y'all know French?

*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

Eddie wake up.

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you guys don't even know what it's like in the woods. you don't even know about the sound of things living and breathing around you, and the ethereal glow that filters down through the trees at all times. you don't know how it feels when you're terrified and desperately searching for the way out but there's a hand in your chest pulling you in the opposite direction.

The ‘Nancy Wheeler’ card

+10 badass energy when given a ‘weapon’ power up

+3 gay panic when ‘Robin Buckley’ card uses ‘charm’

*when paired with an ‘Eddie Munson’ card : renders a ‘Steve Harrington’ card useless*

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The ‘Robin Buckley’ card

+2 braincells when paired with a ‘Steve Harrington’ card

+10 anxiety when ‘rabies threat’ is played against any other character card

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Up Next: The ‘Nancy Wheeler’ card

The ‘Steve Harrington’ card

-2 braincells when paired with a ‘Robin Buckley’ card

+8 insecurities when ‘Nancy Wheeler’ uses ‘bullshit’ attack

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Up next: The ‘Robin Buckley’ card

The ‘Eddie Munson’ card

+3 rizz when played against a ‘Steve Harrington’ card

-5 motor skills when played against a ‘Steve Harrington’ card

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Up Next : The ‘Steve Harrington’ card

Put that man in the pound like the dog he is🏠🐶

woof

Think about how much you love the little gay people in your phone. It's nice right?

You are the little gay person in someone else's phone. Peace and love ect.

it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

It's so tricky digging into Joyce's relationship with Jonathan because I very badly want to present her in the best light possible, in the sense that she has so much stacked against her and I think she mostly did the best she could and genuinely wants the world for both of her kids and people are so hard on mothers already in totally unreasonable ways... but I also want to be able to really look at the gray areas where, yeah, maybe she could have done better or maybe she couldn't have at the time but this one is uncomfortable to look at because it's hard to excuse or was particularly damaging but it doesn't negate all the good things. Because her relationship with Jonathan, no matter how much she loves him, is deeply fucked up and dysfunctional in so many ways.

So she's more interesting to me when I let her be flawed in ways that are uncomfortable or frowned upon for mothers especially, and it's the only way I can write Jonathan honestly.

She's not the only character that I worry about like this, but I worry about her the most because it would be so easy to be misinterpreted and come off as bashing her to woobify Jonathan and contribute to that cultural delusion that mothers have to be perfect or else. And, ideally, I'd like people not to walk away going "yeah she sucks" or "how dare you, she's perfect." Because those are extremes, and I don't think Joyce sucks at all. I just also don't think she's perfect, and I want to grapple with the uncomfortable parts of that.

A COMINT !!

idk how to flirt but i can make things awkward if you're into that