#its hating on 2.0 hours here

[bensonnstabler]

can we talk about how homophobic it was to have david haden literally say "I'm not going anywhere, okay"? as the hook line and sinker to get benson into bed. like the audacity and eagerness of early 2.0 to paint elliot as merely a bad ex-boyfriend sends me. and also whilst i'm here fuck WL for being hell bent on putting his main female character through literal psychosexual hell just to pervert and promote the idea that she doesn't need elliot a man

[ace-with--a-mace]

they should ban mothers who live through their daughters.

[mazzystar24]

I totally get I just finished my exam week (I had to do a math test at 8am Sat😭). Wish you luck tho!

Also do you have any good buddies fics? Destiel too?

Math test at 8am is BRUTAL

Thank you I will definitely need it😭😭

Unfortunately I only have buddie fics to offer😔:

(Warning I do like a fair amount of angst)

Right where you left me - by hyacinthusbloom ( @thebloomingheather on here) - when I say I might be as big a fan of this fic as I am of the show I MEAN IT, you do not even understand how much I love this fic or how obsessed I am with it, I have reread it so many times despite it still being in progress that I think I may genuinely qualify it as addictive, me and @estheticpotaeto legit wait for updates like a dog at the author’s door istg, like everything about this fic is flawless and written with so much love and emotion and the way the writer captures the effects of trauma is just amazing because it’s so rare to find this level of diving into ptsd and the more uncomfortable aspects of it that are more taboo or less understandable to people, like I can yap for an hour about this fic but I’ll just say READ IT

Any fic by daisies_and_briars ( @cal-daisies-and-briars on here) but one of my favourites of his is Both blade and branch and muscle memory and four can keep a secret and appetency and the two she’s writing right now (change the prophecy and steal my sunshine) -wow at that point I should’ve left it as any fic because that’s a lot of favourites😭😭

Any fic by @loserdiaz plus with them you get enough lighthearted fics to even out the angst

Ooo I’m not sure what their username on here is but lizzybizzyzz is also another writer who I just love their fics

Fractals by hobbitprincess - one of those fics that make you squeak at how much love these fictional characters have for each other

Beneath my mother tongue by archerincombat - the angst the writing the way they hit every single emotional beat? Amazing

Anything by this_is_moony_lovegood

Leave the light on (I’ll be coming home) by HMSLusitania - the presumed dead Eddie fic of your dreams, a constant reread for me it’s just 👌

Anchored by adorkable_buddie - sorry Chris you gotta be injured sometimes just for us to get our buddie dreams hope you understand and we appreciate your sacrifice 😔🫶

empty, broken, lonely, hoping by daniweb - when I tell you I love the presumed dead trope you best believe I’m telling the truth because the ANGST?? Yes please, LISTEN it’s the closest you can get to the emotional beats of killing off a character without ever killing them off because you love them and happy endings too much so TIM MINEAR TAKE NOTES I KNOW YOU SAID YOU LOVE THEM TOO MUCH TO KILL THEM, anyways back to to the point this fic again is just flawless execution by the writer like absolutely love it

every time we stop talking (the universe starts screaming) by withmeornotatall - emotional destruction and I absolutely love it, divorce era 2.0 and it HITS

Home is where it hurts- by rileyblue2001 - can you tell I hate the Buckley parents because I HATE the Buckley parents

The one with the return of the sex addiction by buddiefication (pumpkincreamcoldbrew) - I’ve reccomended so much angst so have a funny little light hearted buddie fic with the father bobby vibes we all love❤️❤️

Okay back to the angst tho 😭😭- out of ashes by Ashavahishta - AHHHHHHH THIS FIC JUST AHHHHH STOP THE WAY I WOULD DIE FOR A FOLLOW UP FIC TO THIS AHHHH I LOVE IT SM AND ITS LEGIT A ONE SHOT I CRIED SO HARD

Falling Slowly; Sing Your Melody (I’ll Sing It Loud) by Princessfbi ( @princessfbi on here who I also love sm of their fics so highly suggest just going on their page and looking through all the fics) - absolutely love it, legit gave me brain rot and got me obsessed for a GOOD while

I'm comin' back, don't let me go by wikiangela ( @wikiangela on here also love love their fics again so check them out but this one is probably my favourite of theirs)

Okay this is looking more and more like a uni reading list so I’m gonna shut up now but I hope you enjoy these fics and that a few of them emotionally damage you like they did me because I love to spread the joy (see: pain and suffering) 🫶🫶

[darkprincess009]

#peak meta yaoi

thanks for giving me an excuse to rant haha!

my argument is this: act 6 started at the height of tumblrs interaction with homestuck (after the trolls and cascade popularity spikes). floating m/m fandom immediately jumped onto shipping dirk and jake together, but without substance, they created the fanon “Woobie Coolguy Dirk” and “Dirks Boyfriend, Jake”, literally within hours after introduction (dirk didnt even have a name yet!)

