#(Seriously why is this so real?)

[loneleeghost]

oh im gonna throw up.

[andstuffsketches]

a fashionable family...?

[temeyes]

simon riley, ang panget mo talaga (affectionate)

[malamilkbeats]

Silly animation:

Let him be your boyfriend

No Edgars got hurt in the making of this video

[swiftsnowmane]

The dudebros that dominated the ASoIaF discussion forums in the 2000s hated on SanSan because they worshipped ‘the Hound’ persona as their nihilistic antihero power fantasy and saw Sansa as a weakling who made Sandor less ‘badass’. The dudebros hated SanSan so much that they tried to BAN SanSan fans from even just discussing the ship as part of meta analysis or speculation on their heavily male-dominated forums.

The tumblr fandom of today hates on SanSan because they dismiss it as ‘problematic’ without even acknowledging the significance of their interactions, the heavily erotic symbolism and imagery, the constant foreshadowing, and the profound effect the characters have on one another’s psyches, and think they are righteously ‘saving’ Sansa from Sandor’s character by doing so (and often because they prefer a different ship for her that they deem more ‘pure’). They hate SanSan so much that they try to diminish its importance or even outright ignore it and and prop up fake ships that have zero book-canon evidence in its place.

I didn’t staunchly defy the former type of SanSan haters for decades only to be easily cowed by the latter.

Both ignore the canonical textual evidence that shows that, whether dudebro Sandor-stans like it or not, and whether tumblrina Sansa-stans like it or not … Sandor Clegane is important to Sansa Stark, and vice versa.

[pepstarvanmoon]

Someone please get El out of there

Is it not obvious what this is? Do you really not know what you should be doing? SAY THE DAMN WORDS.

Why do you think she’s doubting you? Can you really not tell?

Mike, sweetheart, your relationship balancing skills are a terror to your friends, family, and romantic partners.

This is why people found Midleven cuter in S1/2, because the day you made it official marked the beginning of El’s doubts in your feelings for her.

You cannot seem to grasp that El is your friend AND your girlfriend, and somehow treating El like a girlfriend equates to treating her like shit.

You cannot make this up. El needs WORDS because Mike’s ACTIONS actively make her feel unloved. She does not feel it, so she wants some kind of verbal/written affirmation because of how emotionally distant Mike feels.

(someone talented please edit Elmike to Hamilton’s Burn or send an existing edit my way, thank you ♡)

His actions do not align to her expectations of love, not that it’s a good idea to let TV define romance for you, but you’re allowed to want/expect certain things in a relationship, and El isn’t getting that.

And let’s not act like Mike isn’t good at making people feel loved/cared for. Will is in love with him for a reason. El loves him for a reason.

(It was difficult to pick scenes for this because I’ve read arguments for how these aren’t really romantic at all, but from 12/13-year old, “fresh out the lab” Eleven, it’s as romantic as romance gets imo)

El has been trying to convince herself that their relationship is better than it is, because once she admits to herself that it’s not working, what does she do?

Her day-to-day life isn’t that great. Sure, she has her new family in the Byers, but her dad recently passed away and she’s being bullied at school. She has no friends outside of Will, and while I’m sure their relationship is great (wasn’t explored that much tbh), he can’t keep her from feeling isolated, and his own trauma with bullying keeps him from standing up for her.

One good, unchanging thing she has is her relationship with Mike. He’s the one who took her in and housed her, he taught her what it meant to be a friend, and… I’m having a bit of trouble here lol. I was going to say:

Never used her for her powers (not true lol)

When she was burnt out, he never expected more from her (not true LOL)

Never treated her differently for her powers (for this one, he found her awesome in an awestruck way rather than a Brenner “I’m gonna exploit this” way, but when he thought she lied about Will/hurt Lucas he was on her ass lmao)

My girl has those ‘first love’ blinders on. I keep having to ask myself what she sees in him besides ‘first person to accept me + we kissed’ like besides the latter, Dustin was right there. A lot of the parts of Mike I enjoy don’t reveal themselves around El outside S1 (barely S2). He’s shown as caring and protective, but he’s like that for all of his friends?? Especially when they’re in danger so idk what’s different. I’d have to peruse the milkvan tag to get a hint, but I’ll probably get a better idea watching Sleeping Beauty.

