#caleb michaels

Started listening to the college tapes today on my 3 hour drive back to university after having a mental breakdown about how busy my fourth year is and how I feel like I’m missing out the full university experience because I only ever do schoolwork…

Needless to say it’s hard to drive whilst simultaneously laughing and crying. I forgot how relatable I found Caleb and Adam when I listened to the bright sessions in high school but like damn… the characters still hit just as hard

Caleb’s all grown up

*shows up four years late to the bright sessions fan base*

They are so in love but man are they astronomically uncommunicative. 

Seeing how the first episode of The College Tapes came out today, here’s the instagram time line from what we have now cause I really have nothing better to do with my life.

Will update as timeline goes on…

(Spoilers: after Bright Sessions and College Tapes)

The Time Line

JAN

8th

ADAM: at the public library cause school is opened (our nerd )

CALEB: he’s working out before school starts

11th

CALEB: hanging out with Mark at the bar for tacos

13th

ADAM: reminded he’s going to yale

18th

ADAM: he’s in a radio room. Probably a radio host of sorts or just plays the music. Caleb liked this pic. The aesthetic is: neon.

19th

CALEB: Caleb is a simp for the gym

20th

ADAM: at library. In fiction sections between “bo -> bu”

CALEB: Caleb is doing weight stuff. Adam liked this he can do 160.

21st

CALEB: reminded he going to Boston Uni.

24th

CALEB: he’s having chai and made a pokemon reference. God they’re both nerds.

25th

ADAM: pic of books, which in order are: the bone clocks, the house of leaves, the boy who was raised as a dog, the psychopath test, no country for old men.

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ADAM: he’s got coffee or tea? Then plays Harry Styles “To be Lonely” ( :( ). Then “Cherry ” Now he’s back on campus. And back in the radio shack. He’s got tea. Caitlin made Adam some ramen. And he’s reading Harry Potter.

CALEB: went on a run, BU is nice when it’s chill (so no people around), watching titanic with his sister, working out, night run, reading Harry Potter.

FEB

3rd

ADAM: still at the library. (I aspire to love a place that much.)

5th

ADAM: his radio desk is “scattered and beautiful” but definitely not refering to himself.

8th

CALEB: Caleb is sitting on a curb after or during a party? I actually can’t tell what the pic is but there’s a thing that’s engraved with a dragon looking thing. Special book? Flask? Flask of tea?

12th

ADAM: LIBRARY STACKS (that’s it, just the header thing pointing up to where the library stacks are)

14th

ADAM: rainy on Valentine’s Day and Adam “feels that” (please get your boyfriend back)

16th

CALEB: Caleb took a run and took pics of squirrels. They’re fucking phat.

27th

ADAM: just pic of campus, sunset

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ADAM: he’s at a concert but from where he is he might be part of the back stage crew? Or just to the side where the audience is allowed? But it looks like he’s on stage? Then a pic of campus. The pic of CDs. Radio mic. Than concert (he’s in the crowd or stage crew in the back? ). Don’t know which concert event, but one of the songs/artists I recognize is the one who sung “hang ups.”

CALEB: plays To Be So Lonely by Harry Styles (:(), playing games with the bois, football game, outside a party with his tea, at Quincy Market, Valentine’s Day (sucky day so he eat treats [they’ve def broken up]), date night with our bro Mark, and movie night

MARCH

4th

ADAM: “goodnight. Finally” with pic of a church at night. Kinda creepy? What’s going on Adam? (Only thing he posted in March) (is this where the bell goes off?)

9th

CALEB: reading HP with his sis

10th

CALEB: Caleb painted with Chloe. Put down feelings. Kind of a lot of colours, which makes me feel he’s going through a bit. Quite a bit of Blues, red, white, and some green, but not much… :(

28th

CALEB: Caleb be paying games.

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ADAM: late at school studying, then text that says “bad brain night” in faded text with the song “break my heart” by Benny Blanco plays ( :( ), then a candle lit with the song “Modern Loneliness” by Lauv plays, and oh my god he baked his birthday cake. And he bought trick candles. But he baked his cake. He baked his cake…

CALEB: game night with Sadie, on the subway, working out, his painting in progress, he’s cooking a breakfast meal (eggs, bacon, and pancakes), and “workouts and distractions.”

