#specifically ted

[lokiiied]

the way everyone was immediately unbothered and supportive of van damme changing his name and even correcting themselves/each other was a perfect showcase of how fucking simple it is to apply this to peoples pronouns and/or trans people sharing their new name(s). the only comment being, (chris) “i think he wants to be called van damme now” and arlo saying, “why?” to which chris responds, “well, we’d probably have to dive into his childhood for that answer.” like!! cis people will have wild nicknames and no one gives a second thought but when it’s a trans person telling you how to refer to them all of a sudden that’s “too much” “too complicated” and “confusing” like no it’s literally not you’re just being fucking hypocritical and transphobic stfu. and now i really need to see someone wearing a “protect trans kids” shirt this season please and thank you.

#specifically ted #or trent #or roy #or jamie #or beard #i feel like any of them would totally wear one #or all of the above!! #ted lasso #ted lasso s3 #thierry van damme #trent crimm #roy kent #jamie tartt #coach beard #protect trans people

[thoodleoo]

had a dream the other day that america decided to bring back the poena cullei (death penalty where you sew someone up in a sack with a bunch of animals and then throw the sack into a river) but only for us senators and so every senate meeting just devolved into people shouting "THE SACK! THE SACK!" whenever ted cruz talked

#it was ted cruz specifically #i dont think dream ted cruz killed his parents i think people just didnt like him #also obama was there?? #tagamemnon #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[dreadfuldevotee]

#the doctor will say everything but "I love you"

Bonus: #comeuppance

#doctor who #dwedit #doctorwhoedit #timelordgifs #dwgif #tvedit #10th doctor #tenth doctor #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #river song #14th doctor #fourteenth doctor #char.gif #this isnt the most cohesive set but i had to let this out of my skull #i wanna give a ted talk about how the doctor has spent so long letting ppl they care about never truly know how much they care #most horribly their romantic partners (not to say doctordonna is romantic but yk) #and how i truly think The Fam (tm) and most specifically squandering a relationship with Yaz finally made the doctor try vulnerability #i write this all down eventually

[jametartt]

2x02 / 3x03

#ted lasso #tl edits #tedlassoedit #jamie tartt #roy kent #mine #big bro energy i dont make the rules #SHIPPERS DNI. cant go thru this again #*clarifying: i just mean pls do not tag this as otp/ot3 i'd much appreciate if you didnt do that w my gifs specifically! #not to police anyones taste i just strongly dislike that and have to sigh thru people's comments every time i post a gifset w them...

[walkman-cat]

this happens more often than you'd think

#theyre watching rocky horror :) #i have many thoughts and this was one that wouldnt leave my head #theyre pals!! #hatchetfield #ted spankoffski #ruth fleming #peter spankoffski #(he's there) #(he's also not awake enough for this) #davey doodles #please excuse the messiness wbwb! #just. woe! my specific headcanons be upon ye in doodle form!! #starkid

[yourlocalabomination]

Hey, Dickhead!

*smashes your face in with a crowbar*

#if I had a nickle for everytime Ted spankoffski beat a character played by Jeff in the face with a metal object I’d have 2 nickels #my question is how did he obtain the crowbar? did he find it in an alleyway? did Teddy randomly have a crowbar in his studio apartment? #I like to think that Ted specifically went and bought the crowbar with the last 20 bucks in his wallet purely just to smack Kilgore with it #anyway big fan of how unhinged Ted is in this scene we need more of it #formal pertition to give Ted spankoffski a crowbar again and just set him loose into the wild. I just wanna see what he does with it. #(please ignore how I don’t know how to do side profiles I’m working on it okayyyyyyy) #ted spankoffski #theodore spankoffski #starkid #team starkid #starkid productions #starkid fanart #fanart starkid #time bastard #time bastard nightmare time #starkid time bastard #nightmare time #hatchetfield nightmare time #starkid nightmare time #nmt #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #hatchetfield universe #fanart #my art

[theannoyeddragon82]

wow these bitches are really fucking gay

#this specific comment is directed at hesper and wylan from six of crows but literally applies to any of my characters #*jesper #im reading the book rn and its so good #idk at this current moment if wesper is actually canon but. they are in my head. #can i just say the line #flirting with him(wylan) might actually be more fun than annoying him #is REALLY FUCKING GAY #also ON THE SAME FUCKING PAGE #JESPER TELLS WYLAN THAT HES CUTER WHEN HES SMART #TO HIS FUCKING FACE #so idk how they're not gonna be canon at this point #thank you for coming to my ted talk

