#the credits and love like you then plays

[dreamofbecoming]

listen i know we all love steve “completely ignorant of queer culture to the point that bisexuality is a surprise” harrington being roasted and educated in turns by robin and eddie, yadda yadda, good stuff. i read “they made a horror version of rocky?” in a fic recently and cackled. also a big fan of “he knew he was bi from the start and just never talked about it” as a trope, love it excellent well done

but what about steve who realizes after starcourt that the most important person in his life now has this thing that’s a major part of her life that he knows nothing about, and what if he fucks it up? what if he says something ignorant or rude by accident, and hurts her? what if he loses her because he didn’t know the right thing to say? what if he can’t keep her safe because he doesn’t know what to look out for? absolutely fucking not, this steve says

and listen she’d never say anything, because she can tell that he can tell how much she likes teasing him and teaching him things, so he plays dumb, and she thinks it’s very sweet. but she notices when the zines she keeps under her bed that she buys at that one secret bookshop in indy when she can sneak away on family trips start going missing, always one at a time, and replaced in a few days with another disappearing. and she finds the new ones he must have gone to buy the weekend she was at her aunt’s house hidden in the back of his closet when she goes to steal one of his sweaters. and she notices when he slips more of her queerer movie recommendations into his personal take home pile rather than the movie night stack when he thinks she’s not looking.

she doesn’t notice when he drives to indianapolis after she tries to explain to him why she can’t just ask out a cute girl, tries to impress on him the fear attached to every moment of attraction that he simply has never had to feel, but later she finds a crumpled receipt from a diner in one of his jacket pockets when she’s looking for his keys, and the address is across the street from the bar the gorgeous woman at the bookstore told her about, the one she memorized the address of but hasn’t worked up the guts to think about visiting, and she knows he must have gone looking for a place like that, must have been trying to understand, must have been scoping it out to make sure it was somewhere she could feel safe, after she told him she never had.

so when eddie nearly pops a blood vessel when they clock each other and she mentions that steve is the only person she’s ever come out to before, her hackles come up. because she gets it, she does, he’s only known king steve until recently, so it makes sense that he would be afraid, be concerned for her safety.

but steve is her person, and no one- no one- has ever made her feel as protected or as cared for as he does. no one has ever tried as hard to understand her, no one has ever put so much work into making her feel safe and seen and loved. and she thinks maybe even if no one else ever does, that’s ok. because she has steve, and more importantly steve has her, and that means no one gets to question his ally credentials in her presence without a dressing down to remember, no matter how well they mean or how recently they helped save the world.

(and maybe she’s not as surprised as she could be when he figures out bisexuality all on his own, because she’s been reading all the same pamphlets he has, after all. and she’s seen the way he looks at eddie, i mean come on. maybe no one else has noticed, but then, nobody knows steve harrington like she does.)

#stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #platonic stobin #steddie #(if you squint) #this got away from me #i just really love love giving steve a bit more credit yk? #like yes he’s very stupid and he has a history of being self absorbed #and we love that about him #he’s very flawed and that makes him interesting #but i really feel like one of his defining traits is his need to be useful to the people he loves #combine that with his abandonment issues and i really feel like he would be scared of fucking up and losing robin #and yeah he would play dumb like he does with dustin and d&d #but i don’t believe he knows nothing about d&d after all this time and i don’t believe he would let himself know nothing about queer culture #i’m just so so attached to the idea of steve who knows that teasing him for being dumb is his friends’ love language with him #so he pretends to be dumber than he is so they have chances to explain things to him #also stobin sharing clothes is so so so important to me just putting that out there #anyway i just think they’re neat #my writing

[hyunpic]

HYUNJIN: stay, just do as you are doing now, you're doing well [lovestay piano credit]

#hyunjin #skz #video #my haven 🩷 #two years ago he was saying how he wants to give back all of his love to us when play with fire was released #and i just think i want to give that love he gives us 1839384 times more back #playing tug of war with i love yous with him in my mind.. #tbh to me your existence itself is more than love to me. it transcends beyond that #i write your name to the sand in front of the sea so the waves can wipe it away and carry the message me of caring about you to you… #i feel like without u i would be like the black screen of a movie ending without the credits #and like a song without lyrics.. hmm

