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dissociativepouter · 2 years

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FAMILY VIDEO. EDDIE MUNSON.

pairing: eddie munson x fem!reader

warnings: soooo much fluff, eddie being an idiot in love at first sight, swearing, drug mention, slight sibling rivalry, maybe ooc eddie?? i tried my best leave me alone, made eddie a one-time senior because it's easier for my little pea brain to write, i hate reading the word 'y/n' in fics so i don't use it here

synopsis: your job at the local video store is dreadful, made slightly more tolerable by your coworkers, robin and steve, and sometimes a joint or two. but when none of the three are there to accompany you on your closing shift one evening, your only source of entertainment is the frizzy-haired, cigarette-smelling, admittedly-cute guy who walks in with a flyer for his band's gig on satuday, and who also happens to be the captain and founder of your brother's stupid dnd club.

a/n: i've never written anything specifically for the internet before soooo bear with me here. also! i originally posted this with reader as a wheeler, but after getting a few comments letting me know that making reader a wheeler/henderson/harrington etc, i would be excluding readers of color and making it difficult to self-insert in the story. so i made some edits and i really hope this is better!!!

you stood leaning against the counter, mindlessly dropping a slinky between your hands, phone tucked between your ear and shoulder.

“yes, ma’am, i understand. i know. but the goonies isn’t available right now, someone took it out.” you begrudgingly explained to the middle aged mom yelling at you over the phone. “i’m sorry, ma’am, you’ll have to wait. okay. okay, have a–”

the mom hung up, and you slammed the phone back onto the receiver. “fuckin’ psycho.” you mumbled, turning back to pay the rest of your attention to the multi-colored plastic slinky, pulling it apart and pushing it back together. you was about to lurch back onto your feet and turn the sign on the door to read ‘closed’ when you heard the godforsaken ring of the bell above said door, signaling that a customer was afoot.

fifteen minutes before closing.

you rolled your eyes and continued playing with the slinky, not making eye contact with whoever walked in while letting them know in your best (weakest) customer service voice, “we close in fifteen minutes, you’re not gonna find anything.”

“not looking for a movie.” assured a voice you hadn’t heard before. you turned your head to see the frizzy-haired, puppy-eyed, leather-jacket-adorned boy stalking up to the counter holding a crumpled paper. you inhaled a breath that you would unintentionally hold for the next few seconds. he seemed to stop or slow in his tracks when you looked at him. he was caught off guard. you didn’t blame him, you’d never met as far as you could remember. he was cute. in an arrogant, smartass, i-wanna-kiss-you-just-so-you-shut-the-fuck-up way.

“um… hi, there.” he greeted awkwardly, taken aback, as he leaned against the other side of the counter. the smell of stale pot and leather wafted your way. he smiled crookedly.

“...hi. can i help you?” you weren’t having any of it.

“yeah, i was wondering if i could get this on the thingy over there?” he handed you the paper across the counter as he nodded towards the general direction of the corkboard on the wall covered in advertisements, his rings clinking against the wood, still smiling. so smug. you put the slinky down and took the paper from his hand, breaking eye contact to skim the text.

“corroded coffin?” you questioned, half-judging him, raising an eyebrow.

“‘s my band.” he smiled a dopey smirk, twisting one of his rings with his finger.

“yeah, i see that.” you nodded, looking back at the paper, taking it with two hands now and leaning back against the counter, then looking back up at him. “i don’t know. you any good?”

“we’re… decent,” he scratched the back of his neck. you laughed. “you like metal?”

you shrugged. “a little.”

“yeah, well, not to brag, but we usually get a crowd of about four old drunk dudes.” he knocked a short beat on the counter, cheeks flushing. you laughed harder.

“impressive!” you joked.

“i know,” he added as he came down from laughing. “i’m try’na get people to come see us, but i don’t think they care that much.” he scrunched his face like he was delivering bad news.

“i can’t say i blame them.”

he clutched his chest dramatically. “how dare you?”

“not my fault!”

“yeah, yeah.” he shook his head, looking around the room for a moment before turning back to you.

“i’ve never seen you around here. you look familiar, though.” he furrowed his brows, scanning your face. you shrugged.

“i don’t go out that often.”

“is that right?” he tilted his head. something about him. he had this charisma, this charm that almost outweighed how so obviously lame he was. like he didn’t know how to flirt in any way whatsoever, but it… worked? “that sucks.” he pouted, bringing a piece of his curly, overgrown hair to his mouth to cover his smile.

you felt your cheeks warm up, looking down at the floor, catching a glimpse of his shirt in the process. hellfire club. that’s your brother’s nerd thing.

you nodded at the shirt. “hey, hellfire club. that’s the thing my brother’s in.”

“oh shit, who’s your brother?” his metaphorical puppy ears perked.

“chris.”

“oh my god, williams?” he smiled, eyes widening, pushing away from the counter by his hands then pulling back in. “you’re his sister?” disbelief twisted his expression.

you nodded, laughing again at his excitement. “yeah, unfortunately.” you could feel the sizzling feeling of frustration dissolve in your chest with every smile he gave.

he clapped before pointing frantically at you, his head lolling to the side, stepping back in realization. “that’s who you look like! i knew i’ve seen that face somewhere. wow, that’s crazy.” he mindlessly stalked a few feet from the counter then came back, resting his forearms back on the wood.

you giggled, shaking your head. “ew, no, i do not look like him.”

