#First-Ever-Performance

[mudwerks]

Grateful Dead 1965 San Jose, CA First-Ever-Performance Acid Test Advertising Poster

[thatonesquintern13]

i joke a lot about being the reason for the fast car renaissance, but this is actually so beautiful and i’m glad tracy chapman got to have this moment tonight 🥹

[guiiay]

shimmer and begonia 🌷

[xx-r0t-dot-com-xx]

beyond and naomi are genuinely friends in this au but no one around them will believe him

more here

[ruporas]

captain's warm hugs! (id in alt)

[jinstronaut]

bangtan gif challenge ☆ → stage mix (one song) + your bias(es) ↳ boy with luv + seokjin 💗💗💗 (cr. namuspromised)

[3416]

every time i see people being like. wow mitch marner has finally gotten the monkey off his back... i can't believe 4 nations cured him. like girl he LEAD THE WHOLE LEAGUE IN PLAYOFF POINTS AFTER ROUND 1 OF 22-23..... HE JUST TIED SUNDIN, CLARK, AND KENNEDY FOR 5TH MOST MULTIPOINT PLAYOFF GAMES IN LEAFS FRACHISE WITH 15 TONIGHT.... just because people cherry pick his stats or refuse to examine the context of leaf playoff runs (like oh idk him playing through a high ankle sprain last year) doesn't mean he's playing some weak timid game he needs to grow out of. it's so tiring lol

[figureskatingpenguin]

Alysa Liu (USA): Promise | 2024 Budapest Trophy, SP

After retiring at the age of 16 with a World bronze medal in 2022, Alysa Liu returns to competition a brand new woman, skating with a newfound grace and maturity that many fans will be eager to see! Welcome back, Alysa!

[gloomsday]

"your own personal jesus someone to hear your prayers someone who cares" ♡

[vintageisbest]

I have nothing of importance to add other than we truly are blessed to have so many remarkable performances from Alan. He has become my most favourite actor & to me Colonel Brandon will always be the dearest he ever portrayed. Alan was capable of such tender and merciless characters. I still remember the day of his passing like it was yesterday.

Rest easy, Alan. 💗

[stardust-moth]

In order to fully understand why it was so hard for Mike to express how deeply he loves El, and why his speech at the end of season 4 was one of the biggest, most important moments for his entire character, we need to look at not just who Mike is as a person, but also everything that has happened since he met her.

Every single time he opens up his heart to her, something horrible happens to her or she's taken away from him almost immediately afterwards.

1x08; he's an awkward little ball of feelings that are way too big for a boy so young. He makes a nervous attempt at confessing and asking her out on a date; when he can't find words that she'll understand, swoops in for a kiss instead. She lights up immediately and smiles. It's a brief moment of hope and pure happiness. Maybe they can have some semblance of a normal life and be normal kids after this is all over.

Minutes later, all hell breaks loose-- they're almost shot, El pushes herself too far until she can barely move, she's almost taken away by the Bad Men, the Demogorgon appears, and she uses the very last of her strength to sacrifice herself to save him and their friends.

He has to watch helplessly as she disappears.

He spends a year caught between believing she's dead and hoping she's still out there somewhere (but if she is alive then why won't she talk to him anymore...?). Kept silent under threat by the lab, he can't confide in anyone or even acknowledge her existence, not with anyone except those involved... but everyone else is keen on moving on and pretending it never happened. He can find some solidarity in Will, at least, who is in a similar kind of emotional turmoil... but it's not the same and it's not enough.

2x9; he is finally reunited with El, and she runs into his arms like she missed him too. She tells him that all those nights he called out to her, she heard him; she was there reciprocating his feelings the whole time.

In a burst of emotions that he's been forced to suppress for an entire year, he lashes out at the reason they've been kept apart (Hopper), screaming and sobbing. It's a massive catharsis for him, and for once an adult is understanding enough to hold him and not punish him for it.

Minutes later, she is going to go headfirst into a pit of monsters, the place where Mike had just firsthand witnessed dozens of people (if not more) get ripped to shreds only hours earlier, and she is going to attempt to close the Gate-- a feat that he knows may take every ounce of her power, just like last time. He cries. He can't lose her again. She promises he won't, and before she can seal that promise with a kiss, they're pulled apart again.

He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

3x1; all seems to be okay now. He and El are happily together, and he feels comfortable enough to be playful, romantic, and intimate with her. It's the most emotionally open we've ever seen Mike thus far.

