#I'm a theater kid okay

[jklovesfandoms]

So umm.... Would y'all like an analysis of/opinions on all the rtc choreography? Bc I think you'll get it, even if you don't want it.

Like, I am physically restraining myself bc I have things to do in an hour, and it's gonna take longer than that to do it in good depth.

But like... Would the fandom like that? Bc me, as fandom wants to do it, and I am. Bc I have a 4 day weekend.

This isn't asking, this is warning.

You're getting me ranting about choreography in the off Broadway production, if you like it or not.

Suffer, if you don't

#ride the cyclone #rtc #ride the cyclone musical #man i love this musical so much #I'm a theater kid okay #this is what i do in my spare time #i will put way too much thought and effort into these posts #also pretty much every number will have it's own analysis #not making y'all read the full thing #that's just kinda torture #not really but you know what i mean

[softquietsteadylove]

drama for the runaway bride au: A man from the nearby village has seen Thena at Gilgameshs little forest house and informed royal guards who informed the King and now they're standing in front of Gilgameshs door again and invite themselves in and they're dragging Thena back to the castle

Gil smiled down at the flowers in his hand. Thena would love them--they were soft and white and lovely, just like her. He would put them in some water when he got home, maybe after dinner. Thena was probably chopping vegetables this very second. She was getting better at it.

It had been almost a year since she found him--or since he found her, maybe it was better to say. The beautiful bride he found hiding in a tree trunk was no longer a lost little fawn. She had come to learn everything that was required to keep the house in good order. She had taken over those duties all together when he'd been injured.

The cabin was as much hers as it was his, as far as he was concerned.

And it was high time he tell her as much, too. Maybe it was silly to do something so formally when she had indeed lived alongside him all this time. He often blushed to remember that they even shared a bed. But he felt he had to say something--let her know just how important it was to him that she was here.

"No, let go of me!"

The flowers dropped from Gil's hand. He took off in a run, his feet slipping faintly as he charged towards the house, a royal carriage parked out front.

"Get off me!" Thena screamed, so unlike her usual self. But she was a force to be reckoned with, clawing and thrashing, teeth bared like a wild animal.

"Your highness, please," the men pleaded with her.

"Let her go!" Gil bellowed before he could even think about it. All he knew was that he could see Thena being taken away, and he had to stop it. "Get away from her!"

"The lumberjack is back!"

"Stop him!"

"He has a weapon!"

"No!" Thena pulled against the suits of armour holding each of her arms. "No, don't hurt him!"

Gil slid to a stop, holding his axe but eyeing the line of royal soldiers with their swords pointed at him. "What do you think you're doing with her?"

"The princess is coming with us!"

"Like hell she is," he snarled at them. He would fight all of them, outnumbered or not, if he had to. "You're not going anywhere with my Thena."

"Gil!" she cried out for him. She managed to pull away from her captors, shoving the men out of her way until she could stand in front of him. "Enough!"

"Your highness, move!" the frontmost man barked at her.

"No!" she barked right back at him (that was his Thena). "Or would you rather report to my father than you've run me through trying to capture an innocent man?"

The guards did lower their weapons, although it didn't do much to make Gil feel better about the whole thing. The captain glared at him. "He is no innocent man, your highness. The lumberjack stands accused of kidnapping and holding the princess hostage."

"There is no such crime," Thena stated, although it seemed that - princess or not - her word didn't weigh as much as it should to the men facing them.

"His majesty has been searching, my lady," the captain scowled at her, still standing in front of Gil to protect him. "For nigh on a year, now."

It was a year this very day, actually.

"Then tell him you've found me," Thena challenged, her shoulders squared and her braid sliding off her shoulder and down her back. "Tell him you've found me and that I refuse to return."

The other guards looked between themselves. They were just men following orders, doing their jobs, trying to feed themselves and their families.

"I cannot, your highness."

"Well I won't be going with you, so you may pick which is a worse fate," Thena snipped at him, grasping Gil's hand behind her. "But if a hair on this man's head is hurt, I will have the lot of you executed."

Gil blinked. The men didn't seem to take her all that seriously, but he would be trembling in his armour if he were in their shoes. They hadn't seen her furious at the end of a long day when he'd forgotten to wipe his muddy boots off yet again.

"Princess Thena," the captain resumed his attempt at reasoning with her. He stepped forward, hand on his chest (and off his weapon). "Not only your father but your fiance the prince has also-"

"I have no fiance, captain," Thena cut him off without even batting an eye. "And if there is a snivelling pup inhabiting the castle saying he is, then I mourn for the days of your honour as a royal guard."

Damn, she really had a way with words, especially when they were insulting.

"My lady, I implore you," the captain bent at the waist and bowed to her. "I am not to return without you, sworn on my life."