“oh, no, you definitely don’t.” he shook his head, smiling. “that kid could never.”

you chewed your cheek, your neck growing hotter. “what’s your name?”

“eddie. munson.” did he really just stutter over his own name?

you gave him your name.

“thought so.” he smiled, dropping his hand back onto the counter.

you kept eye contact for what felt like hours but what was only a few seconds before you broke the silence.

“so you go to hawkins, then?”

“yeah, unfortunately.” he repeated your words.

“senior?”

“yup.” he popped the p, nodding.

“same.”

“that’s weird. i’ve heard a lot about you, but i’ve never seen you.”

“oh? you’ve heard about me?” you tilted your head.

“yeah, the infamous williams sister. he likes to complain about you a lot.”

“of course he does.” you rolled your eyes at the anecdote.

“says you’ve been – his words, by the way, not mine – an ‘absolute heinous bitch’ since your weed dealer left town.” he pulled his mouth into a nervous, bracing expression, pulling his hair back towards his mouth.

“did he actually say that?”

he nodded.

“that fucker. i’m gonna kill him.”

“well, is it true?”

“what, that i’m a heinous bitch?” you raised an eyebrow.

“no!” he laughed. “you’re definitely a little scary, but no. that your dealer left?”

you laughed too, a funny sensation running down your spine at the knowledge that he found you scary.

“yeah, it’s true. why? do you know someone?”

“what makes you think i know someone?” he asked, mock-surprised.

“i know you know someone. because you reek of weed.”

he leaned his head close to his shoulder and inhaled. “shit.” he flushed, dropping his head onto the counter, embarrassed.

you giggled. “did i guess right?”

he smirked devilishly. “yeah, i do. i’ll give you his address if you want.”

you nodded, ripping a piece of paper from the notebook on the counter then grabbing a pen from the cup and handing both to him. “yes, please. i haven’t had a smoke in weeks, it’s been hell.”

“oh, poor you.” he spoke with his eyes to the paper, scribbling an address in almost incomprehensible writing. you rolled your eyes as he slid it back to you tauntingly, finally locking eyes again. those eyes. “go there tomorrow. 6 p.m.”

“got it.” you pushed the paper into your back pocket after reading his almost illegible handwriting. forest hills trailer park, third trailer on the left.

“i gotta say, i did not expect chris’ sister to be so…” he opened his palm in front of him and circled you in the air, looking specifically at your necklaces, your band t-shirt, your jacket. “the way you are.”

“‘the way i am?’ what the hell’s that supposed to mean?” you questioned in mock offense, unable to stifle your smile.

“just– i don’t know.” he dropped his hand back on the counter, giving up. “cool. or whatever.”

“cool or whatever.” you raised an eyebrow.

“shut up. you know what i mean.” he dropped his head back down, embarrassed again.

you laughed harder. “no, i don’t think i do.”

he looked up and scanned you again, then covered his face with his hands.

you chuckled, then looked at the clock. 4:58 pm.

“shit. i have to lock up now, we close in, like, two minutes.”

“oh,” he looked disappointed, not mocking this time. “okay.”

“i’ll put this up on the board for you, though?” you looked back at the ad for his concert once more. may 10th.

“yeah, thanks.” he turned away for the door before stopping in his tracks and turning again, snapping his fingers. “hey! do you need a ride home, actually?”

you chuckled at the obvious searching for any excuse to spend just a little bit more time together.

“nah, i’ve got my bike,” you pointed to the parking lot where your dark purple bike was resting on the rack.

he looked over to it, then chewed his cheek, nodding. “oh. alright. well, i’ll see you… i don’t know when i’ll see you, actually.” he ran his fingers through his hair, messing it up further, searching for something to do with his hands.

“how about i come to your show?” you tried to reassure him that he’d see you again, but it was mostly just reassuring yourself that you’d see him again.

“really?” his eyes brightened.

“yeah, why not?”

“okay. okay, i’ll practice extra hard, then.”

“you better, ‘cause i’m gonna leave early if you sound like shit.”

“challenge accepted.” he raised his eyebrows through his bangs, his rings clinking against the metal of the door handle.

“bye, munson.” you giggled. he’s so dumb, it’s adorable. you couldn’t remember what it was you were so upset about when he first walked in. “hey, by the way, you know the corkboards are public, right? you didn’t need to ask to put your paper on it.”

he flushed harder at the sound of his name in your mouth, turning around with his back to the door, looking you in the eyes one more time. “i know.”

and before you could even be shocked, he was already out the door, hollering, “say hi to chris for me!”

“wow.” you whispered to yourself, shaking your head and chuckling in disbelief as you watched him stalk over to his beat-up, dark red 1969 pontiac firebird.

this guy’s gonna be the death of you.

#eddie munson fic #eddie munson smut #eddie munson fluff #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson #eddie stranger things #stranger things fic #stranger things #eddie munson oneshot #eddie munson blurb #eddie munson drabble #down astronomically for this man who i know has not eaten a vegetable in years #help im in love #lux brain worms #joe quinn #st4 #eddie munson hc #joseph quinn #stranger things 4

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renonv · 6 months

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Can you draw Luxembourg? I give him 29€ an HE KNOW WHAT SHOULD HE DOES!!! PAY ME BACK!!!

