#insecure season 4

[geekgirles]

Manifesting at least one (1) wholesome interaction between Amalia and Adult! Yugo next week. Please, Ankama, this is what I've been waiting for, I'm begging you.

#I need a wholesome reunion where an awed Amalia at first has doubts about the hunk before her being her Yugo #only for him to do something that will IMMEDIATELY make her understand it's really him #not some clone or lie like Oropo #please #they've suffered so much because of Yugo's insecurities over his appearance #they deserve this #please give me all the Yumalia #wakfu #wakfu season 4 #wakfu spoilers #wakfu season 4 spoilers #yugo the eliatrope #amalia sheran sharm #adult!yugo #yumalia #ankama

[ribbonthief]

Can we please, please talk about this line for a million years. You don’t focus on it as much as the other parts of her speech because it gets cut off, but the wholeness of it is still so clear: ‘I was never scared because my dad always made me feel safe’ 

And !!! man that’s such a heartbreaking but significant insight into El’s POV of Hopper and of their time together at the cabin. Because it’s implying (if not directly communicating) that despite and within how intense and sometimes combative it was between Hopper and El during those months at the cabin, she always felt safe there, and more so, she felt safe there because of Hopper. Which makes Hopper’s ‘they didn’t need me, I needed them’ speech all the more heartbreaking too because El did need Hopper. She needs her dad and loves her dad and he represented so many important and meaningful things for her but a primary thing was safety and his death means El now has to figure out how to operate in a world where she no longer has this unique feeling of safeness that her dad gave her.

#el hopper #strangerthingsedit #stranger things #jim hopper #jane hopper #gah it's so sad someone anyone pls tell her he's still alive #stranger things season 4 #and also the clear differences of terms too when it comes to papa and dad #because papa equated and still equates to fear and abuse and insecurity #hopper x el #whereas the term 'dad' for El means safety and security and protection #otf: it was you...you were my ghost #st season 4

[galaxysharks]

if maddox somehow met lily and knew everything she'd said to ashlyn lily would not live to see another day i fear

Lily is the centerpiece of the ven diagram of all the things Maddox hates.

Let's see:

Preppy mean girl

Disses people based on appearance

Doesn't recognize talent or effort

Stole the harness and almost hurt Ricky ( he's brother at this point )

Messed with the set

Upsets Ashlyn

Threw a fit and transferred due to not earning lead

Brought Antoine around ( he's fine now, but it was still the worst opening night shes ever had )

Has all the vibes of the people that made her start homeschooling.

Maddox loves horror and hasn't had a good outlet in forever.......Lily is about to fear for her damn life.

#hsmtmts #hsmtmts maddox #high school musical the musical the series #hsm the series #hsmtmts season 4 #hsmtmts jet #ashlyn caswell #madlyn #she pissed of the gf #so maddox is going to psychologically torment her #she made ashlyn insecure of her body #so lily will be insecure of her security #Emmy gets to help #consider it training

[missingexaltation]

(Mini little fic idea, post Vecna)

Eddie wanted Steve and Wayne to get on, and at first, he was utterly ecstatic when they did.

But Steve starts to come over to watch various sports games, laughing and jostling with Wayne on the couch whenever one of their teams wins a point, or scores a goal or whatever, Eddie starts feeling inadequate and useless.

He watches from a distance, too wary to approach, too scared of upsetting the equilibrium. After all he's spent years rolling his eyes and grumbling about football and baseball and basketball to take a seat next to them now. He's more than made his bed now, years of sulky teenagehood in the making. It's not their fault, he knows. It's all his own, a drama of his own creation.

He watches as Wayne laughs and jokes, haphazardly waving his beer and cackling with delight, with the sort of son that he deserves. A son that brings calmness and stability instead of late night police escorts and a mountain of medical bills.

The empty, cavernous hole in his chest aches as he sits there (pretending to work on his campaign), through game after game, match after match. Wayne had given up so much for him. He could have had a family of his own, instead of raising his brother's useless, wretched kid. He could have gotten married, had a real home and an easy life. A beautiful, doting wife to give him the world.

Instead, Wayne had been cursed with a fuck up for a nephew, a shitty fold up bed in a shitty trailer and a job that was ageing him before his time. A vexing, frustration of a life that he didn't deserve. That Eddie had made worse by default.

Eddie knew he was selfish, and loud, and easily excitable and distracted. That he was used to getting his own way in these walls, barely noticing and sacrificing a thing while Wayne quietly suffered instead. It had been the same for his parents. They'd wanted a normal kid too, but even his dad's temper hadn't been enough to dampen his ability to irritate.

