#it is a decade later

[thedragonagelesbian]

im gonna hop up on my video game high horses just to say: play indie games. support indie game makers. and i dont just mean the stuff on steam that lucks into getting really popular, i mean go on itch.io and find a weird dating sim or an atmospheric pixelated bitsy game or a twine game that takes maybe half an hour to play but will make you bawl your eyes out. a lot of this stuff is pay what you want and a good bit of it is just free to play in-browser too

i dont think we need to like sound the death knell on video games as a creative medium, but it’s clear that the top of the industry is becoming a very narrow place, and part of the (artistic) defense against that is to keep making and keep playing games that fall outside of that tiny sphere

[serainechor]

twenty years later

[missingexaltation]

Steve proposes to Eddie waaay before marriage equality comes to the USA, and (despite being a contrarian anarchist fully against the status quo) Eddie immediately says yes, because duh. It's Stevie.

They have the ceremony surrounded with family and friends, cut the cake, do the first dance, the whole shebang, and when asked, Eddie's completely fine with it being somewhat traditional as it's 'his illegal wedding to his unlawful husband'.

[inkskinned]

i turn 29 on july 1st. i feel like i make a lot of these notes to myself, to check in. hi, me, here's what's happening.

hi, me. hi, you, too, if you keep reading. here's some rules i have been following:

when a book is bad, i put the book down. i choose something i like instead. when i don't like a movie, i don't make myself watch until the end. i care less and less what people think about me and focus more on being a good friend.

for the 6 months or so, i've been asking people what they think should be my next book or tv show. i ask them where i should go on a walk next week. i ask them what food i should try next, what hobby. and then i write it down in front of them.

the truth is some stuff slips through the cracks. but most of the time? within two weeks, i get to send my favorite kind of text - so i tried the thing you were talking about and !

i have a new policy for split-second choices - it's better to try it. i have social anxiety. i have to talk myself into doing many things. i am constantly battling the desire to run away as far as my feet will take me. and then i stand up and i do the thing anyway. i make myself act and dance and sing. sometimes, yes, i know-immediately never again, i hate this. but most of the time - i just have fun with it.

i have a new mantra - nobody is scorekeeping. at the end of my life, there will be no grand reading of how many calories i'd been eating. no reviews on how many boring documentaries i forced myself through, no calculation on how many hours i endured an extremely dull educational podcast. and so what if i try karaoke and i don't actually nail it? so what if i stumble over my words while trying to make a public announcement? so what if i wear something too-showy to go to the grocery store? nobody there knows me, and: nobody's keeping score.

life doesn't resolve with a grade (i know, i was as shocked as everyone else when i realized it). i am not falling behind, because there's no curriculum to life that i should be following. there are no checkpoints; nobody is making sure i have a fully-furnished life resume. i am just here for as long as the earth will have me, and i get to decide what makes me happy.

i don't have a partner or a house or anything that is supposed to belong to people-my-age. i spend most of my time focusing on being kind, compassionate, ready to listen without restraint.

and honestly? i feel good. like actually. i kind of like it this way.

[eggdrawsthings]

a few more doodles from that AU

[greatcometcas]

- I HAVE HOPE (David Byrne, One Fine Day, American Utopia) || insp.

[ghosted-jazz]

I hope he knew how much we loved him too

https://www.curesarcoma.org/technoblade-tribute/

[enderspawn]

dreys fuckin final words to baby chip were “close your eyes, bud. it’ll be done soon”

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Images I wish I could send back in time

[daylighteclipsed]

