#and let y'all decide if you want it behind a readmore

[lacreatricefortune]

Fantasy Worldbuilding Idea: Vampires are actually fucked up succubi.

I've seen fantasy worldbuilding theorizing that vampires and succubi are different species that branched off from a common evolutionary ancestor:

boring, lame, overdone

CONSIDER, what if vampires and succubi only assumed they are different species, and then made the horrifying discovery that they were actually not different species, and that all the differences between them were actually the product of nurture, not nature.

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So how would that work?

Let’s go with a 'scientifical' interpretation and argue that vampires/succubi are human hosts carrying a supernatural symbiote/parasite/infection. These supernatural beings can survive on any "vital fluid" (blood, semen, vaginal secretions, lymph) as long as they consume it in sufficient quantities. In fact, they normally prefer to consume sexual fluids.

Obviously there's a lot more blood in a human body than any of those other liquids I listed. So it makes sense that a creature that can consume any of these fluids would go for blood if it were unusually hungry.

A lot of media makes a big deal of "the hunger" that vampires experience. Which begs the question,

Who fucked up a perfectly good succubus? Look at it! It's got an eating disorder.

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Consider how vampires are made.

In most western vampire media, “turning” is a two step process.

A vampire drinks a human’s blood, draining the human to the brink of death.

The vampire then feeds their own blood to the dying human.

Any person who undergoes the traditional vampiric turning process is starting their supernatural existence in a state of emergency.

They’ve been drained of nearly all their blood prior to being turned. This would put their body in extreme starvation mode. They’d awaken ravenously hungry, with the taste of their maker’s blood still in their mouths.

Of course they’d have uncontrollable bloodlust.

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Now imagine there's another way to turn a vampire. One that doesn't cause the vampire to wake up starving.

You're trying to get a human body to host a supernatural symbiote. The first step of the turning process prepares the host for the symbiote, and the second step transmits the symbiote into the host.

Why drain the human of blood? What does that accomplish?

Extreme blood loss does two things:

it compromises the host’s immune system (hardly any blood means hardly any white blood cells to fight off the invading supernatural entity)

it lowers the host’s body temperature dramatically (presumably making it a more hospitable environment for the symbiote)

Following this logic, a human doesn’t actually need to be drained of blood in order to be turned. They just need to be immunocompromised and hypothermic.

A human doesn’t necessarily need to drink blood either. Any “vital fluid” would get the job done. A person could conceivably achieve supernatural symbiosis via unprotected sex.

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A “succubus” who was turned via sexual transmission would never have to experience the ravenous bloodlust that a newly turned “vampire” experiences.

Because their turning process didn’t involve extreme blood loss, they don’t start their supernatural existence in extreme starvation mode. Furthermore, they were never fed blood by their maker, so it probably won’t occur to them to view blood as food.

When they do eventually get hungry, they won’t necessarily know what it is they’re hungry for. All vital fluids will smell equally appetizing to their new, enhanced demonic senses.

They’ll figure out on their own that sexual fluids can sustain them the next time they have sex.

They’ll probably never resort to drinking blood unless a desperate situation (a long period of starvation, a grievous injury resulting in extreme blood loss, etc.) forces them to go into survival mode .

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If vampires are fucked up succubi, that means someone invented the vampiric turning process. It wasn't the normal method of turning. It has a lot of undesirable consequences that "normal" turning lacks.

Unless they weren't undesirable consequences.

Unless someone had a really good (evil) reason for wanting to create a ravenous destructive beast that is too hungry and desperate to think clearly and therefore easy to manipulate.

Perhaps someone discovered it while running morally dubious experiments on succubi in the interests of turning them into weapons for the military.

Perhaps succubi invented it themselves in a desperate bid for survival when human society turned on succubi and tried to wipe them out.

[supercasey]

So I watched Batman Ninja with my buddy Jason the other night...

Under a readmore because I'm screaming and y'all normal people don't need to see this shitshow.

So, like, to begin with; the animation is gorgeous- I will in no way try to deny that- and does a lot of cool things with the art style. You can tell a lot of work went into this movie, and while I personally find it so bad that it's funny, I'm not gonna shit on anyone who likes this film more seriously. (Also, I'm gonna shit on the outfits a lot, so sorry if that comes off as unintentionally racist. I am white and stupid.)

