#no particular time period

[roosterbox]

July 4 Random Word Almost-Drabble: Defend

Word Count: 404

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“Fuckers,” Steve mumbles, kicking up a loose stone as the group of boys retreated. High school bullshit, he thinks. Can’t escape it. With a sigh, he turns back to Munson. The other boy sat on the curb, nursing his split lip with the hem of his Iron Maiden shirt.

“Here, let me-“ Steve belatedly realized that he hadn’t exactly run out here with healing in mind. Kind of the opposite, actually. “Hang on a sec.”

“You don’t have to-“ Eddie starts to say. But he can’t stop Steve from running back inside. He considers just getting back in his van and heading home, but Steve’s only gone for a moment. He comes back out with a handful of napkins.

“Sorry, couldn’t find the first aid kit. Have to talk to Robin about rearranging stuff back there. Will these-“

“They’ll do.” Eddie tries to smile, but winces at the pull on his injured mouth. He reaches for the napkins, but Steve ignores him.

“Let me.” And then, huh, King Steve Harrington starts gently dabbing at his bloodily lip. And it only stings a little. And for a long stretch of seconds, Eddie Munson doesn’t know what to say. How could he? With the prettiest boy in Hawkins playing nurse for him? In that silly outfit? He glances down at Steve’s Scoops uniform, at those ridiculously short shorts, and just as quickly looks away.

“You didn’t have to go through the trouble,” he says quietly, not meeting Steve’s eyes. “Not for me.”

The other’s hands never faltered. From his vantage point, Eddie could see the reddened knuckles on the right one. That must hurt, he thinks.

“Those guys give you trouble a lot?” Steve asks.

Eddie shrugs. “More or less.”

“Then yes, I did have to.” He swipes a bit too hard, making Eddie wince. “Sorry.”

“‘S okay.”

A few more light dabs, then Steve is stepping back, out of Eddie’s space. He crumples the bloodied tissues in his hand, presumably to toss into the trash can inside. Eddie hopes his disappointment at the loss of proximity isn’t too obvious.

“I think you’re good,” Steve says. His face looks suspiciously pink. Could be from the cold. Could be something else.

“Thanks for the help, sailor.” Eddie’s tone is light, half joking. A bit of a line, perhaps, to see if he gets a bite. And when Steve’s blush deepens, Eddie knows he’s caught a big one.

[sysig]

Two skeletons in a trench lab coat (Patreon)

Bonus:

He’s very careful! Everything was fine before you interrupted!

[hotvintagepoll]

was your goal this round to get jimmy and cary out bc as a philadelphia story truther this is my joker origin story

i swear that was not the goal but oh no oops what's this doing here

This is a poll on the characters—not the actors! If you haven't watched The Philadelphia Story, what are you doing here

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[americankimchi]

god i wish they hadn't retconned maul's death. i get wanting to explore more of his character because he was, objectively, one of the coolest star wars characters to ever hit the big screen and didn't get much screentime prior to his death, but also his role was fulfilled perfectly within those constraints so i wasn't too upset by it.

but by retconning it and making it so he never died it's like. okay. what now? the whole point (well, to me, ymmv of course) of the theed generator fight was that it was the first ever fight between the jedi and the sith in thousands of years, and that in the end even though the jedi (obi-wan) won the fight, a jedi (qui-gon) and a sith (maul) still died. a master and an apprentice dying together to herald the start of a new age/the return of the sith. perfectly paralleling the way in rotj a master (palps) and an apprentice (anakin/vader) died together to herald the return of the jedi. in both instances, a father figure (qui-gon/vader) dies in the arms of their son (obi-wan/luke) as a sith (palps/maul) is cast down into the abyss to their deaths. (palps being alive in the ST and retconning his death in rotj is also annoying for this reason)

i mean i like maul. don't get me wrong. he's an incredibly compelling character and i enjoy seeing more of him... but there's always the thought hovering in my mind like "he should be dead though. he should 100% be dead. this wouldn't be happening if he was dead, but i honestly would rather it not if it meant that maul was dead."

like the tpm fight just doesn't hit the same knowing that canonically he's just. going to become a robot octopus at some point. (shoutout to palps becoming sith glados in the ST) it cheapens the moment for me. it was supposed to be a moment of triumph marred by the deep and soul-crushing loss of a loved one and it's just... not, anymore. or at least not to the same extent. AUGH i'm just. frustrated. wish star wars as a whole wasn't constantly reframing/retconning what's been established. just puts a bad taste in my mouth.

[seefasters]

meet me under the clock at grand central in 10 years, we’ll go dancing

[aroaceleovaldez]

looking back at ye olde combo book fandom i can only describe the feeling as feeling like if Superwholock got a divorce

[xaeyrnofnbe]

i neeed a bonkers xenofiction series about dinosaurs in the same vein as warrior cats or wings of fire. god. it'd either fix me, or make me WAY worse

[saintprivateer]

posty by himself for now but hello again im drawing sky ship things!!

[shoechoe]

i find it kind of funny that harlan ellison often emphasized him never smoking cigarettes or doing drugs when he smoked a pipe quite persistently for decades and brought it around with him everywhere like it was basically part of his public image is that not just as bad as smoking cigarettes ? ?

[found--family]

am i the only one who sensed some jilted lover vibes from jensen? 

[savcir-faire]

going home, or somewhere like it

cradle & all - ani difranco / disco elysium - ZA/UM studio / on believing - hanif abdurraqib / q train - nigel van wieck / the children’s adventure ep. 4 - worlds beyond number (aabria iyengar; erika ishii) / anonymous, translated by @aurorraz_ on twitter

[dykesynthezoid]

It’s like of course Akasha’s from Uruk. The city with the patron goddess of war and sexuality who’s notoriously ambitious and bloodthirsty and sacrificed her own consort for her freedom? And Akasha rules over a kingdom in pre-dynastic Egypt, the surviving art of which rarely bothers to feature men in preference for an abundance of goddess/fertility figurines? Yeah. I’d say that tracks

[blue-eli]

Realised it’s @khoc-week so even though I don’t have the energy to do it daily have this I did a while ago but never posted.

Arxeht my beloved. They came to me in a dream where I was a replica (of multiple people but looked most like Vidar) made by apprentice Nort/Xemnas, who was the fifteenth member of the organisation and also had my knowledge of hit video games Kingdom Hearts and kept getting randomly thrown through space and time.

[hephaestuscrew]

Thinking 'If I had a nickel for every time a podcast production company was named after the fictional sinister corporation that plays a major role in their first audio drama, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice' thoughts about Third Sight Media (Greater Boston) and Hartlife NFP (Our Fair City).

[widowshill]

joyful posting time. i genuinely love love the way everyone in the dark shadows fandom has their arc and the characters and/or actors they cherish and just post crazy about their special guys. it's so much fun to me to see every time. yeah that's my mutual's guy from the soap opera.