the harleyberts and rose be like :) :) :o

rose and dirk are characters who are always thinking about how they look in front of people and are very into keeping up with aesthetics and appearances. and yeah this applies to a lot of the other hs characters too, especially the strilondes. but rose and dirk are especially similar in that they are both very convinced that the "polished" masks they've constructed for themselves do their job of covering up every single possible insecurity they have (mainly that they're huge gay nerds). this is due to the fact that rose and dirk think that they're smarter than everybody else. which is, to be fair, true. but not to the extent that they think since they're both kids raised on wiki articles on the internet. which they are also aware of, but being aware of this fact makes them feel smart and it loops right back into feeding their egos, which are very fragile egos that could crumble at the drop of a hat by the thought of having other people "see" through them and realizing that they are, in fact, gay nerds. so rose and dirk both cope by acting out in increasingly outlandish ways to prove that they're completely confident in their own identities. because an insecure person would be too scared to do furry roleplay or watch my little pony "ironically" or et cetera, so by doing these things it's like a weird one-uppance to the people around them who think that stuff is too weird. but they do have a limit, which is complete sincerity. and that's why roxy lalonde is actually the strongest strilonde and could duplex both rose and dirk in a fight. this was a read 💅

I've been happy for so long I forgot there are people out there who legitimately think sqq doesn't love binghe and that binghe just coerced him into a relationship

feel like modern Dave writers/kins forget he's hussies self insert and written to be totally fucking lame in canon bc hussie was a 25 year old loser living in his parents basement making anti SJW rage comics at the time . dave strider is an awesome character but he is genuinely so fucking embarrassingly lame and a loser and it's a beautiful thing & we need to remember our roots #makedavelameagain

Fic idea:

Former 90's rock star legend, Eddie Harrington, starts a podcast in the late 2010's with a weird choice of people (normal, not famous people, yikes!), but who apparently are close friends.

This podcast evolves quickly into a sprawling D&D campaign that gathers a cult-like following for a few years until one day it just explodes in popularity and becomes more mainstream. Eventually they move to streaming the campaigns live from their own homes/offices (simultaneously recording them for the podcast), and most people in the party have their own little fan clubs based on their characters and individual lore, compete with merch.

Eddie's always the DM, he enjoys it, and thrives on the chaos his team seems to try and generate to annoy him. The Party themselves (Dustin, Will, Lucas, Erica, Gareth, Mike and Jeff) have relatively normal jobs, so go absolutely feral during the podcasts, like they're reclaiming the insanity of their teen years.

It's just great fun, hardly anything like the dark, brutal campaigns Eddie used to run during Hellfire, and it's a great stress relief for them all. It eventually gets to the point where most people recognise or know Eddie from his D&D stuff, forgetting that he was 'originally' famous for half a dozen kickass rock albums.

(Sometimes Steve makes an accidental appearance by wandering into shot, or bringing Eddie coffee or snacks, and he ends up with his own wholesome little fan club because he's so normal in comparison to his hubby).

thats what he gets for trying to ride that legendary piece of shit

not me popping back on here with a post after months of semi-inactivity (uni is being a bitch) just to reiterate how much i love writing the pahkitew island cast.

aside from sammy and amy (obviously), literally everyone else can be shipped with one another and it'd make sense to some degree, like it takes skill to create a group of people so inherently shippable (platonically and/or romantically) and ofc the writers didn't know it they just shoved a bunch of random ppl together and dusted their hands off on it but fr tho 😭

(yeah im planning out my leonave 'stranger things inspired' au, and the gears are turning, and i forgot just how much i love writing for this dumbass group)

(i swear im working on the next chapter of a guide to surviving the apocalypse too)

Thinking for the rest of my life how S1 of TWDG begins with Lee in cuffs, life over, because of a man he just killed, who took a girl he loved, and ends with Lee in cuffs, life over, because of a man he just killed, who took a girl he loves, but literally everything about that string of statements has so utterly changed meaning, the end could not be farther from the start. The bookend of finishing right where you started, and nowhere near it.

Both the first and last line in the game are spoken to Lee, about Lee, and reflect regret towards the end of his life, but even the flavor of regret could not be more distant. “I reckon you didn’t do it,” and “(I’ll miss you) - Me too,” do not even share a sadness. The first legacy, remarked on throughout season 1, would have been ‘murderer.’ The real one is so far the opposite, his ghost carries every person who survives for the rest of the series. I hear it described as about redemption, but the focus is never once in the game about Lee making up for something. You never even really know what he did or if it was merited. The game is a second life, and culminates in a stranger accusing Lee of having no right to live or have someone who loves him for every single thing he’s done wrong since the game began, no matter how unfair the accusation, and about that being bullshit. About it being enough, what he did for Clementine, for everyone, for himself. It’s about salvation, maybe. Of the self, by the self, from ruin, through meaning in love and caring for other people, no matter their endings or yours. Ben always dies, but it mattered. Omid always dies, but it mattered. Duck, Carly, Katya, Mark, Doug, always die, but it mattered. And Clementine always lives, and that does too. Lee always dies. It just takes the course of a season. But he’s not lost anymore when he does.

It's actually so so important that Alpha Dave Strider is kinda weird and pathetic. To me, anyway.

How does Dave find out about Ruth and Thatcher??1

Thatcher fucked up, he didn't leave the store in time and turned into a werewolf in front of Dave, Ruth came in and saw all the commotion and helped Dave get the werewolf in the closet so he didn't tear up the store. Dave is rightfully freaked out and Ruth is like... Okay so I knew about this because both of us are monsters? And she explains the whole zombie thing and Dave is just like ha ha okay ha ha WHAT THE FUCK

krut conbain?

i don’t know what you’re talking about

On making of clean version of Soft Cell’s Sex Dwarf music video for Non-Stop Exotic Video Show, 1982, photo by Eugene Adebari

while im thinking about it why are people so weird about acne scars. like i get the concern surrounding like. an open scab getting infected or something? but idk all anyone ever says to me when im picking is “stop it youre gonna get scars. do you really want to be all splotchy” like why is that everyones go-to issue surrounding skin picking. fuck if im splotchy. who give a shit

i hate to say it but

southern motherfucking democratic-republicans

AHHHH GOTTA POST THIS BEFORE 4/13 ENDS (My timezome)

ANYWAYS UHHH I QUICKLY DOODLED THIS MINI COMIC I HOPE YOU LIKE :333 (Ignore my shitty handwriting)

Edit: I also just realized I didn't wm this, I might fix it later idk