Steve becomes a cop because Hopper basically saw a lost party boy and made him a personal project. El was the chosen one of a cult they busted together and Hopper adopted her.
Steve leaves the force to become a PI because he can't stomach the system, he's so close to convincing Hopper to join him.
Remnants of the cult hire a gang to get her back. Eddie, a low level dealer for the gang, is their in after she's taken. It's a hard sell but between a kid being in danger and Steves pretty face he agrees.
Eddie's a classic bad decision but Steve is so gone on him. Insert that please please please song.
Idk the plan yet but it goes awry, and Eddie ends up beat to hell, but he's the one who got El out.
Hopper and Steve think they failed and possibly lost them both forever. They go back to the safe house to lick their wounds and probably make some suicidal plan for vengeance, but Eddie's there, with El playing the GameCube in their shitty little hide out. They're both beat up and dirty, but there's pizza, one completely demolished and one untouched.
Eddie doesn't even give them the chance to adjust he just taps El excitedly and says “do the thing!”
She turns to them and solemnly says “fuck the police” and Eddie fucking loses it.
hello phannies! so the lovely @antiadvil dmed me about transcripts and i happened to have captioned this (nauseating, sickening, homophobia-inducing) clip earlier. thought we could use this as an example.
a sample transcript for this would be:
[TRANSCRIPT]:
(quizzical tone plays)
-[D]: Phil, where-
(record scratch sound effect)
-[P]: *laughs*
-[D]: (laughing) Do you know where- do you- do you know where you- where the- where the- where the pee comes out? (sarcastically) The pee is stored in the balls!
-[P]: I just really wanted to say it!
i plan on making a big post about accessibility in the near future. in the meantime, though, PLEASE try to caption or transcribe your content. please.
and if you want to be even more thorough with accessibility:
a sample VD (video description) for this video would be:
[VD: dan and phil sitting side by side in their office. they are sharing a pair of headphones. dan is wearing a black eclipse t-shirt and phil is wearing a dark spotted button up shirt. the outfits are reminiscent of their costumes for one of their previous tours.
throughout the video, dan has his hand on phil’s shoulder as they both laugh.
the video is open-captioned, with blue captions for phil, black for dan, and purple for sound effects]
ideally VDs/IDs are more simple than this, and i have much less practice with image descriptions than i do with captioning, so please keep that in mind. i am also exhausted, but i wanted to get this posted before going to sleep.
as with all accessibility, disabled people know what we need best, so don’t be afraid to do your own research and ask questions.
my dms are always open. whether or not you’ll get a consistent response from me, who knows. but no harm is sending a dm regardless :)
saph i am getting the distinct impression that the thing i think about when i see 'coffee grinder' is very different from the thing you think about when you say 'coffee grinder'
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this is what i mean
i had to do these fuckers in jazz and tap dances all the time. i never once ever ever took a hip hop class
its been a while since i posted any writing on here! (we're gonna pretend i didnt forget that was. a thing i could do shh)
grian can’t stop staring at it; it’s so gorgeous. he swears he’s never seen blue like that in his life—deep, rich, endless blue, a million shades and tones that he knows he couldn’t name if he tried. red is his favourite colour, always has been, but.. well, he’s starting to doubt that now.
to his surprise, grian finds his throat tightening, and tears beginning to prickle in his eyes. void, he loves that water. he almost wishes he’d never gone in, never felt just how- how pure, how true that joy was, because now he can never go back. it’s all he wants, all he thinks about anymore, what life could be like under the water.
but- but mumbo. he can’t just leave him behind, they’ve been best friends for as long as he can remember. grian couldn’t live with himself if he just abandoned him.
“hey.”
grian practically jumps out of his skin. he was so engrossed in his own thoughts, he didn’t even notice a woman had sat next to him.
she grins at his response. “sorry, didn’t mean to spook you.”
“oh- I don’t know what you’re talking about.” grian says.
“you’re grian, right?” she asks.
“the one and only.”
“I thought so.” she says. “i’m a friend of scar’s. my name’s lizzie.”
“nice to meet you.” grian says, suddenly worried.
“oh, he’s alright.” lizzie says quickly, apparently noticing. “he’s just-“ she pauses. “he says he thinks you’re going through some stuff and that i’d be the best person to help.”
grian blinks. “he’s.. observant like that. why you?”
“what, you haven’t noticed?” lizzie grins, and her hair flutters.
no, wait- not her hair. a pair of feathered gills, almost identical in every way to grian’s own (aside from the colour).
“oh- you’re an axolotl?” grian says.
“that I am.” lizzie says. “you know, my family is kind of weird. my brother is a cod, i’m an axolotl, my husband is a human.”
grian looks at her. he’s starting to think scar’s facade of obliviousness is covering a lot more than he’d realised.
“it was kind of difficult at first, I have to say. y’know, I met joel—my husband—and all I wanted was to be with him but.. I mean, jimmy—brother—is one of my best friends.” lizzie says. “it was like.. I couldn’t have one without losing the other.”
“how’d you do it?” grian says, quieter than he’d intended.
lizzie gives him a half smile. “it took a while, but I figured it out. I was thinking of my family as two halves- thinking of myself as two halves. that’s not the right way to think about it.”
“what is?”
“knowing that.. i’m just me. one person. one family. one home.” lizzie says simply. “I just travel. I have friends and family who ask me to bring them souvenirs. you don’t have to be in one place forever, y’know, you can go back and forth.”
grian stares at the ocean again. suddenly, it seems a lot easier to.
“what do you mean by ‘one home’?” he murmurs.
lizzie hums. “my home is where the people I love are.”
i love showing my partner the way phannies react to dnp doing anything because it’s endlessly funny to get an outside perspective. like yes it’s weird that we react to dnp doing anything with rage and terror but we’re having a good time i promise. the majority of us being mentally ill is completely unrelated i swear.
Finally got sampo to lv 80 n his attack is higher than his health. I gotta get his traces up n might get him some more crit or speed. Im going to make him so fucking strong.