#i am THRIVING.

[keikakudori]

But also I'm going to be shoving this whole YOU CAN WEAR A GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING OUKEN INTO MY MOUTH AND EATING THIS VICARIOUSLY AND HAVING EVEN MORE BRAIN JUICE HYPER ZOOMY MOMENTS BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK YOU CAN WEAR A FUCKING OUKEN WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS LORE---

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[specialneedz]

4 attacks received in one day wtf

[shushmal]

okay but a like post-series fic i want that's like: steve harrington being the only man left in hawkins fighting monsters

and not like a 'everyone died, last man standing' way but just. they beat it back, the story ends, nice little tie-up and neatly concluded, eleven loses her powers because their world is completely cut from the other. and life goes on. eddie (yes, eddie lives au don't fight me) goes off with his band, robin-nancy-jargyle off to separate cities for college. the kids go to high school, graduate high school, and scatter across the country. joyce and hop buy a beach house far-far-far away from goddamn hawkins indiana.

steve though. steve stays. he does it too without comment, takes all their calls telling him all these amazing things. the years pass. the calls are fewer and far between. he's mostly in contact with only dustin and robin. except robin's out of country doing some crazy temp job in some remote country, she never catches him at home right now so just leaves him messages. and it takes a couple of weeks for dustin to realize he hasn't gotten steve on the phone.

frantically he calls around "have you heard from steve???" except the most people talk to steve anymore is like phone calls during holidays and holy shit what could have happened??

and what if it's back?

cue everyone who can in that moment, rushing back. eddie hopping on a flight from fucking london direct to indianapolis somehow, heart in his throat. he manages to meet hopper in the airport and they pick up max and dustin at the bus station.

they get to hawkins that is even more different that what they left. a smaller town, a town that shuts down completely when the sun sets. it's creepy and deserted.

except for the fucking upside down monsters of course.

and they're in their stupid little rental in front of this demogorgon and they're screaming but then the thing just goes splat on the concrete and steve fucking harrington is blinking owlishly at them.

"Oh, hey guys!" he calls jogging up to the driver's side window. "Wow, what brought you back down this way? You should have told me, I would have told you about the curfew!"

turns out steve just forgot to pay his phone bill that month, didn't even realize he was missing calls and he's been fighting monsters the entire time because actually they WEREN'T cut off from the upside down at all and he's just been casually fighting monsters for the remaining hawkins residence—the whole town knows now and steve's the guy you call when you have a monster problem

sidebar: WAYNE still lives in hawkins, and he and steve are best friends, eddie munson you are gonna LOSE YOUR MIND

[inchidentalmeowmeow]

Im not saying they look like each other’s pets but…

THEY TOTALLY LOOK LIKE EACH OTHER’S PETS RIGHT???

[andisupreme]

I moved recently to start a new job and part of my commute now involves one of those high capacity toll booths where a two lane road suddenly flares out into 5-7 lanes of total anarchy with no lines anywhere, and then narrows back down to two lanes again, and we're just supposed to sort ourselves out? Who designed this

anyway I dreamed up this helpful anatomical guide on the drive home

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

[wild0moon]

stay funky

[milkhorns]

🧊✨

[sorryimlatecapt]

how the girls and the gays are going into season 8 of 911 on ABC knowing bucktommy is still going strong

[essektheylyss]

Vox Machina cameos are like "We are in the late second act of a dense war film and it IS going to get worse from here, so buckle in," and Mighty Nein cameos are like "We are playing out one scene in the long-running series of blockbuster spy thrillers that we've been living, hope you brought popcorn."

[dapandabanda]

fwoo

[hyperfocusthusly]

He came as 👏 soon 👏 as 👏 his 👏 shift 👏 ended 👏 he’s showing up 👏 he’s giving little reassuring leg pats 🫶🏻 he’s a skeptic 👻 he’s sassing 🤭 with Buck’s best 👏 friend 👏 he’s doing it all 🫶🏻

[densewentz]

Dreamling Dads!AU commission for @aurelia-which-means-sunrise! Matthew is a wretched cookie thief and Tulip is very territorial of her batch 💕 (This is also NOT the first time Dream's been floured during this whole baking debacle and to be honest he's starting to suspect they're not as "accidental" as Kian seems to want him to believe) I can't thank you enough for such a fun comm, and with my baby Kian!!

[eunnieboo]

awaken

[asleepinawell]

discordant studies is the best story in the game tbh