#it happened earlier than expected

[mewnia]

I like her a lot <3 Today’s Tales of Sunday goes to Judith from Tales of Vesperia!

[thecryptidart1st]

When did alive au Mikey get kicked out? Was that rough for him, or was he back on his feet pretty quick?

William found out about Michael’s relationship with Jeremy when he was about 16. And by the end of the night, Michael stormed out of house. Though Evan kept in contact, William fully disowned him, and Elizabeth refused to speak to him. And months after the fight, police cars had arrived to the house, taking Clara with them; William soon after filed for divorce. No one knew the full story of what happened that night, but the rumors speculated that Clara became completely distraught over what happened to Michael.

Things were rough during the couple of weeks living on Jeremy’s couch, as Michael struggled with the guilt of leaving his family for what was essentially his own happiness, and later what happened to his mother because of his actions. And this internal fighting with himself led to Mike panicking and walking out of Jeremy’s apartment…

…But, things started turning up when Charlie came home to Hurricane for the summer and found Michael living in his car.

Charlie didn’t care about Mike being gay; all she cared about was that her pseudo-brother was safe and happy. And she forced Henry to let him stay in the Emily household with them while he worked on getting his GED. Though Henry was hesistant about the circumstances, he also knew he couldn’t sit aside and let Mike suffer because of his and William’s internal homophobia.

So he offered Mike a job at Fredbear’s. Mike got his diploma through community college and he worked nights as a security guard. And over the years, he worked his way to a managerial role in Fazbear Entertainment. Charlie worked her summers alongside him and when she graduated, she started training full-time with her dad. When Henry retired, she inherited Fazbear Entertainment. And the first thing she did was make Mike her financial partner and creative director for future restaurants and animatronics.

Jeremy and Mike continue to be off and on in a relationship during this time, but regardless of their status, Jeremy at least helps Mike embrace his sexuality and make more friends in the LGBTQIA+ community in Utah. And when Sammy came home from college and started his service in the Hurricane Police Department, suddenly people at Fredbear's continually witnessed three of the town's local bachelors be "very friendly" with each other.

Over time, Elizabeth begrudgingly lets Evan invite Michael back into her life. Michael finds his mother thanks to Sammy's connections with the police department and continues to keep in contact with her to this day.

And when William has his heart attack years later, it was the first time seeing Michael after their fight...

and then he has another heart attack finding out his son is married to two different men and they have a boy together.

[scoopstomyahoy]

thinking about a no upside down au steddie fic where steve and eddie run into each other years after moving away from hawkins, and eddie remembers steve and his fall from grace as king, and is kind of intrigued to see what kind of person he is now

and steve doesn’t remember him at all at first, because, look, eddie changed his hair again, and steve’s had a few head injuries (no upside down but i imagine he still went thru some shit with the party and with robin), and he didn’t really think about eddie in high school anyway, and he’s trying to forget about hawkins as much as possible (besides the kiddos, but they’re all moved out for college now, anyway) (obviously he lives with robin)

but steve is different now, happier, more open, flirts with guys, flirts with EDDIE, and eddie….. well, he wants to know more! and he tells steve he knows him from hawkins, and steve’s sunny little smile flickers a little, but he just apologizes for not remembering him and mentions he has some memory problems

and they get to know each other, and eventually as eddie tells him more (and maybe with the help of some yearbooks) steve remembers eddie. and. well. they like getting to know each other. and they like each other. and then they get together

eventually they’ve been together for a while, and eddie thinks he wants to maybe introduce steve to wayne, and he mentions he’s going to go back to hawkins for a long weekend (as he’s done a couple times) and this time he’d like steve to join him

and again steve’s sunny smile flickers a bit, but he says he’d love to meet eddie’s uncle, and… they go to hawkins. and it goes well— meeting wayne, at least, but steve seems a little on edge the whole time they’re there, tense when they drive in, fidgety when they go to the grocery store, et cetera. eddie thinks maybe steve is nervous about staying with the man who raised eddie, which is ridiculous, because wayne LOVES steve.

it’s not til they leave the town altogether that steve relaxes, and eddie realizes it wasn’t “meeting the parents” but rather going back to hawkins. and speaking of meeting the parents, steve didn’t ever bring his own up, even though eddie knew they still lived in hawkins. and the way steve glanced around whenever they went in public, like he was scared of getting recognized

and he asks about it, and steve doesn’t really want to talk about it, but he gives eddie snippets of it. people he wanted to leave behind in hawkins, memories that resurfaced, things he wants to forget

eddie goes back to see wayne sometimes, and the first time he doesn’t know whether to ask steve to come, so he just mentions he’s thinking about going to hawkins for some weekend and steve immediately starts making plans with him as if the invite is implicit. they go back to hawkins several more times, steve still tense and pent up the whole time they’re there

over time steve reveals more and more to eddie. everything that made hawkins hell for him, from the things he himself did in high school to the things people did to him. stuff tommy and carol and billy said to him. some of it is just typical high school bullshit (and oh, the nancy thing.) some of it is the tragedies steve went through, the horrors he had to protect his kids from. the injuries he sustained. more generally the homophobia that permeated the whole town, keeping steve from being himself. the lack of support in the indiana public school system for a high school senior who’s had two concussions and gone through incredible trauma.

his parents. the reason why steve’s mail is addressed to ‘steve buckley’ now, not ‘steve harrington’.