homestucks many things but its always been to a large degree a long running conversation with its fanbase. quadrants is hussies explicit dig on shipping but ive always thought act 6 centring around the relationship dramas of the alphas is the same thing, a jab at the fandom of the time. particularly this new audience, which at the risk of authorial intent debate, hussie was pretty clear in not having much respect for

but always contrary for a joke regardless. you wanted the beta kids interacting more? none of the alphas are ever really on the same page, and have constant difficulties communicating. heres them being trapped in a session for 6 months and hating each other by the end of it. no im not telling you what happened in such a long period of time. you want dirk and jake to be together? your johndave 2.0? a cute relationship? heres the alpha quadrangle, heres them fighting each other about it, heres how long it drags out. heres jake kissing dirks decapitated head. btw, they do date, but their relationship doesnt work, they break up, they talk about how bad it is. anything explicitly romantic between them is never really brought into focus, only danced around somewhere offscreen. dirk and jake dont even talk to the “real” versions of each other

you wanted dirk to be the vulnerable uke? nope, heres his personal arc into the psychology of potential for abuse. you want your fanon jake, dirks sexy and confident boytoy? jake is a portrayed as a pathetic joke character, and is consistently narratively humiliated in a reflection of the expectations for him

dirkjake as a canon entity is self aware. meta “gaybait” - you can have your gay boys, but know it wont work. its a commentary and a dissection of the m/m fandom spectre haunting these characters the fandom projects onto them. and their characters are so perfectly about projection (and reality/story warping...) regardless it all comes together in a neat little bow

[polyamorouspunk]

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Was out with mountain boy last night and 1. I learned how to say ‘i love you’ in latin (te amo) and 2. Very much questioning the whole arospec thing because of this boy. Cause for the first time in my *life* the feelings have lasted more than 2 weeks. Its been 2 months. HOLY SHIT IVE BEEN DATING MOUNTAIN BOY FOR 2 MONTHS

But yeah. And also like. As of last night its like *new feeling unlocked* like I’ve had butterflies but I’ve never had butterflies to the degree that Im *still* having butterflies over something 24 HOURS later. And like. That could also just be from being in the middle of a flare that my emotions just are not regulating correctly but like. I feel like I just unlocked emotions 2.0. So maybe I am the actual rare case of ‘you just haven’t been with the right guy yet’ which is infuriating but also I *like* these feelings

But also on the whole chronic illness front - WE FUCKING HATE IT HERE and Im downing ibuprofen like its candy (that is a joke for those that need told). So if my brain could just stop having the 404 error causing both thinking and motor skill problems atm that would be great

Uuhhhhh OH! And therapy is now once a month instead of every other week so I guess thats a plus

Those are my life updates bro how are you?? I miss chatting with you I feel like I never have time to be on here anymore

*answers like a week later* whaaaat I always have time to chat haha 😅😅

Well I’m glad you feel that way! I know personally I can only feel that way with people I’ve met irl even if it’s just meeting them once. I love that feeling though, I’m always chasing that high.

It’s been two months 😭 where has the time gone

I love my best friend to pieces but hanging out with her and her husband was soooo. For someone who’s “autistic and touch-adverse” homegirl SURE did a 180 on that. Third wheel for a week straight 😐 I support her not conforming to social norms even when it’s embarrassed me in the past but like. Boundaries. When you are with someone else. I always made sure that I was never super PDA or hung up on my ex when we were dating because I never wanted to make someone feel like a third wheel and uh. Yeah that’s why.

I just started my meds back up, I’m back on Prozac after my hiatus from taking meds. It reached the point where I’m like “okay yeah maybe my meds were doing SOMETHING even if they weren’t WORKING exactly so MAYBE I should go back on them and be a LITTLE less crazy”. I intend on starting therapy back up. I have free therapy through work, probably Better Help, but it’s probably better than nothing. I already know my data’s on the dark web from all the times my bank account has been hacked so I don’t need to worry about them selling my personal info 😅

I was planning on graduating this semester but that’s not happening :) so next semester it is.

My mom wants to come back up next summer and my best friend and I have been trying to plan matching tattoos and we talked about getting them up there where I got them last time so maybe I’ll see you then! Sick New World already sold out so I guess that plan is a bust 😅

[ravenelyx]

For the fic writing ask game! 13, 22, 38, 53, 66, 75!

Hello Soph <3<3 thank you sm !!

13- Do you listen to music while you write? If yes, what have you been listening to recently?

Nope, too distracting truly 🥲 no matter if it has words or not -- by brain stalls and I just end up either staring at the wall or singing :")

22- Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process?  How do you come up with titles?

Sometimes i do it before the story itself even exists (like ilyet and arranged heartbreak or the wips listed in my masterlist), sometimes in the middle (an epiphany moment in which my brain goes YOU KNOW WHAT---?).

Titles are usually based on the core of the story if the fic is rather long:

I love you in every timeline: inspired by DSMOM originally -- it's actually a wordplay on the entire story : it holds its essence entirely, playing on the identity of the two girls, the contrast of Sebastian's emotions and the way time affects the whole ordeal (how he himself has as well, directly on indirectly, affected both past, present and future). I have a very late scene written out already which explains pretty much everything, but I can't spoil it and I feel like a quivering leaf when i think about it (brain write faster pls i want to reach it soon --- but not so soon bc it's literally towards the end)

Arranged Heartbreak : pretty self-explanatory (i had thought the title to be lame at first and then I just... didn't care)

As for the other short fics, they're pretty simple titles tbh --- except for the list in my masterlist: I went all out and those don't even exist yet

38- What is your most self-indulgent posted story?