I THINK THIS IS MY FIRST LUX DRAWING EVER sorry to throw the blorbos in there as well I got brain worms 🪱

#hws luxembourg #hws romano #hws spain #hetalia #hetalia world series #I was thinking abt Lux visiting his sibs @ Spain and becoming fascinated w the roach of a boy that Romano is #Antonio is experiencing some big emotions in the meantime but like WHAT CAN YOU DO WE ARE JUST BESTIES #there might be more bc I’ve been thinking about bad feelings Antonio lately skdjdjdj #that will make more sense later

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luxintrus · 4 months

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I gotta say I love C! Lux's story and arc so much!

A character that's considered the peaceful one, the one that wants the best for everyone, the "hero". Slowly becoming more and more unhinged, more corrupted, every kill she commits becomes easier and easier to stomache.

I honestly think that in the end C! Lux is gonna become the biggest threat and villain of the smp. And then she's gonna look at what she's become, shes gonna realize she has become the very thing she swore to destroy.

But hey that's just a theory, I love this damn smp so much you are all such amazing and talented creators and y'all's lore gives me brain worms.

I want to stick all the characters into a clear plastic tubberware and shake them around like funky little rocks.

Hi! Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to hear that people like our SMP's story so much, We've been pouring my heart into making it a good story by our standards and I cannot wait to show y'all where it all leads in a few months :D Also interesting theory, A+ for the "Live long enough to see yourself become the villain" trope, those ones always hit hard when done right >:)

#lux asks #Damn how did I not respond to this sooner #content smp

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dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies · 5 months

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hiii im bored so im assigning some mutuals song lyrics!

@svnflowermoon

sundown and im feeling lifted / downtown cherry lipstick / watch her silk dress dancing in the wind / watch it brush against her skin / makes me wanna try her on - silk chiffon by phoebe bridgers and muna

cause my girl's made of peaches and soft grass in the moonlight / every touch reminds me it's alright - strawberry blonde by chloe moriondo

theyre selling sunflowers cheap / im reading novels, im dating, but just just dating for sport / im getting coffees for free / i hang all my art and i dance with the coven / as the rain falls hard on the street - there it goes by maisie peters

@bookscorpion73

we didnt know that the sun was collapsing / til the seas rose and the buildings came crashing / we cried oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh / everywhere everything / i wanna love you til we're food for the worms to eat / til our fingers decompose / keep my hand in yours - everywhere, everything by noah kahan

leonard cohen once said / there's a crack in everything that's how the light gets in / and i am not an old man having an existential crisis / at a buddhist monastery, writing horny poetry / but i agree/ i never thought you'd happen to me - leonard cohen by boygenius

you got a slurpee for free / i caught you lookin at me / in the 7-eleven / under fluorescent lights / we walked in comfy silence / footsteps down familiar sidewalk - all my gosts by lizzy mcalpine

@recklessandyoung

it was magic, babe, pure and strong / it was the last man standing for the eagles song / it was a far-flung wish when we were young / now we're living the dream and i hope we never wake up - the band and i by maisie peters

i remember you stayed up all night / to make sure i was alright / believe me when i say / i wouldve done the same / i hate the way my brain is wired / can't trust my mind it's such a liar - rue by girl in red

you were my partner in crime / it was a welcome waste of time / eating cherries on the bridge, feet dangling / throw out the pits and stems into the racing current below / i get vertigo looking down and looking in - partner in crime by lucy dacus

@literatureisdying

drag-racing through the canyon / singing 'boys dont cry' / do you see us getting scraped up off the pavement? / i dont know why i am / the way i am / not strong enough to be your man / i lied, i am - not strong enough by boygenius

so we spent what was left of our serotonin / to chew on our cheeks and stare at the moon / said she knows she lived through it to get to this moment / ate a sleeve of saltines on my floor, and I knew then - graceland too by phoebe bridgers

keep your feet on the ground / when your head's in the clouds / well, go get your shovel / and we'll dig a deep hole / to bury the castle - brick by boring brick by paramore

@tellme-o-muse

you can't open your eyes for a while / you just breathe / i believed you were crazy / you believe that you love me / you and me, we're a day drink / so lose your faith in me - the gold by phoebe bridgers

we're never done with killing time / can i kill it with you? / till the veins run red and blue / got a lot to not do / let me kill it with you - 400 lux by lorde

sedentary secrets like peach pits in your gut / locked away like jam jars in the cellar of your heart / waiting to be tasted and ultimately wasted/ you were gonna win me over from the start - VBS by lucy dacus

okay im tired now but i'll probably do a pt 2 with irls and maybe a part 3!