Thena sighed. She wouldn't be responsible for something like that--she refused to be. Gil gave her hand a squeeze, "captain?"

"Highness?" he peeked up at her, a little too eager for how little time had passed.

"If my father has threatened you all with death," she held her head high. "Then I suggest you run away."

The men paled.

"These forests are deep. You could find the village, start anew, take your families and leave the prison my father calls a castle. But I will not return there with you, and if your lives depend on me doing so, then I am telling you now to save yourselves."

"Highness," another guard interjected, although Gil got the sense that he wasn't really allowed to speak up so freely. "If it's about the lumberjack, perhaps your father would employ-"

"Silence!"

Gil shrank slightly, and he was behind her! The men facing them flinched.

"My father," she said it like she would talk about hay mould, or spiders, or wild boars. Her eyes locked with the guard, "is not fit to stand in the same room as the man behind me."

"H-Highness-"

"Stop calling me that!"

"Princess," the captain took the reins again, his voice raising. "I have been ordered to bring you back. And I regret to inform you that I am to use any means necessary to do so."

"Truly?" she didn't back down from the threat, but still stood close enough to Gil that no one would be able to approach him without her being in the way. "Would you tie me up and kidnap me, captain? Would you apprehend the crown princess?"

"If I must, my lady," he informed her with an equal lack of remorse. "I was ordered to retrieve you, alive, but by no means was I told to do so with gentility. And if I must bring you back by force, then so be it."

Gil gripped his axe again. He didn't like where this was headed. Thena backed up into him even more, pressing her back to his chest. Her hand gripped the handle of his axe, throwing off his grip. She didn't want him to fight.

"I'm sure my resistance will be attributed to my so called 'kidnapper' fighting you off?" Thena assumed aloud.

"Aye," the captain confirmed.

"Then I must tell you..."

Gil held his breath same as the guards did. He didn't know what she had up her sleeve, but it had better be good. It really seemed like everyone's lives were depending on it.

"That I have already married him."

What was that now?

The men traded looks, most horrified, a few more curious than anything. The captain looked positively flushed with rage. "I beg your pardon."

"I have married this man," Thena proclaimed like it was nothing. She wound their fingers together.

"Each and every marriage must be officiated properly, your highness." The captain looked mortified, but in an angry way. "Your father will never recognise it as a lawful union."

"Then I suppose you will have to go and tell him regardless."

"Thena," he breathed against her hair. He wasn't sure if this would only invite more trouble down the line or not, especially considering it was a bold faced lie. But he went with it.

"That his daughter has run off and had a bastardisation of a marriage in the woods with some lowly peasant?!"

Gil huffed; he wasn't rich by any means, but he wasn't sure if he was a peasant, either. He had just worked at the castle not two weeks ago!

"Yes," she persisted, "tell him exactly that, or anything else. But he may know that I love the man I am with, and that I will not return to his gilded cage to be sold like chattel."

The captain sighed deeply. If looks could kill, he would be on trial for regicide, "if that is what her highness wishes."

"It is an order."

As if the word 'order' were a magic spell, the men all snapped up straighter, heels together. "Ma'am!"

"Then we must inform the king," the captain declared, pulling back his tiny battalion to deliver truly terrible news.

"I wish you luck," Thena sent them off with the snide wish, crossing her arms as they loaded into the carriages again. She kept glaring until they were dragging themselves off the beaten path and back to the main road again.

Gil let out a breath once they were out of sight. He leaned on his knees, heart hammering, "wow."

Thena also sighed, turning around to face him. "I suppose we will have to be prepared for the possibility that the magistrate will come knocking next."

"Uh, Thena?"

"Perhaps Eros will come with some fake document to state that I am not legally allowed to marry anyone but him," she continued, rolling her eyes and sorting out her braid again, "like a land deed."

"Thena," Gil tried again.

"As much as I never want to see him again, I would pay any price to see the image of my father's face when he finds out his crown jewel has-"

"Thena!" he interrupted, not at all yelling at her but certainly not keeping quiet anymore. He stood to his full height again, smiling at her, "married, are we?"

Finally faced with the consequences of her lie, she looked down at the ground between them, quickly flushing rouge. "U-Uh, w-well-"

"Wish I had known," he chuckled, trying to get a peek at her face, "I'd have gotten you a gift, darling."

She squirmed, toying with the edge of her apron (which none of the guards noticed was literally made from her once-wedding dress). "I had to think of something they couldn't argue with me about."

"No, I guess you were right," Gil chuckled, throwing his arm over her shoulders and pulling her closer, "now I just have to worry about your dad busting down my door, huh?"

"Please," she scoffed at the very idea, "Father hasn't set food outside the castle in well over two decades. I think he would sooner write me off as missing and deceased than lift a finger to verify it himself."

