#these get longer every day

[stevesbipanic]

@steddiemas Day 5: Grinch vs Holiday Cheer

It should be known that Steve Harrington had not always hated Christmas. In fact for many years it was simply that the holiday was draining for him, and if the pictures could be believed two-year old him loved the day.

Present day Steve though hated it. You would not think it with his house professionally decked out in bright lights and ornaments, an eight foot tree in the living room. Nevermind the fact that there wasn't a single present under the tree, or anyone else in the house but him. His parents would be back in a few days for their annual Christmas party, Steve would be expected to attend. This year he would not be.

While other people were diligently wrapping gifts with the big day coming up shortly, Steve was packing his meager belongings and finally taking up his boyfriend's offer to move in with him.

Eddie had gotten a flat thanks to the government's hush money, Wayne finally giving up the trailer life lived just across the hall. Eddie wanted nothing more than for Steve to be out of that cold loveless house and was overjoyed that Steve was finally joining him.

"It'll be like a sleepover every night, Stevie!"

"Name one night we've actually slept apart, Eds."

"I wanna have a home with you though."

"You're my home, Eddie."

Eddie had spent all morning getting the place extra clean for Steve's arrival, as if the plates he was washing in the sink weren't from date night last night. But there were more pressing touches to the apartment that had to be completed before Steve arrived.

Steve should've known something was up when he got to Eddie's floor and heard Christmas music, but he assumed it was Sandy from down the hall, she'd had a wreath on her door since November 1st.

He let himself into the apartment with his key and almost dropped the box he was carrying. The room was completely decorated in Christmas things, there was even a small tree tucked into the corner.

"Eddie?" Steve called out.

His boyfriend skidded into the room.

"Stevie! You're home!"

"What's all this?"

"Oh, you know, um......Christmas decorations?"

The box in Steve's hands had become heavy so he moved himself through the chaotic apartment and into the bedroom, which thankfully only had a small string of Christmas lights by the window.

He methodically unpacked the last of his clothes and the few gifts and photos he had from the kids and Robin, now the room truly felt like theirs. Now to deal with what awaited him in the living room.

To his credit, Eddie had let Steve have his moment, waiting patiently on the couch. Waiting and patient weren't two words Steve often associated with his metalhead so he couldn't be too mad at him. Steve sat down on the couch and lent into Eddie.

"I'm not mad about the decorations."

"You're not?"

"I just wasn't expecting it."

"I'm sorry, I know you don't like Christmas."

"I hate it."

"Why, love, you never have told me why?"

"Because it's always been about them, their party, their friends, their decorations. I got two normal Christmases before it all became a performance."

"Oh sweetheart, I hate that they've taken another thing from you that should be a happy thing."

"I thought with the kids and Robin around it would be different but they're always whisked away by their families and the Buckley's always go out of state even though Robin begs them to stay cause she hates me being alone. I'm always alone on Christmas and then have to smile at all my parents' fake friends and then I'm alone again."

"Steve, I promise you'll never be alone on Christmas again ok? You can have a normal Christmas, that's all about you."

Eddie was right, he could have a normal Christmas. There were presents under the tree here, and the ornaments on the tree were clearly old or handmade by a young Eddie. Christmas dinner could be them and Wayne and real smiles and real conversations. Christmas could be full of love again, it may have taken almost 18 years since that gummy two year old smiled holding a teddy under the tree, but he could smile again.

"Do you think Wayne has his tree up yet?"

Eddie's face broke into a grin, "Let's go check sweetheart, I'm sure he'd even let you hang the star."

Ao3

#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #i just feel steve would have to relearn loving Christmas #steddiemas #these get longer every day