However, other than that... What the shit??? Was that??? I'm still reeling 48 hours later.

The basic plot of this wild ass movie (that I could figure out): Gorilla Grodd has built a time machine so he can go back in time and rule over Feudal Japan and change history (it never really specifies why he chose Japan of all places but go off, DC). He brings Deathstroke (my fav obviously), The Penguin, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, and The Joker + Harley Quinn (because if you want your plans to work you should absolutely bring in the disaster piece of shit that is The Joker).

Also Catwoman is here but from what I can tell it was accidental on her part/I think she's the one who fucked up the time machine??? Unclear.

So everyone goes to the past, including Batman, Alfred, and all the Robins (Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Damian Wayne as Robin) (none of the girls but let's be honest, I think they dodged a fucking bullet).

Batman ends up behind everyone else during the time traveling??? Not really explained, but now everyone has been in Japan for two years and Catwoman has depression.

Okay onto me rambling:

They have this scene where every villain gets a title card/one-liner, and everyone else but Deathstroke gets a line that fits their shtick. I feel like they had no idea what to do for a pun/joke, so there's just a literal pause then "... Yeah :)" from Deathstroke. I straight up scream-laughed so fucking hard.

All the Robins look so fucking stupid except for Tim. Nightwing looks like Goku, Red Hood has the tallest bucket on his head I've ever seen, and Damian's hair... good fucking lord.

Also, Damian is completely out of character. The people making this movie, I think, have never read a comic with Damian, and just made him into "annoyingly happy child character that is annoying as all fuck and talks to animals for no reason except Baby" and let me tell you, I got such whiplash from seeing that. Also Damian and Red Hood are apparently voiced by the same guy and my buddy Jason is freaking out about it lmao.

Joker's fucking UGLY next question.

Harley sounds low-key annoying in this film but that might just be me... feels like a lot of people who try to voice her make their voices as high-pitched as possible and it's very grating after awhile.

There's an amnesia plot??? Where Harley and Joker get amnesia after a boat fire??? Red Hood beats the fuck out of them and while I feel bad for Harley, fuck Joker, he can die. They get their memories back by seeing a plant... that looks like Joker's face... as my boy Deathstroke would say: "... Yeah."

There's a clan of Batman ninjas from the past and, tbh, they look pretty fucking cool and I thought they were a really neat concept. Doesn't excuse the bat ghost thing.

OH GOD THE ENDING FIGHT

Through a series of unfortunate events, Gorilla Grodd and all the other villains start fighting each other in giant mechas in order to decide who will rule Japan because of course they do.

My favorite parts from the villain fights:

Two-Face's robot is the shit of nightmares. At one point Deathstroke and Grodd are going at it, Two-Face gets between them, then FLIPS A COIN FOR WHO HE'LL BEAT ON (very in-character I guess but I was still screeching). Btw, he chooses to attack Grodd, and Slade just stands back like "... Yeah :)"

Can you tell that I'm not over that stupid line yet?

PENGUIN HAS SEMI-SENTIENT PENGUINS WORKING ON THE INSIDE OF HIS ROBOT WTF!?!? WHERE DID HE GET THEM!?

Poison Ivy is beautiful, next question.

Okay, back to everything in general:

Grodd reveals that he has been low-key mind controlling all of the other villains this entire time, and that he's the one who made everyone build giant robots. He attempts to take full control of everyone, but Joker does instead. This is maybe the most sane part of this entire goddamn movie.

ALL OF THE ROBOTS MORE OR LESS FORM VOLTRON, LADS!!!

So now our heroes (Batman, the Batsquad, and the Batclan) need to take on this giant robot... so what's a boy to do? Well, if you're Damian Wayne in this movie, you get a magic flute from Grodd after he nearly dies for you, and with the help of your baby monkey friend, summon an army of millions of monkeys that form a giant monkey.

This is a Batman movie. Just thought I'd remind y'all of that.

At first it doesn't work, but don't worry! Another monkey (wearing a pink bow to remind us that she's a girl and the other monkey's love interest) comes and helps Damian play the flute better so the monkeys are better.

