#holly cunningham

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STRANGER THINGS LADIES APPRECIATION WEEK: DAY 7 FREE THEME

Minor characters are brief flickers of light that quickly go extinguished, but shine very brightly when they’re on screen.

[friendsdontlieokay]

•Edward Christopher Munson

•Robin Alison Buckley

•Steven Andrew Harrington

•Jonathan Jasper Byers

•Nancy Grace Wheeler

•Michael Benjamin Wheeler

•William Jacob Byers

•Dustin Clarence Henderson

•Lucas Charles Sinclair

•Maxine Isabelle Mayfield

•Jane Elizabeth Ives

•William James Hargrove

•Erica Cynthia Sinclair

•Holly Rose Wheeler

•Heather Lillian Holloway

•Christina Emeline Cunningham

•Joyce Katherine Maldonado

•Jim Ross Hopper

•Murray Anthony Bauman

•Karen Amelia Childress

•Ted Samuel Wheeler

•Claudia Quinn Yount

•Susan Penelope Anderson

•Charles Thomas Sinclair

•Neil Asshole Hargrove

•Bob Robert Newby

•Patty Charlotte Newby

•Henry Richard Creel

•Alice Lucy Creel

[bylerposting]

Max's memory of Chrissy and Eddie, Will's vanishing, and Holly Wheeler.

The soft streaking effect that's shown on the shots of Eddie driving away, which are shot to be from Max's POV, is the exact same effect that's seen in Terry's dream sequence.

I've always wondered why the atmosphere of Chrissy's death feels so reminiscent of Will's vanishing, @aemiron-main made a post a while ago on how the white lights behind the doors in Chrissy's vision are reminiscent of Will's vanishing.

Which leads me to think about this shot of Will in the trailer, and how the scene is clearly being directed in a way that thematically parallels Chrissy's vision.

Max makes it a point to tell us that Chrissy was in her cheerleader outfit, so I think this is also worth adding to the discussion:

When discussing the leaks, I've seen lots of people talk about Holly(?)'s outfits, and how colorful they are. Which leads me to think about how in an older teleplay for S1E1 (pg. 26), "Colorful" is exactly how the story labels Will's clothes.

Bigger post on this later, I wanted to organize some of my thoughts here first. Seeing what Hopper says about "Chrissy Carpenter", I got a feeling there's some heavy topics ahead.

In the meantime, I think Nell's character (holly? jane? alice? idk?) is somehow involved with Will's vanishing, the scene we saw a preview of in the trailer takes place on that night, and Chrissy's story includes elements that are silently helping to build the story to this plot point.

[localsoulsalesman]

Stranger Things Silly Goofy Mode

Edit: I forgot to put this one here 😔

[froppy-butterflyfan2000]

This story take place in November. The characters, the ones who want to be heroes, became heroes after finishing summer camp. Warning: Please be advise, you are reading this story that contain spoilers of Neighbour and The Guardians of The Supernatural. You can ignore this and wait for Volume 1 of the Cappyverse main storylines, The Neighbors and The Guardians of The Supernatural to come. Or just read it and keep this informations to yourself and not share with others. You have been warned.

Andrew Cunningham, Antonie Diaz, Ethan Corduroy, Nebula Lucitor, Sandra Possible (mentioned), Raymond Pedrosa, and Travis Mystery (mentioned) belong to @ej-cappy-universe.

Aurelia Killman (mentioned), Beppi Creecher, Edda Killman (mentioned), Hannibal Demrest (mentioned), Holly Test, Janaya A. Blood worth-Thomason, Joby Test (mentioned), Josie Test, Mirage B. Fagry, Niko Corduroy belong to me.

Anty Diamond (mentioned) belongs to @cooltmoney95.

Morgan Morningstar (mentioned) belongs to @aprilbrowines.

[bettslovesromance]

🗯 November Reads 🗯

I didn't read that much this month because I spent most of my time watching (and obsessing over) The Sopranos, but the 6 I read were FABULOUS!

Some thoughts about them (in no particular order):

💕 I FINALLY finished The Brothers Sinister series and absolutely loved it. Which is no surprise because Courtney Milan is a great writer

🎹 I also loved Oh You Pretty Things by Jane Hadley. Set in the 70's, super queer, cool, fun and emotional. I couldn't put it down.

❄️ If you know me, you know that snowed in is one of my favorite tropes and Syncopated Snowflakes by Amber Night has it. Lots of pining, dancing and a cinnamon roll hero, great combo!

❄️ See you Next Winter by Holly June Smith was sooo good, if you read Can I Tell You Something, you need to read this. Childhood friends, to holiday-friends-with-benefits, to lovers??? Yes, pleaseeeee.

🩰 I also read and enjoyed SO MUCH, Plié by A.H. Cunningham, and arghhh, the perfect combination of sweetness, hotness and drama.

