#(long exhale)

[steampoweredskeleton]

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[abandonmutt]

Takes a deep breath

[bluegiragi]

sometimes ghost just needs to block out everything that isn't johnny.

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[roughridingrednecks]

Wolf

[canisalbus]

(im sorry)

Vasco would change after Machete's death, I think. He'd always be a good, kind man, and in time his smile would return, but never with its old radiance. Sorrow would age him prematurely, and white would creep over his muzzle like clouds blocking the sun.

But perhaps he'd look in the mirror some nights, and run his fingers across the white fur with fondness, remembering the white fur that used to press against him once upon a time. A last reminder of his love, forever on his lips.

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[firenati0n]

several sentence sunday <3 :)

hello friends :) thank you to @welcometololaland @anincompletelist @suseagull04 @bigassbowlingballhead @indestructibleheart

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@theprinceandagcd @hgejfmw-hgejhsf for the tags :) :) i finally have some sentences. i have been struggling a lot with reading and writing recently. so, I'm writing something that makes me happy to bring the juice back.

here is a peep at angel!henry sequel. because honestly, writing him experiencing joy at small human things is helping me recalibrate myself and find my own tiny joys. i am doing this for me. it is a love letter to humanity from me to you, but also a reminder to myself

The Victoria & Albert museum is lively today. Henry hasn’t been back to the Cast Courts since he last visited in his time of need, the heaviest he had ever felt, his whole being sagging under the weight of the world’s pain he elected to shoulder. If he stares hard enough, he can almost see a shadow of his former self staring up at Trajan’s Column, can almost run his fingers across the desperation written all over his face as he seeks comfort in Civitali’s angels; his hands clasped and cold and pleading.   Now, his hands are warm, nestled in Alex’s palms, calloused fingertips absentmindedly running over Henry’s knuckles. It makes Henry feel grounded, tethered to a reality he never thought he deserved, but has manifested nonetheless.  He takes in the statues with a new perspective, a newfound respect. Yes, they endured. Yes, they were seen, and they were loved.  But now, Henry is too. Seen and loved, in the way that matters, with an end in sight. Henry’s never been happier to reject eternity. 

xoxo roop

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[gatheringbones]

c has the annoying chronic thing not the dead in four months thing.

[hinamie]

was any1 gna tell me there r more images from that shoot or did god have 2 speak to me through pinterest again >:/

[noelhelena]

Persuasion

Charisma Check

Difficulty class

13

Advantage

A little more some modern AU ft. my bf @gloriouscrow assimar.

[bluntloyalist]

needed to distract myself from the depressive atmosphere of early tsts for a min and this is all very loose and sketchy but: mer bofurin

in a society where mermaids are somewhat newly discovered, sakura is separated from his school/pod/whatever when young. he's raised in captivity and near-total isolation by some rich fuck interested in his "unique coloration", and is then later sold to a sketchy local aquarium when the rich fuck in question flees the country. the problem is they have no idea how to take care of a mermaid. kotoha works for a marine life rehab or something and people start sending in reports of a mer in an aquarium whose condition was never exactly stellar but is now noticeably deteriorating. she arrives at the location, finds sakura near-lifeless in his enclosure, gains temporary emergency custody of him, and gets him medical attention. back at her institution or whatever when he wakes up he's confused/scared/angry and they try to calm him down by introducing one or two of bofurin (unfit for release? on the mend from something? idk), thinking it will help to have people he can communicate with. that makes it worse which is when they realize he's also severely undersocialized. idk what the plot would be besides them teaching sakura how to live again but i dont even care because 🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️ mer bofurin

[ducktracy]

do you happen to know why there’s a noticeable drop in animation quality in the Daffy vs. Speedy cartoons? I’m very curious

short answer: studio shutdowns, the theatrical industry on the decline thanks to TV, lower budgets, all of their main talent either gone or mentally checked out beyond belief

MUCH longer answer reaffirming the above points!: the WB studio had a bit of a troubled lifespan, and the falling of the dominos can be traced back to the early '50s (or hell even post-war, since there were Technicolor shortages that caused lengthy backlogs) with the first--keyword, FIRST!--studio shutdown in 1953. 3D was on a huge rise around that time, and Jack Warner believed it would be the new industry standard. so! the cartoon department was shut for a few months so they could figure out if they needed to convert and adapt to this new format. Lumber Jack-Rabbit was a bit of a test subject for this

but the 3D bubble was indeed a bubble, and so the studio eventually reopened a few months later. a lot of the shorts are colloquially divided by this time period: "pre-shutdown" and "post-shutdown". the quality difference wasn't as big for directors like Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, as they still had their units intact, but it made a HUGE impact to Bob McKimson, who was the lowest in the studio hierarchy. he lost his entire unit and wasn't able to get any of his animators back, so he had to rebuild his entire unit from scratch (and in cases like The Hole Idea and most of Dime for Retire, animating entire cartoons himself.) his shorts likewise had the strictest budgets, and that's why you begin to really see a noticeable quality drop in his shorts

fast forward about a decade or so. everyone is getting older, a bit more disinterested, crews are being shuffled around and people are leaving. Carl Stalling retires in 1958, the same year as the musician's strike (which is why there are shorts from that year composed of stock tracks courtesy of John Seely), Milt Franklyn takes over for him until his death in 1962... theatrical cartoons are on their way out the door as TV is growing bigger and bigger. there's a clear decline, both for WB and the theatrical industry as a whole, which is why the Warner Bros studio shuts down for a final time in 1963.