[samwpmarleau]

“there’s a lot of people out there, good people just trying to live by the rules, but sometimes things happen that are out of their control. and, well — if we’ve got the means to help the good people out when no one else will, then shouldn’t we try?” [leverage au in/sp @jamiesfootball]

#not-so-casually borrowing someone else's au 2k23 #feat. as many fonts as i can get away with #this was originally going to get into specifics but i couldn't really figure out a good way how #so it's more of a general leverage au but the intent is there!! #ted lasso #roy kent #jamie tartt #rebecca welton #keeley jones #leverage #tedlassosource #tedlassoedit #tl #tledit #mine

[justtrashperson]

I love when people draw some of the hatchetfield characters that has met/interacted with the lords in black with a slightly different look that indicates it

#justtrashdoodles #hatchetfield #starkid #ted spankoffski #peter spankoffski #like it’s so fun. Also how usually the ones the lib specifically torment have different eye colors #while the ones who only briefly interacted only have another part altered

[conflictofthemind]

Thoughts on "Escape from Camazotz"

Oppressive Suburbia, Conformity, and Season 5 Themes

I've long thought that a major focus of Season 5 will be the contrast between the families of The Wheelers and The Byers, and exploring how non-traditional family environments can be freeing vs the oppressive structure of the nuclear family.

In a Wrinkle In Time, Camazotz is a planet controlled by the big bad of the book, the "IT", who forces the citizens into a conformity that resembles American suburbia. All of the houses the same, the citizens the same, doing the same things at the same time without individual identity. Without anything different. Different means a lot of things, but with Stranger Things dropping different in reference to Will's identity and the presumable themes of this season, it will heavily codify as queerness and how it threatens the cisheterosexual family model.

Henry was raised in the 1950s, a decade still revered by conservatives for it's traditional family dynamics that supposedly were the peak of culture and happiness for all. That was all a lie, of course, and Henry knew so as he shows to Nancy and Eleven during his monologue. The second most conservative decade aside from the 1950s in American society is widely considered to be the 1980s.

The Creels will serve in parallel to The Wheelers; the worst example of what they could become and the damage that this type of family could do to a child that is different in any way. Notice how Vecna selectively shows Nancy visions of The Wheelers dying, but not anyone else she may consider family or friends (like Jonathan).

That is; unless they change their ways and come together as a healthy functioning family facing their traumas, The Wheelers will be toast.

Karen has been moved up to a main character role this season. Ted's actor says the father starts to show up more for Holly (hold that) and realizes he wants to act differently. Holly has been recast. Finn has said Mike goes on a much more personal journey this season, and steps up as a leader.

Oh, also: the catalyst for all of this is that Holly goes missing. The contrast will help show how the Byers (including El and Hopper here) were able to pull together and help solve Will's disappearance, versus how the Wheelers as a closed off nuclear family grapple with Holly's vanishing.

Each of the Byers is in some kind of a non-1950s conformist relationship, but particularly Will (not in one now but we all know he will be). I think El might represent, after she breaks up with Mike, the fear of the unmarried woman being satisfied without a husband. The above shot really emphasizes my point.

I predict that Will will end up coming out to his family rather early on, and we will see all of them immediately accept him with little surprise or push-back. Will is a visible gay man who comes from an open minded non traditional family (divorced, non-married, adoptive) that is willing to have honest conversations.

But this theme will place the most focus on the Wheelers. Mike is the main character of said family and this will particularly focus on his arc, and his acceptance of his queerness in the midst of suburban conformity.

He is not visible, he comes from a Reagan-supporting family who don't communicate with each other. He is not particularly close with his family like Will is. He pushes his feelings down and tries his damn hardest to be normal despite it all. His trauma hasn't really been addressed at all. He is falling back into his usual habits - the one thing he dared to do different (grow his hair long) has gone back to how it was.

It's not all doom and gloom though. This season above all will be a redemption arc of the American nuclear family, how they choose to escape their conformity and learn to be there for each other, thus overpowering Vecna. Not that the Wheelers are going to end this personally.

"Great, more hysteria. Just what we need". "It's the news, now indistinguishable from the tabloids".

#stranger things #mike wheeler #the wheelers #the byers family #byler #will byers #st5 speculation #henry creel #the specificity of this title alone and the themes gives me no doubt that these are all real #i also think this is the episode where byler is canonized and where mike finally escapes conformity #holly wheeler #ted wheeler #karen wheeler #i didnt really mention nancy at all sorry girl #if youre reading this PLEASE search up my username on youtube you will find it SO RELEVANT

[penguin-scribbles]

Melissa, the original Human Pet Guy

#my first art of the year is a shitpost #hey melissa #does Melissa have a last name or is she just ccrp melissa #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #paul matthews #ted spankoffski #bill woodward #charlotte sweetly #ccrp #starkid #starkid productions #the guy who didn't like musicals #starkid ​melissa #not really but these are all characters from it #human pet guy #cw eye contact #ask to tag on this one idk what specific tags the human pet guy post needs #anyways. this came to me in a flash of lightning #don’t even ask how she got into this rant #I am tormented by visions that tell me what would make good shitposts #this post was the only thing going through my head when I was watching hey melissa #I’m like HOLY FUCK HUMAN PET GUY!!! #penguin scribbles #digital art #artists on tumblr #procreate #what else do I tag

[cynical-canidae]

#i had to make this #doctor who #the doctor #twelfth doctor #12th doctor #meme #it can be whatever ship your heart desires #but to me it is specifically #whouffaldi #twelveriver #and #twissy #thanks for coming to my ted talk

[lemonberry-soda]

Do you ever think about the fact that Ted is hypersexual due to his childhood/teenage traumas or is that just me?

Like not only did he associate losing his first love forever with not being douchebaggy enough, but he also experienced the Lumber Axe and survived. With how quickly Peter was about to be murdered for looking at Ted’s old magazine you KNOW Ted probably had to deal with narrow escape after narrow escape himself. Ted literally suppresses the memory of the Lumber Axe entirely until bringing Peter to camp reminds him, and he doesn’t even take Peter with him as he runs away. He is FUcked up.

My guy went for the cat lady who cut off his fingers because sex is inherently dangerous to him in his mind. He goes for the worst options on purpose because sex isn’t safe unless there’s risk, and he goes for the best options just to lose them on purpose so they don't leave him first, as many times as possible until he's single and lonely at the wedding reception. He’s a sleazeball as a coping mechanism, and he keeps dying for it. One single safe relationship would decimate this dude, and it also wouldn’t fix him. Therapy would do wonders if he actually accepted how messed up he is. And tbh, if TInky wasn’t around there might’ve been a chance for him to recover.

Anyway another reason this dweeb is doomed by the narrative and fucked up beyond belief

#sorry to psychoanalyze the loser of all time again #starkid #hatchetfield #ted spankoffski #just a thought I had all of a sudden #this guy deserves as many days where he realizes he's traumatized and cries over it as it TAKES #and canonically he gets zero of those forever so #tbh I don't know what form of the Lumber Axe he'd have to deal with since the specifics are kinda shady but if the Axeman is 20 n he #grew up fast due to the forest then a 15-17yo Ted would be dealing with a teenage-YA Axeman (0-2 years old but magically influenced) #hey melissa #hucklefixation

[spoonmoment69420]

HE IS SO 💥💥💥💥💥

#EXPLODES HIM 💥💥💥 WHY IS HE LIKE THIS AHEHEHE #hes so fucking stupid. i love him #slimecicle #for anyone wondering this is ep50 of chuckle sandwich #specifically at 35:23 #chuckle sandwich #ted nivison #jschlatt #captainsparklez #charlie slimecicle

[schrodingerspsycho]

Something something toxic codependent obsessive homoerotic relationships between numbers 6 and 9 on soccer teams

#roy kent #jamie tartt #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #royjamie #jackieshauna #they’re so insane about each other #and I’m insane about them #ted lasso #yellowjackets #oddly specific comparisons

[leona-florianova]

Coach Beard

#points at coach beard #what a silly guy #ted lasso #im rewatching ted lasso cause i needed to remind myself of the very specific comedy that beard had going on #my art #sketches