(Gonna come out and say it, think our boy is going through it.)

APR

1st

CALEB: took a run again. Pic of a baseball field.

7th

ADAM: coffee is his child

CALEB: Caleb is studying law? And a ©hecklist.

13th

ADAM: he’s got an internship in London. He gonna see Shakespeare. Caleb liked the post.

20th

ADAM: in library, textbooks colourful

CALEB: wash your socks, Caleb.

21st

CALEB: Caleb on the train, doesn’t know what to do with his life

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ADAM: omg, I think he was flipping through his Shakespeare book with the caption: London.

CALEB: only pic of a book he’s studying with. Same pic of “©hecklist.” (Seeing how it’s both on his story and on his page, it might have meaning? Or that we’re just seeing him study psych? At least something with “case studies”)

MAY

5th

ADAM: pic of staircase for “no reason”

ADAM: same day, posts about a statue and says “get yourself a man that reads.” Ouch. It hurts not to see them together.

CALEB: our boy is studying for psychology and humanities

6th

ADAM: he’s part of Yale broadcasting company.

CALEB: lit protein powder

8th

CALEB: Caleb is trying to be okay with change

:(

9th

CALEB: thinking thoughts :(

10th

CALEB: he played quidditch

16th

CALEB: his bday! 21 years old now I guess. Going to hang out with Frankie and Sadie? However they are. Apparently 20 was rough :(

21st

ADAM: the day he leaves for London. On the plane, having tea and reading What If It’s Us

22nd

ADAM: The River of Thames that by our door doth pass… It’s a Shakespeare quote about the river

23rd

ADAM: pic of London bridge or just a bridge there

25th

ADAM: food where he quotes Murder, She Wrote

ADAM: sex, coffee, and rock n roll (ref to what Caitlin said). At Kingly Court, Beak Street W1. Soho grind.

26th

CALEB: Caleb is working out again. Lift your cares away

27th

ADAM: pic of some place prob important.

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ADAM: udon noodles, tech board, vid of sky where we says he and Caitlin are done with finals and he’s one step closer to going to London babyyyy (he’s excited and god I’m so happy for him, but sad that Caleb isn’t in his life for it), went home to surprise his mom, SONG: you’re not the only one (this was on the playlist he made for Caleb. Doubt it has anything to do with him tho). And now he’s headed pour London.

CALEB: in the library with a little ghost emoji, and he finished his finals of junior year (so end of his third year). He excited.

JUN

1st

ADAM: pic of Shakespeare theatre. He crying over it.

CALEB: he got an internship! At the AM I assume.

16th

ADAM: London matches his mood? Idk what his mood is, but the pic is black and white and it’s kind of cramped. Hope you’re doing alright boo.

26th

CALEB: he needed to get away so he went on a lake (his lake house? Believe his family has one.)

27th

CALEB: camp fire

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ADAM: vid of seagulls with him saying “mine mine mine”, British museum pics, one specific about watches (he wouldn’t sell his watch which I’m pretty sure is the one he got for his bday that was his grandfather’s. I swear that watch has some importance, maybe the only thing that tells time correctly? Ancient artifact? Something that the Order might be interested in?), than a pic of Guinness.

CALEB: only one and he’s on a lake. Caleb needs his alone time.

JUL

13th

ADAM: he’s having tea with a friend. Don’t know who.

CALEB: run/hike in Saugus

28th

ADAM: best summer of his life. Caleb posted “” on it

CALEB: almost done the lit powder

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ADAM: he’s on Earl Courts Road (don’t think it means much, just us knowing he’s in London). Watermelon Sugar playing with a guard moving to the beat on loop. He’s having sushi on a “really nice evening.” And a juicy string of text messages between Caitlin and him (+captioned: Caitlin@ is a monster):

C: YOU DID. Didn’t you? Adam. Adam. Answer me, Adam! A: …maybe. C: Well done, you. A: stahp C: Where are my details? I need details. I’m bored. A: ooooommmmggggg.

CALEB: ngl, worried for Caleb guys. First story: *black background with white text of: I hate this. Second: *black background with grey vertical text of: getting away again.* Third: just a game headset. Which, not as intense as the last ones. But my dudes. I just want this mans to be happy.

