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tsugarubecker · 2 years
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“So,” Will said, gingerly sitting down next to Mike on the sofa. The Byers’ old sofa, brought from Hawkins when they moved six months ago. A bit ratty, but full of memories. Some too dark to think about - his mom’s Christmas lights seemed so far away now and he hoped to keep it that way - but good ones, too. Plenty of moments with his mom and Jonathan, or with the Party, sitting on this couch back in Hawkins. Or with Mike. Just like right now. But different. Different because California. And, well. For a lot of reasons.
After an awkward pause while he tried to think of something to say, he cleared his throat and tried again. Mike was only half looking at him. They were sitting 2 feet apart, finally in the same state after half a year, and somehow Mike had never felt further away. “So, uh. How’s. How’s Hawkins been?”
Mike looked away as Will finished his sentence and tried to make eye contact. Shrugged one shoulder, looked halfway ready to roll his eyes. Like a teacher had asked him why his homework was late. Why? Will didn’t understand. It hurt, the feeling of distance.
Maybe he was a bit of a masochist. Or maybe he was getting tired of Mike being… just… weird. Ever since he got here an hour or so ago. He couldn’t put his finger on it, but it was quickly becoming incredibly annoying. Not like he’d been waiting to see his best friend for what felt like a lifetime, or anything.
So he pushed a button he half-hoped would start a fight. Or, more accurately, maybe finish one. “I guess it must feel pretty lonely there without El, huh?”
Mike inhaled sharply, pausing looking around the room to freeze - and then his demeanor changed. He breathed out a big sigh, and his body seemed to sink a tiny bit deeper into the couch. Like he had released some tension he had been holding for a long time.
“…Yeah. Yeah, it is lonely.”
Taken back a little by the shift, Will said the next thought that came to mind truthfully, forgetting he was trying to push Mike’s buttons: “She misses you too, you know.”
Mike pressed the palm of both hands into his eyes and scrubbed them down his face. “I know she does. She writes me letters.”
Will smiled a little at that, sadly. “I know. I’ve seen her writing.”
Mike was silent for a moment, hands at his neck propping up his chin, body still turned slightly away, still not looking at Will. “How come…” he paused, seemed to think better of it. “Never mind.”
Will glanced at Mike, then across the living room to where Mike’s bags had been unceremoniously dumped in the corner when they got home from the airport. El was at school. Will’s grades were good and he could afford to take the afternoon off to help his mom collect Mike from the airport. El’s grades were… not.
Looking a little more closely at Mike’s largest bag, he thought he saw the red edge of a DND set peeking out a partly open zipper.
Spirits buoyed by the thought, he glanced back at Mike. “Never mind what? What were you gonna say?”
Mike’s hands had moved to his pants leg, where there was a loose thread. He was worrying it. “Um, it’s, like. I dunno dude. It’s nothing.”
Will rolled his eyes. “Well, dude. I know it’s been a while, but you can still talk to me. How come what?”
Mike blew a sigh out his nose. “How come… you never wrote?” He pulled harder on the loose string. “If you knew El was.”
Will watched Mike pull the string, feeling his heart start to thump a tiny bit louder than it had been a moment before. Oh. “Oh. Um. Well, we talk on the phone. Don’t we?”
“Course,” Mike mumbled. “Sometimes.” The string snapped. “…Just, you know. I definitely know that… like, I know that El misses me. For sure.”
Will’s thudding heart suddenly sank into his stomach. “…Ohh. I see. I’m pretty sure she still thinks you’re dating, Mike. I don’t think you have to worry about that.” His words came out about a tenth as bitter as he felt.
Mike’s eyebrows knitted together sharply, and he temporarily abandoned the hole in the knee of his jeans that he was now picking at. He glanced up at Will, making eye contact for the first time since the airport, Will guessed. “What? No.” He looked away again. “I mean yeah. I mean, I just don’t know if… I don’t know if you…”
Will kept looking at him, one eyebrow quirked up. “If I what?”