Gil wasn't sure if that was so true, but he couldn't do anything but take her word for it at the moment. He kissed her forehead, "are you okay?"

She sighed, leaning against his chest, tugging at the suspenders over his flannel shirt. "I tried to hide again but they circled the house and took me. I was worried...I thought you wouldn't-"

"Hey, okay, sh," he whispered, pressing his nose to her temple as she sniffed back her tears. He had been scared of that very thing. "It's okay, nothing like that is gonna happen."

Neither of them could guarantee that.

Thena put her hands on his hips, while he did the same for her. "I'm sorry to lie like that."

He shook his head. He didn't mind it nearly as much as she thought he did. Maybe he minded that it wasn't actually true, but that was for a later date. "It is our anniversary, actually."

Thena smiled, their foreheads meeting gently. She rose on her toes, just enough to touch her lips to his, "happy anniversary, my sweet lumberjack."

#Thenamesh Runaway Bride AU #drama it is my dearest! #I love a touch of drama really #in case you couldn't tell that I was a filthy theater kid in school #well not filthy #we were all awkward little weirdos by the time I was in anything #anyway I'm glad this au really stuck with people #it's become more popular than I thought it would #but I always enjoy that #Gil comes home now like hey honey I'm home! #Thena's okay all right settle down #he asks how his lovely wife is doing today #she's like put me out of my misery #meanwhile they still sleep together #which would have been Thena's next point of argument if it were necessary #not that they've done anything but sleep #but if she must tell them that she gets down and dirty with this man every night then so be it

[donnie-and-their-backup-turtles]

i kinda think part of why people treat donnie as less caring than he is is like. sometimes not knowing when he's joking? like that time he threatens to be "semi-lethal" when splinter's in the truck with meat sweats. like i'm sure most of you knew he was joking but like. do some of you realise he like, would not have done that? like remember how he was sad? when splinter actually got hurt? same with leo in the movie? and all of them at every other time?

like he's self proclaimed funniest. and also a mad scientist aesthetic doesn't make a character a villain by itself it's what you actually do with that (yes he has done bad things within that area (haunted stare towards mind meld) but you have to admit he like. did fix those. and feel bad and hopefully learn his lesson but hey that's another analysis)

i have mixed feelings on villain donnie stuff, as an example, because like. ANY character put in a situation where they lose their way is really fun and if in character is really interesting as to what could cause that.

but when it's treated as like. inevitable. who he is, or phrasing his brothers are the only thing stopping him being evil. it's like hm. ugh. kind of hurts a bit actually but that's probably because i relate to him ghfdjk

like the seen in snow day with the tech bo chainsaw like. all he really DOES is cut a snowman there but he's just like. leaning into being "evil" with the chainsaw but like he's just being silly with it. acting like that's proof of anything is wild to me, without any other data points.

also kind of separate but i think there's a dissonance between what is like. seen as evil? between me and like most people lol. like the scene in the movie as well with like "finally, man and machine, entwixt in perfect bionic synergy" someone i watched it with was like "haha evil moment" or whatever where i was just like. yeah real that would be rad as hell. honestly gender also.

not saying he's never done anything wrong but i am saying he immediately tries to fix all of those things

anyway he does have a really interesting relationship with morals in my eyes but like, at his core he really cares about people, you know?

this isn't hate to anyone btw i just care about donnie a lot as a character and as really layered autistic representation

#rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #donnie analysis #making that a tag now because i know what i'm like #rottmnt analysis #i can write so much about donnie. idk if it's good. or accurate. but i can write it #unrelated but it's so funny when people say donnie's cishet or homophobic even (the latter as a joke but. not my type of humor personally) #and then say he's villain coded. like lol. i laugh. i know it's probably different sets of people for the most part but yeah #especially if they compare him to megamind specifically. like okay #megamind famous bisexual neurodivergent and you know. no longer even a villain at the end #like i'm not saying you're wrong i'm saying that it's actually more than just surface level theater kid stuff there (that too though) #like donnie has people who care about him from the start. they're not “keeping him in check” (yikes?) they're caring about him. nuance #but yeah like. genuinely i think it's interesting how he's seen as villain-coded #like i know villains and queer-coding is a known thing but i'm just wondering. is that also a thing with autistic-coding #or do people just naturally not get autistic people in real life and find them scary and that just carries across in responses to fiction #idk #donnie villain fic where he sees how he's perceived anyway by fanon and just gives up on being good #joke but i guess you can steal that just write it well if you do. for me. idk if it'd even be a villain concept really there #he'd probably just be like. sad. and try even harder to be good. #also what about mikey villain fics huh. there's literally a cut episode that would be so fun to play with #anyway feedback appreciated #this was so train of thought i'm sure some of it's unclear