Monkeys still aren't enough, so with the power of bats and probably a lot of weed being smoked, the bats that came out of literally nowhere form a giant Batman to punch Voltron.

(Side note: they destroy the arm that Deathstroke was controlling so I don't know why he isn't dead. Never explained. He isn't even really hurt!!!)

The Robins enter Voltron to fight the villains because Joker loses control of everyone: Nightwing vs Penguin, Red Hood vs Deathstroke, and I forget the other match-ups, but nothing matters except that Red Hood walking up to Deathstroke and saying "Tell you what... I'll let you take the first shot" was badass and the best part of the movie.

Too bad we didn't get full fights scenes between everyone 🙃

Batman nearly died??? But lived??? I was so lost at this point and probably should've been paying better attention, but I was too busy trying to convince myself this wasn't a fever dream.

They got back to the present and everyone lived happily ever after, the end :)

Notes: I'm sure I missed some shit but Jesus fucking Christmas, it was a wild ride from start to finish. It was, like, not that great storytelling wise, but it was so bad it was funny??? It was the "The Room" of Animated Batman films.

Batman is a fucking HIMBO in this movie. I dunno how to exactly explain it, but he makes so many stupid ass decisions throughout the movie, it's so funny. When he's trying to blend in with the townsfolk HE LITERALLY CUTS HIS HAIR TO HAVE THE BATSYMBOL ON THE TOP OF HIS FUCKING HEAD!!! WHO APPROVED THIS MOVIE!?!?

I have decided that Deathstroke didn't die because trans rights. Is he canon trans? Well, he is in my heart.

Jason Todd's voice actor did a great job with him, tbh I wish he had been more prominent in the movie.

I literally forgot Tim and Dick were there most of the time they were so unneeded in the plot.

I hated Damian but whatever.

I honestly did enjoy the movie, but probably not for the reasons the creators wanted me to. Again, nothing against the creators, but this was such an odd movie for 90% of it's run time.

7/10 would watch again, if only because it was so funny and nonsensical.

Ratings all together:

Animation: 10/10

Voice Acting: 7/10

Story (If taken seriously): 2/10

Story (if not serious): 8/10

All together; watch this if you're a Batman fan that feels like having a hilarious time and doesn't mind seeing your favorite characters be OOC or doing weird shit. I feel like this movie is best enjoyed on call/while hanging out with friends.

[spiftynifty]

TeeVee Podcast’s Voltron s8 review

I’ve been waiting eagerly for TeeVee’s review of s8. If you recall, their s7 review was what gave us the man getting choked up about Shiro’s relationship. 

The link to the podcast is here but if you’d prefer a sort of transcript, here are some of the highlights for me. I didn’t always catch who was speaking but I wrote down initials where I could. S=Shanon, A=Antony, M=Moises, C=Chip D=Dan. The panel is divided on their feelings on the season. 2 of them seem to have hated it, one liked it, one thought it was fine, and one feels mixed about it. Anyway here we go, some great quotes ahead. 

Under the readmore cuz it’s long. 

S: "After 7 seasons of a show that was going to be one of the animated series of the decade, they not only did not stick the landing, they fell on their butts, rolled off the mat, off the lines, into the judge's table and their leotard popped open"

"A lot of the plot was callbacks to things from seasons ago that we really probably didn't need to see again." "I wasn't entirely sure that they weren't gaslighting me."

Man Shannon is calling out some great points. She's calling out the dropped druid plot thread, and wondering what the point was of showing Lotor's past when he's dead, and nothing can change in his present and his redemption can't really happen.

A: "endings are hard. I was disappointed with this season [...] it was let down by poor plotting and that final battle made me throw my hands up in despair most of the time. But I have enormous sympathy for the EPs. Maintaining a longform episodic story is hard. And to pull off an ending that satisfies even MOST of the audience is harder yet. and let's not forget they were always upfront that vt always had 'editorial interference' from up top. Toys, the fact that it's aimed at children, corp resistance to some of the more modern social issues that they've tried to tackle. THAT SAID, we don't know what happened on this production, who had the final say, what they argued over. and I say this cuz a lot of the fandom drama over it assumes a LOT over how media and entertainment like this is made that simple ARE. NOT. TRUE. Some of the stuff I've read has been ABSURDLY offbase, like that there were different writers rather than just 1 the whole way through which ignores how TV is made. And if you think these writers just go off and write a script without talking to anyone first and then they come back with something that must be filmed without any changes, THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. [..]we don't know who made these decisions. The studio isn't always the bad guy. Sometimes they rescue things that would otherwise have been a horrible mess. And unless you were IN THE ROOM, you don't know, and neither do any of us. So let's all bear that in mind. [...]You can't lay the blame OR credit on any one person. For any of this." 