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4: Deranged Bedfellows

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.5)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #lan wangji #nie huaisang #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #This is the *first* part of what was supposed to be a much longer comic (LWJ's morning routine in full). #I'll finish the remaining part as a reblog to this post! I just think this is the funnier chunk. #Lan Wangji absolutely is the kind of person who has a perfect internal alarm clock for when it is time to get up. #He already has a dedicated sleep schedule. He is accurate within 10 seconds of 5am every day. #I think the Jiang disciples are most likely used to waking up around 6:00-7:00am #But the allure of having a guaranteed time keeper getting you up in the morning is worth the earlier hour. #I imagine they started outside lwj's door and slowly moved closer as the weeks went on. #Now LWJ has to cope with being way too warm in the night from all the extra body heat. #LWJ is not a fan of this but they scamper off immediately after he wakes up and they at least show initiative to follow routine. #NHS joins in only because he is a chronically heavy sleeper and needs this level of intervention to get up early. #His boldness would be a death sentence in the cloud recesses but here? Whole new game. #Yungmeng Jiang isn't a lawless land. It's just a land with different laws. #And one of those laws is to forcefully domesticate the catboy coded Lan boy through any means necessary. #Completely different tangent: I drew the thumbnail for this before I did comic 134. I then realized they had the same visual gag. #So I had to space this one out so it didn't seem like I repeated the waking up joke. That's my secret and all of you have to keep it. #And in my land the law is that snitches get itches (telepathically transfers hives onto your body)

[solroskajan]

Yeah...

#murder drones #uzi doorman #I made the initial sketch weeks ago and I wanted to clean it up a little and color it for the occation #one day I'll stop being allergic to drawing backgrounds #today was not that day #my art #digital art #Uzi's hair gets longer and more layered every time I draw it apparently

[litta-jpg]

one pretty boy for @pokeberry5 <33

#his hair is slowly but surely getting longer every time i draw him. ill get to a full on mulletwing or ponytail nightwing one day #dick grayson #nightwing #robin #dc #batman #comics #art tag

[buwheal]

Unexpected but fair.

How long were we disconnected?

#uhmm if it looks weird or ugly thats a you issue. Sorry not sorry im trying not to burn out by doing overcomplicated animation every time!!! #teehee #hes a pain in the ass dude gooooodddddd this took longer than i'd hope itd take... #but the background looks pretty fuckin cool i think it was worth it #theres so much to do in this environment #also lmfao i had to change the palette bc of damn color theory. so. he may be sickly green. maybe. #hngrfthhhhh its done thank god now we can move on #i have an 11 day deadline to get where i need to be LETS GO LETS GO #he doesn’t usually keep track of time btw :-) #[you've got mail!] #spamton #spamton g spamton #deltarune #deltarune spamton #deltarune chapter 2 #uhhh if he looks weird blame.. uhm.. blame him because his ass was believe it or not TOO TALL for the canvas #youre telling me this short little shithead was too tall??? #fgrtrggffghhhhhh

[destinysbounty]

Yall ever think about the fact the time Jay referred to Kai as "Kai, babyyyy" in the fruitiest voice imagineable, right in front of us on screen? Like we didn't mass hallucinate that. That 100% happened

#my list of reasons for being a season 9 enjoyer gets longer every day #ninjago #destiny post

[aka-indulgence]

[stress]

#i usually Imagined this happening #but this happened a few days ago when someone asked me very specifically about my type like they want the gossip #and my brain screamed MONSTER #aka doodle #i get stressed when people ask me that question fdshjsdf #this has been another monsterfucker psa from aka thank you #+horns +tails +non human skin #maybe not from this earth (aliens) #(sweats like a sinner in church) #also WHY DONT THEY BELIEVE WHEN I SAY PERSONALITY FDFDH #happens every time people ask #(no longer eating in peace) #aka doodles

[gamebunny-advance]

Rotating her in my mind.

#pikmin #pikmin 4 #gif #bulborb #i check for updates on the english pikmin comic about every other day #and i just now noticed that they're also translating the piklopedia #on the japanese site #you can rotate the creatures at your leisure #and even get aerial and bottom views #on the english site it just plays a 'video' of the creatures rotating like this and you can't change the angle #much like with the comic the english site is very behind with the creature profiles #there aren't even any arachnorbs up there #but they do have the waterwraith for some reason #i dunno. i just figured that would be one they'd want to keep secret for a while longer #but it was nerfed in pikmin 4 anyway so it's really not that menacing anymore i guess

[adelinamoteru]

its kinda crazy that yall will apply real world politics and situations to gotham when it comes to jason and his ‘vigilantism’, but never choose to take that angle when analyzing any other bat character’s

brother eye from batman? hello? does constant nonconsensual surveillance seem like an ethical way to keep an eye on supposed allies or stop crime in real life? does beating people up until they comply with u (under fucking duress) seem like the ethical way to produce testimonies and confessions?

but nah, one speech from jason in utrd and yall are up in arms about how nothing he’s saying is actually conducive to lowering crime rates.

at the end of the day, it doesn’t fucking matter who’s right and who’s wrong regarding these morals in real life because the dc universe is so fucking far from reality in the crime that the justice system has to deal with. there is no point in arguing a reality standpoint if its not going to be applied to vigilantism in the bat comics as a whole.

and on the topic of fiction, the willful ignorance as to how jason’s story also portrays a victims revenge/justice is just boring at this point. how are themes in a narrative not coming through to you. especially when doing literature analysis for any of these comics.

