#whereas with COREY

[schiavonaintherye]

If I had a quid for every time I hyperfixated on an old ish movie, and started following the instagram of the actor who plays the unhinged strange guy... only to fall down a rabbit hole that involves a complicated history with a prosthetic ear, wifebeating allegations, lots of weed, actually doing some really nice and wholesome charity work, releasing lots of art about his traumatic childhood, and very weird instagram captions...

which ends in me being torn whether or not I should buy his book because I have a love-hate relationship with the guy in general...

I'd have.. £2

Which isn't a lot, but how the fuck did this happen again???

[rosalinesurvived]

yeah yeah alright but do you think mason ever subconsiously compared brett to theo-both very very wildly differing yet similar relationships which definately played roles in mason’s mind, even if subconsiously? where brett, liam’s antagoniser, was his crush, ‘this just keeps getting better and better’ another fantastic thing about the supernatural world, something which mason idealised into golden: because he truly didn’t know brett? where again theo, liam and corey’s antagoniser, he hated and never forgave, the darker underbelly of the supernatural world and the prelude to his own mass-murdering spree, is someone mason knows and can even connect to as dread doctor experiments and therefore mason cannot idealise him because of how horrific their connection is? Brett symbolises Mason’s innocence while Theo symbolises his maturity, better or worse.

[running-in-the-dark]

thinking about this stuff just made me feel so damn old (and I'm only 32). like, when I was a teenager I couldn't just look at high quality pictures and especially not videos of any celebrity I liked. if it was music related and I was lucky (whoever it was happened to be popular enough in Germany), I might have seen a music video (and recorded it on VHS so I could watch it again). if it was an actor I could buy DVDs, at least (but that's not that easy if you're poor, and you also had to get somewhere where you could buy them in the first place).

the internet still kinda feels magical when I compare it to that.

[pr0v1t4]

...hi phighting au community.. me and my friends have a new contribution (time to get bullied)

PHIGHTING! ACTOR AU

basically if phighting was just a tv series and the phighters are all actors playing the characters

by the way, the gear = name mechanism is part of the tv script. the demons in this au are gearless and have human names

cast + extra info under the cut

CAST:

LOST TEMPLE: sword/joseph, medkit/david, scythe/sue ellen, broker/rodney

PLAYGROUND: skateboard/kai, boombox/josh, coil/jayden

THIEVES' DEN: vinestaff/julia, shuriken/corey, slingshot/aiden, katana/kenneth

BLACKROCK: subspace/alex, hyperlaser/allen

(note: biografts are played by multiple actors)

MISC: zuka/neil, rocket/asher, banhammer/dante

SFOTH: firebrand/jean paul, darkheart/steve, windforce/edith, ghostwalker/lucian,venomshank/luther, icedagger/timothy, illumina/charles

CHARACTER INFO:

alex and david are best friends off set. in a blooper take, alex accidentally poked david's actual eye when filming the subspace and medkit eye scene. he repeatedly apologised to david and gave him an ice pack

joseph is an introvert that happened to get the role of an extroverted protagonist. he is sometimes overwhelmed by the amount of attention he recieves and finds it slightly pressuring to do his role

kenneth and neil are actual fathers with children back home. due to this, they tend to look after the younger actors in the studio and watch over them

they picked an actual hornless person to play hyperlaser. allen had his horns removed when he was a teen for medical reasons

they also picked an armless person to play zuka. however, rocket and scythe's prosthetics are just props attached to their actual arm

alex is one of the sweetest people ever even with his role as a self centered mad scientist

kenneth is a metalhead and a fan of hard rock, whereas allen likes 50s-60s hits and soft rock

kenneth uses a lot of modern slang, and people are surprised at how different he is from his role as katana. he was mainly picked for his physique

dante and sue ellen act a lot like their respective characters. they are very happy with their roles

julia, aiden and corey joke about kenneth being their other dad

unlike rocket and sword's friendship, joseph and asher have slight beef with each other off set due to joe having to take multiple takes of the same clip because of his struggle to play an extrovert. he was mainly picked for his identical appearance to sword

allen lets the others try out his helmet. it's really stuffy with it on, they often have to retake a longer clip multiple times since he starts fanning himself within barely five minutes. he also struggles a lot to keep a straight face, you can hear stifled laughter in his lines, especially when he has to say something comedic as hyperlaser

ppleas dont bulli.....

[kendrysaneela]

Okay so I wanna talk about Max’s relationship to queerness as we’ve seen on the show so far.

Starting with the gay quiz scene. Avery and Tristan show they are clearly willing to acknowledge queer culture and find a place in it even if they don’t yet identify as queer at this point in the show

Max is willing to acknowledge queer culture and respect it BUT he will only do so in the most manly of ways such as calling himself a jock and refusing Daddy that everyone else is calling him

I think this is illuminating since Avery and Tristan are both fully willing to continue with their throuple arrangement whereas Max was covering his face and refusing to even acknowledge it as a possibility.