They're laughing & making so much fun of the final 3 episodes and how baffling they were. 

"Don't even get me started on Voltron merging with Atlas [and the crew disappearing] that was a bad, bad idea." 

"But that was the ONE time Shiro was back with the team!"

a couple dudes are relatively ok with the Allura death because we've never seen a WOC heroically sacrifice herself for the universe and usually it's the Shiro hero character D: They also point out that technically she wasn't fridged so.. yay?

Antony and Shannon vehemently disagree. 

A: "My problem with that ending was more just that it was... not. good." he makes a comparison to RotJ where Vader still dies and it's his SON, who lives, who 'redeems' him. "This was none of those things. It felt like a terrible lesson. You can be so evil that you kill literally billions of people for 10k yrs but if you say sorry just before you're about to be executed it's alright, dw about it, we'll put the universe back to rights. NO, that's a terrible lesson!!"

S:"They had the LIONS. That's my problem. Throughout this series we've had stakes going up but there has always been a trading of ideas, what can we do, what can we figure out, up to the point where they wind up sacrificing the castle, but they go through steps before that 'is there anything else we can do’. And here, there's not even... she didn't even get to say goodbye to Coran! This is the one character, WOC, and she has sacrificed throughout this entire series. She lost her planet. She lost the last connection she had to her father in the AI. She kept LOSING things over and over to the point where she sacrifices her crown to help Shiro. and the thanks she gets is that she has to turn around and say nope I've got to away and fix all of this and apparently never see you all again. It really, REALLY REALLY bothered me. All of my friends who have CHILDREN who watch this show, universally the kids were upset and angry and tearful and HATED that outcome. This did not feel like a triumph. Having to lose Allura like that robbed any kind of triumph in the success of saving all the universes. And I think that's one of the reasons that this last part of the season sits so poorly with me. I feel like it should have ended in a triumphant way. even if it meant losing a couple of the team members or the lions. Of course that takes away the toy aspect which is why that's not an option. We already had several tragedy arcs in this series. Zarkon, Honerva, and Lotor had tragedy arcs. Why does Allura have to have one too? We've had enough." 

Antony & Shanon KILLIN IT on this podcast y'all.

C: "This series relies so much on 'oh wait, there's a new upgrade', 'oh wait, there's this new thing'" A: "Well that was the entire final battle." C: "So there's this handwavy Allura has to sacrifice herself. The heavy lifting wasn't done to make this an earned moment."

S: "I do think, whether it was at the direction of DW or WEP (Vld IP), without those little epilogue cards, there is the potential opening that Allura might be able to return.[..]It was open to interpretation."

One guy likes the Shiro ending for the surprising progress aspect, even though he's not thrilled about how it was put together. also he isn't convinced the epilogue wasn't planned. He likes a lot of s8 but all the stuff he likes is tied to stuff that he really didn't like.

S:"The shiro card is the other reason that I think those things were shoved in. For me, that turns Shiro's entire character into a token when he wasn't before. When they introduced his sexuality, it was done BEAUTIFULLY. There was this conversation with his significant other a mature relationship that ran into its problems and therefore couldn't happen anymore. Adam could've been Adele, and nothing would have changed about that conversation. It was not the defining characteristic of Shiro. It was just something else about him."

S: "And then s8 happens and Shiro is divided from everybody on the team. There are so few interactions of any kind that aren't just barking orders. or making plans. Keith is the prime example. Their friendship had been a backbone of this series and suddenly they can't even stand more than feet 5ft from each other. 

A: “It’s barely evident, yeah.”

