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Should’ve Shown You Sooner
Pairing: Eddie Munson x gn!Reader (Stranger Things)
Summary: You and Eddie Munson have been friends for four years, yet you've never seen all of his tattoos. On a night you impulsively pierce Eddie's ear, you decide to ask about his tattoos.
Words: ~2.7k
Contains: underage drinking, cursing, the act of piercing an ear at home, fluff, no spoilers
A/N: I hope you enjoy this and I hope I did Eddie justice! Please enjoy :)
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As soon as you return home from school and your extracurriculars for the day, you toss your bag just inside the door of your trailer and ignore your homework in favor of going directly to your best friend, Eddie Munson’s, trailer just across the road. You hang out with him almost every day, so when you arrive at the door, you don’t even bother knocking. At this point, both Eddie and his uncle expect it.
“Y/n, you’re late today,” a voice startles you briefly when you open the door and Wayne is standing directly on the other side of it.
“Oh! Yeah, I joined the art club recently just to try it out and today was the first day I stayed after school for it,” you answer with a smile. “Are you headed out for work?”
Wayne nods in response. “Always working. You kids stay out of trouble,” he says before sliding past you and heading to his car.
“We’ll try!” You call out before going inside.
After making sure the door closes behind you, you skip your way to your friend’s room, swinging the door open quite vigorously. “I’m here!”
“Took you long enough, I thought I was gonna have to eat all of your favorite snacks all by myself,” Eddie says, sitting up from his slouched position on his bed and hanging the guitar he had been plucking at back on the wall in its usual spot.
“Oh shut up, you know I would’ve killed you,” you say with a laugh and an eye roll and then belly flop onto Eddie’s bed.
“Hey, get your shoes off of my bed!” Eddie shoves your feet off the edge.
“Like your bed hasn’t experienced worse than my shoes? I’m pretty sure they’re the cleanest things on here right now.”
He stares at you pointedly. “Fair.”
Eddie’s response makes you laugh. A nice, genuine laugh that makes you feel bubbly. Something only Eddie is capable of causing in you. With a grin still on your face, you take your shoes off and toss them onto the floor and turn back around to face Eddie, your head resting on your hand as you look up at him.
“So. Are you still letting me pierce your ear?” you ask.
“Hell yeah, I’m gonna look great.”
“And all thanks to me,” you say with a proud smile.
“Well don’t say that yet, you might fuck it up.”
“I’m not going to fuck it up!”
The two of you gather all of the things you need to pierce Eddie’s ear: some rubbing alcohol, some drinking alcohol, ice, a needle, an earring Eddie picked out, and a cloth (plus your snacks to the side for when you’re done). The two of you situate back on his bed, with you sitting between Eddie’s legs to easily be able to do the piercing.
“Are you ready?” you ask as you dunk some rubbing alcohol onto the cloth and use it to clean the needle. You eye Eddie as he takes a swig from some bottle of whiskey his uncle had over the fridge.
“Yes,” he answers, taking a deep breath. You set the clean needle to the side and clean Eddie’s earlobe off as well, hopefully making sure he doesn’t get an infection from this. You also hand him the ice to numb his ear while you take your own swig from the bottle.
“Just don’t… hurt me,” he adds.
“It does not hurt that bad, you big baby.”
“See the thing is, I don’t really believe you.”
You give him a look. “Would I ever lie to you, Eds?”
“Yes, I think you would.”
“You better shut up or I’m going to make it hurt.” You gently move his hand away from his ear and pick up the needle to begin.
“Wait!” Eddie leans back away from you, grabbing the whiskey bottle and once again taking a drink. “Okay I’m ready now.”
“Oh my god,” you laugh. “I’m piercing your ear, not cutting your leg off, it’s not going to hurt that bad.”
“I still don’t believe you, you’re just a freak who likes the pain of ear piercings.”
You roll your eyes. “Look, I’d let you squeeze my hand, since it seems like you need that, but I need both of them to do this.”
“Shut up and do it,” he says.