I feel like this really plays into their throuple dynamics and how Avery and Tristan are fully into being a throuple (Avery is the most enthusiastic but Tristan also had no problem with being in a throuple before he was rejected by Max and shown by Avery that she was only really interested if it was the three of them)

And the thing about Max and queerness is he is seemingly no stranger to it he just represses it or hides it or rejects it every time it comes up somehow.

Then there’s the fact that he’s had a threesome before but refuses to talk about it.

We don’t know the genders of the people in that threesome but still. It’s interesting how Max had a threesome in the past and basically coaxes Tristan and Avery into asking about it.

Also Max is the one who brought Tristan and Avery back to his room AND Max just like Tristan and Avery put have a good threesome on his bucket list.

Not to mention him joining the threesome with very little convincing just one stare from Tristan, one stare from Avery and bro was on board. But then YET AGAIN he makes a pact for them to never speak of it again. I bet you the pact was Max’s idea.

His CLEAR crush on Ken whether he was aware of it or not. His flirty attitude towards Tristan in the pilot (probably not conscious but it was there)

He does these little forays into queerness and then immediately rears back. And we know as a person just from his general character he’s very repressed and we know that the whole reason he even came onto The Odyssey is for work life balance and for joy and new experiences like seeing the world. Adventure essentially is what he’s looking for. Life as he said. But yet he has to be pulled into adventure kicking and screaming every time. Avery and Tristan telling him the beach party was okay and having to convince him to go in the first place, Rosie and Corey trying to convince him to go to a party in episode 8. Once again the fact that even though he was CLEARLY on board with the threesome he still had to be coaxed into admitting it.

Cause here’s the thing about Max. He wants to broaden his horizons SO bad!!! But that takes work and effort and bravery and most importantly, NOT INTELLECTUALIZING YOUR EMOTIONS. (And as we saw from his reaction to Avery’s pregnancy he sees emotions as problems he needs to solve instead of things he needs to feel or examine) But Max is terrified of doing that. He wants to broaden his horizons but he’s terrified to do so. So he just does these little jumps in and out of his horizons where he’ll jump out for a second and then jump right back in. That’s why he did the threesome had fun with it and then essentially shoves himself right back into his little box and says that he doesn’t wanna do it again even though he literally acknowledges it was wonderful.

The reason Max is repressed is because he’s terrified of what he’ll find if he actually looks inward. But oh my goodness does he want to find out what’s inside of him so bad that’s why he does stuff like have a threesome with Avery and Tristan but break it off even though he enjoyed it. Actually does go to the parties and have fun at them and a bunch of the other random stuff he does. But every time he breaks out of his bubble just a little bit he panics and shoves himself back in again. He’s just not currently willing to do the work to learn what’s inside of him cause he’s afraid of what he’ll find. BUT HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HE’LL FIND SO BAD!!!

[dragqueenstarscream]

I feel like, in a lot of ways, TFA and TFP Megatron are opposites. Like TFA Megatron tends to solve problems more with cunning/manipulation, whereas TFP Megatron prefers to brute force. TFA Megatron is more fancy and appreciates the finer things in life (man literally twists oil barrels into goblets), whereas TFP Megatron doesn't gaf (he never buffs out the scratches from battle). I feel like the two would really butt heads, especially since I headcanon that despite still being pretty old, TFA Megatron is one of the youngest versions of Megatron. I just want to see TFA Megatron and TFP Megatron fight tbh lol. I'm curious about your thoughts on this?

i've talked about my view of megatrom before, but i'll go into more detail here.

i LOVE tfa megatron. he's by far my favorite because he's so deliciously evil. he's the kind of villain where it's almost fun to see him do his evil schemes. would i shit my pants if i ever saw him out in the wild? absolutely. but i still think he's just so good because he's simultaneously an elegant gentleman and a brutal bully. he's so fun to watch, and corey burton's voice work ties him all together.

on the flipside, i utterly despise tfp megatron. it's not because he's badly written. on the contrary, he's so well written that a lot of what he does hits too close to home. he's a more realistic evil, someone you may know in your personal life.

now, if the two of them were to fight? even with my biases aside, i'd have to give it to tfa megatron.

there's two main reasons for that. the first is that tfa megatron is extremely cunning and ruthless. he hunted for the allspark for four million years, iirc, and was able to expertly manipulate isaac sumdac into rebuilding his body, rather than brute forcing his way back into his body. he also has an iron grip over the decepticons, save for starscream, to the point where they aren't willing to risk mutiny against him. (remember, upon realizing he was betrayed, this megatron didn't hesitate to shoot starscream in the face.) tfp megatron is too headstrong and prone to ideas so outlandish that even some of his own decepticons think he's lost his mind.

and the second point is physical might. tfp megs is about thirty feet tall, making him a bit bigger than tfa optimus at twenty eight feet tall. tfa megatron, on the other hand...

yeah.

it's tfa megatron for me.