He'd tried to be quieter for Wayne in the past. Better behaved, his personality crammed into a tiny internal box to make himself more palatable, easier to love and want around. But Wayne had been offended by it. Claimed Eddie shouldn't have to change himself for anyone, not even his guardian, to be honest with who he is.

But looking over at them now, Eddie felt like he should have tried harder. Sure, 'being himself' was the fucking care bear motto spat out by well meaning adults trying to convince the weird kids they'd be ok. But he could have tried harder not to be so difficult, he could have watched Wayne's sports games with him and graduated high school and handed over his earnings instead of buying dumb shit.

The gnawing, desolate guilt consumed him. Steve was sweet, charming and polite, a parents dream (also...absolutely fucking gorgeous and the best sex Eddie had ever had, but that was besides the point). He could understand why Wayne has found it easy to befriend him, hell Eddie unquestionably loved the bones of him, but it put in sharp relief how Eddie just didn't measure up to the barest minimum standard, let alone what his uncle deserved.

So instead, he started taking on extra shifts at work, pulling as many as he could so that he could try and convince Wayne to drop his hours and start taking it easy. He kept the house tidy and even helped nurture the blossoming little something that was growing between Wayne and Claudia, spending more nights with Steve so that they could canoodle out of sight of Dustin's sullen glares.

He was exhausted, but it was worth it to see Wayne less on edge, back on the day shift since Eddie was finally picking up the slack. Now he had time for 'guy nights' with Steve, expanding to include Sinclair and the newly resurrected Chief Hop too.

"You're a good kid, Ed." Wayne told him one evening, and despite everything, Eddie was unprepared for the avalanche of emotions that it unlocked.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

His brain chanted, automatically.

But I want to be.

#eddie munson #wayne munson #steddie #Wayne Munson/Claudia Henderson #munderson #? #Wadia? Clayne? #Eddie wanting his two favourite people to bond and then using it to self sabotage under his own insecurities #because what's more important? self expression or family? #inside he's an insecure little boy that thinks he's gotta be good to be loved...and he's starting to get scared he's not good enough #especially after the Vecna stuff...he feels like he has to make up for it all #(of course this all comes crumbling down when Wayne calls him out for being 'normal' but that's another story) #i wish we'd got more of the tiny little Munson family...just one scene where they interacted 😭 #i kind of think they're a little bit dependent on each other...a solid family of two learning to add more people in #stranger things ficlet #unbeta'd we die like season 4 vol. 2's canon on this hellsite #(basically Eddie is not used to sharing Wayne and it unlocks The Fear in him)

[inflammatoryfandomblog]

I do find it interesting that ATLA managed to use a very black and white narrative (stop Evil Empire) to tell several character stories with some nuance, while TDP claims it has a nuanced conflict and flattens everything to try and make up for that, ultimately leading to protagonist centred morality more than anything. And if they didn’t want me to compare the two then they should have let go of the ATLA references right away.

you're right and you should say it.

the constant and shoehorned references to ATLA do not really do this show any favors. honestly might be part of the problem (why are there 7 primals with color-coded elves? to follow ATLA's pattern of marketable separable elements. why is it an adventure story with a core crew? because ATLA was like this too. etc etc.)

but anyway. yeah. ATLA had a very simple main conflict to provide a constant source of tension throughout the show (even if they dropped the ball at the last season re: the plot), and this structure allowed for episodes that explore other aspects of the setting and characters while still making everything feel relevant and tied together by said conflict. it's not some arthouse show by any means, but it has good compelling story work into it. genuinely great show.

tdp immediately opens up with the nuance and it never really delves deeper. you'd think that opening with characters being aware of the cycle of violence stuff would be interesting and the show would explore that more, but it just... flatlines there. there's no progression or graduation or exploration of themes as the seasons go on like in ATLA. very rarely are there new questions being asked or arcs that feel sensical.

honestly the main characters having to be perfect in every situation is the biggest problem with tdp. the mains are not allowed to have shortcomings or mistaken judgements or anything to meaningfully interact in any way with the nuanced set-up. they emotionally exist entirely outside it, which ends up making them the Messiahs of Peace Who Can Do No Wrong. good for fandoms i guess, people bitched and whined about bato and the water tribe for years. but it's not very good for storytelling.

and also, they're just bad characters and the writers can't put two and two together while still asking you to take their world very seriously.

anyways i'm just rambling at this point. good observation.

