#idek where i'm going with this

[melovrs]

I'M NOT A KAISER FAN BUT I'LL READ KAISER FICS NOW AND THEN AND WHENEVER HE SPEAKS IN GERMAN IT THROWS ME OFF SM BECAUSE I USED TO WRITE FOR KÖNIG FROM COD AND HE'S AUSTRIAN 😭😭

[diningwiththeasquiths]

So Terry's in jail now. And Kreese just broke out (lol), but what if he gets caught again (because while he was in there for something he didn't do, he did break the law a few times during his escape).

They're unable to avoid each other. They don't share a jail cell, because the prison is not that stupid, but they see each other during meal time and in places like the prison gym. There's a lot of angry staring going on, their eyes finding each other the moment the other steps into the room.

One day some inmates set something on fire and all hell breaks loose. Kreese is still a 'shot caller', and therefore able to protect Terry during the resulting riot. Which means Terry owes him his life, twice now. And that brings back memories, feelings.

After that Terry becomes known as Kreese's 'prison wife', a title he wears with pride. They manipulate the guards into making them cellmates and live happily and evilly ever after, ruling a significant part of the prison together.

[pottermusprime]

tfw I’m going through the tags and see someone using mine and my friend’s oc’s in an ask to someone else

[yangjeongin]

HYUNJIN | GIANT

[expelliarmus]

I don't believe in destiny, but if destiny exists, then it is heading for Donna Noble.

[shipstorms]

more time loop

(tw: talk of suicide within the loop)

Bucky takes him out to sit in one of the freshly repaired forts. Tells him most things -- how long it'd taken him to figure it out, and longer to believe it. How he spent most nights blackout drunk at first before diving headlong into the sameness.

"It's been years. Decades. I have no clue anymore, to tell you the truth," he says. "Every time I go to sleep, I'm here again."

Gale stares out the window. A few mechanics are still out there, including Kenny, recognizable even at this distance by the tilt of his head. 

"Killed myself a bunch of times," Bucky continues. He rubs his back against the seat like an itchy animal. "I mean, I really went for it. Went up and crash landed in Essex somewhere. Then I went up and bailed out without a chute. I've thought about blowing my brains out but got scared I'd do it wrong and end up in a coma for the rest of my life." 

He sniffs. "Guess that'd be the real death around here, actually."

Gale fiddles with one of the boost pump switches, flicking it on and off. 

"You weren't at Dye's landing," he finally says. Doesn't know why he's so fixated on that. 

Bucky scoffs. "I've watched that asshole buzz the tower about a million times. Sometimes I get sick of it. Figure it won't matter if I'm there or not anyway."

The sun is coming up, stretching a long shadow attached to Kenny's feet as he wheels a cart back into the hangar. Evidence that the world is turning on its axis and yet they're suspended in the very center of it, unmoving.

"But you came the day before."

"Yeah, well," Bucky says quietly. "You always get this," he pinches at nothing next to his own chin, "this hopeful look. Haven't seen you look like that since you got here."

Gale hears the rattle of a flask opening. He reaches over to take it and Bucky lets him. The whiskey burns going down, but it's a good burn, one that might bleach out the turmoil in his chest into a more digestible neutral.

"Are there good days?" he asks.

"I don't know. Sure. Depends on the mood, I guess." Bucky shrugs. When Gale hands him the flask, he smoothly takes down two swallows. "I've gotten to know everyone pretty damn well. I've got my drinks and my smokes. And I can fly whenever I want. Practice things, you know." 

He takes another swig. "And sometimes you say yes to London."

[skrunksthatwunk]

the debate continues (pt 1) but kurama gets called in

bonus under the cut (ft hiei):

gay people

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia

I have 2 separate questions that are unrelated but share a subject matter.

Would a woman omega or trans man omega who was infertile/sterile be allowed at Hillview?

And 2) Have you thought or would you ever write an mm pairing where one of them was a trans man?

I'm trans masc and I find it so hard to find good trans fics that deal with trauma recovery or aren't just pwp. And I love your writing so much that if you ever decided to write a transman fic I'd literally cry from happiness.

So, I was going to write a big long world-building response to this but instead I'm gonna take it back to something personal - you're asking me to consider worldbuilding for and writing for stuff I feel pretty dysphoric over in my personal life. I go out of my way to really, really avoid writing heterosexuality of any kind for a start, so I don't want to think about all the fringe cases where I can make heterosexuality possible at Hillview or the sister site. That's just...icky to me.

As for trans folk, being that I'm also transmasc, I'm mostly team 'if you want to see it happen you can write it happening. I have zero problems with that. But there's stuff I'm not writing about either for reasons relating to dysphoria, or for reasons relating to 'this is not actually why I enjoy writing in the first place.' This is why I don't do self-inserts, for example. I don't like seeing myself in my own stories, I prefer seeing myself represented in other stories.

So -> If other folks want to write it, they can! If they want to solve those worldbuilding issues, they absolutely can! If they want to write fic about it, I'm gonna set off a confetti cannon for them in celebration.

