#series: things that live in the dark

[bibaybe]

OPC 2025 :: Revelation

raya king, on her relationship with god - pansexual - stranger things

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[mrsjellymunson]

KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Series Masterlist

Pairing: Eddie Munson x fem!reader

Series Summary: After the events of the previous months, everyone is shocked by the unexpected return of an old friend. But is it really him, and how much has he changed?

🔞 MDNI! CW: Post-S4, dark themes, canon-typical violence, smut; please read the cautions for each chapter

Prologue

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Extra: Part One, Flip Flopped

My masterlist

The taglist is open whilst this series is ongoing, and I also have a general one for everything I write, just ask if you’d like to be on either 😊

[paintpanic]

Malevolent gods

Are better than none

[shallowseeker]

Mix and match personality traits is soooo fun

Some differences b/t Jack and Sam with the “one good thing” line:

Jack is so concerned with hurting people

(it seems more in the realm of Dean’s “I'm poison” and Bobby's fear that “he breaks everything he touches” and Cas's “I destroyed everything and I WILL destroy everything again!”)

Jack seems more focused on the I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR PEOPLE part of being good…

…way more burden shouldering-oriented imho.

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But although Sam cares about ppl (he starts out saying “other people will die!”), he seems more often focused on doing good as shorthand for being CAPABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY

It’s also sooo interesting his word choice here: because “You THINK i screw up” is WAY more abstract than simply, “I screw up.”

It’s like in Tombstone how Sam says to Jack “We’ve all done things we regret”… whereas Cas owns his mistakes outright, with a blunt, “I killed people I loved.”

Anyway, imho, when Sam talks about this, it tends toward being way more abstract / self-confidence oriented (he can be a perfectionist in this way… and like s15 jack, he also wants forgiveness, but he doesn’t feel safe/comfy enough to just apologize or ask for it)

“big hero sam” is so fascinating to me …

BONUS:

I feel like Claire Novak leans “big hero” too… She, in fact, has the Jimmy-Novak-hero disease.

And like Sam, she is ALSO trying to PROVE herself as capable.

She laments Jody not trusting her and blasts Sam for treating her like a kid at the kids' table!

(((Aside/// Jo 🤝 Sam 🤝 Claire unite!)))

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Whereas Jack, at least after the war, seems to be more over-concerned with who he didn't save.

He seems as external-protector focused as internal-self worth focused here…

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Note///

I think Dean, Cas, Jack, Alt Mary, and Alt John are more naturally built this way in their molten cores. Which is why any combination of them can be quite “heroic” and “sacrificial” when other ppl are in active danger. (Not saying that John, Sam, Dean, Cas can’t be unhinged/ reckless out of a disregard for their own safety and a distinct lack of self-worth… but that’s a diff mode in my head.)

We see Cas worrying about people he’s “responsible for” and the people he “owes” and/or made promises to, including getting the Penitent Angels home. The same way Mary won’t give up on the AU hunters’ Cause, to the point she doesn’t want to go home!

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Alt John and Alt Mary are both more built like Jack and Dean too - bonding over who they didn't save.

Jack sees AU Kevin exploding in his nightmares

&

Alt John sees Murph exploding in his…

What Alt Mary and Dean say more often is: me too.

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BONUS: The one person Claire pledged to save (Kaia), well... After she failed, Claire went on a John- and Sam- coded revenge quest against her killer, soo.... this is relevant too.

& her revenge orientation:

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BONUS BONUS

Jo at the kids' table:

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Man, I love this stuff

Around and around we go.

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I haven’t said this enough recently but I’d like to take a moment to remind everyone…or idk…whoever sees this post…

That I love Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Thank you.

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

After forever, I got my very first Living Dead Doll obsession. This nightmare creature was the first LDD I adored and coveted. Don't expect its review especially soon because Series 31 has a whole project concept I'm thinking of, but there was a good deal on this monster and one of its series castmates, so I got them early. Still, getting them now means the project is now decisively in motion, so I do expect it done before the end of the year at the latest!

[rosetheocto]

OK can I just yap about a small misconception I’ve seen a lot of people make with Erica’s timeskip lore? Alright so pretty much everyone I’ve seen believes that after the events of S1, Erica goes on to join a bunch of teams again after The FailFleet Miis split apart, basically how things were for her before joining the 3DS Squad. Even the wiki says it right here:

I can definitely see how this mistake had started! But while it’s true she had to relive the experiences of traveling/tagging along with incompetent groups, all the death and fear and trauma… during this whole cutscene, Dan never confirmed she was a teammate of those groups.

