#Too weird for people - too normal for freaks.

[bitofanupsidedowner]

(GA) ST takes i'm sick of in no particular order, but i get meaner as the list goes on

will's haircut is bad: it's era appropriate and he's canonically good-looking. eat a bag of eggs, emmett

will is over-sensitive: he's sensitive. he is not OVER sensitive. he's traumatized. if you see sensitivity as this inherently negative trait, congratulations! you believe the thing that continues to make the world a shitty and dangerous place.

will touches his neck too much: get a new joke stop getting them off reddit. he touches his neck because it's easier than having his hair raise every time and because, you know, IT FEELS WEIRD. you'd touch your neck too if it felt like a spider was crawling on it. or like someone was breathing down it waiting to kill you and all your friends. it's called... television. sometimes you need a way to know what the character is feeling. HE HAS TRAUMA. can we let this kid do ANYTHING??

will cries too much: he only cries when he's actively being traumatized, he's very sad, or someone's forcing him to relive his trauma for plot reasons. those are normal reasons to cry, you emotionally repressed weasel. you'd probably cry more. crying less would be a sign something is wrong with your ability to process what's happening and how you feel about it. it's NORMAL to cry when you're sad. in fact, that's HEALTHY. we cry when we are sad for a reason. go watch inside out if you need this spoonfed to you like you're a child. he IS the male character to cry the most, but el is actually the one who cries the most most. but i bet you're okay with it because she's a girl and you think only girls have the ability to feel things the normal way. dumbass.

stranger things should've been an anthology / ended after season one/only season one was good/every other season sucks and isn't scary: stop watching it after season one then genius!! go into the real world! see if people like you more there. let me know <3 i'm guessing no?

bylers only ship byler because it's gay and we're mindless: almost every byler ships lumax and/or jopper and/or jancy. lumax would eat milkvan for breakfast lunch and dinner but there just isn't enough meat on them bones. if anything happens to max or lucas it's not canon

bylers hate el: bylers love el more than any milkvan loves el. el deserves better than who mike is when he's with her. and she deserves to be more than who she pretends to be when she's with mike.

billy isn't racist/billy is better than jason carver: you're stupid and i'm not explaining this. he beats children you pathetic simp. just say you want to have sex with dacre montgomery because that is the entirety of his defense and you know it

byler would be unrealistic because gay people didn't exist in the 80s: demorgon. comes. out. the walls. you absolute. fucking. loser.

byler would be fanservice / make stranger things woke: assuming that stranger things has ever been for you is a mistake you made because everything is for you. this isn't for you.

bylers just read into things: uh huh because certainly nobody's ever put any deeper thought or creativity into the art they poured their heart and soul into, right? it's not like the duffers are regularly criticized for being overly referential and expecting people to look deeper into things or anything. the curtains are blue because all curtains are blue. now shut up about the curtains.

you just want it to be gay!: you just want it to be straight. let's talk about that.

mike actually dislikes will/he's embarrassed for him/pities him: you are playing raquetball with raisins. you look ridiculous and we are all laughing at you.

steve harrington is so mom-coded! eddie would support will and make him feel like it's good to be a freak! billy is secretly soft! steve actually --): oh, so close! jonathan byers. you're thinking of jonathan byers.

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[show-tunes]

Genuine question what version of this guy do you think is more of a hear me out

[colbyheartland]

So I love Dandadan actually because through those first seven episodes I couldn’t stop repeating to myself “Wow Momo is so fucking cool” like she’s such a genuine badass. My shounen senses were primed for her to just get saved over and over again, maybe just helping out every now and then but no SHE’S the one doing the majority of the saving. She and Okarun both feel like real people and they’re setting up a sweet and genuine romance that doesn’t feel creepy. The voice acting is also so good like she is SCREAMING out here.

Usually when an anime has two protagonists and one is a female she feels like a passive observer just getting swept along for the ride even when they’re supposed to be “tough” it fades away or they are made lesser to make the male lead look better. But Momo and Okarun actually work together!!! They both act like human people!!!! Including the ugly parts with Okarun’s avoidance tendencies and Momo regretting when she does lash out because she knows she’s in the wrong. And they talk about it after she does!! It comes with a healthy dose of “teenagers are kind of mean because they’re still maturing” which is normal and amazing to see.