“Alright.” You bring the needle close to his ear and count down from three, stabbing the needle through his ear once you get to one. Eddie lets out a string of curses, causing you to crack a small smile. You set the needle down on the cloth and put the clean earring in his ear.
“There, it’s all done and you look great, as promised. Go look in the mirror.”
Eddie nods silently and gets up to go to the bathroom and look at his brand new piercing. By the time he comes back, you’ve cleaned the materials off of his bed and are eating some cheetos.
“Do you like it?” you ask, voice muffled from the multiple cheetos in your mouth.
“Yeah, you actually did pretty good. Thank you,” he says.
“Told you.”
The two of you spend an hour or two chatting about random stuff, eating snacks, and Eddie even shows you a bit of a song he’s writing. He doesn’t sing any lyrics, he never does before they’re finished, but he shows you the chord progression on his guitar and a very cool riff. Eventually you begin discussing Eddie’s new piercing and then a new tattoo he’s thinking about.
“I think I want to get another tattoo, I was thinking of getting it on my side,” Eddie tells you, moving his hand that isn’t still holding his ear to feel along where his shirt covers his side. His hair messily falls in his face, somehow making him look cuter than usual. You have to pause to take it in.
“Yeah?” You ask, breaking the silence with a crunch of stuffing another cheeto in your mouth. “What do you think you’ll get?”
A grin appears on Eddie’s face and you can’t help but think it fits nicely there. “Well, I was thinking about getting a snake or something, but I’m not sure.”
“Hm…”
“What?”
“I think you should get a little flower,” you smirk.
“A flower?”
“Yeah, or my face,” you tease, getting close to his face before laying back down flat, still grinning up at him.
“You want me,” he pauses, “to get a flower tattooed on my body?”
You nod and he laughs a short laugh, amused by your antics.
“Permanently? You know that wouldn’t match with the rest of my tattoos, right? You’re smart enough to realize that?” Eddie looks at you teasingly.
“Yes!” You laugh through your words. “You know technically… we have been friends for four years and I have never actually seen all of your tattoos. So really, how would I know if a flower didn’t match?”
He furrows his brows. “No. Thaaat’s not right. You’ve definitely seen them, I would know.”
“I have not, you shithead!”
“Shithead? You’re the shithead!” Eddie grabs both of your hands and starts trying to wrestle you off the bed. However, you’re laughing so hard that you can’t really fight back at this point.
“Eddie! Eddie, stop!” You attempt to push at his chest and when that doesn’t work, you switch tactics, trying to just keep your knees in front of you. When you practically can’t breathe anymore and the top half of your body is almost hanging off the side, Eddie finally stops and pulls you back up to a sitting position.
Eddie sits back against the wall, pushing up his sleeves above his elbows, and looks away to the side as if trying to rack his mind, and he looks back over at you asking: “Have you really not seen them?”
“No! I’m not a liar, idiot.” Your eyes find their way to the tattoos along Eddie’s forearms. You’ve always liked his grunge-y tattoos and the gothic rings he wears. He may not be the most fashionable person, but he definitely has a consistent style that just… matches him. It’s something that’s always drawn you to him. Both the mysterious quality of it and the way he doesn’t care what others think about him, he’s going to express himself how he wants.
You must’ve been staring at his arms for a while, because Eddie clears his throat and looks at you with raised eyebrows.
“Do you… want to see them?” he asks tentatively.
“I— well, I mean I’ve always been curious as to what they are but you don’t… have to show me,” you swallow hard, suddenly nervous.
Eddie shrugs, briefly glancing away from you, one of his hands playing with the hem of his shirt. “It doesn’t really matter to me, I don’t mind.”
“Okay… sure.”
“Yeah?”
You nod as a final response and Eddie mutters a quiet “okay” and begins tugging his shirt off, lightly tossing it to the end of his bed once he’s managed to get it off. You try not to stare at his body too much, but you’re also way too flustered to make prolonged eye contact with him. You’ve thought about Eddie Munson shirtless way too often to feel fully comfortable looking him in the eye right now.
You hesitantly reach out to touch his left arm, but you stop just before you make contact, your fingers barely ghosting his now bare skin.
