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galamerapple · 3 months
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how are we doing kevin nation
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taktitty · 3 months
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Andrew Minyard has cute aggression, pass it on
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ariesbilly · 2 years
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Modern billy would vibe so hard to aly and ajs last album I know this to be true
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Okay I was listening to Moral of the Story and it made me think of how some abused people tend to be abused again because even if it’s bad it’s familiar, maybe something like trauma bonding idk
So, imagine Travis making some shitty abusive friends because that's all he knows
How does the gang + Philip reacts seeing him like this on the daily basis? (They're not friends w/ him yet)
why am I JUST NNOW SEEING THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
First and foremost;
Philip had no choice.
He did nothing wrong, how was he suppose to know mowing people down on a sidewalk was a crime.. they should have moved out the way!
Sal is genuinely pissed for the first time. Like it's insane how mad he got for this. It's valid but no one expected it. Like Travis is very receptive of his emotions most times, so when he's recounting a 'funny' story of how his friends bullied him and he feels this strong anger he thinks it's Larry at first but is terrified to see Sal just staring at him.
Larry straight up beats them up. He could give a fuck on Travis' excuses. He heard them all before. In fact he's mad at himself for allowing it to get this far. he should have never allowed Travis near those guys. He saw how they treated a student whom later went missing. He refuses to put Travis at risk of the same fate!
Todd hacks them and makes sure they don't go to any college (or any good college) and if their rich, their parents better have a spotless record or he's making them bankrupt and imprisoned.
Neil is more of the emotional support (With Chug & Maple to assist) when Travis is worried he said something wrong. They have been working on getting him out of his learned trauma responses and were worried sick when they started worsening one day. The people he had associated himself with made it pretty evident what was going on and why Travis was impacted so harshly.
Ash, just like Larry, straight up fights them. She doesn't stop at just physically beating their ass. She makes sure to beat their ass verbally and mentally. Causing infighting with the group, ratting them out for cheating or bullying and having their separate peers turn on them, isolating them. One of them has a crush? Hah, Ash already told them what you did, you'll die sad and alone loser!
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earthandsunandmoon · 5 months
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I am not immune to being influenced to change my appearance based on my latest obsessions
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ryttu3k · 3 months
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Having some Thoughts about Astarion and his perceived intelligence, or lack thereof (it was largely in the tags of this post, which I absolutely recommend reading, but it was getting overly long).
Astarion is perceived as… not very bright. Like it's kind of a running joke in fandom at this point, and it's been bugging me for a bit, so…
INT 13 isn't actually low
INT 13 is actually a fair bit above average! Of the main six Origin characters, only Gale has a higher INT score at 17, which is what you'd expect from a wizard and Actual Nerd (complimentary). Wyll has INT 13 as well, Lae'zel and Shadowheart have the average score of INT 10, and Karlach has INT 8. Of the secondary companions, Halsin and Minthara also have INT 10, and Minsc and - interestingly - Jaheira both have INT 8.
So, far from being one of the dumbest companions, stats-wise, he's actually one of the most intelligent.
Poor planning skills aren't a reflection of intelligence
Yes, Astarion is notoriously terrible at coming up with long-term plans. You know what he also hasn't been able to do for two hundred years? Come up with long-term plans.
He spent about forty years living a normal life, then five times that duration as a slave, being punished for any show of thinking for himself. He tried to make a plan that went against his master's orders, and he spent a year buried alive for it. His only purpose was "to seduce anything with a pulse"; thinking outside of that wasn't just discouraged, it was punished. He's out of practice!
Also, there are a lot of incredibly intelligent people who can't make plans for Assorted Reasons, even without two hundred years of being a puppet to someone else's will. Dyspraxia, ADHD, all sorts of things.
The whole smooth brain thing
This one does bug me, but I also suspect it was a nod to fandom perception. The epilogue has Bing-Bong in it, there were at least parts written well after the game release, and the subsequent fandom response. It's entirely possible, if not likely, that parts of the writing were influenced by fandom perception.
He had low INT in early access
Yes, and they changed it, and he no longer does. Wyll was essentially rewritten between EA and now. Karlach wasn't even a main character in EA. The Dream Visitor was extremely different in EA! Astarion was below average intelligence in EA, and now he's above average ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Neil Newbon says Astarion is intelligent
"I see him as being very intelligent — very erudite — and highly manipulative when he wants to be."
From this interview. I figure he'd know better than anyone save Stephen Rooney, y'know?
The trauma
I mean we can't understate the trauma. The trauma would do a number on your cognitive abilities (and your everything else lbr). And on top of two centuries of going through The Horrors, Cazador repeatedly belittled and infantilised him, hard not to internalise that when Cazador had complete control over his entire existence.
This isn't really meant to be an essay or aimed at anyone in particular and also quite possibly my 'burnt-out gifted kid who valued their intelligence above everything else' is showing but that may be more a Gale thing! Just that the whole 'lmao Astarion is so dumb' trope was bugging me for this, that, and the other reason, so. A post.
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dearsnow · 5 months
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KNOW IT’S FOR THE BETTER
- what exactly ran through neil perry’s mind before he pulled the trigger. (neil perry x gn!reader although it’s definitely an emotion piece rather than an x reader, angst, ⚠️ dead poets society spoilers, canon-typical main character death, suicidal ideation, DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH SUICIDE AND ITS THOUGHT PROCESS)
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word count: 392
a/n - this is not proofread LMAO we die like men! and yes yes this is another music piece, based on waiting room by phoebe bridgers. yesterday was neil’s death anniversary, so this is a tribute to that. love y’all, and please read the message at the end.
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Neil held cold metal in the palm of his hand, his fingers trembling over the shiny object. God, he thought, let them know it’s for the better.
Let Todd know that he never found another person that understood him as greatly and as openly as he did. Let him know that he is proud of him for changing so much in such little time. He doesn’t need him anymore, Neil thought. Now, he can fade away while someone else steps into the spotlight. It was always for the better.
Let Charlie know that he loved him because he could not always understand, and yet he tried. That they were kids together, and in a few months, Charlie will be older than Neil ever got to be. He deserves it. He deserves to be older, to be independent, to love freely and carelessly like he has always wanted. If Neil’s absence could push him forward and stop him from caring about how his friend felt, he knew it was for the better.
