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[arachnologist]

Apparently I am all about jobs lately, so:

I'm offering tutoring to anyone who needs it. I'm good with most subjects 6-12, but I specialize in chemistry and biology. My name is Gwen Stacy aaaand I can be reached pretty much whenever. Come talk to me here if you're interested and I can give you a couple of other contact methods.

PS, that carvnival? At least twice as sketchy as Coney Island, and Coney Island? Is pretty sketchy.

( super ultra private as hell text to one Peter Parker: )

I want to talk about Madame Red's. More specifically, about Lau.

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[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

Indeed. It was extraordinarily sketchy.

Then again, that's not really that unusual, here.

[arachnologist]

I know. But that doesn't make me any more inclined to go near it.

Did you go?

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

A perfectly reasonable precaution.

I did. It was even sketchier from up close.

[arachnologist]

I bet. Details?

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

Health code violations of all sorts. I definitely wouldn't recommend eating any of the food they had. Many of the carnies seemed to be blind or mute, including the ones running the incredibly rickety - and clichéd, I might say - carnival rides. The animals appeared to be treated very poorly.

Then, of course, there is the mysterious nature of its arrival, up in a single night and replacing a section of forest - which just so happened to reappear or grow back when the carnival vanished. And the question of just who were the carnival workers, anyway - as they certainly haven't been seen on the island before.

Beyond that, there was something else. Nothing I can exactly quantify, but an odd feeling, little things that didn't add up. I might almost have wondered if the carnival were haunted!

[arachnologist]

Oh my god. It's even worse than I thought it was. I'm never going to get used to living on a -- a sentient or magical or whatever island. I can't wrap my mind around how surreal it is, and I live here! God. I live here. On an island possessed by demons or ghosts or -- or something, with pretty much omnipotence to do whatever it wants to--

God. I. Forget it. Forget I said all that. Thank you, for the, uh -- the details. The fact that it's impossible to rule out the carnival being haunted as a legitimate possibility is just -- bizarre.