In terms of worldbuilding, the answer would just always be: It depends. If you want to find the fringe cases then sure, there would always be exceptions! But if there was any chance of fertility/pregnancy with their companion, then no. So it would absolutely need to be not just a hormonal transition (a lot of things can impact consistent hormonal uptake and I think omegaverse hormones in the Underline universe would actually impact them a lot too), but one that covered bottom surgery as well.

Is that like, a problem in honouring someone's gender? Absolutely!! The Underline universe isn't perfect. But preventing pregnancy is their biggest concern at Hillview and the sister site. I know in regular/standard ORFs, they only care about the fertility issue, and care about literally nothing else, and yes, that can be a huge issue re: trans folk. This world is a dystopia, it doesn't pretend to be anything else.

The fun thing about fanfiction, is that other people can erase all of that with a sweep, come up with some magical contraception, and just make it happen. :D

As a transmasc person myself, I have stuff I just don't like writing. Just like everyone else does. You are absolutely welcome and completely have my blessing to imagine whatever you like for Underline, to write it in fic, to daydream about it, to bend and change the rules that already exist or to make up new ones that don't exist yet, that work for a world you want to read about.

But for me...it just comes too close to 'if I have to change or figure out these things I also have to think about how to set up 'woman omega and man alpha' heterosexuality and I just don't want to.'

I'm so sorry anon. I'm going to circle this one under competing needs. Sometimes the thing another person needs to find gender affirmation, is the thing that will harm another person's experience of their own gender, even if that gender shares the same general name, even if that changes down the track. (This is how we get some trans people who hate genderbending in fic and say it's dysphoric, and other trans people who love it and say it's affirming. It's true for both, neither should impose their views on the other).

The TL;DR being: I write what I want to be writing. If I'm not writing it, and have never written it, it's because I don't want to write it. In the matter of heterosexuality: zero interest, I'll leave that for other folks. In the matter of being trans, dealing with my own gender stuff irl is already a nightmare that I don't want to have to write out a version of that again in fiction, because I can't live it twice, and I don't like writing fluffy stories.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

little shop images....

[reinedeslys-central]

when it's been so long since you've read a fic that you forget about it and you find it in the search tags and start reading it again

and it's great, if a little familiar, but you've read a lot of these sorts of fics bc you like this tag a lot, so you assume it's nothing

but then the deja vu starts adding up and you start to wonder

and then moments before the great big Plot Twist Reveal happens you're suddenly like ah hell this is the bloody sundial fic again isn't it

smh this has to be the fourth time yet

[maareyas]

ok quick rundown of Edean Sonic's deal bc my brain is buzzing too much for me to sleep rn and he's easier to explain than Shadow:

Sonic was alive during the Planetary War aka that war that led to Edea's apocalypse.

He was a guerilla mech pilot--using a mech that was likely stolen + modified with the help of a Tails equivalent.

He was part of a sort of paramilitary organization that aimed to end the war by uh................sabotaging/destroying enough of all different the active forces' resources that they won't have the capability to participate in more fighting.

While the effects of his actions are debatable (big understatement), Sonic himself does truly care about saving as many people as possible. He evacuates civilians using his mech whenever he can.

At this point in time, Shadow was a relief worker/medic operating on the ground. He met Sonic during one of these impromptu evacuations. They don't get along, to say the least. While both of them ultimately long for peace, Shadow hates Sonic's (and the organization he belongs to) "fight fire with fire" approach to stopping the war.

When it comes down to it, they still cooperate really well when they have a common goal. So they at least respect eachother somewhat.

In fact, if it wasn't for Shadow's help, Sonic could've actually died from transforming into Fission form :]

Oh yeah, Sonic has Sound Type and is a full-blood Edean. He doesn't have canon's super speed, but he is still abnormally fast despite being Just Some Guy. I imagine he can go fast via literally creating sonic booms to propel himself.

Not completely canon yet?; but I once mentioned a lore tidbit that some of Comet's ancestors on her mom's side were mech pilots. And Sonic is also blue so maybe.............? ����

[trekkiehood]

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[so-long-soldier28]

where did theo sleep when the dread doctors were still in town, and if he slept in the sewers, where did he put his truck??

[farrahfawcetts]

welcome to my stranger things alternate universe / timeloop / time travel speculation corner! The theory (is that what it should be called?) Is under the cut, inspired on some set production leaks. I go into how I think time travel could work in this universe with some help from USS Elridge's disappearance and reappearance through time.

Hello stranger nation, I was looking at set photos for s5 I believe first uploaded by will80sbyers.

I notice this Hawkins high chalk board (I assume) and the math problem on it seemed interesting to me.

This was my interpretation of it. I am not 100% confident on it but if anyone smarter then me has other interpretations I would love to see them.

I also have a small theory on how time travel might be utilized in this universe. Again, there is likely huge holes in my theory and anyone with strong ideas willing to bounce off what I put down is more then welcome.

USS Elridge going outside of time then coming back, with two of its passengers potentially going forward in time during this leap creating a time paradox sort of situation due to them being returned back to their present time. (technically now their past.)

This might also be why there is multiple / alternate universes in general, as they created different possible futures due to their absence in their original universe/timeline and the absence of them in the alternative universe they accidentally visited.

now here is where I speculate who are potential knowing time travelers, though again if anyone else has better conclusions I'd love to see them!