Let Mr. Keating know that his impact was far greater than he could ever imagine. His influence encouraged Neil to scale mountains. In the end, though, there is always a choice; to glide on wax wings or painstakingly climb back down. That, in death, he flew.
Let you know that he loved you. That he always loved you. That your whispered words were ichor to his ears, your touch a saccharine balm to the parts of him that ached the most. If he thought about it, he thought that in the entirety of his life, he would never find someone who made him shiver in the exact way that you did. He wants more than anything to tell you that everything he did is for you. You deserve better. Know it’s for the better, because the loss of him will surely open up your future to the same unearthly love that you brought to him.
Let his parents know that he will no longer be a problem.
Let the dead poets know that he is soaring.
Let everyone on the godforsaken planet he is leaving know that this is what happens when the sun’s heat caresses the skin on his back.
Let them know that everything is for the better.
Please, please know
if nothing else,
it is for the better.
[suicide is never for the better, and it should never be any option at all. if you are struggling with this thought process or any mental health issues, i strongly advise you seek professional help, but my inbox and messages are always open if you need friendly comfort. please come to me if you ever need it. i love you guys.]
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rius-cave · 1 month
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About the meeting over time, isn't there a story in the Bible where Jesus gets tempted by the devil and they like. Travel together? I'm a little fuzzy on details because uuuuh I'm not religious and haven't been raised so, but it would be really funny for Adam to show up during that and just. Bicker over the fact that "You haven't changed, haven't you, Luce? You can't help but want to ruin everything He has created, can't you?" And just yelling at each other because Adam is still not over it, and Lucifer doesn't necessarily believe that giving humans the knowledge to understand their free will was a bad idea.
And Jesus is in the background, picking flowers and singing with birds. Dude is vibing while the two entities are having a dick measuring contest.
I can't think of any other times? Maybe when Metal started surfacing as a music movement.
I can definitely see this Lucifer having the same attitude towards humanity as the Neil Gaiman's Netflix series Lucifer. Not really hating humans but maybe a little bit. Annoyed by the fact they blame him for their shitty choices. He's as hands on as God is when it comes to tempting humans himself, and the fact they blame all the shit THEY caused on him makes him boil. They can ruin their own life pretty well without his help.
So I can't think of MANY reasons why Lucifer would visit Earth. Less for evil, more for leisure maybe? Like with Music?
Went to a circus once and he hasn't been the same since.
-🐇
They don't travel together, Jesus is doing his own thing and after 40 days of not eating, the devil tries to tempt him, but he's shut down fairly quickly.
Just like in Good Omens, he also bickers with God about Job, and there's a few other instances here and there where he's seen having power and influence over Earth, maybe not by straight up TALKING like in the temptation story, but he's name dropped here and there. One would need to decide whether that's Satan or Lucifer in Hazbin's case though.
With Neil Gaiman's Lucifer, I'm guessing you mean Crowley...? GO doesn't have a Lucifer really AS FAR AS I KNOW. Crowley actually takes the place of The Devil for a lot of the biblical instances in which he appears, so I guess that still works!
But omg the idea of Lucifer changing his whole aesthetic when circus were invented..... that's really funny. Hmm, or did Lucifer actually plant the idea in a human's head and THAT is how circus came to Earth...? So many possibilities lmao
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fbfh · 2 years
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Okay so Billy’s breeding kink is HOT
But do you think he’d lowkey be afraid to be a dad bc of his father? Or want to be one out of spite??? - 🧍🏽‍♀️
AGREED MY DEAR I AM JUST STANDING HERE ANON!!! IT IS VERY HOT!!!!
I feel like his breeding kink is much more hypothetical at first yk,, like his junk is like KNOCK THEM UP but his brain is like BUT DON'T ACTUALLY DO IT THOUGH OKAY?? like he definitley did not want kids for the longest time bc he realized what a huge responsibility it actually is, how easy it is to fuck them up and how important it is not to
but as time goes on and his relationship with max gets better (and it gets like way better than either of them ever imagined it could be) and he's there for her while she's growing up and for all the important stuff he realizes wow I'm actually fully capable of being a good influence on younger people???? and the more he falls in love with you he finds himself actually really wanting a little baby
whether it's planned or not, once that ball gets rolling he is so on top of his shit and so fucking determined to be a good dad and betwee max and the baby, now that he's in the role of adult/parent figure, he can't possibly fathom not being there for either of them!!!!! much less being shitty towards them!!!! it really drives home exactly how astronomically shitty neil was by how easy it is to love and care for the kiddos in his life
and yeah it still takes a lot of hard work to make sure he's doing his best to take care of them but it's so so worth it!!! plus the fact that he and max have such a great relationship now makes him also kind of realize that hey, if he does make some mistakes as most parents inevitabley do, it's nothing that can't be overcome with care and communication and love so either way everything's going to work out just fine
then once all that does click,,,, oh BOY get ready bc he wants a big ass family!!!! you'll have a gaggle of rambuctious little boys running around and wrestling and playing superheroes like aunt El and watching scooby doo!!!!! and aunt max teaching them how to skateboard!?!?!??!??!?!?!? billy strikes me as the type to have like a million boys and one girl so get ready for that lmao
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wingamy24 · 3 days
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What if britta and subway/honda/new brand are together in the movie?
I'd adore seeing background characters be back in the movie. Vicky, Garrett, Fat Neil, Todd, (Leonard would've been nice. R.I.P Richard Erdman) and Subway is one of them. I think It'd be really funny if they made him another brand, or maybe some sort of influencer. I mean, an average movie is 2 hours or so, so they're going to have a LOT of time to make a bunch of references to the original TV show. God, I'm getting so excited just thinking of it.
Now, I don't think Britta's going to be with Subway in the movie. Would it be in-character that she saw him and got obsessed with him AGAIN? Maybe. But I don't think that's happening. It's really probable that we don't even get Subway in the movie. It would be funny, but not a great look on her already not great character. I swear, if they don't fix Britta when the movie comes out... my girl DESERVES to be a girlboss. In S6, she literally shits her pants. SHE SHITS. HER PANTS. Don't even get me started on that. I've already talked about that Britta's character here here and here. I know that I might sound like a hater in some of these, but trust me, I love Britta with all my heart and she's my favorite female character from Community.
