#that's just how it is

[viviseawrites]

steve harrington presents as an alpha a month into his senior year of high school, when the weather is just turning crisp for fall. his parents are thrilled—his father keeps talking about the clout it brings to the harrington name and partnerships it might encourage at the office.

steve harrington presents as an alpha, and he knows it’s wrong. he feels it in his bones. when his first rut hits, it's like running into a wall. everything stops. everything hurts. he’s angry about his rut, made angrier by the hormones rushing through him.

he locks himself in his room, tears apart the soft pillows on his bed with too-sharp teeth. he does not deserve soft things, does not deserve gentleness. his rage wanes as the rut comes to an end, and in its wake, he feels empty, like it burned him from the inside out.

nancy says he smells like a forest fire. he sees the way she winces at it, sees how she sometimes raises her upper lip like she means to snarl at him, to rise to a threat. steve never wanted to be a threat.

but when the Upside Down comes back for round two, he puts himself in front of the stupidly brave pups and turns his nail-studded bat against the four-legged demogorgon babies. he plants his feet and knows his scent is billowing around him, aggressive and uncontrolled. and he fights.

after, dustin keeps telling him how cool he was in the junkyard. steve wonders, now. maybe he doesn’t have to be a threat; maybe he can be a protector instead. maybe the rancid, acrid smell of destruction he wears could be a controlled burn. useful. good, even.

he uses it to distract the russians from robin, allows himself to be seen as a more dangerous target and goads them into focusing on him instead. later, in a grimy mall bathroom, robin tells him he reminds her of winter nights spent in front of the hearth with hot chocolate in hand.

it’s warm, she says, smoky but nice and comforting when he’s calm. she says even when he smelled like he wanted to burn the world down in that bunker, she knew she was safe from it, safe because of it. she settles in at his side, all sharp evergreen, and he leans against her.

fire doesn’t have to hurt. alphas don’t have to be violent, untamed, impossible creatures like society claims. and when he comes face to face with eddie munson in a dilapidated boat house, on the wrong end of a broken bottle, he knows he doesn’t have to let his scent flare.

eddie munson smells like rain, like lightning, crisp ozone and petrichor, a storm of an alpha. in appearance, in scent, in attitude, he makes himself larger. but up close, face to face, steve sees his need for shelter, for safety, for peace, and he wants to be that.

against the cold of that encroaching, panicked downpour, steve makes himself a warm light, offers eddie a place to rest. he gives him grace and lifts his chin, bares his throat. surrenders to the deluge.

and when everything is done, after vecna dies and hawkins recovers, eddie approaches him smelling like spring, like new beginnings, soft and gentle and all steve ever wanted.

#steddie #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #vivisea writes #omegaverse #alpha steve harrington #alpha eddie munson #a/b/o #robin buckley and steve harrington are platonic soulmates #that's just how it is #originally a twitter thread

[captainhowdie]

Hi Captain dearest,i have a question.

Does Nyen cares about Nyon ?At least a little?

of course they love one another

#they're a family #that's just how it is

[fyeahvarchie]

CAMILA MENDES as DREA TORRES in DO REVENGE (2022)

#camila mendes #cmendesedit #camilamendesedit #do revenge #dorevengeedit #drea torres #filmedit #femaledaily #drea torres truthers are hot people #i don't make the rules #that's just how it is

[roamingtigress]

Arthur stans: my lil flower picking, manbearpig-discovering pookie bear and his horsie and his pookie bear :3

John stans: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE TIME IS? TIME TO GET RACCOON BACK IN THE BLENDER (also SLUT)

Dutch stans: aww lookit him and his little pookie bear holding hands <3 (also SLUT!)