True to form, Mike, seeming to know he was caught, threw both arms up in exasperation and awkwardness. “If you, like, miss me at all!” Will’s heart flew back up into his mouth. “I feel like I’m going fucking crazy over there, my girlfriend’s gone,” Will’s heart sank again, “my best friend’s gone,” and rose again - this was getting nauseating, “and I just… it sucks! It fucking sucks. And I don’t even know if, like.” His wildly gesticulating arms came to rest, finally. “If I’m all alone in feeling that. Since you’re all, like. In sunny California and everything. And El sounds so happy. And you… y’know. You don’t write, so I don’t know.” He rubbed one hand down his forehead and eyes again, muttering almost to himself. “Feel like I’m going fucking crazy over there.”
They sat in silence for a second. Mike kept rubbing his hand on his cheek and eyes.
Will’s turn to heave a sigh. This was exhausting. “Mike, are you asking if I’ve missed you? I think that’s a pretty obvious yes.”
Mike stopped rubbing his face. He glanced in Will’s direction. “…Oh.”
Will smiled. “Yeah. I mean, I help El, you know. With school. It’s a lot. So I’m pretty busy with that, and I’m tired a lot of the time. But whenever I’m not distracted by that stuff, I miss you really badly. To be honest, I try to distract myself with helping El so that I don’t miss you as bad. And the Party,” he added as an afterthought. It was hard to tell where the line was with sharing feelings with Mike, these days. Best to give them both an out in case they needed one.
“Oh.” Mike said again. He looked tired, like this conversation was exhausting him, and also like he didn’t know what to say next. Will was exhausted too - not being able to just be himself with Mike was more tiring than he could put into words.
A moment several years ago when he had been able to be himself in front of Mike - and only Mike - with no filter flashed into his mind. This memory was worn a bit thin, like a tape cassette from repeat plays. He smiled, remembering.
“…I feel a bit crazy, sometimes, too, to be honest. Missing you, I mean. Missing you all. So, at least you’re not alone. I’m over here in California, going crazy too.” He made sure to rephrase it. To reframe for modern times. He kept his voice nonchalant - no need for Mike to know how much this memory meant to him, if he didn’t immediately get the reference. (Which he was braced for.)
A beat. Mike was quiet. Will’s heart started to shrivel up like a leaf in winter, despite the sun pouring through the windows.
Then.
One side of Mike’s mouth turned up into a smile. His whole face softened. Finally, he turned his body, shifted a little bit towards Will. Almost shyly, he lifted his eyes up and met Will’s.
“…I guess we’re both going a bit crazy, huh?”
Will couldn’t breathe right. His heart was an entire tree trying to burst into spring bloom out his chest. Mike remembered. He remembered. “…Yeah. Both of us.” He affirmed, feeling a little bit dizzy.
Mike finally smiled with his whole mouth, eyes moving back and forth between Will’s. In a voice so soft Will wondered if he was dreaming this moment for the hundredth time, Mike murmured, “…crazy together.”
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 11 months
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He's sensitive about that
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nightxpining · 9 months
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Plans and confessions, part 2
Day 7/7 - Confessions
Bonus Reigen reaction I couldn't fit in to the main piece :^)
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aro-culture-is · 9 months
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Not an Aro-culture-is thing but I do have a question you might be able to answer? Is there an aromantic/asexual term for this: AroAce but if I wasn’t I would be gay? It might just be homoplatonic or homoaesthetic but idk if there was a term for it that relates to being AroAce. Thanks! <3
possibly you might vibe with oriented aroace labels, like gay aroace? i'll put this out there for other folks to consider as well, but I feel like oriented terminology sounds the most applicable from my POV.
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sun-e-chips · 5 months
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You ever scrolling through tumbler and you see everyones beautiful au’s of these beloved jesters and think
Damn am I lucky to exist in this world at this time
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herzblutrose · 5 months
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@AkuSaiMonth 2023 Prompt: Memories / Snapshot ID in alt.
I actually finished this mini comic during AkuSaiMonth, I just never got around to scanning and uploading it (oops). Hope you guys like it! <3
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Some (late) holiday photos of the boye~!