#just dandy thoughts #I REACHED THE POST LIMIT UGH

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copyquat · 5 months

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Pokemon on the brain + Lightcannon brain worms = Sudden motivation to draw

I remember reading a crossover fic where the region jinx and lux live in has the tradition of trainers going on their journey in pairs as partners so that what i was imagining while drawing this :)

#art #pokemon #leauge of legends #lightcannon #jinx #sg jinx #lux #sg lux #kuro & shiro #mimi #zorua #hisuian zorua #eevee #like to think jinx gets a gible and grafaiai #not sure exactly what lux would pick up #my bain says either a togepi or murkrow #but im open to suggestions :P

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the-mighty-het-speaks · 1 year

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soph, idk why but this roundtable interview (so-what/2018-02-21-round-table-european-chat) from early 2018 came to mind and now i'm rewatching it (spoiler: it's hilarious as I remember). Still one of my faves. Gotta ask, what are your fave tallica interviews? (also, cant wait to have a roundtable like this one a couple of months from now!!)

2018 metallica sure was something..... the funny part about opening this can of worms is that THIS was my intro to these old fuckers.... this leg of the indoor european tour were the first shows i followed and so i have dissected this convo multiple times. (the whole lars moving back to denmark bit????? omg) ("they're looking for a father figure, lars".... (they have no idea))

even further.... thinking about how much has happened since this chat and contrasting the identities of HWTSD and 72S. HW is such an external record. so much this is the state of the world, this is the state of identities.... which is funny because. 2016 was NOT 2023. if you wanted to write a record about the world you'd write it NOW. if you wanted to write a record about personal state and feelings, they could've written it then, (hearing them talk about their age, but also their youthfulness)... imagine lux, in 2018. it's perfect. so to think about 72 seasons, now.... misery, burning, wrath.... it is SO reflective.. what does a round table look like now. a LOT of feelings. kirk's interview today was HEAVY, james' was serious, i'm sure lars' will be intense. the weight of it all....

BUT,,,, stewing aside,,,, soph favorites:

literally EVERYTHING mr Stefan Chirazi has ever written. that man gets it. he feels it, he knows his shit, he's well prepared. excellent.

besides that....

kirk and gary (VERY inebriated): this is straight brain rot and giggling and just CLASSIC...

youtube

lars and dave grohl: OH MY GOD. the wine. cabo. all of it. literally do not need to explain.

youtube

james and joe rogan: the bees, the social commentary, the identities.... it's not on youtube in full anymore (still on spotify though) but joe rogan commentary aside, it's pretty tame poltically. just two dudes havin a chat. (:

youtube

hmmm.... the david fricke (rolling stone) ajfa interview: very intricate, detailed commentary

youtube

the flemming chat too!

youtube

that's kinda all i can think of at the moment. also i hate howard stern, he's a prick, acts like he knows everything, jose mangin is such a fanboy, he can't ask a real question, and really any of the talk show hosts (i have the WORST second-hand embarrassment).

#also shoutout to the lovely individual who did the kerrang! interview from last week. very cool.. very sweet. good questions #lol. this got long. oh well.#ask soph

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bluepoodle7 · 10 months

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#InvaderZim #InvasionoftheIdiotDogBrain #DogHouse #InfectedRealtorAU

Thinking about that Invader Zim Episode Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain.

And how cool this dog version of a baba yaga house. Where is a Hot Topic figure of the house?

I know it would be expensive but I would buy it.

Images not mine but links are provided.

"Invader ZIM" Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain/Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy (TV Episode 2001) - IMDb

CGI Was the Future in 2001 - RJ Writing Ink

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This might inspire Lux Abode fused with ffuP's final form in the dreamscape Illbleed inspired game.

But the legs are upside down and right side up.

You have to defeat fused Lux Abode with ffuP by disarming the traps with a light switch trap item to turn off the traps she set up then a cutscene will play and she will run after your character then you flip the trapswitch on as it turns on all the traps at once to hurt her.

Then it pushes her into a icy area where Lux thinks she has won then drops in a green "water" which is acid that "kills" her but at the end it hints that ffuP survived holding Lux's star anise genotype necklace in her mouth to start over again.

Also reminds me of Goht from Majora's mask.

Goht - Zelda Wiki (fandom.com)

I image successfully killing Lux Abode and ffuP together in ice with a acid bath be like. Lux would say "Since realtor's are plants and not animals and ffuP you're a fungus. Where do we go when we die?" "Like a good or bad place?"

She would joke about being a ghost house before dying.

And make ghost noises before fading away.

Also ffuP will talk without telepathy talking for the first time.

But if you like her company you can just say "It's not game over yet." and both will fade back in as ghosts.

Lux would say "The big person upstairs and below stairs have no idea where to put Me and ffuP so the middle ground will do nicely. "

"All this floating and boy is my body tired."

Oh yeah Lux Abode's ghost form changes from the lure or the actual house body and sometimes the lurebody with the housebody as a object head.

So sometimes you will have a conversation with a ghost house that only you the player can see.

Unless the player describes the ghost.

When you the player eats something to completion the ghost realtor eats the ghost of the foods.

For example.

You make a sandwich and you finish your food the ghost of the food floats to the ghost realtor to eat.

They can only eat ghost foods and they want you to describe the food in real time to them before this happens.

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Lux Abode's voice canon is QueenBlaze.

Her voice fits her very well.

Video not mine but link is there.

Daily Dose Of Internet | With a side of Mammoth Meatballs - YouTube

Images, game, and video not mine but link is there.