[p1xel-ra1nb0w]

i think that we as a society should talk abt Disaster! more

#I'm currently in this show and it's some of the funniest shit ever y'all😭 #like it's underrated fr #I literally love this show with my whole heart and it's a shame that I don't see many people talking abt it #I know that blogging abt it on my shitty little blog won't make a difference but be the change you wanna see in this world🗣🔥 #also the people I'm performing with are literally so talented #like #I'm literally in awe of them #I'm so grateful to be in this show #I'm sorry I'm yapping so much #but like #This show is taking up like 80% of my brain space👍 #brainrot fr #Okay I'm sorry I'll stfu now😊 #disaster! #disaster the musical #musicals #theater kid

[fitheghosty]

once upon a december from anastasia the musical is a jane doe song and I will not take any disagreeing on this

#I'M RIGHT AND YOU KNOW IT #'things my heart used to know' OKAY JANE DOE CORE #ride the cyclone #ride the cyclone musical #rtc #musicals #musical theater #off broadway #musical theatre #theater kid #fandoms #jane doe rtc

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Besties I got tagged in some ask games, which are murder on my social anxiety. I love being asked but I hate tagging people lol, I have some in my drafts from 2018 just percolating because I was scared to actually tag. BUT I’M DETERMINED. I know there were others I was tagged in earlier so I am v sorry if you tagged me in one and I never responded know I was very touched and I loved it and now I’ll do it lol. So anyways here:

I was tagged by @today-or-tumble and @mars1z

Relationship status: Single

Favorite color: teal

Song stuck in my head: I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady lol, I just got back from the musical an hour ago. I know I’m gonna schedule this but KNOW when I wrote this it was an hour ago.

Favorite food: Pesto tortellini 

Last song I played: Chronically Cautious by Braden Bales (listen this is my Spider vibe lately)

Dream trip: It’s dumb but if I was rich I’d pay for me and all my friends to do Semester at Sea so we could all learn and go cool places all over the world.

Last thing I googled: Lucky Seat, I always get hyped after I see a musical, I hope you fuckers in Cincinnati are having fun with Hadestown that shit rocked,  All I’ve Ever Known and Wait For Me?? I’ll die. 

We are brave so we tag: @mochalottie @dinas-bracelet @spicymiilk @theoriginaljordge @tuberculosis-chic @residenthottiesamwilson @peachycrime @buzzing-honeybee (i will never forget u og spider bestie)

#also we not doing the reblog ones i feel liek those are murder on the poor original creator so u can have my own if you want to get to know #me that bad #also this shit is making me look like a REAL theater kid #you've caught me on a bad night i like live theater okay #WAIIIIIIIIT FOR ME i'm coming WAIIIIIT i'm coming with you #melissa og #melissa bullshit

[zaritarazi]

you can play as the dark urge every day if you were abused as a child

#i'm wearing it now! #you don't remember anything but what you do is horrific okay thanks i'm well aware #his special skyrim vampire lord ability is just fucking ied. i would know #if you're living the little of column A little of column B (personality disorders) experience you can simply dark urge your way around town #rip to alfira. but let this be a lesson to all theater kids #abuse cw #rachel plays bg3

[hauntedfalcon]

I'm going fucking inSANE no one FUCKING listens to me and I get to fucking SUFFER for it

#ranty rant rant #husband bought tickets for kid to see the T*ylor Sw*ft live movie whatever thing in the theater! said he'd go with her! #now keeps trying to get out of going!! she asked to go by herself and he SAID OKAY????????????????? #my guy no one who pays a million dollars to go to fancy ass movie theater wants to sit next to an unattended minor #there are LITERALLY RULES ABOUT IT #I've got D&D and can't go and would never have agreed to go if this was part of the discussion from the fucking beginning #now he asks me for a favor! wants me to pick her up when it's over because he'll have to leave early for a thing! #a thing he knew about when he bought the fucking tickets and said he'd go!! #my dude! she's gonna get kicked out before she gets to finish watching the thing! she's gonna get kicked out before I'm done with D&D!!!!!! #she's gonna get kicked out and I'm gonna go pick her up and she's gonna be crying and miserable and we both get to SUFFER but NOT HIM #dont FUCKING change plans on the day of! don't FUCKING DO IT don't FUCKING DO IT #don't fucking make stupid fucking decisions don't fucking do it don't FUCKING do it

[waterloggedtomorrow]

Only barely relatedly but one other opinion I have is that child actors should be limited to one role. There's a maximum filming hours limitation so they can't be on 15 seasons of a television show. Like, I think if a kid wants to be an actor, they should be able to try it out, and I think that if you want to make a movie w a kid in it, you can do that, but children Cannot be professional actors.