[twshipoftheday]

Teen Wolf Ship of the Day, March 3rd

Corey Bryant x Mason Hewitt

It was hard for Corey to verbalize how much Mason meant to him. Mason was always there. There was nothing less, but there was so much more. Mason was everything, and there was no real way to say that.

Headcanons under the cut.

Mason is the loudest on the stands at every single one of Corey's lacrosse games, he is 100% Corey's biggest supporter on and off the field

Neither of them likes the idea of big spoons and little spoons, and they very much sleep like parentheses, curled into each other's chests

Mason likes being by Corey's side as much as possible, if it was possible to spend every second of every day with Corey, he would

Corey is a bit of a cook, but not like anything fancy, he can make really exceptional comfort food and is learning how to make Mason's favourites from his mom

If Corey could live with Mason, he would, he's close with Mason's parents and really enjoys the way their house is always bustling

Corey and Liam aren't best friends, but they're close, Liam being a bit protective over Corey, and Mason really enjoys seeing them together

Mason takes a lot of notes all day, and a lot of his notes are on Corey and things he likes about Corey and things he notices about Corey. Every time Mason does a little sketch in his notebook, it's of Corey

Both of them really enjoy drama and drama series and drama books, they're also huge gossips and Mason likes to know what's going on all of the time, whereas Corey just likes sharing the things he hears with Mason

[sherlockggrian]

we talk a lot about desert duo character development, but I wanna talk about shiny duo for a second because I think it’s fucking INCREDIBLE

(disclaimer, a lot of this is made up lore and headcanons lol)

Pearl and Gem were always pretty close, even though I think? they met in season 8? They’ve always been a duo but Gem was generally the more energetic, smily and over excited one. I think Pearl’s been more reserved even in her ridiculous moments, whereas Gem tended to wear her heart on her sleeve and have a very straightforward, “lets fix it” approach to things. I do think Pearl was the one that fell in love with Gem first, but sort of pushed it away, while Gem was very forward with her attention and did love and cling to Pearl a lot. The life games, especially Double Life, affected Pearl a lot and I think she sort of pulled away from Gem for a bit. Pearl was the killer at this point and Gem was sort of still playing the character of wanting to make everything better, being nice and bubbly and not understanding what Pearl was feeling.

But Gem being in Secret Life really took them to the next level in my opinion. They were close all throughout season 9 obviously, but I see Gem being in the life series as her own choice - she loved Pearl and so desperately wanted to help her and the others and to understand them. Gem at this point is a lot more of a fighter and a little crazier than she used to be, and Secret Life just feeds that and preys on it. At the same time, she trusts Pearl. She wants to be her friend. Pearl knows how the games end, and that there’s no avoiding the ending and no avoiding death. They leave Secret Life with Pearl feeling relieved that she didn’t at least have to kill Gem herself, and Gem feeling bitter and angry that Pearl betrayed her.

And their relationship after Secret Life really gets me tbh. Gem has visibly gone for a darker, more serious vibe to her base and clothing, leaving behind the usual, sunny cottage-corey theme. Pearl is finally trying to heal herself, but has based a little ways away from Impulse and Gem and her older friends. Gem trains for the next life series, she’s determined and she’s angry and Pearl is rejecting it. In a way their characters kind of flipped, from Pearl being the furious killer one to Gem being it. They fight like crazy and they still love each other. They are absolutely my favourite duo at the moment and I cannot wait to see what happens further with them and how their story turns out. Again I’ve made most of this up but it’s based off of canon events so I don’t really care. Goodnight

[venomousray]

I like to think that the lords in black we see in nightmare time sort of have their ‘true’ voices of sorts. When they’re being more malicious. Technically holloween could somewhat disprove this. But the way I imagine it is their nightmare time voices are how they sound when they’re their real forms, whereas the NPMD voices are only their human ones.

So James blinky, Jeff Tinky, Nick nibbly and pokey and Black Friday wiggly are their real voices when not using another forms.

Though honestly with how corey voiced pokey in the holloween script preview.. I began to also think that is pokey’s true voice.

[maxverstappensflatbrim]

Show Me Yours | Matty Healy [36]

chapter thirty-six, act five: the ballad of me and my brain

masterlist

little Author's note /TW before this act begins. There's going to be alot of talk of drug use and addiction within the chapters coming, if you're not comfortable with these kinds of things please don't read.

January 14th 2017

Tommie yawns, one big loud yawn as she shuffles through her house to the front door.

Gabby grins when it’s opened and tugs her little suitcase in behind her. “Hey, babes.”

“Gabs? What are you doing here?”

Gabby sighs, “I miss my best mate, is that a crime?” She asks kicking her shoes off and lining them up neatly besides Tommie who quickly shakes her head and opens her arms for a hug, “Haven’t seen you since Christmas, I missed you.”