1:09:53-1:10:25

Snek plays Illbleed (No Commentary) (Sega Dreamcast 2001) Part 2 (The Revenge of Queen Worm) - YouTube

#Invader Zim #Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain #Dog House #Baba Yaga House #Infected Realtor AU

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scoopsgf · 2 years

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on a scale of 1-100 how close to posting is reckless abandon… i’m working my way thru lux rn and i LOVE it but i have reckless abandon brain worms and i want to read it SO bad. any snippets u feel like sharing? thank u for feeding this fandom so well my love!!!!

imma be brutally honest in that i haven’t rlly been working on it lately 🫣 i have 15k for a sequel to tdalr tho!!! and once i’m done with that i promise i’ll get back to RA <3

#asks #lanekim #reckless abandon tag #I’ve been having such a hard time writing #and an even harder time focusing on more than one WIP at once #but i am DETERMINED to finish it i swear

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roxasboxas · 2 years

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So I’ve been thinking of your PowerPoint about who the second cloaked figure is and while this is highly unlikely due to body type I had the thought that it MIGHT be Ava,,, and I think that would be really interesting especially because we have NO idea where she is (she isn’t brought back with the others??? I don’t think that was intentional on Luxu’s part considering what he says I think she has a separate role to the ones her fellow MoM apprentices have) and also I assume she’s somewhere because of the chess scene??? Which is a whole nother thing Eraqus why are you playing prophetic chess. What. Anyway she could also be body hopping like Lux and that’s why she looks Like That???? Anyway sorry I just had brain worms about this

This is a fascinating take especially because the exact same line that makes you think Luxu not bringing Ava in with everyone else was accidental is the line that makes me think it was intentional. I’d love to hear some more elaboration on that!

And Ava body hopping like Luxu… I’m very intrigued. That’d be really cool! Just imagining the potential narrative parallels is exciting. That’s a really cool idea.

And yeah why IS Eraqus playing prophetic chess. I know it’s like a framing device for KH3 for some reason but 1) why does it need one none of the other games have had one, and 2) why him specifically what makes him special like that

#answered ask #kingdom hearts #Ava #Luxu #Eraqus

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petscrub · 4 years

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worms for brains by mars luxe

#worm #worms #tshirts #shirt #shirts #rugworm #dirtcore

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gffa · 4 years

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I’M GONNA HAVE TO BREAK THIS UP BECAUSE IT’S KIND OF A LOT. So, @alabasterswriting and I were having a fantastic conversation about Anakin and how much he intellectually-versus-emotionally knows that he can leave the Jedi Order at any time, that he’s not a slave to them and it was already getting really long, so I’m going to put this in a new post because this is going to be even longer, but IT’S A SUBJECT NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE I HAVE MANY FEELINGS ABOUT ANAKIN SKYWALKER. For context, there are some other posts that’ll be referenced so this is only, like, the length of two monster posts instead of five. ^_~ - The original ask about whether or not Anakin was a slave to the Jedi, which sets up how the Jedi make it extremely clear that it’s fine to leave - A follow-up ask from alabasterswriting + their very thoughtful, love response, which this post is largely a response to! Now that I’ve gotten some sleep, I think I can be more coherent on why I think there’s a lot of really good stuff to explore with Anakin’s emotional misunderstanding (versus intellectually knowing that he can leave) and why I do think it’s an important element, but not necessarily at the core of why Anakin stayed. Why does Anakin stay as a Jedi? I think the Obi-Wan & Anakin comic covers this really well--he plans to leave, he’s not upset about it, he’s excited and has nothing but respect for the Jedi Order, he even says that he may come back. Anakin knows that he has options, he believes that he’s capable of taking off into the wider galaxy, he acknowledges that part of the reason he may have joined was, despite Qui-Gon’s warnings, all he saw was a magic man and a way out of slavery, what was he going to do, say no? The overarching plot of the comic is: Obi-Wan wants him to be absolutely sure of this, so he asks Anakin for one last mission together, but makes it clear that he’ll accept whatever choice Anakin makes in the end. Obi-Wan’s point is, when they call for reinforcements at the end to deal with Carnelion IV’s civil war, they get those reinforcements, becasue they did this as Jedi. That the Jedi are part of the Republic and thus they have the backing of the Republic. (This is, interestingly enough, also a major theme in Master & Apprentice, that the day is saved precisely because Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon were part of the Republic and had the backing of the Republic.) Anakin realizes that he can accomplish more as a Jedi than he can setting off on his own, so he happily agrees to stay. This fits with how Anakin genuinely seems to like being a Jedi. The problems he expresses with it, is that he wants more than what they can do, he wants to be able to tell people want to do, to make them do the right thing. He expresses this to Padme in Attack of the Clones, he follows it up with that conversation with Tarkin during The Citadel arc, where they both feel the Jedi Code does not allow Jedi to go “far enough” to win the war. Further, he teaches on the beliefs of the Jedi. After the brain invader worms, Anakin teaches Ahsoka about how to balance letting go of their attachments versus caring about other people and wanting to save them, how the two work together. While she’s on Onderon and having confusing feelings for Lux, he teaches her again about how duty must come before her feelings, he seems to agree with this, because he’s not shy about subverting the Jedi teachings when he wants to. And very clearly, he teaches the same things to Rex in the Bad Batch arc:

That’s exactly what the Jedi teach (and is ironic because this is just a few months before Revenge of the Sith and I think it’s actually a really perfect illustration of exactly what was at the heart of Anakin, that he genuinely believes in the Jedi teachings, until they apply to him and his fears eat him up and he makes himself the exception) and Anakin also seems to genuinely believe it. In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin doesn’t express any desire to not be a Jedi until after he’s helped kill Mace and the younglings and then, frankly, he’s repeating Palpatine’s words, not his own, he doesn’t really believe what he’s saying, imo. When he talks to Padme about feeling lost, it isn’t expressed in terms of him feeling trapped, but instead that he feels he isn’t the Jedi he should be, that he wants more. Anakin never seems to feel trapped or obligated--there’s almost nothing in the movies or TV show that actually lean towards the idea that Anakin felt any pressure of being the Chosen One. He doesn’t seem to believe it himself--he tells the Father that it’s a myth. And the other Jedi (aside from Qui-Gon) never talk about it in front of him, it’s almost never even mentioned, I think it comes up all of two or three times in the movies? And each time there are people expressing doubt about it being true and it’s never discussed at Anakin’s face. Even in TCW, aside from the Mortis arc, it never really seems to come up pretty much at all. Does he feel an obligation to Shmi’s memory to stay as a Jedi? Possibly! It would certainly be an easy conclusion to come to! He never expresses it directly anywhere that I can recall, though. At the end of The Wrong Jedi, when Ahsoka says she’s going to leave, he says, “I understand. More than you realize, I understand wanting to walk away from the Order.“ which is the most he ever expresses about actually wanting to leave in any canon that I’ve seen. We’re given no other context for this--is it because he’s angry at the Jedi, is it that he feels they’re not doing enough and he could do more as a free agent, is it that he wants to leave to be with Padme, is it that he doesn’t like being a Jedi, is it that he feels a wanderlust for the stars? We’re given no further context in that scene, so we have to put it together with the other things we have. That Anakin, when he was younger, said he felt a calling to the starts, that in ROTS he wants more, that in the conversations with Padme and Tarkin, he feels the Jedi aren’t going far enough and someone should make people do things. Put together with the end of the Obi-Wan & Anakin comic, where he stays because he feels he can do more with the Jedi than without them, I think that’s at the heart of why Anakin stays. He wants more more more more. This is further evidenced by what George Lucas says about how the dark side works, which is something I think Anakin is clearly sliding into at this point: “What happens when you go to the dark side is it goes out of balance and you get really selfish and you forget about everybody … because when you get selfish you get stuff, or you want stuff, and when you want stuff and you get stuff then you are afraid somebody is going to take it away from you, whether it’s a person or a thing or a particular pleasure or experience.” --George Lucas That’s what I see it as, because the story of Anakin Skywalker is one that is sliding towards the dark side, and Anakin’s problem is that he wants more and more and more. He wants to be a Jedi, he wants to be married to Padme, he wants to be able to murder people to win the war, he wants to be made a Master (despite having just taken a bribe from Palpatine and clearly isn’t ready for it yet in emotional mastery), he wants all these people, things, and experiences. He wants more. The point @alabasterswriting makes here: “To me, (and it’s totally an opinion, and I’m open to disagreement), it’s always seemed like Anakin was on his way to being able to being able to handle himself emotionally before his perceptions of his sense of self were messed with. And I think (as I’m sure many do) a large part of that was Palpatine feeding his ego/preying on his fears and insecurities. Like we see in the bar with Palpatine that he uses a whole bunch of trigger words meant to make Anakin equate the Jedi to his time as a slave.“ is a really good one, because I absolutely agree that Palpatine completely muddied the waters on this, that Anakin was on his way to a much healthier understanding of himself and ability to understand himself, but then Palpatine started dripping poison into his hear and telling Anakin the things he wanted to hear, rather than the truth that he needed to hear. So, eventually, Vader rationalizes what he’s doing by looping back around to what Palpatine told him, which George Lucas makes clear in his directions to Hayden Christensen (that he’s rationalizing and justifying the things he’s doing, that he doesn’t actually believe them, that is), that that’s at the heart of how Anakin handles things. He does feel powerless to help people--despite that he’s not and there are plenty of moments where he knows otherwise, like in the Age of Republic comic, when he helps the people of Kudo out of the sticky situation they’re in, they have a chance to make their own choice about whether they want to join the Separatists or the Republic, Obi-Wan specifically points out that it was him who helped them:

There are actually a ton of instances in The Clone Wars of this as well, like he helps the rebels on Onderon, he helps save Naboo from the Blue Shadow Virus, he helps free the people of Mon Calamari, he helps free the people of Kiros, etc., but it was easier to grab the above cap as an example (even if I do absolutely agree that Anakin Skywalker is a bucket with a whole in the bottom--it doesn’t matter that he helps people almost every day, it’s never enough, he still wants more, he still feels powerless to help as many people as he wants, and he does feel like he’s often taking things apart, rather than fixing things, as he tells Padme in the Malevolence arc) as well as it’s a good segue into his relationship with Obi-Wan in the next part. Ultimately, I think it comes back to the dark side--it lies, it twists things, it tells Anakin that he wants more and more and more, that nothing else around him is ever enough. He’s not helping enough people, he’s not doing enough stuff, he’s not getting enough recognition, he’s not getting enough personal loyalty over loyalty to things that are bigger than him. But he can’t face that truth about himself, that the dark side has twisted him, so instead the dark side must be right, Palpatine must be right. The dark side always wins, Obi-Wan, Vader says in the Star Wars comic, and so everything else must be shuffled around to fit that. Everything else must be rationalized to fit the way he feels, so he leans into whatever justification he can find, despite that he actually really wanted to be a Jedi and believed in their teachings. (Part 2 in a reblog coming soon because I can only do one monster post at a time. ^_~)