“Can I…?” you ask, trailing off before completing your sentence.
Eddie clears his throat once again. “Yeah, go ahead.”
You let your hand touch his arm, lightly guiding him to turn it outwards so you can see the knife tattooed on his inner bicep.
“A knife? Very cool, Eddie,” you quietly tease, trying to lighten the tension, and glance up at his face, briefly making eye contact before you turn your attention back to his arm.
He laughs. “Yeah, I, uh… that was the first tattoo I got back when I thought I was tough shit for getting some guy to tattoo me even though I was fourteen, but looking back I’m pretty sure he did not care that I was underage.”
You smile at the story. That definitely sounds like Eddie. With some of the awkwardness subsiding, you scooch a little closer to him and your eye catches sight of an electric guitar on his right shoulder.
“Of course you have a guitar tattoo,” you say, touching the tattoo when you point it out. Eddie turns a little so you have a better view.
“Oh yeah, that one I kinda regret.”
“Why?” you ask, raising a brow. He loves guitar and the tattoo itself looks good, so you don’t understand why he would regret it.
“Well I got it when I just started playing, so I didn’t have my Sweetheart yet,” Eddie looks over his shoulder at the guitar on his wall. “I would’ve gotten her rather than some random guitar. But oh well, I still like it. Annnd I can always get another one.”
“I think it would be very fitting to have a tattoo of your guitar.”
“Oh, I also have this one on my back,” he twists to face behind him as best as he can to show you the d20 he has tattooed on his right shoulder blade.
“That is… so very you. And incredibly nerdy,” you admit.
Eddie turns back around to look you in the eye. “Hey, I am not a nerd.”
“You totally are, you can’t deny it.”
He playfully rolls his eyes and the two of you return to silence as you continue scanning over the tattoos. Your attention becomes focused on the tattoos that Eddie has on his chest and stomach. You trail your hand across his arm and to his upper chest, tracing the designs of the ink there. Eddie’s skin is surprisingly soft under your fingertips. You pause with your hand on his chest, feeling the rise and fall of it as he breathes. You wonder if you would feel a sped up heart rate if your hand was on the other side of his chest, if it would match the speed of yours.
Your gaze travels up from the tattoo on his chest to the guitar-pick-necklace he always wears resting in the hollow space between his collar bones. Your eyes follow the curve of his neck up to his lips. They’re slightly chapped, but they still look like they would be soft and sweet against yours. Your own lips part slightly as you take a deep breath before finally looking up into those soft brown eyes of Eddie’s, which you find to be seemingly focused on your mouth.
“Eddie?” you whisper, breaking him out of his trance and he returns your gaze.
“Yeah?” he whispers back.
“Can I… can I kiss you?” you ask, feeling your hand shaking slightly against his chest.
Eddie slowly nods, glancing down at your lips then back up at your eyes. “Yeah… yeah, you can.”
You lean in and close your eyes, Eddie meeting you halfway and pressing his lips to yours. His lips are soft and they seem to fit perfectly against yours. He seems to hesitate for a moment, but soon deepens the kiss by carefully wrapping an arm around your waist and pulling you closer. You press your hand more firmly to his bare chest, stabilizing yourself, and trail your other hand up his left arm to rest on his bicep as you kiss him more passionately.
From Eddie’s edgy and harsh appearance, you’d expect him to be rough and heated, but he’s not. He’s gentle and slow, cherishing the contact with you, cherishing the moment he’s been waiting for the past four years. He should’ve shown you his tattoos sooner if this is what it was always bound to lead to.
You can’t help but get lost in the kiss and the way it feels to finally be having this moment with Eddie. You befriended Eddie your freshman year, and fell for him shortly after. And it was just years of stolen glances and vague flirting after. He’s never been popular by any means, but you’ve always thought that he’s a genuinely interesting person and someone who’s fun to be around. Someone who makes you happy and makes you feel more comfortable in your own skin. You owe a lot of who you are today to Eddie and you think that might go both ways. So now that you’re finally here, kissing someone you’ve always had a thing for and always admired, you think your chest could practically rip open at any second, or your brain could just stop functioning and you could faint in his arms. And when it ends, the kiss simultaneously feels like it lasts a lifetime, but also like it’s way too short.
