#we’re all having fun here

[atwistinthetail]

I’m which @opalsiren speaks to my soul once more

I’ve started and then deleted this post a bunch before

bc it’s like… 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 lmao

but ok so a lot about me under the cut and tw for 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎 𝒾𝓈𝓈𝓊𝑒𝓈 🩵

a reason I’ve always gravitated to Charlotte is absolutely bc I am a tall and curvier girlie and we don’t see that physical type much as anything besides like

frumpy.

like you can be short and midsized and it’s cute

or tall and thin obv

but being tall and midsized, I don’t want to say “normal sized” (bc what is normal size, but I am fighting the language that has always existed in my brain here)

but I guess I will call it a more common size for actual women and girls than it’s portrayed

being that size has not traditionally fit any archetypes.

lil side note but I went to school for acting, my class was all cis women and our professor was a middle aged man bc you know, school. and he did this exercise where each of us would stand on stage and the rest of the group would typecast the person. on paper yeah could be useful but really it was just about judging each others’ bodies right.

so I was always a “character” type (not like a lead ingenue or love interest) and sometimes it could be a sexy character or a desirable character, but usually it was a Mother or a Queen or some other older and/or authoritative role bc being tall and not having a willowy build meant I couldn’t be a love interest objectively. and if it was a sexy character it was also a comedic character or a “bimbo”

(side side note my best friend then and still a good friend now was the classic ingenue type, and we were always lowkey being pitted against each other and only realized it in the past few years being out of that environment. and she would get comments, again from faculty, that she was too thin so ya know. we love womanhood.)

okay but anyway I promise I’m getting back to Charlotte here

seeing a tall girl with even a slightly bigger build than the usual main girl aesthetic was is huge, bc for all the ways the writing failed her, Charlotte is still a love interest. we know she won’t get the guy, but Lewis and Cleo and the audience at least see her as a potential romantic partner and it’s not a joke that she likes Lewis bc she’s frumpy and unattractive and taller than him.

she’s very powerful. she’s a mermaid. she’s intellectual and she’s a theatre kid, and it’s just a facet of her character, not in service of making her dorky.

I don’t mind that she’s a villain. what really bothers me the most, personally, about what was done to Charlotte is that she wants to be accepted by this group of very traditionally hot, skinny 2000s girlies and is bullied and excluded by them at every turn. that is my supervillain origin story lol.

so if they just went all the way and made her a bitch (affectionate) from the very beginning and she was a true supervillain, I would take that in stride. it also makes sense that the trio would have some resistance or insecurity about letting a new person into their group and that’s a pretty sincere conflict.

but instead of exploring that they just created a very grounded in reality lady that I really felt for bc she was meeee, gave her all these great traits that characters like that never got, and then made her othered in a way that was way too true to life without commenting on it at all.

uhh idk what my thesis here is really, just a lil thought dump on a Tuesday morning 🩵

#tw body insecurity #tw body dysphoria #tw eating issues #just getting a lil vulnerable on my mermaid blog #we’re all having fun here

[messiahzzz]

friendly reminder that creators within fandom (whether it be gifs, edits, meta, fanfiction or fanart) choose to take time out of their day to provide you with new content for free.

it’s easy to take it for granted since it only requires a few seconds/minutes to scroll through your dash, but it’s important to remember that behind that there are often hours, if not even days, of work and dedication.

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #i have noticed this general sense of entitlement. feeling completely justified in reducing private blogs to mere content machines #policing them on the type of content they want to post #OR expecting them to account for a lack of content of certain characters within fandom #no matter what reach a blog may have. behind it there is always a person who is just as passionate about sharing their work as you are #we’re all just here to have fun after all #🙏 there needs to be more appreciation all around 🙏 #it speaks

[steddieas-shegoes]

Steve and Eddie go through the whole adoption process in 1996, despite how difficult it was to find somewhere willing to help them at all and despite their conflicted feelings on adoption.

The way they saw it though, providing a loving home for a child who needed one was better than the alternative. Eddie had enough experience with temporary foster homes to know stability was better than constant moving and questionable foster parents.

They get a foster placement almost immediately, a six year old girl named Amelia. She’s quiet, but not in a way that worries them. She’s very focused, and enjoys going to school more than any regular children’s hobbies. Neither of them know what to do with that other than keep encouraging it.

She stays for months, months turn into a year, and the agency finally gives them the go ahead to complete the adoption process.

But they don’t do anything without talking to Amelia.

