#That's US

[pilferingapples]

ID : a tweet from the Siecle history podcast that reads "Some of the most detailed historical research being done today about 19th Century France is done by a small community of fans trying to make their fanfiction historically accurate."

#THAT'S US #GO LES MIS SQUAD GO #Barricades Con

[high-noon-raccoon]

"Hey, how's your Lancer campaign going?"

I'll let the memes do the talking.

#lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #one of our players also did meme art but i don't wanna post it without her permission #but it basically inspired a real-life pilgrimage to margaritaville #yeah :P #that's us

[thebreakfastgenie]

"I've been rewarded over the years with a touchingly dedicated army of fans." :)

#that's us #billy joel

[gali-in-distress]

That audio that says "He was the best guy around. But what about the people he murdered? What murdaahh?" But it's Nigel Colbie

Somebody make it

#idk i just think it fits #like #that's us #nigel colbie #like minds

[sorethpid]

Mark welcomes a new guest in the Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino 🛎️ Gift to my best friend and gig partner, @esparafuso! Thank you for being your wonderful self - may we keep attending the taqueria on the Moon together! 

#MAY YOU HAVE THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS #I hope you love them as much as I loved your gift #it was a joy to make #as it is a joy to celebrate another year of your existence #born under the same star sign - in the same region - and destined to hunt monkeys around the world #that's us #love youuu #mattlex

[yuesya]

I just love that you have ended up with Bastard AU v1, v2, and v3, plus Traitor Nanami AU v1 and v2, plus the other singular AUs. You help us spawn so many ideas (that we then send back and drown you in, sorry!)

True, I feel like every time I turn around there's another new AU added to the list LOL.

Glad people are having fun with this! It's fun for me to write little AU scenarios as well haha. :D

#QA #zenith of stars au #all the aus haha #all the little au plot bunnies #just imagine fushiguro's rabbit escape #that's us #with the au plot bunnies haha

[there-was-a-hole-here-itsgonenow]

El’s soap opera spelling out Midleven’s end

I made an analysis of a scene with El back in 2019, under a different username (@proud-losers: Original post here - https://proud-losers.tumblr.com/post/188477016057/mileven-and-byler-outcome-depictions-in-episode-of), and, after being gone and off social media for a few years, I wanted to come back and have this blog for Byler and Byler only. Now that season 4′s come and renewed just how strongly I feel for Byler and believe in them, I wanted to refresh this old post and add to it. Season 4 really accentuated and solidified it as the piece of evidence it is.

Here it is as follows, old info combined with new:

In season 2′s “Trick or Treat, Freak,” when El is watching television, one of the channels shows an episode of All My Children (an episode that would’ve been aired in the Fall of 1984). I [even more than I did when I first posted this] think it’s meant to show where Midleven is inevitably headed + shows yet another clear example of Mike’s withheld sexuality/eventual getting together with Will:

The Duffers confirmed a long while back that El watching Frankenstein (in this same episode) was to represent how she feels like a monster, so why wouldn’t this episode of All My Children contain a deeper significance? This one clip both describes and foreshadows what happened in season 3 between Mike and El and what will happen later between Mike and Will (season 5, guys!).

I did some research on the background of this particular All My Children episode’s context and realized the episode El is watching comes after Erica Kane, the woman in-scene, loses her husband in a tragic accident (in which he did not actually die, but this is irrelevant to the main points I’ve drawn), and rather quickly gets involved with a man whose name happens to be Mike (same man in-scene). Erica and Mike get together quickly after Erica’s husband’s “death,” and Mike wants her to marry him very shortly after they meet—too quickly after and even during a tragic circumstance. It’s reminiscent of the way El gets together with Mike: quickly and born out of tragic circumstances. The word “impetuous,” is specifically highlighted in the scene. It means to be impulsive, rash, hasty: all perfect descriptors of how fast El and Mike supposedly ‘fell in love.’

It’s important to note that, with Mike’s proposal, the scene cuts off before Erica agrees. The audience isn’t allowed to hear it, which seems intentional. Perhaps because El will/is moving away from her relationship with Mike. Midleven won’t be together in the end, just as Erica and her Mike ultimately aren’t together in the end either. ADDITIONALLY, now that we’re past season 4, this is also perfectly set up with Mike’s monologue. We HEAR Mike prattle his ‘love,’ a proposal he tosses El’s way. And yet… We DON’T get El’s response. It’s what she wanted so dearly before, to hear and have those words from Mike, but now she seems to be metaphorically walking away from Mike’s pitched ‘proposal.’ It’s kind of like—and I hope I’m making sense in this—how she walks away from the television in “Trick or Treat, Freak,” preventing us from hearing an answer from Erica.