⚘️ Natural Enemies by Roan Parrish is a short and sweet story about two botanist that are complete opposites but somehow fall in love. Really sweet

And without meaning to, I wrote mini (really small) reviews of what I read in November 🤷🏻‍♀️

[americanahighways]

Music Reviews: British Psychedelia from 1967 and Six More New Releases

Music Reviews: British Psychedelia from 1967 and Six More New Releases @sunnywar @thenoones1 @yeproc @cityandcolour @mightypoplar @charlie_c_music #meredithmoon @truenorthrecord #americanahighways @byjeffburger

More than 20 years ago, the Rhino label issued a four-CD, 109-track box set of frequently psychedelic late 1960s rock obscurities called Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond. You might think that would be enough to cover the territory, but this was an incredibly fertile time and place for the genre. In 2016, England’s Grapefruit label narrowed the focus to that…

[penny00dreadful]

For Holly

For @hbyrde36's anniversary rewrite of Times Like These.

When Eddie finds himself back in his living room, staring down a very alive Chrissy Cunningham, after just having bled to death himself in the middle of a nightmare world, he was rightfully very, very fucking confused. -Or- What happens when the new guy, who only just got inducted into the fucked up world of monsters and mayhem, gets stuck in a time loop and finds himself responsible for saving everyone?

I am so delighted to have you in this fandom with me, love. It's been the best of times and I can't wait to have so many other unhinged times with you in the future. 💜🖤

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Queer Books November 2023

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck 🧡 Heading North by Holly M. Wendt 💛 The Wisdom of Bug by Alyson Root 💚 Trick Shot by Kayla Grosse 💙 A Holly Jolly Christmas by Emily Wright 💜 Outdrawn by Deanna Grey ❤️ Yours Celestially by Al Hess 🧡 The Christmas Memory by Barbara Winkes 💛 Violet Moon by Mel E. Lemon 💙 The Santa Pageant by Lillian Barry 💜 Only for the Holidays by Shannon O’Connor 🌈 Homestead for the Holidays by Wren Taylor

❤️ You Can Count on Me by Fae Quin 🧡 No One Left But You by Tash McAdam 💛 The Worst Thing of All is the Light by José Luis Serrano, Lawrence Schimel 💚 Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed 💙 Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt 💜 Emmett by L. C. Rosen ❤️ Finding My Elf by David Valdes 🧡 Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. Adams 💛 Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng 💙 Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 💜 A Power Unbound by Freya Marske 🌈 We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull

❤️ The Manor House Governess by C.A. Castle 🧡 You Owe Me One, Universe by Chad Lucas 💛 Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen by Sarah James 💚 Skip!: A Graphic Novel by Rebecca Burgess 💙 Something About Her by Clementine Taylor 💜 Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore ❤️ A Nearby Country Called Love by Salar Abdoh 🧡 Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us by Karen Tongson 💛 Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost by Esme Symes-Smith 💙 The Order of the Banshee by Robyn Singer 💜 Once Upon My Dads’ Divorce by Seamus Kirst, Noémie Gionet Landry 🌈 Forsooth by Jimmy Matejek-Morris

❤️ A Common Bond by T.M. Kuta 🧡 Risk the Fall by Riley Hart 💛 Just a Little Snack by Yah-Yah Scholfield 💚 Home for the Holidays by Erin Zak 💙 NeurodiVeRse by MJ James 💜 Dark Heir (Dark Rise #2) by C.S. Pacat ❤️ sub/Dom by Rab Green 🧡 Bitten by the Bond by Elaine White 💛 Heir to Frost and Storm by Ben Alderson 💙 The Sea of Stars by Gwenhyver 💜 Bad Beat by L.M. Bennett 🌈 Idol Moves by K.T. Salvo

❤️ Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa 🧡 In the Pines by Mariah Stillbrook 💛 The Crimson Fortress (The Ivory Key #2) by Akshaya Raman 💚 Only She Came Back by Margot Harrison 💙 Megumi & Tsugumi, Vol. 4 by Mitsuru Si 💜 Pritty by Keith F. Miller Jr. ❤️ Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid 🧡 An Atlas to Forever by Krystina Rivers 💛 Come Find Me in the Midnight Sun by Bailey Bridgewater 💙 Bait and Witch by Clifford Mae Henderson 💜 Shadow Baron by Davinia Evans 🌈 Day by Michael Cunningham

❤️ Livingston Girls by Briana Morgan 🧡 Delay of the Game by Ari Baran 💛 The Nanny with the Nice List by K. Sterling 💚 A Talent Ignited by Suzanne Lenoir 💙 A Kiss of the Siren’s Song by E.A.M. Trofimenkoff 💜 Rivals for Love by Ali Vali ❤️ Whiskey & Wine by Kelly Fireside, Tana Fireside 🧡 Buried Secrets by Sheri Lewis Wohl 💛 Ride with Me by Jenna Jarvis 💙 Living for You by Jenny Frame 💜 Death on the Water by CJ Birch 🌈 Merciless Waters by Rae Knowles

❤️ Vicarious by Chloe Spencer 🧡 Sapling’s Depths by Spencer Rose 💛 That French Summer by Sienna Waters 💚 System Overload by Saxon James 💙 King of Death by Lily Mayne 💜 Warts and All by Ashley Bennett ❤️ Principle Decisions by Thea Belmont 🧡 The Best Mistake by Emily O’Beirne 💛 Sugar and Ice by Eule Grey 💙 Until The Blood Runs Dry by MC Johnson 💜 Splinter : A Diverse Sleepy Hollow Retelling by Jasper Hyde 🌈 The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin

❤️ The Queer Girl is Going to be Okay by Dale Walls 🧡 Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black 💛 Leverage by E.J. Noyes 💚 Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright 💙 Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon 💜 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher ❤️ To Kill a Shadow by Katherine Quinn 🧡 Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 💛 For Never & Always by Helena Greer 💙 A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sally Hawley 💜 Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 8 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 🌈 A Carol for Karol by Ann Roberts

[swayhere]

canon starter call - open to anyone !

i have a strong urge to write some canon muses, so if you would be interested in writing against any of the canon muses listed under the READ MORE below, please comment/IM me and i can send a starter your way or reply to one of your starters.

i do not require you to know anything about my muse's canon, but i'm more than happy to tell you about it if you ask. i'd be happy to write canon muses against your ocs! also, mixing fandoms is 100% ok with me unless your canon muse is problematic and makes me uncomfy. my canon muses do not have all their memories or relationships from their life unless we plot it, but they will have the same general personality/ambitions.

if you are willing to write against my canon muses but don't care which, just like this post, and i'll take a look at your open starters and/or send you a closed starter at random with a muse i think fits the vibe.

*please don't agree to write against my canon muses if you're one of those picky weirdos that will be up in arms if i don't write a cannon muse exactly how you would.

( if you'd prefer to write against an oc muse only, check this post. )

canon muses i'd like to write: bold = extra big muse rn. strikethrough = exclusive, so not rn.

muses from tv shows: 

911 — eddie diaz , evan buckley , athena grant , bobby nash , karen wilson

911: lonestar — carlos reyes , grace ryder , judson ryder , t.k. strand , owen strand

as the world turns — dr. reid oliver , luke snyder

boy meets world — shawn hunter , jack hunter , angela moore , topanga lawrence

chuck — sarah walker , chuck bartowski , bryce larkin 

degrassi — jimmy brooks , sean cameron , ellie nash , marco del rossi , sav bhandari , drew torres , zoe rivas , miles hollingsworth iii , tiny bell , esme song , 

gilmore girls — jess , luke

good trouble — gael martinez , jamie hunter , callie adams foster , mariana adams foster , evan speck , joaquin perez , dennis cooper 

how i met your father — sid , ian , sophie , jesse

how i met your mother — marshall eriksen , lily aldrin , victoria

how to get away with murder — laurel castillo , connor walsh , oliver hampton , michaela pratt , frank delfino 

jessica jones — jessica jones

lost — kate austen , juliet burke , daniel faraday , desmond hume , sayid jarrah , sun-hwa kwon , claire littleton , walter ‘walt’ lloyd , charlie pace , hugo ‘hurley’ reyes , shannon rutherford , miles straume 

new amsterdam — lauren bloom , elizabeth wilder , casey acosta

new girl — nick miller , winston bishop , cece parekh

one tree hill — nathan scott , lucas scott , keith scott , chase adams , brooke davis 

outer banks (obx) — jj maybank , kiara carrera

please like me — arnold 

rosewell, new mexico — michael guerin , maria deluca , isobel evans

scandal — olivia pope , prezzy fitz

scooby doo — daphne blake

stranger things — robin buckley , steve harrington , jim hopper , chrissy cunningham , eddie munson , max mayfield , eleven , mike wheeler 

superstore — jonah simms

the 100 — finn collins

the bear — richie jerimovich, carmy berzatto , marcus , sydney adamu  

the mindy project — danny castellano 

the office — ryan howard , jim halpert , pam halpert , kelly kapoor , holly flax

the politician — river barkley , astrid sloan 

the young & the restless — sally spectra , adam newman , chelsea lawson , phyllis summers , lily winters , sharon newman , chance chancellor , victoria newman , tessa porter , amanda sinclair , cole howard

younger — josh , kelsey peters

muses from books: 

along for the ride ( book version only ) — eli stock , auden west , maggie  

one of us is lying ( book version only ) — cooper clay , nate

red white & royal blue — alex claremont-diaz , prince henry , zahra bankston

we were liars — gatwick ‘gat’ matthew patil

muses from movies: 

dead poets society — neil perry , charlie dalton , todd anderson

harry potter — lee jordan

les mis — enjolras , grantaire 

super 8 — joe lamb , martin , preston

twilight — irina denali , jasper cullen

[burlveneer-music]

Ishmael Ensemble - Rituals - the band I always get confused with Ezra Collective also has a new album out, from Severn Songs

Rituals is the third studio album by Ishmael Ensemble Written by Ishmael Ensemble Pete Cunningham - Vocals, Saxophone, Synths Holly Wellington - Vocals, Piano, Synths Stephen Mullins - Guitars Jake Spurgeon - Bass, Backing Vocals, Synths Rory O’Gorman - Drums, Percussion Additional Synths by Georgie Ward String Arrangements by Bethany Ley Tom Pigott-Smith Violin 1 Oli Langford - Violin 2 Rachel Robson - Viola Danny Keane - Cello

[lavenderstobins]

MY OTHER AUS

Steddie Ghost (1990) AU

Steve finds himself as a ghost in a mugging gone wrong. After learning his attack wasn’t an accident, he’s desperate to warn Robin of the danger she might be in. Enter Eddie, a not-so-con psychic, who can hear Steve. [tag]

