ADR - Episode 526: Notes

[00:00:00] Oh, hello and welcome to Al Dente Rigamortis. I'm Review Cultist. I'm Mikey. East Ends are evil. And I'm the Gamer in Yellow. And we're here to discuss those internet stories, most creepy and most pasta, and be

[00:00:29] critically silly doing it. And tonight we have Notes by Won't Think Straight. We always have notes. Yeah, I've got a thing, a little bit when we go into actual thoughts. But yeah, so we're we're covering yet another part of the The Won't Think

[00:00:45] Straight saga called this one's going to be called Notes. So you can check the story out on Reddit No Sleep by looking by just looking up notes or Won't Think Straight. So all the Won't Think Straight stories are archived up on Reddit No Sleep.

[00:01:00] So you can check that before we get too far ahead. Let's give our initial recommendations. I'm going to recommend it. I'm going to personally recommend it. I'll recommend it. OK, well, let's let's find out why we gave those recommendations starting with the the rundown.

[00:01:22] And this one's a bit of an iffy so like it's like, so this is another story picked up by Nair from Brad of the previous story involving the whole time bridge and such. But this didn't happen to Brad. This happened to his cousin or cousins.

[00:01:38] They were getting a few levels removed. Yeah, yeah. We thought the aunt thing was bad. So, yeah, this time around, the story is from Brad's happened to Brad's cousins. And of course, the names have been altered for privacy reasons and such.

[00:01:57] So the cousins had a daughter, Emily, who was very introverted and quiet, had been for like since she was about five or six and really only playing with herself and not really having like not having any friends whatsoever, despite their attempts to try and help socialize her.

[00:02:17] And nothing seemed to really work as a result. When Emily was six, she started saying things like things that of events that would happen, like bad things that would happen usually and they'd usually happen like shortly after she she prophesied them

[00:02:37] like a store burned down that they were just visiting like hours later. She knew when their dog would be hit by a car and like things like that. The big one that kind of like made it there. Her parents more the most worried, though, was the Emily would

[00:02:56] Emily knew or like prophesies that she would not live to see her 12th birthday. And sure enough, shortly before her birthday, she passed away from an aneurysm. So credits. No, no, not yet. But the strangest continued after death,

[00:03:17] because sometime after her death, the parents started finding blue inked messages on bits of paper from Emily that she had left in the house when she was alive, just tucked away and hidden. At first, the parents took comfort from these messages as they were Emily kind of assuredly.

[00:03:38] There were messages of Emily assuring her parents like that she loved them and like they like they were very kind of wholesome kind of messages. That all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. I mean, when the the red inked messages started popping up

[00:03:52] and they started finding out normally. Yeah. They were odd and cryptic messages compared to the the previous ones. They were also seemed to be revolving around her uncle Scott. Uh. Eventually, they found some more of these notes in her room

[00:04:13] and the last one of which are at all seem to culminate to making somebody pay. That's when when Scott came over and he had been doing so for the last a while, like check on the parents and see how they were doing.

[00:04:27] And they finally told him about the notes that Emily had left and such. And so he decided to go and check Emily's room. And that's when things took a further turn. The door slammed shut and would not open no matter how hard

[00:04:41] the parents tried and screams growling and commotion and a really nasty commotion could be heard from within, specifically the screams of of Uncle Scott. Emily's parents were rightfully concerned at this point. Like they were trying to open the door.

[00:04:58] They couldn't and all their hearings is horrible noise from the from the room. Eventually, things got quiet. Wow, I think I was I had to try. I tried to save that thing because I was saying like I thought it said quite.

[00:05:13] Eventually, things got quiet in the room and the door opened where Scott was in a fetal position in a disaster of room and and sobbing ready to confess ready to confess something. It turns out Uncle Scott had been sexually abusing Emily since she was five.

[00:05:33] That's when things started to click for the parents about the red inked messages. They were messages about this horrible dark secret that Emily couldn't bring up to them in life. So Uncle Scott was arrested, rightfully so. And the parents eventually found closure regarding Emily's death

[00:05:55] and these horrible circumstances a few months after these events. Until they found one last note in red ink, which read, see you soon. Finn. So that was the rundown for notes. But yeah, I guess we'll move on.