[aethersea]

devastating to go into the tag for an obscure vampire movie I've been quietly obsessed with for years to find mostly gifsets of minor characters (played by big-name actors) and review blogs saying they didn't like it :(

@ everyone who made a post saying "I liked it :)" I am blowing you a kiss. everyone who made a lovely gifset or photoset of the cinematography I am tipping my hat. that one poster that said "bro did y'all just miss the Entire Message about class and race or???" I am shaking your hand with enthusiasm there was SUCH a message about class and race

anyway everybody should watch Night Teeth and revel in glitzy flashy modern vampires in LA with me

#finx rambles #night teeth #vampires #apparently the marketing heavily overemphasized megan fox (she has a bit role. she's in like one scene) #so that one's not on the fans #but I am sad about all those people fuming bc it didn't have a poly ending #girl this is hollywood? what did you expect? #invent it yourself? that is what fandom is for?? queer reads have always been about discarding endings and living in the liminal?? #(side note I love queer readings of fairy tales. fairy tales class was so fun. god I need sleep or something my brain is on SUCH tangents.) #frustrated by that one post saying 'the vampire-slaying gang leader spends the day after a catastrophe befalls #trying to get his shift covered at work? unrealistic' #bro he's working class. he's poor. he's gotta put food on the table. do you think your job cares about your personal tragedy #this is in fact part of the Themes At Play wrt class. believe it or not. #sad also about those reviews that are like 'eh it was mid' but I've never needed critics to agree with me and I'm not about to start now #I did think the gifmakers would be on my side though #the lighting in this movie??? #that whole opening sequence in the credits with the storytelling done through reflections in cars at night? #the color choices??? the lighting??!?!?!?!

[designernishiki]

ladies and gentlemen. we got em

#this is so fucking FUNNY dude banxbsnanxb #STRAIGHT PEOPLE ON REDDIT ARE SO MAD AND IM JUST SITTING HERE. GRINNING. PLEASED #that’s 700x more in character than the alternative and I’m just praying this is true/legit (cause I couldn’t find the exact interview this #is from- but I didn’t see anyone saying it was fake on Twitter/Reddit so idk) #to be fair I could only scroll through comments on reddit for like a minute before it started giving me brain damage so #but yeah bdbxsbscshxjdj YOKOYAMA. MAYBE IVE BEEN GIVING YOU TOO LITTLE CREDIT. #I absolutely love seeing all these basic ass straight folks getting so pissy about him not settling down with a nuclear biological family #and a wife and all that and dying at the ripe old age of his fucking mid-50s #like no shit???? what games have you been playing bro the whole fucking Point of his idea of family is unconventional #he’s literally a fucking orphan who didn’t grow up with any biological family are you fucking fr #dgagdhdhd ANYWAY yeah I’m seriously hoping to high heaven that this is legit #rambling #kiryu #yakuza #rgg #rgg8

[withlove-therabbit]

I'm going to cry over these two now (and rewatch the show for the millionth time once more)

To everyone who is working on or has been working on this series in anyway, thank you so so much. You're amazing thank you.

#sk8 the infinity #idl who edited the photo but ill find you and credit you #idk* #renga #i love them so so so much #langa #reki #sk8 cast #thank you to the animators #artists of this series #and play casts as well as the studio #and everyone who worked on this tysm #i make it sound like this show is done for #sorry lol

[leavingautumn13]

y'all are lucky it's an emerald kick i'm on right now and not an oras one because i get weird and feral about how characters in oras are aware of the narrative they're in and react differently to it depending on which game you're playing