Back to the subject: Would it be funny if Subway and Britta were together? Yeah, kinda. Would it actually be good for Britta's character? Definitely not. Is Dan Harmon going to do either this or Troy x Britta just to get away with Jeffannie? Maybe. But, in the end, the most likely thing is that we won't get any ship being canon.
I definitely didn't except this ask. AT ALL. Lmao
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lilaccoffin · 3 months
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The Vanilla influence chart going a lil wild rn but
Winslow: Music writing autistic nervous/socially awkward weirdo who can be p vengeful.
Bee: Same monotone voice, silly mannerisms, love to eat.
Lio Fotia: Voice claim, kinda base a lot of the energy of Vanilla's appearance off of Lio and I'm sure people can tell, LMAO.
Young Neil: Airheadedness and awkward way of speaking.
Speed O' Sound Sonic: Prettyboy energy and boyfailureness...the way Sonic can be a good fighter but also very embarrassing to watch when he goofs up is very Vani. Vanilla would totally slip on dog shit the way Sonic did...
Thistle: Thistle is kind of a recent addition in the Vanilla inspo web, but I think he fits best in the college days category of Vanilla's personality. Very much doing his best to please others at the risk of his own health and mental stability. Also I have based angry expressions Vani makes off of Thistle's, they're very good. I guess his anger is also something I take inspo from.
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ashes-writing · 2 years
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wild one pt two | stranger things ; g.emerson
tag list babes || req rules + fandoms/characters || got a req or a ? || masterlist
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CHAPTERS ; 
one can be found by clicking. masterlist of other ST things can be found here.
AUTHORS NOTES;
Okay so look.. We're not talking about how I went veering into badgirl!popular/cheerleader territory with reader. We're not, lmao. I'm also still not ignoring my thousand other wips, I swear. This just came to me and I thought what the hell, why not. So, here we are.
You guys literally made my morning, you have no idea. All the comments / reblogs + reblogs with tags / the likes, you name it. I really didn't think about anything outside of getting this idea out of my head and you guys blew me away, ughhhh. I love you all so fucking much and you truly don't know what your interactions with my bullshit mean to me, I can't even begin to express it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
SUMMARY;
-- cheerleaders and drummers don't mix. Or do they?
aka, you're a cheerleader. not your typical one, but the fact remains. he's a drummer, one of the freaks. and yet somehow, you keep circling back to each other. how's this gonna go, I wonder?
PAIRING;
Gareth Emerson x Cheerleader/Popular!Bad Girl reader.
{ beyond clothing descriptions and the knowledge that reader has female organs + the personality stuff I can't stop adding in, reader is mostly a blank slate. have fun with it. }
WARNINGS;
jason carver + his friends existing, body image / self esteem issues, angst, swearing, bullying / teenagers being shitheads within their own circle of friends, a bra is mentioned, holy shit reader and Gare are awkward angsty little stubborn shits and i live for it, for this chapter, that's it.
TAGLIST;
The only people on my taglist for Stranger Things currently are listed below. If you’d like to be and you aren’t, please go add yourself via the link at the very top of the post.
@ALLELITESMUT
@AURUMBELIS
@ARIES-ARCADE
@COLE22ANN
@HCLOANGCLS
@HEYAITSKLAUDIA
@ICEQUEEN1371
@KRYS-ORION
@LETSBEDRAGONSTOGETHER
@MUSICHEALSSCARS
@scoobiessnacks
@secretsicanthideanymore
@SUITS-AND-SMIRKS
OTHER STUFF;
Okay, first of all, this is just another slice of life type thing.. and also, look.. loook.. so my undying need to give Billy growth of some kind won out here. I mention that Susan threw Neil out. And I'm going off that to further say that maybe Billy stuck around a while, graduated and then got the hell out of town. BUT.. before he did, he kind of had time and space away from Neil's influence to realize that maybe he was becoming his father and he didn't want to be. He's still gonna seem to be an asshole, but just.. slightly less / more accepting of people. Since the Upside Down / Vecna and the other stuff that traumatizes every single one of these poor kids doesn't exist in most of my writings, Starcourt still exists, Jim and Joyce took the fam to California to celebrate their wedding or something and are back and naturally, nobody will be dying in this. JSYK more importantly, Gareth and Jeff have been aged to 18 so that the gang will all graduate together. Nobody is underage (except the actual kiddos but this is more about Gareth/reader with a side of Max) so we're all good.
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“What are we even doing here?” Gareth grumbles as the four of them make their way over from where they’d parked in front of the diner to the park where the Fourth of July carnival was in full swing. The deafening sound of Motley Crue nearby and screeching brakes had the four friends sharing a look and glancing in the general direction of the sound.
You’re swearing up a storm and pulling at the handle on your door but the damn thing is stuck again. Emma’s already gotten out and she’s using the mirror on the passenger side to primp as Max and Lucas attempt to help you unstick your door. “I keep telling her Lucas, this car is literally Christine. Remember last week when it just quit and we all had to walk in the rain?”
“Hey, maybe if you try to wiggle the handle when you pull…” Lucas suggests. You try but it’s not budging.
“Jesus christ, just go out the window, trouble! Patrick is waiting!” Emma’s impatient, practically bouncing on her feet and ready to get her date started. You glance over at her and laugh. “Oh my godddd, go then, Em! Don’t keep your guy waiting or whatever cos this car is a demon straight from the pits of hell tonight!” you’re waving her off.
Eddie chuckles and rubs his chin. “That car’s possessed.” he muses.
Grant snickers quietly, “Her temper kind of reminds me of someone else’s…” and as he says this, his eyes fix on Gareth.
“Wasn’t she walking away from it while flipping it the bird that day it rained last week?” Jeff chuckles and shakes his head. Eddie laughs and nods. “Mhm.”
