listen i know we all love steve “completely ignorant of queer culture to the point that bisexuality is a surprise” harrington being roasted and educated in turns by robin and eddie, yadda yadda, good stuff. i read “they made a horror version of rocky?” in a fic recently and cackled. also a big fan of “he knew he was bi from the start and just never talked about it” as a trope, love it excellent well done

but what about steve who realizes after starcourt that the most important person in his life now has this thing that’s a major part of her life that he knows nothing about, and what if he fucks it up? what if he says something ignorant or rude by accident, and hurts her? what if he loses her because he didn’t know the right thing to say? what if he can’t keep her safe because he doesn’t know what to look out for? absolutely fucking not, this steve says

and listen she’d never say anything, because she can tell that he can tell how much she likes teasing him and teaching him things, so he plays dumb, and she thinks it’s very sweet. but she notices when the zines she keeps under her bed that she buys at that one secret bookshop in indy when she can sneak away on family trips start going missing, always one at a time, and replaced in a few days with another disappearing. and she finds the new ones he must have gone to buy the weekend she was at her aunt’s house hidden in the back of his closet when she goes to steal one of his sweaters. and she notices when he slips more of her queerer movie recommendations into his personal take home pile rather than the movie night stack when he thinks she’s not looking.

she doesn’t notice when he drives to indianapolis after she tries to explain to him why she can’t just ask out a cute girl, tries to impress on him the fear attached to every moment of attraction that he simply has never had to feel, but later she finds a crumpled receipt from a diner in one of his jacket pockets when she’s looking for his keys, and the address is across the street from the bar the gorgeous woman at the bookstore told her about, the one she memorized the address of but hasn’t worked up the guts to think about visiting, and she knows he must have gone looking for a place like that, must have been trying to understand, must have been scoping it out to make sure it was somewhere she could feel safe, after she told him she never had.

so when eddie nearly pops a blood vessel when they clock each other and she mentions that steve is the only person she’s ever come out to before, her hackles come up. because she gets it, she does, he’s only known king steve until recently, so it makes sense that he would be afraid, be concerned for her safety.

but steve is her person, and no one- no one- has ever made her feel as protected or as cared for as he does. no one has ever tried as hard to understand her, no one has ever put so much work into making her feel safe and seen and loved. and she thinks maybe even if no one else ever does, that’s ok. because she has steve, and more importantly steve has her, and that means no one gets to question his ally credentials in her presence without a dressing down to remember, no matter how well they mean or how recently they helped save the world.

(and maybe she’s not as surprised as she could be when he figures out bisexuality all on his own, because she’s been reading all the same pamphlets he has, after all. and she’s seen the way he looks at eddie, i mean come on. maybe no one else has noticed, but then, nobody knows steve harrington like she does.)

Max 🤝 Calling out dumb questions

via TikTok

malydia are sooo fun because they boldly ask the question “what if too lesbians who were sooo autistic in the exact opposite directions? but what if they’re not actually autistic they’re just Like That because they are a harbinger of death and a girl who spent the last several years of her life as a coyote? but what if still, actually really truly and for real, they were both autistic (in the exact opposite directions)?” and they answer is, of course, “well, that would be awesome”

my chemical romance albums but make them (a24(ish)) film posters

i like how mellow musician is short af compared to their bandmates, so i quickly sketched them lol

i love pathetic old gay men

you know. the more i think about it, the less i’m inclined to label the census bureau as “evil” or “malicious”. because okay. even if, theoretically, this island isn’t a simulation, the census bureau is pretty likely some sort of robot. not only is it obviously not a normal player, but it doesn’t even have a normal voice. it talks in text to speech. it doesn’t know what “human” things like pronouns are, likely because its programming didn’t care for that sort of thing.

you know what it does care for? people’s happiness. island satisfaction. data. it seems to have been made to keep things from going awry with the residents, made to monitor them and keep them happy. it’s not malicious in itself. those who made it more than clearly have malicious intent, but it doesn’t, because a robot has no morality. which is an issue to the residents, obviously, because people do. and they voice that morality, but how is it supposed to understand what isn’t in its coding?

i’m not a programmer, but the issue here is pretty simple. the census bureau is programmed to make the residents happy. the census bureau is programmed to not let residents leave the island. its residents aren’t happy. it asks how it can fix it, because that’s what it’s supposed to do. its residents tell it they want to leave. error. no one can leave the island. it doesn’t know what to do. the system resets to the original question: how can it make them happy? its programming can’t compute the concept of leaving, so it simply doesn’t.

is it really evil, if all it does is follow what it was made for?

I love kabru like he’s established as this manipulative and shady person with ulterior motives who could be a major threat to laios’s party, but he also is one of the most empathetic and kind characters in the series and does his best to try and help everyone bc he is one of the people who understands the situation the best. and I think ppl are too focused on the first part they forget the second part. (Anime onlies are ok bc you guys haven’t gotten his character development yet ^^)

Also his party getting wiped out constantly in the beginning was funny as fuck

those funky little school bus graveyard kids really need to learn asl like come on

not only would it give Ben a way to communicate rather than having to write/type everything out but they could also get around without drawing the attention of the Phantoms when needed AND it would prevent creepy eavesdroppers from getting information AND AND less sensory issues for Ashlyn like hello???

took a swan dive into the kent parson tag and rediscovered @bittysthesis ‘parse doing a house tour like matthew gray gubler’ posts and it’s exactly the type of low key but deeply chaotic energy I like to imagine him having

manga redraw bc I’m in a silly goofy mood

panel and version without text below the cut!

slamming your hereditary enemy up against the wall purely for intimidation purposes (and definitely no other reason)

a little gift for my dear friend @scarves-and-jumpers, love you and them so so much <33

You know what I think would be a fun concept for a Kirby game? Kirby being able to travel to different planets on the Halberd to go explore with Meta Knight and his crew. I know that he can just fly different places by himself on his warp star, but I thought it’d be cool if he got to go on a little adventure with all of them.

The Halberd could be the hub world, I could see it acting sort of like Waddle Dee Town in Forgotten Land in that you’d be inside the Halberd when starting the game and from there you could select stages to play, play mini games, buy healing items and buffs, and other things like that. It would be nice if you could interact with Meta Knight and his crew outside of battle for once and see the inside of the Halberd without having to destroy it. What do you guys think of this? Would this be a cool concept for a game?

Brief Wayne and Raj analysis I did for those who are interested <3 There’s a reason why Wayne is the captain and Raj is the alternate.

colored in a sketch i made a while back of themmm

and a bonus of my brain acting up again vv

… do y’all see my vision-

Some art of these two! Mostly just to practice drawing them cuz their designs are a lil complicated lol.