"you're just mad at the duffers because byler didn't happen"the writers and directors of the show needed maya hawke to remind them while filming that lucas didn't know robin is a lesbian in the 80's who is dating vickie, so they should whisper about their date at enzo's and their relationship instead of talking loudly about it. yeah, they totally handled very well queer representation.

‘character who’s tired of being a person’ + ‘character who’s tired of not being a person’

sorry but I actually do love that pluribus is “slow” I love that it lingers a bit too long and makes you watch characters walk all the way across rooms and load things into their cars and listen to entire voicemails I love that a 50 minute episode might have a few dozen lines of dialogue I love that it’s nearly impossible for it to be a “second screen” show maybe I love slow!!!!!!!

they are a set !! do not separate !!!!

I think its crazy how they showed us in real time how little it takes for repressed people to shove themselves back in the closet.

Because Mike was RIGHT THERE- he really was. I specifically want to talk about the records.

He had this Butthole Surfers album picked out, specifically choosing it so that his little dnd figure would explode at the end of the song Human Cannonball. If you go and look at the lyrics, it’s incredibly byler coded. It talks about somebody hurting the person they love and feeling unable to repair it. I think this is meant to show us that Mike is pushing any feelings he has aside because theres no possible way he could 100% repair the damage he’s done with Will. He also doesn’t know that Will is gay in this scene.

Then, Robin jumps in. She criticizes this album, saying it’s weird and not a fitting soundtrack for saving the world. And Mike argues, trying vaguely to defend himself— but he caves. He puts the record away and finds a different, more popular record. But still one that ultimately fits his feelings for Will (because lets remember that the version of El Mike loves is just Will projecting his feelings onto her)

TL:DR Robin gave Mike an excuse to shove himself in the closet and fein his feelings for El because she didn’t like his gay little album

Byler au where Will wraps his hands around Mike's waist and realises it's so small that he can enclose it in his palms alone. And it turns them on both equally.

The concept of Mike having to go back through his memories, all the way to 1983, maybe even beyond, to escape his trance.

And every memory involves Will.

suffer brothers i will NEVER fucking forgive you for turning my highly-relatable comfort character from my decade long hyperfixation comfort show into the very nightmare of forced conformity us outcasts are trying to escape from.

Mike never knowing about the painting lie makes me feel disgustingly sick to my stomach.

the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice

insane like/reblog parity on this post btw

Yay

who ruined it

dw i fixed it

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

reblogging for personal use

ART REFERENCE NOT FULL OF AI?! YESSS

Imagine a world where music is music and dance is dance, and the two of them have nothing to do with each other. People go to the club and rhythmically throb in complete silence; they go to dance recitals, and it's all just people moving weirdly around the stage, in silence. If you go to a concert and you start tapping your toes or clapping in time with the music, this is seen as weird and kind of gauche. Everyone notes that, historically, music and dance used to have a lot to do with each other, and some of the historical art created from that past, like The Nutcracker or Singin' in the Rain or the Macarena, was "pretty good", but combining them is just not the Done Thing anymore by serious artists. It's only done by weird and trashy subculture artists who aren't taken seriously by the mainstream artistic establishment. On those rare occasions when a "serious artist" decides to incorporate music into their dance or vice versa, they need to take pains to establish that they're being subversive, rather than playing it straight like those weird, trashy musical dancers.

Anyway, that's how I feel about the "STEM / humanities" divide.

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

you write it once so it can be read forever

this fanfic shit easy as hell