#this should have happened

[littleststarfighter]

‘Don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea here, Harrington.’

‘I’m getting the wrong idea.’

#stranger things #steddie #steve x eddie #eddie x steve #steve harrington #eddie munson #I just wanted to some H/C #this should have happened #my fanart #arghh went too realistic #so nervous for friday #these two better survive

[norakbubbles]

Brienne : Everyone, I’ve been meaning to tell you… Jaime and I are dating.

Jaime, Tormund, Podrick, and Sansa: *gasp*

Brienne : Jaime, why are you surprised?!

#game of thrones #braime #incorrect quotes #jaime lannister #jaime x brienne #brienne of tarth #brienne x jaime #fyp #got #sansa stark #tormund giantsbane #podrick payne #funny #this is canon now #this should have happened #they're in love your honor

[clone-trooper-cheese]

The rise of Skywalker but instead of Rey killing palps with the power of all the Jedi, we get a better comeback.

Fives descends out of that crack in the ceiling that Rey was looking up at. He looks majestic as heck and pulls out his blaster and says..

"And I'm all the Clones."

Then he makes sheev look like Swiss cheese with the ammout of blaster he puts through him. I have a feeling it probably would have done alot better if we got live action Fives to end peepaw sheev once and for all.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

#star wars #alternate universe #this should have happened #Fives #ct-5555 #ct 5555 #rise of skywalker #star wars alternate universe #rey would be absolutely confused #clone trooper #the rise of skywalker #Palpatine #the sentate #tros #hishe #how it should have ended #how it should have gone #somehow #fives returned... #*cheering* #clone trooper fives #all the clones #happy ending #a better ending #asjkdfbgn #idk what else to tag

[invisible-storyteller]

In an alternate universe...

*Tracy and Theo kiss* Tracy: Wow, I'm definitely a lesbian. Theo: Yeah, same. 100% gay. Good kiss, though. Let's never do it again.

#this should have happened #Tracy and Theo are lesbian-gay solidarity #teen wolf incorrect quotes #teen wolf puppy pack

[barrenstars]

consider: an au where tenjiku didn't even get to do shit bc emma stumbled across em and saw izana. kisaki never got to kill her bc she and izana had a moment and ten minutes later she has everyone sitting down by the park and shes doing everyone's astrology charts and they were all just flabbergasted at the accuracy of astrology

#this should have happened #e.mma definitely loves astrology #she wins everyone over by telling them their signs and what they mean #there was no murder and no fighting everyone left talking about their sun moon n rising signs LMAO

[icarusinstatic]

Vecna and the power of love (or how the Finale could have been better)

So, we know one of the things that breaks Vecna's hold on a person is to hear their favorite song. The one they love the most in the world. But I think that's because the victims mind is flooded with feelings of love.

Hear me out, as a complete fix to the finale, what if, when El and Max were being held in Vecna's mind palace (which, ugh, he needs a better interior decorator stg) El looked across the ruins of the Creel house past Vecna' into Max's eyes and whispered 'I love you,' and Max, she needs to hear this, but she also needs to tell El that she loves her back, that she's missed her best friend, because what if its the last things she does. She won't leave this world without telling El how much she means to her.

Then it's not Mike's bs speech that helps El and Max fight off Vecna. It's the girls genuine love for each other that gives them both strength to sever any hold the Vecna has over Max's mind, but also allows El the path to access her full strength to defeat Vecna. Not by focusing on memories from her past that caused her pain, but by remembering the people she loves and how much that love gives her power.

They don't fully defeat Vecna right then, but they do hurt him, and they keep Vecna from opening up a gate through the middle of Hawkins.

And during this time, Eddie is playing his heart out on the guitar in the upside down, and he's playing his favorite song that he's dedicated so much time to, so while he's playing all he's thinking about are the people he loves.... The bat's still try to come after him, but they can't get near him, not while he's filled with so much love.

Steve, Robin, and Nancy still set Vecna's ass on fire, and shoot him the fuck out of the attic window - and he still gets away from them in the end. But at least when they make their way back to Eddie's trailer, they find Dustin and Eddie, improvising a way to get back to their Hawkins, bats dead and dying surrounding the trailer, but they're still safe, still alive.

Cue, El and her brothers arriving back in Hawkins with Argyle and Mike to finally be reunited - the party once again whole (esp when Joyce and Murray bring Hopper back with them).

