#crazy month

[pynkhues]

🧠 - for Eddie and Chrissy please! Either separate or as a couple, your choice! Also, ✅, thank you so much, love your writing 🤍

Thank you! I'm so sorry this took me 80 years to get to. It's been a crazy few weeks.

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

Oh man, for both of them? I think I've touched on this before, but in my head (where they both survived, haha) I headcanon neither of them leave Hawkins as quickly as they want. I like the thought that Chrissy is close with her brother, and doesn't have it in her to leave him behind with their mother, and I think with the rest of Corroded Coffin being a year or so younger than Eddie that they'd tour over the summer, but when school went back, Eddie would find himself in a shitkicker job around Hawkins, either at the plant his uncle works at or in a diner or bar kitchen.

I like the thought that it's in that sprawling year after graduation, when their worlds were both so much bigger and so much smaller, without the pressures of social hierarchies and finals and games, that their tentative friendship became something real, something warm, something that firmed beneath their feet and made them feel - - god, just feel. An ease neither of them had ever known before, and they both know there's a spark, knows the other feels it, but the future is uncertain and neither are good at living for the moment, and this friendship they've built just feels too important to risk. And so a year of almosts ends with a sigh of what could have been as Corroded Coffin on tour without an end date and Chrissy helping her brother finish middle school and they call. Of course they call, on pay phones from truck stops and the town hall where Chrissy's started teaching dance classes to girls younger than she ever remembers being, but it gets harder to keep up with one another, and when he's home for Thanksgiving, Chrissy's visiting friends in Boston, and when he's back visiting his uncle the following year, Chrissy's not there at all.

Her dad had passed, is what Robin tells him later, and her mom had moved Chrissy and her brother out East to California, and Eddie waits for her call, but one doesn't come, and he figures that's that. Figures that's how life is - a revolving door of people and moments and opportunities - and he's back on the road and the years pass in a blur, and Corroded Coffin books a few good tours as a support act, and it's sudden when it happens. A single that inches up the charts and explodes on alternative radio, and suddenly his life is everything he wanted, and yeah, he dates, fucks around, has one or two real girlfriends, but he never forgets her crooked teeth, or the way she saw him suddenly, brightly, honestly, when no one saw him at all.

And he's twenty-eight when it happens. They're at an awards show - some bullshit one that he doesn't even care about, and he's backstage talking shit with Gareth when some pop starlet he barely recognises scurries past towards a pack of dancers waiting in the wings, and he just - - he hears her laugh. That honey drop of a sound, and his eyes scan over the girls in their parachute pants and tank tops (because come on, it's the 90s), but Chrissy's not with them, she's crouched down beside one who has her pants half off, is taping up the girl's knee (and she's what, a physio? a sports therapist now?), and she looks nothing like he remembers and everything like he remembers, and briefly his heart seems to stick in his throat.

He peers around Gareth, and Chrissy glances up, her eyes warm and her face prettier than it has any right to be and she just waves at him. Like she'd seen him already, because of course she had, and Eddie's getting grabbed by a stage hand and whisked away and it's all he can do to yell over his shoulder and he means to say don't leave before we can talk, but what comes out is: "Don't leave without me this time, okay?" and he could kick himself, only later he's playing his set, and he looks sideways into the wings, and she's there again, standing up and watching, grinning, and when she catches his eye, she mouths I won't. She mouths I'm waiting for you. She mouths Hi.

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

Oh gosh, so many things. Religious imagery and food porn are probably the biggest though, haha.

Fanfic writers emoji ask game

[tma-thoughts]

Alright everybody

[thedisablednaturalist]

Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

[ato-dato]

Go on, burst every one of his bubbles why don’t you

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

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i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[your-local-granny]

meet cute at the japanifornia in n out

(inspired by this post)

[possuminthetrashh]

[newttxt]

this is opla!zoro, to me 🙂

[solarockk]

that one twitter trend

[mxcrayon]

losing my actual mind rn

i had this interaction in the dropout discord (i am the first and third person). short. simple. i only got the first year bc of a discount + a gift card i had, so i was planning on using this person's suggestion.

then, i got this.

oh my god!! how nice!! how sweet!!! how thoughtful!! i gave them my email and they sent over a subscription, i thanked them profusely. i was very grateful, very touched.

hours and hours later i was still thinking about it and i recalled how, in the email id gotten about it, it said "tao yang sent you a subscription" and id seen that and thought "oh haha like the tao yang" and then moved on

but now, thinking back, i was like.... theres no way, so i googled tao yang.

......

TAO YANG BOUGHT ME A FUCKING ANNUAL DROPOUT SUBSCRIPTION

[minjimunji]

"I played dumb"

"Was it hard?"

Bonus:

[waterghostype]

ocean blue how do you do

[rrredinew]

paper faces on parade

+close up

[britcision]

DP X DC PROMPT BECAUSE FUCK SLEEPING I DON’T NEED OXYGEN

It’s a hard summoning. A horrible summoning. The very worst Constantine’s ever been part of, he was expecting a rough ride with an entity of this power but surely this is excessive?

The Ghost King has been known to accept deals for centuries, and yeah the terms are shit but the world is full on ending and the Justice League are out of better options

When the magic lashes out and takes Doctor Fate to his knees, he begins to doubt what they’re doing

Is this really the better option? Really? Sure, Pariah will take the souls of all their enemies into his army for conquest, but if it costs everyone anyway…

**

Danny wrapped arms, legs, and teeth around the telephone pole in Amity Park, growling against the pull

Of COURSE this had to happen three days after he made a joke about “being the only entity John Constantine hasn’t tried to sell his soul to” to Clockwork

He’s not fucking losing the bet about making it to the end of the week

[girlwiththegreenhat]

team fortress 2 finally getting rid of the bots after 5 years

work on the team fortress 2 comic continuing after 7+ years

half life 3 development looking more likely than ever with legitimate code, file, and voicework leaks referencing a new non-VR single-player game from valve featuring a HEV suit wearing protagonist and Xen creatures and concepts

shoutout to the valve fan that found the genie lamp. you a real one

[buboplague]

time to put on the spooky hat