#not editing

[missingthemantaray]

new to small town life, steve harrington, who has been cut off from his family, told to make something of himself for once, yelled at about how easy his life is, how little they ask of him and how ungrateful he is, exiled to hawkins (the town his dad bought drunk one night as a gag).

there he meets robin, the sarcastic, mean, and wonderful owner of the motel steve is staying at (ew.)

and eventually eddie, the patronizing, unaware of personal space, and lovely (god, so lovely) guy who is going to help steve acquire the permits and grants to renovate the motel with robin, bit by bit who has big brown eyes and wild hair and wears basically the same tight, ripped jeans and loose button down with rolled sleeves everyday, while steve primps and styles and steams.

they fall in love, obvi, but not without a healthy dose of reality check for steve, family drama (boo, harringtons!), the best friendship (with a couple moments of shudderworthy attempts at more), steve cringing at eddie’s musical inclinations, meeting the rest of the town (mayor hopper, his wife, joyce, the gang of children steve is unsure of which parent they each belong to, and who make sure he never eats at benny’s alone (though he would maybe like to, just once!), the workers of the town-staple that is benny’s, jonathan (cook, high always) and argyle (waiter, high always, slightly more functional, but with more insane storytelling where you can’t tell if he’s making it up or telling the truth), the editor in chief of the hawkins paper, nancy, who has taken over the paper and declared that serious journalism must prevail in hawkins (think rory gilmore taking over the gazette and everyone going crazy because she took out the poem (i know, too many AUs at once))), an open mic, demolition in the motel with sweaty, gorgeous, hairy steve, lots of skin car routines, mental health crises, full blown disownment, happiness, love, friendship, joy, community, and small-town loving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(steddie, ronance (robin helps nancy learn to love the mundane, nancy helps robin deal with change) (😭), lowkey jargyle (ive only heard of the drama of FoH and BoH star crossed loving and i live, but this would be decidedly less drama, they would simply be dating, like no labels but they love each other and kiss and hang out), lesbian eleven (she’s everything), a flirtation with byler (why not!), steve finding family, gayness, etc.)

[nightmarereverie]

By 2743912800 (Cat Searchlight) on Xiaohongshu (小红书)🎐𓍼ֶָ֢⊹ ࣪ ˖

[clementineey]

[playlamb]

one of things it wanted with people was to show them what it saw in them. It enjoys shattering illusion and guiding towards healing. But it never did that because it was busy holding onto suffering and fear as an attempt to rectify unjust things that happened to it, which is funny because it did not feel that fear, it just was holding onto it as a tool to try to heal some things within itself. But that never worked because that process required validation from someone other than lamb. Someone else needed to validate its trauma for the process to be complete and it could then be <allowed to heal>. No one gave that to it because no one knew that’s what it was looking for. Well. some did but understandably weren’t willing to give it to lamb. It was sort of forcing people to become part of its agenda to rectify its trauma. It was like a convoluted type of codependency it never should have engaged with. sorry it did that.. it love u.

[qwanderer]

Haha whoops I seem to be writing Vorkosigan saga fic

I'm supposed to be editing my novel

Ah well, if fic wants to happen it's going to happen

There are two and I think I can keep them each to one conversation between two characters which tends to go pretty quickly for me once I have the basics down

One of them was threatening to be plotty but I think I am getting some useful info out of my storytelling theory that will help me make things feel cool and plotty without actually inventing the entire plot

We'll see how that goes!

[ultimate-sprite-maker]

*hugs*

I LIVE FOR HUGS

I'm so sorry about the sprite- TwT

[sendingicebergs]

12.29.23 If talking about it helped at all I would never shut the fuck up

I would tell everyone about her weak body falling apart in three days

the way her paws crossed and struggled to walk straight how her eyes were confused the entire time with the fatigue she felt winning out against the memory of who she always was.

I'd tell you how much it hurt when she kept getting up painfully uncurling from my chest to lay further away from me and just stare at me wanting to know I was there

I'd tell you about the nurse who looked at me and somehow thought I've never been around death and talked too much the entire time who stood in the way of my privacy and grief

I'd tell you how the tears felt like blood from an open wound the way I couldn't do anything to stop them and they just spilled from me drop by drop

I’d tell you how scared I am to hold anyone now to touch anyone living the way her weight felt in my arms when she was gone how I knew better that air escapes muscles spasms but I still jumped with hope she someone was still alive

I'd ask you how many times can someone hold death and still be okay holding the living? I'd ask you if it's okay to wait until I fall asleep first so I won't think you're dead next to me

If talking helped at all I'd tell you about the suicide how he took the gun from his wife's car that he made her keep there for her protection in case of an emergency and drove off to shoot himself in the heart and crash the car into a ditch

I'd ask you if God is so great what's so good about making men unable to wait to meet them? Where's the good in salvation that you can't wait any longer for? I'd demand answers on why God made so many people in my family take their own life.

I'd ask you if you've read Death of A Salesman I'd ask you how much grief do you think the wife felt having the gun she never wanted or asked for having not seen in coming living the rest of her life with that oversight.

If talking helped at all I'd ask why the ones with the most love for life always die young why my school reunions are just funerals where I don't recognize anyone anymore except the dead.

If talking helped at all you’d know my silence as the chasm it is the childhood friend who spent more time growing than aging. the family tree that only withers or holds nooses the heartbeat I held until it was only a heart

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

[vimbry-moved]

[teaboot]

Yeah Mr. Darcy’s proposal was a complete turd and a half but you gotta understand. You got your life together. A good career, stable income, retirement plan, all that shit together. And you meet this girl. And she’s everything. Clever, outspoken, funny, calls you on your bullshit. Grade A cutie, right? And she doesn’t go out of her way to spend time with you but she’s nice, and sometimes you catch her looking your way in a way that makes you think you might have a shot.

But her family. Holy shit.

First off, it’s p much ALL women, and mostly UNMARRIED women, which at this time means of something happens to her dad then you’re financially responsible for like. Four grown ass adults, potentially forever

Because mom in law is DEFINITELY gonna need someone to take care of her when dad in law kicks it, and they have like. NO money. So already you’re accepting that if all goes well, you’re gonna be one random old bag’s retirement home. That’s expensive and exhausting, yeah? Imagine asking someone on a first date knowing that if they say yes and things go good her high-strung chihuahua mother is gonna move in with you. IMAGINE.

And girly’s other sisters. Well, one is a sweetheart, yeah, so she probably won’t be an issue, but that still leaves three more, and two of those ones are INSUFFERABLE. Never went to school, dumb as rocks, spend cash like it’s toilet paper

And while one of the two is young still and might grow out of it the OTHER one is actively torpedo’ing her entire family’s reputation by wandering off with random dudes and chasing ass. She’s never gonna work, she can’t build connections, she’s a fucking sinkhole, and she’s being led on by the same goddamn con man ass leeching tit who’s been bleeding you dry while telling anyone who’ll listen that your family is full of ratty thieving bastards.

And if he dumps her after a week- WHICH YOU KNOW HIS BITCH ASS IS GONNA- you’ve got a SECOND UNMARRIABLE GROWN ASS ADULT TO PROVIDE FOR. And you KNOW she’s gonna be a tantrum-throwing little shit about it, and it’s not like you can lock her in the basement or something, you’re gonna have to bring her fucking. Everywhere. And give her an allowance and shit while she contributes zero, because again, she NEVER GOT EDUCATED AND HAS NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. She’s not even good to TALK to. FUCK

And you’re looking at this girl’s father like “please for the love of fuck get your spawn under control, marry them off, get them working on their résumé, learning to sew or be nursemaids or manage staff or SOMETHING, yall got no money and one foot in the grave” and that old man just laughs like “haha yeah, what can you do. lol”

So you’re looking to the mom and finally it’s making sense how she got that twitch in her eye and as MUCH as she is you’re starting to realize she’s the SMART one, desperately throwing her armloads of girls at random men like they’re a bunch of fucking lifeboats bobbing around a sinking ship, like yes Jesus Christ sweetly that life boat IS old and ugly and kind of boring but for FUCKS SAKE PICK ONE

And you look back at this girl who is ALSO REFUSING THE LIFE BOATS BY THE WAY and god damn it she’s still the most radiant thing you’ve ever seen so fine, fuck it, Christ alive, you’ll do it. You’ll shoot your shot. She’s everything you’ve ever wanted in anybody abut it’s not even just about that anymore, it’s about being her best fucking shot at a future, and even if she doesn’t like you all that much she’s still gonna say yes and that might break your heart a bit knowing it’s about the money but who knows, maybe it will at least be civil, or companionable, and even if she doesn’t LOVE you at least you’ll know she’s well and cared for

And so you’ll do it. You’ll take on the neurotic stress mess mother in law, the absent father, the broke ass wingnut no brain no money no future airhead sisters, the bad mannered relatives and the embarrassing behaviour and the impending future of sharing your entire shit with a clown parade of freeloaders, you’ll risk it all and accept the absolute certainty of financial ruin and emotional exhaustion for the rest of your whole ass life and you’ll make your own family deal with it too, you’ll do it, you’ll fucking DO IT, you stupid lovesick motherfucker

And so you go to this chick like “look. Your whole family’s a shitshow. You’ve got fucking nothing and you’re gonna die on the street. But for some reason- and I don’t get it either- I’ve fallen in love with you, and I wish I didn’t, but I did, so I’m telling you that whether you like me or not, I’ll give you everything. I’ll give you everything even if it’s the dumbest shit I ever done. Fuck my stupid Baka ass, I’ll marry you.”

And she looks at you- having heard or considered absolutely none of your months-long internal debate and monologue- and goes “The fuck did you just say about my family, you son of a bitch?”

And the shock of that is enough to jolt you back into a reality where you are able to actually hear and process what just came out of your damn mouth And yeah

Yeah, I think I kinda get it

[hantokarakida]

I once again need help <3 If the Geats fans (or the anon themselfs) could help me with this one it would be great and i would really apriciate it! Could someone tell me what ep to find these scenes? Thanks!

[ninjasmudge]

worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

[fivendandelions]

We finish this together.

[qwanderer]

The only writing I have done this weekend is on ANOTHER new Loki show fic. That's okay! It's fun and keeps me sane and I made progress on editing my book on Wednesday. It will get done eventually!

[ultimate-sprite-maker]

Can you do fangans other than sdra2? If so which ones

Heya! I can do others as long as the sprites are within the DR style. I have a feeling this is relating to Eden's Garden, and to that, I can say that I can work with it, I just don't want spoilers! The only one I've ever played for myself is SDRA2!!