(Dr. Who's time-war anyone?)

Thanks for coming to my Tedgate talk. *launched into dimension x*

Even more, thanks to everyone who has been putting all the leg work on this series (some shoutouts, wheelercore, henrysglock and aemiron-main who have had some really awesome thoughts regarding the series! And anyone else I might gotten ideas from but couldn't remember when posting this! Yall stranger things theorists rock!)

[chaikachi]

Hey radical spicy hot take but Trapdoor is 100% a ruby song. And. Trapdoor is 100% a oscar song. They are a mirror to each other. They are put on the same pedestal. They bear the same weight. They occupy the same space, simultaneously, impossibly. Do you see my vision?

anono... how does it feel to have such a big brain. all songs are rg songs if you try hard enough. 😤

Yes, Trapdoor is first and foremost a Ruby song, but her and Oscar are 100% mirrors living such similar character arcs. I could talk about all those parallels in a post all their own (one day), but for now a really good example is actually comparing Trapdoor to Sky is Falling (thank you @greenteaandtattoos for pointing it out first).

I'm gonna ramble a bit

Trapdoor is a song about the weight Ruby has been carrying. How she has tried so hard and how it's seemingly done more harm than good. It talks about how she doesn't feel seen or heard or needed, let alone wanted. How she's losing herself. How she feels like a trapdoor, part of the floorboards being walked on and unnoticeable. How one more step is all it might take for her to break and fall further into the depths below. And simultaneously like a trap that will lead all her friends to ruin.

And Sky is Falling (in my opinion) is a song about the weight Oscar has been carrying. How he's struggling with moving forward in light of everything he's been through and everything they've lost. The song itself is cited as referencing the original Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little) fairytale since it's a story that uses the song's title as a cry wolf for fearing the end of the world. But that feels a bit like a red herring to me. Or at least not like the whole picture.

The original myth of Atlas and the weight of the world isn't actually about the god holding the world on his shoulders. It's about him holding up the sky. So whether you read it as Oscar struggling with what to do given Atlas is falling... or struggling with how to move after Ruby falls, (Ruby, who was holding Atlas on her shoulders. So when she fell, so to did the city in the sky) is up to interpretation.

Some examples of how the songs mirror each other a bit tho:

Trapdoor

Though I try to keep the hope alive

Sky is Falling

Lost all my hopes and dreams

Trapdoor

Watch it all Unfold As I Cascade below Frozen In the darkest moment I can't bear the weight I hold

Sky is Falling

Starin' at the casket, hopin' to move past it Knowin' things will never be the same, and that's it Cold soaked as I'm standin' in rain Feelin' nothin' but pain until I see you again

Both of them struggling to hold onto hope. Both of them struggling with the cold of grief. The water imagery in "cascading" and "rain". The feeling of drowning. How to keep moving in the face of it all.

Also just on the topic of them being mirrors, it's interesting how many of these songs can so easily link back together. Trust Love's "open up your eyes" to Sky is Falling's "cover up your eyes". Then Sky is Falling's direct parallel, Touch the Sky. In my opinion, this song talks about both of them. The first verse is very Oscar "Little Prince" Pine, but especially this part:

I'm soarin' like I never have before Flying self-assured and free And I somehow feel I finally feel like me I looked in the mirror and I gotta say It's been a long, long time since I felt this way Right now, I'm just a bit surprised 'Cause I feel just fine and I might just touch the sky

And then directly towards Ruby's ascension in the second verse:

Open doors and so much hope in front of me Full of confidence, every challenge crushed My heart's electric, racing endlessly Feeling like the stars have all aligned Illuminate the darkness that was blinding me Now I'm positive that it's my time to shineI will explode, you'll see me rise You may not even recognize I just can't wait for this reveal

But also... very strong argument can be made that both verses apply to both of them. Finally feeling like themselves, the people they've wanted to be, the ones they're meant to be. These kids and their identity issues... But especially cause, um, Ruby isn't the only one that explodes.

So to summarize, Oscar looked in the mirror - not the mirror that showed Oz's reflection, but the mirror he sees in Ruby - and he became more like himself. Influenced by the hope she inspires.

And Ruby, like Alice, fell through the looking glass. But in the Ever After the only Oscar that was there to stare back at her wasn't a reflection of hope, it was was one of fear.

So she had no choice but to fall further and looked inward. Until she found the hope that was always inside her. The hope Oscar always knew was there because he sees her.

And the fact that Ruby's hope, her motivation, has always been "the people she hasn't lost yet". And how Oscar is the only living companion Neo 'kills' to hurt her. I'm getting so off track here but...

The Parallels. It's CINEMA.

They make me UNWELL.

Edit: I ended up just talking a bit about how they're mirrors through song and not so much Trapdoor from an Oscar lens. It is so strongly a Ruby song to me that it's hard to apply to him, even if it does fit him in some ways as well. All alone in crowded rooms and all that.

[lesbianphan]

save me dan and phil dan and phil save me.... I'm begging i need it I'm omw home from a hellish day at work and I'm like omg there's a new video oh thank FUCK