#tdp #tdp critical #for the tag filterers #ezran is legitimately a fucking awful character #callum is pointless and doesn't make sense within the larger world of the show #remember that <<path to darkness>> fear in season 4? no build-up #no exploration. nothing. just signposting for a Dark Arc because all the cool kids are doing it #like unless you were stupid it was clear that both viren and callum struggled with feelings of insecurity and wanting to be great #like really. no reason except extremely shitty foreshadowing and honestly a waste of screentime. like i'm sorry #but the fart jokes were unironically more characterful. claudia is emotionally immature #never got over her childhood. and her poopoofarty humor is a legitimate way of portraying that. viren realizes this. see i can be nice. #but like. for the mains? the human rayla joke may be funnier but does rayla's prejudice against humans ever play a role in her character? #oh no she's not allowed to be bigoted. neither are her parents. they have to be Good All Along. #and like the sad thing is the characterization of claudia like this is most likely not completely intentional. #devon giehl is like oh claudia likes terry because she thinks he's special in only a way *she* can see. #and not the more obvious nuanced explanation of claudia generally believing things about elves + dragons #but having the sense to realize that this doesn't mean every single individual is evil. but no she's just IRRATIONAL. ok then. #writers shut up and not ruin something that accidentally worked challenge level: impossible #asks #ask #anon #good ask honestly. #just rambling at this point

[puppyeared]

#ommggggg bro when i get free time i wanna make an animatic for these two with this song #LIKE. THE LYRICS?? HELLO???? #'the things i was afraid of / they were all confined beneath my bed / but the years have been long / and you have taught me well to hide #away / the things that i believed in / youve taught me to call them all escapes #LIKE. BRO? and the curse is supposed to reflect back all of MK's doubts and insecurities #ESPECIALLY those questions about who he is / his origin etc which he didnt want to think of or repressed it so hard BROOOOOO #and the fact it fucking ends with 'i have always known you / you have always been there in my mind / but now i understand you / and i will #not be part of your designs / i know who i am now / and all that youve made of me / i know who you are now / and i name you my enemy #AND AND. MK ASSOCIATING THE IDENTITY HE DOESNT WANT TO CONFRONT WITH SOMETHING INHERENTLY EVIL OR DESTRUCTIVE #AND THE CURSE JUST TORMENTING HIM BY SAYING THATS WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOOOOOOOO #lego monkie kid #lmk #monkie kid #lmk spoilers #lego monkie kid spoilers #lmk season 4 spoilers #lmk season 4 #monkie kid s4 spoilers #monkie kid s4 #lmk ink mk #lmk mk #lmk xiaotian #Spotify #yapping

[cureblogging]

Gonna say something potentially controversial:

I think Heartcatch suffers from the Up phenomenon in that people remember it as an excellent, if not flawless masterpiece when it actually has One (1) excellent, if not flawless moment in the beginning and is otherwise nothing special.

#pretty cure #babs' musings #precure: heartcatch #i remember sitting there watching 4 episodes at a time and asking myself “so when does it get as Great as people say” #i admire how different it is in tone and style to other seasons. it really stands out in that regard! #but that doesn't make it automatically better (or worse) than other seasons #it was funnier. #but the story? really underwhelming imo #the only notable part about the plot was the very first scene that set the intrigue and mystery of Yuri's character #but what they deliver on that front was extremely disappointing for me #and all the other characters get pretty mid arcs as well #Tsubomi has anxiety about not being good at anything. nothing comes of that besides one or two insults from the villains. #Itsuki has to crossdress in order to continue the family business because her brother has vague illness #that's never confronted in any satisfying way. it just sorta fades away once she decides she likes being a girl #Erika's insecurity regarding her sister is honestly the most engaging of these arcs and that's because I have a little sister #I suppose I set my expectations too high for that season. but people call it The Best Precure Season when it's not even in my top 3 so far #and that's kinda concerning for me going forward #suite is also proving to be a huge bore for me. extremely artificial season going through the motions of the franchise #Hummy... save me. Hummy. Save me Hummy #I really don't want to struggle through 13 more unremarkable seasons in the hopes of recapturing the magic of Futari Wa and Fresh #argh. i hate not liking things #sorry for the rant in the tags.

[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

@allvalley100

Prompt: Boys Don’t Cry

Pairing: Hawkmetri

***

It’s the 5th time that week Demetri wakes up screaming and sobbing.

The nightmares are back—worse than the ones from junior year. At least Eli’s there this time around, curled on the other side of the bed and always willing to hold him until his heartbeat slows.

“Breathe, Demetri. It’s okay. I love you.”