#jason todd #red hood #dc #batman #dcu #why dont u guys ever choose to argue about smth past the surface level conflict #and why is it always argued in terms of a realistic justice system #violence is always gonna breed more violence yes thats a fucking given #but do I also think killing someone like the joker will yield that same result? no not fucking rlly #bc we’re talking about gotham and batman comics #stay tuned I will be releasing a long awaited (bc im too fucking lazy to try and get my thoughts down) about the rlly fucking narly aspects #of bruce and jasons difference in morals #lets get real personal im no longer interested in morality im interested in character motivations and #rationales #I wanna know talk about WHY bruce and jason think the way they do and why they’ve chosen not to cross to the other side/abandon their side #not whether they’re right or wrong #this tumblr is just me regurgitating the same damn sentiments over and over again but with no pay off #I have to say it every day for every time that I see it happening with no change

[mightybeaujester]

Comparing Mechs fans spotify wrapped with others shows us scientifically that we're something else

A friend of mine is in the top 0.05% of Sleeping At Last (almost 8mio monthly listeners) with 7.4k minutes

I'm just in the top 0.5% of the Mechanisms (36k monthly listeners) with 9.3k minutes

This means that you needed less minutes to be a way higher listener of an artist with 205 times as many listeners.

So there aren't many of us, but I can almost guarantee that not a single one of us is even remotely normal.

#The mechanisms #This is extra funny to me considering that sleeping at last used to be MY top artist #I was in his top 1 % every year until now #And like #The reason for that is that he has the atlas saga which while not as musical y as the mechanisms tell a more or less cohesive narrative #That is way longer than the mechs albums #So it's also a musician that i can listen to from start to finish for days on end #It's almost A trade mark of mine to include a sleeping at last song in all my Playlists #But the mechanisms is just a different kind of brain rot #I will stop with Spotify wrapped posts about the mechanisms soon I promise #It's just so fascinating for me #I wonder if the mechs still get a Spotify wrapped for artists bc I would loooove to see it #Considering sending Kofi an ask tbh

[starry-songs-canvas]

Demon Twins, Isekai Edition!

I’m back from vacation with a fun Demon Twins prompt!

Basically, Damian gets shot with a magic artifact which teleports him and his immediate blood-relatives to basically a video game world that is meant to kill the ones teleported there with monsters and stuff.

Basically, Damian, Bruce, and Talia get isekai-ed, where they have to escape the dungeon, but when they get to the “next level” only a few enemies and a ton of corpses are waiting for them, obviously killed by someone, or something, powerful.

Meanwhile, Danny is just happy to be able to let loose, and will deal with whatever ghost started this unoriginal isekai trip when he meets them. And since there’s nobody watching or recording, he can practice some moves outside of his ghost form!

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #dpxdc #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp prompt #damian and danny are twins #danny and damian are twins #dcxdp #Batman gets isekaied #Danny is just having fun #Meanwhile everyone else is freaking out #Danny deals with this nonsense every single day #And therefore is no longer fazed by it #Does Danny remember the league? Up to you

[zukkaoru]

the thing about fem!dazai is that she would not look like that. she would wear the same exact outfits she wears in canon. she would not wear makeup. she would grow out her hair only because she's too lazy to cut it, and she would rarely actually brush it. (the messy look is part of my charm ;)) her nails would be bitten and picked at, and if she ever were to wear nail polish, it would have been forced on her by either chuuya or yosano. she wouldn't wear heels because she doesn't like pain. she wouldn't even have her ears pierced because she doesn't like pain. chuuya tried to convince her when they were teenagers and she kept coming up with increasingly absurd excuses for why she couldn't get her ears pierced. she wears socks with flats because it's more comfortable even though chuuya ridicules her endlessly because "don't you know how horrendous that looks". (why are you looking at my feet? dazai retorts is it because you can't see any higher than that?) the only times she's ever dressed up were for undercover missions in the port mafia, and she griped about being uncomfortable in her clothes and shoes and makeup the entire time. she doesn't even look at her reflection, so why would she spend hours curating the perfect look? she just throws one of her three outfits on and goes