[00:06:17] So with the rundown out of the way, I suppose we'll move on to. Everyone tolerance, a gramming positions at this point. And I've got a couple. So start with this one here. Puzzled, they added it to box. I think you need the the in there.

[00:06:40] Puzzled, they added it to the box. I did not even catch that. They added it to box. You're right. Yeah. A little caveman writing caveman speech. It happens. Yeah. No, it's a very common thing. I we jest about like, oh, it's like, oh, the caveman speech.

[00:06:59] It's like, dude, like this shit happens all the time. Like I write shit too, believe it or not. And like that's why editing is so helpful. For you missed. So. Yeah, move on to the next thing I have. In the morning, they found their back door lock broken.

[00:07:20] So. On the surface, it doesn't seem any bad, but like I feel like maybe you could you could potentially correct this, but it's like. In the morning, the lock on their back door was broken. Yeah, I prefer that. Yeah. Yeah. Because you're right. It's not technically bad.

[00:07:40] That's not technically wrong, but it flows better the way that you rewrote it. Yeah. And then the next one. A few more weeks past and they uncovered or a few weeks past and they uncover the next red ink note behind a photo on the mantelpiece.

[00:08:00] So mantelpieces spelled M A N M A N T L E P I E C E. Which is technically not the correct wording or the correct spelling. It actually should be M A N T E L P I E C E.

[00:08:18] Like just the L and the E were in the wrong spot. OK. And I'll move on to the next one I have here. At that moment, the doorbell rang as Scott paid his regular visit. So doorbell should be one word like a compound word.

[00:08:39] And my last one is Emily's parents rushed into the door. Emily's parents rushed to the room, but nothing they could do would open the door. So parents has a possessive like apostrophe between parent and S.

[00:08:57] And it really should be the plural for parents, not the possessive of parents. So get rid of that apostrophe. I think that's true. Yeah. But that is my grammar position. So, Mikey, the East Dance Freeville, what do you have? I have a conjunction junction. All right.

[00:09:16] And next stop, conjunction junction. It's about his cousins and the tragic tale of their daughter, Emily. As per usual, all names have been changed to protect their privacy. But she seemed happiest when she was alone playing with her dolls. And deep down, Emily's parents felt it too.

[00:09:43] It didn't help that the few times that Emily spoke, it would be about events in the future. And they always seemed to come true. It broke her parents' hearts to watch her playing alone with her dolls.

[00:10:04] It took several weeks for her parents to pull themselves back together enough to continue with their lives. It's not your fault. But there was one note they found that seemed out of place. It was then they noticed that all the red ink letters were torn

[00:10:30] were torn from the same piece, same complete sheet of paper. It's been several months since that day and no more notes have shown up. Finn. Like on the start of that saying like, basically all the names have been changed to protect their identities.

[00:10:54] Then it wouldn't immediately goes into a butt. So it's like, they changed all the names but I really liked playing with the toys. So we didn't change the names. These are actually my names. Yeah.

[00:11:12] Yeah, weird stuff like that happens when you read a story that is filled with sentences that start with words that they probably shouldn't like its hands or butts because there's always better words to use.

[00:11:21] And it also seemed kind of funny that her playing with her dolls broke her parents' heart and it took several weeks for it to recover. Oh God, this is the secret. This is the secret horrible like spin off to boy,

[00:11:43] which is the horror movie about like the like life-sized like doll boy. Really? That's like has to be taken care of by by like a by a by a nanny sort of character. Yeah. But yeah, I guess we'll move on to the grammar and yellow with the gamer.

[00:12:02] No, we're not. Cool. All right, let's move on to the actual thoughts or as gamer in yellow likes to call it notes. So we're just recursively like just notes about notes. Yeah, I have no notes. Do you have no notes? I have no notes.

[00:12:18] Sorry, it's notes, notes, actually. Notes, notes. Yes. So I'm going to start with this one here. For the first couple of years, her parents thought it might be just or it might just be a phase of natural shyness.

[00:12:35] But as the years went by, they started to worry about her social awkwardness. They tried enrolling her in different classes and getting her involved in sports. They sacrificed their time and precious savings doing what they could to help her make friends.

[00:12:50] OK, so given the context about the weirdness and also the creepiness that we get later on, this is very understandable. Like what's going on with her and such. But I feel like the parents might have been going about it the wrong way.