ILYET itself 🥲

She's my precious, my baby, my dearest love --- also, MC 2.0 herself is based on my OC (Lys Lovelace my dear) since I haven't written anything about her (appearance and stuff is still ambiguous as a true x reader story)

53- What is the most-used tag on your ao3?

I expected it to be something angsty : it's actually "fluff" :||

Just fluff

I'm a sappy idiot fr

66- What’s a fun fact about ILYET?

Edit: one fun fact no one probably knows about is that the whole fanfiction was actually born from a teen wolf edit that ended on my tiktok fyp... yeahhh... and it's a stydia scene, when Lydia walks up to the group asking "where have you guys been?" and Stiles turns around, completely struck. And then idk why my brain just decided to take that scene and just... make the whole thing up into what it is now...

75- Is there a particular fic that readers gravitated towards that you didn’t expect?

Pretty much all of them -- I've never really had any online presence before tumblr so I wasn't really expecting anything when I first started writing, really :"")

I remember when i posted the prologue of ilyet: it was late at night, (friday night, about 11:45 pm -- i remember it like it was yesterday) so I just posted it, went to sleep and expected nothing in return -- then I woke up to like 300 notes in barely a few hours and I literally jumped out of my skin🥲🥲 those were the good times

But fr -- I expected Loved like to flop bc I literally word vomited it at 4 am, posted it without even rereading it, and then woke up to ppl liking it fr (I still hate it, don't doubt, but still...)

Aaaand... yeah.

Ask game here <3

[ottopilot-wrote-this]

The Elephant in the Room

There is no way to sugarcoat this, because a lot of people have a visceral reaction to it: I'm working on a mixed-media project, and it is going to involve AI.

There are many complaints people have about AI, and I'm going to address some of them. If you want to stop reading now, I won't hold it against you, but I'd a) appreciate if you hear me out, and more importantly, b) implore you to give the new stuff a try before deciding it's not for you:

I think complaints about models being trained, without consent, in violation of copyright law, on people's photos, art, and words by for-profit companies are valid. I don't know how much of that, over the course of billions of data points in a training set, means I am "stealing" when I make a photo of a curvy gender-swapped Ronald McDonald. Granted, I'm not a lawyer, but that to me is parody and fair use.

Regarding copyright and whether generative AI is theft, lots of things on the Internet play loose with intellectual property rights. Memes? Reaction GIFs? Fan fiction? Songs in the background of your video? All legal gray areas. (If the rightsholders for Supernatural filed enough DMCA charges, they could take Tumblr down overnight.) My point is not to derisively say you are a hypocrite; I like these things too. It's that I don't see generative AI as being markedly different.

Environmental impact is important to me in real life. There are some alarmist numbers about power consumption and carbon impacts. I read (ok, skimmed) one of the studies and they used an 80 GB VRAM A100 SXM4, which is a 400W card and a tremendous amount of overkill for Stable Diffusion. I can do 4 draft images in about 15 seconds and 1 "finished" image in 30 on an RTX 3060. But I'm also not cranking those out without stoppping like a robot. It's much more reasonable to compare it with other leisure activities like PC gaming (its the same hardware), a PS5, or watching an HDTV. 1000 images (which for me, is A LOT - 3 or 4 hours) might use 0.05 kWh which puts me in line with watching a TV sitcom on my 50" 4k LED TV (which uses 87W in normal conditions).

People are overwhelmed because there is so much AI "art", and a lot of it is shitty. And I get ya. Many people are only using what they know and what they can find, which are online generators, and a lot of them suck. I don't want to sound like an ass, but I did spend a lot of time learning Stable Diffusion prompting and training, so I think my stuff will look better than people expect. (Or at least consistent, which is what I was aiming for.) What I hate though is people who post generated AI images and don't label them. So you get from me a promise to at least try to label all my images in tags, in the description, and in the alt description as AI (soft promise here because ADHD). Then you can block those tags to your hearts content.

I was already thinking about trying to use an AI writing tool, then I saw today that people are losing their shit about NaNoWriMo. So I am putting my thoughts about that in another post.

There you have it. Thanks if you made it this far. The goal here is not to convince you am I not just some AI techbro (I'm not) and that AI is not NFTs 2.0, but to give this project that I have worked (and am working!) so hard on a puncher's chance.

[stressedlawsecretary]

Today's Focus

02.06.24 - I am super pretty in pink today and frankly my morning is going better than a usual Monday 2.0 does so I'm counting my blessings. It's my mother's birthday so I'm going to give her a call when I take lunch today, but it's hit or miss if I'll get her because she's sick now the way I was in the beginning of the year.

Work - I have an efile to take care of, and a new case for JMK to enter into NYM and create a physical file for. Other than that, I know SJC will want me to tackle something related to WvP - a letter to a defendant I think. But it's pretty quiet here overall.