#anakin skywalker #jedi order #meta #long post

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dissociativepouter · 2 years

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more eddie hcs because my brain is filled with worms

terrified of birds

shoplifts

desperately wants an eyebrow piercing

uses those claw clip things to put his hair up

makes his own jewelry

abandonment issues galore

sunburns so easily its scary

does his own eyeliner for shows

watches wwe

says he loves horror movies but absolutely cannot handle them

used to get asked out as a joke in elementary school (im so sorry)

buys plastic utensils and plates because he despises washing dishes

lots of mental stuff that he should definitely be medicated for

celeb crush is debbie harry. he hates to admit it

cannot smoke out of a bong. he will cough so hard he pukes he just cannot

says “my rides here!” every single time he hears police sirens. every single time.

ok thats it. 😁

#eddie munson #stranger things #eddie munson fic #eddie munson fluff #stranger things fic #eddie munson drabble #lux brain worms #st4 #eddie munson blurb #eddie munson hc #eddie stranger things #eddie munson smut #eddie munson oneshot #stranger things 4 #stranger things spoilers #eddie munson x reader

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zoeology31 · 4 years

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30+ Ship/Character Headcanons for Pride: Star Wars Edition

Halfway through the month already, but I’m gonna do something this year! I have consumed so much Star Wars content in 2020, canon and fanfic both, and now I have Opinions.

Codywan

Cody is gay and demisexual, Obi-Wan is bi.

They become friends quickly, and develop one of the closest Jedi-Commander relationships in the GAR. They fall in love later on but agree not to commit to anything until after the war.

Obi-Wan realizes his feelings slowly over seasons 2 and 3, reflecting on their teamwork and how much he values and cares about Cody. Cody realizes his feelings when Obi-Wan comes back from Kadavo and he realizes how important Obi-Wan is to his life.

During the war, they like to spend time together, especially in the mornings or decompressing after a battle. They do paperwork, trade book recommendations, and just sit close and talk.

In AUs where ROTS didn’t happen, Obi-Wan steps down from the Jedi Council and he and Cody work out the details of their relationship so Obi-Wan can still be faithful to the Jedi Code.

Basically they get engaged and stay that way forever. They get an apartment with many houseplants and a cat that likes Cody better.

Cody is a little Force-sensitive, and Obi-Wan teaches him to meditate and use the Force to process emotions. Once Cody is free of the chip (in canon-compliant timelines), he uses this to find peace about Obi-Wan’s “death” and joins the Rebellion.

Rex

Rex is demiromantic asexual.

In AUs where ROTS didn’t happen, he ends up in a queerplatonic relationship with Anakin (who leaves the Order) and Padmé. He is Luke and Leia’s third parent.

He’s really good with kids, and adopts several orphans after the Empire is defeated. Luke and Leia and Ezra and Sabine are his honorary kids too.

Ahsoka

Ahsoka is a lesbian. She’s jealous of Lux during the Onderon arc, not Steela.

Barriss is her first kiss, right after the brain worms incident. They’re never actually in a relationship though, because Barriss thinks that would make it too hard to follow the Jedi Code.

She reconnects with Kaeden Larte during her Fulcrum years and they get married after the Battle of Yavin. Between Fulcrum work and the mission to find Ezra, she’s away a lot, so she carries a special holocomm with a secure line to Kaeden to keep in touch.

Skybridger

Ezra and Luke are both gay. Ezra is also nonbinary and uses both he/him and they/them.

They bond over comparing notes on Jedi training, and also going through the embarrassing “mistook admiration for a crush on now-sister” phase.

They go on lots of adventures together to gather bits of Jedi culture and find Force-sensitive kids to train. It’s Luke’s idea to start a school and Ezra’s idea to search for the old Jedi temples like the one on Lothal.

Eventually they just also start being romantically affectionate on these adventures. No one is surprised. Ahsoka officiates their wedding on Lothal a couple years later, which is attended by the entire rebellion.

They fix up an old U-wing to live and travel in because they’re both used to living on ships. Luke flies, Ezra shoots as needed and also cooks. Ezra always brings back stray animals and Luke sometimes agrees to keep them.

Ketbine

Ketsu and Sabine are both lesbians.

They meet at the Imperial Academy and are dating when they run away together. The stress of running from the Empire and bounty hunting strains their relationship and they break up before parting ways.

They start dating again after the liberation of Lothal and get married after the Battle of Endor. Hera officiates. Sabine is smug about getting married before Zeb.

After the war, they split their time between Krownest, where Sabine eventually inherits the title of Duchess Wren, Concord Dawn, where they help rebuild the Protectors, and Mandalore.

Kalluzeb

Kallus is pan, Zeb is gay.