Tommie smiles, breathing in slowly as she accepts the hug from her friend. “Okay, I have so much planned for us, tonight is movie night, tomorrow I’m driving us to Cardiff and we’re having a shopping day, monday we’re going to go to the cinema, I haven’t decided on tuesday yet, struggling between a pamper day and a trip to a beach, but that might be too cold now I’m thinking about it.”

“Okay, let’s start with movie day-”

“Okay, but I’m picking. I cannot watch Fantastic Mr Fox again.”

“But it’s my favourite.”

“It’s the only film you watch besides Revenge of the Sith.”

“They’re good films.”

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The flashes are bright, too bright and she’d forgotten her sunglasses to protect herself from them.

The bag on her shoulder weighs her down more than everyone else, her laptop, books, writing books, hoodie and a pair of shoes she couldn’t fit into her suitcase make their weight known against her muscles.

Ross’ body blocks some of the light, but when he’s moved over by Jamie and towards the side her shield is gone.

The screams of teenage girls are too loud as they push against the old creaking barrier to try and get closer to Matty, he’s upfront, sunglasses and leather jacket on looking like a guy out of a Corey Hart song.

He revels in the attention whereas Tommie hates it, shying away as much as she can, hiding into the darkness of her hoodie as her hands fumble with the strap of her bag.

Then someone is breaking over the barrier, she can’t tell who gets over first, the fan or the rogue photographer.

They both shove each other, the poor teenage girl is on the floor, Tommie’s standing there above her, photographer’s camera in her face.

Without thinking she’s shoving the camera away, it clatters and smashes on the floor, hitting the girl who’s being helped up by other fans.

“Tommie! Tommie!”

Hands are gripping her from both sides of the barriers, the walkway hasn't been made big enough. Strangers are touching her and she holds her breath not to be sick right there.

“Tommie! Matty!”

Someone gripped her and pulled her into them, arms wrapped around and guiding her into the van, straight into the back.

George sits beside her, holding her hand in his lap as the rest pile in, Matty coming in last after signing a few screaming fans shirts.

Matty raises his brows as he peers over the drummer, but George shakes his head, wraps one arm around her, tugs her into his side and blocks her from the singer’s view.

“Tom.”

“Leave her be, Matty.”

“You alright?”

He ignores George and moves his arm to brush his knuckles across the top of her head, reaching around the back of George awkwardly to do it.

“Matty-”

“I’m fine.”

“You sure?”

George elbows him, giving him a look that he once again ignores. 

“I’m fine, Matt.”

Her tone is sharp, and he leans back, taking his arm away and resting his hands in his lap. “Okay, I was just asking.”

“You’re always just asking.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Ross looks between them slowly, the tension has been building between them for weeks and no one knows why.

Adam gives one harsh look to Matty and he’s pausing, shrinking back in his seat and mumbles an apology. “I jus-” He cuts himself off before he can finish the word, “I wanted to make sure you were okay.”

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February 21st 2017

“Just be honest with me, Jamie. Be brutal. It’s bad.”

Jamie sighs, “It can easily be fixed.” He assures, “I’m sure Matty will do something bad next week.”

She sighs and leans forward, head in her hands, Adam moving to rub up and down her back, “God, this is bad.”

“It’s fine, it’ll blow over.”

“Yeah, but I-”

“So what? Have you seen the way the Gallaghers act? Or any other mildly popular artists? People have done worse.”

She looks at the newspaper on the table. An article about her blowing off the fans at the airport, talks of assault as she’d accidentally shoved someone in a hurry to the awaiting car.

The truth was the flight had been bad, she’d been seated beside Matty, the pair still haven’t talked since he showed up at her house, and with the show after show after show routine she’d already been on edge.

It’s all falling apart. Something she used to be so good at, touring endlessly with no rest, is no longer her strong suit.

And to top it off, she hasn’t seen Button in two months, the dog has been staying with her grandparents back in South Wales to give her a break from moving around.

Usually articles like these would mean nothing to Tommie, she’d brush it aside with a half-arsed shrug.

But it's the fact they’re dragging Caleb and his band down with her, knowing the 1975 are far too popular around the world to be touched by a little article they’ve targeted Dirty Delights.

She knows they probably won’t see this. It’s a European news outlet, there’s no chance, right?

Nope.

Caleb had called her the moment it came out.

That’s why she’s panicking.

She doesn’t want to ruin Caleb’s career before it’s even begun.

George sighs, finally sitting down, “It’ll be forgotten next week. They’ll start talking about Taylor Swift again or a shitty Kardashian boob job or something, don’t worry.”

She sighs, “What if this ruins Caleb’s career?”

“What career?” Comes a snort from across the room.

Ross smiles, but it's quickly dropped when he sees the glare that Tommie is sending to Matty across the room.

