#posts from the basement

[royboyfanpage]

I know this trend's old but. Roy Connor Mia soldier poet king in that order.

[crunchywho-comix]

Far too appropriate.

[sherrymagic]

Fadel. They're the snitches.

Joong Archen as FADEL and Dunk Natachai as STYLE THE HEART KILLERS | EP. 6

[knockknockitsnickels]

I think this is one of my favorite lines from the Wraith route because of (imo) how much the meaning changes depending on if you got there via Spectre or Nightmare. For Spectre, it honestly strikes me as a genuine question. Why are you doing this to her? If you're on the Spectre route, you presumably already know the Narrator can't really be trusted, since you had to reject his reward to get here. What are you hoping to gain from continuing to hurt her? For Nightmare, it honestly just makes me sad. As the Shifting Mound describes her, "She desires only companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt." This line feels like a plea from someone who genuinely doesn't understand why you keep rejecting her. She wants to be with you, but she just can't understand how to do that in a way which doesn't hurt you.

[skeletalheartattack]

honestly, the most devastating news you could hear about in 2007 while playing roblox was learning that Scatman John passed away in 1999. like, finding that out was the roblox child's equivalent to 9/11.

[polarisjisung]

OHHH I AM UNWELL.

[wormboyfriendcentralstation]

heathcliff: i killed cathy...... im a horrible person in every timeline. my revenge killed her. my remorse literally broke through timelines.

catherine who got back at heathcliff by stealing a house to remodel into the Magic Cocaine Labyrinth after draining the financial assets of england's least tragically ill victorian man, making carmen contact her copyright lawyers by sealing her ambiguously dead body into a glass tank while her brain powers a building, and potentially hiring the Mueseumafia of Modern Art because if she pays them with cash she doesnt have to report her Green-Energy-Human-Tank Powered Hydrogen Bomb Basement Factory's earnings to the IRS or whatever the city uses: 'tis what you get for trying to boyfail without your girlboss, methinks 😇😇😇😇😇

[saturngalore]

FORTUNA 🍀🕊️

named after the roman goddess of fate, FORTUNA is the debut album by the s-pop girl group, the fates. the album is filled with lush, unique melodies that perfectly compliments the women’s ethereal and peculiar charms. FORTUNA opens with an unbelievably dreamy and almost fairytale-like intro that melts into an euphorically rich and punchy deep-house title track. the album also includes songs ranging from calming bossa nova, upbeat saccharine pop, and r&b-tinged lullabies. the album itself perfectly captures the intense curiosity, nervousness, and giddiness of the three goddess-like figures and their hopeful late summer rendezvous with the oblivious morals they have observed from far, far away for their entire lives. one could only wonder for how long will these feelings of joy and wonder could last for these inquisitive deities before they have the chance to interact with the very same humans whose lives they have heavily impacted in both wonderful and terrifying ways.

album inclusions in higher quality below!

[yakny]

who are you to change this world? silly boy! no one needs to hear your words, let it go.

[runninguplenorahills]

Maybe the apology was the friends we made (lost) along the way

Or in other words: why I don’t think Mike biked across town in the pouring rain to apologize to Will, nor intended to even talk about the fight at all.

So, it’s been one and a half years since starting this post, which makes actually posting it long overdue, but here it is. Thank you for sticking around and welcome to this ride into the past 🌧️

One thing that has been gnawing on me since the very moment I joined the byler fandom are the intricacies of the rain fight to finding Will at Castle Byers timeline. The rain fight seems to take place at about noon and the most widely accepted perception was that Mike and Lucas follow Will immediately after he leaves. Logically, this implies that Mike's and Lucas’ arrival at Castle Byers must be around noon as well, the entire thing happening in a time window of maybe three hours maximum. Which means the pacing of the episode? Not the best. And the dark sky when they find Will? Storm clouds from the bad weather. Or so I thought.

I soon found out that not many people were on my side here, that is to say, they were with the order and manner of what happens, but most referred to Will at Castle Byers as " the night Will destroyed Castle Byers". Night. Whenever I saw that word I would get so annoyed and repeat "it's just the storm clouds!" over and over in my head because it seemed so obvious to me that that's what it was. It wasn't night, storm clouds were darkening the sky.

But there was one aspect that held me back from being entirely convinced by my own perception of the time that passes between the rain fight scenes, and it’s the fact that I had just joined the byler fandom (so about two and a half years ago). I was completely new to all of this and so many people who have been in this fandom for years already, analyzing plot and set and characters for ages, were under the impression that Will destroyed his beloved castle at night, so I knew something wasn’t quite right.

Were it really just dark storm clouds?

I grew skeptical of my initial perception so l did the thing every sane person does and rewatched the whole episode, stopping at every instance where there’s a clock on screen, writing down the time it told. And truth be told, it wasn’t entirely helpful because maybe the clocks were telling the “wrong” time for some mysterious reason (wink, wink) , but let’s not go there with this post.

Fortunately, I did actually find two clocks that were essential (to me) in placing the rain fight and Mike’s and Lucas’ arrival at Castle Byers in a more specific time window.