Background Noise - I start today with 119 on the Watch Later, no thanks to my trolling somebody's channel for certain drama updates. Since I'm still working my way through the accumulative five (5) hours of initial Mamamax drama, I'm alternating with a shorter video from the watch later every....15-20 min or so.

See and I only managed to get through like nine (9) videos yesterday so I need to step on the gas here or tomorrow is going to suck ass.

Study - Tuesday is article day and I have a list!

The Murder of Emmett Louis Till: The Spark That Started the Civil Rights Movement

Deep dives: climate policy, police misconduct, & the Horizon IT scandal

The Glass Report

When is a Book Not a Book? Oliver Twist in Context

'Good news' articles

Article on the "Beacon of Hate" - Unusual Clandestine 30m Beacon that broadcasts right-wing conspiracy things.

The Negro Problem

An appendix letter that went with one of my case law decisions

Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights

I didn't do as much as I wanted case law wise yesterday, But I did manage to read:

Mississippi Madness: The Story of Emmett Till

A couple (2) of NYT articles on the trial of the Emmett Till killers

Eight (8) articles on climate policy

A couple (2) articles on police misconduct

Four (4) articles on the Horizon IT scandal

I started a couple of case law Wikipedia pages but didn't finish them

13 various other articles

Extras - I have no scheduled chores, and I'm back doing the routine proper so while I do have to switch dinner around I don't really have any responsibilities. This is by design - we have D&D again tonight and it starts at like 6p. That means I have to push off the homemade meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and mushroom gravy until like Thurs or Fri when I have more time to make it; in its place I'm moving up the Polish sausage & pierogi because that meal won't take more than an hr to make.

[dogaseducationblog]

let's get out of here... at least for a while

hi, tumblr's lovely people,

the day has come. the day that I finally leave you...

haha. you're too naive, I've tricked you. I'll be just taking a break because the first term of my second year has finally come to an end but don't worry, your sunshine, your reason to wake up, your source of energy will be here, better than ever, on the next semester. so this might be my final post for a while but it won't take too long.

so, yeah... I'll get emotional. we've been together for almost four months now and even if I had times that I wanted to kill myself just because I didn't want to write a post, this class was -don't tell this to my lecturer, I hate to admit it- kinda enjoyable and interesting. also, I really liked to have a voice to share my experiences and a personal space where only my opinions matter. until this term, I've never had to use technology this much for anything actually so creating all of those things was exciting, new, and in the most positive way, very challenging for me. not just learning about the web 2.0 tools but also creating our own works with those tools was so intriguing and beneficial. we’ve experienced that if you explore your own creativity and push its limits, there are many ways to integrate language learning with technology in a better way.

my favorite task to do among the ones we did was probably creating a podcast just because we had the chance to use the song "kingdom dance" from tangled the animation as our background music which was AWESOME. you already know we're geniuses but THIS. this was beyond genius. using that sound as a part of some of our projects was a dream of mine and Şevval's so it'll stay in my mind as one of the most fulfilling moments of my university life.

the least favorite one though was probably the one we made a padlet chart. there was nothing wrong or hard about that task actually but it was overall boring to do and since the topic of our padlet wall was bullying I was kinda buried in my past traumas. even your sunshine girlie has a depressive side, you know. I'm a Taylor Swift girlie, duh?

this class was very nice if we don't count the times that I wanted to cut my head off because I live in Gebze which means one hour ride to my school. we had a lot of choices in each assignment which was so nice. the freedom to choose what to do and to have interesting options made the lesson so much more interesting. so, it turns out I don't have anything negative to say about this class and it means I have to say goodbye for now. I know you'll miss me.

thank you for reading my confused ideas and being here for me. I'll miss you too.

as Woody the Cowboy said in Toy Story 3... so long, my partner. (you know it's not forever, I'm just making it dramatic)

virtual hugs.

until next time,

with love... and obviously education, Doğa.

[phynali]

when you point out a system error to a colleague (whose in charge of maintaining that system for your department) and they check the wrong place in the system and say "there's no error :)))"

so you send them screenshots and go "okay cool if that is the case, but this how it looks and here's the essential information that's missing and btw this error disadvantages you, system maintainer, quite personally."

and they don't look at your screenshots or engage with any of what you've said and instead just say "no problem glad to help!"

🤦🤦🤦🤦

[seongpinkhwa]

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[murfpersonalblog]

"TWO thoroughly well-made shows"?.... 🤨 Come on now, Times. I hope this isn't a package deal situation, where if one is bad the other doesn't win, because Mayfair Witches was NOT it, everyone knows this. The acting and especially the writing were SWAMP WATER. Which makes no sense, since the book was ALREADY WRITTEN FOR YOU, Esta! She needs to be replaced or something, because NO. If MW wins something just so IWTV can get its flowers, then fine, but trust that it was under duress.