A harsh knock sounds on the outside of the trailer, startling the two of you apart. A voice calls your name and you soon realize that it’s your mom.
“You need to come make dinner! I’ve got my hands full with the neighbor’s kid!” she yells. Right. You forgot that one of your neighbors has been taking extra shifts at work this week and your mom has been watching her toddler in the evenings.
“Coming!” you yell back. You let out a sigh, not particularly wanting to leave Eddie’s after what just happened between you two, but knowing you’ll get yelled at if you don’t leave at this point. You turn back to him as you get up from his bed. You awkwardly scratch at the back of your neck, not really knowing what to say now.
“I guess I’ll… see you tomorrow?” you say, and it comes out as more of a question.
Eddie nods, fiddling with his rings. “Yeah… see you tomorrow.”
You turn to leave, taking a few steps towards his bedroom door, but pause for a moment. You turn and walk back to Eddie, pressing a short, sweet kiss to his lips and pulling away with a big grin, which he mirrors on his own face.
“Bye,” you whisper.
“Bye,” Eddie whispers back.
You finally actually make your way to leave and as soon as you exit the front door, you jump up in the air and try not to scream your excitement. Then you promptly walk to your own home with a big, dumb grin on your face.
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Here is a little bonus chapter I decided to write if you’d like to read that as well :) Hope you enjoyed!
#stranger things#eddie munson#eddie munson x reader#eddie munson x y/n#stranger things x reader#eddie munson is a dork#no spoilers#eddie munson fluff#tattoo discussion#shirtless eddie munson#flirting#teasing#reader is gender neutral#i am in love with eddie
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Tattoo anon again. I’m also forever in love with little freak. I would love to see how a great artist would visually interpret those lyrics. So many possibilities! Matilda is another one I can’t let go of- I’ve thought a lot about getting the lyric “to the sound of it’s no big deal”. I just think there are so many layers to it, and it’s always resonated with me. I’ve also toyed with the idea of getting a little satellite 🛰️ tattoo. Or even an actual fine line. I could go on and on because he’s given us so many meaningful songs! Thank you for sharing. By the way- your Larry tattoo sounds beautiful 💙💚.
I agree, he has so many meaningful songs, and some really great one liners, too!
After reading this message yesterday, I paid very close attention to Keep Driving, and I realized “just act normal” would be such a great tattoo in that it’s witty and light and layered all at once!
I hope you get whatever it is that’s calling to you the most! ❤️ (a tiny satellite sounds adorable!)
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April 8, 2023
Well it's been a year since I last posted anything on here. I had been quite stressed cause of the pandemic and not having a job. Unfortunately as a result of all the stress I fell into a depression and didn't feel like writing.
Since it's been a year, I should give an update. I have since gotten a job which has helped me with my depression a bit. I have still been doing artwork as well and for my birthday I finally had the courage to book myself an appointment to get a tattoo. I'd always been wanting one and so I'm happy that I finally was able to accomplish it this year.
Yesterday I had my first session for my tattoo and I was extremely nervous. Unfortunately my anxiety acted up a bit when I first arrived to the shop but once I got started it died down. I do think that the anxiety was also brought on by my excitement and nerves about getting my first tattoo. Though the tattoo session itself was long and painful, it was definitely worth it and I can't wait to get it completed.
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ARMS.
#what is that little tattoo#joseph quinn#joe quinn#jq#hoard#hoard movie#give me hoard#give me hoard yesterday#can we discuss???
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walks into the family gathering wearing the shell of something that appears to be human
#mine#my uncle recognized my mcr tattoo and we had a very long discussion about it tho so thats a win ig#but oh my god. i feel like im pretending to be a person im not. let me OUT OF HERE#greatest hits
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Feel free to clarify in the tags/reblogs, as well as talk about your experience with tattoos and piercings as someone who's neurodivergent.