Inside the car, Max is torn between laughter and concern. “Okay, look. The windows are down. Just climb out. Before you break your hand.” she grimaces as you hit the door one more time and try to yank the handle a little more. "Stupid fucking piece of shit, oh my god, c'mon!" you grumble in frustration as you pinch the bridge of your nose and blow at falling hair “I’m gonna push this motherfucker over the quarry, I swear to God. It’s coming, ugh. C’mon you piece of shit! Open!” you proclaim, pulling harder on the handle, beyond agitated now. 
Emma’s gone ahead already and the second you see Andy glancing your way, you groan inwardly. Not today, Satan.” you grumble as you hoist yourself up and climb out the window of the car. Lucas does the same over on the passenger side, pulling Max out after he’s steady.
And just like clockwork, Andy’s clearing his throat when you finish giving your hair a tousle and checking your pockets to make sure you have everything you need so you don’t have to walk back over from the carnival. 
“Hey.” Andy’s eyes roam over you slowly. Almost lingering long enough to be lewd when they settle on your tits and it’s to a point where you clear your throat while rolling your eyes just to get him looking up at your actual face. Everything about the way he’s looking at you makes you really uncomfortable, but true to form, Andy doesn’t seem to pick up on it. If he does, he doesn’t care because like the rest of the jocks at Hawkins High, he’s used to getting exactly what he wants.
“Bye.” you retort, biting your lip. “As you can see, ape,the  problem is solved. There’s uh, nothing to see here, no sense in hanging around.” you’re trying to get rid of him but he  doesn’t seem willing to get the hint. Thank God for Max and Lucas, because they wander over and clear their throats. You use their appearance to your advantage and hurry away. “Gotta go, uh.. We’re going to the midway or something.” and you grab hold of your stepsister’s elbow, the two of you hauling ass away in such a hurry that the three of you wind up colliding with the four members of Corroded Coffin. More to the point, you wind up colliding with Gareth and the two of you topple over. You raise up, straddling his hips and you can feel yourself turning red and hot all over. Gareth realizes that his hands are on your hips and flustered, he moves them off real quick. 
“Uh..” your hand catches in your hair as you extract yourself from his body reluctantly, “Sorry.”
Gareth looks like he’s glaring at you and all you can think is that this is just awesome, just great. Now you can add nearly crushing the poor guy with your body right to the bottom of the list under covering him in cake flavored vomit back in seventh grade.
Jeff clears his throat and gives Gareth a look to clue him into the fact that his facial expression is maybe not the best choice for the current situation and Gareth wants to die right then and there because he realizes that he’s scowling at you. You hold out a hand to Gareth to attempt pulling him up and he honestly wants to grab hold of your hand but that stubborn need to not look like a little bitch and pull himself up off the ground wins out and he pulls himself up and as soon as he realizes what he’s done -and what you possibly think now because of it, he wants to punch himself in the face for it.
You linger for a second or two. “You’re uh… I didn’t hurt you, right?” you ask quietly, swallowing hard as you look him over in concern. Trying not to focus too hard on his eyes and how angry he looks or how embarrassed you are, or how up close, his lips look even more tempting somehow.
But you’re assuming that you’ve blown it all over again and given that your father and stepmother live in a trailer park, the option to buy a deserted island and live out your dying days is not available to you. ,, Guess it’s back to avoiding him at all costs.” the thought comes and it makes you frown just slightly. Sadly. You plaster on a weak smile as soon as you feel it form though, and you take a deep breath to pull yourself together. “Sorry. I’m.. Gonna go now. Yeah..” you hurry away before he even manages to get one single word out.
And as you disappear into the crowd on the midway with Lucas and Max flanking either side of you, Gareth turns and immediately kicks the nearest garbage bin to him as he swears out loud about the whole mess that just turned into.
Eddie would’ve laughed, but he could look at his best friend and just tell that Gareth was torn up real bad about the way that all just transpired, so when Jeff is about to open his mouth, he nudges him and shakes his head no quietly. Jeff nods in agreement and Grant leans in, whispering to the two of them, “He really shook her up. That’s the first time I’ve seen her actually get flustered since at least 6th grade.”
“Yeah, he won’t believe that, buddy. Still thinks the whole reason she vomited all over him that one night was because she wound up getting sent to the closet with him on the spin.” Jeff explains calmly. Eddie snickers quietly, “Y’know how he is, man.”
“Yeah, and sometimes, it doesn’t do him any favors.” Jeff responds with Grant nodding in agreement. “Agreed.”
You’re standing in line for the Gravitron when you spot Gareth walking past, your neighbor Eddie and their other two friends Grant and Jeff in tow. You quickly face the front and you bump against Max as you do it. She snickers quietly. “Are you okay? You were really flustered back there.”
“Oh, I’m fine. It’s fine, everything is fine. I was just born to a father too fuckin poor to buy me a private island to go die on, that’s all.” you laugh, gazing at the ride as it spins while twisting some messy strands of hair around your finger. “Guess it’s back to avoid at all costs.”
Max laughs and shrugs. “Or.. you could just ya know… Play the whole thing off.”
Lucas chuckles quietly. “He wasn’t mad. Gareth’s just got an angry face sometimes. He doesn’t even realize when he’s doing it.”
“Oh trust me. He looked mad. If he wasn’t, he was probably annoyed because my fat ass was probably crushing him or something.”
Lucas almost tells you that he’s at least fifty percent sure that’s not the case, but he knows how stubborn you are by now. So instead, when he catches sight of Will,Mike and Eleven, with Dustin in tow, he waves them over.
“Guys, this is ____.”
“Call her trouble though. Everybody else does.” Max smiles at her friends, “She’s my new stepsister.”
You smile at the group of teenagers and laugh. “I don’t bite.”
Will gives you a weak smile and nods. “Hey.”
Mike’s gaping at Max. “Isn’t she a cheerleader?” he questions, wary and tense as he gazes over at you when you’ve turned your attention back to the ride you’re all in line for. “Why isn’t she with her friends right now?” he’s only asking because he’s worried, because he’s not even an official freshman yet and already, the taunts and the teasing and the bullshit from the jocks have started towards him, his best friends Will and Dustin and his girlfriend Eleven.
Max rolls her eyes at Mike. “Would you relax? She hates them. I mean, except for Emma. Maybe that girl Chrissy Cunningham.”