For reasons he can't understand (bc there's no way Hopper explained himself beyond "I'm in charge so do as I say or else"), Hopper is angry about it and threatens to never allow him to see her again: the one thing he fears most.

He panics big time and fucks it up in the process by lying to her. During a frantic attempt to apologize while also abiding by Hopper's rules, he runs into her at the mall. He panics again-- if anyone finds her here, and knows that he was here too, it's all over, and Hopper surely won't hear reason. El dumps him cold on the spot, spurred on by Max and her rebellious attitude (and without any context of course). He isn't given much opportunity to respond. He knows he's in the wrong for lying to her, so what could he even say...?

He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

It's a hard blow, and he retreats back into himself, unable to get any joy out of playing D&D (which he clearly hasn't lost interest in), back to the deadpan sarcasm and accidentally snapping a little too harshly at anyone whom he feels would take El's place.

3x6; no one seems to understand the danger El is putting herself in. Everyone is berating him for worrying about her safety. He's seen firsthand what these monsters do to people, he's seen firsthand how El pushes her abilities too far. No one is listening.

The words "I love her and I can't lose her again" burst out in his desperation, perhaps before he's even had a chance to realize how deep those feelings run, despite whatever protective walls he's tried to build around his heart to keep it from getting broken again.

Soon after, all hell breaks loose. El is nearly killed several times over, her leg is ripped open, she pushes herself so hard that she breaks herself and loses her powers completely. Her father is taken from her. She's shattered by all of this, and there's absolutely nothing he could do or say to make it better.

She tells him that when he admitted he loves her, she heard him, and indeed she loves him, too... But now she's leaving.

He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

4x1; they've been apart for a few months, and write letters back and forth to each other. El's letters paint a picture of an ideal new life: she and the Byers family are doing well; she's starting school and it's going well; she's made new friends, she likes her new home, everything is going well. She seems to be thriving. She sounds happy, maybe even happier than she had been living in Hawkins. Maybe Max was right, maybe she's better off being her own person without him, and maybe the respectful thing to do is step back... It's a small insecurity that creeps up subconsciously. In his replies he holds back, afraid of clinging too hard.

Though there's little logic in it, he's afraid that if he tells her he loves her again, another disaster might strike and this lovely happy life she's finally found might get taken from her. After all, that's what always seems to happen when he does.

4x2; after months of waiting, they can finally see each other again. He wears her favorite colors, picks a handful of flowers for her, and falls happily back into step with how they used to be. Soon that same day, however, reality becomes clear and the facade crumbles. People he was told were her friends show up to torment and publicly humiliate her. She had been lying. She isn't happy here, she hasn't healed, she is right at the edge of a breaking point that he doesn't see coming at all. He can't believe she would lie to him, she's not the kind of person to lie... especially not about something like bullying, something that she was always so understanding about with him.

On that logicless subconscious level, he wonders if it's all his fault-- he should have known somehow, he should have been there for her. She protected him from his bullies, he should have protected her from hers. He tries to come to her rescue. She runs away from him.

He's helpless to save her, again.

4x3; after a night to process everything that happened-- and deciding that the betrayal he feels from her lying to him is nothing compared to the turmoil she must be going through right now-- Mike approaches her in the gentlest way possible, wanting to listen and trying to understand. El, however, isn't receptive at all to his attempts at reassurance. She is at an all-time low, she's given up. She believes she is unlovable, irredeemable, a monster, just a thing that doesn't even have those superhuman abilities to compensate anymore. Mike can't believe what he's hearing-- doesn't she know that she's always been so much more than her powers? She's always been so much more than what she lacks in quote-unquote "normalcy"... None of those things matter, they have absolutely no bearing on whether she's worthy of being loved, because he loves her, completely regardless of any of these things. He always has...

El starts flinging his restrained words back at him, the products of his insecurity and trauma-induced fear. That fear takes hold yet again, and he stumbles, afraid of saying too much or not enough, because surely both could result in pushing her away-- she's retreating, hearing none of it; nothing he tries to say consoles her.

Moments later, local police come knocking. She's taken away in cuffs, and she's so broken inside that she won't even look at him when he chases the police car down the street and promises he'll get her out somehow...

