Tumgik
laceybarbedwire · 2 hours
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
I'd be running up that road Be running up that hill With no problems
1K notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 4 hours
Text
Tumblr media
167 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 4 hours
Text
My toxic trait is believing if I manifest it hard enough we’ll get ronance canon AND a ronance wound tending scene.
18 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 4 hours
Photo
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
117 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 4 hours
Text
i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
19K notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 5 hours
Text
Saw Florence’s insta video of her on the Thunderbolts set and I wanna write a fic where Kate sees Yelena with short hair. Imagine this:
Yelena shows up at Kate’s apartment after the movie…
Yelena: Kate Bishop! I am starving, do you want to order Chinese food takeout?
Kate: Y-Yelena?
She sees the short hair and short circuits immediately.
Kate: I-I mean—Y-You look—I need to—I—P-Peter’s calling, yep he’s calling and I-I’m gonna—I’ll be back!
She runs off to the rooftop, leaving behind a very confused Yelena who looks at Cassie who’s lounging on the couch.
Yelena: Is Kate Bishop okay? Is she sick?
Cassie mumbling: caught the gay fever that’s for sure
Yelena: What?
Cassie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: you know Kate, she’s probably tired from training all day.
Yelena: Oh well then she needs to get some rest.
Cassie mumbling again: She definitely needs to get something.
Meanwhile…
Kate on the phone to Peter: Pete you don’t understand, she cut her hair!
Peter: And?
Kate: How am I supposed to function? She can’t just do that to me! She could’ve given me a warning!
Peter: Kate, I don’t see what’s the big deal.
Kate: Remember how you reacted when MJ got those red highlights?
Peter: Oh….OHHHH
Kate: Exactly
Peter: Good luck.
163 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 5 hours
Text
i'm literally begging people to relearn how to use earbuds and headphones. i don't wanna hear your fucking tiktok while im waiting for my flight.
214K notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 5 hours
Text
Nancy: Look. I know that from the outside it seems like I have everything together.
Robin: No, not really.
114 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 5 hours
Text
Tumblr media
11K notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 16 hours
Text
I hate to agree with Mike, but...
Mike: *finds a stray cat*
Mike: Can we keep it?
Karen: Your father is allergic.
Mike: Dad can stay outside.
19 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 19 hours
Text
Nancy whose hands are always cold and who loves shoving them in the back of Robin's shirt because it's always warm. Robin, who always squeals like she's dying and tries to get away but never stops smiling and misses the way the chill runs up her spine when Nancy goes too long without doing it. Nancy whose hands are always cold and have a tendency to tremble even when she's trying her best to make it stop. Robin, who is used to the way her own hands shake, who always catches Nancy's on the first tremble and doesn't think twice before taking them in her own to place kisses along the backs of them before intertwining their fingers together to steady them. Nancy whose hands are always cold and so stiff that she sometimes has to put down the pen, the gun, the brush, etc., and take a break to try and try to work the stiffness out of them. Robin, who knows Nancy is a force to be reckoned with who won't stop to breathe unless someone reminds her that it's okay to do that, who encourages Nancy to take days off when her hands hurt too much. Who offers to up the pen and write for her, who asks to be taught how to wield a gun, who brushes the knots out of her hair for her.
Nancy, who is used to being the powerhouse, the backbone, the unwavering, unstoppable force. Nancy, who enjoys being all of that but never realized that she could be that and still ask for help or waver. Nancy, who doesn't know she could falter and still be regarded as strong. Robin, who takes it upon herself to make sure Nancy learns the truth. Robin, who wants nothing but to look after Nancy, who often neglects to look after herself. Robin, who could watch Nancy crack and break into a thousand pieces and would never think twice about how strong she really is.
758 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 20 hours
Text
NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER
NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER NANCY WHEELER
37 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 21 hours
Text
Just saw an ask about Nancy’s lack of social behaviors that inspired some thoughts. I didn't want to intrude on them with my disagreements. They make a couple of reasonable points, but I believe they're missing some aspects of Nancy’s personality to interpret them. Obviously, some of this comes down to personal interpretation, but this is my understanding of Nancy Wheeler.
Addressing their points: Canonically, Nancy isn't a social person. She didn't reach out to Robin at all in the year after Starcourt Mall. The only people we see her regularly hanging out with, after Barb's death, is whoever her current boyfriend is. These are all facts. I personally feel her questioning Robin's presence in season 3 was less a 'I have absolutely zero idea who you are' reaction, and more of a 'why the heck is this new person helping us fight a monster and making comments, since when?' type reaction. This is up for interpretation though, so I won't argue that point.
However, Nancy’s lack of social life is not an indicator of a lack of desire for friendship. Nancy struggles with opening up to people. She finds emotional vulnerability and genuine connection both difficult and terrifying. We see this aversion present itself in her relationship with Mike, as well as signs of it presenting in her dysfunctional family. 
Barb was her only real friend in the beginning of the show. We see her change herself, to try to conform to Steve's group, but even then she is very distant from everyone but Steve and Barb. She relied on previous bonds in a social situation, and made no attempts to create new ones. Granted, Tommy and Carol weren’t people she cared to be friends with. However, this seems to be a pattern of behavior, as indicated by her social situations throughout the show. Another example is the party in season two, when she got drunk and only actually talked to Steve.
Nancy stays inside a social comfort zone. She is not outgoing without a purpose. She’s good at listening, but she doesn’t talk to people without an external reason, such as a story. What some people may forget, is that once Nancy is comfortable with someone, many of those barriers go away. She actually stays quite close to people she likes and feels comfortable with, especially in a distressing situation. She made Barb come to the party for this exact reason. 