#cats#holiday#OUGHH....... barely could even get these edited and posted... my mysterious sickness flare up has been sooo bad the past few#days.. I didn't even go to the usual obligatory family christmas I was supposed to attend (!!! health issue/medical mention in tags below)#My stomach issues basically put me in a constant state of uncontrollable shivering/body shaking + nausea + sometimes rapid heart#rate. and when it happens at night that makes it like.. nearly impossible to sleep when you're violently shaking + you can feel your heart#so strong + you keep having to run to the bathroom every 5 minute to cough and gag#and throw up and so on and so forth. etc. So I went like 40 hours without any sleep almost for christmas eve and all of christmas day#last night I finally got maybe 2 hours of sleep in between the nausea and shaking and stuff. and then today I was able to get a few#hours of sleep in the afternoon. Today I tried taking an anxiety mediciation a doctor gave me in case it was anxiety related (it's apparent#ly used to relax people and works in the moment. rather than like Anxiety Mediciation that you have to take for weeks to see any effect#because I think this isn't actually acting on your brain chemistry it's judt like..a mild sedative or something.) but all that did was make#me dizzy and sweaty lol. I;m glad I slept a little but I'm just still frustrated that I don't feel normal. I started having these#'episodes' (with the stomach issues + shaking + heartrate + nausea etc.) like at the end of october. And usually it will happen for like a#few hours at a time. or i'll lose sleep one day and then be fine the next. but this has been like nearly 3 days of feeling weird. so is#getting kind of annoying... It's funny too because I was so so productive like.. literally the few days before. I was feeling much better#and I was working on my game and blah blah. But then.. random issue flare up out of nowhere of course.. yaayy.... happy holidays to meee lo#I did at least see two random ducks outside of my window in the yard area for christmas. and havent seen them since. So it's like.. hrmm..#pacing around my room nauseous and shakings and etc. but at least... hello.. two little ducks placed there just for me :3c#Now I get anxiety every night which I'm sure doesn't help/could exacerbate whatever underlying genuinely physical issues exist. But after#like 2 nights of 'I spend the night sleepless and incredibly uncomfortable just sitting in the dark sick' then bedtime is like.. dread...#I even was trying slapping myself in the face in desperation to see if somehow that could shock my body out of whatever the hell it was#doing lol.. up at 3am holding ice cubes in my hand and hitting myself in the head and crying from exhaustion and thowing up.. literally#ridiculous cartoon character feeling... AAANYWAY!!! At least I have baby boy pictures. and I have lots of doctors appointments so hopefully#whatever the issue is can be sorted out at some point. I don't know much about ibs but hopefully maybe something like that that I could pos#ibly take medication for and not something more seirous or anything. Maybe there's a food I'm secretly intolerant to or whatever.#And I did at least post a sims holday video actually timed for the holidays so that's something. I havent been productive really latrely#though obviously.. I can't even play games or small tasks when in that state since I'm just SO physically uncomfortable. Nausea and heart#stuff are THE hardest physical sensations to ignore.. BUT yeah... hoping I shall sleep at all tonight. hopeing to get like 3 productive#things done.. at some point... at least SOMETHING... lol..... *** *** ***
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konmari-dogs · 7 months
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so I still heavily regard crate culture and it’s over use of crates with disgust but I can’t deny crates aren’t handy in a multi dog home when one of ur dogs is incredibly sick.
However crates of the right size for medium-sized dogs that meet my acceptable parameters are both ugly as sin and take up a lot of space.
I’ve been seeing crate furniture drift past my fyps sometimes and NGL I like the look of them.
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Look at all that bench space!
But I’m also judgemental of them because they all tend to be much to small for something I would confine the boys in.
And those that would be big enough for the boys, I cannot fathom how I would transport them let alone get them inside my house. They are all solid one piece sets
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Plus I don’t want to spend the amount of money ($1.5k!!!) being asked when I already have some perfectly functional crates that are just ugly as sin and useless as anything but crating.
Then in my browsing I saw someone put a crate frame up for sale. And in this sale post they linked to where they got it.
And I discovered that crate frames are a thing. And you can buy the frame separately to put over existing crates.
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And even better, it comes in a flat pack that you can build yourself.
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I still hardly use crates but….
