Follow up to my post about Max and Dustin posting regular tik toks of Steve's parental rants that go viral.

Tommy and Billy are jealous that Steve doesn't even have a tiktok account, he's pretty much chronically offline, but somehow he's more successful than they are. So they start posting 'I know Steve IRL and he's not that special' videos where they talk a load of shit about him.

It doesn't work because people find Tommy and Billy's old Tweets, which are as awful as you can imagine they are. So then their comment sections turn into people making fun of them and saying they're obsessed with Steve, like 'move on, he's not gonna kiss you'.

Jonathan has a tiktok to promote his instagram which he made to promote his photography and short films. Someone notices someone who looks like Steve in the background of a few of his bts clips with a bunch of other people so his comments turn into people asking if that's Steve from Max and Dustin's 'Steve Saturdays'.

It gets to the point where Jonathan has to upload a video with Steve where Steve is saying: "Yes, it's me. Can you stop asking and comment on Jonathan's actual videos now? He's been really annoying telling me to stop stealing attention." Jonathan elbows him in the ribs for that last comment. Robin is filming it and she fully knows what she's doing when she turns the camera to herself, makes a teasing comment about how they love each other really and posts it before either of the guys can catch her.

Now people are speculating about the nature of Steve and Jonathan's relationship, internet sleuthing and posting "evidence".

Eddie is going crazy thinking this guy he's been obsessed with has two men fighting over him and a secret lover. He gets drunk one night and won't stop talking about him and how he wishes he had a chance with him to his bandmates. Gareth and Jeff who take turns being in charge of Corroded Coffin's socials are so fed up of hearing about the infamous Steve of tiktok fame that they record his drunken ramblings and upload it to the band's account which has a pretty decent following. They set it to a love song and post a follow up with a powerpoint presentation on why Eddie would be a great boyfriend for Steve and end it with: "He's a bit chaotic and has a flat ass but please consider him because he's kind, funny, creative and the future of our band may hinge on it."

Tiktok explodes with "How many men are in love with Steve at this point?" videos where everyone is waiting to see what's going to happen next. Steve is blissfully unaware for now, but Dustin has seen it because he's a fan of Eddie's DnD videos and is following all of the accounts associated with him, so he's not going to stay oblivious for long.

Sidenote: I like to also imagine that in this AU Steve is one of those people who has accounts but never uses them and the teens fully take advantage of him not being up to date on internet culture for comedy purposes. For example, Robin, Max, Lucas and Dustin absolutely convince him that fnaf is based on a true crime story and the bite of '83 is a real thing that happened. Like that one Smoshmouth episode where Shayne and Spencer prank Amanda (this video at about 31:48 for context).

The final battle rages. The party levels their attacks on the Mindflayer. El spars with Vecna. Will looks poised to tap in for the assist.

The camera pans up to show us the entire scene. The it pans higher still. Up and up and up.

In the distance, we see the monster army. Demogorgons. Demodogs. Demobats. Demoshitwehaveneverevenheardof. It's clear that there's no way the party can win. Once this army gets to them, they'll cut through our heroes like a hot knife slicing through room temperature mozzarella.

It'll be a goddamn bloodbath. Not just a total party kill but a total party erasure.

The camera starts to zoom in again, zeroing in tight on this absolute horde of death that lies in wait.

At the forefront, we see him. Wings. Fingernails long and sharp and curved. Teeth made for ripping. Familiar tattoos. Long, dark curls. Brown eyes turned molten gold by whatever transformation he has endured.

Undead, inhuman, Eddie Munson paces before the monster army, tattered boots scuffing back and forth across a large boulder.

"And why? For the sake of some Grand Plan we don't give two shits about? Oh no! We, The Hive, aren't doing it anymore. Not under these hazardous fucking conditions. Not without a little bit of give on Their part."

A loud road of approval. Eddie stops his pacing and looks at his brethren head on with a feral, unhinged smile.

"I'm doing it, guys. I'm calling for a boycott."

The monsters roar louder, a clamorous din that shakes the very earth beneath them.

They do not fight that day.

That’s my last ST fanart bc i can’t do this anymore

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

someone is putting up pictures of me around town and they all say I’m ‘wanted’. which is nice

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Steve : im done baby sitting this damn kid

Dustin: ***discovers an entire wormhole 5 seconds after being left alone***

Steve:…you have GOT to be kidding me