#okay a happier ending

[the-angst-chronicles-fanworks]

Made myself sad here we go

Nancy, Robin, and Steve come back from torching Vecna to find Eddie bleeding out.

Between their combined first aid knowledge, they are able to stem the flow and get him out of the upside down and to a hospital, in time to save him.

Over the next year, Steve and Eddie grow close, into very good friends. Maybe something more.

Then Vecna comes back. The whole group works together to fight him. They lose.

Steve wakes up back on that day, when they first went against Vecna to save Max. He has a chance, a do-over. He thought thinks it was a silly dream at first, but everything plays out the same.

He has a year. He and Eddie fall in love. The world ends. Steve wakes up, back on that day.

Steve loses count of the loops. It’s hard to keep track, anyway, when the loop is so long. But he falls deeper in love with Eddie every time, and it crushes him when he wakes up back in 1986 and Eddie doesn’t remember

And nothing Steve is doing is working. Every time, Vecna wins. Because what Steve doesn’t know is that the only way to defeat Vecna, to end the loop, is to let Eddie die on that day in 1986.

[atalana]

so the good place is widely lauded on this site for its takes on morality and capitalism, which i totally agree with

but i think it should get more recognition for the line "all humans are aware of death. so we're all a little bit sad all the time. that's just the deal. we don't get offered any better ones. and if you try and ignore your sadness, it just ends up leaking out of you anyway. i've been there, and everybody's been there. so don't fight it. in the words of a very wise bed bath and beyond employee i once knew - go ahead and cry all you want. but you're gonna have to pay for that toilet plunger."

[gilliandersons]

"And then he was gone. And I knew right then and there that I was never going to let anybody get by me without understanding they might be hurting inside, you know. Cause life, it's hard. It's real hard."

[biscuitboba]

Thinking about the "you are my captain luffy, and im your first mate" line and uhh, remember when luffy first asked zoro to become a part of his crew? while untying the ropes, zoro said to luffy something along the line "you can untie me, but i'm still not gonna be part of your crew", and he was all like "i mean it!", and then later luffy also asked nami to join his crew, but of course she rejected him too.

Anyway, later (after teaming up with nami first then zoro second) luffy told morgan that they are a crew (just luffy being luffy), but zoro and nami of course refuted his statement. Not just once though, after defeating morgan and the other marines, nami and zoro pulled out the "not a crew" statement simultaneously after the "im sensing a little bit of tension amongst the crew" line from luffy.

So like i cant help but think about how zoro and nami technically kinda joined at the same time? And not just that, but nami's actually the first person that luffy teamed up with! And this got me thinking, zoro what makes you think that you are luffy's first mate? I get if animanga zoro wanted to call himself luffy's first mate, but opla zoro? Like anyway all im trying to say is that opla zoro is a self proclaimed first mate, i said what i said.

Also i'd like to add something from what i've read somewhere about first mate and:

"First mate is the vice captain and is not necessarily the first person to join. A first mate is appointed after a sizeable crew is formed and the captain picks the most suitable person to lead his crew in his absence."

AND REMEMBER THE "you just got here you don't know what luffy needs" line from zoro??? luffy said that he needed zoro. Zoro heard what he said. This man is just ready to commit for life. He picked himself as the first mate like a champ, as he should.

EDIT: after rewatching opla i just realised that nami used the first mate phrase not only once but twice (when talking to/abt zoro). But i still think that zoro is a self proclaimed first mate, cuz first mate should've been chosen by the captain and they (luffy & zoro) never really talked about it so i stand by what i said:D

[newtness532]

some people should consider that if a movie has a sort of ambiguous ending, it's on purpose. not everything needs to have a straight answer

[mar64ds]

i'm a huge fan of endings where it just kind of... ends? like you're given one last scene, but it's not this big montage of all the characters you've met, it's a regular scene that has something to say, but it's not epic and big and perfect, it's simple but strong. and then the story ends.

and if you love these endings it's not easy to be a fan of western cartoons lol sorry you get a big montage at the end

[blupengu]

Oh how naive I was…

[theplatinumcritter]

Y'know what more Malleus x Yuu/OC shippers should pull a Twilight (But Better) and play with the concept of fae children needing magic to develop or just being a bit more demanding cause fae bodies just operate differently and guess the thing our favorite shrimp doesn't have

[nekoprankster218]

okay so was anyone gonna tell me that Halo released a short story about a Sangheili telling a little girl the story of Fal 'Chavamee while protecting her only to be like "actually this ending is depressing how about you make one up with your toys"

or was I supposed to just find a random comment, wonder wtf they were talking about and thought they meant Oasis from Halo: Fractures, google "halo story shard", and find out there's a whole part of canon that I've just completely never heard about???

[druidonity2]

For The Alliance.

[sskk-manifesto]

A TWENTY SECONDS PAUSE???????

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

aroace joy vs aroace loneliness fight

[mithomite]

had the most braindead repetitive conversation/argument with my parents. buzz cuts are too masculine but if you dye a design on it it become effeminate which is bad because then you look weak and if youre weak then society falls apart (all societies ever that have fallen apart for any reason are actually because of feminine men) and we start sacrificing babies. and also all mental illness is invented because only 4 people had anxiety in the 90s and covid was made up so that we would all become gay and trans and then the government can control us better and be joe biden's little sex slaves. and also i need to keep my hair long because my father finds it attractive. what

[supercantaloupe]

i keep pingponging between dreading that i won't be able to move/afford rent somewhere else/get accepted in a new rental application and beating myself up over even trying to leave cause it's such an overreaction and actually it's Fine living with roommates even if they do hate me Sometimes but we seem to be okay Now and it probably was my fault anyway and if i leave they'll definitely hate me for betraying them. or something lol

[bubble-you]

desperately hugging you after not seeing you for 15+ months as if my body remembered that the thought of this hug had comforted me when i felt cold and imagining helped me feel safe, helped me feel warm, helped me sleep, and still helps me sleep sometimes. is it no wonder i let my mind fantasise about you in a different way now? i don't wish that ever comes out in any interaction with you. but, i know any desire to stay in, develop, and grow that social club will just be an excuse to be around you. i want being there to feel as safe as the imaginary you makes me feel. i do wish you were mine, but i know you were made by hands warmer than mine, and time. someone who was mine, and my age, made by me, would not be of your quality of gold. if i want you, or someone like you, i have no choice but to start by knowing myself better, even if i don't really want to. i guess i have to want to.

[myfriendtheghost]

goodnight my beautiful lil dork