Ronance Life is Strange AU

Steve Harrington is missing, Chrissy Cunningham is acting weird, and Nancy Wheeler discovers she can rewind time after seeing Robin Buckley get shot in the school bathroom.  Or: Nancy Wheeler falling for a dead girl. [tag]

Until Dawn AU

Four years prior, Barbara Holland disappeared on the mountain at Steve Harrington’s parents’ winter lodge. After the whole ordeal with Vecna, Nancy starts looking into the mountain, suspecting Barb’s disappearance might’ve been related to the Upside Down. When she learns that several others have gone missing in recent years, she convinces Steve to bring them all to the lodge to investigate. [tag]

Modern Josieverse

Basically what it says on the tin. Single parent Robin but in modern day. [tag]

Missing Kid AU

Some years after everything, Holly Wheeler finds a baby in the boathouse. When the baby leviatates something in front of her, she takes her to Wayne Munson, who takes her in. Kat Munson grows up with no idea who her birth parents are or why she was dumped in the boathouse. When she turns twelve, she sets out to find her birth mom. Or: 11 years after believing her daughter to be dead, Robin Buckley comes face to face with her missing daughter. [tag]

Ronance Atonement AU

When some of the Wheelers’ valuables are stolen, Mike points the finger at Robin, who he had seen with Nancy in the library prior. This is something he regrets for the rest of his life.  [tag]

Ronance One Night Stand + Accidental Pregnancy AU

Nancy Wheeler and Robin Buckley meet for the first time in a club in California. They have a one night stand and don’t exchange their information. A month later, Robin discovers she’s pregnant. She knows it has to be Nancy’s but she can’t find her to tell her, no matter how hard she tries. Three years later, Nancy and Mike move to Hawkins and Nancy discovers she has a two year old son.  An AU where Robin and Nancy coparent their kid and slowly fall in love along the way. Featuring transfem Nancy, transfem Stevie, transmasc Eddie and (briefly) single mom Robin. [tag]

QPR Stobin raising their kid AU

Steve and Robin are platonic life partners, lavender-married and raising their kid together. When their daughter comes out as a trans girl in her teens, they do their best to be the most supportive they can be. [tag]

Ronance She-Ra AU

Robin as Adora, Nancy as Catra. Sometimes flipped around for fun. [tag]

Ronance Transistor AU

Nancy comes to and finds that her voice has been stolen and her girlfriend killed. Robin’s consciousness has been absorbed into the Transistor, the weapon that killed her, so Nancy takes it and embarks on a journey to avenge her, putting an end to Brenner’s plan for good. [tag] [art]

Ronance Stobin The X-Files AU

Agent Wheeler finds herself assigned to work with Agent Buckley, who is well-known for cracking after her old partner’s disappearance. Adjacent to novakiart’s AU. [tag]

Stobin Ghost Files AU

Steve and Robin as Ryan and Shane. [tag]

Stobin Russian Doll AU

The day of his 24th birthday, Steve Harrington dies. This seems to an event that keeps occurring. AKA Steve (and Robin) stuck in a time loop, based off the show Russian Doll. [tag]

Ronance Good Omens AU

Nancy’s an angel. Robin’s a demon. Follows seasons 1&2 of Good Omens. [tag] [art]

Murder Suspect Nancy AU

November of 1983, Nancy goes home with Barb, and everything changes. A plot rewrite in a universe where Nancy is accused of murder in 1986 instead of Eddie. [tag]

AUs I haven’t posted about yet

Ronance Wizards of Waverly Place AU

The Wheelers are wizards. Steve and Jonathan, Nancy’s best friends, know. Robin, who Nancy is nursing a huge crush on, apparently doesn’t, and isn’t meant to. How do you woo a girl without accidentally revealing your family secret? Nancy’s determined to find out.

Ronance mermaid AU

Nancy’s a mermaid. Robin’s the best friend of the kingdom’s prince. When Robin almost drowns sailing with Prince Steve during a storm, Nancy saves her, piquing her curiousity about the human kingdom. She makes a deal with Henry Creel to trade her tail for human legs. The condition is that Creel gets her voice… and some other conditions she doesn’t hear about until after she signs. Mermaid Nancy falling for human Robin, vaguely following the plot of The Little Mermaid.

The Hunger Games AU (ronance, stonathan, platonic stancy)

Nancy Wheeler is reaped for the Hunger Games. To her horror, so is her little brother–until Steve Harrington volunteers in his place. Everything is centred on getting home to Mike. She plays up a romance with Steve, thinking it’s fake to him, too. They survive, only to be thrust back into things. That’s where they meet Robin Buckley, a previous victor from another district. Steve begins to fall for their mentor, Jonathan Byers, and against her better judgement, Nancy finds herself falling for Robin.

ST Yellowjackets AU

The Hawkins Tigresses find themselves stranded in the wilderness when their plane crashes on the way to nationals. Centred on Nancy, Robin and Eddie.

Ronance Dishonoured AU

Nancy as Corvo Attano, Robin as Jessamine Kaldwin.