#i just got my sixth piercing (a labret) and im looking to get my eighth tattoo so im curious#especially on sensory issues and tattoos/piercings#and i dont see it talked about a lot so i figure id start the discussion#- siri#also just wanted to test out the polls#note how im only asking neurodivergent people#neurotypicals please dont respond
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Milk ref sheet done yaHOOOOOOOOOOO lookit my big beautiful baby they filled with joy and happiness
#milk#digital#mogimage#the worst part of making this was their fucked up hands#lemurs gotta lemur and grab fruits and branches and small animals and bugs but y'know its fucked up that they have weird hands#at least i was able to euphemistically state how much fun they have with themselves and their girlfriend#robbie just has fuckin. hoof fingers. it don't work like that for her#very sad about that#ANYWAY i learned recently from a discussion on discord about putting tattoos on furries that scars grow white fur sometimes#so i applied that here to make it look less like just fur texture on milk's arms#might tone it down eventually but im not certain#a side story about that is that milk changes the story behind all of their sh scars every time they're asked by someone they don't trust#like “yeah i broke some equipment in a hs chemistry class and stupidly tried to wipe up broken glass with my arms”#“i tried to hug a big cactus when i was younger”#or “i used to work in a kitchen and i was really bad at paying attention when cutting vegetables”#generally they just don't like to think about it so they wear funny arm socks or long sleeves most of the time but sometimes they don't car
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Hello!
New fan of Taz here! 😋
I just saw you post about the bicep tattoo, and I think I can help with that one...
As you can see on this pic, the text says
If you can dream it,
You can do it,
Put a dent in the universe.
I'm not sure about the rest, except the word LOVE under his right pec. But I'm also very curious... (I wonder if he has something written in Spanish) 😆
GIRL- OMG 😫😫 I JUST-
that tattoo is just so incredibly beautiful and sweet??!! thank you for reading that and sharing with everyone omg 😭😭
#LOML FR#GOD- I’VE SEEN WHAT YOUVE DONE FOR OTHERS#imagine sitting with him and discussing his tattoos???!! 😭😭#brb I’m going to go die#seriously thank you for sharing 😭😭😭😭💖💖#asks#Taz Skylar
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Idk it always irks me when Palestinians (or Arabs in general) talk about traditional tattooing and follow it up with “we don’t do it anymore because we’re Muslim now alhamdulillah 🫶” like Islam has existed with traditional tattooing for hundreds upon hundreds of years. This isn’t a debate on whether tattooing is prohibited but a fact that Arabs for centuries have been tattooed long before the spread of Islam and long after as well, like my great grandma was tatted - she was born Muslim and died Muslim. you want to tell me she wasn’t Muslim bc she had tattoos? God help me I’ve engaged in arab community discourse
#this is a whole long discussion that could fill an essay about colonialism and the shift of Islamic practices in the modern era but hhh#it irks me so bad#and it’s not just tattooing but clothing too#not to mention Islam isn’t something observed the same or even practiced by all Arabs
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Mistakes Literally No One But I Have Ever Noticed (After Watching Teen Wolf Seven-ish Times)
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Haha! Didn't expect THIS of all things to be the most interesting thing about me, but, sure.
Gurl, you want receipts? I got yo' receipts:
1. Season 2, Episode 2:
Around the 8:58 mark, you can see a crew member under the principal's desk tapping their foot, near Jackson's knee. (Wouldn't it be funny if the principal was actually hiding a secret blowjob buddy under his desk this whole time and they didn't expect the fucking sheriff to be there that day?)
Anyway, it's more noticeable on a big TV screen then a phone, so I tried my best to brighten and zoom in on the foot tapping the best that I could 😓. You might be able to see it in the first gif if you turn the brightness on your phone up to retina-searing though.
2. Season 3B, Episode 21:
Bare patches of unburned skin on the Nogitsune that the makeup department missed (two patches on the neck and a whole wrist)
3. Season 3A, Episode 5:
During the fight with the Alphas, Derek swings at Kali in the background, and Kali reacts like she's been hit, but there is clearly a very wide berth between both actors
4. Opening Theme Starting from 3A, And Season 1, Episode 9:
Derek's tattoo in the title sequence from 3A onward is the reverse of when we see it in the show. The triskele spirals swirl counterclockwise in the intro while the spirals swirl clockwise in the show. (Also the lines are thinner in the intro version too.)