#mostly they're just gonna be Bad + that's okay! #you've gotta structure your film around a bad child actor #would this extend to community theater productions?? I dunno I'm just saying words #you can make home movies w your kids but by god if money is changing hands...

[jedi-bird]

Went and saw Return of the Jedi with my partner this weekend. It was an awesome experience and a truly nerdy day. And there was a pretty entertaining kid sitting behind us. During the course of the movie, he said:

"Do you think this time the empire will win?" (Said before the movie started despite saying he seen the movie multiple times because "it might be different this time!"

"Come on, just kill Luke already!" (Yelled at the guards)

"Yay! Eat her!" (First rancor scene)

"Don't kill Jabba, he's the best!" (Said with much indignation over Leia strangling Jabba)

"Is this where Yoda dies? Come on, die already!"

"Luke should join him."

"Yay! Shoot down Luke and Leia! No! Don't die! You're supposed to shoot them!" (Very upset that the scout troopers died on Endor)

"Stupid fucking bears! Die already!!!" (Kid is like nine, like wtf)

"Yeah, kill the rebels!"

"No!" (Shouted when Vader yeets the Emperor into oblivion)

"I cried when they blew to the death star! They shouldn't have done that!!! The empire is the best!"

Needless to say, I forget what an "experience" seeing movies in a theater is.

#my partner and i keep quoting the kid and laughing #because it was honestly super annoying #kid had no volume control and was encouraged several times by his parents to be louder #tickets cost a lot too #but it was still a great day and I'm not going to let a little shit head ruin it #i now have things to laugh over so that's okay #it was also my first time seeing any of the original trilogy for star wars in theaters #i missed them when they returned in the 90s for reasons and never really thought I'd have the chance

[roseband]

...

#ummmmm my fiance and i realized we can....afford an apartment the same size as ours in a non-doorman building #with only a 10 year mortgage #but not in our ideal neighborhoods ;_; but still an okay neighborhood based on preferences #so we may start actual co-op hunting soon #so we can actually purchase purchase after our wedding in october #like i need to talk to a financial advisor BUT it would probably be better for us to build up equity until we can afford a 2 bed??? #i mean our rent is insanely cheap (ya girl knows how to navigate nyc rentals) and stabilized #but even if 1k is going to principle a month that's 1k more that we'd have in an asset LOL #and then can sell eventually when we need a 2 bed but ughghghg adulting...decisions #i know my mom can EASILY cosign on a mortgage (even though I THINK we can qualify on our own based on incomes/credit scores w/o a cosign) #for the buildings i'm looking at rn we actually BOTH qualify for their board approval as individuals like we make...double what their board #require...... lol and the school district is okay-ish cause my mom taught in the zoned school when she was going school #to school when she was an ATR cause her theater program got fully cut #(not to sound like an elitist prick but i doubt that if michael and i had a kid they'd go to a zoned HS lol...... we met at a shsat school) #if we weren't ever thinking about having a kid this wouldn't even be a THOUGHT we'd just BUY now cause we can put at least 25% down??? #but we can't afford to do that comfortably (and don't need to) on a 2 bed yet sooooo UFGHGHHGGH #personal

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Etho: Dear Scar, we have to settle the-the-the shame you brought upon me before. I need to…defeat you. Scar: (snickers) I'll wash you just like your mother (?) Ren: Theater kid Etho is my second favorite theater kid. Scar: (snickering) It got weird. Ren: (laughs) xB: Second favorite--wait, what? (giggles) Ren: Marteen is my favorite theater kid, of course. Etho: I shall wash you like a pair of socks.

---

Ren: --it's true. Bdubs (about Etho): I hope he never roleplays again. Gem, Ren, Bdubs: (all laugh) Gem: Gonna discourage that. We like the-the Etho. Bdubs: Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Ren: Well, I'm going to encourage it. Etho's my second favorite theater kid. Bdubs: Oh no, leave him-leave him alone. Ren: He's so good! His British accent is amazing. It's so good. Bdubs: Okay, okay. Everybody buckle up. Ren: You'll be next, Bdubs. You've got a theater kid in you. I know it's in there. Gotta squeeze it out, somehow. Bdubs: Yeah, yeah, it's the quick thinking of words, you know? Ren: Yeah. Bdubs: My whole persona is based off of, I can't think of words. (Ren laughs) And, and (Bdubs clears his throat) You-you and Martyn, you guys are quick thinkers. You think of words real fast. Ren: Yeah, when you theater kid you've gotta be (snaps fingers) snappy.