They build up a friendship before and during season 4, and start dating after the Battle of Yavin. They have a lot of personal issues to work through and getting stuck on the ice moon together was only the beginning, but they both put in the effort and it pays off.

They get married after the Battle of Endor. Hera officiates. Zeb is kinda salty that Sabine beat him to the punch, but they have a great honeymoon on Lira San so it all evens out.

After the war, they help build up the refugee community on Lira San and travel around to locate other Lasat refugees. Zeb even serves a term as Senator for Lira San in the New Republic Senate.

Miscellaneous

Chirrut and Baze are both gay. They’ve been married for 30 years.

Rey is biromantic asexual, Finn is bi, and Poe is gay. Rey and Poe both date Finn but not each other.

Kanan, Hera, Leia, Han, Padmé, Cassian, Bodhi, and Rose are all bi. So are a plurality of the clones.

Lando is pan and genderfluid and their pronouns vary. They’re living their best life.

Echo is genderfluid and uses he/him. Fives is agender and uses they/them. None of Domino squad are cis.

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serenedash · 3 years

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people were talking about a ~ khux musical ~ on twitter and because I have brain worms I wrote a parody of Your Fault from Into the Woods,

[INVI spoken]

It’s because of you there’s a traitor in our midst and a war coming!

[ACED sung]

But it isn’t my fault

I was given this role!

Master told me to take leadership with this role!

And without that power, there’d have been more fights from accusing others in the first place!

[GULA, sung]

Wait a minute, leadership from a master’s role that you never acted on until the final toll!

Is that your true role? Were those master’s words?

Oh, and tell us who you thought to fight with that role!

[INVI (to ACED)]

See, it’s your fault

[ACED]

No!

[GULA]

So it’s your fault….

[ACED]

No!

[INVI]

Yes, it is!

[ACED]

It’s not!

[GULA]

It’s true

[ACED]

Wait a minute, though--

I only chose to fight against the darkness with you!

[INVI (to GULA)]

So it’s your fault!

[ACED]

Yes!

[GULA]

No, it isn’t!

I’d have helped you out, but you didn’t do shit

He made us know about the traitor with those words

[IRA]

It’s all our fault that the nightmare roamed

And a traitor got revealed in the first place!

[GULA]

Oh, the nightmare’s fault!

[IRA]

[INVI]

It was their fault….

[AVA]

[GULA]

Yes, it is, it’s theirs

[AVA]

I guess….

[GULA]

Wait a minute, though--

I found who the traitor is, right? That’s clear

But now that the traitor’s found, then what’s queer

Is how is the Keyblade War is still coming in the first place?

Second place…?

[INVI]

Yes!

[GULA]

How?

[IRA]

Hmm…

[GULA]

Well, who controls the wielders?

[IRA]

The wielders?

[ACED]

The wielders?

[INVI (to AVA)]

You took the wielders for yourself!

[AVA]

I didn’t!

Yes, I did….

[INVI]

So it’s your--!

[AVA]

No, it isn’t, because it’s my masters’ role!

[ACED]

So it’s his--!

[AVA]

NO, IT ISN’T!

[GULA]

Then whose is it? [AVA]

Wait a minute!

(to GULA) I have my wielders to collect the light

And the one who started to collect the lux was you!

[GULA]

You mean all that lux-- that we got-- Oh, shit--

[as they all look at him] But I just wanted the Master back--

Well, don’t look here!

[INVI]

So it’s your fault!

[GULA]

But--

[ACED]

See, it’s his fault--

[GULA]

But--

[AVA]

And it isn’t mine at all!

[ACED (to GULA)]

But what?

[GULA (to AVA)]

Well, if you had just helped me back then--

[AVA]

But my role--

[INVI]

You were greedy! Did you need more kids?

[AVA]

But I had to for the Master!

[ACED]

So it’s his fault then!

[INVI]

No, and what about Kingdom Hearts in the third place?

[AVA]

Kingdom Hearts-- yes!

[GULA]

I went and broke the rules!

[INVI]

You broke the rules?

[GULA]

I broke the rules! I thought Master would come back so I broke rules!

[AVA]

I said no!

[INVI, ACED, IRA]

So it’s your fault!

[GULA]

Wait a minute--!

[INVI

]If you hadn’t broke the rules--

[ACED (to GULA)]

And if you kept our bond we wouldn’t be fighting in the first place!

[INVI (to AVA, over)]

Well, if you didn’t collect your wielders in the first place--! It was your fault!

[ACED (to IRA)]

Well, if he hadn’t brought it up in the first place!

[INVI (to IRA)]

Yes, if you hadn’t brought it up in the first place!

[GULA, AVA (to IRA)]

Right! It’s you who brought it up in the first place!

[ACED (simultaneously)]

You brought up the traitor in the first place!

[INVI]

It’s YOUR fault!

[INVI, ACED, GULA, AVA]

You’re responsible!

You’re the one to blame!

It’s your fault!

[IRA]

Shhhh!

#shout out to roadie for this one they suggested the song #me writing this: I think gula should curse #the roles in the musical don't line up clearly if it wasn't obvious #I just chose what made sense lyric wise and not like this person is X role #writing #khux #kh #kingdom hearts #kh3 #foretellers #aced #ava #ira #invi #gula #master of masters

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