So, just so we're all clear:
Intro triskele direction vs. Canon direction
5. Season 2, Episode 7:
In the fight between Scott and Jackson, around the 20:55ish minute mark, you can see Tyler Posey's stunt double for several shots.
And also a brief shot of Colton Haynes' stunt double from that fight if you pause just right
6. Season 1, Episode 6, and Season 5(B), Episode 18:
Allison reads about her ancestor, sent by King Louis the 15th, to kill the Beast of Gevaudan, who killed from 1764-1767. Not only was this person a man called Argent, he was said to have hunted the Beast down after his wife and four kids were killed by it.
Later, this ancestor is changed to a woman, Marie-Jeanne Valet played by Crystal Reed (not sent by a king, but, instead, her own sense of responsiblity and justice since the Beast was her brother), who marries a man named Henri Argent AFTER she had already killed the Beast (who actually started killing in 1760, not 1764).
Also, Lydia says all her research said that the Beast was killed by a man named Jean Chastel...?? Out of nowhere and for no reason? Even though she was the person Allison had been telling her family history to in season 1??
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(I mean, there's also the obvious mistakes everyone talks about, i.e. Liam/Mason/Corey/Hayden skipping a grade and all the times the kanima doesn't paralyze someone in a fight, etc., but I wanted to specifically highlight stuff people don't notice)
Some people can run really fast or lift heavy things.
Me? I guess my superpower is watching a whole fucking lot of Teen Wolf and regurgitating micro-observations.
Man, what a shitty superpower.
#sterek#teen wolf#derek hale#stiles stilinski#mieczysław stiles stilinski#tyler hoechlin#dylan o'brien#Meta#Lore#continuity#teen wolf mistakes#That's my secret Captain. I'm always watching Teen Wolf.#Derek's tattoo is a chonky boy with them thick chonky lines#And I know they make a point to say the town burned all evidence of Sebastian Valet (the Beast of Gevaudan)#and it's established that town rumors are spread unreliably#But like even in the Argent family journal?#And if all evidence was burned how did the name Jean Chastel even come up in multiple records at all?#Where did this name even come from?? And Why??#And I know there's a post discussing Derek's tattoo being foreshadowing of Derek being an imposter in s04 but clearly that didn't happen#And the reverse tattoo showed up in s03A anyway not s04 so their evidence was flawed#The tattoo was just animated differently in the s04 intro to curl out from the center but the spirals are still the wrong way in both intro
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solangelo tattoo artist x flower shop owner au?? will is the tattoo artist, nico is the flower shop owner.
#no this is not open for discussion#will has a tattoo HES THE TATT ARTIST#nico inherits the flower shop from Persephone#also i just think he likes flowers#solangelo#nico di angelo headcanon#nico di angelo pjo#nico di angelo#will solace#will solace pjo#will solace headcanon#au#solangelo au#pjo hoo toa
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Should I get a tattoo of the Minecraft end poem “and the universe said I love you” or nah. Be honest
#sillyposting#I’m so serious that poem means so much to me. Julian Gough I owe you my life#everytime I get suicidal I think of it. made from nothing but milk and love is also a banger line that gets me every single time#I’m going to a tattoo consult tonight with me bestie and her tattoo artist#just to feel it out/discuss ideas#my mom is against it but ultimately I am grown at the end of the day lol#she just thinks I’ll regret it and tbh maybe I will! I have no clue#hmm#anyway
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Feelin a little angelic 😇😘
Treat me ~ Tip me
#Anything you wanna talk about/discuss/vent/ask/express/conspire/enquire/share with me?? Send asks! So i can video reply later! 🥰#Any tips/treats always massively appreciated 🥰💕#satans knitwear#my gif to you#Corsetry#Kisses for youuuu#21k followers celebrations#bi girl#uk girl#cheeky#girls with piercings#girls with tattoos#wlw#pretty lingerie sets#white lace lingerie#Lace top stockings#White lingerie set#pearl necklace#stockings and suspenders#underbust corset
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“Morally Grey” Characters
Morally grey characters are a staple of literature and storytelling, and they can be some of the most compelling and thought-provoking figures in a narrative. These characters often blur the lines between good and evil, making readers question their motivations and actions. However, the acceptance of morally grey characters hinges on how their complexity is presented within the story. While morally grey characters can be intriguing and even empathetic, it becomes problematic when their moral ambiguity is used to excuse or downplay abusive or harmful behavior.