“Erica decided to travel the world, hoping to use her newfound powers to keep wayward adventurers from their peril…”

Like, take a listen for yourself! The way he specifically worded how things were for her before snapping doesn’t really have a mention of joining a party/parties in between The FailFleet Miis and The Incident, just that she helped them! Dan already knew while writing her story that not only can people in the Travelers Hub tag along with other teams for specific ‘missions’, but also that there are already existing traveling mage characters in the world like Kazoo Man and Peppa!

I think something like that Great Sage role for her during this time was the route Dan was really going for, especially since it tied in a bit to her past arc of learning to have faith in others! This misconception about her timeskip lore’s been going on for years and I’m kinda surprised nobody’s talked about it (afaik)

LIKE DAN WORDING IT THE WAY HE DID HAS TO BE INTENTIONAL RIGHT?? I even looked at the simplified cutscene for the Main Channel Upload to double check if he said anything there and it still has NO MENTION of her specifically joining these groups she’s assisted!!

“Her name is Erica, and thanks to her unrivaled healing prowess many adventurers have been saved from an early grave…”

^ also this COULD be taken as more proof since he says adventurers like. it could be a mix of regular parties and individual people? idk maybe this is a stretch lmao

ok but it would be so funny if during a random stream i forgot about he was like “oh yeah she joined all those groups in between the 3DS and Switch playthroughs lol” and this whole yapfest ends up being pointless and i look super dumb :P

[bibaybe]

OPC 2025 :: Gay

jordan king - gay - stranger things

taglist: @eddysocs @ocappreciationtag @foxesandmagic @wordspin-shares @veetlegeuse @raith-way @oneirataxia-girl @rose-of-oz @praetoravila @hiddenqveendom @nolanhollogay @nikosasaki

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Thinking about Care Bears (as one does at 32), and anyway, I think it would've been really funny if Dark Heart was No Heart's son, and the main reason No Heart started going after the Care Bears was because they converted his kid to friendship and caring and all that stuff.

[broodygaming]

I'm listening to the audiobooks of the His Dark Materials series again. I've read / listened to them many times but not for a few years.

Gods it's just hitting me again how awful what's happening to the kids in the first book. It's always awful, but I always forget how scary and visceral it is. You feel the fear and the finality and the tragedy of it. It's hard to even comprehend because we don't really have an equivalent in our world, right? Like maybe traumatizing a child so deeply they're never the same and then die. Die from sheer trauma to their spirit and body.

And it's just hitting me that they not only.... so deliberately ruin these children. They leave them out in the cold frozen woods to slowly die. They just. I can't even put it into words. They just ruin them and throw them away. They kill them and then kill them again.

Of all the characters in this vast series of names and places and tragedies and injustices - this little boy named Tony and his Ratter really weigh on my heart. Your alcoholic absent mother may not remember you in this fictional world, but in this real world I know I will.

[pensivespacepirate]

it feels like the whole purpose of venom 3 is to kill off venom what the fuck

[msmoon-and-the-cyberdemon]

My attempt at drawing on a Wacom tablet, featuring my 2nd Durge and my 4th reset on BG3, Io.

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I think Ezra Bridger and Ty Blackthorn would be good friends 😌

[dromusdumpster]

The blorbo

[sympathytea]

Alright chat before s2 starts tomorrow I want to put one more idea out there or rather, theory.

So we know that the red gate at the diamond level probably leads to like, a lobby or something. Probably a no-pvp zone. Assuming that every civilization has a lobby exit gate at their last level (depending on the weapon this might just be instantly accessible) Is there actually a way out? Or is this it? Are they suspended in the void? Is there ever really anything outside of the civilizations? Is it an apocalypse out there, perceived to be that way? Or is it. Nothing special? Personally what I'm going with until its proven wrong: There is no true exit. Death is the only way out of PVP civilization. The whole thing with Evbo's immortality, his obsession with trying to get down lower and see if there's anything outside of it. Wouldn't it be fucked up if there was actually just nothing except this hell that he put himself through for no reason? The guy in episode 1 might've had a point there, and might've been the smartest guy Evbo ever met. The point of the whole game being to not play at all.

Putting himself in a cycle of dying and living and dying? Probably the worst idea he had, assuming I'm right. Which considering everyone seems more concerned about prolonging the inevitability of death? Farming for durability, paying for immortality with said durability? What if they already knew there was nothing out there, and nobody thought to tell Evbo. Either because they didn't have the heart to crush his dreams, or fear that it would break him. Could you imagine how devastated he would be if he got that revealed to him? That there isn't a way out, that nobody is going to escape PVP Civilization. There is no Chosen One, to lead everyone out of hell.