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Check out my new grooming station
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really wish my one friend would quit flirting with me. and trying to goad me into hanging out more. and assigning us fictional characters that are oh-so-coincidently either couples or with romantic tension. and then interrupting our gameplay to ask me repeatedly if I think they’re “like us” (which they rarely are…). and matching my icon on discord without asking (again, usually by insinuating a couple connection). and giving me random things I do not want and did not ask to receive (and then forcing me to take them???).
#storyrambles#it’s not creepy. just for context. it’s just irritating because I’ve told this person repeatedly that I’m not interested in romance.#this person is also naturally a huge romantic so it is next to impossible to tell whether it’s actual flirtation or just flirting for fun#flirting for fun is cool. I wouldn’t mind that. but if I do it once this person will take that as an invitation to do it an excessive amoun#but yeah after being given 12 roses out of the blue when I said ‘no don’t buy me flowers’. there’s only so many things that can mean#‘it’s nice to see your face you always cover it!’ …I’m masking. because of covid#I’m narrating a game and suddenly ‘I like hearing your voice I should call you every day so I can hear it for 10 minutes’. …no.#‘you have to take the snack I brought you know it’s rude to refuse a gift’ I have never refused a gift. It is rude. But also I didn’t ask.#‘you know this game is one you can play without talking so we can play more often!’ we already play games once a week for usually 3 hours.#‘but it’s not talking so it’s less social energy’ no. that is not how it works.#sorry for the rant im just. tired.#you know those people who are so pleasant to hang out with and then they try way too hard#and that’s actually what makes things awkward? rather than when they’re just being themselves?#yeah. that’s this friend here.#usually I go along with the bit but when I can never tell when the bit is actually a bit#and you insist on me taking on the ‘girl role’ for most of them#I am not going to play along.#UGH don’t get me started on the ‘you’re cute when you’re flustered’#I wasn’t even flustered. I was trying to do mental math while running on four hours of sleep and he was staring directly at me#it’s uncomfortable.#also. I never want to hear that again. fuck. ‘you’re cute when you’re angry’ ‘you’re cute when you’re upset’ ALL THE FUCKING TIME AS A KID#will I be so cute after I kick you in the nuts? will I?#(for clarity I don’t want to kick him. I want to kick those other people.)#I need a lot of alone time. I really do. I can do 3 hours and then I will be drained for the rest of the day.#‘how did you grow up? did you not talk to your mom for more than 3 hours a day?’#first of all. that’s different?#secondly we actually regularly do separate things without talking to each other. or go in separate rooms to take some time to ourselves#also I don’t have to be on high alert for if I’m going to be flirted with. so.#ugh. I like him as a friend. I really do. I know this all makes it seem like the opposite. I try so hard to be as nice as possible.#but UGHHHHHH
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hypogryffin · 6 months
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how do u draw so much so fast
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well,
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closet-keys · 6 months
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rainymoodlet · 8 months
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… coming this week! 🌸
[ I unfortunately "lost the footage" (aka gshade didn't take my screenshots) of the extra challenge I ran to determine the two winners I initially forgot, so they will be surprise reveals throughout the week! The order for the upcoming dates have been randomized! ]
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m0e-ru · 7 months
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bro causing the bedsheet and dry ice industrial supply shortage
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abirddogmoment · 1 month
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Baby dog retrieve on quail!
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ickmick · 15 days
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hey guys whaddya know i drew the silly some more (as mentioned at the end of this long thread as i relisten to the series)
post worms/start of s2 design lets go 🎉
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decided its in a small half ponytail now bc i can (buns are hard to draw yall...) but there's a fee more sketches under the cut so :3
shameless link to my jonmartin drawing
i also posted these drawings to twitter yesterday
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me? putting an obvious eye detail because i cant help it? nnnooo.... (yes)
also excuse my photo taking skills im still working out the settings on my camera and what cropping is best so erm...
itll probably forever be my curse that i can crunch out traditional drawings but then not be able to photograph them, meanwhile i cant manage to finish up digital stuff that doesnt need photos to be taken 😭 /hj
anyways! he looks so very tired and its extremely fun to draw LOL hes a deranged little wet cat fr <3
i uhhh actually dont have much to say this time around so thats... thats all hshsjsjs bye
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