Evil Josieverse

An AU of Josieverse where Robin died when Josie was three and Steve is left to raise her.

Bucklair apocalypse AU

An Upside Down-related Zombie Apocalypse breaks out in Hawkins. Robin saves Lucas and Erica, managing to get them out of town, but they find themselves pushed further and further out. They have no idea that the rest of the group managed to set up a settlement. An AU of the three of them navigating a zombie apocalypse.

Lumax Ghosts AU

Max inherits an old estate while she and Lucas are house-hunting. They move in with Dustin, only for Max to discover that the house is haunted.

[wheelercore]

Alice Creel Haunting Funerals

There is a strange mystery surrounding Alice's death. Were meant to assume Henry killed her, however Henry completely brushes over Alice in his retelling and never answers the question as to how he was able to kill her while also vecna-ing Victor. Alice is also killed slightly differently from Virginia, which adds to the confusing surrounding why the show producers deliberately decided not to show us Alice's death.

I will be making this about strange wheeler subtext as per usual- [GUNSHOT]

First of all, lets start out with Jennifer Hayes. The little blonde girl deliberately pointed out to be crying during will's funeral during s1? Yeah her.

On her own this isn't much but there's an interesting trend of Creels & funerals that done twice in s4.

In s4 we get Fred Benson's vecna vision. Fred is already set apart from other victims because his source of guilt isn't really family trauma related. He feels guilt for being a "murderer"- in this case killing a classmate in a car accident. I've already mentioned this a million times before, but Fred Benson, visually, seems to be a combo of Mike and Ted- which is only reinforced by the fact that we get 3 references to serial killers ("psychopaths") in s4: Freddy Krueger, Michael Meyers, and Ted Bundy. This is one of two interesting father-son parallels in s4 that I will mention here.

But we get an interesting moment from Fred's vision, visually similar to the casket outside during will's funeral, and Michael Meyers is brought up:

Notice how the only three people wearing hats in this crowd of people standing outdoors on a sunny day are Jennifer, Ted, and the lady standing right next to Scott Clarke (something something sunlight something something shadows). I would say this is simply a coincidence, except we get lots of focus on this young blonde (?) girl in Fred's vision- with her own hair accessory in the forefront of the crowd, pointing at him calling him a murderer. Why a little girl?

Mind you they also deliberately parallel Fred to Henry in the moment he mysteriously obtains his powers from the grandfather clock that was there from the moment the Creels moved in- and is associated in the s4 trailer with the Attic. Henry being the person we THINK killed Alice, and the mystery surrounding the imagery of the grandfather clock which seems to be important despite the fact that it most like came with the home when the Creels bought it and Henry has no childhood personal attachment to as we've seen pervious to moving.

Which Alice- she was intentionally casted to look 12 despite canonically being 15, looking very similar in age to these other two girls.

In s4 we also get Chrissy's funeral, which contains another possible reference to Alice via a Victor parallel:

Laura Cunningham describing Chrissy as her "angel" and Victor desciring Alice as "sweet" and "innocent", plus the angel who saved Victor from his vision, which again, Henry skips over in his retelling:

Of course while Laura mentions this "angel", Patrick notices the clock, behind a slightly ajar door- which again, is repeated from that moment that Henry deliberately did not show Nancy where he was spooked on moving day and Holly in s1 being lured by the DG. Both are paralleled as "explorers":

Henry's "explorer" line being attached to him finding out that his parents have done "awful things".

What "awful" things has Holly's parents done to warrant a parallel like this?

When Victor was talking about the Creel attic, which contain things that intentionally visually parallel to the Wheeler home.

"I supposed all evil must have a home"

(Funnily enough the gang are walking around the wheeler home, Dustin passing the grandfather clock chimes on the wall while discussing Vecna).

Which then leads me to talk about Fred, Eddie, Ted (Bundy), and Michael (Meyers).

The other Mike-Ted reference is in Pennhurst: the piano (I am assuming is Ted's given that none of the other POV wheeler characters ever reference playing) and the guitar (Mike's), the only two instruments in the listening room that we can see.

Music has a particularly calming affect on the "broken mind".

Oh and the cat plushie that we always see on the piano? *stares at tfs promo*

The scene where Max and Dustin repeatedly draw comparisons between Eddie and Ted Bundy, and Eddie doing the same thing Fred apparently did after the car crash, running away instead of calling the police and which associated with guilt and blame.

There are many more Mike-Ted parallels in the show, but these two are most related to what I'm talking about. The topic of father-son parallels is so interesting considering that Son of Satan in referenced twice- in s3 with the fireworks and when Victor calls the same demon I mentioned previously with it's home in the attic a Spawn of Satan.

Which immediately takes me to the classic horror movie Rosemary's Baby which is about a woman named Rosemary Woodhouse who unknowingly gives birth to Satan's son- oh hey Rose Wheeler Weaver:

The parallels with Eddie are interesting, as one of the defining facts about Eddie's family is that his father is a criminal and Eddie laments that he might become like his father- and in dealing drugs he kind of has.