Once again, he has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

4x8/4x9; after days of driving through the heat and dryness of southwest desert, having narrowly escaped being shot at with military-grade assault rifles, witnessing the death of and burying a man whose last words were that El is in danger... After watching dozens of people get mowed down by a sniper in a helicopter, and watching that same helicopter be smashed into the ground in a ball of flames...

There she is. Just as powerful and beautiful and alive as she's ever been. When he runs to her and embraces her, she looks at him like she can't believe he's real. She's beaming a smile right from her soul and it's like all the insecurity and self-doubt that have plagued them both just vanish from existence now that they're in each other's arms again.

Like always, however, the universe comes crashing down soon after. Max is marked for a gruesome death and all of Hawkins is in danger. They're miles away and helpless, and the only possible way for El to save everyone is if she goes in alone. She's stronger than ever, but so is her foe. Once again, she descends to face all the demons of hell on her own, and Mike can't do anything.

She's losing. She's choking. She's dying. He's helpless.

He must be cursed. He must be. Being with her, loving her, allowing himself to admit he loves her, it always brings only pain and suffering and loss. His heart is so full that it's aching, it's bursting out of his chest, and he can't contain it any longer.

She's going to die and it's going to be all his fault, because he fell in love, and it's cursed her.

Just before it all crumbles into utter despair, the earnest support from his oldest and dearest friend-- one who's always shared and understood his feelings of helplessness-- sparks a light of hope in him: "You're the Heart." You're not helpless. You can save her.

The words that come spilling out of Mike's mouth are truer than any he's ever dared to speak before, and it's the most terrified he's ever been, but he has enough courage for this moment. Despite all of the fears that have been building, stifling, choking him to death for years-- fears that the light of his life will inevitably disappear again, and there's nothing he can do to stop it-- despite it all, he pours out his heart to her.

He loves her. He's always loved her. He loves everything she ever was, is, and could be. He can't imagine a world without her in it. She saved him, in every way a person can be saved. And he needs her to live. He believes in her.

And it works. It's music to her ears.

[16archive]

ryan reaves's interview with the spittin' chiclets podcast on mitch being scapegoated again after the 2024 boston playoffs series at the beginning of the 2024-25 season (video posted october 8th, 2024)

also posted nathan mackinnon's cut of this interview here

"[mitch marner] gets a lot of heat. did you kind of feel bad for him?"

"you win a team, you lose as a team ... you can't just point a finger at one guy, so. yeah, I felt bad for him. everybody was jumping on him ... if I was around I would have slapped the shit out of you."

full transcript below the cut

"in all serious though, reavo, like, we have talked about his [mitch marner's] skill and everything, and he gets a lot of heat. did you kind of feel bad for him? is he able to kind of put that stuff to the side, because he's a very special player who all of a sudden has like entire leafs nation coming at him, where it was like, everyone, you know, you win as a team and lose as a team, so I imagine you as a guy who protects all these dudes, you had to feel a little bit like this isn't necessarily fair."

"oh, I didn't think it was fair at all, like. you can't put a whole playoffs series on one guy. and, just because one guy's not, it's not like he was horrible, you know? the points just weren't coming for him, and that happens but you win a team, you lose as a team. you guys know that. you're not, you can't just point a finger at one guy, so. yeah, I felt bad for him. everybody was jumping on him, biz was jumping on him. you know, if I was around I would have slapped the shit out of you, but that's just how it is up in toronto. that's just how it is in the hockey nation."

[turtledork02]

Is your Bumblebee missing a voice box? And First Aid! That's a thing you don't see too often with transformer aus

Bumblebee’s voicebox was stolen near the end of the war, so he is still getting used to communicating without one. He talks with a combination of beeps and radio, and while he is sad he lost his voice, he has a LOT of fun with the radio.

First Aid is Ratchet’s apprentice, as well as the team’s field medic! They’re a very calm and slightly stiff fella, but don’t let that fool you. They can be a smartass.

[loveinhereyes-flowersinherhair]

screaming. i will never get over this.

educational college trip? 🚫

try-and-find-any-way-to-connect-led -zeppelin trip ✅

and to my taxi driver (aka my new favourite person ever) who coincidentally also happened to be there at two of the msg 1973 shows. i will envy you forever.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[twinklingwatermellon]

I’m sorry but no one will ever embody “invisible string” like Se-ri and Jeong Hyeok do. They can come close, but nothing can top “the song you played as an expression of your grief over your deceased brother was the piece of music that made me want to keep going and live another day”