#obviously there’s varying degrees

[thebridgetonarnia]

I wanna talk about Hard of Hearing Steve Harrington! I posted a version of this on twitter but wanted to edit and expand it slightly here. so please enjoy some HoH!Steve finding community through his and Eddie's deaf daughter.

Steve and Eddie weirdly have Richard Harrington to thank for their daughter. One of his mistress's had a child who was born deaf.

Richard wanted nothing to do with this child, or the girl's mother. He scoffed at the woman who just wanted some help, and told her "It looks like all his children are broken, and Harrington's demand perfection."

So this young woman - younger than Steve is at the time - who is alone in the world puts the child up for adoption, and as next of kin, Steve gets a call, asking about a child.

He and Eddie immediately say yes, of course they'll take the child. They'd been thinking about children for a long time, but they hadn't been so lucky in that department. Steve's half sister, as it happens, needs a home, because their good for nothing sperm donor of a father abandoned them both. So they will raise her, as their own, and she will never be made to feel othered, or lesser than. They name her Hope.

Steve has been wearing hearing aides for years now, he and Eddie had thought idly about learning sign language over the years, but they've never been able to commit. It always gets pushed to the side for other things, and Steve hears well enough anyway with his aides.

But with Hope? They buy all the books, and take lessons with Robin at the community college, because she's going to need it to communicate with the world.

Steve picks it up quickly, and he and Eddie watch as their infant toddler picks up language and can communicate with them. It's really a sight to see.

The guy who teaches the class is a CODA, child of deaf adults, and he puts them on to the Deaf community in the city, urges them to make sure their kid grows up with people like her.

So once again, they dive head first into the community, because Steve and Eddie would rather die than make Hope feel isolated. They take Hope to kid friendly Deaf events, they meet Deaf adults, and slowly as Steve talks to other Deaf people, he realizes that something just clicks for him.

Something had slotted out of place inside of him the second his hearing started to go, when he started to feel like he wasn't built for the world around him anymore, and people started to treat him differently for wearing hearing aides so young.

Eddie and the Party have always made him feel comfortable, they always make sure they look at him when they speak to him, never tell him never mind, or I'll tell you late when he misses anything. But even with all that support, he sometimes still feels like an outsider. But that off-balanced thing slides right back into place when he's at Deaf events with Hope because these people understand him so fundamentally.

Steve makes friends - outside of their little found family - actual friends who see him for who he is, not for what he lacks.

He wears his hearing aides less and less, and sign gets used in their home more and more, even when Hope isn't around. He starts to identify as Deaf. It feels like when he started dating Eddie, like the world opened up to him.

He's so so grateful to his father for the first time in his life because his affair brought Hope into their lives, and she is the best thing that ever happened to him and Eddie, and she gave Steve a community of people that made him feel comfortable in the world again.

And when Steve finds the Deaf Queer community? Well that just feels like coming home.

#also the party obviously learns asl too #varying degrees of skill #but they all learn because they all love steve and hope and want her to feel part of the family #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #hoh steve harrington #deaf steve harrington #stranger things #steddie dads #sab writes

[taciturnraccoon]

Does Dusk have any allergies?

...No.

#anon #asks #duskice #fracture #steeljaw #duskcember #rid 2015 #tfp oc #is mine #phosphorous sensitivities to me is like lactose intolerance #please imagine the sounds i wrote to be a stalling engine #no one stand behind her. vents are hacking and wheezing atm #all three of them have the same allergy to varying degrees. dusks is the worst obviously lol

[raytoroapologist]

anybody else w ocd unable to scroll down a dashboard/timeline/webpage bc the direction is 'wrong'? it feels stupid but its smth i run into a lot

#i also have a big Thing with my skin accidentally being brushed the wrong direction so its very similar to that feeling #and its not all the time obviously but like once or twice a month to varying degrees of severity

[eddiebabygirldiaz]

do you have any 911 fic recs that have eddie's sisters in? i really love fics with them in but i can never find them

i absolutely adore eddie's sisters in fics too! here are a few i can think of that feature them

i got all my sisters with me by @useramor

high on you by @prettyboybuckley

no kingdom to come by @waywardrenegades

hiding in a living dream by @spinteresting

if i can't have you i'll walk this life alone by @paranoidbean

stay soft; get eaten by @eddiediass

#the degree to which his sisters are featured obviously varies #and its been a while since ive read this but they are the first that came to mind and turned up in my search #definitely need to do some rereading methinks #anyway #hope this gives you what you are looking for #ryan gets mail #911 fic recs #buddie fics

