#we're all FINE

[doublxpresso]

Face-off

Part 1 - Lu Guang & Qiao Ling

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page 17 - 18 < . > page 21 - 22

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[swan2swan]

This Is Fine.

[horror-aesthete]

Interview with the Vampire, 2024, dir. Craig Zisk

SE02E05 Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

[artiststarme]

Midlife Crisis

Should I write this into a longer fic or leave it as is? I hope you guys like it and please leave your thoughts in the comments!

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Steve didn’t know what to do with his life. It was a common thought he had on his shifts at Family Video. What was he doing? He of all people knew how short life could be and yet, he was wasting his own. Steve spent his weekdays working soul-draining double shifts just to sleep all weekend or work some more to make a meager $3.25 an hour. It was pathetic. 

He didn’t have any goals or aspirations. His friends were making plans, trying to impact the world and make a difference. Dustin was taking a bunch of STEM classes so he could apply to MIT in a few years and work at NASA like some type of hotshot mathematical genius. Robin was applying for elite linguistics programs at colleges across the country to understand more cultures and ways of communicating. Even Eddie ‘repeated high school three times’ Munson had goals. He was traveling to different cities with the band, trying to make it big as Corroded Coffin. 

Steve’s biggest goal was to get out of bed in the morning and stay alive for another day but he wasn’t even doing that very well. He needed something to be interested in, something to devote his life to and take pride in but he had no idea where to even start. 

Steve was twenty years old and having a midlife crisis. He hadn’t even enjoyed any of the twenty years he’d been around and now it felt like he was too late to do anything about it. He was too old for college, too dumb to get in even if he wasn’t. He couldn’t get a good job without a degree or quality life experience and he couldn’t mention any of that thanks to a stack of NDA’s.

He needed something though. His parents were done with housing their deadbeat son who managed to disappoint them with anything he attempted. He was sick of his friends saying that they had to study or they’d end up like him. And he was sick and tired of being the only person he knew that had nothing going for him. 

So one day, he decided to be spontaneous. He put in an application to the University of Illinois with an entrance essay about personal struggles, neglect, and self-doubt. He poured his heart and soul into that essay hoping against all odds that the admittance committee would look past his mediocre grades and would take a chance on the kid that struggled all by himself behind a smiling facade. 

He forgot about the application until he got a letter in the mail from the university. He almost threw it away right then but decided to take a look just to reinforce what he already knew, no college would want him. 

But they did. They congratulated him on his acceptance into their school in the fall and complimented the writing skills in his essay. They said they looked forward to having him join their program and mentioned that he would make a difference. 

So Steve took them up on it. He kept the news to himself until it was time to leave and said his goodbyes to the Party on his way out of town. He was moving on so they could too. Steve wouldn’t be the one holding them back anymore. Then, he drove past the Leaving Hawkins sign without a backwards glance. 

Years later, Steve thought back on his midlife crisis. He was just a stupid kid at the time that didn’t know all of the options he had at his disposal. Now, he was a world-renowned novelist with novels on the New York Times Bestseller list. He never would’ve seen himself becoming a writer but here he was, working his dream job. 

He never would’ve seen himself dating Eddie ‘the freak’ Munson either but here they were, partnered since 1988, married since 2014, and touring the world together on the Corroded Coffin international tour. 

Steve was having a crisis about a lot of things but everything turned out better than he ever could have imagined. He could’ve given up or accepted that he would never make a difference in the world or have a purpose in life. But instead, he took a chance and now he was living the best life that he could’ve ever dreamed of.

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[sophsicle]

kyd, chapter 16

[spaceoddy]

kicking off my delusional era everything is FINE

[carlybenson69]

recently my favorite way to self-sabotage is to rewatch the iCarly reboot S3E3 at the moment where Carly just confessed her feelings but then Freddie let go of her hand so for a second she thought he was rejecting her but smiled anyway bc she was like, that's my bestfriend it's fine im fine im spending the rest of my life with him either way im fINE

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Abigail Hobbs is just like me for real (so traumatized/abused/manipulated by the men of her narrative that she's regularly headcanonned as a lesbian because why tf would she ever trust a man again after all she's been through)

[chaos-potat]

IM SCARED :(

Don't even worry about it

[rpgworldcomic]

#726 - Boaring Conversation

Idk y'all I run out of stuff to say on these things. I can only be chaotically hyper so often before I'm just chaotically hypering into the void. (And then the void chaotically hypers into you.) I dunno. Power Rangers Netflix Reunion movie comes out tonight? I'll be watching that. That'll be cool! Then umm.. *flips through notes* Idk that's about it, chief. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 soon? Then Tears of the Kingdom, which will eat up a bunch of time. I hope. Sincerely hope I enjoy that. I'm avoiding all gameplay videos and other youtubers talking about it so I can just experience it.

I don't know, man. I'm just coasting??? Through this experience we call life??? I'm typing this on my lunch break because like??? What else am I supposed to do???? Eat lunch?????????

You think there's more to life so you go do more and then you realize there really isn't more, it's just this, over and over. But hey a little bird just landed by my window and did a little jig before it flew off again and, you know. That's nice I guess.

Errrr, enjoy the comic!! Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

[gracegrove]

Billy chasing down children with his car 🤝 My dad swerving the car into traffic with me and my bro in our carseats in the back

[swan2swan]

OKAY.

Let's figure out what happened---

*MEMORY ARCHIVE LIGHTS UP*

OH. OH RIGHT.

[explosions-and-chill]

HELLO????

You move in with them?!?

That’s mean they are still alive then, can’t really tell with how deserted their blog is.

Congrats!

Hope you don’t stuck in a small ship they have, you need your own space too.

If they died I would be the first to announce who I had to kill personally for it -__-

Their alive and touching grass. Literally, I catch Dad just laying on the grass sometimes. It's an entire tree house that yes has my own room and space.

Besides the voot isn't that small. Have you seen normal Voots? The shit they have is much bigger.

[burritosandpeppermint]

"Supreme Court employees also used printers that didn’t produce logs – or were able to print sensitive documents off-site without tracking – and “burn bags” meant to ensure the safe destruction of materials were left open and unattended in hallways."

[enigmatic-mystery-777]

Me who thinks I'm a failure cos I'm a virgin at 29 reading this post: 👀 *coughs*

calling this the virgin loser website is fun and all but it's so weird when people start genuinely acting like not having had sex is some sort of personal failing. like are we in high school right now

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

November 19, 2024

Mr. Jones: We are not considering a living wage. That’s not what a minimum wage is, nor is it a mandatory wage. Albertans have the best job opportunities with the highest wages and lowest taxes. We’ve set them up for success. I can assure you that they’re in better shape under this government than the failed NDP.