AUG

13th

ADAM: last day in London. He had a great time. Had nights in pubs and made new friends.

24th

ADAM: starting school soon. Had weird issues with planning classes (something fishy happening with that as EP 1 shows. Time is out of whack in Yale)

CALEB: school starting again, he welcome first years. He jokes the staircases change, making it hard to navigate the school. Again, a joke but I hope this actually happens.

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ADAM: last week in London. Has emojis of Shakespeare stuff. That’s it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

CALEB: nothing. Should we be worried?

SEPT

17th

ADAM: back at broadcasting. Someone in a hood is in the background smiling.

CALEB: working out again

19th

CALEB: games with the besties (Sadie and Frankie)

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30th

CALEB:pizza with the gang (Sadie, Frankie, and Ben) [around 7:00 PM]

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30th

CALEB: “morning” at a cafe [around 8 AM]. Run with Ben [around 2:00ish PM] (qui est Ben, la? edit: Ben is Caleb’s new child)

->PRIVATE STORY“Love ending an already intense day with a super intense, very unexpected, totally not completely heart shaking phone call ” [around 8:00 PM]

*note: the Adam who called Caleb is not Adam of Wednesday, he is midnight Friday Adam.*

ADAM: drinking wine with Caitlin, caption being “Caitlin@ said stress and drinks” [around 6:00 PM]

->PRIVATE STORY: “I definitely, definitely, definitely should be working on my senior essay. But what if I just finally watched season two of umbrella academy instead, that’s work right?” With a gif of Klaus saying “Shakespeare had no idea what it was like to be me.”

OCT

3rd

CALEB: pic of autumn trees with the caption: “Fresh air. Clearing my head. Quick trip home. Walking around with Alice.”

5th

CALEB: *pic of what looks like a staircase you’d make for a play currently being built.* It’s captioned: “Building sets because we are the mighty set builders ” He tagged Frankie. [Around 5 PM]

18th

CALEB: *pic of a cup of tea and a wooden table* captioned: “Sup Dr. Bright?” [Around 11:49 AM]

*note: during EP 7 when they meet with Dr. Bright, before going to the AM.“

19th

ADAM: *just a pitch black screen that is glitching out* it’s captioned: giberish with lots of X’s

21st

ADAM: pic of burnt toast captioned: "I am very tired ”

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1st

ADAM: just a pic of the library [around 5:57 PM]

*note: when Adam wakes up at midnight he thinks it’s 4:30 PM. So is this conscious Adam or some awake-but-asleep Adam posting?*

->PRIVATE STORY: *pic of keyboard* “spending the whole day in the library to work on an essay after barely sleeping because you’re scared you’re never gonna find love again is healthy coping, right? ” [at around 2:49]

*note: about 9 and a half hours before the end of Ep 1.*

*note note: Adam, you’re breaking my heart.*

CALEB: *pic of ice cream* “oh hey hi very stressed thanks” [10:05 PM]

2nd

ADAM: just a picture of a chair in the radio shack [around 7:34 PM]

*note: the party should be happening tonight yet he’s not there (yet).*

->PRIVATE STORY: we hear parts of EP 1 in his story. He took a video about 5 secs before we hear the electro noises that has him running away from the building. I honestly can’t tell what he was video taping in the video but obviously he’s trying to get the “skull and bones” ceremony. [Around 12:08 AM]

CALEB: video of Caleb driving in the rain [around 7:06] Pic of his food at the burger place [around 9: 52 PM]

3rd

ADAM: *black screen* captioned “but like wtf i don’t have words ” [around 12:16 PM]

-> PRIVATE STORY: pic of a bunch of laundry machines side by side in a basement looking room, but with rectangular windows above the laundry machines. The windows look like it might be morning, but it could just be the lights. He captions it with: “fucking over this night full of ghosts” [around 1/maybe 2 AM]

*note: this throws me off. We know Adam and Caleb’s night in the rain happened at 3 AM, so was this before that? Why was he in the laundry room if not to dry Caleb’s stuff. Maybe I’m missing something. Or over thinking it.“

5th

ADAM: [at 5:18 PM] in the background there is a bookshelf, but the main focus is the top of his laptop where you see his tabs. The one of importance is the tab for Yale University.

*note: could be Adam investigating*

8th

CALEB: just protein powder pic.