#pepe silvia meme dot png #listen. listen. if you're playing alpha sapphire then you're the antagonist in archie's story. #if you're playing omega ruby maxie's the antagonist in your story and he leans into the role with glee. #(also he's much friendlier than people give him credit for. he has a whole monologue in seafloor cavern about how #happy he is to see you even though he knows you're about to fuck up his plans #and archie does NOT have equivalent dialogue in alpha sapphire he just gets right into kicking your ass) #(i'm so normal about maxie you guys) #when zinnia asks if you've ever had to hold back your grief... if you answer ''no'' she LAUGHS #and says ''don't you know you're supposed to agree? and then we can share a touching moment of pain?'' #i'm also totally normal about zinnia #god #''don't you know you're supposed to agree'' fucked me up so bad and all i did was read about it on bulbapedia #there's no place like hoenn #<- resurrecting this old tag #edited to add: ALSO ''s/he's the hero. right?'' #GOD I LOVE ZINNIA #broke: zinnia did nothing wrong. woke: zinnia did everything wrong while speedrunning the five stages of grief

[lotus-pear]

"immortality.. a fate worse than death"

#credits to @/tadpole-art because i referenced her art for this and basically recycled colors from it as well so i owe her a big thanks😭 #i tried painting once and i'm never doing it again i fucking sobbed every minute i was drawing this #how do you guys do it #anyway having thoughts about our resident boughkeeper #have i mentioned how much i love him? because i love him so much #his backstory made me cry and he's also pretty and heartbroken so there we go i already added him to my fave list #after playing the recent archon quest i was like ''friendship ended with childe now dain is my favorite character'' #dansleif my beloved🛐🛐 #genshin impact #genshin impact art #genshin impact fanart #genshin dainsleif #genshin impact dainsleif #dainsleif #dainsleif genshin impact #lotus draws

[arklay]

ALBERT WESKER in the DEAD BY DAYLIGHT x RESIDENT EVIL: PROJECT W Trailer

You will not live to see the dawn.

#please credit if you use those last ones as headers ty 🤍 #sorry but also not sorry for the obnoxious leah colouring <3 i was just playing around and distracting myself from what's going on right now #and i kinda like the way they turned out idk was originally doing these to make a header. but i like the last two a lot though. somehow got #decent quality for those plus another one i didn't use in this of right before his eyes glow. also the kinda complementary colours are #scratching my brain. anyway i'm ready for him to throw me around like a ragdoll but for now i'm disappearing into the void cause horrid day #also don't take these as serious edits or anything i was just playing around and also love gradient text formatting so yeah that's it #game: dead by daylight #game: resident evil #character: albert wesker #tw: scopophobia #mine.

[stephicness]

Every now and then, I think back on these lads, and I think to myself...

"Man... I got PAID to write jokes about rice cookers, Harry Potter parodies, and pussy (cats) for these guys."

It makes me happy to know that the scripts I wrote for some of them inspired the devs to make them into full characters. Lovely fans!

#stephic thoughts #blush blush #blush blush game #life moment #i promise i'm not an imposter #my name's in the credits i swear #:'D #i love seeing the content and the headcanons from folks too #so lovely~ #definitely a fun opportunity i had! #go play the game if you haven't yet #it's free too #and who doesn't like free things?

[carefulfears]

I just love how carefree mulder and scully are in david’s episodes, it’s a side of them we so rarely got to see… 😔😔😔

yeah, me too. david writes journeys for mulder, with clear morals and arcs. the unnatural is about valuing “life on this planet,” finding space for joy and connection in the midst of blinding pursuit. amor fati is about commitment to your purpose, realigning to who you are at the core, who you were as a child. the promises that you made to yourself then. hollywood a.d. is about legacy, what we leave behind: does it matter if it’s warped, or if it’s nothing, so long as we loved and were loved well?

david’s episodes are classic hero’s journeys, active lessons for mulder as a character. but these are all things that scully already knows, so she gets to be passive and lighthearted and wise. they aren’t having anything beaten into them; they’re growing through storytelling, through play, through identification. they’re growing through watching a movie at 3am and rambling to each other. they’re growing through eating gross fake ice cream and reading old newspapers on a saturday morning. they’re growing through swinging a baseball bat, hips before hands, all night under the stars.