But honestly. Why would Nomura choose to start the paopu sharing scene with Sora focused on Riku. Why would Nomura choose to have Sora frowning and reluctant to share paopu with Kairi until Kairi clarifies it doesn’t mean they’re a couple. Why would Nomura not tell the voice actors this scene is romantic if it’s meant to be romantic. Why would Nomura consider not having Sora and Kairi share paopu at all. Why would Nomura choose to have Sora start questioning what romantic love and true love are in KH3. Why would Nomura have Sora notice the parallels between himself & Riku and Anna & Elsa just to begin wondering what he and Riku are (according to the novel, Sora doesn’t feel like ‘siblings’ is the right answer). Why would Nomura directly parallel Riku’s feelings for Sora with Hercules’ romantic feelings for Megara. Why would Nomura choose to not show Sora acting ‘romantic’ (in the eyes of the general audience) with Kairi until after Sora forgets Riku’s true love sacrifice (and arguably other things about Riku) and associates Kairi with his savior — a situation that parallels another romantic Disney tale, The Little Mermaid, and is not unlike Sora associating Namine (and then Kairi) with the person most precious to him in CoM when it’s actually Riku that Namine has replaced in Sora’s most precious memory, the meteor shower promise… another memory that Sora may have forgotten. Why would Nomura choose to show Riku’s true love sacrifice multiple times, emphasizing how important it is, if that moment/memory is not going to be vital later. Why would Nomura choose to visually parallel Riku’s true love sacrifice with the meteor shower promise. Why would Nomura specifically shut down the possibility of Riku/Namine when he’s usually pretty indifferent to shipping. Why would Nomura choose to not have Kairi’s memories hold an important connection to Sora beyond the knowledge that unreality exists, and then in the same breath, give Riku an important, personal connection to Sora through his dreams. Why would Nomura choose to make Riku the only one who can go after Sora, who has the power to save him? Why would Nomura choose to parallel Riku with Cinderella and Aurora whose “dreams lead her to her true love”? Why would Nomura do any of this if Sora/Riku’s not happening.

[stardryad]

Gandalf's hat disappeared when he stopped at Belladonna's, I wonder why 🔎

[shannonallaround]

Raise your hand if you fell in love with Puss in Boots back in 2011 and now The Last Wish has made you fall in love with him all over again

[escapepodding]

Absolute respect for Hunith for going 'you know that guy you sent my way almost two decades ago, Gauis? Here is our idiot magical son. He is your problem now. And not even in the letter setting up Merlin's apprenticeship, in the follow up letter that Merlin carried there, like a Paddington style note going 'please look after this bear'

And fair play to Gaius for not sending Merlin away, he just immediately goes LMAO guess he is my problem now hope he's not discovered and we don't both get burnt to death

[dokokara]

kirby kirby kirby's the oooone!!

[gayofthefae]

Will and Mike is going to be so beautiful. Because think about it - the 80s. Will crying in that van is no tragedy. There was no loss of hope. He never had it. Neither of them did. To Will, this is just what was always inevitable. That’s why he holds onto this “keeping childhood” idea and you never hear him mention living next to each other anything truly reminiscent of the future. He never expected anything. He realized he was gay and had feelings for his best friend. He enjoyed the time he had. Then Mike got a girlfriend and he tried to hold on tightly to what they had before but then Mike said they had to grow up some day and it hurt because he knew it was true. He had thought it before, I’m sure. That even may have hurt more than the homophobic comment. Because it wasn’t ill-intended; it wasn’t an insult. It was just a (perceived) truth. He always knew this was coming, some part of him at least. So when Mike needs help with his girlfriend, he helps, he lies for her, and for him, and for the success of their relationship. Because he loves El and he loves Mike. He loves Mike in the way that he wants him to be happy and he assumes that this is how to do that. And if they break up - he won’t assume he has a chance. He’ll assume that he has some more time with Mike before he finds his next girlfriend, future wife, etc. That’s why there needs to be a coming out before a confession and/or why Mike needs to initiate (he has the info via the painting now available to realize that he isn’t completely without chance).

But for Will, this is no tragedy. This is just life, as part of him wanted to try to forget but always knew it was always going to be. And so he makes the best of it. He is sad for himself but he is also happy for them. He only ever steps in personally when their friendship is jeopardized.

But what all this really sets Mike’s reciprocation up to be is a nice surprise. And there’s a certain kind of joy that’s different from relief that he was waiting for. Because he wasn’t waiting for it. I doubt he believed enough to “give up”. This is him getting something he had become contented with never having. And what healing too. Not just of people with experiences like his in those unsafe setting but I feel a certain generation healing too. So many self-aware gay people and lesbians settled and made the best of their situations because realistically, they would never expect more. And Will Byers doesn’t either. But he gets it anyways.

[crazymecjc]

it’s his day!!!