“You mean it, right?” Demetri’s voice shakes. “This isn’t all some...elaborate subterfuge plot to spy for Sensei War Criminal and get dirt on Miyagi-Do?”

“Promise it’s not.” Eli laughs softly, kissing Demetri’s temple. “And you know me well enough that you’d know if it was.”

***

Set in the Good Timeline, where these two start dating in Season 4 instead of...you know.

I’ve always headcanoned that Eli has more nightmares about The Arm Incident than Demetri does, while Demetri’s nightmares are more that Eli was just...faking his change of heart. That he’s kinda trying to gain Dem’s trust back just so he can hurt him again (and it’ll hit harder when he does). Kind of like in S2 when Eli pretended to be interested in the inner peace thing before pouring beer on him and snapping back to being a dick. I always got the impression this type of false friendship “olive branch” promptly followed by “jk I still totally hate you and want nothing to do with you” would be a lot more traumatizing to Demetri than any kind of physical pain, idk.

#allvalley100 #hawk x demetri #demetri x eli #binary boyfriends #elimetri #hawkmeat #demetri x hawk #eli x demetri #demetri alexopoulos #demetri cobra kai #eli moskowitz #hawk #cobra kai #cobra kai season 2 #cobra kai season 3 #cobra kai season 4 #Demetri needs constant reassurance his boyfriend does in fact love him </3 #poor insecure little man #after S3 Eli was such a little shit I can't blame him lmao #But he definitely loves Demetri Alexopoulos with his entire soul rest assured <3

[simptasia]

ben just really hated ana lucia for no reason

#something i've noticed on my rewatch #during the henry gale era #he just doesn't like her. coupled with some statements in season 4 #and im sitting here all puzzled like... why does ben hate ana lucia #he seems to be purposely trying to piss her off and i dunno why #he like strikes at her insecurities. what is the motivation!

[villababes]

Episode 39

Bruno, mad at MC about the Dylan rumors

MC, mad at Bruno about having to sleep on the day bed

#maybe Bruno should spend the night on the day beds if he’s feeling so insecure #like how is this fair? #litg #love island the game #litg s4 #litg season 4 #litg spoilers

[maslosstuff]

I like the episode Rachel, Rachel but I'm still going to change the plot because Tommy lying like that is out of character and it feels like that episode is just Chuckie in love but with Tommy.

#Going to change Boris story just by a little though #Tommy is insecure about his family instead of lying about Stu being Jewish #my fyp #rugrats #all grown up #headcanons #Plus is it was up to me Rachel would appear way sooner than season 4 i would have her in Season 2 #tommy pickles #2000s cartoons #changing the narrative

[schrijverr]

Jealousy

A look into the mind of Steve and his thoughts on Eddie before season 4.

On AO3.