9th

->PRIVATE STORY: *screenshot of Spotify* captioned: "lol fuck you Spotify for sending me down memory lane just when I need that the least but also this playlist still kinda slaps.” What’s playing is P!ATD “Emperor’s New Clothes” on “Adam’s Halloween Mix”

*note: Caleb and Adam listened to the album Death of a Bachelor when they were together (in the time it’s set, I believe that’s when the album came out).*

12th

CALEB: *pic of fall leaves on probably a brick ground of sorts* It’s captioned: “lunch with Sadie’s@” [around 12ish]

13th

CALEB: uh, just a pic, no caption. The pic is looking upwards, so he’s mostly showing stage lights on the ceiling with an orange ladder taking up most of the right, from top to bottom. [Around 5:57-6:00 PM]

14th

CALEB: *park and the sun is rising* captioned: “Running on my own I guess” [around 8 AM]

15th

->PRIVATE STORY: *multicoloured screen background* captioned: “mark’s@ call me back dude are you dead???” [around 4PM]

Then pic of a row of shops/restaurants near a street called Jerusalem [around 8/close to 9PM]

*note: from Google map stalking, Calleb is located on 115 Salem St, Boston at La Famiglia Gioiorgio Ristorante. From Boston Uni, that’s about an 11 min car ride, and 24 bus/train ride. Don’t know if that makes any of a difference but. Here yah go.“

17th

-> PRIVATE STORY: *paper with "sodalis sodalus” written on it with other doodles blurred out in the background* captioned: “why do I even try ” [around 2 PM?]

*note: the different symbols are probably what make up the entire symbol that’s on the envelope and bandana. Also, I think this happens in EP 6, though I don’t know exactly at which part, perhaps during fight*

18th

ADAM: *a close up of a mug* captioned: “catching up with mom” [Around 10 AM].

Then [Around 6:00 PM]: a dark blue background just glitching out.

-> PRIVATE STORY: *paper with “∅ Salt Body” written on paper, as well as “???” and the medical intertwining swirl symbol thing I’m forgetting the name of* [Around 2:00 PM].

Then another update at [Around 4:00 PM]: *pic of inside a car, specifically car door, captioned: “what if I just opened this door and roll myself out of this car would that be an overreaction to what just happened” with an Elmo on fire meme in the bottom left corner of the story.

CALEB: *pic of a hallway (probably the AM)* [Around 1:00 PM]

Then his next story: a dark blue background just glitching out [Around 6:00 PM]

*note: both Caleb and Adam have the same glitchy story at around the same time*

21st

CALEB: pic of just a sheet above of him. There’s an emoji that says “First place / Pillow Fort” [Around 1:00/2:00 AM]

->PRIVATE STORY: black background but playing “Time Warp” from Rocky Horror Show with a caption that says “really trying to find some humor in this situation” [Around 12:00 AM]

23rd

->PRIVATE STORY: black background with just a caption of “finally. peace.” [Around 3:20ish PM]

->PRIVATE STORY: *gif of one of the guys from The Road To El Dorado banging his head on a wall (shown below)* with a caption: “someone please tell me to stop refreshing a certain someone’s instagram and assuming / I’m not on their close friends list even though they’re not on mine, so why would I be on theirs???” Plus another caption of: “there has to be something better to do with my Friday night” [Around 12:00 PM]

25th

CALEB: he posted a song which is Kina | Get You To The Moon (feat. Snøw). He specifically captions the lyrics “you helped me fight when I was giving in” [Around 4:00 AM]

->PRIVATE STORY: so. It’s a close up pic of the playlist paper with the playlist Adam made for Caleb for when he went on away trips for football. It’s captioned: “thought cleaning out my desk would be a good distraction and looks like I was wrong about that ” [Around 2:00 PM]

*note: so Caleb left Adam’s and went back to Boston.*

->PRIVATE STORY: he posted a song, The Beatles | Help!, with the caption: “what do you do if you get a voicemail a week late and the voicemail is mostly just static but the fact that there’s even a voicemail to begin with is…

anywayCaitlin’s@ please come home”

*note: at first I assumed this was Caitlin’s voicemail maybe calling for help, but it’s def Caleb’s voicemail. Shame it didn’t go through, might have been an opening to communicating and also Caitlin is def kidnapped“ [Around 5:00 PM]