This anime is healing something I didn’t even realize was broken when I found myself not having to cringe away from little moments that make me uncomfortable. There is a bit of fanservice going on (thanks grandma) and yes I get episode 1 starting off as a bit much for people but honestly, genuinely, did you think aliens WEREN’T going to try and probe someone in the Alien Ghosts Anime TM. Kidnapping humans and cows for experimentation is what they’re most famously known for. You are meant to be uncomfortable and weirded out by this episode. An episode that ends when she unlocks fucking psychic powers and blasts that alien through the wall of a SPACESHIP like hello??

Momo Ayase is that character you give a gun to if you want to shorten the book by half and the author gave her one in the form of psychic powers.

[so-you-melted-22]

Honestly, I forget how little representation there is for ace and aro people every year, until pride month rolls around.

There are all these posts going around recommending queer movies and books and tv shows and comics and what not and it covers most identities and has a wide variety of different stories, but if there is anything with aces or aros included it’s always the same three shows. It’s kinda sad and annoying.

Most (of the few) depictions of asexual and/or aromantic characters are in tv shows aimed at highschoolers, which isn’t wrong, but once you’ve graduated it stops being particularly relatable. I wish I had some extensive history of aro-ace film and literature where I could pick and choose based on my mood and personal preferences. Instead I have to scavenge the internet high and low for something that might possibly have characters that are like me. Wether or not the rest of the plot seems enticing to me be damned.

[the-sussy-imposter2]

I thought Will would like messing with louise sometimes. Louise doesnt seem to like his sense of humor, though.

(Characters are will and louise from @peachnewt 's story, getting in deep !!)

[ratsbanes]

i know the fandom consensus is that androids blush blue but i disagree. like they dont have human blood, blue blood is just an equivalent based in human qualities because thats what we naturally come to understand. its like oil in a car. your car doesnt work the way a person does!

so while yes, blood rushes to the face and head which causes a red colour from the colour of the blood, thats humans, not androids. they definitely blush, but just a normal red colour. its purely cosmetic since they are meant to look as human like as possible. so blue blood blush makes no sense

[bloodstainedfangz]

sorry i know this isnt what most of my followers are into but i need a girl farting on it fr and im no longer afraid to say it

[icewindandboringhorror]

I'm so heavily anti-advertising that all pitches sound goofy silly to me/I can never take them seriously, so I have no idea how I'll manage to to advertise my game even if I do finally finish it soon-ish lol...

[p2iimon]

afton parents. two weirdos

[lunatic-fandom-space]

i just saw a post that was obviously vagueing about that popular vampirism as disability post being like "OF COURSE a post being like 'what if vampires (bloodthirsty predators) were actually the victims and people reacting negatively were the villains' would do well on tumblr, this is the Nothing Is Ever Your Fault website" and it just pisses me off because its like, hey man. modern vampires (the ones that came about in victorian times, that are loosely based on eastern european folklore) have existed for like a hundred years now and people have been characterizing vampires as a 'species' in a bunch of different ways for just as long, and the person who made the original post clearly chose to characterize them as basically normal humans mentally but a bit fucked up physically. yknow, kind of like disabled people

[brw]

The real reason Simon suffers in Hollywood is that he has to pretend all the time that he's not a fucking freak. He intentionally puts on the Californian accent and lies and says his favourite musician is Lady Gaga when it's actually Bunny Berigan or Noel Coward. He allowed himself to get set on fire and shot with a cannonball like day one on his first ever films. He's a 1950s repressed gay businessman who was never socialised and once threatened to bite off Hulk's finger. The only time he's ever been truly happy in a heterosexual relationship was with a hypersexual cat woman who cheated on him with his half-grandfather and he was completely fine with that. Simon Williams codename Wonder Man is an absolute freak but puts so much effort into pretending he's a normal guy but I feel like if he really leaned into the freak thing he wouldn't necessarily be successful but he would have a very strong following amongst very odd lesbians and trans people online.

[maudiemoods]

Ok not cool why am I hearing voices

[technicolorxsn]

the problem is my type is normal people who are actually weird and that kind of person is incredibly hard to pick out in a crowd

[alexkablob]

Other favorite bits from the Dorley reread: Lorna's Paranormal Investigator Arc™

[shiverhohojiro]

I think that making old DJ Octavio balding is a beautiful and noble cause and I'd generally agree but. the vision in my mind is that he has not been able to switch forms for the last 100 years, as is canon, and it's only recently (and probably with the combination of Underground Octo Tech with the Surface's abundance of resources) that there have been the medical advancements to make it possible again. And I think that if after 100 years Octavio got his octoling form back only to realize he was balding I think that would just be the final straw for him he would just snap.

But in a universe where he never lost the ability to change forms I think he'd be chill with it.