#clearing out some drafts so you guys are about to get the most random bsd thoughts no one cares about. enjoy 🫶 #every day i open twitter and am bombarded with art that makes me go “they would NOT look like that” #i'm not even into fem!skk but like. if you're going to do it do it RIGHT #fem!chuuya would dress up and look pretty and have perfect hair and makeup bc canon chuuya clearly cares about his appearance #dazai DOES NOT #fem!dazai would not wear tight black dresses and have bright red lipstick and long eyelashes and etc etc etc #fem!dazai would look the same as canon dazai except with longer rattier hair #hello grace here

[toasteaa]

Diluc giving you his gloves because your hands are freezing but you need to finish your work. He spends the next 30 minutes trying not to burn everything he touches because you smiled while tugging on the gloves with a soft, little, "hmm...still warm."

#toast talks #genshin impacted #exist in my brain for a little will you? #my hands are so so cold because they turn the ac on all day and its so hard to type with frozen fingets #I just think its nice that Diluc isn't used to such gentle (albeit indirect) intimacy and he gets a little flustered every time. #Hmm...or I could just stick my hands under his coat and listen to his hiss and questioning grunt while he forces himself to not move #That's what you get when you're a living furnace 🤷🏾‍♀️ #genshin x reader #diluc x reader #diluc x you #yeah yeah I know it's short and I know I need to post something longer but...hands cold 😭

[super-secret-clown-corner]

gonna try drawing the freak again here's my warmup

#every day i draw branzy his anime hair noodle gets longer #mcyt #mcytblr #mcyt fanart #lifesteal smp #clownpierce #branzycraft #branzy #the jester's sketch

[daily-odile]

Saw this blog on my dash and IMMEDIATELY followed and subscribed. I love Odile and I love your art style! Thank you for blessing us with your art, and I hope you have a lovely day!

Aaaa right back at you!! Thank you for checking my silly little blog where I draw the same old woman 20 times. The tags fuel me throughout the entire day

Here's a few bonus (ooc) sketches for today

#ignore the hands ignore them they're not very good #and how different the odiles are despite drawing them at the same time #That aside thank you though really #seriously I'm a little surprised at how much attention these posts get #especially since this is my first gimmick/ask blog #Ya'll's tags are sweet and cute and funny!! I look forward to reading them every day #I actually made this blog just because I thought it'd be funny. Also a good excuse to draw more consistently? but mostly cause it'd be funn #I'm surprised I got to week 2! Even though I had to pull a few older sketches I never did miss a day #We'll see how much longer my fixation for isat carries me? Or my love for odile. Hopefully for a while longer yet

[softerhaze]

idk if it was the venus retrograde or what, but july 2023 was quite literally the worst month i've ever experienced in my life like.....every single day? awful? worse than the last? it's more likely than u think

#u know sometimes you'll experience something bad in the moment and look back later like lol that was fine actually! #not july :) she was actually really bad :) #tmi but if u wanna know why i was gone lol #my partner of 6 years cheated on me in early may. on her birthday. at her party that i planned. with her coworker. and i saw it #on top of just being like. completely devastated? i was just so embarrassed? i hardly told anyone because it made me feel like #just SO worthless. and then i was embarrassed about feeling worthless and it was a whole thing #anyway they started dating in july and it was really tough for me #it was like every day i'd wake up and have to like grieve? and come to terms with reality? and accept that a lot of my future plans #were no longer going to happen - at least with her :/ it's a really tough thing to grapple with #esp since it felt like she wasn't nearly as sad as i was - which unfortunately makes sense but still sucks #ANYWAY im doing a lot better now lol i started telling people in my life and letting them be there for me and it's helped so much #it's still hard sometimes but i know now that i'm gonna be fine eventually #this is so dumb to post on my sims blog but it feels good to get it off my chest so SUE ME I GUESS