[00:13:07] Like instead, it doesn't specifically say what they're doing to help her. Like make. But like it says, like they spent they spend their time and money trying to help her make friends with like going to different classes and going to sports.

[00:13:20] So they really should just took in the poor girl to fucking therapy. Like that's that's usually like the better option to do. Like if your if your kid is like if you're worried about your kid, it's like have them have them like checked and such or like.

[00:13:36] I that's how I feel like if it doesn't say that they didn't. It doesn't say what they didn't. But because it was that kind of vague, I kind of feel like they should have. But yeah, it wasn't vague enough to be like, OK, they probably did this.

[00:13:50] But it wasn't like. Specific enough to say that they did. Yeah, and the thing, you know. Yeah. But yeah, it's just like like there's like, oh, they spent all this time and money like taking it like trying to get her enrolled in sports and stuff like that.

[00:14:05] It's like really the girl would this story probably could have like like we wouldn't have a story, obviously, if this has happened. But like just take her like a kids therapy thing session or something

[00:14:16] that just and like maybe they can like get like they can kind of help help her with the trauma that she's experiencing and shit. And maybe even learn the truth early on so that we don't have to they don't have to have all the horrible shit revealed later.

[00:14:30] But then again, we wouldn't have a story otherwise. So. So you'd probably you would like it better if either a they specifically say she went to therapy and we tried getting her in different classes and stuff like that, but nothing helped.

[00:14:44] Or you would prefer it if they just said we tried everything we could to help her, but nothing seemed to work because if it's that vague, you can extrapolate that that means potentially therapy and all these other things as well.

[00:14:56] Yeah, because even like and like therapy usually help or like I feel like therapy would usually help in that kind of circumstance. But also like kids sometimes like it's sometimes kids are hard nuts to crack in even like when they're when they're being

[00:15:12] when they're during like therapy sessions of that. So like the the the truth of the horrible thing might not have even happened like during the therapy sessions. So then like that that's because it's such a horrible traumatic thing. So like it may not have helped it.

[00:15:25] But it would but just to have it like maybe be like brought up that they tried. Yeah, that they tried. Yeah. Yeah. And like obviously they like the parents aren't Dirtlanders. Like they are it's just it's just the way the story was written.

[00:15:40] It kind of felt like they were they were looking at it the wrong way. Yeah. But I'll move on to the next thing I have here. Sure enough, shortly before her 12th birthday, Emily suffered a brain aneurysm that she never recovered from.

[00:15:58] She was in a coma for several days before dying in hospital with her weeping parents at her bedside credits. Right. Wow, that was really really short episode short story, like clocked in just about about a page really succinct to creepypasta. And of course, yeah, there's more

[00:16:19] like the three pages worth according to Google Docs. But it really felt like this was where like the story could have ended. If you want just like a mini pasta, that's where most stories would have ended. Yeah. Yeah. Just like this kid foretelling like weird stuff,

[00:16:33] like like weird stuff and being kind of introverted and then foretelling her own death and then and then her death comes true. Like but yeah, no, the the fact the stuff that we get more was actually like kind of cool and creepy as well.

[00:16:46] Like the like specifically the notes stuff, like the the notes that she left around for her parents. Give a stop there. It's like why would it? Why was it called notes? Exactly. Shouldn't have been called like predictions. But I'll move on to the next thing.

[00:17:01] Actually, it's kind of tied to the fact her whole like leaving notes for her parents and such. Knowing she was going to die, Emily had hidden dozens of messages for her parents to find over the years

[00:17:13] as reminders of her saying all the things she couldn't seem to when she was alive. Each note her parents found was treasured and lovingly collected and stored in a heavy wooden box. Man, this is getting like all levels of of like tragic, wholesome and bittersweet.

[00:17:30] It's like almost like a wholesome horror in a way. But like because like it's like like like the kid is dead and but not but she's left a bunch of notes kind of thing for her parents to post mortem to find.

[00:17:44] It's like but I was like left as like when's the creepiness going to drop? Moving on. But there was one note they found that seemed out of place while it seemed to be in her handwriting, unlike the others, it was unsigned and used a blood red ink.

[00:18:02] There it is. Also, one thing I might add to the story to like that could maybe have elevated the story. And of course, this is format permitting given where it's like where it's being like posted and such.