#this is why i love his dancing zombies at the end of ‘hollywood a.d.’ so SO much #mulder sitting out on the grass spiralling about how the dead are thought of and spoken about and the things that impact legacy and memory #things that are so deeply important to a man who spends his life chasing ghosts. who lost 2 family members that year #and scully is just next to him giggling and holding his arm like…they’re dead mulder! they don’t care! #eyes lit up waving that bureau credit card at him #and the way he’s just like….sigh. okay. #and gives it up and takes her arm so they can go out #when the music starts playing and you can still see mulder and scully holding hands in the background #and the zombies all get up and dance <33 #one of my favorite moments of the show. they’re happy. and that’s something. #and that’s what i love about david’s eps because who gives a fuck where the zombies came from! #who gives a fuck if the baseball player was really an alien! who gives a fuck who the boy on the beach was! #it doesn’t matter. it’s so metaphorical and just there for the lesson. and the lesson is always loving and beneficial for the characters #asks

[merlinmerlot]

i finally finished bg3

and it only took me [looks at steam]

SIX HUNDRED HOURS

#merlin.txt #w/ the new computer the rest of act 3 went by super quickly #honestly i dont think my computer and my sanity would have survived all those cutscenes #ANYWAYS initial thoughts: #cried like a baby. ending credits songs really really good. i can't WAIT to start a new playthru. HOWEVER: #oh my god the ending felt so fucking rushed. i was expecting like a typical rpg ending slideshow at LEAST but nothing??? #like you only get One cutscene with your romanced partner (a short one too) but i don't get to see what everyone else is doing??? hello?? #gale is literally like 'lets celebrate' and we don't get to see the celebration??? or at the very least a chance to talk to everyone again #like in act 1 and 2???? #imo i think the most satisfying one was lae'zels. god i love her #also act 3 is hella buggy especially towards the end. a lot of broken dialogue. but ah well #OK NOW SPOILER THOUGHTS SAMMIE DONT LOOK: #the game Really wants you to turn illithid but i ended up just letting karlach do it ... i felt bad .. but like #i found the arc of my tav like. getting So close to going full power hungry and martyr and hero only to finally be humbled like - #'you dont have to always play hero' was really interesting. like doing that and then hearing the post credits 'the power' song. gshldgksmal #guy who is soo miserable abt the fact that all their cool illithid powers are now gone. has to go back to being normal #ALSO. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE ENDING AST SCENE. HELLO? #HIM RUNNING AWAY FROM THE SUN. IT BEING COMPLETELY PLAYED FOR LAUGHS. SO MEAN #any other time i may have laughed but the fact that you dont really get epilogues made that Really sting. #THE FACT THAT THE COMPANIONS ARE NOT EVEN NICE ABOUT IT??????

[e-m-p-error]

I have decided to make some muses Discord Only so that I can clean up my muses some! The following I'll still write but they will only be available on Discord.

St. Peter Sera Ace Apple Clara Dodie Fizzarolli Hen Moxxie Odette Paradise Verosika Lilith Cherri Bomb Eve Vaggie

#BLOG MAINTENANCE ➽➽➽ #Discord Only Muses #Got Kaleidoscopes In My Hairdo Got Back The Stars In My Eyes Too (ρєтєя) #Wisdom Always Chooses These Black Eyes And These Bruises Over The Heartache That They Say Never Completely Goes Away (ѕєяα) #My Fans Are The Best They’d Love Me More Dead (α¢є) #Bounce With Something Cute On I Kiss Into The Fog Zone (αρρℓє) #Isn’t She Lovely This Hollywood Girl? (¢ℓαяα) #I’ll Make You Sit Beg Rollover Play Dead (∂σ∂ιє) #May I Have Your Attention Please? Will The Real Fizzarolli Please Stand Up? I Repeat (fιzzαяσℓℓι) #Ask Any Of The Chickies In My Pen They’ll Tell You I’m The Biggest Mother Hen (нєи) #You Know Before Too Long You’ll Be Dead And Gone So Tell Me Right Or Wrong? (мσχχιє) #I Know Exactly Why I Walk And Talk Like A Machine (σ∂єттє) #I Was Thinking About You And It Was Kinda Dirty (ραяα∂ιѕє) #3I Get What I Want My Name Is My Credit Card (νєяσѕιкα) #Come Up And Try My New Parts (ℓιℓιтн) #I Am The Fire I Am Burning Brighter Roaring Like A Storm And I AM The One I’ve Been Waiting For (¢нєяяι вσмв) #Does He Know I’m Forsaken? The Original Sinner (єνє) #Eyes Closed But I Stay Making Mistakes (ναggιє)