After Chrissy's funeral when Jason and others are listing out places where to find Eddie, The Wheelers interestingly enough is on there despite us never having seen them visit. Reefer Rick (Richard) is also brought up and added to the list of random Richard mentions in the show as related to drugs- Richard head of narcotics, Richard Brenner, and now Reefer Rick's home having just got out of prison listed as one of the places Eddie (compared to Ted Bundy), could be found.

This isn't the first example of sons paralleling their fathers- Eddie and Billy are major examples. We also see examples of the opposite like Will and Jonathan, who also have a father who is possibly up to some unsavory things.

Which is interesting, considering that the repeated imagery of the grandfather clock is associated with the creel home, before the creels even moved in. In fact, it's associated with Henry gaining his abilities, and we know Mike has the ability to sense the void.

We know that HNL was wrapped up in some MKUltra mindcontrol experimentation. But this didn't just start with MKUltra- the CIA had another program that preceded MKUltra by 1-2 years, Project Artichoke/Bluebird:

"involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination"

We know Virginia and Brenner knew each other somehow... but what if it wasn't Virginia who approached Brenner but the other way around? Brenner, known child kidnapper, who swoops in after the killing of Virginia and Alice, has Victor blamed for the killings, and takes Henry back with him to the lab, without ever explaining how Brenner got involved in the first place. Or if he had planned it all from the beginning.

We know Brenner was trying to train El to kill, starting with small animals. This was one of Brenner's objectives, getting someone with these abilities to be willing and able to commit assassination that would be impossible to trace and prevent.

And i mean... both nights Will and Billy were taken respectively- it's heavily implied that Will was tracked from the wheeler home (wheeler tv going fucky wucky) and we also see Ted and Holly intentionally on front of the on TV when Billy was taken. In fact, they even parallel Ted on the night of Wills disappearance to Max on the night of Chrissy's death, which Eddie was an involuntary witness to and then blamed for:

And mind you, the Eddie's trailer is very creel-house coded to the point where they inserted a shot of a park very similar to the one outside the creel home before Chrissy's vision. Directly paralleling the deaths of the Virginia and Alice to Will's kidnapping/tracking from the Wheeler home.

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

DDS mod here with an update!!!!

So I was planning on doing a most submitted post. BUT I MADE THE LASAGNA SCALE! And here are the stats!

HERE IS THE FORM! TRIOS ARE OFFICIALLY ALLOWED BUT THEY NEED AT MINIMUM 6 SUBMISSIONS

LASAGNA STATS

Basically if you would trust your duo on making lasagna

With 33,1% of the submissions. 1/3 of the characters are probably banned from the kitchen. WITH A SIMPLE 0

After that with 17% of the votes. Comes duos with a 2 on the scale with 52 submissions.

Now our least voted options are 6,7,8,9 and 10 on the scale. Let’s reveal those characters

Now I won’t reveal how many submissions each got. Some got 4, some 3, some are just solo submissions

6 on the scale

We have

The Dr & Donna from Dr Who

Porsche and Pete from Kinnporsche: The Series

Henchman 21 & Henchman 24 from The Venture Bros

Yor & Loid Forger from Spy x Family

Elder Price and Elder Cunningham from Book of Mormon

@gregorygerwitz & @kitthekazoo (yes I allowed real people and people submitted themselves)

Bill Preston & Ted Logan from Bill & Teds excellent adventure (this was the second highest score they got)

Walter White & Jessie Pinkman from breaking bad

Pete Wentz and Gabe Saporta from Bandom

Calvin & Hobbes from uhh… the comic of the same name

Now for our 7, where 11 duos landed

We have

Bill Preston & Ted Logan, again!

Jack O'Neill & Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1

Mayday & Zuke aka Bunk bed junction from no straight roads

Laura Hollis & Carmilla Karnstein from Carmilla

Allison & Paige. I still need your URLs please DM me

Kotetsu T. Kaburagi & Barnaby Brooks Jr from Tiger and Bunny

Alec Hardison & Elliot Spencer from Leverage

Rean Schwarzer & Crow Armbrust from Trails/Kiseki series

Madoka Kaname & Sayaka Miki from Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Mayday & Zuke, again

Eustass "Captain" Kid, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Monkey D. Luffy from one piece (oh yeah about uhh Luffy is in another duo with like an equal amount of submissions and I won’t allow him to go in twice. Hes stupid but not a cheater)

7 duos have gotten an 8 on the save

We have!

Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took from lord of the rings

Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter from Agents of SHIELD

Jessie & James from Pokémon

Lup & Taako from the adventure zone (credit to @arojovela for the fanart!)

Nathan and Jacob from drawfree

Shadow/cid kagenou & beta from the eminence in shadow

Monkey D Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Sanji from one piece

Time for the 9s!

We have 6 characters here!

Romana(dvoratrelundar) & Leela from Gallifrey (Doctor Who expanded universe)

The Bros from the bro duet

Mary Quinn & Sarah McCool from Derry Girls

Dana Scully & Fox Mulder from the X-files

Sokka & Zuko from Avatar: the last airbender

Someone’s mom and dad (they said I could draw stick figures)

Now for the 10s, let see who we can trust in the kitchen

Here. They. ARE!

