flicking back through my procreate library what the fuck was this
authors notes: there is absolutely no one true meaning intended for this piece, but I guess my thoughts while making it were the plain, boring and literal way you talk about the world after seeing something traumatic , or the way things seem to lose all meaning and significance . and also the way you minimise an event to make it sound like it's not so bad , the way you remove detail from the memory.
like .. there is something over the river . there is something unspeakable over the river . when you recount it , you have to make it seem so small . it's just a body. the state the body is in can't be made out like this . you hide the details from yourself to forget how bad it really looked . you hide it in general - so insignificant you could miss it entirely ! it was just a body and The Something that killed it looming , and birds flying away .
and the world could be full of colour , but you can't see it that way any more . the grass is just grass . the trees are just trees . the fish in the river that's just a river are just fish , and that's just a body .
Also SPOILERS for anyone who wants the solution to the eye-spy:
flicking back through my procreate library what the fuck was this
authors notes: there is absolutely no one true meaning intended for this piece, but I guess my thoughts while making it were the plain, boring and literal way you talk about the world after seeing something traumatic , or the way things seem to lose all meaning and significance . and also the way you minimise an event to make it sound like it's not so bad , the way you remove detail from the memory.
like .. there is something over the river . there is something unspeakable over the river . when you recount it , you have to make it seem so small . it's just a body. the state the body is in can't be made out like this . you hide the details from yourself to forget how bad it really looked . you hide it in general - so insignificant you could miss it entirely ! it was just a body and The Something that killed it looming , and birds flying away .
and the world could be full of colour , but you can't see it that way any more . the grass is just grass . the trees are just trees . the fish in the river that's just a river are just fish , and that's just a body .
Also SPOILERS for anyone who wants the solution to the eye-spy:
the paladin / cleradin buzz this picture gives me is insaneeee OH MY GODDDDD
me when I’m looking longingly at the love of my life get married from across the chapel but I can’t do anything because im just a cringefail loser knight and the love of my life is a literal sorceror. golden brown by the stranglers starts playing. GUYSSSS
Still can't get over the fact that Mike's internal conflict in s4 was this fear that nobody needs him, which is resolved by Will's painting and Will's words about how Mike will always be needed.
And then in s5 during coming out scene Will looks him dead in the eyes and practically says he doesn't need Mike. And never needed him.
Dustin, knowing how much El got lonely, used cerebro to call El every night she was in California to talk to her since he couldn’t call. Every single time he greeted her “toothless to supergirl” just because it made her laugh. She wasn’t much of a talker, mainly liked to listen to him ramble about projects. On the days where the bullying got to her, all she would do is sit in silence while he talked to get comfort in the sound of his voice.
When Hawkins fell Dustin would still make a point to reach out in the walkies each night just as a way to form a routine and provide consistency for her while she trained and searched for Vecna relentlessly.
Then imagine after she died he still pulled out his radio every night. He would start as he always did “toothless to supergirl” even though his heart broke every time he couldn’t hear her laugh in response. Then he would go on to talk for a while, ramble about his day into the empty universe. Because he knew wherever Jane Hopper was in the universe, dead or alive, he would never let her feel lonely ever again.
henderhop makes sense not just because they match each other’s freak, they’re the 90% of their friend groups, or how dustin would clap at el breaking angela’s nose
but whatever scientist gig that dustin ends up doing leading to him being stationed in iceland is a far more likely scenario than mike visiting iceland because of a book tour or whatever
A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.” Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).
Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.
Whoops my cursor slipped.
Imagine season 5 where everything is the same but Henderhop are together. They were keeping it a secret until everything was over with because they didn’t want Vecna to use him against El. So for now their relationship was long talks late at night, secret dates under the stars, and hands held under the table during plans. It was stolen giggling kisses as they ducked into rooms for privacy, and soft spoken “I love you’s” every time they said goodbye just in case it was the last words they ever said to each other.
They had plans for how to tell everyone too. They were going to all be hanging out as a party and Dustin was going to stand up holding whatever he was drinking, clinking it with a fork. He was going to take a deep breath and then dramatically announce his love for El. Then he was going to dip her, right then and there in front of them and kiss her so matter how hard she was laughing at his antics. Afterwards he was going to lord over their heads at how good he was keeping a secret and ‘honestly I can’t believe you didn’t notice’ while he smirked.
But instead they found out when Dustin was fighting like hell against the soldiers to run to stop her. The party realized what they were to each other as he was screaming, begging El ‘please don’t do this I love you’ after she kissed him goodbye for the last time with tears in her eyes.
There was no joy in bragging after that.