M:”And the same with the rest of the main cast. And if they had set that up at the end of s7, that he’s going to go into the background a bit, it wouldn’t have felt as weird.

S: “And they didn’t! S7 was miraculous in the fact that even though he’s no longer in a lion, he’s still got a vital part to play in the series. And s8 erased that. It pretty much neutered him! And the kind of message is once you've revealed this character to be gay, we've gotta keep him out of the way. And if they had not put those end cards in, again the fact that he's a gay man is just the fact that he's a gay man and it's not any bigger or smaller aspect of his character, but they did not EARN him marrying random bridge crew member #3."

A: "and RETIRING! A man who LEFT adam because he felt he had to go and fight."

A: "He left the guy he loved before because of his devotion to"

S:"To fighting to making things right"

A:”To being a soldier and doing the right thing.”

C:”Isn’t the whole point then that he achieves that?”

M:”The fighting’s over and he can leave that behind and he can actually be happy.”

S: “He wouldn’t’ve. I don’t see it.”

M: “I violently disagree.”

C: “I think it was a nice endcap for his character."

Moises also likes this because it’s not a BYG scenario and he gets retired. Shannon is extremely exasperated by these takes. 

S:”For me, it’s like Tangled. You go through Rapunzel and Flynn, going through their adventures, getting closer, getting to know each other, they save each other, things like that. And then she’s reunited with her parents and then we get and endcap that says ‘for political reasons her parents decided they needed to marry her off to the prince in the next county, sorry’. That would’ve had people RIOTING. Thats not how you do a story with characters that people care about. And to shove shiro off onto this random character that we--his name is never spoken!”

A:”No he had like 3 lines in the entire season.”

S:”He had 3 line sin the season, you don’t know his name unless you watched the subtitles, and in the audio narration for the visually impaired, they called him Adam in the endcap. They called him Adam! They fixed that now. It feels like a hugely clumsy attempt to grab the woke points for a character that didn’t need them.”

Moises then talks a little about Shiro and Keith and how he and Shannon both thought there was something there, and still do, but they can’t know what happened behind the scenes and to theorize on the intent of that relationship is “conspiracy theory land” and trying to decide what the writers were prevented from doing is like “reading tea leaves and chicken bones”. He references people extracting things from his own writing. 

M: “As much as I wanted to see that relationship flower and flourish, the fact that it didn’t, look, it’s one of a million times that’s happened for me, with fiction, where things didnt turn out the way I wanted to see them.”

S:”I’m talking about 2 different things, as far as Shiro’s character, vs shipping  issues. I feel Shiro’s character was done a disservice that if they were going to end him in a relationship with another man, they didn’t earn it by throwing that little endcap on.”

M:”Yeah, they could have brought back one less robeast or something.”

S:”The other thing is, I think there is enough out there as far as interviews with JDS and LM to show that at the very least I think they meant to leave it openended. Again  if you take out that endcap, the last shot includes a shot of just Shiro and Keith, together, same screen, looking up as the lions go away, without saying anything further. I know I pie in the sky hoped that they were gonna kiss this season when we did our s7 recap and yes that was the shipper in me talking. I truly did not expect that they would be able to go that far. What I did not expect was for them to tear it down. And I feel like that’s what they did. Between the complete absence of interactions in s8, and then throwing that epilogue in there.”

Dan doesn’t understand how that could be because he sees no reason for them to do that. Shannon patiently explains about DW’s history with LGBT characters but Dan insists that the creators told the story the way they wanted to and he’s fine with Shiro getting a marriage even if it’s a character they don’t know. 

Overall the panelists love the show still, and in most cases prefer to consider it in the realm of s1-6 with a weak final double season (7&8) or that the show ends after s7. They would all love to know how long the NDAs last, a making of perhaps, to know what the heck happened and what changed along the way. Big mood my dudes. Big mood.

