#then u know u done fucked up

[flayedprideparade]

the majority of stranger things fandom has such an uncomplicated way of thinking.

they view everything in black and white, and take everything in the show at face value, so much so that they cant even conceive of bad writing when it's staring them in the face. they'll observe eddie being the most hamfisted and clumsy mouthpiece for the writers, trying to push the stancy/jancy love triangle with people he's known for all of 2 days, but they won't say, 'well, that's not very good writing'. instead, they'll ask, 'what deeper meaning were the writers trying to convey! that's a very awkward and stilted way for a real human person to act, but surely there must be a clever reason for it that i'm just too stupid to see'. and then they'll turn around and they'll say billy is pure evil. that he isn't meant to be forgiven, and that he got exactly what he deserved. because the scenes saying he's irredeemable were written so much LOUDER than any scenes that were added later, where the writers started second guessing where they wanted to take his character, or started thinking maybe, just maybe, the abused teen trapped with his abuser with absolutely nobody in his fucking corner deserved a modicum of sympathy.

people think that billy being racist and abusive and full of rage means he's unambiguously meant to be a more loathsome villain than the giant, unknowable monstrosity from another dimension. they genuinely believe that the only possible shot at 'redemption' he had was dying--and even that fell flat for plenty of people. because it wasn't satisfying. he didn't have to make up for any of what he did. he didn't have to live with the consequences of his actions, or try and rebuild his ruined relationships. he didn't have to face the reality that no one is obligated to forgive him or accept him back into their lives, even if he does change.

i think what breaks my heart the most is there are lots of us who have billys of our own. lots of us who have complicated, clashing feelings about those relationships, just like max does. and however unintentionally, the message that we shouldn't have hope that racists and abusers can change, and the only way they can show true compassion for the people in their lives is by literally dying for them...

dude, that sucks.

billy could've had so much potential on another show. in the hands of more capable and compassionate writers. instead, they're just dragging his character's corpse around and beating it like a dead horse for drama, unable to decide how even the person he was closest with feels about him. vilifying him even after they tried to change their minds and say, 'no, you should pity him, you should forgive him' when he died the previous season.

people don't want to accept that billy could've realistically, believably changed in a way that would've made even his detractors rethink how they feel about him. because that wouldve involved acknowledgement that morality isn't as black and white as the show wants you to believe. that shitty people can change, even if it'll be hard, even if it'll be messy, as long as they do the WORK. and writing about it takes work. work the duffers didn't want to put in.

but you're so right. people aren't ready for THAT conversation, and they probably never will be.

[slavhew]

dandadorks

[why-the-heck-not]

me, a responsible being, working on the coding project as I should vs. me, a dysfunctional shithead, getting distracted by reading about brains (once aGAIN damnit (it's my favorite "I need to study my field but bc I should do that it's an impossible unthinkable feat now, so I'm reading about something else to fool my brain I'm still being productive"-topic))

[cynicallyneutral]

「coward」

[skullfragments]

soooo i've been real busy this past month and change working on this monster of a painting! it was originally for the GO Ref library study club but clearly took much longer than i anticipated😅

for those of you who don't recognize it, this is based on one of my favorite historical paintings, Judith Beheading Holofernes (1620) by Artemisia Gentileschi. i love the Baroque period and this painting (as well as her other works) makes me insane. here it is Good Omens style so maybe all of you can be insane with me <3

"Aziraphale (and Crowley) Beheading the Metatron"

(non-bloody and non-glowy versions under the cut)

[fishblings]

Richie doodle page! He is a cane user. To me

[mitchmotch]

dandadan x tgswiiwagaa and vice versa. no one asked for this 🔥

[b4kuch1n]

red lion wizard !

[idontmindifuforgetme]

OH NO DID MCAT BOY FAIL YOU??

Girl it was so bad I was literally like ohhh I feel so bad for cancelling on him let’s give him a chance. So today we spontaneously met up and studied together and we just ended up yapping the whole time . And at first it was fun bc he gives off this funny party guy who’s also ambitious impression (my favorite type). He says some questionable white man things I let slide. But then towards the end he goes on this whole rant ab his ex and how he’s pissed oft she didn’t wanna have kids (he’s 24) and how we should be thinking about having kids seriously and how women’s clocks start ticking (this man wants to be a doctor one day) so I should be thinking about it at my old age of 22 (yeah). This whole time I’m listening and smiling but on the inside his autopsy is already monogrammed in my mind’s eye bruh it’s so over

[bacchuschucklefuck]

caps from comic Im doing

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOH YEAH BABY ITS THE SURGERY EPISODE BABY!!! ME AND THE HOMIES NEED SOME NEW FACES FOR OUR NEW PLAN, AND WHO BETTER TO GET THE JOB DONE THAN THE TWO MOST EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING OUR LIVES VIOLATED BY? I MEAN IT WOULD BE FUNNY. IT WOULD BE FUNNY.

[lokh]

WAIT SHUROS DAD SAID HE WANTED HIM TO BRING SOMETHING BACK INTERESTING.... AND WHO IS MORE INTERESTING THAN LAIOS....

[twilightakiishi]

made that template for three :3 venchiya rundown!!! more in tags if u care

[puppppppppy]

Tell me about a song you like right now, maybe an animation you just watched that made you think thoughts and feel things

Only Acting by Kero Kero Bonito!! I want to make an animatic for Macaque using this song and some parts of Shadow Play and the s4 special.. although im still mapping it and deciding whether I want to use the radio edit or not lol

[wu-wakfu-undertale]

Re-watching wakfu for the first time in years and s1 Yugo was so silly???

dude discovered he could make portals at will and his first thought after actually acknowledging it is "i can do so many cool pranks with this"

[insomnya777]

do you guys know that youtube dating show called the button. because i was watching it with my friend the other day bc we were bored and we were like this seems funny and i somehow got a boat boys fic idea based off of it. so if i make a fic about the button dating show will people underdtand or is it too niche