad! :D #grater bluecheese #michael tate #nica stamatis #nica stamatis: has a whole existential crisis over not playing a major role in the lives of others or even her own #michael tate: becomes SO unhealthily devoted to someone that he gets THIS 👌 close to happily replacing his identity with theirs

[leonstamatis]

[ID: A tweet from Greater Boston (@InGreaterBoston) that reads, “Do you have any Greater Boston headcanons? Like, what’s something that you just KNOW in your heart has to be true?” /End ID]

i’m not on twitter in any (public/substantial) way but this got my brain buzzing like a damn chainsaw. ask and ye shall receive, @greaterblogston.

when nica stamatis was younger, she had a habit of bringing home stray cats she found around the city. she wanted it to be some grand air bud type situation where she found the most talented cat to ever exist. these cats’ primary superpower, however, was making her brother dimitri sneeze. (leon was the only one who fed and looked after said cats — despite his distaste for them — in the day or two before the stamatis parents took them to a shelter to find proper loving homes.)

dimitri stamatis has the stomach of a wet paper bag. lactose intolerant, can’t handle spice, spent his entire early adulthood living off peanut butter and jelly unless someone else (usually leon, occasionally nica) brought food to him.

leon’s strong affinity for watches comes in part from his father, who had a collection of antique pocket watches that needed to be wound by hand to run. his love of chess, on the other hand, is from his mother.

charotte linzer-coolidge is the type of parent who would paint an intensely detailed mural on the wall of monty’s nursery. she kept saying she would do it, when they lived in redline, but couldn’t figure out the best paint for the interior of a subway car and honestly just didn’t have the time. she’s got a pinterest board of inspiration, mostly from classic children’s literature. one day…

mallory got her penchant for curse words and long-winded, rambling stories from debate club in high school. she never won any debates but she definitely said the most words per minute; no one can argue with her on that.

the olive garden food truck still sits, abandoned, at its old post. some people now believe it to be haunted. others say that’s a misunderstanding and it’s actually an outpost for pizza ghost delivery people trying not to be spotted. who’s to say!

this is not so much a headcanon as it is a wish and a hope and a prayer. andy wood needs to be a mostly normal guy with one just supremely unusual hobby. he collects haunted dolls, or perhaps potato chips that vaguely resemble celebrities. chuck celebrates every single new find.

#greater Boston #greater Boston podcast #been mulling this one over ALL DAY #i’m sure i have others i could add here but i’m limiting myself to this brief collection

[somuchbetterthanthat]

You ever think of Greater Boston and suddenly go a little insane about Mallory and Leon?

Leon gently going "come on, Mallory, you can do it" when Mallory can't find her voice,,, Mallory NEVER EVEN KNOWING LEON and still being like "of fucking course I'm going to give him the best dance of his death" like

fuck

#adopted siblings coded #Mallory took one look at Nica and Dimitri and was like 'is no one going to take care of those fucked up kids' #and Leon was like 'PLEASE do and i'll be there for you when you need it' #weeping weeping weeping #Mallory is a Stamatis in my heart nobody touches me #greater boston #GB ramblings