“I can’t be the reason his band fails before they’ve even had the chance to start.”

“They’ve had plenty of chances, they’re the ones who's fucking up. I wouldn’t lose sleep over it.”

“Matty-” Adam tries but Tommie’s standing now.

“You’re forgetting you guys were in a band for ten years before you got the chance.”

“Yeah, but we had fans. People who’d turn up to our gigs-”

“Oh, you mean your groupies who’d give you money to suck you di-”

“Alright.” It’s Gabby who’s breaking them up, brows raised as she looks between them weirdly, she sighs as she moves to Matty pushing him back down, “Shut up.” She tells him as she moves to sit on the other side of Tommie, bringing her back down to rub her arms.

“Give it a few days, ignore it, don’t comment on it. You get things like this all the time.” 

She shrugs, picking at her jeans as she nods, “I know.”

“Never usually bothers you like this.”

“I know.”

Matty’s jaw wiggles as he watches his girlfriend comfort Tommie quietly, arms around her with Tommie resting her head on her shoulder.

The door opens then, Caleb steps in, eyes falling to his girlfriend who sits up quickly. He smiles walking over to greet her and she stands as he hugs her.

He mutters a ‘don't worry about it all, we’ll talk later’ and she nods quickly.

Then Jamie's standing too, “Come on, five minutes and you’re all on.”

On her way out he grabs her hand, “I’ll sort it.”

“Thank you.”

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“I’m sorry.”

Caleb shrugs as they enter their hotel room in London, he sheds his jacket hanging it on the chair and starts unlacing his shoes.

“It was all too much, everything, I-”

“Babe.”

He turns, holding his hands out for her and she slowly accepts it, “It’s okay. It’s not your fault, I know how you get.”

“How I get?”

He nods, wincing at his words of choice, “You know what I mean.”

“No, no, I don’t.”

“Well, you’re… different, Tommie.”

“Different?”

He sighs, bowing his head, “I’m not winning this no matter what I say so whatever it is you’re building up to just get it out with.”

“I just want to know what you mean.” She says, knowing full well she does in fact know what he means, and she also is in fact building up to say something. 

She sighs looking down, “I’ve always been called different, Caleb, but what does that mean?”

He sighs slowly, “You’re just… not like everyone else.” She raises a brow and he sighs, “It’s not a bad thing.”

She nods, then steps back shedding her blouse and jeans to put on her pyjamas.

“Tommie.” He says, watching her carefully, “You’re just a little more… I don’t know, sensitive I guess.”

“Sensitive?”

“Yeah. But also weirdly emotionless at the same time.” He says looking up at thought.

“I’m not different.” She says, as she glances up over his head at the mirror hanging on the wall to stare at herself. Picking apart everything, her straightened hair, the makeup still on her face, the gold necklace he got her for her birthday, the bags under her eyes, the little scar on her eyebrow from when she hit her head as a kid. It’s not her. It’s Caleb.

Straightened hair because he likes it like that, makeup left over despite how hard she’s scrubbed her face because she put so much on to hide the bags given to her by sleepless nights made no better by his comforting hands, a golden necklace replacing her favourite silver one because he caused an argument when she didn't wear it. The scar on her eyebrow he points out way too much, that he avoids touching when his fingers trace her features. 

“I’m just me.”

Caleb watches her as she climbs into bed and hangs his head, “Tommie…”

“Goodnight, Caleb. Big day tomorrow.”

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[bulletbilltime]

Swann and Kat are 100% autistic btw. I don't make the rules

Swann is VERY obviously the overly enthusiastic autistic girl who will talk your ear off about her special interests. People usually find this off-putting so that's why they think she's weird, but the Bloom & Rage crew actually respect her interests which is why she gets so attached to them (and btw I fucking love that aspect of the game, where the others will wait while you get to indulge in your filming. Sure it's for gameplay purposes so you can film the collectibles in each scene, but it's also so so so comforting in a way, like these people cherish her that much 🥺 Sure there's some moments where ppl get a bit annoyed, but as a whole they seem way more understanding than not)

Kat meanwhile is low empathy with people and has a hard time reading emotions, but she's very justice sensitive. Especially with her dad's ranch & animal cruelty. Almost certainly had a phase of thinking "animals are better than people" just like Swann, though it may be more due to the ppl she's with annoying her (Dylan) or disgust her in terms of their morals (her dad, Corey), whereas Swann was just introverted and couldn't relate to them.

[thestobingirlie]

I mean the only song that Steve listens to in canon is ”Hammer to fall” which is a very political song by Queen who were very queer. Like I mean I bet that it means nothing to Duffers but if you interpret this song choice to benefit and enrich Steve’s characterization as much as some people interpret Eddie’s taste in music, you can get something very interesting. It’s very much against certain parts of Western society that Steve CANT not recognize. But no. It’s Tears for Fears and Abba.

