five raccoons in a trench coat

This is where I scream about my current fixations, characters, ships, shows, movies, books, and the human condition or something I am a full on adult and my blog is often NSFW brandi || she/they || 30s || audhd af || acespec Appalachian, lover of animals, collector of fossils, obsessor of blorbos, national park enthusiast simping for husband boy I Podfic and write sometimes ao3 bramble_berries

[bramble-berries]

it's complete!!!! I'm so proud of it!

you must have known for a long time (the shape of things to come) (31988 words) by brakers91 Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things), firetower au, excon!Eddie, Light Angst, Fluff, Humor, Fluff and Angst, Long-Distance Relationship, Slow Burn, Eventual Smut, 90s AU, Aged-Up Character(s), Falling In Love, Flirting, falling in love over radio, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, grief as a character, Tender Sex, Eddie Munson Needs a Hug, Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart, Emotional Sex, Referenced Minor Character Death, Isolation, Masturbation, Masturbation Fantasy, Service Top Steve Harrington, Bottom Eddie Munson, Eddie Munson Character Study, Frottage, they're switches, Mutual Pining, it’s about yearning, and also grief, and also banging Summary: “Tower two?” Steve’s uncertain voice crackled through the radio. “You there, man?” Eddie held down the button, opened his mouth, then snapped it shut again and released the button. He did it two more times. Shit! Steve would surely recognize his name. That was the last thing he needed. He made a split-second decision and pressed the button to talk. “Yea, yea, I’m here. Sorry. Uh, bee got in. I was trying to get it out the window. I’m, um- Eddie Makowski.” His intonation raised at the last syllable like he was asking a question. He cringed. Hoped Steve didn’t notice it. There was a long silence. Then, “Makowski, huh? Ok. Um, nice to meet you then, Eddie Makowski.” or: Eddie gets a summer job, not knowing Steve will be his only coworker. They fall in love over the radio waves.

[lourensz]

anok yai w/ her family by aidan cullen

[faejayy]

finally watched our flag means death. doodled this between seasons so it does not quite fit my current mood but nevertheless

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Eridian government representative: Greetings Rocky, Saviour of Erid, and Grace, Saviour from Beyond the Stars. We are pleased to welcome you home.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Rocky: GRACE STOP TALKING NOW NOW NOW I EXPLAIN LATER

[puncertainty]

they did heelys in space…

[stellarspecter]

Fucked Up But True: If You Don't Do Anything With Your Day, The Day Will Keep Going On Without You

[guooey]

Beautiful cow who is mooing at you

[forger343]

@videogamecows

[bovineblogger]

COWPOST RATING: INCORRECT

that is not one of those

[gaytommykinard]

"you don't like mpreg?" i don't even like fpreg

[whyenn-reader]

firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.

[whyenn-reader]

you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)

[whyenn-reader]

if you think you are good (identity) you are more likely to cause harm as you don't consider yourself to be capable of it

[kaylmao]

just molted for the first time ama

[ruined-blog]

They could never make me hate you pirate queen

*better quality when you click sry*

[mr-deep-downer]

[sailatina3]

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[threeninesfine]

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

—J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

[bramble-berries]

For every published work that glosses over the plot-irrelevant details that most readers don’t want to read about, there’s at least one freak on the internet who lives for that shit and has written a beautiful treatise on the long-term psychosocial effects of isolation and stress on a fictional character in the form of a masturbation fic that somehow changed the wiring of your brain in 1000 words and that is why I come to tumblr and ao3

[bramble-berries]

If I could just sit with myself on a couch and have a conversation with me, I just know we could figure out how to get our life together. also it would be pretty hot if we fu-

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

[cleo-fox]

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

[maple-seed]

Both options convey that he's horny

[cleo-fox]

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

[theomnipotentfox]

If it's the snack chip he might just be corny.

[mulandaily]

— requested by manbunjon

[sweaterkittensahoy]

This is a fucking stunning use of lyrics and images. I gasped the first time I saw it.

[heystovepipeboys]

these tags!!!