#I haven’t seen any post these yet so :)

[pollyanna-nana]

Did anyone else notice that seemingly one of the first things they did after bringing Thistle into the kingdom was cut his hair short?

And given what Marcille says about how important hair is to magic…. That’s probably not a coincidence.

[verityblack]

HES COMING TO ADELAIDE AND PERTH HOLY SHIT

[chantryexplosion]

you know how origin karlach gets a version of astarion’s act 1 romance scene that is specific to her so that it fits her story ,, i wish wyll had gotten something like that too. something that fits his character better too like i think he should’ve also had the option to make astarion just sit and talk with him

[danvillecheese]

Maybe I'm just stupid but I don't really get how Candace relapsing is a disservice to her character. Like there's many episodes where her and her brothers have a heartfelt moment and reach an understanding of each other but I don't see people saying that her going back to the status quo after those episodes "ruins" her development. It just feels more like a side-effect of The Last Day of Summer airing almost 10 years ago it's finale status making a relapse seem like a much bigger deal when if it happened in the middle of a regular season no one would really have a problem with it (+ I feel fandomization often makes developments (especially ones in non-story driven shows) into a bigger deal then how they are actually written to be). Like I'm a big Phineas and Ferb fan (half the accounts I follow on here are PnF) and I often take very unserious shows way more seriously then they're meant to be taken but I just don't see this as that big a problem?? Like logistically this is an episodic cartoon where Candace's busting is one of three plotlines, we know the other plotlines are staying the same so how would they naturally change the C plot to fill the rest of the time? (especially considering the busting plot is what often links the A and B plots) is Candace just meant to tag along now with zero care about what her brothers are doing? I know itt might feel like it'd be detrimental to Candace's development to make her go back to busting but in my own opinion It'd be even more detrimental to the writing to completely remove any conflict from the PnF side of the plot. Maybe it would work if they got another character to try to get in the way of PnF's fun, but at that point the most logical thing to do would to just keep Candace how she's been for the majority of the series instead of replacing her with a character that serves the same purpose.

(again, agree to disagree, sorry if any of this sounded mean I'm just autistic and don't talk to people that much lol this is a 100% well meaning discussion)

all true! I definitely agree with this, although I think at least some sort of character development in the revival will work for her, regarding what she went through in the original show and catu. candace is naturally quite loud and has a strong sense of justice so it stands to reason there would at least be a little bit of attempted busting in the revival, just potentially on a lower scale? but honestly I really have no idea what the writers are planning lol

[un0vian]

Meows morales

MEOWS MORALES. Anon it’s very funny to me that you basically intuited that I’ve seen the spider-verse movies/read the miles morales comics; here is a quick doodle

[a-f00ls-bl0g]

Would anyone on here be interested in my HTTYD the nine realms AU/rewrite where it doesn’t take place in the modern day anymore but instead the kids (plus maybe a few other- big maybe!) are just the next generation/children to the original dragon riders + plus some the RTTE tv show characters? Nothing too serious but something fun to talk and think about lol, just wanna see if anyone would be interested in that before I do anything with it just yet so yah

[gatogotica]

really hoping for more gideon & eli interaction this season of gemstones..they’re like the only normal adjusted people in the family, and gideon clearly takes after his grandfather (eli being a grunt for his boss breaking people’s hands, gideon attempting to blackmail his dad and steal money from the church….)

[sanchoyo]

I’ve been wanting to reopen commissions soon but I rly need to make new examples, maybe try to figure out what ppl are most interested in (I think my most commissioned items are always icons, so? Those will be included) and what I can do…I also want to refigure my prices. Like I do want them to be affordable, and I do love drawing for ppl, but I also want to make sure I have the bandwidth + time for them and also feel like I’m being compensated properly since I do have a job now so they would be the Side Thing aaa TwT

but I’m finally at a place where I feel like. Not burnt out after every week and I’m in a nice routine now and pretty used to my job, so I feel like I can handle more on the side. Very excited abt that. Not excited abt making new examples or figuring out what I wanna offer etc tho I hate the logistics of commissions. Part of me wants to do a pay what u want thing with a set minimum and maybe start exclusively offering them thru kofi since it’s so easy, but we’ll see!!

I look to maybe open them around June so like. If anyone is interested, I’d love to hear what kind of stuff u guys would want? 🤨

[bleutectic]

so after specifically looking for posts about the poppy war trilogy my silly little tumblr fyp has started also showing me posts about the priory of the orange tree (which i have read but forgot a lot about) and just now also gideon the ninth, which is still on my tbr. but i do want to move that up quickly now.

[catcr4ft]

Zethino’s love test is actually super interesting and I hope I can find a post on all the comp’s reactions

[void-kissed]

am I still allowed to set up a bingo card if I have yet to actually get a bingo for literally anyone else I’ve seen so far?

[trinrose3]

Shout out to my fellow people who hate Father’s Day for one reason or another.

For those who had to deal with an absent father, an abusive one, one you disowned or has disowned you, the one where you had to go NC with, the one you still are forced to be in contact with, the one for whatever reason or another you cannot stand: you are seen and valid. Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t stand today or all the posts about it.

You do not owe the people who hurt you a thank you. You are not a bad person for not liking him, you are not a bad person for not wanting to celebrate. You do not get to choose who you’re related to.

Happy (normal) Sunday.

[pealeii]

Happy Autism Acceptance Month!

[notebooknonbinary]

Byler Week, Day 1: Halloween

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate! (Happy s2 Byler to all) And happy first day of Bylerweek!

Today is Day 1: Halloween / AU / –gate. I chose to write a fic bc my drawing skills need serious brushing up skills and I can eventually stuff this fic into my other fic’s universe😌.

Edit: Also posted to Ao3:)

Halloween used to be Mike’s favorite holiday. He’s always loved dressing up as whatever his favorite character that year is. And he loves seeing what other people dress up as.

One year, before the Party started doing group costumes, he and Will had gone as Kirk and Spock. He’d even made the ultimate sacrifice and let Will be Kirk.

Tiny little seven-year-old Will had made an adorable Starship Captain (equally tiny Mike had thought he looked super cool). Mike’s fake ears had itched, but he’d liked the cool blue color of his shirt. And everyone that gave them candy that night had known they were a pair, which had thrilled them both to pieces.

The first year that the Party did group costumes, Mike and Dustin had convinced the other two to go as DC superheroes (Lucas and Will have always preferred Marvel). Lucas had been Green Arrow, and Dustin had picked the Flash (his favorite). Everyone had expected Mike to go as Superman, who was his all-time favorite. Except he’d gone as Batman instead and asked Will to be Superman. Everyone’s costumes had turned out great, but Mike’s favorite had absolutely been Will’s—handmade by Mrs. Byers as always.

(It seems obvious in retrospect, that Mike had already begun to get a crush on Will—which is why he’d wanted him to be Superman.)

(And then, of course, the Halloween—only a few days before Will would be taken by Vecna, the Party had dressed up as Star Wars characters. This time it’d been easy to convince everyone that Will as Luke was just the obvious, correct choice, and not because Luke was obviously the best character.)

But Eighth grade had been the last time any of them had dressed up (“Who you gonna call?”) —and it hadn’t exactly ended well.

(Well, technically that Halloween had ended with Mike and Will hanging out alone in the basement, watching a lighthearted movie and sitting close together to feel safer—so that part…)

Freshman year, Mike had been in the middle of being miserable and missing Will and El too much to even think about a costume—and last year, they’d been in the middle of recovering from an apocalypse (neither Will, nor Max, had even been awake yet).

So now there are multiple anniversaries right around Halloween that seem much more prevalent than going around getting candy (which they’re pretty much too old for anyway, in Mike’s unhappy opinion), or going to a Halloween party—with too many people they’re not friends with, and alcohol, which none of the Party even likes.

So yeah, Mike doesn’t really intend to broach the subject of costumes this year.

Instead it’s Will who brings it up. “If all I have to focus on this year are the shitty memories and handing out candy, I’m going to scream.” Then he grins, a little mischievous. “Plus this is the first Halloween that we’re dating. I’ll be able to tell you this time that I think you look handsome in your costume, instead of pretending that you, as Han Solo, didn't fluster me half to death.”

Mike, they’ve both learned, is much easier to tease out of the two of them—Will makes a game sometimes, out of all the easy ways he can make Mike blush. Like right now.

“You’re mean,” he grumbles, hiding his suddenly warm face in his hands. It only gets warmer at Will’s delighted laugh. “You wanna do a group costume with the Party, or a pair like we used to?”

“The Party’s a lot bigger than it was back then—it’d be too hard to coordinate on short notice. But…” Will trails off. Mike risks a look at Will, who is suddenly much closer, smile softened but eyes still bright with mirth. “I think, Michael, that in this context, it’d be a couple’s costume, not just a pair.”

Mike resists the urge to hide his face again.

“Everyone always thinks I’m the mean one of the two of us,” he grumbles, but accepts the embrace Will is silently, cheerfully, offering—nosing into the other boy’s shoulder. “I’m gonna tell your mom you were bullying me. She loves me, you’ll get in trouble.”

“Tattletale,” Will singsongs. “I’ll stop bullying you if you let me pick our costumes this year.”

Mike, who doesn’t actually want Will to ever stop bullying (aggressively flirting with) him, cocks his head. “Alright Byers, deal.” He pauses. “And you just have to lay off flustering me in front of our friends—they already think I’d let you get away with anything.”

Will snickers. “You know what? Deal. But, for the record, I think you would let me get away with anything. Which is why, one day, you’ll go with me and El to Vegas so we can use our powers to scam the slot—”

Mike interrupts this long-running (hopefully a) joke to kiss Will. Will leans into it briefly, reaching up to weave a hand into Mike’s hair. After a moment, though, he pulls back, looking thoughtful.

“Now we have to figure out what we’re doing for Halloween.”

…

The Halloween of Mike and Will’s Junior year of high school, the Extended Party (minus Jonathan and Nancy, away at their colleges) convene on the Byers-Hopper house, dressed to the nines in their Halloween costumes. The plan is to watch minorly scary movies, eat far too much junk, and take turns answering the door for Trick-or-Treaters.

The Original Members of the Party (including Max) show up early to help set up.

Dustin is in a full suit and tie, a gun holster (with two full water guns in it), and a fedora. The entire setup is impressive, but none of his friends can guess who he’s supposed to be. The only one who understands who his character is immediately, is—oddly—Hopper.

“Elliot Ness.”

“Yes! Thank you!!”

It turns out that, having recently seen the Untouchables, Dustin had gone on a research spree about the Real-life man, and been fascinated. Thus, his choice of costume.

Lucas and Max have decided against couple costumes. Instead, Max wanted to go as Wonder Woman, so she has (and she looks every bit the Amazon warrior, sitting in her wheelchair like it’s a throne).

Lucas, on the other hand, has finally been able to be a Marvel superhero. After long deliberation between all of his favorites, he’d finally settled on Falcon—partly because he enjoyed the recent comics miniseries, but also because if he’d gone as Spider-Man (his other big choice), he’d have to keep removing the mask to eat.

“Falcon is just cool enough to date Wonder Woman,” Max tells him, mock-loftily.

He laughs, leaning across her lap to give her a kiss. “Well, Wonder Woman is more than cool enough to date Falcon.”

This being one of El’s first actual Halloweens’, she chose to go as the ghost she’d wanted to go as on her first Halloween—though the simple sheet had been switched for a white dress, pale makeup, and fake blood (with the occasional appearance of actual blood when she used her powers to get another soda, or pop Mike across the head with a pillow).

Steve and his group seem to have collectively decided to go as the Breakfast Club (or perhaps Steve is in regular clothes, it’s hard to tell). Robin, dressed as the outcast girl, is lounging across Vickie’s (dressed as Molly Ringwald’s character) lap, attempting to toss popcorn into Steve’s mouth. She’s largely just making a mess, but neither of them seem to care.

The (actual) adults of the bunch settle in the kitchen. Joyce convinced Hopper to do a couple’s costume with her (they’ve gone as Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein), but Murray shows up wielding a bottle of something very strong for them to drink and wearing just a dollar store cape over his regular clothes.

(Erica, out with her other friends for one last candy-haul before high school next year, will come at eight-thirty. She’s dressed up as her DnD character, Lady Applejack. She has no plans whatsoever to share her candy—even though she knows she probably will end up doing so.)

Joyce had been overjoyed to see what costumes Mike and Will picked this year.

She hadn’t been the only one.

When Will told Mike what costumes he wanted, Mike almost cried. He is (not so) secretly a sap, and Will knows it (though Will isn’t much better on that front, honestly).

“Shall we, Mr. Spock?”

“Indeed we shall, Captain Kirk.”

It’s the best Halloween yet, in their opinions.

[prefixsstars]

𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥

This is the first fic i’ve ever written I hope you all enjoy! This is for you @starstune

If Toya could describe Nene in one word it would be lovely. 𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕪 in the way she gets excited about a new game. 𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕪 in the way she shines on stage with her voice touching his soul. In the way that despite her bluntness her tone with him is always so sweet. 𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕪 because the palms of her hands are so soft, but the tips of her fingers are calloused from video games and theater work. The way her Iris colored eyes seem to shine in the limelight. She’s 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕪 to Toya because she chose to love him with all her heart.

If Nene could describe Toya in one word it would be 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥. ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥 in the way he makes sure she’s comfortable in crowds by holding her hand. ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥 when he compliments her and she can feel her face getting warmer. ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥 with the way his hugs make her feel so happy. The way he kisses her with so much 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 she feels like she’s under those dazzling lights of the stage. When he performs on stage with his group while his voice vertebrates within her soul. Nene loves Toya because he’s so 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥 with everything he does.

𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖·𝕝𝕪: 𝕖𝕩𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕦𝕝

𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥·𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥: (𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟) 𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕣𝕖; 𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕝𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕪 𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕥.

[comfychomps]