#rendog #ethoslab #bdubs #inthelittlewood #hermitcraft #xb and gem are in here but i'm not tagging them #video #transcribed

[amandabe11man]

I don’t consider Spiderman 3 bad but it’s certainly the weakest in the og trilogy so I'm ashamed to say that from what I remember, Spiderman 3 was the only one of the raimi-movies I saw in theaters when it came out, lol

#I MIGHT'VE watched the first one in theaters too but idk maybe I was too young at that time #no wait nvm 10 years definitely wouldn't be too young to watch that #anyway ofc I watched it as a kid at sOME point cause even I was into that #might been in theaters or just on tv irdk #i have DISTINCT memories of watching 3 in theaters with my brother and some family friends tho. and liking it #sandman was fuckin cool okay I'm not ashamed #you might've noticed I haven't mentioned Spiderman 2 yet in this post #WELL that's because to this day....I still haven't seen it #that's grounds for being put in the shamecube fr #I remember seeing the mv for ana johnson's 'we are' with clips from the movie though so uh #I should get on that #this was all back when marvel wasn't......whatever it is now okay

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

After Starcourt, Steve finally managed to get a date. He actually liked her, too. She was nice, smart, and completely smitten over the fact that he was fond of the kids he babysat. Apparently, she didn't take it too well that Dustin followed him onto his date. She left before Dustin came back from the bathroom.

"Hey, where's Lydia?" Dustin asked.

"Oh, her parents called the theater. Apparently, there was a family emergency," Steve shrugged.

"Oh, that sucks. You were really looking forward to it," Dustin frowned. "More popcorn for us."

He made his way over to the concession stand. Steve didn't have the heart to tell him the real reason why she left. Dustin's had a hard time lately since the mall, and from what Claudia told him, he's been having nightmares lately. He didn't have to say anything, but Steve figured the reason why Dustin's been clinging to both him and Robin lately was because he felt guilty about them getting hurt. Robin had agreed with him on that theory. He didn't mind it much. He loved spending time with Dustin, someone he thought of like a little brother, and he knew Robin had come to think of him like that, along with Erica. It was where Robin was currently at "babysitting" for the Sinclairs while they had their own date night. As much as she complained, Erica had wormed her way into Robin's heart. Once they got their drinks and popcorn, they found a couple of seats up front.

"Excuse me, is this seat taken?" A voice asked.

"No," Steve replied with looking, and he almost did when he felt leather brush up against his arm.

"Steve?" Dustin asked.

"Yeah?"

"Your date stood you up because of me, didn't she?" Dustin asked.

"What? No!" Steve said quickly.

"You're a terrible liar, Steve," Dustin whispered. "But that's okay, Steve, I still think you're my brother."

"Well, you know, if she doesn't understand that my little brother is important to me, then she's not worth my time," Steve whispered.

"You guys are terrible whisperers," a voice from Steve’s other side said. "Also, totally adorable."

Steve turned and found that Eddie Munson was sitting on his other side.

"Do you know this guy, Steve?" Dustin asked.

"Eddie Munson," the man himself introduced. "Didn't know Steve Harrington had a nerdy little brother."

"I adopted him," Dustin replied. "Besides, Steve’s not just a jock. He's a nerd, too."

"No, I'm not," Steve scoffed.

"Please, I found the comic books under your bed," Dustin hissed.

"What the hell did I tell you about going through my stuff, you little shit?" Steve hissed back.

"You really are brothers," Eddie grinned.

"Hey, Eddie, you're a guy," Dustin said suddenly.

"That's what it says on my birth certificate," Eddie replied.

"Do you know why a guy would keep his muscle magazines with his playboys? Do you think it's a jock thing?" Dustin asked.

"Oh my god!" Steve exclaimed, mortified.

Steve could feel Eddie watching him with curious eyes, and he waited for his reaction.

"You know, it must be a jock thing," Eddie said. "I think if I were your brother, I'd give you hell for digging through his private things."

Dustin sighed and rolled his eyes, but Steve took this as a sign that he's thinking about how wrong he was. The movie was about to start. Suddenly, Eddie leaned so close to him that Steve could feel his hair tickling his cheek, his breath in his ear.

"It's not just jocks who put their muscle magazines with their playboys," Eddie whispered and paused briefly, moving in closer until his lips were brushing up light against his ear. "Big boy."

Eddie sat back in his seat, leaving Steve flushed. His heart was pounding in his ears, and suddenly, his crush on Eddie came roaring back. Steve cursed mentally as he tried to focus on the movie and not on the fact that Eddie was leaning more heavily against his arm. His pinky was brushing up against his. At some point, Eddie started running over his hand, drawing circles into his skin. His touch was setting him on edge, and it was making his brain go all fuzzy.

"Bathroom," Steve said gruffly and stood up quickly.