#stranger things #good s4 au #This should have happened #i stg if El doesn't realize that her true power comes from her capacity to love by the end of this series #I will fucking riot #do you hear me duffer bros #don't let El use her power from a place of hat #*Hate #but from a place of love #Eight #and one were wrong #her power doesn't come from remembering the things that hurt her #but from remembering the people that she loves and that love her in return #Eleven hopper #elmax if that's your thing #personally i'm of two minds #I love elmax #but I also simply adore lumax #maxine mayfield #eddie munson

[steinily]

ymir beloved you deserved sm better

#ymir freckles #aot #brainrot #i need to go to bed #hcs #this should have happened #best girl

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

#fanfic #ao3 #archive of our own #fandom things #tumblr things #i may have said this at some point #i'm sure i have #but whatever - just in case #i don't say this with the presumption that i'm so amazing and people are clamoring to save my fics #but just if anyone is so inclined that's all #ftr i don't intend on ever removing my fics from ao3 or deleting fandom things from this blog #i've always shared my fandom things with the intent of keeping them shared bc that's the whole point of posting #but the fandom atmosphere and ao3 constantly being under attack who knows what can happen #not that this applies to anyone but should all else fail you can also reach out to me and i will personally give you a copy #at least of fics bc i save everything #not so much the tumblr things but this is a good reminder to myself that i should do that for the things i care about #that i've made or done and only posted here #anyway sorry i have now used up my quota of the putting words into sentences doing for today #i have plans to stare into the void now

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[glassrooibos]

Everything stays right where you left it huh guys

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #adaine abernant #fantasy high junior year #I loved this parallel from Siobhan #none of these guys are getting a break huh #IM ABOUT TO LISTEN TO THE NEW EP TOO #Hope nothing upsetting or unsettling happens :0) #ps I have no idea what sauce you put with strudel #I would have thought custard #but the symbolism… #THE DRAMA of a red berry sauce #I dunno guys #should I do more freshman and junior year parallel pieces? #lmk #I love you bye

[ribbittrobbit]

#d20 fantasy high #fig faeth #fig and the sig figs #i have no self restrain whatsoever i shouldnt be up/ doing this but here i am #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #ribbittrobbit #fantasy high #i should have included gorgug more but i couldn't figure out the composition and this was just as far as my brain can go #i have so many pictures of hayley williams now bec i was looking for dramatic lighting and a person with bangs #anyway #yeah #this happened #d20 fanart

[joethetoonfanandoutcast]

With America's birthday tomorrow, here is one meme focused on my favorite unofficial mouse couple from one of my favorite American-themed movies, An American Tail.

Remember the ending to The Good, The Bad and the Huckleberry Hound when Huck retired as sheriff, married Desert Flower, settled down at a ranch, and had pups of their own?

Well, I'd like to think this happening with Fievel and Cholena years after the events of Fievel Goes West.

In this sense, Cholena and her tribe eventually found a way back to the surface and like the previous New Yorker mice, they traveled way out west, and Cholena reunited with Fievel and Tanya, catching up and getting reacquainted. As years grew by, Fievel and Cholena grow closer and closer to each other, developing new feelings for each other. Eventually, Green River's top lawman mouse and the Native Lenape maiden admit their feelings and decide to marry. Fievel's parents, as well as Tanya and Cholena's father, Chief Wulliso, give their blessing (and Wulliso had no hesitance whatsoever as Fievel was the first surface-dwelling mouse he trusted). Once hitched, the two decided to settle down at a ranch of their own, raising a couple mouselings of their own, telling stories of their father's American tales (see what I did there?) to them, while the new sheriff would be Fievel's deputy, either one of the kid mice from the TV series or a grown-up Yasha (I don't know).

#fievel #cholena #an american tail #the good the bad and the huckleberry hound #western ending repeated #don bluth #amblimation #cowboy x native american girl #this should have happened #this pairing deserves to be canon #if I were in charge of Universal I'd make a short follow-up to make this canon

[manesvoid]

wayne Family making me want to draw stupid things

#dc comics #dc fanart #robin #tim drake #nightwing #dick grayson #richard grayson #red hood #jason todd #batfam #tim drake robin #puss in boots 2 reference #In retrospective I should have switched dick and tim butoh well #don't try to pinpoint a time were this could have happened i took the outfit for personnal preference #except the lack of red bat for hood #bcz i guess he woulnd't have it before tim knowing he's back? #Nightwing and Hood are fighting over some probably important files #team up to involuntarily bully your younger sibling #manesart #batfamily #batboys #fanart

[beybuniki]

AU where Deku stays quirkless and he enrolls in UA's support department, he and bakugo befriend each other because they take the same train to school & Deku approaches him because they're both batfam fans :) they bond over common interest which also inspires them to work togetherrrrrr

#the canon event of bakugo bullying deku does not happen & i am usually not a fan of that its so crucial to them but this is a fun nerd au #they team up as either vigilantes or stay connected because bakugo interns under heroes that deku is also doing an apprenticeship under ig #deku is still connected to all might idk maybe thats his biological father for real this time or like he can be their bruce idk #anyway i think they'd be so fun as a duo i'd love to see deku navigatebattles and crimes without a quirk #and they have nerd discourse in their free time ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww #bnha #midoriya izuku #bakugo katsuki #deku #mei is deku's best friend in this universe :) #she covers for them when needed they rlly should be vigilantes sorry