#I don't make the rules #that's just how it is #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #john marston #dutch van der linde #red dead #red dead redemption two #rdr2 community #red dead redemption 2 community

[aflawedfashion]

Maura & Jane (& Angela) | Rizzoli & Isles 2x01

#in a lot of shows this would be a couple episode arc #but nope jane's mother just lives with maura now #that's just how it is #i love that #maura's part of the family #rizzles #rizzlesedit #rizzoli and isles #maura isles #jane rizzoli #sasha alexander #angie harmon #aflawedfashiongif #affrizzles #rizzoli and isles: season 2 #rizzoli and isles: 2x01

[ryyyybaaaa]

I will not give any context here. I'm just going insane about them (as always)

#undertale #art #alphys #undyne #alphyne #undertale fanart #fanart #ut fanart #alternate universe #terratale #also i love drawing TerraUndyne in hawaiin shirts #that's just how it is

[bigeloo]

Cortodude reference... for once

#sorry guys autism took better of me and I mashed 2 guys that live in my brain rent free into one #that's just how it is #art #digital art #artwork #my art #digital drawing #postal #postal dude #fandude #fan dude #cortodude #tolys's scribbles

[purplelea]

Real Joshua fans see a Joshua hate post and agree with it. yeah we all want him to get punched in the face and rolled over by a truck. don't question it

#léa rambles #that's just how it is #he's the worst (affectionate) (derogatory) #twewy

[glitxd-shenanigan]

Finally starting Psychonauts 2!! It looks so good so far AAAAAAAAAAAA-

Also appreciate the warnings! They didn't have this in the first one

#This will be all I talk about until I finish the game #that's just how it is #Psychonauts #ALSO I just realized Raz's VA is the same as Moxxie & Zim bruh

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Sometimes I think it's the autism and I'm just a bit slow but then I realise I'm also just fucking stupid :3

#this is not self hate btw #don't even try ''nooo u so smart haha'' #i know i'm not sharp <3 #that's just how it is #i've got other amazing qualities i don't have to be everything after all

[zeninsama-moved]

mercury! i am curious to know more about the zen’in babies, if you are interested in sharing <3

omg... so for starters, they are the tiniest and sweetest babies you've ever seen, with the cutest little ears. all of them take after naoya, dark hair and golden eyes. the boys are close in age, maybe a year and a couple months between them. the youngest is your lil baby girl and she somehow takes the most after her father when it comes to personality. especially when she's a teen, they'd bicker and butt heads all the time. the boys would all inherit the projection technique and train to be sorcerers, as to be expected for all zen'in males. baby girl zen'in will never be a sorcerer regardless of technique but naoya would let her do literally anything else, in my heart she would be a fashion student at some prestigious college. naoya would tease her like "ya can't find a cheaper hobby?" but he is always mindful of stepping around her sketches. classic girl dad that'll have a fucking heart attack when she's dating anyone, especially boys. he's mean-mugging them from the front door with his arms crossed.

#it sounds awful but i think boys are obligatory #naoya as the head of the zen'in clan with his sons that inherit his technique #they will become sorcerers like naoya and naobito #that's just how it is #mercury speaks #cw children #also it's like my headcanon that naoya was a very tiny and cute baby #not like preemie tiny just a lil sweet baby #lil baby naoya is such a cutie

[deadjam6]

Steve in my au..,,..,.......,,..,.

Dave was his depression era, now he's feeling carefree, whimsical, and joyous

he even made a new fursuit head

#Ik that jacket didn't exist in the 90's #but I own it so he owns it too #that's just how it is #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #william afton #purple guy #steve raglan #fnaf au

[sleepykas]

Me: I don't like purple >:(

Also me: *themes my entire phone and half of my apps purple*

#i don't understand why #that's just how it is #//kasshutup

[astralkilljoy]

I simultaneously know everything and nothing about rtumblr

#the life of a lurker #that's just how it is #my post #rtumblr

[daily-gastrodon]

Me after liking 50 posts in a row dating back to 2017 I got too silly im real I swear i just got the sillies :)

the squishy is too strong...

YOU GOT A LITTLE TOO SILLY !!!

#that's just how it is

[a-cedia]

I'm laughing because Seward is mad in this first part of his entry at Renfield for treating him (special!!! Educated!!! Medical man of science!!!!) and the basic bitch attendant (a sparrow compared to the majestic eagle who is Seward!!!!) with the same total lack of respect.

Seward. My man. Renfield isn't "more insane" just now because he won't inflate your ego. Get your shit under control and start freaking out because We Know Who literally just moved in next door.

#dracula daily #Renfield #dr seward #Dracula #You're all basic bitches next to count Dracula #That's just how it is