But Rolin Jones? GOATED. S1 of IWTV is everything Mayfair Witches wishes it could be. Just USE. The effing. SOURCE MATERIAL, Esta! You know why people praise the dialogue in IWTV? Cuz Rolin was literally using whole quotes from THE BOOK. And the actors have the chemistry and the charisma and the range to pull it off! (Half the time I didn't know WHAT Lasher & Rowan were saying.) Know why people praise the changes Rolin made to the characters? Because he ELEVATED both the plot and characters from THE BOOK; not using hamfisted performative wokeness for cheap diversity points, but actually CONTEXTUALIZING how characters of certain backgrounds actually fit into the WORLDBUILDING and narrative framework! Esta, did you even READ The Witching Hour????? (Didn't someone say Alexandra Daddario only watched AR's interviews about the book? 👀🤦 Meanwhile Sam Reid is out here giving doctoral dissertations on everything AR ever wrote, like WTF y'all.) Anne Rice is clearly a much better writer and storyteller than you, Esta, so make life easier for yourself by NOT trying to outdo her!

I'm not even interested in MW getting a second season; they've already screwed everything up by rushing the whole book while giving us NOTHING from it. Where the HELL is Julien Mayfair? Where are the Mayfairs in Haiti? WHO are the 13 Witches, Esta??!? She gave us NOTHING, but some stupid witch hunter sideplot when she hadn't even established WHY Lasher was evil! 🤦 Show, don't tell, Esta!!!!

Sure, Julien's not here, cuz Michael's not here as a "Curry" (this makes me wonder about Merrick Mayfair now too), Julien's victrola's been replaced by the voodoo doll, Mona's not here (so I can assume there's no Morrigan & Ashlar line of Taltos-Mayfairs, which WTF), and Lasher doesn't seem to be a learning ghost that Julien taught at all. But I bet Esta won't even use the Taltos, or the miscarriages and the extra chromosome, or Emaleth. Will we ever get Mona and Quinn, and Morrigan and Ashlar? Unlikely, since Esta wasted our time with Tessa. 🙄 So what is THE POINT then???

This isn't an Immortals UNIverse--it's a MULTIverse at best, cuz IWTV & MW certainly don't feel like they're in the same world AT ALL. We NEED to see Merrick Mayfair, but even Rolin said they're "mostly" looking at books 2, 3 and 6??? Which is WORRISOME, since Merrick is THE BEST way to cross the both series. And Blood Canticle is NOT the goal you should be gunning for, Esta, since it was AR's worst writing, too! 🤮 Just cuz you wanna see two pretty people kiss on screen does NOT mean it's worth keeping the bad acting from this dull flat dry twitchy awkward dumb Rowan around long enough to make a further embarrassment of herself--throwing herself at Lestat, when we all know Lestat turns Rowan down, refuses to make her a vampire, tells her to go back to her husband, and goes back to HIS OWN husband, Louis. 😜🤡

Is that why you got rid of Michael and gave us Ciprian, Esta? So you could have an excuse to pair Rowan and Lestat up without BOTH of them being sloppy cheaters? SAVE IT. No one's shipping Lestat with Rowan frikkin Mayfair, get serious. Lestat also said Rowan was needed by the Mayfairs as the designee--is that why Esta's been pushing this awful plot of these OOC Mayfairs now hating Rowan and ostracizing her, and creating the Jojo character who wants to lead them? So it can free up Rowan to run off as a vampire with Lestat--the Jeese Reeves 2.0 from the ridiculous QotD movie? 😨 I see you, Esta--KILL IT WITH FIRE, AMC!

Especially since the only reason Lestat was even involved with the Mayfair plot at all was one sidequest to help QUINN AND MONA find MORRIGAN, so unless AMC's gonna adapt Blackwood Farm next, there's no POINT making anything from Blood Canticle. And AR pretty much retconned everything that happened in Blood Canticle anyway, cuz everyone hated it! What makes YOU think you can do any better, ESTA!?

I love the Immortals Universe as a concept, cuz AR has SO MUCH good material one can use, to really give us the horror and gore and ghastliness of different immortal monsters. But I hate the MW project, cuz Esta isn't even using what she has.

Hopefully AMC finds better writers and adapts the Wolf Gift, and just ends the Mayfair Witches with S2; we don't need anymore of this mess.

the cast and producers of interview with the vampire and mayfair witches will be doing an emmys for your consideration panel on march 15th!

[weekly-lit-vaporeon]

So hey sorry I’ve been kind of lazy. I said I’d have the beach intro post done by yesterday but tbh I started the final school half term that day and I was literally collapsing from exhaustion, not to mention I had to go to my nans to wish her a happy birthday. (Which was nice, it was just I was falling asleep though) Today I had a literature paper and I will rarely get breaks from the onslaught of exams cause I’m a year 11 in the uk school system during May and June.

Exams end soon as in my very last exam is on the Monday morning of the week after that and I’d probably do all the beach posts as sketches, especially during the start to keep my interest since I’ll let you into a little secret... I hate line arting. And my colouring method kind of requires it.

I have a break tomorrow though so I’m going to try to get the starter done in the morning before I hyper fixate on sword and shield in the direct (it’s at 1pm here) and yes. I’m not going to school because I have no exams and I need a break and they have deprived us of all study leave.

[strawberryspence]

i am in a very emo mood right now so here’s a disclaimer: i cried writing this and its very long.