[00:18:17] But like maybe make the lines that are supposed to be in like red ink, red and then make any mention like make any of the the lines or messages that were in blue ink notes, blue in the story.

[00:18:32] Just sort of like I don't know if that's something you could do in on like red at no sleep like in like a reddit post and stuff. If you can actually add like have them be different colors. But like I just think that might might elevate the narrative

[00:18:42] a little early the the the presentation of it. Hmm. Yeah, if you can do that, I don't know. All I know is when you have a blanket shows up blue, but they're not going to specifically make all those links just for the.

[00:18:57] Yeah, yeah, I'll move on to the next thing I have here. Only Scots quiet wailing could be heard as the door opened normally. He was lying in a fetal position, rocking backwards and forwards, whilst repeating, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[00:19:12] Scott would never speak of what happened in that room, but he later confessed to having sexually abused Emily since she was five. Yeah, I had suspicions. Of this turn up when the red ink note started like the first one

[00:19:30] that says like Uncle Sam in red notes or Uncle Sam. Uncle Scott popped up as like the first note in red ink. I was like, oh, this is going to be one of those, isn't it? And then you got that immediately.

[00:19:43] So this is a real smart or I'm real dumb. Well, I'm also a genre savvy. And like because I was suspicious of that, like I had my suspicions about it, like from the first note. But then as it kept going, I kind of just brushed it aside

[00:19:58] until this part where it all but confirms what's happening. And then when you think back through the story, I can see the same kind of like story beats that I've seen in a bunch of other horror media and fiction of of a young character either using preternatural abilities

[00:20:15] or as a ghost after they've died to seek a retribution or revenge on a horrible act that was was caused by caused by a supposed loved one or trusted person, which was committed upon them. And then they were like they kept it secret in life kind of thing.

[00:20:31] It's it's it's a very common trope I've seen in like a bunch of horror movies and such. And I mean, it's done it's done well here. It's just like I'm very sure. I guess I'm just a genre savvy as a result of it. Like a common trope.

[00:20:47] So it's like, oh, yeah, I kind of saw that coming. But yeah, it's like not not a bad thing. Like in terms of the right in terms of like a story, it's not a bad thing. It's just like something I've seen before a bunch.

[00:21:01] And I mean, again, this story kind of like blends it well with like because for me, the story does well with the combining that with the the letters from to the parents and stuff like kind of we kind of get that be like sort of a melancholy,

[00:21:16] like sad, but like kind of hopeful kind of horror. Like, oh, she's like she's sending these like postmortem messages to her parents about like that she like telling them things that she wasn't able to tell them in life kind of thing.

[00:21:30] And then we get the the real horror with the red notes where it's just like a horrible like truth that has to be realized by the end of the story. Mm hmm. So I mean, like narratively and like writing wise, it's really well done.

[00:21:44] It's just it's a sad it's a common and sad trope. Yes. But I'll move on to the next thing here. Actually, this is getting close to the last one I have. It's been several months since that day and no more notes have shown up.

[00:22:00] Emily's parents found some level of comfort and closure to their grief until a few days ago when they found a new note under a rug in red ink. See you soon. Oof, I actually got chills when I read that. Me too honestly.

[00:22:17] The first time I was like, oh, because like I can take I've taken it. I take I actually like I took it two ways. Like first off, I took it this way, like the ending is both creepy and a little bit in a way bittersweet.

[00:22:28] Like it's to initially I thought it was like clearly for telling that the parents were going to die, but at least they'll see their child soon, like kind of silver lining kind of thing. I saw that the both of the parents will be dying very soon.

[00:22:45] Yeah, like there's going to be some house fire and they're going to die in her to get a car crash. Yeah, exactly like that kind of thing. Yeah, alternatively, though, it could because it was in red ink. Like all the other ones that had to do with Scott,

[00:23:01] maybe this is like Uncle Scott is going to die, like probably in prisons or something like that. And she'll see him in hell kind of thing. Oh, yeah, actually, I was that was like, because I feel like this is this honestly,

[00:23:15] as I was putting my notes down, I was like, oh, wait, what if that's not the parents like that are like this is toward because it's in red ink? Like wouldn't it have been in blue ink if it was to the parents? Yeah, it's less creepy now, though.