Complexity vs. Excuse: Morally grey characters should be portrayed with depth and nuance. Their actions and motivations should be explored in a way that allows readers to understand the complexity of their choices. However, this complexity should not serve as an excuse for abusive or harmful behavior.
Accountability: It's essential that morally grey characters are held accountable for their actions. Their choices, even if morally ambiguous, should have consequences within the story. This accountability demonstrates that the narrative acknowledges the impact of their behavior on others.
Character Development: Morally grey characters should ideally experience growth and change over the course of the story. They may grapple with their actions and seek redemption or self-improvement. This development adds depth to their character arcs and provides a path for reconciliation with the audience.
Exploring the Grey Area: Morally grey characters can serve as a vehicle for exploring ethical dilemmas and the grey areas of human nature. However, this exploration should be done with sensitivity and an awareness of the potential real-world implications.
Avoiding Glamorization: It's crucial to avoid glamorizing abusive or harmful behavior, even within the context of morally grey characters. Romanticizing or justifying such behavior can send harmful messages to readers.
Balanced Perspective: Authors should strive to present a balanced perspective on morally grey characters. This means acknowledging both their strengths and flaws, their virtues and vices. Readers should be encouraged to form their own opinions rather than having a character's behavior imposed as unquestionably acceptable.
In literature, morally grey characters can be some of the most captivating and thought-provoking figures, challenging readers to question their own moral compass. However, their complexity should never be used as a means to justify or romanticize abusive or harmful actions.
#morally grey characters#character complexity#character development#ethicaldilemma#Narrative nuance#abuse awareness#accountability in fiction#character arc#reader’s discussion#Game of Thrones#the count of monte cristo#The Silence of the Lambs#The Picture of Dorian Gray#The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo#American Psycho#Crime and Punishment#The Catcher in the Rye
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new-ish girl at work that has never seen me wear an mcr shirt noticed my pool boy shirt today and complimented it and THEN noticed my bullets tattoo and i could literally feel my face light up like a crazy person i was like oh my god !! you don't know abt me that's like one of the first things ppl tend to learn abt me !! and she asked me what my favorite album was and what song was my favorite and we talked abt them for a while and can i just say. it's BEAUTIFUL organically coming across someone that u can talk to abt your special interest without having to like. worry they don't care as much as you or know what you're talking abt like just letting the floodgates open without fear that they're thinking you're super weird for it LMAO like i know that's why we're all here on this corner of the internet so we can do that with each other ad nauseam but to randomly happen upon that irl is like crazy to me <3
#like u have to be a little bit more than a casual fan to recognize this shirt to begin with so whenever someone does i'm like AHHHHHH#at first i thought she just thought it was a funny shirt and then she mentioned my tattoo and i was like YOOOOOOOO LETS DISCUSS !!!!!!!
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I just realized if Stede and Ed do fuck this upcoming episode, and Stede decides to hit it from the back, he'll have an excellent view of the large "Trust No One" tattoo.
Gonna make for some awkward pillowtalk after, is all I'm saying.
#I know we've already discussed this to an extent (Stede seeing the tattoo when Ed is shirtless)#but the specific visual of Stede seeing it before boning down got to me 😂#ofmd#ofmd s2#gentlebeard#oh and he's definitely still going to go through with the act y'all saw that kiss right? mans is thirsty for some Blackbooty#I'm just picturing the aftermath with him all 'so uh...what inspired the new tattoo?'#and Ed just giving him a flat look lol
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