He was grateful that there wasn't anyone in the bathroom when he went it. It allowed him to catch his breath. It was crazy how one single moment could bring out all of the feelings that he shoved inside of him when he was just a freshman, a freshman who has seen the most beautiful boy ever. He honestly hadn't felt this way since Nancy, and honestly, it was baffling. Just one little moment, and he was crazy about him again. Suddenly, the door opened, and Steve looked through the mirror as Eddie walked into the restroom. They made eye contact, and he raised a questioning eyebrow at him as he locked the door. Suddenly, Steve was moving and pressing Eddie up against the door as he kissed him. Eddie pulled him closer by his hips as he kissed him back. Of course, it didn't last long before someone wanted in. They broke the kiss, and Eddie quickly disappeared into a stall before Steve could unlock. The man walked in and frowned at him.

"Uh, the door got stuck," Steve said.

"I heard the lock, young man," he said.

Steve slipped by him and hurried back to his seat. Eddie soon came back, a grin on his face. He pulled a pen out of his pocket and started writing his number on Steve’s hand.

"Call me when you're ready to have a date without your brother," Eddie whispered. "I really do appreciate people who collect lost sheep."

Steve grinned. Things were looking up. Suddenly, he was very grateful that Lydia stood him up.

#stranger things #eddie munson #stranger things s4 #joseph quinn #steve harrington #eddie stranger things #eddie munson lives #steddie #steve x eddie #steve harrington x eddie munson #bisexual eddie munson #bisexual steve harrington #bi4bi #dustin henderson #henderfam #henderdads #stranger things fanfiction #rueleigh writes

[fitheghosty]

okay my brain is filled with angst now for the ghost au so uh have an idea

constance is having a really bad day, well as much as a ghost day can get bad. someone from the choir says one thing to annoy her and suddenly she's teleported out. penny, who doesn't know much about the choir's lives, asks everybody where they think she went. she wants to be the one to be there for her

naturally, it's her family's cafe, so penny makes a run for the comforting, little establishment. she finds anything but that. instead of finding constance crying like she expected, she finds her staring up at the cafe. hands fisted and eyes wide open with shock.

"they're closing." she says.

"..what?" penny turns her head to constance.

"my mom and dad are closing the cafe. I heard them talking about it." she seems to internally flinch while she talks, still currently in shock.

"let's just sit down—" "NO!"

constance ends up yelling at penny, but slowly her hard breathing turns into slow sobs. she takes a seat on the curb, and starts mumbling to herself. penny wishes she could touch her.. she's not the greatest at comforting but at least she would have the option. all she can do is be there for constance as she breaks down. after awhile, constance calms herself down enough to talk to penny. she talks about her family. the way her brother would dance to any pop song if you turned it on, the way her mom would bring in warm comfort food from the cafe if she knew constance had a frustrating day, and how her dad would listen to her patiently as she tried to figure out a math problem that seemed to be a little too hard for her that day

she talked about it all, how she's glad that her family is sorta moving on, but it still hurts to witness. she talked about her confusion on what her family is going to do next if they don't have the cafe, their way of bringing joy to the community. did it remind them too much of her? was constance the reason?

"I guess it's still taking time to mourn my life.. today made me realize that."

penny nodded with a sad smile. she got that, she gets mourning something that will never be the same. now, both of them understand eachother, they're closer than they were before. penny waits there at that little curb for however long constance needs

#DON'T LOOK AT ME I'M SAD OKAY #YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT #I JUST. I'M #LET CONSTANCE BE SAD OKAY?? #i feel like this hits close to home writing this idea bc i too suck at handling change & the choirs whole situation in this au is that #they all mostly love their undead lives with penny but they still have their off days #ride the cyclone #ride the cyclone musical #rtc #musicals #musical theater #off broadway #musical theatre #theater kid #fandoms #off broadway theater #off broadway musicals #rtc ghost au #constance rtc #penny lamb

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

aita for calling out someone for being manipulative towards a trans friend? Names have been changed for privacy reasons and TLDR at the end because this is long.

I (24f) am cis but have had a lot of trans friends (binary, nonbinary, and neopronoun) throughout the years and am very supportive so i take this very seriously. So I met this girl my first year in college (we were 18 at the time) and we became friends. We're polar opposites, she talks a lot and I don't, she parties a lot and I like to do more sophisticated things, she's a typical extrovert basically, and I'm more introverted. Anne (24f) was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I don't know when, she just told me this years ago. I've seen tiktoks about bpd and researched Google about bpd a little so I know all about how they have fave persons and will "mimic" people in the friend group and become clingy, manipulate, etc. I've seen pics of her in high school, noticed that she was a theater kid, she said she was good at acting and even said she thinks her bpd helped with her acting although I'm not sure how, but she said she only joined the theater club because a boy she had a crush on was in theater. That should've been my first red flag but I was naive. She has a degree in something else (not theater) because our second year in college her favorite character in a TV show did a certain job, she got interested in that, and now she also does that as a living. She doesn't talk about her bpd, she's only mentioned it a handful of times. I can count on one hand how many times. And I get it because she said someone once told her people with bpd should be sterilized and not be allowed near children. Which is really messed up and I hate that someone said that.