[wheezyboykaspbrak]

hmm some college reddie hcs

tw for drugs i Guess. it’s a little long so i smacked it under a readmore. for @biggestboys

- by some sort of sweet surprise eddie and richie land themselves in the same college, but situated in different dorms

 - they still talk frequently, and for their first semester they even ended up having some of the same classes together!! like kinesiology (which is like simple adult physical education, and a lot of jogging, which eddie actually ends up loving!! richie though- richie hates it, smoker lungs and all that) and an environmental biology class & lab (richie is better there, but when they pair up during a lab richie never stops pretending to smoke plant specimens or ‘accidentally’ letting the live animals loose. it drives eddie crazy)

 - they are both solid b, 3.3 gpa students, but the thing is eddie has to actually try- richie just parties, eddie knows what the smell of alcohol is when it’s on someone’s breath in the morning, and it makes eddie a little bit more than pissed (not only because he was jealous, but because if richie was able to study he bet that richie would do so much better!!)

 - eddie tries to drag richie to the library with him some nights, but whenever richie is there he just dicks around with pencils, shoving them in his ears and nose, and then making eddie squeal and gag when he gets one of the Tainted pencils anywhere Near eddies mouth

 - richie doesn’t know why eddie is so freaked out though, because richie likes to watch eddie study when his mind can’t focus on anything else, and that boy chews the tips of his pens like there is no tomorrow- why isn’t he squealing about that when he has dropped his pens countless numbers of times on the floor?

 - richie doesn’t bring it up (but sometimes he will shake his head in a disapproving way only to get a confused glance from a still chewing eddie- which makes richie’s face brighten almost instantly, before he laughs and just looks back at the textbook he is obviously not reading)

 - ANYWAY they are in the library one night before richie manages to glance at eddies watch- he forgot there was a party tonight! he’s quick to get his feet off the table (kicking off a few of eddies chewed pens in the process), ruffling his own hair and rubbing his own face to make sure he was awake

 - of course eddie sees all this Movement in the corner of his eye (more than just richies jitters) and he gives richie the dirtiest look, the tongue that was stuck out in between his lips (to Focus) sucked back into his mouth as his lips pursed

 - richie exclaims that he forgot!! there’s a party!!! and then his face lights up and he grabs the sleeve of eddies (hideous) sweater, tugging on it slightly as he mentions not so subtly that eddie should haul his ass to this party too

 - eddie is a babbling mess about why he can’t, and shouldn’t, but richie just shoo’s his thoughts away and gives two big thumbs up towards his own self 'listen eddie, buddy, bub, palarino, we both know you’ve been studying enough to replace the library of alexandria with all that knowledge from your noggin! let’s get loose, we can drop by your dorm to drop off your stuff and then we can jettison- sound good? ill be your escort, i know my way around these things!!’

 - eddie just cringes into himself, before reluctantly shoving his books into his bag and following a giddy richie back to eddies own dorm

 - they then get to the party- it’s not as bustling as eddie thought it would be, but it’s still a little loud, and he looks to richie the whole time when they enter, worrying at his bottom lip and staying shrunk behind him, ringing the ends of his own sweater

 - richie glances back at him a few times and God does the kid look anxious, but he doesn’t want him to be!! he knows eddie doesn’t like looking any smaller than he actually is, and he knows him slouched down like this isn’t the way he wants to present himself

 - so

 - he grabs eddies shoulder and yanks him to his side, pulling him up as he stood up straight and tall (or as tall as a 5'5’’ man could be), pulling him to a group of people richie knew to be really nice! who were a part of some economic majors club, and were really good at making eddie feel a bit more comfortable (or at least made him stop pulling at his own lip in a way that made richies heart melt and break simultaneously-

 - whoops)

 - eddie keeps talking to them for around 1-2 hours, with richie drifting around but always coming back to eddie, keeping a close eye on him, injecting himself into the conversation whenever eddie started to look a little bit too uncomfortable for his liking, just small things to keep the party going for both of them!!

 - then one of the economic majors, after an education major approached them, whispered something into richie ear and richie kept taking glances at eddie with a small and hesitant smile

 - he has since then taken his hand off eddie, as eddie was yell-talking to one of the econ students about the way one of the buildings always smells like cabbage, but he’s quick to grab him again and lean down to whisper in his ear

 - 'hey eddie, i don’t want to leave you alone here, so here’s a proposition- let’s go get baked like a fucking cake together. isn’t tonight a good time for firsts? first party, first time lighting up with your good pal richie! what do you say, chap? it’s coming from an education major, and they never have any of the bad stuff!! believe me, i’ve been to a few of these rodeos myself, ed majors don’t fuck around, now those college of business majors, never trust those fucks, capitalism runs through their v-’

 - eddie cuts richie with a pinch at his arm to get him to stop talking and instead pay attention to eddie, as he rolled his eyes. he talks about how he doesn’t want to be left alone either, but he says he doesn’t want to smoke either- 'listen just because you’re failing kine because of your- ah hem- chosen commitments doesn’t mean i want to. I’ll just be there, i guess.’

