#(fckn tombs man)

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FFXIV finding a way an in lore way to be like 'don't worry, you don't have to farm for new currency, gil works on both worlds' is awesome.

We're not happy about the tombstones tho.

[swtorcompanionsgoofin]

Got tagged by @blueburds​ !!!!! Thank u for the tag, you’re a peach <3

U hhhh h hh, if u see this, and wanna get in on it, GO FOR IT.  I’m a big marshmallow nerd, tag me in things [slap slap slap on the metaphorical counter] i will always delight in being tagged in shit. Open tag, go HAM.

okiedoke bc i’m Nerd I have Art Wip and also Words Wip so like

Art Wip:

this is a lilttle bit of a wonky one, bc i’m like, it’s one of a pair of arts fjkla.  This is the under-clothes for Kehsk’s fckn, Hoth Outfit, bc Mr Chronic Hypothermia needs All The Warm, so I’m makin a fckn heated undersuit :D  I drew the whole underthing (here) and then covered it up completely in a secondary thing jfkldaj.  But yeehaw.  Here’s all the Fun Shit underneath lol

and then WORDS WIP

From the next chapter of Who Would You Have Been?

The interim name of this chapter is fckn, ‘ CHAPTER 5: THIS BITCH IS LIKE 5 STEPS FROM SPINDRALL WDYM I’VE SPENT LIKE 11K WORDS GETTING TO SPINDRALL ‘ which is Fucking Hilarious to me jfdkla.

Even with his back turned, he felt like someone never to be crossed.  His back was to Zal, not out of oversight, but assurance.  Sith turned their back on people who had no hope of killing them.  Confidence, misplaced or otherwise, let you see what was behind a Sith.  Zal wasn’t a threat to this man, and neither were the young would-be Sith training at the base of the staircase.

If he ever would be remained to be seen.

“Slave,”  the man rose from his place on the floor--Spindrall rose--and turned to face Zal,  “I know why you’re here.”

Something in his eyes made Zal’s skin crawl.  His stare pushed right through him, past him, into the electric core that Vibrance had made him touch.  Spindrall, it seemed, could see what was lurking under the surface.

“Welcome,”  the old Sith spread his arms, a gesture barely attempted, the barest hint of effort put into appearing hospitable, “to my humble hole.  You are here for your trials, yes?  To learn the ways of the Sith from a doddering old man in a tomb?”

It wasn’t a question.  It may have been phrased that way, but it wasn’t really a question.

“I’d hardly call you doddering-”

Spindrall raised his hand, leveling a look at Zal with a raised eyebrow, unamused.  Zal shut his mouth and pressed his lips together.  That was… an interruption.  Right.  Don’t do that.

[elaphaemourra]

Six Sentence Sunday (holy shit it’s sunday???)

I got tagged by @starknstarwars (hi!! thank you so much!!!!) and I’m currently vibing on a bunch of fun Zal stuff, bc i’m novelizing his story like a NERD and also probably an Idiot bc i’m Not That Great at pacing myself on things or keeping my mind on Writing Big things fjdksaljfa.  I’m doing my best.  And it’s also taken me 11k words to get to spindrall and i’m just like ‘WALK UP TO THE OLD MAN U LITTLE NERD’ fjdakljfa

So here’s This lol, first little Chunklet (and the latest little blip bc this is all I have so far) of the next chapter of Zal’s fckn Big Fic lol

Well, at the very least it looked like he’d found the right place.  It was entirely too many stairs--entirely too many stairs--but that was a ‘small man in a big tomb with a bit-to-shit leg’ problem, not really a ‘this place sucks’ problem.  Well, that too, but that’s entirely disparate from the ridiculous amount of stairs going into Spindrall’s creepy little hidey-hole and up to his platform.

Absolutely stupid quantities of stairs aside, the atmosphere certainly didn’t leave much to be desired in the way of ‘strange, mystic weirdness’.  Zal passed through the center of the room--chamber? Whatever--and forced himself to take up more space than he felt like he should.  Confidence, even if it’s fake, and even if the eyes of the different training Sith suddenly on him made him want to shrink into himself and let his mind fall away.

YEEHAW and uhh, idk who would want to get tagged for smth like this fdjaklfja.  If u see it and have been wanting someone to tag you, consider urself tagged.  Open invitation!!  And feel free to tag me back in what you post, am full of Love for Created Shenanigans :DDD

[dgalerab]

i hadn’t really thought about st after watching it other than that was fun i’ll prob watch the next season too, but now that i’ve stumbles upon this blog you’ve interested me in mike as baby, which i’ll be honest w you i hadn’t really thought of since way back in the 1st season when everyone but mike thought will was dead. would you like to expand on mike as baby?