When it comes to paralleling the two Mikes, it’s incredibly interesting that Erica not only says her Mike’s proposal is sudden but is also ‘not like him.’ Fans of All My Children say Mike professes his ‘undying love’ for Erica very shortly after their meeting; again, it’s too quick of a confession, and how can he already be so sure his love is so undying and true? Mike says he is this way—“wild and impetuous”—because Erica ‘made him that way.’ We know Mike loves El, genuinely, but not romantically. We can see this even more clearly with the emphasized pieces of Mike’s character in season 4. It’s ‘not like him’ to be in this sort of [heterosexual] relationship in which he is only in it—impetuously so—because of El (highlighted gesture El makes to herself while saying “Me?”). Simply put, he is ‘this way’ because of the idea of her (NOTE: Whether you subscribe to gay or bi Mike, both of which I lovingly welcome, the argument still stands whether it’s not like him to be with El because it’s a heterosexual relationship or because El is just not the one he truly loves. Either way, it’s far more indicative that Mike is actually in love with Will, who we see Mike be more ‘like himself’ with).

Segway to another highlighted line: “People are going to be aghast.” This line gave me two interpretations. First: Mike and El being together in season 3 do cause a number of “aghast” reactions: Dustin calling it out as “bullshit,” Hopper not finding their relationship normal, Max not approving of the way El is treated, Will calling it “gross” (we know he’s jealous, but, still, point’s been made) etc. People should be ‘loving it,’ the perceived normalcy of it from Mike’s perspective perhaps, but this relationship is ill-fitting (and we continue to see how even more ill-fitting it is in season 4). We saw Mike’s discomfited and obviously confused reaction to the kiss El initiates in the finale of season 3. For Mike, aside from thinking ‘What the hell just happened?’ in-script, he likely thought afterward that he should have loved it, that it should be like him to love it, and yet there he was, sporting parallels to when he thought he lost Will in season 1. Second: There’s also the thought of the aghast reactions toward Byler when it happens, because it will ‘stun the whole town [Hawkins]/the whole world [viewers].’ What of the “they’re gonna love it” line then? The people who matter are going to love them.

#that's us #we're gonna love them #cheesy but true #byler #byler endgame #byler analysis #byler theory #will byers #mike wheeler

[rosemelodyshah]

Me and @lostwriter--xx3 just had a conversation and it is so very Prongsfoot coded like that defo happens b/w Sirius and James

#i am james #she is Sirius #that's us

[bear-do-well]

Fun fact: in dnd drow aren't a race on their own, they're an elven subrace. So hah! You're playing more elves than I do, because half-elves are a race of their own

honey baby pumpkin, I guarantee drow are more unique and stand on their own more than your filthy half-breeds ever do

#what is that one youtube video.. #2 gay nerds fighting #that's us #asks

[keyh0use]

Thank you <3

#that's us #I'm Jax obv

[dreamluminosity]

Photos I got of Anson Seabra, Alec Benjamin & Jonah Kegan at the Lafayette in London {The Wonderland Tour, 15.5.23}

watch the video I got here.

#anson seabra #jonah kegan #alec benjamin #sad songs #music #concert photography #concert #welcome to wonderland #trying my best #Youtube #the neverland tour #unloving you #hiddenburg lover #kryptonite #robin hood #emerald eyes #broken #supposed to be a love song #gingerbread house #that's us #magazine

[swordwife]

thinking about my little meow meow again... 

please look at him 

I love him. 

#my scrunkly.... my blorbo.... #he is the only one I feel fits that word for me #anyway I was thinking about him in the store today and then guess who showed up on the tv in the electronics section #me audibly going ''bwuno'' after the person I was with asked what tf was playing on the tv #ghhj I want to play with his hair so bad... just tangle my fingers through it as I cuddle up next to him... #also related #have you seen that animal crossing post that's like ''no eye contact until marriage'' #that's us #bruno autistic swag moments

[oh-katsuki]

my bsf told his family friend about our trip to japan in the summer and apparently she started laughing so hard and kept repeating “that’s going to be so funny because you’re so tall and long and she is so short and round. it’s like a two characters in a comic strip.” and now i have been forced to consider what me and him look like standing next to each other and yk what... that shit IS funny. we’re two very comically shaped people.

#he's 6'4 and like... so lanky that it's funny #and i am 5'4 and round #you guys ever seen the veggie tales guys? #the cucumber and the tomato?? #that's us

[mangoazalea]

Tunnel snakes rule

we're the tunnel snakes

#asks #that's us #and we rule

[gorseflowers]

favourite genre of post is me or oz reblogging lovestruck cats and the other seeing it and saying "us"

#that's us #mine

[albonium]

the grandmas behind the barriers 😭

#that's us