[unproduciblesmackdown]

some sketches

#really brought together by my fondness for the smiley winstons at the end there...having particularly spontaneous drawings: not my forte #so gathering up & overlaying the most fun / comprehensible recent ones just for little a something #winston billions #w/varying obviousness (or obscurity): #winstuk #taylip #& some even more Free For All [winston ft. some degree of implicit intimate contexts w/perhaps other people] #corned beef

[badolmen]

Hate scifi-fantasy magic/energy dichotomies where they talk all about balance but use genocide one side or the other to achieve it. Buddy breaking the scale doesn’t make it balanced. What the fuck do you mean the dark ones are all evil? They have an evil ideology? Okay yeah I see where that can be taken as evil but - NO it’s not balance if the only thing left is the light! You’re telling me there’s never been an evil light user? Oh there has? Then why the fuck has there never been good dark users??? (Answer: author doesn’t care about representing balance they just want easily coded good guys and bad guys).

#ra speaks #personal #writing #yes. this is about Star Wars. but also a ton of other series do this to varying degrees #like hmmm I don’t think genocide is the key to balancing the universe. as a concept that’s kinda sus for a writer to focus on. #again I don’t understand why the Jedi didn’t expect Anakin to be/become a dark side user? #‘he’ll bring balance to the force’ + ‘the Sith are all but extinct’ = okay so he’s gonna revive the sith. that’s what I’m getting from this #especially in EP I like. they really all thought the sith were extinct. only after that does ‘balance’ become ‘destroy tbe sith’ #like ? that’s not how balance works. you’re space monks haven’t you like. had philosophical discussions abt this great prophecy? #and like it’s so dumb why write a dichotomy hinging on balance and have one sides code be ‘lol yeah we’re selfish bastards’ #while the others is like ‘we must be selfless and disconnected to the point of self destruction and alienation’ #like those are both extreme interpretations but also. why is the sith code much more easily interpreted to that extreme. #‘oh they just intrinsically evil -‘ well that defeats the point of having a balance. there’s no coexistence with that. #I guess my point is. yeah Anakin obviously joined the dark side and yeah the genocide of the Jedi wasn’t out of left field I mean. #we go from 2-3 Sith vs thousands of Jedi to a neat little 2:2 (sheev and Vader. Luke and Leia) #<- I’m talking about canon and narrative ratios. obv we know more Jedi survived I’m just taking the og trilogy in isolation.

[siennahrobek]

Mace Windu: “one of these days, Obi-Wan is just going to headbutt Dooku and he’s going to stop implying his desire for Kenobi to join him because of it. I just hope I’m there to see the look on his face.”

Everyone else: “…”

Shaak Ti and Quinlan Vos: “agreed”

#(probably going to end up in my don’t lose heart fic to some degree). #because I love the way Obi-Wan fights #at least his varying styles #like one minute he’s the picture of elegance #and the next he’s punching a droid in the face #or swinging his saber with the momentum that one may swing a bat #he’s a menace on the battlefield and I’m here for it #obi-wan kenobi #mace Windu #Quinlan Vos #obviously Quinlan is all for this #I think a lot of Shaak Ti stuff is fanon probably #but like I dunno #under all that elegance I think she’d appreciate it too #Shaak Ti

[sivavakkiyar]

The ‘cutest’ thing from my notes on the dismantling global hindutva conference was that everyone was a little late and no one turned off their phones, which I found charming and is the true heart of Indian culture for me

#to be fair literally everyone (tho to varying degrees) on that panel received constant death threats #I got some on here for mentioning attending #(obviously those are unimportant because it’s just tumblr and I’m anonymous)

[scumbag-the-hedgehog]

I think I've made it obvious that in my interpretation, Scourge always had some kind of feelings for his Sonic, even if he didn't really understand how to actually articulate them, and now that he's lost him forever, trying to deal with all that emotional baggage has messed with his head and affects how he deals with other Sonics.

As usual, the way a muse feels about another never creates an obligation for the other muse to reciprocate in any way. I just feel sorry for every Sonic muse this idiot interacts with because not only is there the hostility and inferiority complex to contend with, but also the obnoxious pining that tends to infect his actions.

#{ooc}「mun sez」 #{HEADCANONS}「How I Got These Scars」 #sono.urge brainrot is strong and runs this blog #the degree to which he feels it will vary between alternates as will his chances of getting those feelings returned obviously #i just love whenever hes a mess

[rassilon-imprimatur]

Y’all are gonna think I’m crazy, but I actually have a lot of feelings about how Miles’ building blocks to The Book of the War, especially Interference and Dead Romance, aim for Cronenberg Videodrome/Scanners and Lynch Fire Walk With Me/Lost Highway, but accidentally hit something much more akin to The End of Evangelion and The Adolescence of Utena. And far less refined than either, messy, seeping. I love it a lot?

#like y’know not intentionally whatsoever and all in the context of being built from Target novelizations lmao #but the Anno Depression And Angry Arc froths in Interference so fucking intensely #and obviously all the EDAs following his lead (especially Planet 5) hit that same energy to varying degrees #actually on that Lynch note the hidden fucked upery about Hiroshima in TBOTW is so The Return adjacent #it almost makes you forget that lore detail wasn’t KNOWN until 2017 #with all the hints in Fire Walk With Me so mired and cut and edited #idk

[caffeinatedopossum]

I reblogged a post about how 5×5= 25 is Friday and mentioned synesthesia and now everyone in my notes keeps saying everyone does that/everyone has synesthesia

#im not gonna argue cause honestly. maybe #ive met a lot of synesthetes personally #i think theres definitely varying degrees though as much as their are different types #its hard to find research on it but supposedly their was a study done in the UK that came to the conclusion that most people #either do or can make themselves associate colors with sounds letters or numbers #but that compared to people with synesthesia their choices were much less systematic and the colors chosen were less vibrant #so basically they all had synesthesia but only to a certain extent #id actually be interested to see more studies about this #like i dont want to be like 'oo im just so special' but i wonder if there is a defining line between what i experience and normal people do #like obviously there will be one if you make one but idk how thay would work #i think some people are genuinely impaired or struggle in ways because of their synesthesia #especially people with mirror touch or taste synesthesia #hmm i will think about this

[catgirlkirigiri]

Still think it’s stupid and weird that it’s some kind of unspoken canon that the nightlights just inbred forever when they could have so easily had them crossbreed with a similarly built dragon. Could’ve just gone oh yeah the nightlights genes are so strong you can’t even tell 1300 years later that at some point they introduced some idk sand wraith to their gene pool so they weren’t literally breeding with their siblings. Shit they could’ve just gone oh there’s multiple light furies Toothless’s girlfriend isn’t the last one boom problem solved

#plus then they could’ve had a bit more freedom with thunder/the other ‘modern’ nightlights designs instead of them all being varying degrees #of black and white that don’t really look good #like. sand wraiths are brownish right. imagine if they’d done that and introduced browns and yellows into the color scheme. could’ve done a #star kind of pattern but nooo gotta keep the dragon bloodline pure even if that means it’s incestuous #obviously any other similarly shaped specie could work. my first thought is just sand wraiths because. well look at them #I mean they were literally called sand fury before they decided to keep fury to just night fury and light fury. they’re perfect for this #zoracontent #this has been in my drafts since before I watched the third movie so I didn’t know if it was a plot point there or not that she was the only #light fury. but I didn’t notice any mention of light furies being extinct soo

[rahleeyah]

@chasingjava that part!!!! So much of the last two seasons has felt so disjointed bc the characters we loved weren't even talking to each other!! So much screen time was given to one off characters we felt no connection to while we were left frustrated by the lack of meaningful dialogue/interaction for our characters. Not last night!!! Last night rediscovered that balance between compelling guest characters and our faves; it used the guest characters to showcase the mains and help them develop instead of sidelining them. It was just a better crafted episode all the way around. It did better by everyone. And proved that 💡 is just a bitter old grump with a sandpaper coochie

#s.vu #OBVIOUSLY writing is collaborative to varying degrees but the vision at the top matters

[spocksgotemotions]

I don’t tend to think of myself as particularly femme (even though I have been leaning into the ~manic pixie dream girl~ miss frizzle vibe lately), but it has to be said. I am a slut for a good earring

#captain’s own #dumb bitch hours #personal logs #i am a cis woman in theory #but what that looks like for me is obviously much different than it looks for others #lesbianism autism being fat and being white all affect how I perceive and present myself as a woman #and it’s all to varying degrees #I could go on but this post was really just to say I love Etsy earrings #wish I could afford more of them but one day

[liketolaugh-writes]

Thinking again about Coach Hedge on the Argo… he literally has empathic abilities, you know? I mean, I get that he’s not the most emotionally supportive person, but… idk, I feel like he should have noticed something. Percy’s emotional state was ‘on fire trash can’ long before he and Annabeth fell into Tartarus. And Hedge didn’t even talk to him? Bro.

#i’ve been thinking about this a LOT #coach hedge dropped all of the balls okay #all of them #(obviously the other kids needed varying degrees of help too) #(i just feel strongly that percy’s turmoil ought to have been Extremely Obvious And Loud)

[iphisesque]

god i hope my roommate is from the south

#obviously we're all varying degrees of fuorisede in the dorm #but ill be surrounded by r*mans all day everyday everywhere i cannot take that without having at least a safe space for the meridione #scream what if she's from the north. what if she's one of THOSE northerners. #though i assume perhaps wrongly that one of THOSE northerners would never lower herself to a dorm