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waterberry-strawmelon · 10 months

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i don't know how to put this into words exactly, but The Bear feels so big to me. it reminds me of something i feel like ive forgotten. a dream i once had. idk. im trying to make this sound poetic or profound but what i really mean to say is please go watch The Bear.

#it's everything. i think this is what life is.#i want to write like this. i want to make stories like this. holy fuck.#im gonna simmer in season 1 for a few days. that last episode was something so special somehow. i dont know.#i think this is maybe the best tv series ive ever watched. not necessarily my favorite; but the best-made one ive seen in my life.#i feel like ive finished reading a life-changing book at two AM or something #i dont know. summer makes me feel like this #bittersweet acrid nostalgia. idk.#i know season 2 gets into some romantic subplots so im already just a little disappointed #do you know how hard it is to find a well-written show with literally zero romantic plot points. i cannot think of a single one.#season 1 does not have any romantic plotline whatsoever. do you know how long i've been starving to see this.#and it's still fucking real and raw and well-written.#i was so pleasantly surprised.#i know season two gets into it #and thats gonna suck a little. just the knowledge that a show can still be good and interesting and well-made without romance #and now that same show DOES end up adding it in. it's a bit of a let down for someone like me.#but i will always have this first season; which in itself can stand alone as a complete story in my opinion. it is truly truly phenomenal.#just some thoughts #writing #television #mine

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gunstellations · 1 month

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its sonics turn! 👅

#sonadow #shadow takes his job very seriously #do not test a guy who has a 20 step skincare routine #sonic is definitely a scruffy little thing who damn near never brushes himself #shadow will make sure!!! that he is left shiny and smelling like freshly ironed laundry instead of dirt #idk there is something so....cute about this that i have never thought about before and i think shadow despite being a hybrid is #much better at doing things like this and less bashful compared to sonic who is just a stinky guy by default #he would be grumpy but very nurturing. i think it would give him a sense of calm to bond like this #sonics of course a little taken aback at his enthusiasm but its a pleasantly welcome surprise from someone like shadow esp #idk what level the relation between them would have to have progressed to for sth like this to even happen but yknow #simply. when he licc. it makes my heart melt #i almost cried drawing this.....i love shadow....#almost forgot to tag #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #my art

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dire-roach39 · 3 months

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he was shocked here. before, he could see his soul coming from miles away, had the time to prepare himself for his presence, to compose himself. this was a surprise.

#i know im beating my skull against the same wall you all have been for the past several years but damn #like just realizing that's the main reason (besides dean being an asshole and tossing him out) why he looked so startled when we normally #see him looking so composed makes me rabid #for the first time we see him genuinely and pleasantly surprised #and it's because of dean #destiel #human castiel #castiel #dean winchester #spn #spn s9

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hysterialevi · 2 months

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"Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time."

#fallout #fallout fanart #the ghoul #fallout show #fallout tv series #fallout tv show #cooper howard #i am honestly so pleasantly surprised by this show #the ghoul reminds me of hancock 🥲

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starwarjotta · 5 months

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“Not that I’m complaining (quite on the contrary, actually), but you couldn’t have waited for two more minutes until the end of the battle to do that, sir.”

“How could I, with you giving me a smile like that, my dear?”

“...fine. I’ll allow it, this once. Sir.”

“:)”

my second @codywanfirstkissbingo work, for “battleground kiss”

#codywan #cwfkb2023 #commander cody #obi wan kenobi #star wars #battleground kisses #Cody is pleasantly surprised #even if he doesn't really approve of the timing of the kiss #but they have almost won the battle anyway so it's fine #he gets to kiss obi-wan #ngl I really liked doing this piece haha I had a lot of fun with it #also I feel like so many of my codywan arts is with them all dirty and battleworn??? but maybe not maybe it just feels so pffft #also cody where is your helmet #cody stop losing your helmet in battle pls #THEM #codywan every day all the time #my beloveds

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kimdokjas · 3 months

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@animangacreators challenge ❄ winter 2024 ↳ KUSURIYA NO HITORIGOTO

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frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe · 9 months

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just a little something for the darling @yournowheregirl to wake up to! it sounds kinda dumb and insignificant, but i always appreciate your tags in the fun tag games that come across your dash and for always being one of the first that ask something from those ‘ask me’ posts i reblog! it makes me feel appreciated and i am super grateful every time 🥰🫶🥹

There was meant to be two beds.

Steve specifically got a double king room for the goblins, and another room with two queens for him and Eddie.

So of course as soon as they got into Milwaukee the night before the D&D themed nerd fest, the (actually very nice) woman at the front desk says: “We had to swap around the rooms, but the two will still sleep all you boys, don’t worry!”

Whatever. That’s fine, right? They’ll all have a spot to sleep the next two nights they’re here for the kids’ (and Eddie’s) dragon game convention.

He gets back to their rented minivan and passes the key cards to Eddie in the passenger seat.

The van was just the first point of contention between him and the kids’ beloved Dragon Meister, followed closely by…everything else.

