#harkins

[wheneverfeasible]

🧠🪱Wiggly Wednesday🪱🧠

Thank you for the tags @scoops-aboy86 and @endlessmusings1801!

Okay so hear me out. This was a worm I’ve been thinking about lately, which is bizarre, because it isn’t inherently Steddie…

But we get all kinds of fics of if Eddie and/or Robin were pulled into things earlier than their seasons. But…

What if Tommy and Carol were pulled into things with Steve? Like, picture it…

Instead of ditching Steve after his fight with Jonathan, Steve and Tommy and Carol hash it out a bit more, get into a bigger argument maybe even, and maybe they do separate for a bit. But then they’re still friends, so maybe they huff and puff about it but they talk things out too. Maybe Steve even gets to somewhat convince them that they should all apologize, even if Tommy and Carol don’t really want to or care all that much.

So all three of them go to do so, and all three of them see the demogorgon, and all three of them have that life altering paradigm shift. Maybe Carol and Tommy don’t change completely, at least not immediately, but they’re forced to confront that there’s more than just high school popularity contests, and maybe they become just that little bit of better people.

Maybe Carol and Nancy have a genuine talk, genuinely open up to each other, and no one can ever replace Barb of course, but it’s nice to have another female friend, even if they’re pretty much polar opposites.

Tommy isn’t fond of Jonathan at all, because demogorgon aside, it was creep behavior taking photos of them like that. Tommy helps pitch in to get Jonathan his new camera though, because he egged on Steve’s insecurities (brought on by the fact that Steve’s dad has cheated on his mom so he’s really sensitive to potential cheating in partners) and he guesses he’s partly to blame. He rolls his eyes about it, but Steve is happy he has his friend beside him still.

Tommy and Carol don’t really take to the kids much, but Carol does secretly enjoy getting into bitching sessions with Mike, and later Erica.

When Billy shows up, maybe Tommy and Carol start backsliding. Maybe they have to have a big blowup. Maybe they aren’t there when Steve gets dragged in helping Dustin, at least not immediately, but maybe they hear about Steve dealing with that without them because they chose Billy and they just…they…

They can’t believe they left Steve to deal with that horror by himself. They feel guilty and terrible and they tell Billy off. They can’t believe they chose some stupid popularity that doesn’t even matter over the guy that literally went to bat for them. They’re at the end with him, apologizing for not being there before, and they become even better people.

They come around to lovingly tease Steve at his job at Scoops, wheedling free ice cream out of him. And who knows, maybe telling Billy off changes the third season, maybe them being there, better people and supportive of Steve changes things, maybe the three of them can even change Billy to an extent. Maybe, Steve and Tommy and Carol and Billy hashing it all out and coming to terms with the toxicity of high school and judgemental parents and a society that believes you need to be a certain way to matter…maybe it changes things for the better.

Idk. I’ve just always wondered how things would have gone if Tommy and Carol had been exposed to the truth the first season.

And then blah blah blah, Steve and Eddie eventually fuck about it. Because I am nothing if not a Steddie truther in everything. And who knows…maybe Robin and Carol fuck about it also 😏

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[angstyastro]

Garrus loyalty mission.png

[ibenology]

I can’t get enough of Jonathan’s complete turnarounds when writing

“I am sure I am going to die here…. Oh! my coach!:)”

“It is a grim and horrific adventure I have embarked upon, surely this is not normal for men such as myself. By the way! I’m a real lawyer now! yayyyy:D”

[intheupside]

So, what they do when a player isn't able to be in the picture is they have a guy pose in the player's jersey and they just photoshop his head in later. Like 10 years ago the part of Sidney Crosby was actually played by Andrew Taglianetti, twin brother of equipment manager Jon. Looking down there now, they've got a guy in Jansen Harkins' jersey since he's on a conditioning stint in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. They've also got a guy wearing Lars Eller's gear. Not sure where Eller might be.

 Friends helping friends. Erik Karlsson was one of the guys on the stands in his shoes so Acciari pushed him in a chair off the ice so he wouldn't have to shuffle. Tristan Jarry helped Acciari push Karlsson

from dkpitt

[majestativa]

Walk with truth and let others be invited to deepen themselves in their reception of you.

— CHELAN HARKIN ⚜️ The Prophetess: The Return of The Prophet from the Voice of The Divine Feminine, (2024)

[rustasche]

G-Gayy 😳

[supfag]

HEY THERE SWEETHEART MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION (2021)

[hunterrrs]

our emotional support gramma

[dynamitegun]

Harkin is a reflection of Garrus if he doesn't get his act together -Wait put the chair down let me finish!

Anyway...I noticed some parallels between them during my last playthrough.

When we meet Harkin in Cora's Den, he's drowning himself in liquor after being suspended from the force. He was skimming credits from crime scenes, using excessive force on suspects, drinking on the job. The sort of conduct that does a disservice to a peace officer.

When we point this out what does he say?

Harkin: "What the hell do you know? Working for C-Sec ain't like being a Marine. People get pissed off if we shoot somebody. Investigations, inquiries, rules, regulations. Everyday I plow through enough red tape to choke a rhino. That's how you gotta be to do this job. So don't talk to me about 'right' and 'wrong'. You soldiers got it easy."

Later when we ask Garrus about his frustrations with C-Sec after joining us aboard the Normandy he cited the same points.

Garrus: "At C-sec, you're buried by rules. The damn bureaucrats are always on your back. Sometimes it feels like the rules are there to stop me from doing my work. If I'm trying to take down a suspect it shouldn't matter how I do it so long as I do it. But C-Sec wants it done their way, protocol and procedure comes first. That's why I left."*

*This is actually two separate lines but I've combined them for brevity.

Both argue that bureaucracy, rules. They get in the way. People won't understand, are too quick to judge.

I think if Garrus had stayed in C-Sec, he would have become as jaded as Harkin. Soured into a shell of himself. We see in ME2 how far he can fall when his vendetta against Sidonis consumes him to near a near Ahab like obsession.

In a world without Shepard or the Reaper? In twenty years it would have been Vakarian sipping dextro beer in a seedy club making passes at women, a cautionary tale to new recruits about falling from grace.

I'm sure someone's made this connection already but I thought I'd share it anyway.

[blusical]

currently thinking of how abusive some hockey coaches are and how players are supposed to act like that sort of stuff is normal

[doomedbythenarrator]

coming of age horror films in which the monster and the girl are somehow one

mine // the vvitch (2016) // alexa thorn // joan macleod // hatching / pahanhautoja (2022) // chelsea g summers // ashe vernon // carrie (1976) // amber sparks // venetta octavia // cat people (1942) // richard powers // angela carter // raw (2016) // rebecca harkins-cross

[red-wood-reaper]

I have not posted literally anything about this character on here yet, but have a full drawing of them I was possessed to make. They're a vampire-like mordrem and I love them.

[tardyke]

AuuuugguuU

[intheupside]

hockey player problems. he ripped his pants.

[majestativa]

Darling, learn the rhythms of descent into your darkness.

— CHELAN HARKIN ⚜️ The Prophetess: The Return of The Prophet from the Voice of The Divine Feminine, (2024)

[maljic]

round 14: Jansen Harkins scores the winner on his first nhl career shoot out attempt