TK Strand and Evan "Buck" Buckley from 911/911 lone star (I know I make jokes about being followed by OP fans but buck has followed me more. I CANT escape him)

Lanz and Sena from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (credit to Illius on pixiv for the fanart)

Spongebob & Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants (they also got a 0)

Nozaki Umetarou & Mikoto Mikoshiba from Monthly Girls' Nozaki Kun

Billie and Thea from Bill & Ted Face the music

@mb-blue-roses & @sungsyc-amore

Rin Okumura & Kuro from Blue exorcist

kirika akatsuki & shirabe tsukuyomi from senki zesshou symphogear

Mario & Luigi

TK Strand and Evan 'Buck' Buckley, again

(Btw sup @tournamentdirectory)

[froppy-butterflyfan2000]

“I will show him. I’ll show’’em all!!” Said the flames headed kid, Josie Test, daughter of Claire Nefarius and Johnny Test. Outside with her big brother, Joby, whose mother is Janet. Still standing. She’s still standing, despite her poor body and will are exhaustion. Looking up at her dad’s lighting stick she found in her father’s room. Borrowing it.

“I thinks that is enough for today.” Said Joby, staring down at the stop watch he’s holding in his hand.

“No!” Josie yelled angrily. Joby let out a huge tired sigh, not liking her attitude. “Any last request?” Joby asked.

*SILENCE 🦗🦗🦗*

“……Nevermind then. Ready? Set…,” Joby started, feeling humdrums.

Josie pulled her blindfold down, covering her eyes. Joby starts the stop watch by pressing it once again. “Piñata Gaunlet!”. She scream, charging at the hanged piñatas, hitting the piñatas with the lighting carving fork stick. A pink headed and rainbow colored body piñata is cut in half, causing candies to rain down.

The youngest Test kid is training on her own, developing her human condition to the peak and her sensei isn’t around is because she is literally broke now. So until father gets in pay from works (convenience store clerk by afternoon and bar tender by night) and the child support coming in next month. Joby know that this is not worth it. Even though he taught them (and Joby is thankful for it), he is only after the money. Which Josie took it the most and never moves on.

She could have find a better tutors or take some classes in the gym. Well there’s Alyssa for example, she could have get her to trains her. She just happened to be in Camp Synonymous and the same rank as them, though their aunts and uncle thinks she is a bad influence (despite Holly says she isn’t and Uncle Eugene says she is good enough to paid for lessons). Alyssa literally taught her the master of escaping and stealth and share her knowledges in the street. Even pickpocketing and manipulation too, okay maybe that is why her aunts and uncle doesn’t like what Camp Synonymous have taught, but they did it too back then! She gave her ways of finding that out.

Josie is soon tangle up by the ropes to get free. At first, she is struggling, causing Joby to walks up towards her and get her down, but then slowly have the carving fork snapped the ropes in half, causing Josie to fell down and landed on to the candies covered ground. Joby press the two buttons to stop the timing from the stopwatch.

“Told you so,” said Joby. “Can’t we just forget about the preparation for your Shinobi Trials? Next summer is a long way.”

The ten years old removes her blindfold and stubbornly stands up, walking past her big brother. “Josie!” Joby shouted. Joby let out a groan. His little sister is not passing the ninja phrase. He grabs her shoulder to get her attention. “I’m talking to you!”

“Don’t talks to me!” Josie snapped. Joby’s pupils shrinking, shock by what she just said to him. He never seen her that mad before. “Look, I get your mad. We could ask Fredrick to make you a mutant. Stronger and better than you were.” Joby persuaded Josie by testing out their cousin’s inventions, just the two of them.

“I don’t need superpowers to prove I can do better!” Josie barked. “I want to do better my own way!”

She throw Joby’s hand away from her, proceeds to walk inside the house. Joby is shocked that Josie rejected his opportunity to see Fredrick. He frowns. He wants the old Josie back. He goes into the house too.

At the living room, Johnny’s current wife, Sissy, sitting down to the cozy couch, watching her TV sitcom, The Dawg and Bone Show saw her stepchildren, a bitter Josie and a sullen Joby. Sissy pause an episode with the TV remote. “Kids? Did something happen? Why the long face?” Sissy asked. Josie ignored her stepmom, and climbed up the stairs to her room. “Joby?”

Joby is silent at first, but sits down on the couch with her. “I don’t know where to start… All I can say’s that meeting with that Cunningham guy really changed Josie.”

Sissy looks at her stepson, nodding to the conversation. “She literally doesn’t want to spend time with me together anymore like we used to. Playing video games at home, playing video games at the arcade, eating snacks, plays Island Craft/Minecraft, making videos and post them on Snoop Tube or Ding Dong. Or YouTube.”

“I see…,” said Josie. “Perhaps Josie has grown up and found something she wanted to do. Like your thing is boxing and your detective career, and for me are watching The Dawg and Bones show and my activist career.”

Joby thinks about what Sissy just said. “What? Mystery-Solving is Josie’s thing too. I just did it to make her happy.”

“Well that the thing. I thought you enjoys it as well because it’s your own thing too,” said a confused Sissy. “Since I saw you two went out your ways to make your life in this town memorable, and I was wrong. I didn’t notice it at all. But perhaps Josie did. Bummer.”