The first thing Eddie said when Steve showed up in the rented van was “King Steve is coming along on our journey?”, to which Steve could only respond with “This ‘super cool’ guy you assholes have been going on about this whole time is Eddie “The Freak” Munson? Really?”

Following closely behind are: the tapes and tapes of loud garbled ‘music’ Eddie insists on playing, his absolutely tragic way of unwrapping Steve’s burgers for him when they stop for lunch, the wariness Steve has in the first place about this being the guy Dustin wouldn’t stop talking so highly about…this nerdy, obnoxious, third-time senior…great.

“204 is the Hellions’ room, 207 is us.”

Eddie bends an arm backwards into the feral beast enclosure the second two rows have become over the last six hours and Steve’s surprised he still has his hand when it returns to the front.

Steve gets the van parked in the hotel’s garage, and they head up to their rooms.

“Alright, assholes,” he says to the somehow still rambunctious masses, “This is you guys, Make sure you’re up by eight so we—“

“Yeah Steve, we got it,” Dustin scoffs, “As if we’d risk being late to this.”

Steve rolls his eyes with a “Fine, goodnight.” and shuffles the few steps across the hall to his and Eddie’s door, leaving the troops to file into theirs.

The only thought in his head is of laying down and getting the fuck to sleep. It wasn’t even that late but—

“Oh you’ve got to be shitting me.”

So that’s what brings them here. To their one barely queen sized bed.

“I guess I’m on the floor then, huh?”

“I’m not about to let you sleep on the floor.”

“Oh, the King has chivalry does he?” Eddie rolls his eyes and throws his duffle onto the armchair in the corner.

“As much as you, asshole; I just want you to have the energy to corral the gremlins tomorrow.” Steve scrubs a hand down his face. “Look, we’ll just deal with it tonight and I’ll get another room tomorrow.” he lies. As if he’s got the cash for that.

Eddie looks him over, and seems to come to whatever conclusion he needs to because he says “Fine, but you better not be a blanket hog.”

Eddie’s the worst blanket hog Steve’s ever had the displeasure of knowing.

He thought Robin was bad, but this is something else.

Eddie’s fully a burrito within an hour of laying down. After a hearty, but silent, game of tug of war over the worn duvet.

Steve falls asleep angry and cold, and wakes up on a cloud.

He’s so warm and so entangled in the comforter, he can’t help but snuggle deeper into the pillow he’s clutched onto.

The pillow hums back at him and scoots itself under his chin with a sigh.

Steve squeezes tighter onto the pillow momentarily, but his curiosity of why his pillow’s making noise gets the better of him.

He cracks his eyes open, looking down at the thing in his arms.

It shifts as well, and Eddie Munson blinks up at him with those (holy shit…beautiful, deep, dark) doe eyes of his.

“Hi.” Steve breathes.

Eddie’s eyes flutter shut, and shuffles himself back into Steve’s neck.

Steve chooses to blame the still sleepy bit of him for curving himself back around Eddie.

“How’d you sleep?” Steve whispers into the now-bared hairline under the other man’s bangs.

“Fucking amazing…” Eddie mumbles, snaking an arm over Steve’s waist and settling a hand in the middle of his back. “How ‘bout you, Stevie?”

“Stevie, huh?” Steve chuckles.

It’s only then that Eddie seems to come to his senses, his head shooting up before he scrambles away, falling straight onto his back between the opposite side of the bed and the wall with an “Oof!” and a “Fuck!”

“Oh shit!” Steve shuffles off the bed and helps Eddie back up, ”You alright, Eds?”

“Yeah..yeah, I’m fine..” Steve gets Eddie back on his own two feet and (reluctantly) lets him go once he’s stable.

‘Reluctantly? Why reluctantly? What the hell??’

“Sorry I was all over you, not the greatest thing to wake up to, huh?” Eddie says, huffing a sardonic laugh under his breath.

Steve hums nonchalantly, “It wasn’t all bad, I slept pretty fucking amazing too.”

Eddie hums an acknowledgment, then: “I wouldn’t—“ Eddie starts at the same time Steve says “I should—“

“You go ahead,”

Eddie’s hands come up between them, spinning the rings on his fingers nervously. “I was going to say that…I.. Iwouldn’tmindifyoustayedtonight..too.”

Steve blinks. “Good thing I was going to say that I really should save my money.”

Eddie’s smile is slightly nervous, but there’s a hopeful tinge to it that Steve can only assume means what he thinks it does (hopes it does).

“Leaves me with more to spend on the Gremlins, right?” he shrugs.

