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so athena burst out fully born from zeus's skull, right?

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night sluts

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His strength is that he is biscuits

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Whenever somebody writes about D&D wizards making improper use of their spells, it’s always boringly obvious stuff like Bigby’s hand or Evard’s black tentacles. I wanna hear the story of some enterprising wizard exploring the erotic potential of Tenser’s floating disk.

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birds are so privileged for being able to sit on top of street lamps and judge people. i wish i was up there

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Let her in!!

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Shout out to Steve Harrington for apparently being the only genre-aware person in the Hawkins group, grabbing something to defend the group as soon as they hear a weird noise, poking stuff around with an oar, not letting the cursed girl spend too long on her own… and when Dustin mocks him, he snaps back, “considering the people in this room have nearly died about half a dozen times, I don’t find it funny”. He’s so right and he should say it. Steve KNOWS he’s in a horror film and he’s built to be the final girl.

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I find it hilarious how fucking DEVASTATED BoTw Link is about losing a Mario kart race.

Thousands of people died during the calamity including your best friends and it’s your job to fix what’s left.

You got 7th place in Mario Kart.

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Really fun watching the real-time website culture shift from “Tumblr staff sucks and is incompetent and we hate them” -> Staff starts doing good things but everyone still reflexively hates and bullies them for everything they attempt because we’re all suspicious and hesitant to trust like wounded animals or divorcees who have been hurt before -> “Staff truly understands us finally someone who knows what we want bless thank you so much staff”

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Cat ppl will be like "There's no love like a cat's love" and dog ppl will be like "there is no love like a dog's love" and they are both correct.

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didn’t have any chopped carrots on hand, only whole, so i substituted 5 cups of sugar instead and it turned out revolting. my whole family said it was way too sweet. do NOT try this recipe. 1 star

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We talk about how in Stranger Things each group is living a different story genre, right? The kids are in a constant mystery, monster, treasure hunting Goonies story. The teenagers are usually in a horror slasher film. The adults are dealing with governmental conspiracies, be it American or Russian.

But you know who code-switches like nobody’s business? Steve Harrington. That’s what makes him such a wonderful character.

In s1 he goes from Romantic Triangle Comedy to Slasher Film Monster Hunting in a single scene and fully dives into it. S2 sees him joining the Spielberg genre gang with the kids, taking the “reluctant teenager tagalong” role on stride, not once complaining or missing a beat. And then! And then!! He goes full Russian conspiracy in s3, as his group figures the mystery out, infiltrates their base, undergoes torture, etc. Steve keeps up with each genre like a chameleon.

Maybe it’s because his stakes in this are oddly external. They are a choice he makes.

Unlike Nancy and Jonathan, he is not directly related to anyone in the kid or adult group… but he was briefly related to Nancy through their relationship. Enter slasher film.

Unlike the Party, he hasn’t been life-long friends with anyone involved… but he gets adopted into the group, much like Max, in s2 and becomes one of them. Enter spielberg film.

Unlike the Adults, he isn’t the legal guardian of any of the kids or teenagers involved… but he becomes the designated adult figure they all turn to. Enter conspiracy film.

Other characters have joined certain genres as they are added to the series: Max (Spielberg), Robin (conspiracy), Murray (conspiracy), Erica (Spielberg), Eddie (Slasher). And you could argue that as the seasons and groups morph, they each dip into other genres. Nancy and Jonathan did conspiracy quite a bit, Hopper has had his fair deal of monster hunting, the Cali gang is going through conspiracy right now, the Hawkins kids are dealing with a slasher… but no one does so as seamlessly or consistently as Steve Harrington does.

Anyway, I am obsessed with how Steve, despite his apparent lack of obvious stakes on the main Upside Down plot, by virtue of caring for people and choosing to help, has become such a central piece to the Stranger Things narrative, touching so many threads and fitting into almost every corner of the plot. Just because he is, to his core, a nice dude.

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