“Hey. I’m Dustin Henderson.” Dustin smiles at you and you smile back. “I think I babysat you a few years ago, kid.” Dustin laughs and nods. “Wait, yeah. I remember now. The blanket fort.” and you grin, giving him a thumbs up.
Eleven smiles at you. “It’s nice to meet you. Max talked about you a lot when she called or wrote this summer.” 
You smile back at the other girl and nod. “She talked about you nonstop. How was California? I bet it was fun, right?”
“It wasn’t too bad. I think Jim was ready to get back here, he said he’d gotten enough sand in places it shouldn’t be for the rest of his life.” Eleven laughs and you smile at her, nodding. “Yeah, my dad took me to this big race day or something when I was little. Kinda hated the beach because of all the sand.” you shrug.
The line inches forward and you find yourself getting pulled into the conversation happening between Max and her friends.
And then you spot Caroline and some of the other cheerleaders wandering down the midway. “Fucking hell. It’s too early in the night for them. C’mon ground, open up a portal? I’ll even take one to hell right now…” you rub the bridge of your nose. Luckily, Max has just enough friends that with all of them standing around you, Caroline and the two other girls flanking her walk right past without even noticing you.
“If you hate them so much, why not just quit?” Mike’s gazing at you, curious.
“Because quitting means they win, kid. Quitting proves that they’re all right about me and I am trash. I’m too petty.” you explain, giving a shrug. 
The ride’s ready to board and you step on. Seeing one or two others do it, you get curious. 
“Don’t think about it.” Max hisses.
“Oh come on!” you grin as you do a handstand and press yourself back against the wall, “Gravity will hold me up.”
“Okay, well.. When you puke everywhere, don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Max gives a mild shrug as she and Lucas take the two spots next to you.
Across the ride, Eleven mouths to Max, “Is she crazy?” and all Max can do is shrug because sometimes, she does wonder.
The ride comes to an end and you stumble off and right into Emma, who is cozied up to Patrick and carrying the biggest stuffed panther you’ve ever seen before. You pout a little, but you smile at Patrick. “Hurt her and I’m coming for your knees, dude.”
Patrick chuckles. And spotting Lucas as he exits the ride, he grins and makes his way over. “Worked on that jumpshot yet, kid?”
Lucas nods.
Max nudges you and nods to the cotton candy stand across the midway, laughing when you freeze because Gareth and his friends are sitting at a picnic table eating nachos. “I feel like cotton candy. C’mon.”
“Oh no. Nope. Not a chance. I’ll give you the money and let you go, though.”
Max grabs hold of your arm and she’s practically dragging you towards the vendor. You’re laughing but also as you pass the table Gareth is sitting at, you’re painfully aware that he’s sitting there.
And despite trying your best not to, you glance back because you hear him laugh about something and it catches your attention.
“Ya know, it’s not that hard to just make the first move. I did with Lucas.”
You laugh but the laughter dies away the second you realize she’s being serious. You shake your head. “Oh no. Nope. Absolutely not. Every single time I try to even breathe near the guy, I go and fuck up, do something stupid.”
Max laughs quietly. “Y’know… when my mom met your dad I was scared. Because Neil and Billy, they..” she rubs her forehead and you nod because you know where she’s going. “Yeah. I know.” you mumble quietly. “How was he when you talked to him last time?” you ask quietly.
“Happy to be back in California. Relieved to be away from Neil too. He’s happier, it’s like he’s a total different person. He said he thought about coming to visit around Thanksgiving and he actually talked to my mom for two hours.” Max admits, managing a weak smile. “Maybe Mom throwing Neil out gave him the courage to do it too.”
“Maybe it did.” you answer, smiling. 
Max speaks up after a quick glance around reveals that Gareth was staring right at you and turned away only after he realizes that she’d caught him doing it. “Ooh.” Max laughs as she leans into you a little, “he was looking at you.”
You laugh and shake your head. “Nice try, Max. It’s not happening.” you sigh a little, glancing back but so quick you could’ve easily given yourself whiplash when you turn your head to look back at the stall you stand in front of instead. “Nope. I honestly think he hates me. I mean, to be fair, I can’t blame the guy. First I barf on him then I go and try to crush him.”
Max raises a brow. “You? Crush him? You realize he’s brawnier and a little taller than you, right? I doubt you crushed him.”
You shrug. Because all you ever hear from the coach of your squad and Caroline is that you’re too thick, you need to cut back. This and that and if you were even slightly less confident in your body like some girls your age, you’re pretty sure it would live in your head rent free. And sometimes, on a bad day, it does. But you try not to let it get to you.
Caroline spots you and she gives you a disappointed look because of where you happen to be standing when she wanders up to you. “I thought you were cutting out sugar?” she nods to the cotton candy stand.
“I never said I would… Mother.” you roll your eyes and take a big bite of the cotton candy as soon as the vendor inside the stall hands it to you. Caroline’s eyes settle on your Motley Crue t-shirt and your cut offs and the black motorcycle boots and she wrinkles her nose. “We have got to take you shopping at Starcourt soon. Can’t have you roaming the hallway like some grungy little whore when school starts back again.”
Max tenses and glares up at the older girl. Every part of her wants to say something but she  doesn’t because she knows you well enough to know that you won’t hesitate to handle it.
You’re doing the same and you smirk. “Ya know… Maybe I prefer the grungy whore look. Maybe that’s just me.”
Caroline snorts in annoyance. Steps closer and smirks. “You do realize if you weren’t so flexible and so good at most of the stunts, you’d have already been off the team, right? You’re an image problem. Your skills and Chrissy, bless her sweet heart.. They’re the only things holding you at the top.”
“Oh really now.” you purr, stepping closer, smirking as you laugh softly. “Sweetheart.. What the hell makes you think I give a shit to start with, hm? The only reason I haven’t quit is Em and Chris. I promised them I wouldn’t quit way back in 9th grade. Sides,” you laugh and twirl hair around your finger as you glare at her calmly, “I like making the rest of you miserable bitches squirm.”
“Are you ready to go, Max?” you ask your stepsister as you shove past Caroline and you do it hard enough she stumbles back a little and you storm away.