this is where we get a little more relevant to the ask. Dave DePatie was the last exec in charge of the studio, assuming John Burton's role after he took over for Eddie Selzer, who retired in 1958. DePatie and Friz Freleng teamed up to start DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE), and so they leased the old Warner Bros studio and were contracted to produce their cartoons from 1964-1967. this is around the time where the Speedy and Daffy team-ups start beginning in early 1965. Friz directed the first handful or so, but DFE was ALSO making their own, non LT related cartoons at the time, and rolling in the dough with their new creation of a certain Pink Panther. so, Friz as a director started investing his time into these non LT cartoons, leaving Bob McKimson to finish up the rest of his dirty work for him. McKimson's crew is still the weakest, his budgets are still the smallest, and McKimson himself was growing more and more checked out with the job. he had for awhile now, but the death of his wife in the '60s certainly seemed to kickstart that sort of disenfranchisement further. the cartoons are the most obligatory than they've ever been

but don't you worry! the downward spiral still continues! once DFE's contract was up and they moved to a new studio, WB decided to bring back production in-house. such enters the Seven-Arts era, lasting from 1967 to the studio's last gasp in late 1969. Alex Lovy of Walter Lantz fame is brought in as the main studio director, and this is when you begin to see the emergence of characters like Merlin the Magic Mouse, Cool Cat, etc. they were still doing the Daffys and Speedys, budgets still cheap as ever, but attempting to lean into the late '60s animation landscape. all of the other LT characters had been retired by this point, and 1968 would see the last short with any formal LT characters in it (so... Speedy and Daffy)

i also neglected to mention Rudy Larriva's involvement with Format Films. going back to the DFE era, the Format Films studio (known for doing the '60s Popeye TV shorts and The Alvin Show) were used as outsourcing to make a handful of Road Runner cartoons. if you've ever watched a Road Runner and thought "wow, this sucks!" then CONGRATS! you're likely watching one of the "Larriva Eleven".

anyhoo, Larriva/Format Films also worked on some Speedy and Daffys (and when i double checked which ones he did work on, i was surprised to only see 3??? i thought he directed way more), and they too are cheap and quick for the same reasons above

SO! there you have it! and i've been slagging on the Speedy and Daffy shorts a lot, and i can't say it's without good reason LOL. with how many there are and in such a short amount of time and how utterly monotonous they are (as well as a reminder of the integrity these characters USED to have), it's easy to really point to them as the worst of the worst. but, unfortunately, they're just a portion of the studio's continued decline as a whole. all of the shorts were getting cheap and dull and droll--it's (unfortunately) not like the Speedy and Daffys were super flat and awful while the studio was also making amazingly lush Road Runner shorts at the same time.

like MANY of the most popular theatrical cartoon series, WB had a very unfortunate decline that i think is just more apparent to see because they were one of the studios that lasted the longest theatrically. i THINK Walter Lantz and DFE may have been the only studios that outlasted them, but i could be just as wrong so don't quote me on that! i'm not nearly as intimate with my 50s-60s history of the studio as i am the 30s and 40s, but i aim to change that!

[massivementalitynut]

My Rainy Day Comm from @ruiaes

[a-little-unsteddie]

E X H A L E

Author: Rowan (@/a-little-unsteddie on tumblr and ao3)

Artist: Silian (@/GlitterSilian on twitter)

Summary: It finally became too much in late December, after weeks of being unable to find anything to do to relieve the tension, and he snapped; Steve got into his car and just started driving. He didn’t really pay much attention to where he was going, just so long as it was away from Hawkins, away from his empty house with too many empty rooms, away from the horrors that lurked beneath the ground—just away.

or,

Steve goes to Indianapolis after the events of S2.

Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson

Chapters: 19/19

Word Count: 70.7k

Status: Complete

AO3 Link

Silian’s Twitter

Playlist I created for EXHALE on Spotify

Playlist with ONLY the chapter title songs

Playlist with ONLY the chapter title songs on YouTube

@steddiebang

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okok hi! oh my god, it’s done. i’m not sure what to do with myself now.

i don’t know how it became this beast of a fic (for me), i started out estimating this fic to be 10-15k, and one of my closest friends, Rot (goingsteddi3 on tumblr and twitter), called me on my bullshit immediately and claimed it’d be at least 50k, but probably between 75k-100k. and it was fucking right, of course, so this fucker sits at a solid 70k.

i originally came up with this idea after watching a tiktok about something similar but somewhere along the way it got a mind of its own.

i have a laundry list of people to thank for their support and everything they helped me with over the last like, year and a half, and i’m gonna start with saying thank you to Rot and Townie (watertownie on tumblr) for supporting my delusions and hearing me out every time i got an ear worm about it. and thanking them in advanced for hearing me contemplate a sequel or not :b (maybe idk yet but i do have THOUGHTS)

thank you to Sails (sailing-through-hawkins on tumblr) for betaing the first half of the fic and to Townie, who’s gonna slowly make his way through the rest of it.

especially thank you to Silian (GlitterSilian on twitter, always linked down below!) for being the best artist i could’ve asked for and for creating the beautiful artwork you can see throughout the fic <3

most of all, thank you to the Steddie Big Bang mods for hosting this awesome event that helped me to meet so many wonderful writers, artists and members of the steddie fandom that i otherwise wouldn’t have been able to meet.

ah!! okay i’m done now. i’m going insane i hope you enjoy this final chapter of the fic :)

[aprilblossomgirl]

random sound win moment [9/?] when i'm close to him, i just can't take my eyes off him i just don't know how to act. (my school president, episode 9)

[ggigigoode]

i’m never going to get over this serve