The Upside Down dangers created the perfect situations to create deep bonds with Steve and Jonathan. They were forced into situations that lowered guards and allowed them to be genuine with each other. There’s a reason she ended up dating both of them, and essentially relying on them for connection over the years. It wasn’t just trauma bonding, but also that barrier free connection. 
Jonathan was the one to distance himself from Nancy in between season one and two. We see Nancy still reaching out at the beginning of season two. He had been placed in the comfortable zone, and as such, she was quite social with him, despite not dating yet. She ends up distanced from Steve because ex status took him out of that zone, alongside lack of communication in their relationship and the inability to be emotionally vulnerable with him. 
Then we go into post-season three territory. Nancy and Robin don’t talk after Starcourt. Why would they? The two saw each other in a dangerous situation, but they never actually connected. There was no bond, and I highly doubt that Robin took the initiative to attempt to develop one afterwards. Steve started dating Nancy because he put persistent effort into showing his interest. She’s not exactly the type to reach out first. Once within the trust and comfort zone, then yeah, she will initiate contact with a person, but she struggles before then. 
As for people outside of the Hawkins Gang, alongside her natural social aversion, there’s also the barrier of being unable to be completely honest with them. This is a major thing for Nancy, who likely values genuine friendships, and has little respect for superficial ones. This, alongside the trauma surrounding Barb, hinders her quite a lot.
After Jonathan moves away, Nancy is left relatively alone. She has working relationships with people in the newspaper, but not much beyond that. Perhaps there was the possibility of a friendship developing over time with Fred, but that was cut short. Even then, once again, the person she’s closest to got there because they were placed in a situation where she had an external reason to initiate contact.
Does that mean she doesn’t really care to make any more friends aside from Jonathan? Turn now to the famous line: "Does that make us friends? As in, officially?"  
Tumblr media
Look at that smile, and try to tell me that she isn't ecstatic to have Robin confirm their new relationship.
This girl desperately wants a friend. She just doesn’t know how to make one. Looking just at that scene, Nancy is visibly nervous. She doesn’t say anything until Robin drops the friend-word, and then she feels the need to confirm it with her. She wanted it so badly, and was so relieved when Robin revealed that she felt the same way. This wasn’t a little thing to her.
How do they even get to that point in season four? First, Robin puts herself in Nancy’s orbit, despite Nancy’s discomfort. People have a tendency to discount her ideas and not listen to her. She was an unknown variable in a stressful situation. However, the situation allowed them to really talk and the start of a connection was created. Robin had listened to her, and had validated her theory. 
Nancy was starting to like her.
What did she do next? Take advantage of the situation they were in, to sneakily attempt to grow closer. It wasn’t just the fact that Robin was competent and Nancy respected her after the library, but because she wanted to spend time with her. There were plenty of options within the group of competent people, yet Nancy repeatedly singled Robin out. Nancy was trying to become friends.
I say take advantage of it though, because it is a lot less stressful to initiate conversations with someone if you have an excuse. ('They were in a dangerous situation, it wasn't about wanting to be her friend, whaaatt.' Lies.) Suddenly a lot of the normal social pressure and anxiety around initiating contact is decreased. And look at what Nancy does in that scenario, she immediately reaches out. 
Give her a reason, or a purpose, and she can go up and talk to anyone about anything. Take that away, and she gets too stressed or anxious to be the first. 
Anyway, to sum up, Nancy sticks to people she’s comfortable with. Robin, and maybe Steve depending on how the romance is handled, have managed to maneuver themselves into her comfort zone by the end of season four. She has confirmed friendship with Robin, and as previously established, once Nancy likes you, she is social. She will reach out to you, and spend time with you. 
Outside of danger, she likely takes a while to trust people, so anyone who wants to join in the hangouts would need to be willing to put in some effort and be patient with her, but it isn't impossible. She wouldn’t avoid them, just stick close to comfort people.
She's not completely anti-social. Nancy is an introvert who struggles to trust, but once you have that trust, she is a reliable friend.
130 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 1 day
Text
Where the FUCK is my Truman show musical that would slap so much. Mocococo can be a whole song and he goes WHY THE FUCK ARE SINGING. It would be beautiful
248 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 1 day
Text
Literally No One:
Me: Do you think when Truman escaped The Truman Show and he saw the real moon for the first time, he was like "Huh it's a lot smaller than the one I grew up with," but then he noticed it changing after a few days so he brought it up like "Honey, the moon is getting skinnier. Is that normal?" and his girlfriend was like, "Yeah it does that. Don't worry about it," so Truman ignored it because he had bigger fish to fry (assimilating to the real world) until one day, it was just gone and he positively flipped his shit "GUYS SOMEONE STOLE THE MOON IT IS MISSING WE NEED TO ALERT THE MOON PROFESSIONALS ABOUT THIS HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SEE AT NIGHT WITHOUT MY MASSIVE NIGHT LIGHT" and then Lauren had to sit him down and explain the phases of the moon for an hour? Do you think he got really obsessed with the moon after that? Did he get a library card and check out all of the books he could find about the moon and the moon landing and moon rovers and space travel? Do you think he kept up with it after that by maybe following NASA's subscription newsletter to see if there are any updates on the moon? Could he tell the difference between a waxing and a waning crescent? Did it make him excited to see it during the day too sometimes? Does he miss it when it's too cloudy to see? Does looking at the moon at night help him cope with his newfound freedom because it proves he's not trapped on Seahaven Island anymore? Because not every day is the same like it was before? Because the world changes around him now instead of stopping when he leaves the room? Just like the moon will keep changing even if he can't see it? What's his opinion on werewolves?
623 notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 1 day
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about
5K notes · View notes
laceybarbedwire · 1 day
Text
Tumblr media
Power Girl #7 - "Journey Out of Ferimbia" (2024)
written by Leah Williams art by Marguerite Sauvage
86 notes · View notes