[00:23:28] I know, because like right here, because like when you first read it, you kind of get the implication, especially from the build up that like from like the previous two sentences, like like everything like they finally got some comfort enclosure from their grief until a few days ago

[00:23:42] when they found when they found a new note under a rug in red ink. See you soon. Like that gives you chills. Like that's creepy. And like it's like, oh, what do you mean? It's that it's that Padme and Attica thing.

[00:23:57] It's like, so you see, it's like we're going to see at the great. We're going to see we're going to we're going to be your gravestone at the cemetery, right? And it's like Anakin looking at her. It's like, we're going to visit you at the grave stone, right?

[00:24:07] It's like, no, you're you're probably going to die and you'll see your your your daughter soon, which again, can be kind of bittersweet because it's like, yes, you're going to die, but at least you'll be with your family or with your

[00:24:18] with the family member that's dead as well. Yeah, kind of thing. So it's like depending on what you believe, of course, also. But like, yeah, like that can kind of be a sort of a silver lining kind of thing or like kind of a bittersweet ending.

[00:24:31] But then if you take it like if you connect the dots further from like the red inked notes from previous is like, is this message actually toward Uncle Scott in prison? Because I mean, a lot of a lot of child molesters

[00:24:43] and stuff of that in in prison end up getting shanked and killed by other prisoners because even other prisoners are like, fuck that noise. Yes. Yeah. So yeah, I thought that was kind of interesting.

[00:24:59] And then also just kind of like it's also I guess you could also take it kind of creepy is like, why do you think see you soon? It's like, well, I'll see you in hell, motherfucker. It's like, so that means that Emily's also in hell.

[00:25:11] Oh, yeah, it's true. Well, that's basically saying that there's no like hell or heaven. It's just there's the afterlife and they're both going to be there. Yeah, that's true because these aren't also these also aren't like ghosts, like ghost messages, like these are messages she left in life.

[00:25:29] Like in preparation for her death, right? So. But yeah, I also think that's kind of creepier, like the that like the notes were left pre-mortem, like for post-mortem viewing kind of thing. Not like, oh, there are messages that are being left by a ghost

[00:25:49] because this way, like the way it is, like if it's like her knowing that she's going to die, so she leaves a bunch of these messages and these these truths and such. It sort of like it never addresses the idea of like an afterlife. Yeah, it's like, yeah.

[00:26:11] I mean, that there is a ghost scenario here because I mean, Emily's room. Yeah, that's that's true. There is like this weird. There is a weird supernatural like well, I mean, there's already a supernatural element with like her foreseeing the truth, the future events and stuff.

[00:26:32] But there's even a further like element with that, with what happens to Uncle Scott in the room. Is that? Yeah, that's true, unless he just had like a psychotic episode from from going into that room. And then like that was all him. That's just like.

[00:26:51] Because he wasn't wounded or nothing. There wasn't a giant monster that came out there and beat the shit out of him because he was taken to prison. Yeah, but that's that feels like it could be more grounded

[00:26:59] in like a reality of like or like a more realistic type of haunting kind of thing as well. But it also could just be psychological. Like again, he just he just had a psychotic episode as he was faced with the horrible shit he did

[00:27:13] and being in her room again and like seeing the messages because I oh, maybe the message on the door was left there. But then again, like also the door was like mysteriously like would not open. And even when it was like unlocked or like it was

[00:27:27] even when it opened normally, he didn't just like quickly unlock the door and then like go into a fetal position in the in the middle of the room. Yeah. So yeah, like there is definitely a supernatural element. You're right, Mikey. With that. So. Yeah, I don't know.

[00:27:47] To me, it works both ways, like for the creepiness factor by the end. And it adds this like kind of more like kind of ground for me anyway, it's like a more grounded, like paranormal vengeance kind of plot. Because it's like we don't we hear things.

[00:28:05] We don't see things, which is a lot of time what we what ends up happening in I do in quotes real world accounts of hauntings and ghosts tormenting the living. So. Yeah. So regardless of that fact, yeah, the ending definitely gave me chills.

[00:28:23] And I and like I really dug it for that, like kind of last last last sentence, like kind of zinger. So but that is my actual thoughts. So Mikey, these things for evil. All right, just do. So the ending of see you soon.