I’m a firm believer that Mike kept it ambiguous because he didn’t want to admit what the real problem was to Will.

“I couldn’t tell El that I love her.” - simple as that. Must be something about Will that has him holding his tongue because after S3 I doubt he’d have that much trouble telling Lucas.

Are you embarrassed? If you thought it wasn’t that serious you wouldn’t have told Will that it was something you “can’t come back from”. Is love serious to you, Mike? Because you can’t love El in the way she wants, do you think you’re incapable of it? Do you feel wrong? Do you not want Will to know?

Hit a little too close to home, huh.

(and let’s not get into the "team, friends, best friends" scene they had together like what was the point in having them make contact a SECOND time.

They already established a connection between them. Mike could’ve asked to be a team after the "guess it's gonna be up to us again," and Will could’ve taken the painting offscreen (the focus shot of Will grabbing the painting gets me so bad like WHY), but instead they wanted them to blush and giggle over each other AGAIN before they got to the van.

Make it make non-Byler sense I'm begging.)

You’d think that’d be good enough, but Mike still feels conflicted and has to make it Will’s problem (actually, Will kinda made it his problem. The way they shot the triple take makes it seem like Will dragged Mike away for another talk because of how spacey he was being. Who knows.)

Tf do you mean you didn’t know what to say? “Maybe if I said that thing” so you DO know? It’s painfully cut and dry if you take emotions out of it. El wants Mike to say that he loves her, so to fix this, to come back from that fight, Mike has to say he loves her.

Why is it such an internal battle for him? If I were to take it at face value, I’d chalk it up to what he said in the van scene.

So your solution is to push your relationship to a point that has El crying and throwing all the loveless letters you sent to the floor? To tell her that she’s incredible and a superhero and that she should know how you feel about her because, despite the tears streaming down her face and her DIRECTLY asking you if you still love her, she must know how amazing she is too?

NEWSFLASH, Queerler! She’s learning just how much she doesn’t need you right now, so I guess it’s time to face your fears!

This isn’t what I meant, but go off ig (don’t, actually, this is awful for everyone involved).

No way you expect El to buy this. You’ve expressed this fear of "losing El" to Will, I’ll give you that, but nothing you’ve done IN FRONT OF EL has conveyed this. Your letters weren’t helping, and you being there in person only made it worse.

Eagerly awaiting the day Michael Wheeler stops lying.

Well, I guess he doesn’t lie ALL the time.

[socksracoon10]

"What app are you addicted to?" every other driver: tiktok, snapchat, instagram, etc. Carlos Sainz Jr. : THE WEATHER APP!!!!

[starrstruck-xx]

i love how kh fandom in collectively agrees that the six hour riku is gay video is the best….riku is gay video

[cosmiccomma]

does anyone else ever think about lucretia having to mentally reconcile taako “stupid as a character choice” with taako “fantasy fucking nasa employee.” about her having to come to terms with the fact that yeah that was her. she did that to him. or is it just me

[babynorppa]

Jere’s obsession with a waiter/bartender foreplay should be studied more

[commandertartarsmoocher]

On this Friday I present to you:

a small batch of today's doodles !

[crazysodomite]

Can i be honest. If someone said I have mommy/daddy issues I would get really angry and kill them

[verityasian]

I'm sorry but why is my JJ Maybank ai so dirty? Also am I the only one that thinks the filter's gotten weak lately? Not that I'm complaining🫣

[dantoru]

saw some edits like this on twt and wanted to make one with my hcs :3

[uncanny-tranny]

I know for a fact I've talked about the golden records, but I don't care because here is a sample of some of my favourite greetings on those discs

There is something so vulnerable, precious, and human about sending up pieces of our hearts into space. Even when we know that there may not be anybody out there to hear us, we are still whispering to whomever might listen how much we love them, how much we want to connect. No matter how small the chance is, we're taking it to say that love is real, that we are real.

How is that not something to be in awe over?

[applepixls]

i read Ashes by @raichett after seeing @definitelynotshouting reccommend it and its changed my brain chemistry irreparably

have some sketches as my brain spontaneously combusts