#and that’s a big fucking deal ok

[dreamofbecoming]

i feel like we as a fandom don’t talk enough about the fact that steve’s redemption arc had nothing to do with the upside down

like, yes, he grows pretty steadily as a person over the course of the entire show, and yes, his relationships with dustin and robin specifically are a big part of that growth and both those relationships are rooted in UD shenanigans, but that isn’t where it started. and it wasn’t nancy either

he has that whole speech in s4 about how he needs to get conked on the head to start moving in the right direction, and maybe that’s true to an extent, but the wallop he got wasn’t “monsters are real” and it wasn’t “ough pretty girl,” it was him, completely on his own, wanting to change

because the death of king steve is 100% a choice steve makes, voluntarily, before he knows about the UD, totally separate from his desire to be with nancy. he realizes fully independently that he isn’t proud of being a bully and he wants to do better. that’s entirely steve deciding that for himself

he goes to jonathan first. he doesn’t apologize to nancy first, he’s not trying to get back on her good side, he’s not trying to get ahead of any story and convince her to take him back. he still even actively thinks jonathan is sleeping with her, at this point

he has every logical reason to believe that jonathan 1) violated him sexually (and publicly!) and 2) fucked his girlfriend. he has every reason to think his girlfriend cheated on him! his anger with jonathan (and nancy!) is, from steve’s pov, given the information he has, completely justified, and steve still, with no reason at all to like jonathan or forgive nancy, with no reason to go against tommy and carol (given that they’re his lifelong best friends and have seemingly just been proven right about hating his gf), decides completely independently that the things he said to jonathan were out of line

he has literally no reason to be kind to this dude, and he’s working against a pretty engrained habit of teenage cruelty, and he still makes that call all by himself. for no other reason than that his conscience demands it. that’s an astonishingly humble and selfless act from any 17 year old, but especially one who was raised on money and popularity and has no real reason to go against that upbringing (and has never done so before!). the moral fortitude that takes is incredible

i couldn’t have made that apology at 17, i was way too caught up in myself and far too scared of feeling any kind of shame or social consequences. i would have focused on the things that fueled my anger, that made me feel justified. i wouldn’t have been capable of seriously reflecting on the ways i might be in the wrong. but steve does. he makes that call completely unprompted. he chooses to not only acknowledge that what he said to jonathan was fucked up, as was what he and tommy did to nancy (even when, again, his anger, if not his actions, was fully justified), but to apologize to jonathan first (risking him convincing nancy that steve isn’t worth forgiving, and he still thinks this is the guy fucking his girlfriend, and this is the guy who never apologized for the creepshots!) and to abandon his social safety net to do it (horrifically difficult to do at that age)

and then the poor guy gets attacked by a monster and the first thing he does is save the asshole who took naked pics of him and basically risked showing the whole school, and the girlfriend he has every reason to believe is fucking him.

steve harrington is a fucking saint and we don’t talk about it enough.

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[jones-friend]

[haunted-xander]

I guess old feelings don't disappear that easily

[bayetea]

I think it's really annoying that leo has completely falsified memories of jason too and this is barely acknowledged in the books

[christiangeistdorfer]

HENRI TOIVONEN, JUHA KANKKUNEN, CHRISTIAN GEISTDÖRFER, TIMO SALONEN & MARKKU ALÉN in a lift while waiting for WALTER RÖHRL during the 1986 RALLYE DE PORTUGAL

[your-local-narc]

TW: vent, suicide baiting, ableism

Had a rough day today. I was really low on supply so I asked 2 of my friends for some attention and explained why I was asking. One of my friend's friends was there and he was an ass about it. He told me I can't expect attention and if I want attention I should kill myself. When I explained to him that I need supply to not be suicidal and depressed and anxious he told me to kill myself again and I shouldnt use my disorder as an excuse. He kept telling me to kill myself. He's told me to commit suicide before but this time he kept saying it. He said the world would be better without me. Not sure what to do about it.

(Vent continued in the tags)

[poniko-w]

new weird yuri au just dropped (featuring a super old "corrupted" bachikin design heavily based off of her in mo2 (that i should probably remake one day..))

colored version + extra doodles

[triglycercule]

horror's about to get his shit rocked i guess but its ok he got to say a cool line. anyways i had this silly little idea :3 horror deserves to be the one inflicting pain onto killer sometimes anyways it can't ALWAYS be killer being sadistic 😒😒😒

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

aau rework version of the overload/boss fight where it actually has consequences and bearing on the character dynamics save me,, save me aau rework,,,,

[gayhotpriests]

people making such a big deal out of bucktommy possibly kissing in front of everyone at the wedding as if tim and the cast haven't explicitly said there are no more 'coming out' scenes and that they don't want to make it this big thing, meaning the rest probably will not have much of a reaction other than 'oh that's great ily' and a .5 sec conversation about it. trust the writters! they never disappoint

[obsmiechujek]

Could I request Celine, Fogado, Zelestia and Emblem Robin all using Levin Swords? Because fun fact: Fogado is an actual beast with magic weapons for a bow knight

The "Levin Sword Convention" looks great

[bubbl3solution]

i find it endlessly funny that people on twitter saw these early elemental test animations and went “THIS IS WHAT WE COULD’VE ENDED UP WITH???!@;&” like no actually believe it or not there was a time when the animators were still learning how characters made entirely from water and fire worked. It’s almost like it took lots of trial and error to end up with the visually stunning movie that we have today. crazy isn’t it

[seaofreverie]

Also I started listening to the recording of tmbptmbg today and at the end of the second hour they were talking about how there are people requesting from all over the world because someone requested from the Philippines and then one of the hosts said about the requests that "There was one from Poland. From Ray"... ME MENTION!!!!!!! HOLY SMOKES!!!!!!!

[puertoark]

my take on @misssicknesss 's lovely template + some reasoning behind it on the tags bc i feel like. explaining myself (original below the cut)

[jrueships]

WHOEVER THE FUCK IS RECOMMENDING MED PPL TO GO INTO RADIOLOGY JUST CUS IF THE MONEY, IM GONNA FUCKING gET YOU