I don’t get it at all! I think Robin and Steve would love to sing together to something like the Smiths “Heaven knows I’m miserable know”, it’s basically THEIR song. Like why. Like Depeche Mode was gaining popularity at the time, I bet Robin would be very into that. And by the way Eddie would hate DM, so you don’t even have to change much.

It’s this notion that Steve is not inherently weird and rebellious by himself when his whole character existence is him fighting toxic masculinity allegations and wearing little sailor suits that surprises me. Come on, Steve is best friends with a lesbian he is at least aware of contre-culture but probably just consumes it together with Robin regularly. There are several in-canon hints to his bisexuality even, however subtle and meaningless. And Steve’s inability to perform masculinity correctly is constantly made fun of by the show (he can’t win a fight).

At this point some authors just write not about Steve, but some ideal romantic interest that is very fuckable but also like elevates Eddie and makes him more cool and smart. Which by the way something that canon Eddie would likely not want in a relationship and definitely doesn’t think about Steve like that.

well, in canon, steve plays ‘sunglasses at night’ by corey heart, ‘hammer to fall’ by queen, ‘object of my desire’ by starpoint, and ‘hard feelings’ by kerby (which according to google is a song from 2015?). these songs are all diegetic, which means that as we listen to them, the characters can hear them too. steve also sings, and knows the words to ‘old time rock & roll’ by bob seger.

i do think that robin would introduce him to more music, maybe more alternative music than steve generally listens to. robin’s kinda hard because she doesn’t really listen to anything, although she is in the car when ‘object of my desire’ is playing, so you could argue that’s her taste too.

i don’t have an issue with hcs of steve liking tears for fears, it’s popular! (though i think steve’s mum probably listened to abba more than steve did.) but it’s just this really weird trend that people invent or completely change aspects of steve’s personality, purely so that eddie and the others can make fun of him, and change him.

i honestly think it happens because the people writing these fics either don’t listen to much 80s music, or they know nothing about it. so they write eddie listening to depeche mode, and other punk music that eddie would probably actually hate.

yeah, i hate that people strip steve of his characteristics so they can pretend he’s this, ‘normie jock’ when steve is often seen rebelling against what society expects of him.

i think eddie and steve are actually really interesting in that way, because eddie kind of performs the way people expect him to. he plays the freak, whereas steve turned against what people wanted him to do, he decided to forge his own path. but, like you said, all of that is tossed away to make eddie seem cooler.

[seafood-33]

Whereas most re-reposts were only the first two photos, but there is a third photo of this story. Corey is imitating yuzu's cute gesture from years ago.

10 years ago you were this height.

Tap to flash forward to years.

Javier was still there at that time...

[hersweetrevenge]

corey cunningham headcanons [volume two 🌈]

i want to say that i am totally normal about this man, but who would i be kidding at this point? today i bring you even more thoughts about my favourite babygirl. based partly on these two lists, here and here. more hcs can be found over in volume one, which is equally as nonsensical.

topics include: his name and how he feels about it, his gender identity and sexuality.

WARNING for mentions of child abuse, passing mentions of homophobia and transphobia. no direct mentions of smut but implications of sexual relationships are there.

[images via @/slashericons and @/shitedits]

his name, how it got picked and his thoughts

corey wallace cunningham. joan picked corey's first name from a book of baby names. no real reason other than she liked it. she'd suggested a few other to wally that he had turned down, but he doesn't have a problem with 'corey' so that's what they go with. his middle name is after his dad, and it was joan's way of trying to sweeten wally up to having a baby at all (isn't he happy he's going to have a son to carry on the family name?).

his full name was decided before he was born. joan and wally were pretty sure they were having a boy (as sure as they could have been in the mid-late 90s, when ultrasound quality wasn't as good as it is today), so they had a name ready. they did have a girl's name picked as well, just in case.

corey likes his first name well enough, there's nothing wrong with it. joan pronounces it with a pretty strong accent, which rubbed off a little on corey himself and he's never been able to shake it. he prefers the way he's heard other people say it.

he's never had a nickname. 'corey' is kind of short already. sometimes his friends say core, which he's fine with but he's not particularly attached to that. joan (perhaps surprisingly) was never big into pet names, she'll call him 'baby' or 'honey' sometimes, or 'buster' if she's scolding him (that's novel canon, don't shoot the messenger, folks).

in the run up to joan and ronald getting married, corey did wonder if they'd change their name to prevo, but it never actually gets mentioned. joan doesn't even change her surname, let alone corey's (can't have ronald thinking he's any more involved than necessary).

if corey ever got married, i think he'd be more open to changing he surname to his partners. he wants to disconnect from joan as much as possible. and even if his name is technically his dad's, he has his middle name to still keep that torch burning, so he'll happily become mr. corey [insert name here].

gender identity

corey is a man. he could never be anything else, just look at him. he has a pretty unstable sense of self though, and idolises classic american masculinity. he's vintage masc, like if james dean was built like a collegiate wrestler. he's someone who revels in gender affirming presentation and behaviour, while he's constantly emasculated at home. it's part of why he becomes so obsessed with michael - who is the pinnacle of his masculine idealisations; power, strength, control, even violence.