Is his stepmom is saying, that Josie was hurt that he doesn’t want to play detectives? And that why she masked being a better person to hide that she wants to do her own things alone. This struck a realization in him.

‘Did I really mess up?’ He thought.

~~

At Josie’s room, Josie is lying down in bed, on her back to soothe her back, arms, legs, and neck. Sore all over. She try not to falter. Josie stares at the handmade round plush, her aunt got for her in the new couture at the Yarn District, that is now punctured by a kunai and a shurikens she toss. She wonders that if she have so much potential that people have just said, whose turn their back on her. Let her down.

She saw an envelope slide in to the doorway. Josie struggled to get up from her bed and walk over it to picks it up. Her name is written on the envelope in red marker. Josie opens up the envelope, revealing a letter. Josie takes it out of the envelope to read it. It said:

I don’t know if I should gives you space. So I’m writing this letter to says that I am sorry for hurting your feelings by not having fun when we are together. We may be siblings with common interests, but we have different interests too. That doesn’t means we can stop spending time together and making new chapters of our life, whether our path are separated. I hopes you feel better.

From your big brother

Joby Test

A small smile plastered on Josie’s face.

Josie Test and Joby Test belong to @froppy-butterflyfan2000 (me)

Andrew Cunningham (mentioned) and Alyssa Copular belongs to @ej-cappy-universe

Fredrick Test (mentioned) belongs to @princekaiofstars

Story take place after The Norrisville Ninja and The Townsville Kids.

[libertyreads]

July 2024 TBR--

It's finally time for my Christmas in July reading! I've been looking forward to it for months because I have FOUR NetGalley ARCs that fit perfectly into my Christmas in July M.O. I'll be reading three Christmas Romances and one Mystery/Thriller set during Christmas. I also have four other books I'm really looking forward to reading in the back half of the month.

The Holiday Honeymoon Switch by Julia McKay (NetGalley)-- The first of my Christmas in July TBR. This is a rom-com where Holly Beech and Ivy Casey, two best friends who are so in sync they even look alike, swap places after Holly's fiancé jilts her and leaves her with a nonrefundable honeymoon. Both find their own romantic matches this holiday season.

Mistletoe Season by Shelia Roberts, Kathleen Fuller, and Pepper Basham (NetGalley)--This is a collection of three Christmas stories: Say No to Mistletoe (author going home for the holidays + romance), Return to Mistletoe (returning home after spending time abroad renovating an Irish castle), and The Mistletoe Prince (Prince is sent to small town North Carolina to prove he's ready for the royal life). I think the one I'm most excited to read is the first, but I'm always down for some Christmas romance.

Christmas in Aspen by Anita Hughes (NetGalley)--Mourning her mother, Caroline Holt returns to her late mother's upstate cabin to spend the holidays. But when she arrives, she discovers a letter addressed to her mother from a man declaring his love for her and saying he'll be waiting for her in front of the Little Red Mailbox in Aspen, Colorado on New Year's Eve. Caroline decides to see her mother's mysterious lover and travels to Aspen. But once she arrives she keeps running into another man and things start to get complicated. This sounds like it's going to be super emotional and character driven.

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (NetGalley)-- Another book in the Ernest Cunningham series AND it's set at Christmas sign me the fuck up. I'm ready. I love ending my Christmas in July with a Mystery or Thriller set during Christmas. This one starts when a body drops in front of Ernest's feet during a Christmas pageant. It has the usual writing style that I enjoy so much and has the best end to a synopsis on GoodReads: "This Christmas everyone has a motive. So it's not a matter of who wanted the victim dead--but who got there first."

Teen Titans: Starfire by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo (July release)-- This is the next book in the Teen Titans graphic novel series. They each follow a different Teen Titan before they become a Teen Titan. They've also started getting more interconnected as the series goes on which I enjoy. In this one we follow Kori Anders, who takes part in a clinical trial designed to treat her Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and who discovers some strange powers she's never had before.

Sunny Disposition by Deanna Grey (Kindle)-- My hockey romance for the month. I realized a few months back that I've been reading at least one per month and decided to keep it going for the rest of the year. This is a book from an indie author following a sunshine gamer girl, Naomi, who shares a house with four hockey players and is drawn to a grumpy boy, Finn. There also seems to be a little bit of You've Got Mail Vibes in that he moderates for her online but neither know the other one is involved in the streams.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins-- This one is a reread for me. I've been planning to reread this series since the beginning of the year, but struggled with where I would have the time. I also want to watch all of the movies because I don't think I watched Mockingjay at all (which is weird...that one may be my favorite book). I'm also going to be reading the prequel for the first time (and hopefully watching the movie as well. A dystopian world where children fight to the death. Social commentary. Food. (I swear I get so hungry reading Katniss practically starving in the Games).

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer-- One I am SO excited to reread before the next book in the series comes out. At least this time I'll go into it knowing it's the first book in a series. We follow a girl who decides to take an office job with a villain because a girl's gotta get paid. There are castles and dragons and a very Grumpy Villain (who's secretly a softy...shhhh). It's so campy and fun and I can't wait to get back into it.

I'm hoping my birthday month reading knocks it out of the park. I'm excited to get back in the holiday mood and end the month with some fun rereads.