#but it is what it is.

[coldninjaruins-blog]

I remember this tweet from 2017 or 2018 that said "Can someone tell the writers of strangers things that Mike needs to have important bonding or conversations with characters other than El or Will "and I think about it daily because it was true in 2018 and it's true now.

It's a recurring problem the writers actually, it happens with other characters (joyce with hopper in the last few seasons, even will with mike, come on originally there wasn't even the bonding scene between Jonathan and Will in s4).

They tend to focus a lot on a relationship between two characters and leave out others.

But i think it's more noticeable in Mike's character which may well explain why the ship war between mileven and byler is the way it is and how Mike is defined according to his relationship with others. 

This is why i don't understand when someone says "oh, the writers won't have time to develop mike and El's arc, they won't have many scenes together" when milevens says something similar about Mike and Will not spending much time together in s5.

I'm sorry but Will and El are the most important relationships Mike has in the show, like it or not. That's where the writers' priority is in writing his bonding with others are. These relationships come first before his relationship with his sister or any of the other party members.And he's going to have important scenes with both El and Will and that's where the writers are going to focus, just like they did in past seasons.

[aleximustd13]

Call me rob the way i look like a zombie

[minty-bubblegum]

*Hugs you with tears*

I guess I do gotta let go,so...*holds up divorce papers*

If you truly want this, sign😢

SIGN SOGN SIGN SIGN SIGN RN 😍😍😍😍

Lilypad

Hehehehhe I met someone already so uhhh :3

I might marry you with one of those mood rings if I end up still having feelings but rn Im geelingbery silly and I think our marriage was collapsing anyways because of all the drama we had 👍

[skipppppy]

So there’s a trend going round where you draw Miku inspired by your own culture and normally I just sit those out bc i’m from England but then the image of her covered in fake tan with the full chav makeup and sloppily bleached blue pigtails popped into my head and i almost threw up laughing. So here’s bri’ish Miku. She smells like impulse body spray and spent the last 30 minutes arguing with the teacher who told her to take her coat off. It’s chewsday innit

edit: i fucked up with the cigarette i know it’s the wrong way round blease stop making fun of me 😔💔

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[guooey]

really beautiful things are happening between americans and chinese netizens right now

[miiilowo]

phenomenon

[chrismcshell]

northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

[kawareo]

"Imagine still posting fanart a whole year after the game came out" brother what are you talking about

[princehendir]

I also think that all the "um okay knives out & glass onion were good. Wrap it up now" posts are so funny. You're tripping if you think there's not going to be at least five Benoit Blanc films lol

[victusinveritas]

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[satturn]

star by mitski 🌠

[tenisperfection]

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window. It is very important to romanticize this tree as much as possible.

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories