I really despise the Marvelification of Stranger Things, because all the interviews nowadays are constantly referencing how fast paced and epic and big the finale will be but the reason people fell in love with the show wasn't special effects or long episodes; it was the plot, it was the characters, it was the mystery. Stranger Things 1 may have been a story about a government conspiracy and a monster, but that's not why we stuck around. The show can throw amazing CGI, Russians, a battle within the American army and an apocalypse at the audience with the biggest budget known to man but if they forget to ground it and keep it central, it'll just get lost amongst a plethora of other "epic" blockbusters. We want Steven King, not Avengers.
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constantly thinking about the PERFECT setup supergirl season 1 had to make kara queer;
"oh my god, you're a lesbian" – winn to kara, in the very FIRST episode.
"hell, i wanna date her" – kara, about lucy lane.
"she does kinda give off a sapphic vibe, with that big old butch S chestplate" – leslie willis (livewire) about supergirl.
there were so many other instances in s1 alone, let alone in later seasons when lena showed up (recounting every queer-coded supercorp interaction would require a whole podcast). it was the PERFECT pretext to make her even just a little bit fruity, but the cw just couldn't handle it i guess
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A Palace of... Prismarine?
Three hermits stood at the edge of the shopping center, watching a building rising out of the river. Well, not quite rising but Grian was working hard on it. So hard, even, he had no idea three of his friends were watching him. They hadn’t arrived together, they hadn’t intended to just watch Grian but something about this building had grabbed their attention.
“What is he building?” Pearl asked and she squinted against the sunlight reflecting off of the wet blocks. She had been planning on getting some pickles, since Gem had stocked them recently but Grians build had distracted him.
“It looks almost like… some sort of palace?” Gem said, her voice going up in a question. She had just come back from stocking the pickle shop which had continuously been sold out by Pearl. It got her some good diamonds but she had not expected those pickles to be her best seller.
“But it’s made of prismarine,” Joel added, who had been standing here the longest. He really didn’t have a reason to be in the shopping district, he had a build to finish back at his base. But something had called him here, call it a gut feeling or fate.
“Am I the only one with an odd sensation of deja vú?” Pearl asked as she wrapped her arms around herself as a sudden shiver went down her spine. The foundation of the half finished building went deep into the river. It looked… misplaced in such a small body of water.
“No,” Gem confessed as she noticed a school of salmon swimming by. They almost seemed to avoid the structure, as if it gave off some bad vibe. “I feel like I’ve seen it before…”
“That’s crazy,” Joel shook his head, refusing to admit he had the exact same feeling as Gem and Pearl. He had never seen anything like this before. The cod spiraling around the pillars in the water shouldn’t feel so familiar and well known. “Where would we’ve seen it before?”
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sam’s daddy issues are just as bad as dean’s btw, if not worse (probably much worse). he canonically had two controlling dads (john and dean). except he’s much better at hiding his vulnerability than dean
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Empress Lizzie, the Ocean Queen, the Blue Axolotl
Art commissioned from @iliveonmylaptop
So I have no artistic skills. At least of the "making art of characters variety" I realized though, that I have something arguably better.
A girlfriend who takes commissions!
So here are the Ocean Queen designs for the Marriage of State AU!
(And also @iliveonmylaptop is amazing, they don't even go to this school, and yes, their commissions are open.)
If you do nothing else be sure and zoom in on the trident, the details are amazing.
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Lizzie Character Design Post
Jimmy 1 // Jimmy 2
Joel
AU Masterpost
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