djfkdjsfkjdfkdjfdksfjdsfkd i WOULD i love mike wheeler so much

(last night i told my brother he’s my favorite bc he’s just such a little brother and he was like “wait so you’re comparing me to mike?” and i was like “yeah man” and he’s like “i feel insulted” and then “i’m much nicer to you than he is to his sister” and i was like “yeah but i’m also a better older sibling” and he was like “yeah exactly, this is not the sibling relationship we should strive for” and then he suggested we should be like the siblings that are the villains in rise of the tomb raider, so frankly i don’t know that i trust my brother with anything)

(but also something about the way finn wolfhard smiles reminds me of my little brother and i’m fucking feral about it, i would kill for that kid)

anyway for my last mike wheeler meltdown essay i went through frame by frame and found this screenshot

and i regret everything

he is just………….,,,,,,,,,…………… a small boy. a baby. he is…,,, just baby???

anyway i already ranted about how mike just keeps Going Through Shit and no one does anything SOMEONE DO SOMETHING in this post so i’m gonna make another post about “times mike wheeler saw someone in trouble and did something UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES FOR HIM”

FIRSTLY

will goes missing and baby child is immediately like “we gotta find him bc he took a hit for us in dnd. this is totally equivalent and flawless baby logic”

they find a strange girl in the woods and he’s just like “hm yes time to take this girl into my home.” like, he has a crush on her but STILL

look at this gentle baby boy

(also i don’t super ship mi//leven, like, it’s what canon is going with and it’s a significant part of his character that eleven is hist first love but i’m kinda meh about it but i am very emotional about how HE’S SO SOFT WITH HER PLEASE LOVE HIM)

and he just lets her wander around and shows her everything

also he’s so worried about lucas when el accidentally hurts him

even though they were just fighting? like, honestly this is why it annoys me that people are so hard on mike for being a little bit of a jerk bc he’s never THAT much of a jerk and there’s just SO many times where he gets emotional and lashes out and then the moment it matters he does a 180 and is so intensely there for his friends. like yes he is a brat and yes he does get snippy easily and yes he puts his baby foot in his big baby mouth but he CARES SO MUCH and yet people are so unforgiving with him for being a bit of a little shit in really normal teenage ways

what can i say except *muffled weeping noises* (baby boy has so much love he can’t pick a best friend)

anyway here he is throwing himself off a cliff so his friend doesn’t get hurt even though he doesn’t know el is there to save him. like maybe he thinks he can survive it? bc the cop guy did? but like. bruh. BRUH

and then the first thing he does is comfort el?????

hello yes mike buddy pls fckn deal with the fact that you nearly died my dude

idk where this ties in but this is when hopper is trying to get in touch with them and nancy calls mike and mike’s not sure if she’s being forced to say it and they’re all just so small and don’t know what to do and

also i can’t get a non-blurry screenshot but the look on mike’s face when el is calling to him and he can’t go to her will haunt me forever!

and also mike worrying about will AND upset about eleven

also here he is being SUPER dramatic in dnd for his friends

even though he’s still really upset about el

which carries on into season 2, but he still makes sure will is okay:

and also the way he calls el???? so tender???? 

he’s just worried about his friends???? all his friends???? it doesn’t even matter what you ship bc he just cares about them all so much

i already talked about this in my last post but just the fact that mike is also struggling here and absolutely uses it to support will? GOOD. A GOOD BOY I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I AM IN TEARS

mike “yeah okay i know there’s a shadow monster and that absolutely means i should be there with my possessed friend as moral support, no i don’t see ANY flaws in this plan” wheeler

mike “what do you mean i could be in danger too, i love and trust my friends and that’s all that matters” wheeler

mike “i’m sure this possession thing isn’t a problem, as long as will’s okay!” wheeler

mike “fuck i fucked up oh fuck, but also just let me immediately try to save everyone despite the fact that holy shiiiiiiiit what a thing this moment is to jam into my already traumatized child brain” wheeler

hi he’s just so baby, he barely even knew bob and yet here he is making an emotional connection after just having essentially watched him die (he doesn’t see it with his own child eyeballs but he is right on the outskirts of the carnage after having seen countless people die the same way and i just)

this scene is so goddamn rough and yet mike sticks in there trying to get through to will until the last moment i’m 

he’s so relieved he missed her so much

ALSO I WAS LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT SCREENSHOT BUT INSTEAD I FOUND THIS

AND YEAH EXACTLY SO WHEN IS ANYONE GOING TO DEAL WITH IT

NO NOT LIKE THAT, MIKE, STOP DEALING WITH YOUR PROBLEMS BY PUTTING YOURSELF IN MORE DANGER FOR YOUR FRIENDS

okay god this whole post is so long but i can’t go easy on season 3 bc my whole feeling about the reaction to s3 mike is just

anyway, s3 mike: continues to be baby

like yeah the fact that they’ve been making out for most of the summer to the point where it’s put a dent in the amount of time they spend with their friends is… there’s a lot to unpack there. like, this is probably a sign that they’re still being affected by the year where they were separated and mike thought maybe she might be dead who knows, and someone should’ve really talked to them about balance and honestly if hopper had just delivered the speech he meant to deliver it would have worked out just fine and everything would have been smoothed over, but we didn’t get that bc frankly, the characters need to be split up into smaller groups bc writing ensemble casts is hell. i get that. i’m sad, but i get it