Max is laughing and the two of you high-five as you stop within earshot of the table that Gareth and his friends happen to be sitting at. “I swear to God, Max..One day she’s gonna catch me in the wrong mood and I’m going to strangle her bare-handed.” you’re fuming a little as you glare at Caroline’s turned back. Max nods. “Her sister is just as bad. Maybe worse. She was trying to pick on Eleven at the roller rink last year.”
“Yeah, let her try that shit, any of them, truth be told. Let any of them try that shit when you guys are around me. They can honestly all go fuck themselves.” you grumble and take a few deep breaths as you toss the empty paper roll that held your cotton candy into the garbage. “C’mon. Let’s go back over. See what everyone else is doing, huh?”
Max nods and the two of you walk away.
Gareth glares at Caroline Owens turned back. Rolling his eyes. “Miserable bitch. She’s on somebody’s case about anything when her nose looks like an actual bird beak?” he’s ranting, he’s irritated by it and he’s not bothering to hide it. Eddie snickers and Jeff nudges Eddie. “I told you he still liked her, man.”
Gareth glares at the two of them. “I don’t. It’s just fucking stupid.”
“Mhm. And what was that two minute rant just now, Emerson?” Grant questions as he finishes off the nachos he’d gotten himself.
Gareth shrugs, goes quiet. “Nothing. It just pisses me the fuck off.”
“Mhm, right.” Jeff teases, but it’s gentler. Because he’s still remembering their talk out in Gareth’s garage earlier that afternoon. The one where he admitted that maybe he still liked her but then he immediately went on to list off every single reason why that wasn’t a good idea. And Jeff knows that right now, there’s a lot going on in his best friend’s head.
You make your way down the midway with Max and her friends because they’ve decided to tag along with her and Lucas and as soon as you spot Andy and Jason, you grumble. You give Chrissy a sweet smile and wave. And as the three of them wander over, you grumble under your breath even more about Andy and Jason.
It’s Lucas’ idea to just get in line for the bumper cars since that line is the shortest. So you all get in line for it and somehow, this doesn’t deter Andy or Jason from wandering over.
“Given any thought to what I suggested this afternoon?” Jason’s flashing that megawatt grin. Chrissy mouths an apology to you and speaks up quietly. “If she doesn’t like Andy, she doesn’t like him, Jason…”
“Sweetheart, I’m just trying to help my buddy. Andy really likes her.”
“But she doesn’t like him. Kind of feels like you’re forcing things.”
“I’m not, princess.” Jason says it so smoothly. You watch Chrissy swallow hard, swallow down whatever she was about to say with just the slightest hint of fear and worry in her eyes. You gaze at her a second or two, concerned.
You nudge Max. “If a guy ever treats you like that asshole treats her, run. He’s so controlling. She wanted to come stay last weekend, right? He tells her mother exactly where I live and that Wes has been to jail for an assault charge from an old bar fight and naturally, she couldn’t.”
Max glares at Jason. “Doesn’t surprise me. Not at all.” she mumbles, mostly to herself. She can’t stand him because she can see right through him. So could Billy. That’s why before he left for California last year, he warned Lucas about him. After apologizing for the way he’d treated him, which came as a huge shock to her when he’d done it.  She’s almost praying her former step brother comes to visit for the holidays because she’d love to see Billy get his hands on Jason. 
Andy’s eyeing you up. You shrink back just a little. Roll your eyes. “My eyes are up here, dirtbag.” you grumble calmly, Andy not even bothering to hide the fact that he was staring at your tits yet again. He chuckles. “I know, darlin. I just can’t–” you shake your head and smirk. “If I were you, I wouldn’t finish that sentence, pig. The answer is still no. Until the day you see Satan himself passing out Icees in hell, that’s gonna be the answer. I mean this, Andy,” you twirl some hair around your finger as you tilt your head to look up at the taller boy, “If you and I were the last hope at repopulating Earth, I’d fling myself right off the face of it. You’re a disgusting perverted asshole.”
“So bitchy.” Andy shakes his head. “You’ll be sorry you said that, darlin.”
You scoff at his warning. “Yeah, no. No I won’t, actually. If you came over here to try and guilt me into double dating, the answer is no. Get Em and Patrick to do it. I’m here with my family, okay? That’s more important, asshole.” 
Max smiles just the slightest when you’re not looking to see it.
“And as her stepsister, I don’t want you around me. Got it?” Max speaks up, calm and quiet. Andy scoffs at her, rolling his eyes, “Oh yeah? Well what if your opinion doesn't count, kid?”
“Counts one hell of a lot more than anything you have to say, Andy. You can go now. Buh-bye.” you give him a dismissive little wave.
“You guys stay away from him and his friends, alright? Jason’s going to poison them all and they’re nothing but bullies.” you say it and Max nods. “You don’t have to tell me twice. It worries me that Lucas is on their team and he’s around it.”
You sigh and nod. Glancing over at her boyfriend as Jason wanders over to chat him up and you’ve seen the way it makes his friends scatter. “If he starts to change, do what’s best for yourself.” you fluff her hair. “C’mon. Let’s go collect your date and go find his actual friends and find somewhere to sit for the fireworks.” 
“Hey, did Mom say if she was coming by after work with Wes?” Max asks. You shrug. “Wes said he wanted to meet us up here, something about watching fireworks with his girls is definitely better than getting wasted like he used to.” you admit, laughing softly. “Your mom’s really turned my big scary biker dad into a huge teddy bear. I kinda love her for that.” you admit, slipping an arm around Max.
You and Max wander over and you clear your throat. “C’mon kid. We need to find a place to sit for the fireworks. Thought you two might want to find your friends and sit with them too.” you smirk calmly at Jason as you say it, arms crossed over your bare midriff.
“We’ll see you at the gym tomorrow, buddy. We’ll work on that jump shot again. You’re gettin real good.” Jason says it so smoothly, with such a charmers grin too. Lucas grins back. “Okay, see you then.”
As you’re walking off, Max elbows him. “Hey! You know tomorrow is Saturday. You know that’s DnD night, Lucas.”
“And I can do both. Relax, baby. I know. I didn’t forget, okay?”