The first clock: Max’s wrist watch

Immediately after the rain fight, we follow Max and El to Hawkins Community Pool where the girls are looking for Heather. In order for El to use her ability to find people via the void Max turns on the showers and a close up shot of her hand provides a view of her wrist watch display:

It’s about 01:45pm. Which means we can infer that the rain fight really did happen some time around noon that day (again, we’re deliberately ignoring the possibility that the story deliberately doesn’t fit into a realistic timeline/isn’t in the right order etc.).

The second clock: the clock at the Holloway’s house

Near the end of the episode when Max and El arrive at Heather’s house we can see a clock on the wall behind Billy:

It’s almost 08:30pm. And this scene comes very shortly before the Mindflayer activates as it recognizes El, which then leads to Will getting his neck tingles at Castle Byers when Mike and Lucas finally arrive.

People, we have jumped in time significantly. The rain fight seems to happen around 01:45pm while Mike’s and Lucas’ arrival at Castle Byers seems to be at around 08:30pm; there is a gap of about 7 hours (It was a 7 /j).

So it really was the night, or rather evening, that Will destroyed Castle Byers, and even more so, this debunks that Mike and Lucas go after Will into the rain immediately. If they had done that hey would’ve maybe even caught up to Will on the way, or, in any case, arrived hours earlier. Thus, Mike and Lucas must’ve decided some time later that they were gonna check on Will. But why? Did Mike just mope around with a bad conscience for several more hours until the guilt eventually overwhelmed him and he finally decided to apologize? I honestly don’t think so. Especially because Mike never does end up apologizing.

This: “Will! Will, I’m sorry man, alright. I was being a total asshole. Please, can you just come outside and we’ll talk? Will!” is not an apology. Neither is it accountability nor a genuine offer to reconcile. Even if Will had been there to hear Mike (which he was not), it wouldn’t be any of these things. What it is is fear and desperation.

I have talked about this before. Mike has been suffering from PTSD ever since the events of the first season. Not only were those events severely traumatizing to go through (for everyone involved), but on top of that Mike seems to blame himself for the most crucial parts. His deteriorating mental health is more obviously displayed in the second season, however, signs of it do still occur in season three, for example the rain fight. The way this scene is shot ties it directly to the scene from the first episode of season one where Will tells Mike the truth about rolling a 7: standing in the garage, Will with his bike, Mike on the left, Will on the right (although they’re actually inverted as we’re now watching from the other side), Will riding away while Mike is left in his garage. It’s a near identical set up to remind the audience of the scene from season one, and of course of what happened right after: Will getting abducted. And it’s not only the audience that’s thrown back, so is Mike.

I think the long delay before Mike (and Lucas) finally decides to go after Will has everything to do with why he went at all. Will leaves Mike’s place similarly to right before he got abducted and it’s probably the amount of time that passes without any sign of him afterwards that makes Mike grow increasingly worried, paranoid even, that maybe something has happened (again). So he bikes to Will’s house to make sure it hasn’t, and his words to Will while knocking at his door are his desperate attempts to get a sign that Will is alive and safe. Mike is giving in for the sole purpose of getting something he wants, which is basically manipulation but of course, here it is not something Mike does for inherently selfish reasons but something he does impulsively out of genuine fear over his friend. The point stands however, that it’s not an apology. This is of course not to say that Mike didn’t feel sorry about what he said at all. His regret is obvious but he simply wasn’t ready to confront the situation right after it happened, and so he didn’t.

[royaltea000]

hey did it hurt

[crunchywho-comix]

[babyordarling]

the most beautiful girl in the world

[pop-punkisso05]

Yellowjackets Rutgers AU where, Nat is the lead screamer of a mediocrely popular band in the late 90s-early 2000s New Brunswick hardcore scene. Lottie is a trust-punk who cosplays being broke and has a shitty zine. Van is there for purely for the love of the music and because her nerd stoner niche movie guy friend who wears women's jeans dragged her to a show once. Nat is on the bus back to the yard to take the train home and has the cd for some band called "Thursday" which was the reason the basement was being capped that day. she Shauna and Jackie, get on about to head out to some frat and their like "what's Nat doing here, Nat, she doesn't even go here" drunkenly. and then Nat just awkwardly gets off the bus and laughs it off and lights the last cig in her pack.

[proselles]

whats so funny to me is capcom getting the general details wrong of every single country state landmark culture whathaveyou in their games EXCEPT louisiana. Louisianas genuinely just like that. They nailed the fuck out of louisiana it got to the point where i left marguerites section and got into the swamp with the cypresses and i suddenly wasnt the least bit scared anymore. louisianas actually just like this. We really do have bugs that size. The crackheads that live down the street make the exact pose marguerite did in her bug form. Most of them might be scarier. We all own chainsaws and axes and we 100% do leave weapons and ammo lying around. The little black creatures are just alligators on their hind legs. One of my friends technically lived in a manor like the bakers but it was so dilapidated that they only lived in three on the rooms. One of the rooms was a bug room. Bugs lived there. I know the bakers personally i had them over for dinner just last week a little odd but you know who am i to judge? Ik chris redfield got the call for duvey and he was like duvey where. Louisiana?? Again?? Seventh time this fucking week. He just left the state three hours ago.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

daycare sign in the basement you will always be famous