She’s happy there, her therapist signs off on it immediately and explains that Amelia has shown more personality development and less signs of trauma with them than she had even living at home. Not to mention they actually brought her to appointments, unlike her previous guardians.

To celebrate, they throw a party with all their friends and family and tell Amelia she can invite anyone from school she wants. She invites everyone.

Turns out their daughter is a social butterfly and is friends with everyone.

At the party, Eddie pulls out his guitar, plays a bunch of popular kid-friendly songs after a very scathing look from Steve as a reminder to behave.

Amelia walks over to him after a few songs, on a sugar high like he’d never seen on her before, and asks to play the guitar.

He’s hesitant, but not because he’s still protective of his guitars, more because he doesn’t want her to embarrass herself in front of her friends. Kids are cruel, even and especially at seven, and the last thing he wants is this to be the thing that kids talk about for the next ten years.

She sits on the couch and holds it, arranging her fingers…correctly. Eddie watches.

Steve is watching from across the room.

She starts strumming, very quietly at first, not as confident as she’d been a moment ago. And then she starts really playing.

It’s one of the songs Eddie wrote. He played it for the last four months nonstop as he perfected it, and she’d apparently been watching.

Eddie’s jaw is on the floor and he quickly looks over to Steve, who has a similar look of surprise on his face.

He doesn’t interrupt her. She makes it through the entire song.

She looks up.

“When did you learn to play guitar?” Eddie asks.

“When I was watching you.”

“But have you played before tonight?”

Amelia shook her head, looking down. “Didn’t wanna touch it without asking.”

Eddie pulls the guitar from her hands and sets it aside, then pulls her into his lap and hugs her. Steve sits down on the couch next to them, hand on her back.

“You can always ask, sweetie. And if you’re this interested and this natural, we can buy you your own guitar if you want. I didn’t think you were interested in playing.”

“I wanna be like you,” Amelia admitted against his shoulder.

Eddie was done for. He looked at Steve, half-panicked, trying not to cry in front of these people, but Steve wasn’t faring any better.

“Then we can go get you a guitar tomorrow. You can get your own picks, too. They might even have purple ones.”

“Can I have red? Like yours?”

“Of course, sweetie.”

It only took them two days after that to realize she could play by ear, just like Eddie.

And then it only took another day after that to realize she had taught herself to read music too.

They spent hours and hours every week playing together while Steve cooked dinner or checked her homework or just watched them.

When Eddie’s band decided to record another album and go on tour when Amelia was 12, Eddie insisted that she get to be on it.

She ended up helping write one of their songs, played on the track on the album, and with a lot of work, convinced Steve to let them homeschool her for the entire 8 months they’d be on tour so she could perform on stage with her dad.

“Can’t believe she’s not even genetically yours. Are you sure you didn’t have an affair?” Steve asked the night before they were leaving for Europe.

“When would I have had an affair? I came back to the tour bus or hotel with you every single night,” Eddie kissed him softly. “She’s amazing, huh?”

“She is. What happens when she wants to be a full blown rockstar like her dad too?”

“Then we make sure she’s protected and has good people around her like I have. She could be a rockstar easily. She’s got the talent and the presence,” Eddie smiled. “And she’s got me to make sure no one takes advantage of her. But she’s only 12. We’ve got time to worry about that later.”

“You’re bringing her onstage every single night all over the world for the next eight months, baby. I think later is now.”

Eddie sighed. “She’s gonna blow them all away. I’m proud of her. Let’s focus on that for now.”

And she did blow everyone away. The fans and the media had nothing but good things to say, and Steve didn’t have to go into overprotective mom mode at all until she was 15 and signing a record deal of her own.

But between Eddie and him, the entire industry knew better than to fuck with her or them.

They made rules, of course. School still came first, she still had required family events to be at, she still had regular friends at home. She wasn’t allowed at any parties, not even the events for award ceremonies.

But she didn’t really need those rules. She had no interest in parties or abandoning her friends or family, and she was a straight A student who still had hopes of getting into Brown for Journalism like her Aunt Nancy. She had a passion for music and wanted to share it, but not at the cost of the rest of her life.