(i’m still kind of assuming hopper will be back and we’ll get some moments between him and mike and so i’m not quite ready to judge how the conflict between them worked out this season just yet. thus far my feelings on how it was handled are kind of… meh. i think there’s some emotions that weren’t very fleshed out in how hopper felt about mike but i don’t think it was bad, per se)

anyway my point is: mike is soft. he’s just trying to make el laugh and he just wants her close and *clenches fist*

^ and it’s also made clear that he’s still hanging out with his friends he’s just late??? and tbh no one really touches on the fact that at this point el is still on house arrest. he would definitely take her to the movies with him if he could and that really complicates things. he just wants to spend time with her!

(and also so far, he doesn’t even really have much of a reason to believe this is bothering will. will’s just joining in on the teasing. he’s fine, guys)

and he still cares when it matters!!! look!

granted he’s a little shit about leaving before dustin sets up his radio but at the same time like dustin literally dragged them on a hike in the middle of summer to talk to his girlfriend and so when mike runs off to smooch his own girlfriend instead i just. i feel like that’s normal friend dickishness. like he hasn’t done anything awful???

(i’m gonna put this here instead of chronologically but when dustin finally gets in touch with mike after they’ve been separated bc dustin’s been locked in an elevator and mike’s been dealing with a possessed violent racist

mike immediately drops what he’s doing which btw is “taking 50 years to try to say i love you because he’s too nervous to say the words god what a baby” to talk to him because when it’s important he is so worried about his friends oh my god i love him so much)

anyway he lies to el about why he can’t meet up with her out of panic and spends the rest of the day trying to figure out how to make it up to her with naught but a smol teenage brain and bad teenage advice and $3.50. and then he gets broken up with for it, which like… that’s gotta sting. especially after the whole “am i grief hallucinating my crush or not” spiel and being 14 years old when all romantic stuff feels so crazy important. like the amount of times i held my friends as they wept bc they got broken up with after a 3 week relationship that they won’t even remember in 2 years, and mike is honestly a lot more serious about eleven than that and has had Real Trauma over losing her so i think he’s allowed to freak out about it????

and then on the other hand there’s will who has 50 tonnes of Real Trauma he’s carting along as well so i WILL NOT stand for hate, but like… mike’s actually kind of having an emotional time here and will takes it as an opportunity to wake them up suddenly and immediately launch into dnd while they’re literally not even awake yet

like this is all very understandable given *gestures vaguely at everything will’s been through for the past 2 seasons* but the fact that this ended up in a really snippy exchange is very understandable for literally all of them. that’s. god, seriously, that’s just how friendships work, this Discourse™  annoys the crap out of me

and the MOMENT mike realizes this is important to will he drops everything, no judgement, and tries to fix it

and the only reason it doesn’t work out is bc this is bigger than dnd for will and they didn’t realize (because bruh. they’re 14 year olds) so there’s already too many hurt feelings and will runs off. and i think what’s important about it being bigger than just dnd is that it’s also bigger than just mike and lucas. will has lost his childhood. that would have inevitably been a thing he has to deal with and it’s literally inevitable that he’d have rough times with his friends because of it. and they try to do this, but it isn’t about them or even about will maybe being gay (i really hope they do let him have a boyfriend, though, he deserves it. @ st writers… pls)

but it’s really clear that mike is only just realizing how much this mattered to will

and he immediately goes after will and tries to cheer him up

and the whole “it’s not my fault you don’t like girls” comes right on the heels of will calling el “some stupid girl” which is kind of… like. a tiny bit of a shitty thing to say about the girl who literally did everything she could and risked her life to save yours, y’know? and it’s not the first vaguely sexist thing will has said. he also is surprised at girls playing video games and there’s the whole “girls go to science camp?” line at the beginning of the season and honestly. like. GOD this is just a moment where they’re both heated and they both say kind of dumb shit and if it hadn’t been interrupted by the billy stuff they would have just talked it out and the fact that it might have been an unintentionally very mildly homophobic line doesn’t change that, it just means that the misunderstanding runs deeper than mike realized

and he takes it back right away bc he realizes the moment he says it that it was too far and he’s just a caring kid who sometimes says stupid shit but he doesn’t want to hurt his friends

and RIGHT AWAY they run after will to apologize in the pouring rain, but it’s overshadowed by other things

anyway there’s also a lot of small moments of mike making sure will is okay and max is safe and i already talked a lot about how precious it is that he and max dropped everything to protect el together despite having disagreed the whole time in my other post and… god this post is just so long i just have so many feelings about mike wheeler and i could make this post longer but i’m going to exercise control and do… not that

tl;dr: i would never try to convince anyone that mike isn’t a brat but you should love him anyway bc he recklessly loves his friends and would do anything for them and the fact that sometimes he puts his entire foot in his mouth doesn’t negate any of that, bc he continues to be an entire baby and i love him