However on with the situation. One of our friends Mike (25m) is a trans man. We met him four years ago. He's very handsome, broody, introverted, intelligent, great listener, very accepting and understanding, similar to me but opposite to her. Now we didn't know he was trans until two years ago, because I asked him on a date and he turned me down, and when I asked why he told me that he was mostly T4T and only viewed me as a friend. We were like woah you're trans, okay that's cool, etc. He explained that he was lucky enough to get on puberty blockers and transition young etc which is why he passes. I said okay I'm not trans and you're mostly T4T fair enough.

Well last year Anne suddenly tells us that she is trans too. She says she's bigender. She says she is okay with either she her or he him because she feels like a man and a woman at the same time. Some days she's a woman, some days she's a man, and some days she's both, according to her. She says she does not like they them pronouns. Suddenly her and Mike are spending all this extra time together. Last month he confided in me that he thinks he's in love with her, after years of him only seeing her as a friend, and then they started officially dating.

Here's the problem: she has not changed her outward appearance, her name, started any kind of medical stuff, joined any groups, bought a binder etc. We all continue to call her she and her because she fully presents as female and doesn't have a problem with it. Also she's very effeminate in body language, the way she talks, etc. I know technically I could call her a he or a him, too, but she never asks me to or corrects people when they call her she because well technically she is a she too. Mike is the only one who uses he and him pronouns with her as often as she and her, but she has never thanked him. It really feels like she's saying she's trans and then going about her life exactly as a cis woman simply to convince Mike to date her.

First off, Anne and Mike are NOT compatible. She likes to party, smoke weed, talks a lot, I'm not sure how she graduated with such good grades or why she does so well in her job because she is honestly a LOT to handle and I'm saying that as nice as possible. Mike would never touch weed or go to clubs and he says he would be fine staying home while she does those things but how could you trust someone to party while high and not hook up with others? I've seen her make out with five people in one night at a frat party. They also had wildly different childhoods, such as she grew up in a conservative community and doesn't speak to her family, and he grew up in a liberal area and is close with his family. But more importantly she has a history of joining theater because she had a crush on someone in theater (plus she admits she is good at acting, so maybe she is acting now?) and getting a degree and job in a field because a favorite fictional character did that and now this? It feels like she was attracted to him, found out he usually dates other trans people, and found a way to continue being cis but claim to be trans without having to do anything trans related, basically mimicing her favorite person. As soon as they met they hit it off, or should I say she clung to him and pretended to have the same likes and dislikes whenever they were alone I assume.

It sounds terrible I know, which is why I discussed this with a group chat first that neither of them are in, and the group chat not only agreed that she is far too "obnoxious" for him (those were NOT my words!) but that she is faking being trans in an attempt to make him fall in love with her (which seems to be working.) I would NEVER have gone further without making sure with them first. So then a few of the people in my group chat and I held an intervention with Anne alone. The six of us (the others don't live close enough to come) met up with Anne at her place and told her what she was doing was wrong and gross and that she needed to get help for her bpd and to stop catfishing Mike. She didn't take well to what was said, which I anticipated, but she went crazy. She was screaming at us, insulting us, sobbing while yelling etc, literally said if we ever contacted her again she would call the cops, so we left.

I immediately called Mike before she could and asked him to meet me at a restaurant nearby and that it was very important. Since Mike doesn't know anyone in the group chat I went alone and I explained EVERYTHING before she could gaslight and manipulate him even further. He left, did not finish or pay for his food. I messaged him several times, but a few hours later he texted me to never to speak to him again, and then blocked me on everything. I showed up to his house and Anne was there. Mike said if I ever contacted him again he would get a restraining order on me so I left. I've discussed this with the group chat and now suddenly half of them changed their mind and don't want to talk about it anymore. Several of them left the group chat. Not only that but several of my friends who know either Mike or Anne or both have blocked me on everything. When I've tried to contact these friends through other means and explain everything, they either didn't respond or said for me never to contact them again because I was being transphobic. Listen I know under NORMAL circumstances you shouldn't question when someone comes out but this is NOT a normal situation, and now I am concerned Anne is unsafe for Mike but also an unsafe person to know, as she literally is trying to destroy my life because I called her out on some seriously messed up and abusive behavior.

TLDR am I the asshole for trying to protect my trans friend from a potential stalker?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole