Two of my favorite little scenes from BTTF part II are the moments where Marty stops to watch his parents in 1955. I mean, he was only just there living through those events one day prior, but he didn't actually have a chance to soak any of it in or process it. (He'd come flailing into the parking lot just after George punched Biff but hardly had time to appreciate any of it on account of his picture still fading, and then at the dance, he was. You know. Actively being erased from existence up there on stage for a while.)
Even though the stakes are still unbelievably high when he returns to '55 to try to track down the almanac, and he's just experienced what may be the most stressful and terrifying day of his life with all the 1985A nonsense, he makes it a point to slow down enough to watch his parents at the dance. And there's just this look on his face—a mixture of awe and relief and happiness. You can tell. You can tell this is getting permanently etched into Marty's memory. He's taking in every detail. He's holding tightly to these sweet moments of watching his parents (who had been unhappily married most of or all of his life) FALL IN LOVE. A real, true love that he's never had a chance to see them in before.
Not to mention the fact that in the reality he'd just arrived from, his mother had been forced into marriage with Biff, and his father was dead. Marty's just come from a place where his family had been completely destroyed, and now he's watching the very foundation of it coming together. This is the beginning of it all, and it's a reminder of what he's trying so hard to save and get back to.
And it's so very nice that we see him hitting the pause button for a few seconds in this chaos-fest to look at his mom and dad with such love.
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I Might Be Great Tomorrow (but hopeless yesterday (3/10)
I Might Be Great Tomorrow (but hopeless yesterday) 3/10 Chrissy Cunningham x Eddie Munson, Stranger Things. 17k words, T.
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“But I mean like, why do you love it?”
“I don’t know,” she says, offhand, but then she seems to consider it, shifting her weight a little, and after a second, she lets her eyes slip shut. “Sometimes I feel like I’m in outer space and cheer - - it just drops me straight back into my body. Like I can’t do a Ball Up Toss or a Straddle Up without putting all my attention into it and using just all these parts of me. It makes me feel strong and good and like my body belongs to me, but I also…”
She exhales.
“…I feel like cheer stops me from floating away sometimes.”
The shadow of the school leans heavy on her here, the angles of it blocking the sun enough to cast long lines against her angular face, but she’s still beautiful, always beautiful, Eddie thinks, and the thought that she could ever not be in her body, that this thing is there to carry her home to herself - - shit. Eddie just feels himself nod.
“That’s - - yeah. I mean, that’s kind of how I feel about music, so I get it.”
She blinks her eyes back open then, looks at him properly, and it shouldn’t be possible, for her to look like that – beautiful, yeah, but also just like there are galaxies inside her to know, and he’s still just skimming the stars on her fringes. He wets his lips, and they really do need to go to class (him especially, he doesn’t have many more tardy slips up his sleeve if he still wants to graduate) and they’re basically at the school entrance, and she’s about to slip away from him again, and he thinks - - fuck it.
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Content warning: a minor character experiences a non-fatal overdose towards the end of this chapter.
Read chapter three here!
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anyway if anyone wants to see a faithful adaption of dune, i recommend the miniseries from the early 2000s. it's dated and the first episode is Bad (and i do Not like the guy they have playing paul; also they pronounce chani's name wrong), but it's faithful to the books and that's what matters. sigh.
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Hmmmm in a few days it will be my story's second birthday...
What if I start this blog then?
Wouldn't it be such a cool idea???
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so, i told myself that i wasn't going to dive into drafts right away (if at all) in favor of getting some new things started to try and get the creativity flowing, but i'm really struggling to come up with opens, so if you see me sending in a couple ask memes or scrolling through your opens please feel free to disregard <3
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Honestly I think it's awesome, reinforces the fact they're cyborg computers and can just dump infected body parts out of the can !
Imo Pebbles may have dropped his labs first, realized he still got rot cysts crawling on parts he cannot just throw away, then started to resume giant water intakes to flush whatever clung on away. Moon collapses afterwards.
If anyone would like to give me an iterator anatomy lesson I'd actually love you so much I'm neither good enough at biology or technology stuff to know anything.
ANYWAY I don't know if there's any other part of Pebbles he has actually thrown out that we can see but hm...
I wonder if this little guy had selfish little thoughts. Not born out of malice, but fear and frustration. I mean his project has failed, everything is going WRONG.
Now.
Moon is already in a horrible state. She's not stable, she's also part of why this is happening. The water he could stop taking wouldn't do much for her, she's a lost cause.
But he's still functional. He can still try and finish his work. I mean it makes sense why he shouldn't stop. Moon will collapse anyway. While Pebbles has the chance to solve the problem still.
He was this close after all.
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