Eddie beams. “Glad to know we’re on the same page, Harrington.”

also, if you haven’t heard it recently: Alice, YOU’RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE 🤩

#and there was only one bed #oh nooo what ever shall they doooo #be pleasantly surprised by the company of the other in that bed 😏#that’s what #also ps i looked it up so it’s accurate #gencon is the dnd convention and between 1985 and 2003 it was held in milwaukee #about 4 hours from indianapolis #so +2 hours for hypothetical additional time from hawkins #in my head this is a trip just before school starts in 1985 since gen con was aug 22-25 that year #dw about the logistics of the party’s parents letting them go lmao #maybe the party meet eddie at a the local game store and somehow convince steve and their parents to let them go before the year starts #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #st #st ficlet #steddie ficlet #noelle writes

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smile-files · 8 months

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i'm just a ragdolly... :)

#dandy's doodles #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc ragatha #raggedy ann #lalaloopsy #lalaloopsy crumbs sugar cookie #crumbs sugar cookie #goody gardens #gg #gg namby-pamby #i just had to draw all of the lovely ragdolls together!! <3 #i'm really pleasantly surprised with how their hair turned out. yarn is surprisingly hard to draw!!!#raggedy ann's hair is especially hard to draw (such a cute but hard-to-read style...) so i'm proud of that :)#i love dolls i love them so much!!!!!! especially soft dolls that are perfect for playing and hugging and snuggling with :D #kin #(oh yeah this is the thing i was busy drawing all day. hehe)

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pidgedee · 4 months

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my full piece for @empires-rainbow-zine! i’m SO happy with how this one turned out. i feel like i really accomplished a lot with my art in 2023 and became so much more comfortable with backgrounds and rendering, and this one in particular stands out to me as one of my best pieces of the year :]

you can download the full zine here to see everyone’s gorgeous art! thanks to rhapsoddity for running the zine and the rest of the contributor team for bringing it to life; i’m delighted to have been a part of it ❤️

#empires smp #empires s2 #pixlriffs #santa perla #empires fanart #pixlriffs fanart #i was so pleasantly surprised to be accepted into this zine! i’m so d/smp focused online that i worry about making it into other mcyt—#—projects even though i watch WAY more empires/etc content than i ever did d/smp!#so im very happy for this to be my first proper step into the empires fandom :] hello everyone!

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gunsatthaphan · 28 days

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🤓🚩🫶🏻

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starspaces · 7 months

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PSYCH | 8.9 - A Nightmare on State Street

#psych #psychedit #shawn spencer #burton guster #a nightmare on state street #this is the One Episode that i remember so clearly bc i watched it as a kid and it scared the shit out of me #on rewatch i can now be pleasantly surprised by the appearance of sutton foster and appreciate the babygirl gus line #i keep on reading shus as shoes so i cant take that ship name seriously

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ir-dr · 2 months

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⭐ S Q U I S H ⭐

Squishy plush badges with Wooacry! They have a fun website where you can preview your merch realtime; I had a pretty good time making these!

#projecttiger #merch things #wooacry #it is not often i am so pleasantly surprised by a manufacturer so this is one rare time #They are New and i rly hope they can keep up this level of quantity and the low shipping rates #their website is rly fun to play around with btw and its Free you are not obligated to make an order have fun #ive never seen a store so dedicated to making like 2 merch of your blorbo for me myself and i and maybe my 2 friends with the same brainrot

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havanillas · 2 months

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STUMBLED UPON THE RATIORINE MERMAN X LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER AU AND IT'S DOING THINGS TO MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO MORE IF POSSIBLE, I WILL SELL MY KIDNEY IF NEED BE!!! (Not unless you want to of course, the treat we got is rather scrumptious and savory and I will let it rot in my brain for as long as need be 🙏🙇)

Save your kidney for another demon, i'm working on part 2

#thanks for the ask #i didnt think merman aven would receive so much love #im pleasantly surprised

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alch-emi · 3 months

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Recently beat Tales of Symphonia so here’s a Colette :>

#tales of symphonia #colette brunel #tales of series #tales of symphonia fanart #I love Colette sm she’s so silly and girliepop #I was really pleasantly surprised at how much I loved the party in this game #I loved how everyone had an arc spanning the entire game and the screentime was p evenly split #Also the story was really great and the antag might genuinely b one of my favs of all time #I’m gonna b playing Vesperia next and I’m very excited :DD

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likegoldintheair · 2 months

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no but buck surprising tommy by initiating the next kiss and it's just as soft and tender as their first one and it lasts for nothing more than a few seconds but when they break apart this time they stay so so so close sharing a breath and giving themselves a moment to just. take it all in. that they're here and that they get to have this. and there's this almost electrifying static between them that just keeps building and building until all they can do is to dive right back in and not come back up for air until they physically need to.

#evan buckley #tommy kinard #bucktommy #911 abc #LOOK. i have thoughts(tm) about tommy's possible reaction to buck initiating a kiss #all of which has him being seconds away from dropping to his knees #for completely different reasons #he will be so pleasantly surprised by buck taking initiative like that #and he won't know what to do with himself #besides follow buck wherever he takes him #thanks for coming to my ted talk i will most likely talk about this again

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lady-banana · 4 months

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THIS PANEL HURTS ME TO THIS DAY.

So upset the anime left it out, too. Just the first third (quarter?) of the panel explains a lot about William's guilt and how much the Final Problem was visibly weighing on him.

#his anguish is so evident #i wanna give him a hug :(#i thought the manga ended at what the anime stopped at #so i was pleasantly surprised that the manga was on-going at the time #so glad there was a continuation where he gets to have a conclusion #and to live a life for himself as himself finally #william james moriarty #moriarty the patriot #yuukoku no moriarty #liam moriarty #yuumori

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