Ships: none

Warnings: insecure Steve and his issues

~~~~~~~~~

Steve wants to hate Eddie, wants to reach back to his King Steve days and pull on all the parts that make Eddie weird, a looser, different. But he can't hate Eddie for any of those things, because Eddie is like his kids and he loves his kids. He couldn't hate a thing they did. So, he has to sit with the fact that he is jealous of Eddie. Jealous because his shrimp love the guy.

And it’s so frustrating, because Steve doesn’t want to be. It’s obvious the kids have so much fun playing with Eddie and he wants them to have that. To have a place where the Upside Down can be forgotten. Where they can be kids again.

So, he’s just on his own, stewing in his feelings.

If he tells Robin, he’s sure she’ll tell him something about being scared of getting abandoned or something due to his parents. But he ignores mind!Robin and purposefully doesn’t tell her.

He is not going to care about how great Eddie’s campaign is. How well he can narrate. How cool his NPCs are. How much he they look up to him. He’s not. He refuses.

But saying and doing are different things. Very different. Steve still stews and cares so fucking deeply. Every time they come into the store, or he drives them home after a session, he listens to them gush and tries not to shrivel up.

A part of him tells him how truly pathetic it is that he’s jealous of Eddie ‘The Freak’ Munson of all people. And he hates that part a little. Because yeah, it is sad that he’s jealous, but not because it’s Eddie. It would be pathetic with everyone, since he is a grown ass man, who shouldn’t be so worried about the opinion of a group of children.

However, he does care. Their opinion of him is everything to him, because they never knew King Steve. They never knew the asshole he used to be (except maybe Mike, but that’s just never going to work). They just know Steve, the babysitter and the guy they can turn to when it all goes to shit again.

He’s their protector and he likes that role. He likes feeling like they need him. Like he’s useful. Like he is worth something.

And that doesn’t make his whole crisis about Eddie less embarrassing and sad, but he doesn’t care anymore. He has become a little bit pathetic. The great Steve Harrington, womanizer and party thrower, reduced to post-high school failure and glorified nanny for a bunch of kids who don’t really need him.

The gates are closed, half their party moved to another state. He should be letting the whole Upside Down business go. He should try to move on.

But he just can’t.

His brain won’t stop fearing every shadow. At night he roams the halls of his empty home, seeing shapes in the darkness that aren’t there as he looks for cracks in a reality that should be stable. The fear that it isn’t over clings to him and until everyone can get away from Hawkins, Steve knows he has to stay even if it’s just to calm himself.

He cannot leave. He cannot move on. He cannot risk being too far away when things go wrong again. He cannot think about those kids here alone without anyone to turn to.

So, he stays and grits his teeth as he hears the name Eddie for the thousand time. It’s not that much an issue to deal with his own bullshit if it means knowing he’ll be within reach. He knows that the jealousy is better for his mental health than the uncertainty.

And when Dustin and Max come into his place of work to ‘set up base of operation’ a part of him relaxes, even though he can feel the stress grip his shoulders tightly. Because he knows he made the right decision in staying. In bearing it.

It’s all about to go to shit again and he might not walk away this time and if he does, he’ll have more to keep him up at night. But none of that matters, because the kids need him and he is there for them.

When he figures out they want to find Eddie that small petty part of him wants to tell them to go and do it themselves. However, he knows he’ll never send them into danger alone and with the looks they give him, so do they.

But he can’t really be mad about that, because if they know he’s going to help, then they still know they can count on him. He still matters to them. He’s still useful.

And that’s enough for Steve.

~~

A/N:

I know I could make this much bigger and delve into how his feelings in regard to Eddie changes throughout the season and how he feels about his death, but I like this little look into him before the show. So, I stuck with that.

#rr writing #tw: insecurity #steve harrington #stranger things fic #stranger things #st #st season 4 #eddie munson #st the party

[andthebeanstalk]

Infinity Train isn't the best counterpart to Last of Us on positive representation. Remember the only explicitly Neurodivergent character in Infinity Train became a villain and died brutally on screen?

No, I don't remember. But what I do remember is that the entire core concept of the show is basically "a train that puts people through magical therapy." And so I remember that nearly every lead character is clearly dealing with some form of mental illness or another. I don't need every character to be explicitly diagnosed onscreen to know that the show is chock-full of neurodivergent characters, so I'm quite genuinely not sure what you mean. Have I missed something?

#like correct me if I'm wrong but i recall Simon's inability to see other living creatures as fully alive came from a place of entitlement #and i didn't see it as an accident that it was the white boy who was ultimately unable to break free of the power it gave him #but like. I don't know how a neurodivergent person can watch season 2 and come away with #the idea that MT is somehow a neurotypical character written by a neurotypical person #and in season 4 the guys fight a monster that is the literal embodiment of depression. am i missing something? #what does simon have? i don't recall him explicitly stating a mental illness or difference. maybe I've forgotten #but like. all the characters are mentally ill. for some of them that is why they are on the train! #having all of them state an official medical diagnosis would not only be distracting but impossible in some cases #mt doesn't have access to mental health services how could they know?? #simon was a mentally ill person who got so fucking sucked into the comfort and power of cultism that he was lost and it was a tragedy #I never got the impression that this was because he was more mentally ill than other people on the train. #just like how people who get really into conspiracy theories are not doing it because they are mentally ill. #illness might make them more vulnerable to brainwashing but there is a DRIVE that has to be there too. #and very often that drive is a kind of hatred and insecurity that cannot be reasoned with. it is a tragedy. a very real tragedy. #original

[bobin-buckley]

And a special shout out to s3 and s4 Michael Wheeler, for teaching me it is actually very normal and okay to neglect your friends the moment you start dating someone :)

#I've figured out why i took this season so personally #it was the aroace insecurity all along :) #the fact that what i fear will happen to me has been happening to Will these last seasons #your best friends distancing themselves from you after finding a love interest #stranger things #stranger things season 4 #st4

[thinkingabthim]

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[bestjoycestan]

the duffers when they see posts upon posts of people analyzing their characters way better than they ever could: anyway. let’s pair everyone up into romantic relationships and never give the characters any meaning or depth :)

#i just read such a great post ab mike’s insecurities and how theyre never addressed in his relationship #and another ab robin’s trauma being overlooked #and we all know how i feel ab JOYCE #st #stranger things #stranger things season 4