Max glances at you and sighs, shrugging. But she nods and manages a smile.
You find a spot in the grass and sprawl out, rising up when Emma wanders over with Patrick. You laugh and nod to Emma’s leg. “I’m borrowing your girlfriend’s thigh. I need a pillow, the ground’s hard, man.” Patrick snickers and gives you a thumbs up. “Go ahead, you’re good. You were her friend first.”
“Smart answer, buddy. Real smart answer.” you grin at him. You lean in to Emma and mumble quietly, “Caroline started her bitching earlier.”
“You too, huh? You should’ve heard Patrick when she came at me for eating that deep friend jalapeno. He told her to mind her own damn business, basically.”
You glance from Patrick to Emma and you giggle quietly. “So how’s it feel to live the dream, hm?”
“You could too, y’know.” Emma glances at you and then off into the crowd a little closer to the front and you glance in the direction to find Gareth and his three best friends sitting or sprawled out on the grass and for just a minute, you catch yourself attempting to imagine it before quickly shoving the thought out of his head as you tear your eyes off and look back up at her. 
You snort in laughter. “Right, Em. Look, we both know that’s not gonna happen. Besides,” you settle to lay your head in her lap, “Pretty sure if he didn’t hate me for barfing on him back then, he hates me for nearly crushing him tonight.”
Emma scoffs. “Bitch, where? Where are you saying you crushed him, huh? Because he’s not a beanpole for one and two, he’s actually taller.. Sturdier than you.” 
You flip her off and shrug. “I hit him pretty damn hard though, that’s where. I’m not saying it about me, I’m saying it because I pretty much football tackled the poor guy…. It was when we were trying to escape fuckin Andy that first time.”
“Still! I doubt he hates you for an accidental crash, woman, jesus christ.” Emma argues.
“Woman, I’m telling you. He was glaring at me. Full on glaring.” you insist.
Emma laughs and shakes her head. Apparently, you haven’t realized that it’s just Gareth’s default facial expression most of the time and in no way does it indicate that he’s angry. Unless he’s yelling, in someone’s face about to shove or just calmly glaring with his fists clenched.
As Mayor Kline gives his long-winded speech about the importance of the holiday, you lounge on the ground, staring up at the stars. Nearby, you can hear Max and her friends talking back and forth and laughing. When you spot your father and Susan making their way in, you wave and nod to the spot in the grass between Max and her friends and you with yours. 
Patrick clears his throat. “Either of you want anything? I’m gonna get a snowcone.”
“Please, babe?” Emma asks.
“Cherry coke. Tell ‘em not to skimp on the cherries, please?” you call out.
– ( after the carnival)
The knock on the door of the Munson trailer had the four best friends sharing a look. Eddie palms his face. “I fucking forgot to get my clothes out of Susan’s dryer. Goddamn it.” he grumbles to himself as he puts down his Monopoly piece and puts away his money. “No stealing, shitheads.” he’s calling out over his shoulder as he opens the trailer door.
You instantly regret your decision to just wander over without bothering with the formality of pants and in one of your longer t-shirts when you spot Gareth sitting on the living room floor inside Eddie’s trailer. “Your clothing, dude.” you hold up the taped and overfilled laundry basket. Eddie catches you watching Gareth as Gareth makes himself look at the game board in front of him.
“You can come in and say hi?” Eddie’s taunting remark draws you out of your own head. “Nah man.. Wrestling's on tonight. I was kind of in the middle of watching a real good match with Wes when the dryer went off. I uh..” you shuffle bare feet against the stoop and drag your hands through damp hair, “Better get back over there. Yep. Mhm.” you’re rambling and you want to die, but you do the next best thing instead. You bolt back across the street.
And it’s only when you’re back in the trailer that belongs to your father, Wes and Susan, your stepmom, that you realize somehow, your laundry must’ve gotten mixed in with Eddie’s because you’re trying to find your favorite leopard print bra, the one with the little snakes on it too, and you can’t find it anywhere.
“Just fuckin awesome. First I manage to tackle a guy I’m pretty sure I might have a crush on again and make him hate me, but now, my goofy neighbor Munson knows what one of my bras looks like. Fuck my life.” you groan out dramatically as you fall back against the bed.
And across the road, Eddie’s putting his clothes in his room when he spots it in the pile. He snickers to himself and yes, maybe to fluster Gareth just a little, he slingshots it in Gareth’s direction. “Something for you, buddy.”
“The fuck?” Gareth realizes what it is and his entire body reddens as he shifts the way he sits on the living room floor in front of the Monopoly board. “How the hell’d you get this?”
“Sometimes their shit gets mixed in with ours when I wash clothes.” Eddie shrugs.
Gareth turns the thin garment over in his hands but he’s smart enough to know that his friends are about to start the teasing at any second, so he tosses it back at Eddie. “Idiot.” he grumbles, rolling the dice so that he can take his turn.
Eddie snickers quietly. “Keep it, man.”
“Give it back to her, idiot. Do we really need a reason for those douchebags she’s probably friends with to come looking for us?” Gareth grumbles.
“You realize she kinda hates them, right? Literally Emma and Chrissy are the only people from that crowd she actually likes. Your girl is a loner, Emerson.” Jeff insists but he knows he's talking to a damn brick wall at this rate. Gareth's got his mind made up. And he's definitely wary.
“She’s not my girl.”
“But she could be.” Jeff suggests calmly, glancing across the table at his best friend. Gareth laughs and goes quiet. “Yeah, somehow I doubt that, I mean.. Thanks to my face doing it’s usual thing earlier, she probably thinks I hate her now anyway.”
“I doubt it, man.” Jeff and Grant insist in unison. Eddie just rubs his hand over his face and laughs. “You’re always calling me dramatic, who thinks a girl hates him just because his face does bitchy things on it’s own? Because it’s not me, Emerson. Ya know, the quickest way to clear it up is I dunno, actually talk to her.. Right?”
“Yeah, not happening. You saw her just now when she was at the door with your clothes. She didn’t even look over here. Like at all. It’s not a big deal anyway, school will start soon. She’ll wind up dating one of those assholes. I’ll even bet on it.” Gareth insists.