@slutforstabbings made this excellent post about corey's relationship to gender and his own sense of masculinity and how michael plays into that. "is it a sex thing, or a gender thing?"

i won't go too much into this next point because it just isn't within my experience or frame of reference, but i love reading about people's interpretations of corey as a transman or in some way transmasculine. in-universe, i'm not sure what the ramifications would be for that being his identity, i'm not sure if joan would be supportive or if corey would even have the means to transition in the way he wants to. but, from a literary perspective, i can absolutely see joan being pleased to have a son rather than a daughter. "difficult daughters of difficult mothers" are often portrayed as two (indignantly) similar people who resent each other, whereas "passive sons of overbearing mothers" is in a whole other ballpark; joan would be delighted to have a son she can manipulate and emasculate into being a good momma's boy.

sexuality and labels

corey is bisexual, but to be honest he doesn't really label himself at all. the need to think of a label has never really come up so he never bothered with one, he just deals (or doesn't deal) with his attraction as and when it happens.

he knows the "main", broad labels people use, it just somehow bypasses him that one might apply to him, even when he reaches the point where he fully acknowledges that he's attracted to a lot of different people, for a lot of different reasons.

he experiences attraction to different genders very differently. because he hasn't put a name to what he feels yet (or ever), a lot of his early crushes (or squishes) never really registered to him. he's had crushes on men and women since he was a teenager, but it's not until he actually gets a chance to act on any of those feelings that it even occurs to him that he swings both ways.

he's a daddy issues cliché, but he does have a thing for older men. seeking all the validation and approval and attention that he never got while growing up. he feels like there's something safe about older men, even if that security is misplaced. but fear not !! he's a mommy issues cliché too !! the only way he's ever learned to love someone is obsessively. he has a tendency to put a lot of his emotional needs onto his s/o. he won't mean to, and he certainly doesn't want his girlfriend to be his mom, but joan would frequently cross emotional boundaries so he's not totally clear on which lines are for which relations.

(if roger and theresa asked him to, he'd absolutely be their third, no questions asked)

is he open about his orientation?

not really, but it's not strictly speaking a "secret" either. he hasn't told anyone, but it's also just never come up before. i don't know if he'd ever feel the need to come out.

haddonfield itself is not exactly a liberal metropolis, but it's also not a right-wing nightmare town either; most LGBT+ residents just go about their lives without much trouble, but the chances of someone on the street being homophobic/transphobic are never zero.

he does have a bit of a crisis about it at around his junior year, which is the first time he realises what he feels for his physics teacher might not be just wholesome, academic admiration. but it also makes something click in his brain and he's pretty quick to come to terms with it. also, he realises he won't actually have to deal with any of the possible implications of what he thinks is going on for one reason and one reason alone: joan.

joan pitches a fit at even the smallest inkling of a crush, even just with girls, so it's safe to say his feelings for boys is something he'll likely never bring up to her (unless the day comes where he can be out of that house and living his own life). although he knows ronald's a good guy, he'd never think to come out to him, they just aren't close enough.

corey actually never admits to any crushes, regardless of gender, not even to his friends. he's a bit "girl crazy", always has a crush but never acts on it, and you'd seriously have to waterboard that info out of him. he also falls victim to crushing on one of the only out guys in school, imagining what would happen if he ever got the guts to speak to him at one of the parties he sneaks out to. but that crush passes quickly when corey's attention drifts to a girl in his homeroom, and then to the football team's quarterback, and then to his lab partner. he has a bit more of a chance at community college, and he don't think he'd deny it, but he's so hesitant to embark on any sort of relationship that he's honestly just taking what he can get anyway.

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Chapter 32- Part 16

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…Y'know, I'm gonna be honest about something- despite my panic in the moment as I realized Shade's vision was about to come true and my ever-burning hatred of Cal (a hatred that I'm sure Xera now shares in-universe)...honestly? I'm…not actually feeling much for Kiki's death here, at least not nearly in the same way I did when Corey died. Back then, I really felt something, that death hit me right where it hurt, whereas here…I'm more sad about the Medicham, if anything? No, scratch that- I'm more sad about what this is doing to Victoria than Kiki herself.

I'm not sure why this is? Maybe it's because there was less time spent with Kiki than Corey, and so less time to see what she's fully like and get more attached? Like, the NPCs talked about how great she was, but actually seeing that character in action…there wasn't much. We saw her do one (1) lecture, she did an admittedly reasonable compromise to give Xera the TMX, we battled her, we found out she sent Xera on a wild goose chase because the TMX was stolen the whole time, she tried to stop the PULSE, and then she died. I liked Kiki at the end of the day, don't get me wrong, but liking a character isn't enough for me to get attached to them, to the point where I'd feel legit heartbroken if they died- at least, that's how it is for me personally. That's probably why I feel more for Victoria's feelings here- I'm more attached to her than I was to Kiki herself.