[00:28:49] Because we get the supernatural element earlier. Yeah, it could be that she's going to see her parents in ghost form. Yeah. So it's not that. Scary if you think it that way, but the first thing. Yeah.

[00:29:12] But the first thing you think is that the parents are going to die. Yeah. Yeah, like that's that's that's the horror element of it. And then like if you think about it a little bit longer, it's like, well, I mean, like, yeah, they die, but like.

[00:29:25] They're at least going to see their their their child again. Like that's yeah, that you can take some again, depending on what your belief system is like, you can take some solace from that. Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of a wholesome horror,

[00:29:38] except for the, you know, the whole like Uncle Scott thing. Yeah. Well, and the whole sadness of the Emily having a brain aneurysm and dying. It's like, yeah. Yeah. Super wholesome. Yeah. But like the whole like the whole yeah, like like the events are under

[00:29:57] down like honestly, that's like the more of the horror element. And then like the wholesome horror comes from like all these messages she left for her parents after she when she knew she was going to die. Like that's the wholesome horrors because it's like it's tragic.

[00:30:09] It's bittersweet, but there's and there's a melancholy to it. Like they're getting like she's trying to help her parents get some closure or some comfort after she passed. Even though it's kind of macabre and creepy in that in how it was implemented. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And then.

[00:30:33] So, yeah, it's to me a sad story because of the whole scenario of the uncle doing stupid stuff and the daughter dying because of a brain aneurysm. And then the the parents get to die soon too. Not the death happening. Yeah. So I mean, everybody dies. So yeah.

[00:31:06] All right. My next actual thought here, I feel there was a missed opportunity near the end. And it comes from it was then they noticed that all the red ink letters were torn from the same complete sheet of paper. And then it lists the the notes.

[00:31:29] But the thing is nothing comes of that. That there could have been a hidden message on the other side that when you put them all together. Yeah. But but as far as it stands, like there's no reason that it has to come from the same sheet of paper.

[00:31:48] Yeah, I had this awful like this horrible idea for like what could be on the other side like as a message. It could be like a printout. Of a photo of Uncle Scott and her has just been like ripped up. Oh, like on the back of it.

[00:32:05] Yeah, that would be so fucking like dark. Yeah, I mean, it's already pretty. It's already pretty fucked up in dark. But like, I feel like that if you're going to have like a secret message on the other side, it's like, yeah, what if this was

[00:32:16] like what if the notes were put on? Like she she printed out a photo of her of a picture of her and her uncle and then just tore that up and used those pieces of paper for the red ink messages.

[00:32:27] Like, God, that's that would be so fucked up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah, that's the end of my actual thoughts. All right. And then I guess we move on to gamer. OK, yeah, my first note is just literally when it drops that

[00:32:52] the creepiest thing that she told them was that she knew that she was going to die before she was 12. Like as soon as I read that, I'm like, this is fucking dark. Like her parents. Yeah. It was part of the DC of hers.

[00:33:07] But like her parents as skeptic as they might be to all this shit that's happening have been seeing like all this happening. All her like fortunes like being foretold and all these things actually coming true.

[00:33:21] So at this point, they got a believer to an extent that this is actually going to happen. Yeah, because like it kind of talked like they were there was a few instances where they're saying like, oh, that's a coincidence, blah, blah, blah, it's not.

[00:33:37] I mean, again, denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Like people love to deny like certain things and chalk up the coincidence. So case in point, Mikey. Well, yeah, actually speaking of when I mentioned coincidence things, they're finding all the notes. This is all happy and nice.

[00:33:58] And they find the regular. This is Uncle Scott and then knock, knock, knock, Uncle Scott's at the door. Yeah. And then specifically says they smiled and put it down to coincidence. Like, how could you? How could you possibly do that knowing what your daughter could do

[00:34:14] and like how perfect that timing is? Well, maybe they thought like maybe it was a mess. Maybe they thought it's like, well, like maybe Uncle Scott, like it was like it was just starting to either they were a thing is like,

[00:34:26] oh, well, maybe he just like charged up to like foretelling that like Uncle Scott's going to arrive at the door or like, oh no, what's going to happen to Uncle Scott? Like kind of thing. Because at that point, they don't know his dark secret.