And Eddie and Steve did everything they could to make sure she got to have everything. That’s what they’d promised her from day one.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #headcanon #so adoption is complicated #and I won’t pretend that there are plenty of aspects of the system that are so fucked beyond repair #and this is not the time or place to talk about them #so don’t do that in the comments #you’ll get blocked tbh because we’re here in this specific space to have fun #that is all #steddie dads #also this isn’t how the industry works #this isn’t how the media works #the world is cruel to young performers #but we’re pretending #this is fiction

[delta-piscium]

the real reason Steve brings a date to a high school basketball game for a high school he doesn’t even go to anymore is because the one time Nancy went with him the team won and his sports superstitions kicked in and he can’t just risk Lucas losing because of him not having a date, so he will take on the burden and ridicule of being the guy who graduated and drags new dates to games all in the name of not upsetting the delicate intricacies of rituals in sports

#i am so obsessed with him bringing a date to that game like i think about it constantly #because like wasn’t it a first date? or at least one of the firsts? absolutely insane behavior to me #okay i can see it being normal if it’s just ‘we’re both going wanna go together?’ buT that’s less fun to me #also weird sports superstitions steve is so real and true to me #god i love sports people with their little rituals i’m obsessed #coming out of the woodworks with this absolute mess of a post like i’m sorry this is all i have #it is 6am and i have not slept so i apologize for if my wording is messy here #stranger things #steve harrington #dels stranger things thoughts

[pixlokita]

I feel like ? I gotta remind people it’s ok to unfollow a blog when it upsets you in any way >> like if I ever do that sure, you can let me know if it was anything I did personally I’d appreciate it but if you just don’t enjoy something it’s ok to unfollow ;w; can’t stress enough how important it is to put your mental health first 👌

#pix habla #fnaf #✨💖 even if you don’t like frogs and I post about frogs does that make sense #i see some yall not liking some of the stuff I draw and just kinda wonder ? why you still follow lol #i won’t take it personally #even if it’s a mutual heck I’ve even told my friends to unfollow if they ever need a break from my blog =w=👌 #because It’s nothing personal >> #i used to ok so funny story xD I used to follow a friend in middle school on social media #and we were good friends but had nothing in common in what we posted about =w= #like she loved Beatles fanfics (don’t ask do not ask idk I didn’t read past the titles) #and i loved sonic :v #and like #thats aigh ? you don’t gotta ? follow a blog that doesn’t bring joy no matter if you’re close or not #i would honestly hate it if I’m making anyone upset or unhappy #so yeyeyeye I’ve said this before in other fandoms but like >>)✨✨💖 put 👏 your mental health 👏👏👏 FIRST ALWAYS👏 #Stay safe y’all ✨👌 have fun be free #we’re all just… sitting here… online 😔 ain’t nothing to it

[xjustakay]

y’all know that saying “writers are people, treat them like people!!” means you shouldn’t put them on a pedestal they didn’t ask to be put on, too, right……

#like… y’all know…… saying [insert writer here] is a big writer so automatically they’re *supposedly* more liked is also…… #how you say… impersonal and dehumanizing… #bc 9/10 times “big” writers are shooting in the dark just as much as anyone else #and just trying to vibe and have fun and share their work #very much NOT asking for people to put them on a pedestal and be weird about it #i promise it’s just not that deep #we’re all doing the same things like we’re all writing and reading and yelling about the same stuff #trying to have a good time however we can #all being PEOPLE not just the fics we write and share on our respective accounts #so yeah it’s not just about “when’s the next update” or “why did you write your own fic this way” comments #it’s also about weird unsolicited fan behavior that doesn’t belong and makes people uncomfortable + feel less like a person #just. food for thought. #shut up kay

[stuckinapril]

i have literally the most delusional vernacular ever. i’ll call things dreamy and refer to people i like as teddy bears and very unabashedly tell people i love them and just very adamantly romanticize any and every thing that comes my way. and whenever someone is unsettled by that i wish i could just hold them hostage and force them to make a tumblr account so they could understand where i’m coming from. life is so much more fun when you allow your passion to imbue even the way you speak about things

#and tumblr is so cool w that. bc we’re all so open abt romanticizing things and having fun here #and also being dramatic about the way you talk is so fun #will you ever catch me referring to things as normal people would? no. no u will not #p

[hey-scully-itsme]

i think the moment I knew I was going to love the aubrey-maturin books was when I saw a colon AND a semicolon in one sentence in the first paragraph of master and commander

#i was like OH okay so we’re having fun here got it #aubreyad #that man loved having fun with punctuation and I am all for it #I respect anyone who’s not afraid of semicolons

[jacarandaaaas]

no because what did they put into the “waiting on a miracle” instrumental!?? Like that sounds so magical!? like when I think of magic and whimsy THAT is the exact sound I’m thinking of it’s so gorgeous!?? but somehow it manages to sound sad at the same time? like little elements add a melancholy undertone and it’s so good!!! Everytime I listen to that instrumental it’s an experience I am IMMERSED.