Alternatively, it could be because the game more or less spoiled this moment back in Chapter 25 with the screens in the Abandoned Power Plant. It showed Kiki getting killed by a Garchomp, and…that's exactly what happened, no subversions or any way to change it. So every time I saw Kiki, in the back of my mind it was always “okay how do I make sure she doesn't get Dragon Clawed, is there a way to prevent, what can be done about this”, naive as I was. But the point is, that screen vision and that moment’s been on my mind ever since, so I already saw it once before, thus it kinda…undercuts the impact of the moment, at least for me. Sure, maybe it's a way for the story to be like “you can't change the future, you have no power, life is cruel like that”- but at what cost, though?

Maybe this is a hot take, I don't know, I haven't engaged in the fandom long enough to know what the consensus is on Kiki and her death, if there even is one. I'm just saying, Corey's death did it better.

Empty? I don't think any evacuation procedures were done…unless people just left because the sensei died.

I feel you, girl, I felt so proud of that Counter strategy only for it to end up not mattering in the slightest…

Okay, “incompetence” is laying it on a bit thick, don't you think? Xera defeated an entire high-level Garchomp- even if it couldn't prevent Kiki's actual death, is there gonna be any type of acknowledgement of that?? Anything at all?? Maybe that boss really wasn't intended to be beaten after all…

I dunno, “violent anger issues” don't generally correlate to “secret agent for a domestic terrorist group”- if that's the case, then I've been making some of my OCs wrong all this time.

There ya go! Xera's revenge arc is steadily (partially) passing onto Victoria, I'm so proud!

So Cain does live there- again, doesn't sound like the best place to live, but who am I to judge a place I haven't seen yet?

Oooh, what's this now? More drama?~ Care to explain to take my mind off my disappointment about the Garchomp thing?

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Happy Whumpmas (੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭*🎅⛄❄️!!! You have just been snowballed by a secret whumper. Help to keep the snowball fight going by anonymously sending this to five other whumpers with a whump-related question of your choice.

What’s your process for creating Whumper-type characters, or inspirations for creating Whumper-type characters?

You're going to regret asking me this, but thank you and Happy Whumpmas!

Below the cut for mild spoilers for the later chapters of GSNBTR.

My Whumpers almost always have personal connections with their whumpees. I tend not to use the totally impersonal whumper, and if I ever were to do that, they'd most likely form some kind of personal connection with their whumpee eventually. That said, there are a lot of different types of personal connections whumpers can have.

Taking GSNBTR as an example, it has three characters that do most of the whumping. They all have personal connections to the whumpee MCs and reasons for doing what they do, but they're also all different.

I could characterize all three of them according to how they rank in three categories on a scale of 1 to 10: how creepy they are with the MCs, how intimate with them they are, and how complex their backstories are.

Resi is an intimate whumper, quite creepy at times, AND has a complex backstory that explains why she's personally out to get the MCs. So she'd be near the top in all categories.

Corey, meanwhile, is more mean-spirited than creepy, and he's not complex. He's just a spoiled, arrogant, selfish jerk who hates anyone who dares to defy their place in the pecking order. Even when he goes out of his way to learn personal information about the MCs to torment them with, and resorts to attempted noncon, it's just another tactic to goad them, not because he personally desires or cares about it all that much.

And lastly, the groundskeeper aka Obadiah is thoroughly creepy and does desire it🤮, but he has no backstory to speak of, and no backstory anyone WANTS to speak of, nor is he capable of being particularly intimate for those reasons. So he'd fall somewhere in the middle.

Just to clarify, no I do not regularly make bar graphs as my "process" for creating whumpers, lol. I just thought it would be helpful for this particular post. 😂

As for my inspirations, it's usually the backstories that determine how the whumpers behave. They also serve different roles in the story all embody different tropes. (You knew this would come down to tropes, right?)

Corey, for example, is very much the Romantic False Lead/Jerkass type that pops up in a lot of young adult romances, but he's too young, dumb, and incompetent to really be the main villain. Whereas Resi is more complex and so serves as the Big Bad and embodies the Freudian Excuse. And then both she and the groundskeeper represent I Have You Now, My Pretty with Louisa and [Redacted], respectively.

Corey was most useful at the beginning of the story when the MCs are first getting together, whereas Resi emerges later in the story when they're fighting to stay together, as well as more closely fighting to protect and save their loved ones. The groundskeeper is just convenient to have around to make them miserable in any way I need him to at the time. 😂

I suspect no one's reading this anymore, but if you are, thanks and have a cookie! 😂