Steve and Eddie have been together for seventeen years now. Both are very happy with their relationship, they’ve been engaged since they were twenty three and they haven’t looked back since. Gay marriage is legal by then in some parts of the country but not in Illinois (They’ve been living in Chicago since ‘87 when Robin started college and Steve packed up all of their stuff to follow her.) It’s not something they actively seek out, because would marriage really change anything in their relationship? They already refer to each other as husbands and they already wear wedding bands.

But kids. God, Eddie never really thought he would want kids. He grew up in an abusive environment that made him hate the prospect of procreating. At the age of thirteen, he realized he was gay and yeah, that was it, he won’t have kids, ever. But when he met Steve, Steve already had seven kids under his arms. Everyone knew about the six nuggets dreams and it’s always been a source of insecurity from Eddie, but Steve has been adamant that he didn’t need those things, he only needed Eddie. He jokes around about it, “I already have seven kids, okay? Eight if you add Robin.”

‘99 brings the first member of the Party 2.0. It’s Max and Lucas, of course, and though it was a long road to it, they made it. Max and Lucas are the two that moved out to California for college, but then moved back to Chicago to stay close to them. Eddie thinks it’s an unspoken agreement between Steve and Max, siblings bonded by trauma and love. They got married around ‘95, just a few months after Max and Lucas graduated college. Four years later, Eddie won’t ever forget Steve’s shaking hands when Max hands him Eleanor May Sinclair for the first time, her little tiny hands holding onto his finger as Lucas tells him that he was going to be the godfather. Steve smiles down at the tiny little red head, with her father’s eyes and her mother’s freckles and promises, “I am going to spoil you rotten, you’re going to hate it.”

‘01 brings the second member of the Party 2.0. It’s Jonathan and Nancy, who didn’t get married until around ‘98 because they were both too focused in their blooming careers. By then everyone had bets on how much longer before the two finally give in and get married, Argyle wins the biggest money and they still think there has been some kind of cheating. It’s a cold winter night when Nancy goes into labor. Steve and Eddie (with Robin, Max, Lucas and Ellie) takes the next flight to New York from the moment Jonathan called them that Nancy’s going into labor. Robin’s hailed as the godmother, because the skittle six all stayed close friends but there has always been some kind of women solidarity between Nancy and Robin. Eddie has to hold Steve’s hand when he starts crying when Nancy tells them her name, Barbara Arya Wheeler-Hopper. Nancy smiles at him, eyes glassy from exhaustion and emotions, as Steve holds her for the first time, voice shaking as he finally meets her, “Hi Barb.”

In the same year, the third member of the Party 2.0 is born. It’s Dustin and Suzie. That one was a looong story. After the Vecna fiasco of Spring and Fall of ‘86 (where they finally killed Vecna and closed the Upside Down for good), Suzie and Dustin broke up due to some miscommunications and because her father has been much more stricter after the Cali gang's visit. By chance, they meet again in MIT in ‘89 and remained friends for another two years (In Steve and Eddie’s dismay this led to long hours of telephone calls from Dustin pining over his ex-girlfriend-now-turned-bestfriend) before they finally got their act together when Dustin drunkenly proposes to Suzie (they don’t get married until ‘96). Steve and Eddie has come down to California about a week before Suzie’s expected labor day for moral support and just to help. Suzie goes into labor in a grocery store with Steve, while they were out buying peppers to induce labor. Steve has to drive them frantically to the hospital while a chill Suzie drinks her strawberry milkshake in the passenger seat. After 36 hours of labor, Edward Stephen Henderson was born. Eddie’s the one who cries more when Dustin announces the name, he’s also the first one in the party to hold the newborn. Eddie smiles down at Edward, laughing as he looks up at Steve, “I will do everything in my power so that you won’t end up with your father’s ego.” Cue Dustin’s protests in the back and Suzie laughing so hard she pops a stitch. Steve’s hand on his waist doesn’t leave even for a moment the whole night.

By ‘02 Max is pregnant again, Robin and Vickie’s adoption papers were processing and El’s been looking into Artificial Insemination. Will and Mike are the only two who doesn’t seem interested in having kids and are happy to just be the gay uncles that shower the kids with expensive ass gifts.

Steve’s hiding it well, Eddie will give that to him. Steve’s always been good with kids, always had that glow whenever he's around them and there is no doubt in Eddie's mind that his husband will be a wonderful, amazing father. It also helps mask the baby fever he’s had for about four years now since Ellie was born. Eddie doesn’t miss the melancholic looks he gets when it's time for Max to take Ellie home or the look he gets when they visit Barb and they have to say goodbye to her big brown eyes. Eddie knows his husband has wanted kids for as long as the’ve been together, but doesn’t say anything for his sake. So he takes a long look at his life. Does he want kids? Does he want to come home with kids in the house? Could he ever be even a sliver of the father that Steve was born to be? Would he be anything like his biological father?

He calls Wayne, talks to him for hours about every fear and doubt he has. He loves Steve so much and it hurts him to not be able to give this to him just because he’s being a coward again. Wayne soothes every shaking nerve in his body, and Eddie thinks, he’ll be fine. He’ll be fine because he wasn’t raised by John Munson, he was raised by Wayne Munson.

