#so i just used the last ship art i posted

[milklovesbyler]

HOW AND WHY AND WHEN DID THE BYLER REALISATION HIT ME - RANT

okay this is long so skip to S4 section for the more interesting stuff/when i found out about byler!

hii okay my first post on this blog! im still pretty new to tumblr but learned that u can have multiple blogs and my mind is blown. i also have an art blog i post on once a millenia @milkymetari !

Ive been a stranger things fan since 2019 when i was 13!

So i started watching stranger things in 2019 after season 3 had came out and the series peaked my interest, ive always been a fan of scifi stuff and oh boy stranger things is so cool and (mostly) well written!

When i say i LOVED mileven im not kidding, I WAS OBSESSED. On the outside theyre a picture perfect cute teenage couple, and my idealisation of that (and cmon guys eleven is like the coolest character ever) and els badassness and powers, i loved mileven.

I mean as a concept their relationship is really cute if we read it as that but yeah i do NOT ship them anymore like that 😭

Yeah i remember myself sometimes wondering about the weird things in their relationship (the way they dont share almost any interests, only kiss and mikes weird actions) but i think due to heteronormativity (toxic ships are wayy too normalized also in lgbt media) and how poorly usually female characters (but in this case mike lmao) and their relationships are written in media so i guess i had just grown to try not to care, and yeah i was just 13.

So honestly i didnt see/know byler back then AT ALL! I grew up as a semi homophobic kid because thats what i was taught, but around the time i started watching ST i grew as a person a lot and i realised maybe my ass isnt as straight as i thought ☠️ Honestly wish i did know about byler since i think seeing mikes struggles (and wills) wouldve helped me a lot! 💔

I didnt think too deeply about any media i consumed at that age, and i was already used to just not care about bad writing so i thought flaws in mileven were normal writing mistakes etc. Or how the byler fight was clearly more intense than the mileven break up 😭😭

But again i did not catch onto it.

ST 4 in 2022!!

So the year is 2022 and i excitesly watch season 4 part 1. I usually try to avoid spoilers etc on the internet so i kept myself away from st tiktok and other platforms. After i finished it i saw like a shit ton of edits of all the characters and speculation about the last 2 eps.. THEN somewhere around that time it happened, i stumbled upon byler.

okay first, i need to talk about mileven a bit, the first few episodes it was sweet, but it was obvious el was lying and unhappy, i was hoping that mike would grow and learn to be a better boyfriend and theyd end up back together.

so about byler, first i thought it was like any other ship as usual and i wasnt as blind to homoerotic chemistry anymore so it wasnt anything new or surpricing.

well, what was surpricing was HOW FUCKING BLIND I HAD BEEN TO HOW MIKE AND WILL ACTED

i mean i was confused while watching part 1 for the first time but closeness between the two was nothing unusual, and mike lashing out on will had already happened in s3 too, but yeah i was so flabbergasted and embarrased how i hadnt noticed 😭 like girl, the lip staring, yearning gazes and awkward conversations

down the rabbit hole i went and hehe😈 i got my bestie into it too and she was like omg ur so right we both agree they are endgame bbecause like theres so much evidence its not a coincidence.

ill probably make a separate post on some of the genious thoughts we had about mileven and byler in 2022 lol

i hope someone read this all, thank you <3

[hurrayprilmusic]

[hugs-and-stabbies]

The self-awareness on this guy 😞 someone pls send him an "are you bi?" quiz STAT

[cozmic-ash]

Gordon/Barney/Alyx is really really funny to me conceptually bc it's like, two hot geniuses in their 20s who look at the 40-something smartass who hangs around and go 'yeah that guy. we both want him carnally'

[drakkonyan]

The future never forgets the events that shaped it The past awaits for better times to come

[cozylittleartblog]

diversity win your spam emails are queer

[luck-of-the-drawings]

POOR GABRIEL MONTEZ! YOU NEVER SAW THIS COMING DID YOU? ALL YOU WANTED WAS POWER. SECURITY. SAFETY. & THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU GOT! JUST IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR BODY. LETS JUST HOPE NO ONE FUCKS THIS UP. LETS JUST HOPE YOU WONT HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.

[johnbleepingzoidberg]

you’re eyes without a face

and now it’s getting worse

[revvywevvy-archive]

hi guys im still alive lol. havent been drawing too too much lately (depressions a bitch xd) but i do have a few things yay yippee!!!! i ended up doing a style study of sorts a few months ago (i dated em so yk when theyre from) and ive been trying to make this my new style bc i really like it (with some hiccups but hey. arts hard lol) so heres some pyrrlinas :-] (yes ik its a redraw (and u may have to zoom a little bc the croppings kinda. yeah.))

[fattylime]

[doodlingwren]

I didn't log in on Tumblr for a week bc was busy in UNI hell and the second I came back, I heard about the data sold to AI mess and what the fuck am I supposed to do or to say lol...

Anyway, I must add that I'm not going, like, anywhere else. Am I tired of this situation? YES, trust me. I've already experienced art being stolen to be handed over to AI programs (I'm talking about you, DeviantArt) but I'm exhausted from moving from one social to another. The most fucked up thing is that even with a deactivated account, your stuff can be used to training Midjourney and shit, so… like, there's not a lot to do.