[00:34:37] So it's like, but yeah, it kind of like, I feel like maybe another thing that could have been added to this is like, if the if the red the her writing in this one was a lot more like jagged and like violent kind of or angry.

[00:34:50] It's like Uncle Scott. I mean, it's red. It isn't red and it is. But it's also in her handwriting from the previous from like the blue notes and stuff like that. So it's like, yeah. I guess I guess it's trying to use the color

[00:35:02] like kind of coating more than like a more dramatic styling for the right. Yeah, they should have been they should have been suspicious of Uncle Scott from like the first note. Sorry. I mean, maybe, but yeah, either way,

[00:35:26] speaking of the red notes, I didn't like I chomped in earlier. I didn't clue in that they were actually spelling like a sentence or like telling a message with all of them. So I really liked the reveal of that when that happened.

[00:35:41] Yeah, yeah, even when like, I mean, I had an inkling of what was going on, but even like at the end, like when you get all the rundowns, like that was a nice like kind of thing. And then you could think back on like, oh, that that's what

[00:35:54] that is all for foreshadowing for what's happening now. Yeah. He's pretty neat. And then, yeah, literally the only thing I have left is just the see you soon thing gave me chills. Like, yeah, which I already said. So yeah, I guess that's all for my notes on notes.

[00:36:15] That's all my notes notes. Wow. So yeah, I guess we'll move on to final thoughts. It's gonna be a short one, guys. It tends to happen when like most of us like or at least partially like it. Yeah, we just want to talk about when there's

[00:36:31] something to complain about. Right. And I hate that. Like it's like, I mean, we it's not even that we also didn't like we also like brought up what we liked about this story. So it's like, not even like it's just we have more to say

[00:36:43] with words when it comes to like stuff that we stuff that's wrong with a story kind of thing. So because when there's something wrong with the story, but we like the premise of the story, then we think of ways to make it better, which that's why we're

[00:36:57] talking about a whole bunch of different things. But when the story is already good, the way it is, like, there's no conflict. Yeah, there's no mental conflict and there's no like, yeah, well, let's let's try and figure out how we resolve this conflict in a word.

[00:37:12] So yeah, yeah, I get it. It's just like, yeah. But yeah, I guess on to final thoughts. So yeah, I'm going to still recommend this one. It uses a common traumatic narrative of horror with a dash of like cathartic post mortem paranormal justice,

[00:37:32] it seems that aspect really, really helps up the creepiness factor. And it blends well, at least I think with the sort of whimsical, wholesome horror of finding messages and notes left behind by a dead daughter like that could for who could foretell the future

[00:37:54] or for future events and stuff like that. So it was like it blended well, I think, like through overall, like blending this kind of like horror, this horror of like that's like whimsical and like melancholy of like the messages

[00:38:08] from a daughter who died, who could foretell like things and so that. But then like bleeds into this like much more skeevy real world like horror of childhood abuse. Yeah, that is that comes to light post mortem. And it reminds me of movies like Stir of Echoes

[00:38:27] and and those kind of movies where it's like the ghost or like or the dead are trying to resolve something that happened to them in life and like trying to basically tell the living who the perpetrators were. It's like that kind of melancholy horror.

[00:38:47] And like usually I find those very sad and actually I don't care to watch those like for fun. But like as far as this story goes, as part of this collection of of weird stories for the won't think straight saga,

[00:39:01] I think it works because it's again one of those things that's kind of like weirder than fiction or like just weird shit happening that that won't think straight is like coming to terms with now as he as he hears these tales. So yeah, I'll recommend this one still.

[00:39:18] Mikey, these stands for evil. Well, I found this story more like that sad than creepy. Yeah, it did have creepy elements like the uncle. It had supernatural elements because she could predict the future down to the note because basically it's whenever the parents were

[00:39:49] cleaning and they'd find a note, then they would something would happen. So it's knowing exactly when the parents would be cleaning. Yeah, exactly. She's using her her pre cog abilities like. Yeah. So like that that portion is neat. Is it creepy though? Not really.

[00:40:13] It falls in like it depends on the person and it kind of I feel like it falls in like I'm a cob line, but it's like, yeah, like, yeah. You're either going to find it creepy or you're not going to find it creepy

[00:40:22] or you're just going to find it sad. Well, like I find the precognition cool. Yeah, but it's sad because she dies from a brain aneurysm. Like and she knew when she was going to be like she knew she was going to die from it. So she's yeah.