He’s done so much research about gay adoption that he has to hide the thick folder under a loose floor in their shared office, just so Steve can’t find it. He wants to be ready for this before he talks to Steve about it and by Christmas ‘02, he’s ready.

Its the quiet lull just before Christmas. The tree is decked out with numerous gifts, the house full of fairy lights (fairy lights they made sure would never blink), outside it just started snowing. In 24 hours, the house would be full with their family coming from different states to celebrate the holiday with them. Steve's wrapping the last few gifts, hot choco on his side when Eddie sits across him on the floor, handing him the thick folder.

Steve opens the folder with a bewildered look, his face shifting to shock in seconds. Steve looks up at Eddie with teary eyes, "Before you say that you don't need kids because I don't want kids, hear me out, okay?" Eddie reaches out for his hand, "I do want kids. I want kids with you. I've had kids with you since '86 when Dustin and Max decided to look for me. I've always wanted kids with you. I was... I was just scared that I'd end up like my dad, you know?" Steve sighs, hand tightening in his grasp, "Eds."

Eddie shakes his head, "Wait, I am not done. I talked to Wayne, you know? And I thought about it and I want kids with you, Steve Harrington. In any shape or form. If you don't want it right now, we can put a pin on it and if you tell me you never want it, then we forget this conversation ever happened. We could adopt, we could get a surrogate, hell, if I can get pregnant I will do it, sweetheart. I want a kid that's half you and half me and that might not ever be possible but we can raise and love a kid together and that'll be just as good." Steve's smiling now, tears still flowing from his face as Eddie cups his face, using his thumbs to swipe away the tears.

"So what do you want, baby?" Eddie smiles as Steve starts laughs, nodding. "Yeah, yeah, I want a kid with you. Fucking hell, Eds." Steve hops up, tackling Eddie into a hug and showering him with kisses. They stay like that for an hour, just soaking in the pure adoration and love they feel for each other.

It's not until October '05 that their kid comes home. Elijah Syl Harrington-Munson was a 6 month old boy. Steve cries the first time he holds him as Eddie embraces him, Elijah holding his index finger in his tiny palm.

"Stevie, he has your hair." Eddie comments and there's no hint of joke or trick in his voice, just full of awe and Steve just cries even more.

When Elijah finally opens his eyes, Steve can't help the tenderness that bursts through him, "Eddie, Eds, he has your eyes."

Elijah's not a Harrington-Munson in blood, but he's Steve and Eddie's son through and through. And yeah, Elijah grows to have the same brunette wavy hair, styled just like his Dad's and the same brown doe eyes just like his Pa's. Sometimes, he sits in the living room as he reads a thick book with a basketball game playing on the background, Steve and Eddie thinks he's always meant to be theirs.

They adopt more kids. Not six because fuck no. But they do have their three nuggets, half Steve Harrington and half Eddie Munson and he won't ever have it any other way.

[trulylino]

=> Tiktoks With You - SKZ

Pairing: skz x gn!reader

Genre: fluff

Summary: headcannons of the skz members and their thoughts on tiktok with y/n!

Warnings: none I think

Masterlist

Chan

Your drafts is full, literally full of dumb videos of Chan. We all know what he's posted on the jyp official page so only you and God know what doesn't end up getting posted. He's not really one for trends so he doesn't like dancing but he's your number one hype man if you film one in front of him. He'll literally go crazy if he even hears 'Maniac' coming from your phone because he knows you'll absolutely eat up the choreo.

Minho

Even though he pretends to hate it he secretly loves when you ask him to do something with you. He'll obviously refuse at first just to watch you beg and whine until he gives in and helps you. He'll still occasionally purposefully ruin a tiktok but just standing still or tickling you to which you obviously have to just pout at until he smiles and continues properly. I think that he just loves to distract you by kissing or hugging you (or smacking your ass) because he just loves to touch you. He also really likes to make little videos of Soonie, Doongie and Dori especially when you play with them because it makes him go all soft. A cutie like he loves it really but you can't know that because he won't let you.

Changbin

Hype man 2.0. On his private account (which literally has one follower, you) he posts little videos of you just going about your day? Like you could be in the kitchen cooking and you'll turn round to see him zooming in on your hands chopping food with a knife? You've asked him so many times why and he'll just shrug because he doesn't actually know why either. He also likes to post gym progress videos just for himself so that he can properly see the difference between what he used to look like because it helps to motivate him and he'll often ask you to film for him.

Hyunjin

At first whenever you would ask him he would complain but recently he's been a little more enthusiastic. He started posting more by himself and while you definitely had a part in it (you totally weren't standing with a gun behind the camera) you feel that it's partially because he's actually getting into it. He likes trying out the filters and often you'll take it in turns to try them out and compare your results. He's really weirdly competitive in them so if he loses his dramatic ass will not talk to you for half an hour until you apologise for beating him.