(that doesn’t come out until much, much later, and eddie is kicking himself for ever suggesting steve come back to hawkins.)

eddie, who hardly had an easy time of it in hawkins, is absolutely blown away by what steve had gone through in the same town, right under his nose. the entire persona that steve was trying to leave behind — the cool as a cucumber, unaffected, douchey mask he wore to hide all that he had endured. the head injuries. the emotional tragedies he had gone through. the way he had to be the rock for the kids even as he went through the same things as them.

he tries to tell steve they never have to go back to hawkins again, and steve is having none of it. he tells steve wayne can come visit them in their new city, and steve thinks that’s completely unfair to the man who had raised eddie, seriously, you’re going to make him come all the way up here?

and well i don’t know exactly what the ending is but steve is so stubborn about trying to love hawkins because it was eddie’s home and he wants to be able to go see wayne because wayne deserves to see his kid and eddie deserves to see his uncle and steve doesn’t want to be the problem :(

[ishimondoevents]

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[seonghwasblr]

SVT coming to Europe for the first time ever in 9 years (not counting Gastonbury, cause that was sold out a year before they were announced, so carats didn't get a chance to go) and it's not even going to be ot13 should be a crime.. AND IT'S BECAUSE OF A SCHEDULE?!

[purplecyborgnewt]

Happy early Rathaday, @vexic929 !

And just car-climbing:

[starbuck]

taking a few days off from work has been such a game-changer… i am going to deliberately do this more often!

[merrily-radiant]

I finished rewatching Our Flags Means Death yesterday bc I didnt remember much of it except that there were gay (AS FUCK) pirates in it (and by god was I right) but what my attention damaged little brain failed to remind me was how fucking gOOD IT IS??? LIKE???? HELLO????

[impostoradult]

I have never wanted things to return to normal more than I do right now

[gobbluthbutagirl]

jesse we need to send out another batch of job applications today

[lanibgoode]

so are there like, significantly fewer assasinations/attempts nowadays, or does it just seem like it because they were disproportionally brought up in history classes?

[liquidstar]

oc progress update again im now at 7.5/10

[dredshirtroberts]

one thing that's been nice about finally having someone take my heart-symptoms seriously and look deep in there for issues has been the confirmation that i have not in fact been having multiple tiny-to-medium heart attacks since i learned what heart attack symptoms were.

I mean i was pretty sure i wasn't having multiple mid-to-small heart attacks because the location felt wrong for the pains i was experiencing, but the main litany i had against it was "well if it's my time to go, it's my time to go" because i wasn't told to take my own symptoms seriously enough to get help for them. And it turns out it would have been for "nothing" because my heart is structurally very healthy aside from the tiny little hole that's been there the whole time and doesn't actually affect it in any way.

which means it's my bones and my anxiety that caused my chest symptoms (well, and probably the POTS but like, potato potato).

which is what i was assuming every time i came out of an episode without having died of heart related explosion, but like. you can never be too sure, y'know?

anyway it's been very comforting knowing that my heart is not suffering all of the bullshit i've put it through (eating disorder, long distance running, fast food, energy drinks, coffee, etc) in a way that would result in a very quick Big One. I'm hoping management of symptoms does enough for me that I don't have as much issue being upright as I have had to so far in my life, but we'll see how that goes.

anyway, i'm glad i know about Tiny Harry the hole in my Heart (don't expect the name to stick i'll forget about it shortly cause i just came up with it), and i'm glad to know my bones do produce pain and i can accurately gauge what - exactly - the issue is between bones and organs at least to some extent. (and of course, i say bones but i mean bones and ligaments and muscles and tendons etc. all of the stuff under the skin that isn't a water balloon with a fancy hat and a specific job)

[renegadeknight]

It was instinct more than anything that had his gun drawn in the span of a single step backward. But it was also instinct that held the barrel toward the ground.

“No-no-no-don’t-don’t-don’t.” She scrambled back and her hands came up between them. Spread fingers trembled as she pleaded. Voice seeped in desperation. “I can explain. It’s old. It’s so old. I’m not-I’m not infected.”

His vision was still tunneled to her arm where the sleeve of her shirt was hiding what had clearly been an infected bite. He didn’t want it to be true but how many had he seen by now? On posters plastered all over the QZ. On desperate people pleading for lives that were already lost. Just as she was pleading now.

[dykrophone]

my sister caught me watching k3g without her as the weirdass english netflix subtitles would say im such a dead duck

[umilily]

I've been trying to get this fucking degree for 7 years, suffering basically nonstop, taking part in all my classes, even taking extra ones, I think at this point I more than deserve them just giving me my bachelor's. I've done ENOUGH.