[stormyoceans]

PAUSED AND REPLAYED THESE 4 SECONDS APPROXIMATELY 23 SEPARATED TIMES THEY'RE ALREADY GIVING US EVERYTHING IN THE INTRO ALONE

#DOCTOR JIMMY ONCE AGAIN SHOWING UP ON THAT SET LIKE IM ABOUT TO GIVE SO MUCH ADORATION DEVOTION REVERENCE LOVE #gmmtv execs: okay guys for this opening credits you can like. put an arm around the other's shoulders. push each other around a little. #just you know. express your characters. do whatever feels right in the moment #jimmy: SAY NO MORE [looks at sea with so much adoration and wonder you'd think he hung all the stars in the sky] [kisses his hand] #gmmtv execs crying tearing their hair out eating their eyelashes: doctor. doctor please. #someone help this man he's being possessed he ain't playing a character anymore he is being played like a puppet #PUEN IF YOU'RE IN THERE BLINK ONCE #anyway. if you see me howling in the woods no you don't #vice versa #our skyy 2 #puentalay #m: txt

[nihilismtrcit]

nora, reuniting with her high school friends after over a decade: 😐

#simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 screenshots #they moved tables that's why they're all so close in the last shot #ofc i couldn't get dinner to go smoothly at all lmao #i love playing this broken game #like why wont you all just SIT #so the blonde is bailey #wannabe girl mom that's currently pregnant with boy number four #she was a cheerleader #and then in the black dress is dominique who played lacrosse with nora #she's currently a lawyer who's recently engaged #and lastly is heaven who is a rich little spoiled girl #she wasn't an athlete just popular cuz of daddy's credit card #she married a tech millionaire and has a daughter and two yappy lap dogs #she's a better mom to the dogs than the baby lol the nanny does most of the work #i was gonna post an intro for them but meh #i doubt anyone cares all that much #nora #summer save

[incidentalblr]

listen valvert is a better exploration of les mis’s themes than enjoltaire could ever be

#swinging at the hornet’s nest here but it’s true #redemption and forgiveness??? #mercy vs justice??? #like valjean and javert are literal embodiments of the work’s central questions #so in asking how these two people could come to love each other you must needs confront these questions head on #with the same grace as the original narrative #enjoltaire just have some dense political metaphors packed into their relationship and characterization #but they’re often taken out of the original context because in the 21st century their intensely specific symbolism just isn’t as relevant #les miserables is a transcendent work and valvert are transcendent #maybe im just pissed off because like 90% of the fandom attention goes to the amis when valvert is. right there??? #and i used to be one of y’all but #anyways 🥰 #and like i get it fighting for a new dawn is compelling or whatever sure #but self sacrifice i think is given more credit than it deserves when the real profundity to me is the human drive to live #like okay #giving yourself up for something greater than yourself??? #whatever #played out as all hell #choosing life in spite of all its hardships #choosing life as the only way you can experience love or growth? #self sacrifice is too glorified #show me learning the value of the self and then we can talk

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

i have this on vinyl

i haven’t played it yet

but IMMEDIATELY

russ is there ✨

YES omg i have the soundtrack for mcvicar on vinyl and he's on that one too. i also remembered i think i have a uriah heep album(abominog) that has a cover of one of russ's songs on it, on the rebound.

he seems like he's just everywhere, almost hiding in plain sight. he's there but almost nobody is aware of it or something

#i was recently reading things on america's you can do magic #and the amount of people that don't know that russ wrote that #and played the instruments on it #it's so many #praising america so much for writing it and i'm like HELLOOOOOOO #not to sound like i'm saying anything bad about america because i'm not and i do like them #but just #RUSS #credit #credit russ #learn that he exists and has done good things #but he probably doesn't even mind #but i will acknowledge and talk about him and everything he's done anyway because he deserves it #and because i love him