#I am not liar

[w1tchcr4ftt]

I’m just going to say this- Bubble would be best friends with a chain chomp. Bubble is in fact close relatives with one

[hinamie]

"I'll show you every day that choosing to live was worth it"

some of my favourite scenes from @hijinks-n-lowjinks' fic things i would miss from the other side . this fic tore my heart out fr but like in a good way and i wanted to pay it homage the only way i know how <3

[burning-thistle]

[mint-fixates]

There's this weird take I've seen floating around on TikTok that Bill doesn't actually care about his family/dimension or Stanford at all; that we're supposed to take everything in TBOB as non-canon basically because he's lying to garner sympathy from reader to make a deal with them. I'm all for having your own interpretations of media, but I just don't think this idea that Bill is a completely heartless unfeeling creature is supported by canon at all. In fact, it kind of feels like the opposite of the point of the book.

Like, yeah, most things Bill says should be taken with a grain of salt because he lies a lot, but he's not actually a very good liar? It's usually pretty easy to clock when he's full of it. But okay, even if we assume every word Bill says while trying to recruit the reader is a lie, there are three major things that this doesn't account for.

Bill is not the only source in the book. The lost Journal 3 pages were written by Stanford, we only know about the interdimensional Taco Bell incident because of an included police transcript, etc.

Even once he's lost any chance of making a deal with the reader to escape, Bill is having a complete breakdown and mentions all the people he so totally doesn't miss for real you guys. Why bother with reverse psychology double-lying for sympathy once his shot at getting the reader on his side is already gone?

Trying to garner the reader's sympathy makes sense to a certain extent, but why go out of his way to make himself look pathetic? Does revealing that he got drunk and cried over his ex in a fast-food drive-through really help his cause if that cause is to convince the reader he's still a powerful being capable of starting the apocalypse again so they can rule with him?

And that's all without even mentioning that, as previously stated, I think the entire point of the book is missed if we're interpreting Bill as having no genuine feelings or attachments. The book ends with Stanford healing from his past by being open about what he went through with his family and accepting their help, while Bill insists he doesn't need anyone and refuses to heal, actively making himself worse in the process. The clear theme imo is that accepting your past and accepting help from people who love you is essential to healing, while denying those things just makes everything worse. If Bill doesn't actually care about his family, his dimension, Stanford, or anything/anyone else, he has no trauma to heal from or regrets to learn from that he's refusing to accept and deal with, and the entire meaning of the book is made moot.

[lovelyymeq]

The people at school are so rude like ugh

[dysfunctionalupsidedown]

Hm. Will Byers may fear a lot of things, but lying isn't one of them.

[konaiiro]

Smoke breaks on their drives

[bethanydelleman]

I hate it when the female lead has a perfectly good fiance/boyfriend and then she just leaves him randomly, occasionally at the altar, because this new guy is "true love"

I also hate it when they give the fiance/boyfriend huge red flags but the female lead doesn't leave until she's secured "true love"

Maybe what I really hate is emotional (and let's face it often physical) affairs...

[frm9pm]

[who-dat-homeless]

In an episode where they all got old we were shown that Kirk had much more problems with his memories than the other.

Do you think he has a higher risk of Alzheimer?

Do you think when he's old he starts to forget Spock?

Do you think that Spock out of great love keeps all the Kirk's memories in his head, even though it takes him great power to do so and it's constantly exhausts him, and then through mindmeld reminds him of his life?

Do you think at times when it seems hopeless Kirk smiles at him and say "Well I don't remember your name mister, but I think you're my love"

Do you think?

[chaosgenasi]

This is everything I like about both those characters happening all at once.

+bonus:

[ygamiraito]

"height : 5'5" okay harlan. sure. ill believe you.

bonus : heres his whole dating profile for anybody who wants to read it!

[dawnofiight]

What is that one redacted video that you watch OVER AND OVER again?

Personally I love the Huxley and Dames confession because they sound like a fucking stampede when they fuck- but David's marriage proposal is a close second!

[joehills]

Audible gasp

I don't want folks who receive the HermitCraft TCG Collector's Edition cards this week to open the package and stare at the surprise without breathing indefinitely...

It's not only okay to gasp audibly—in fact, Doctors recommend it!

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 56: IDGAF the haterism flows within me

[rotomicity]

TGCF art from 2021 which were very experimental and very much something out of my comfort zone but am still so satisfied with

(gonna ramble more under the cut 👉 )

My main inspiration for these were definitely classic storybook illustration styles and the watercolor-like illustrations included inside the tgcf books which depict hualian's daily slice of life routines as seen below

I wanted to capture that feeling of warmth i got from reading but i also went with the storybook look because their relationship (and by extension broad strokes of the entire plot) really did feel like something out of actual myth or legend; i'm chinese indonesian and was raised surrounded by chinese culture + values so tgcf felt VERY familiar to me, it threw me back to my childhood reading or listening to tales about chinese deities, i'd say the storybook image definitely came into my mind pretty quickly bc of this

I find this style somewhat hard to replicate now but if i could or have the time to, i really want to continue the 'companion pieces to chapter titles ' concept i did with the last 2 pieces (which are of the same chapter title but i was just indecisive 😭😭), i even had 3 more planned based on my favorite titles before burning out back then