29th

->PRIVATE STORY: another song post, this time Andrew Belle | Replace Me. He adds a caption of "feeling some kind of way tonight” [Around 1:00 AM]

*note: the pining in their instagram song posts are real. (Which, you know, makes sense considering that music/playlist was a way of communicating their feelings and bonding with each other) But Adam is really out here posting a song about someone never going to be able to replace them *

30th

->PRIVATE STORY: pic of his dash board with a caption of “getting back on the road, probably a dumb fucking idea, but sometimes you just have to follow your gut” [Around 3:00 PM]

*note: shits about to go downnnnnnnnn.*

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some adventures in Blender sculpting practice ft. Caleb and Adam

i feel like i improved a lot even just between making these two and i’m v proud of myself

made some medieval AU tbs stuff

(Summary IDs below, longer and more detailed IDs under the cut)

[First ID: a digital, colored drawing depicting Caleb Michaels giving Alice Michaels a piggy-back ride as he walks through a forest. Both are brown skinned, with dark curly hair, wearing mid-1300s clothing and looking at each other while Alice is talking. Behind them are bushes and tree trunks on a light grey background. End ID]

[Second ID: Digital drawing of Mark Bryant in two outfits. In both images, he is a 25-year-old East Asian man with pale skin, dark brown eyes, and chin-length black hair, with a neutral expression. He is wearing mid-1300s clothing in both drawings, and his brown stockings and shoes do not change. The left one, labeled “Prince Mark,” shows mark in a crown and red tunic and cape. The right one, labeled “Forest Mark,” shows him in a longer light pink tunic and a desaturated green cloak. The background is a flat grey. End ID]

[Third ID: a digitial, colored landscape of forested hills, a European castle in the background. It is foggy, and birds fly in the distance. End ID]

[First ID: a digital, colored drawing depicting Caleb Michaels giving Alice Michaels a piggy-back ride as he walks through a forest. Alice is a ten-year-old, brown-skinned girl with brown eyes and dark brown hair that’s pulled back into a loose milk-maid braid. She’s wearing mid-1300s clothing: a white shift, dark green long-stockings underneath the shorts, a dark green hooded cloak, and brown shoes. She’s looking at Caleb with her mouth open mid-sentence. Caleb is a fourteen-year-old, brown-skinned boy with green eyes. He’s wearing mid-1300s clothing: a dark blue cap, a green tunic with yellow accents over a white shirt, with a brown belt around his middle; and brown stockings with leather soles. He’s looking at Alice, with a slight frown. end ID]

[Second ID: Digital drawing of Mark Bryant in two outfits. In both images, he is a 25-year-old East Asian man with pale skin, dark brown eyes, and chin-length black hair, with a neutral expression. He is wearing mid-1300s clothing in both drawings. On the left, he has writing next to him that says “Prince Mark.” He has a golden crown with red jewels embedded in it. He has a golden collar and a dark red cape that’s lined with gold. His tunic is a brighter red with a white patch on the top right. The patch has a family crest of a red and gold bird. The tunic has a gold belt with flowers embroidered on it. His stockings are grey, and he is wearing brown leather shoes. He also wears a gold signet ring with a red gem.

The right drawing of Mark has “Forest Mark” written to the left of him. He has the same neutral expression. This time he’s in more practical clothes. His tunic is a dull pink color and the collar peeks out from beneath the cape. His cape is now a dark green and the inside is white. The tunic is much longer, falling to his lower calves. The tunic has a leather belt tying it closer to his waist. The stockings are the same grey, with the same brown leather shoes. He still wears the same signet ring. End ID]

[Third ID: a digital, colored landscape drawing, depicting a castle in the middle of the woods. In the foreground are pine trees that wrap around the hill the castle sits on in the background. In the top left corner, in the middle ground is a castle of grey stone with red tops and red flags, sitting on the side of a mountain. The sky is overcast and grey and birds fly overhead. End ID]

Caleb went from being the himbo friend to being the anxious mom friend and I love him for that. Tbs Caleb would ask you what animal the Pink Panther is while tct Caleb makes sure all his friends remember to take their meds and stay hydrated

full lineup

from left to right :

mark , joan , chloe , sam , adam , caleb , rose , damien