“Whatever you say, buddy.” Jeff just shrugs.
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hi! i just saw you have a degree in costume design on neil gaimans tumblr and wanted to ask if it was worth it?
i am thinking about studying it myself but because it’s so expensive (especially as an international student) i'm not so sure anymore…
is there any advice or stories you would like to share?
hello!
so the thing about this question is that i think it is maybe very dependant on the exact school you go to. the course i did taught both design and construction which i do recommend even if you have a preference either way because they influence each other so much that it really helps to understand both sides. the other thing to look for is industry opportunity within the course. so mine did not have any chances for placements but is pretty well renowned internationally and gave us a lot of talks with professionals in both theatre and film. basically make sure you're getting either built in work experience or good connections going forward.
it's a lot of work! no matter where you go i'm going to assume that they all give you shitloads to do as was my experience. you are learning a very specialised skill and i sincerely do think that it is useful to get dedicated training if you want to go into that line of work. it can be really hard to get jobs completely without unless you're a nepo baby i guess (are there costume nepo babies?). that being said I believe there are a few apprentice type opportunities that are designed for people without a degree to learn and work at the same time (here in the uk at least). i'm not sure how common those are as i was very set on going to uni for it lmao (the government paid so i was not in the same dilemma).
thank you for making me feel important enough to give advice! i fuckin love costume so if you have any more questions or just wanna chat, feel free to send more asks/dm me!
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maypearlss · 9 months
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For the 80s rockstar fellows, who would they say, as far as other musicians go, influenced their music?
OH DEAR I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU FOR THIS QUESTION
okay so i gotta start with may the main character the love of my life for real. may's two favorite bands are kiss and aerosmith, so she's definitely influenced by both of those two—kiss is the band that kickstarted her love for rock, but i'd say aerosmith was slightly more of a direct influence on her music. her playing style was definitely inspired by joe perry's slick style of playing, but she's also extremely flexible with her playing. guns n roses isn't big, or even formed yet, when she's learning and refining her playing style, but it is comparable to slash's in that it's pretty loose and gritty and she can do a lot with it (i think about this all the time, can you tell?). side tangent, but i love the unintentional idea that in this version of earth, overconsumption and guns n roses kinda come up side by side and are like sister bands AND THAT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE GNR IS MY FAVORITE BAND OKAY (i'm lying. it totally is).
duke is a mötley crüe guy, and his vocals definitely have a vince neil-esque quality to them. his voice isn't nearly as unique or distinct as vince's, but they both are pretty shrill and high-pitched and aggressive.
logan is in interesting case, because there isn't really one source of influence to point to for him. he has favorite bands for sure (aerosmith, metallica, and led zeppelin), but his influences are kind of just anything he hears and likes, which can be a wide variety of things. he also has the fact of being both a drummer and a singer, so he gets inspired for those two instruments by different things. tl;dr: anything and everything.
tommy is a big kiss guy along with may, and that's a lot of what he listened to when he was learning bass. i'd compare him to gene simmons in that he's pretty much just a bassist doing his job. he does have his own unique sense of swagger in his playing, but besides that, he doesn't worry about being too flashy. he simply knows what to play when and where and does a damn good job of it and being consistent.
and finally, rj, who is a bit of a hodgepodge similar to logan—but for different reasons. logan takes inspiration and influence from basically anything he can digest because he's constantly looking for things to improve his sound. rj takes influence from anything he hears because he doesn't really care that much about improving his playing and just figures, "hey, why not?" which isn't an entirely ineffective method of doing things, except that with rj, it just results in a pretty unremarkable and occasionally inconsistent rhythm guitar style. one notable thing that can be said for his playing is that he has a consistently upbeat and driven way of playing that does a great job of propelling the music forward which nobody knows quite who to attribute to.
i have a lot of thoughts about these guys LMAO
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thetwelfthcrow · 11 months
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Do you have any 3344 wips that you wanna spam?
babe..... where do i start.
would you like a snippet from (fics described in one line):
lewis sends a dick pic to max, on accident but maybe not
influencer!Lewis falls for coffeeshop owner!Max
(bg max/martin) max and lewis start dating, 2021 happens, martin helps max cope, lewis gets jealous
soulmates!4433
max teases lewis during a press conference
lewis asks max to dogsit roscoe and they're just too cute (part one is here, the rest is all very uhh brainstorms only)
Roscoe is a matchmaker for max and lewis
lewis hosts a sleepover for all the drivers / secret!4433
max gives lewis a striptease / secret!4433
serial killer!max and lewis is into it
virgin max asks gay lewis for tips on a girl & gets fucked so good
clones of max and lewis crash the FIA gala and m/l learn a lot about themselvesclones of max and lewis crash the FIA gala and m/l learn a lot about themselves
max and lewis go to another universe where they're engaged
lewis stands on his toes on the podium and falls, max catches him.
this is all i've jotted down for them rn lmao. some of these are just four lines of outline and some are more detailed. some are from a few weeks ago and some i haven't touched in two years.
or shall we do the neil gaiman thing where people go 'give me the thirtieth line of this work' or something. or 'the 69th word' lmao! i'm open for annnyyything babes. i'm so honored all of you are so interested in my brainworms, with the rose-emoji thing too. it means so much to me <33 i feel like the specialest little guy
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talysalankil · 5 months
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Tag game: nine favorite characters
tagged by @kevin-sedai
these will obviously be influenced by what i have on my mind right now. also i'm gonna limit myself to one per series because otherwise it'd probably be at least half kingdom hearts characters lmao
1. Vanitas
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2. Nynaeve al'Meara
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3. Neil Josten
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4. Just gonna say both Damen and Laurent because I don't feel like picking one
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5. Yuna
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6. Daenerys Targaryen
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7. Oxnard Matheson
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(the green creek artists ask not to repost their art)
8. I'm declaring a tie between Claude von Riegann and Edelgard von Hresvelg I can't just pick one of them they're both my spouses and I have two hands
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9. Emmett fucking Bradley
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(because there's like maybe 3 pieces of fanworks of the Hollow Folk books and none of him that i can find)
tagging @razielim @the-overanalyzer @nutella-icecream @regallibellbright
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