#encanto #encanto disney #disneys encanto #mirabel madrigal #mirabel encanto #waiting on a miracle #the encanto instrumentals go so hard for no reason #and if we’re talking about underrated bangers in the score I’ll point you to el baile madrigal #mirabel if only u could delay urself like 10 seconds so we could here more of that song #all of the instrumentals are so good #like usually I don’t like instrumentals that much but I never skip these ones because idk it sucks u in!? #the rock elements of wecid have me in love #surface pressure has such a good beat #family madrigal has such an array of instruments it’s so fun to listen to #dos oruguitas is somehow just as sad without words and it’s gorgeous #like I can go on #I LOVE THE ENCANTO INSTRUMENTALS GUYS‼️‼️

[sophfandoms53]

We’re so far into the season that they’ve had the memory wall cake today to celebrate the half-way point and yet there’s still ANOTHER WEEK until we officially start jury

#this week is DRAGGING #i have never been so bored all season #this cast has been the most active and chaotic #and they just died this week #i mean a mood #but omg #team fun feeds suffering #at least we’ll pick up steam tmrw #and bbtwitter makes me wanna die omg they’re wilding over there #completely lost the plot #im glad we’re mostly sane here #bb25

[crownofbegonias]

“…The effect is that Rimmer has not one, not two, but three Listers sabotaging his bunk space.”

do yourself a favor and read this fic real quick. it gave me cavities and i was compelled by forces outside my control to draw this :)

#I was soooo generous with the bunk space here but shhh shhhhh suspension of belief to allow them to cuddle #PSA don’t let babies sleep on their sides we’re just having fun here #nary a reference used so pls don’t get my ass ok. #if the anatomy is janky at all….no it isn’t #rimster #dave lister #arnold rimmer #jim lister #bexley lister

[quietwingsinthesky]

something magical about fics written while a story is still in progress. i love u fics written during hiatuses. fix-it fics set after a season finale before the next one is announced. codas for episodes right after they air. fics with the knowledge of one book but none of the future ones that got released. fics continuing the story where it left off that either got it so wrong or surprisingly close to what happens in canon when it starts up again. mwah.

#this is about me reading old lucifer spn fics written before hallucifer even came around #something just. so tasty. about these fics untouched by that. #because it just didn’t exist yet. oh to live in a world where the only lucifer is s5’s lucifer #this also goes out to all the people writing post-s2 good omens fics that will definitely all get everything avout s3 wrong but who cares! #cause its fun while we’re here and we don’t know what the future holds so lets take the pieces we have right now and build with them

[acoraxia]

I’m a little paranoid now but please remember my rambles are just my opinion and everyone else who joins in with reblogs all have their opinions too

This isn’t meant to be anything harmful, we are just discussing SWK and LMK like everyone else would do

Everyone’s allowed to have different opinions, our word isn’t law

Peace and love guys

#woof loupen #ok? #no arguing or fighting pls #or spreading rumors or anything #we’re all here to have fun

[akkpipitphattana]

can i just say i feel like the shipping discourse from this fandom is so weird considering this is literally the Toxic Messy Gay Sex Show

#once again asking why we’re having morals #who cares if ray isn’t love with sand or views him like an object? #who cares that nick violated ton’s privacy? #who cares if topmew don’t actually love each other and are using each other for social status? #i hope they all kill each other. bite each others dicks off etc #i love romanticizing their toxic relationships #like who cares. i’m having fun are you not here to have fun #only friends #ofts

[laufeysodinson]

coming back to say i’m so happy his dreams are coming true 🥹

#henry cavill #its giving dilf REAL #all my celeb crushes are getting married/having children #TIME IS FLYING SO FAST??? WAIT #just reminds me of peak henry cavill fanfics here on tumblr the fandom was so fun back then #love how we’re all growing up together it’s such a bittersweet feeling #IDK WHAT’S GOING ON I’M JUST SENTIMENTAL AND NOSTALGIC #will always cherish the fun times back in 2019 to 2020 i miss you all<3 #i hope it’s a girl

[sportsthoughts]

just a little post to say - this blog is a hate free zone. I’m not answering nasty anons, I’m not getting involved in drama. last time I checked we’re all here running… hockey tumblr blogs. it’s not that deep. stalking and sending hate isn’t really very cool or fun is it? not to get serious but like, let’s take a leaf out of Sid’s book. be a nice guy, treat people with a little bit of kindness, grace and respect :)

#there’s a lot of very real and very sad stuff going on in the world. #but fandom is fun! it’s an escape! it’s all good fun and we’re all here to have fun right?