Han

Confused™. Doesn't know why or how he got here but he's happy. He likes to feel included so when you ask him to help you pull a prank on his bandmates he's more than happy to oblige. Doesn't worry about it too much and just wants to have a good time with you. You'll often go up to him during the day and just show him a tiktok you saw which you found funny so you can laugh at it together. He's starting tagging you in tiktoks that remind him of you and its possibly the cutest but weirdest thing ever because it can range from a cute video of an animal you like to a roblox storytime about furries which is so bizarre it has to be satire. In general, however he's a ten out of ten tiktok boyfriend.

Felix

99% of the time it's actually his idea to make tiktoks together. He has at least 10 drafts of the two of you doing that tiktok of his that went viral. You're definitely the secret to his success because where would he be if he didn't have you screaming for 'more ass' each time he did a take? Even if you don't post them you just love filming them and messing around together because he's just as obsessed as you are. Does loads of cute couple tiktoks with you on his friends only account and literally everyone hates him for it because why are the two of you so cute? Who gave you the right. We love our sunshine.

Seungmin

He wants absolutely nothing to do with tiktok. Unless... You have to really put on the full theatrics to get him to do one with you. But then he loves it. But you can't find out that he loves it. So he's all 'I guess we could film a tiktok *sigh*' and 'what do you wanna do' to which you reply that you don't know and he goes 'we could film a tiktok if you really want to I suppose'. You can see right through him because he's not as slick as he thinks he is.

Jeongin

Idiot. Cute idiot. I think that he prefers watching tiktoks with you to actually making them because it's an excuse to cuddle with you in bed for hours but he doesn't mind filming either. For some reason he finds the choreography difficult despite the fact that that literally does much harder dances every day? It took him a week to learn how to do the woah and it took both you and Felix showing him over and over until he finally got it. He uses it as an excuse to spend more time with you because he loves being in your presence.

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[lonelyroommp3]

had a hymn that wasn’t in any of the hymn books, searched it online to play off my ipad, only passable free arrangement was some freak musescore abomination that it wouldn’t let me download as a pdf so i was like okay fucking hell i’ll just keep the webpage open and hope for the best. took some contingency screenshots in case my browser shat the bed as soon as i turned my hotspot off (this will be important later), proceeded w the service paying the whole thing very little thought

other important things to note

the church organ IS working again after about four months of increasingly drastic malfunctions, but this particular hymn was a more modern worship song and defo more of a piano vibe so i was like okey dokey i’ll just sneak over to the piano when communion starts and play it off there

we just got a new piano in (grand piano) (bechstein) (very nice) (needs tuning) (just realised sitting here on the bus i completely forgot to close the case and cover it again after the service) (mother fucker)

unlike our old SHITE upright piano, where i was sort of nestled into a corner hidden from the world, the bechstein (lid still open) (whoopsie) is positioned so when i’m playing i have my back to the whole congregation and they can see not only me but all my sheet music/whatever is displayed on my ipad

(i’m sure you are beginning to join some dots)

anyway communion starts, walk over to the piano, am fully in position when i open up my browser on my ipad and lo and behold, like some sort of recently decapitated chicken or beetle still capable of independent movement in its last gruesome death spasms, despite having been unconnected from the internet for the past hour, this godforsaken musescore page has refreshed and is showing an advert that will not close because while i’m seemingly connected to enough wifi to OPEN an ad i am NOT connected to enough wifi to close it. typical web 2.0. and my phone is on the other side of the church so i can’t just hotspot myself again

anyway no worries, i have my contingency screenshot. of course, despite my contingency screenshot being the last thing i opened in my ipad’s camera roll, either god decided he hates me for spending the sermon laser focused on shredding my split ends instead of listening to his word, or the ghost of steve jobs decided he hates me for quitting my apple store job and thus ensuring that nobody would ever clean the demo devices at that store for the rest of time. and so it just opens on my entire camera roll

this is literally, at this point, completely salvageable. all these thumbnails are so tiny that no fucker is going to be able to make out a single image. but because i have never looked at a problem without going “is anyone going to make this worse” and NOT waiting for an answer, i panic, flailing for my life, ipad held aloft and even more in view of the congregation because for some reason i’ve decided this is the most ergonomic stance for fixing my issues in the midst of the world’s most awkward silence (should have started playing a good minute ago) (it is very clear that i am losing a fight with technology). and i accidentally slam, and then proceed to scroll through in a panic, the multiple distinct pictures of the paris 2024 paralympic mascot i saved to send to my girlfriend and mother because i’ve become freakishly obsessed with this corporately designed creature and i have no joke somewhere in the region of 50 phryge images on this device

anyway now that i’m typing this out i realise that it really was not that bad at all, like ohhhhh you have a random image of a mascot for a huge sporting event saved on your ipad, how embarrassing. like it’s not exactly hardcore porn is it. probably hardly anyone even noticed when you think about it sensibly and with a detached mind. but the thing is i find literally everything on earth humiliating especially when it comes to people potentially realising that i have interests and hyperfixations, and so at that exact moment you could have grilled me to within an inch of my life and hand on heart i would not have been able to think of any possible situation more mortifying than trying to play a hymn during the most solemn and reflective part of a service and instead showing the whole congregation This Mother Fucker

neverrr work with children animals or technology. i just got snaked out sooo badly by my ipad in the middle of church