[00:40:41] Well, but then the thing. That is always an issue is like how come she didn't ride to. Figure out what why she was going to die. She just knew she was going to, but she didn't. It didn't seem like she fought to live type thing.

[00:41:03] Well, that's she knew what it was is a brain aneurysm. What's she going to do about it? Yeah. Well, but it's a question of did she know it was a brain aneurysm? Because that's true.

[00:41:14] It might have been just like I mean, she knew that like that place was going like that the faces in that doll shop were melting. But she didn't know why and then they found it like because of wiring it burned down

[00:41:25] or like she knew their dog was going to get hit by a car. But like she may not have known like. Which car which car are like exactly what day? But she knew it was going to happen. Yeah.

[00:41:39] Yeah, like it's it's left vague enough that it's like, yeah, does she know? And this also kind of falls in like when you're like a kid and so that you're also kind of helpless. So it's like and she was already kind of in a weird like traumatic state

[00:41:51] as it was because of like what had been happening to her. So maybe she was just like, thank God, peace. Like sweet, sweet relief of death. Like it couldn't be that like she could just like honestly from her trauma

[00:42:05] of like being sexually abused, it could just been like like maybe she was like she didn't want to want to try and stop what was going to happen to her. Yeah, like her death and such. I mean, it's sort of a thing.

[00:42:18] It's like it's sort of a fear of helplessness or like not fear of helplessness. Like it usually drives on the horror of helplessness or just acceptance. And even like like if she can tell the future and like maybe she can't stop events. So like maybe it's all preordained.

[00:42:37] So it's like that kind of existential horror of like free will doesn't exist. Like we just got to go through the motions kind of thing. Yeah, so as it stands, I'm still only going to give this a partial recommendation or fair and gamer.

[00:42:59] Well, for me, I like the read. Honestly, it's one of the better stories we've read in a long time, I think, or at least for me personally, because I like the way that this was taken with Emily's abilities, like using even past her own death.

[00:43:16] Like that's where the creepiness comes in. Like even the like wholesome part of living notes everywhere, it's still done with a creepy tin like tint to it all. You know, yeah, which I liked. And then even more so when the red ones showed up

[00:43:30] and we find out the reason why why she was like so messed up in the first place. Yeah, yeah, moving up Bueno. No, not a fan. Mm hmm. But as a way to show horror and creepiness and fear in a story, it worked well.

[00:43:50] So I don't condone it, obviously. But yeah, like creative in terms of the story, in terms of like a creepy past that we're right over reading, that's what we don't condone. Or that's that's what we yeah, we don't like like it's good for the story.

[00:44:06] I mean, it's it's shitty. Absolutely. Like you want to kill the people that do this kind of thing to kids. Yes, in real life. But in terms of a horror, like a story like horror is often used

[00:44:17] for like as like a form of catharsis to get back at those kind of situations. So yes, or a process. While this one is technically skivy a little bit because of that, it doesn't have the same skivy levels of other previous stories that we've read

[00:44:33] that I like couldn't get into because of how much ski there was. So yeah, I just I like this one. OK, well, I guess that will we'll do it for this week's episode. So two to four recommendations and one partial recommendation.

[00:44:52] Honestly, I was kind of on the fence early. I like on in my when I was reading this because it's like it's I was kind of with with Mikey on this. It's like it's not it's only like partially creepy except for like

[00:45:04] but like ultimately I went with the like with a full recommendation because it's like it does it's a really well written like melancholy horror story. Yeah, but yeah. So go with that with you will based off our opinions and such

[00:45:21] and how you align with our views as always. And that'll do it for this week's episode. So if you like what you heard or if you didn't leave a comment in the comments section below where this gets posted, we're all on Twitter.

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[00:47:30] So, guys, I may have made a mistake regarding just how many stories there are in the weight in the Wonten straight saga. You know how I said there was 11? Sure. Well, I recently when I was tracking this story down for like to read it and such,

[00:47:47] I actually found that there's like a whole like listing on on right now sleep for like like the archived stories of the Wonten straight saga. There's currently 18.