 - and while richie is a little bummed he just shrugs and grabs eddie again (after he said goodbye with his riveting cabbage conversation partner) as they started heading out with a few of the other party goers.

 - they find themselves in a place with a bunch of big rocks and a small stream (a place that both makes eddie and richie itchy and uncomfortable but also nostalgic. they don’t mention it)

 - they sit down by the stream, legs crossed with eddie having his pulled to his chest, covered by a flannel that one of the econ majors let him borrow once they noticed him shivering (eddie is just small and cute and a disaster- like?? everyone just wants to make sure he’s ok)

 - they pass around a blunt and when the second one is rolled richie looks to eddie and places a hand on his flannel covered knee, rubbing his thumb over the divots in the joints- it makes eddie jerk his leg a bit, but only because it sent a shiver down his back that had nothing to do with the cold y'all

 - richie wants to make sure eddie doesn’t want to smoke before they begin lighting this one up, and eddie shocks him- just a little bit

 - he says sure, why not, he actually will try it- all while he jokes about peer pressure, which gets a good laugh out of everyone, before they begin lighting and passing

 - richie looks more nervous for eddie than eddie does, but once the blunt gets to him he takes it, gives an inhale, and keeps it held in before doing a small cough and an exhale- he basically just used it like an inhaler, and like a fucking champ for it being the first time he’s probably ever smoked anything

 - richie has something akin to heart eyes, and he’s quick to take the blunt from eddie and rub his back, continuing the rotation until it’s burning at the tips of their fingers

 - eddie doesn’t know why it has suddenly dawned on him that he has just shared germs with every stranger- and god, richie- in this circle, but he’s quick to mention it and mock gag, before laughing, and it’s light and airy and richie laughs with him, talking about how now he just indirectly managed to come in contact with everything his own trashmouth had ever graced with its presence- and this time eddie actually gags (or does a really, really convincing fake one this time), the other students, who were talking among themselves, get another good laugh out of it

 - eddie just feels good, he starts to feel warm surprisingly, and so he gives back the flannel

 - richie decided that it’s time for them to go back, it’s best for the both of them to get some sleep, and gathers a bit of a ditzy eddie up and onto his own two feet

 - when they begin walking back to eddies dorm first, eddie suddenly gets very panicked, he realizes he’s beginning to forget where they are and he’s sweaty and he’s just so, so tired-

 - but richie just knows that he smoked too much, for him being so small, so he just makes sure eddie knows everything is okay and they get back to eddies dorm safely with richie joking and clowning around, eddie calming back down once he was settled back into his own bottom bunk with a comic book in his hands

 - he ends up zoning out on the pictures, the simple words, before richie is tapping his arm and doing a mindful whisper- dormmates and all

 - 'thanks for coming out with me tonight kaspbrak, you did great. i had a fucking blast, and it was almost as good as the time i last went to a party with your mother- a bit more of a sophisticated shindig with her, but you know how that goes. sonia is a classy woman, afterall.’ and

 - of course

 - eddie doesn’t catch much of it, but he smiles regardless and rolls his eyes, lightly smacking him with the comic book before grabbing richies hand and pulling it, guiding richie down to get to his level, and giving him a big hug and WOW- eddie is so, so warm right now, and eddie mumbles something but it sounds incoherent against richies shoulder so richie just laughs and lets him slink back down into his bed

 - he gives him a goodnight forehead kiss after eddie closes his eyes, and eddie is quick to place a hand over his forehead and rub, all the while grinning before passing out, richie leaving and stumbling to his own dorm with his heart beating fast and a big grin that just seemed to stay the whole, rest of the night

soft boys. here is a playlist tht i made for these year of 95′ college boys tht is from rich2eds

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