The thing that makes me mad is the way Tumblr handled this. By the way they wrote the announcement, it does feel like it has already happened, and the update was just a notice.

[mnt-eevee]

i don’t post art often, especially not on tumblr, but i REALLY wanted to participate in cuddlesworks 3 year anniversary dtiys !!

@cuddlesworks your art is a big inspiration to me and im so so glad i managed to actually participate in this dtiys :3

[starryyskies]

BOY OH BOY DID THIS TAKE ME FUCKING FOREVER!!

I didn’t bother doing anything other than flat colour because that would take way too long, so enjoy because I’m never shipping characters ever again after this (jk)

REBLOG JUST YOUR FAVORITE SHIPS

POMNI X CAINE

RAGTHA X POMNI

GANGLE X JAX

JAX X POMNI

I’m only going to tag the AU creators in this post, and have separate posts for each ship, but will still link each au to their blogs in the separate posts

READ BELOW FOR THE AUS

To kick us off we have SHOWTIME~~!

MOUTHS AU belongs to me!

OFFICE AU belongs to @pikavani

SLASHER AU belongs to @justwantswafflefries

CARNIVAL AU belongs to @sm-baby

Second, we have RAGAPOM (NEWSTUFF, BUTTONBLOSSOM, ETC)

CARNIVAL AU belongs to @sm-baby

WONDERLAND AU belongs to @endomentendo

INFLUENCE AU belongs to @ask-the-rag-dolly

FREAKSHOW AU belongs to @kookydoodleky

Third, we have some RIBBUN~!

CARNIVAL AU belongs to @sm-baby

FREAKSHOW AU belongs to @hootbon

WONDERLAND AU belongs to @endomentendo

PUPPETEER AU belongs to @rorydrawsandwrites

Last but certainly not least, we have FUNNYBUNNY!

CASINO AU belongs to @cna-enterprise

CARNIVAL AU belongs to @sm-baby

FREAKSHOW AU belongs to @hootbon

FIGHT CLUB AU belongs to @burrotello

no more art anymore this was too much

jk, this took me a whole week though, I'm surprised I stuck to it. I was very invested in this, and I actually had fun doing it ;u; my hand is hurting lol

[jonathanrook]

can i be honest for a second. i'm intrigued by the current state of the colgate fandom.

[owl-bones]

it’s that time again! starting January 1st 2025 i will be hosting the badsansuary self-ship event again ^^

notes:

it’s not exclusively self-ship! you can use an oc, /reader, etc ^^

you can do art, writing, or any other medium! whatever suits you!

use the tag #badsansuary so i can reblog your lovely creations <3

the individual weeks are a suggestion; you can use the entire list for one skeleton, include cross/error/other ‘bad’ sanses, mix and match prompts, include them all, etc

the last three days are free spaces; you can either do a skeleton of your choice or all of them

you don’t have to do every day! you can do one prompt, one per week, do them late, etc. this is just for fun and to be creative ^^

feel free to use canon, fanon, or your own interpretations of the bad sanses!

if you have any questions feel free to reply to this post or send me an ask (ദ്ദി ๑>؂•̀๑)

[femslash-february]

Welcome to Raptor’s Femslash February Bingo 2025! Round 2: Electric Boogaloo

This year with four different prompt bingo cards—light prompts, dark prompts, spicy prompts, a combined one with all prompts—to celebrate Femslash February 2025. All fandoms, content and warnings welcome! Enjoy! ❤️

Rules and prompts in text form under the Read More!

Rules:

When: all of February

What: focus of your work should be a wlw / femslash / f/f ship, i.e. a ship with two or more female presenting characters, gender bending welcome

How: it’s totally chill, just do a single prompt or aim for bingo(s), whatever you want! You can get your bingos with one fic, with multiple fics, whatever you like. Choose one of the bingo cards and mark what prompts you're using. Interpret the prompts however you'd like.

Any fandoms, any characters, any ships, any content though please tag appropriately, any type of fanwork—fics (no minimum or maximum wordcount!), art, poetry, moodboards... go wild!

Tag #femslash feb bingo when posting it here on Tumblr and mention this blog so we see your posts and can reblog

AI-generated works are NOT allowed

Crossposting with other events allowed

Most of all: have fun!

Prompts in text form

Light prompts: Wilderness Accidental baby acquisition “Tell me again.” Meet ugly Body swap First kiss Mirror History Once in a lifetime “Who else but you?” Wrong number Opposites Token Curse Festival “I’ve been waiting a long time.”

Dark prompts:

“You could have died.” Last kiss Chains Before the fall Attic wife By a thousand cuts “Do you regret it?” Demon Fatal flaw Spite Poisoned Bad neighbors Hunting “And you thought I loved you.” Forbidden Mind control

Spicy prompts:

Begging Rope bondage Shower sex “Does that feel good?” Sex pollen Marking Blindfold Size Difference Breathplay “Stop distracting me.” Power Exchange Dirty Talk “Behave.” Orgasm Denial Praise kink Suspension