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@colidamae
With three movies to compare between, I really appreciate how each Knives Out movie explores justice from a different thematic angle, not based on the murder that was committed but based on the cruelty that led to that murder.
In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.
In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.
In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.
This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.
This is also why Benoit Blanc is the uniting figure but never the protagonist of these movies. He's an agent of legal justice in that he's the detective and it's his job to figure out whodunnit, but the protagonist -- Marta, Helen, and now Jud -- is always the character who delivers thematic justice.
Really good movies
me introducing my friends to lazytown, a show that hasn't aired for 10 years
Apollo 17 vs Artemis II
Despite everything, it's still you.
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Also prev tags:
That's really cool actually
So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show
“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.
“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.
“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.
“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.
“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.
A lot of people were also never told “no” as children and the consequences of that manifest in similar ways. Learn to be ok with being told “no.” You’re not gonna die if you don’t get your way in every single situation ever.
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Steddie fics so good they had to steal them!
So you've probably heard. Some little asshole on ao3 has been going around and reposting Steddie fics as Ronance ones with little but the names changed, probably with the "help" of chatgpt. It's quite lazy and more than a little ridiculous, really. "Metalhead Robin rocking up to popular girl Nancy's mansion in her van, where she proceeds to DM Hellfire for the kids by the pool while suavely smoking her cigarettes" levels of lazy and ridiculous.
However!
I've been thinking about how to actually give the authors of the stolen fics the credit they deserve. People who poured their time and passion into those fics rather than just lazily pressing a button.
How are we gonna do this, you ask? By making a rec list, of course!
How does it work?
You send me an ask. It should include a link to a Steddie fic that was stolen. It does not need to include the link to the copycat fic bc we don't want to give that little turd any more attention than necessary, but you can tell me the title of the copycat fic if you want, and if it has already been reported to your knowledge.
If you tell me the title of the copycat fic, I will add a nice little public bookmark to it (since the "author" deletes negative comments), stating that it's stolen, where to find the original fic, and if it's been reported already. (Ao3 actually only needs one report per fic, so that'll save both them and us some work.)
I will also, of course, publish your ask and add the original fic to a list, so we all get some great Steddie recs out of it.
Sound good? Good! You know what to do!
Steddie + text posts
Eddie got rejected.
He wasn’t actually asking anyone out and was, in fact, just trying to figure out when him and his lab partner were going to meet up for their class project. But still.
He got turned down for a date he wasn’t asking for with, “Sorry, I have a boyfriend.”
Steve watched the girl walk away and shook his head like, “Man, that sucks.”
“I wasn’t-“
“She turned me down too,” He said about this girl he’s never seen or talked to before. “It’s rough. I guess we’ll just have to date each other.”
“This Saturday,” He added causally to Eddie’s confusion. “At the drive-in.”
And that -
“That’s how you gay kissed someone before me?!??” Robin exclaims. “That’s it?! You just realized that you were bisexual last week.”
“Well,” Steve shrugs. “I wasn’t bi at that time.”
“You were literally asking a guy out.”
“Asking Eddie Munson out. It’s different.”
“How?!?”
@morganbritton132 tag preservation squad:
#Eddie isn’t so much a boy as he is an experience#and Steve wanted to experience it#meanwhile Eddie was experience mass confusion because WTF is happening#Robin: sounds like you were experiencing gay because that’s what happens when you date a man#Steve: no the gay stuff came later
NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
I need to talk about the amazing Steve & Dustin stuff from Vol 2. Because it was amazing and both Gaten and Joe deserve acting awards for it already.
I need to talk about Steve and Dustin because I feel like people are missing where the actual emotional heart of this volume is, and it’s driving me a little insane.
They have been at each other’s throats all season. Not playful bickering. Not tension you wink at. Real, ugly conflict. Grief turned outward. Fear curdled into anger.
And it finally explodes into a physical fight.
Steve says Eddie was stupid. That he got himself killed. That he warned them not to go into the Upside Down.
And Dustin loses it.
Because this is exactly what we thought it was. Dustin loves Steve, but Steve is acting like a fake asshole. Eddie knew who he was. Knew he wasn’t perfect. Didn’t pretend to be above it all. And when Steve says that about Eddie, Dustin attacks him.
And here’s the thing that broke me: Steve doesn’t hit back.
He dodges. He tries to calm Dustin. He tries to hold him. He lets Dustin rage. And when they crash into the hall of the lab in the Upside Down and Dustin is wiped out, Steve just lets go.
He stands up and says, “I’m done. I’m just done.” And he walks away.
No yelling. No monologue. Just resignation.
Dustin throws out the weakest little “Yeah. Dumb.” you’ve ever heard, and he’s crying, and Steve is already gone. And you can see it hit Dustin that this time he might have actually lost him.
And then.
Then we finally get context for the hug from the trailer.
They’re trying to get to Jonathan and Nancy at the top of the Hawkins lab in the Upside Down, which is literally melting. Steve is focused on getting there, but he’s not thinking. He’s about to do what Steve always does: throw himself into danger without considering the cost.
And Dustin stops him.
Dustin tells him to stop being selfish. To stop always putting himself in danger. To stop trying to get himself killed. Because Dustin cannot deal with that again. Not Eddie. Not Steve. Not his best friend.
And the irony is brutal, because Steve’s plan would have failed. They literally watch it collapse. If Dustin hadn’t stopped him, Steve would have died right there.
The looks on their faces when they realize it. Dustin realizing he almost lost him. Steve realizing how much that would have destroyed Dustin.
That’s the moment.
That’s when Steve finally understands that he’s not just “the babysitter.” He’s not just the protector. He’s someone whose loss would be catastrophic.
And later, before the next battle, Dustin gives Steve Eddie’s spear. The one they made together in season 4.
That is trust. That is grief being handed over.
And Steve apologizes. Really apologizes. He admits he was angry because it felt like Dustin was moving on from him. That he missed his best friend.
And Dustin says he missed his best friend too.
No jokes. No undercutting. Just truth.
They say the “you die, I die” thing again. They hug again.
And I need people to understand this:
This reconciliation has more emotional weight than most endgame romances.
It has conflict. It has rupture. It has jealousy. It has fear of abandonment. It has accountability. It has repair.
It’s about choosing each other again after hurting each other.
So yeah, I kind of love that the Duffers said “fuck most of the ships” and put the emotional center of the season here. In Will’s interiority. In Steve and Dustin breaking apart and finding their way back. In Jonathan and Nancy deciding that even though they love each other, being together romantically is just not going to work and choosing to stay close anyway! That is good shit.
This is love that isn’t consumable. Love that isn’t a prize. Love that survives anger and grief and fear.
And honestly? That’s the stuff that stays with me.
listen i may take 4 weeks to write a 3k word chapter, and i may take 45 minutes to decide whether i should use “laugh” or “chuckle”, but at least i don’t use ai and whatever you’re getting is pure chaos from a human brain
in 2025 let’s bring back being enthusiastic on ao3. leave a comment on every chapter. leave kudos and, if necessary, leave “double kudos” in the comments. tags and notes on bookmarks. the whole nine yards. let’s show fanfic authors how much we love them.
So… I may have done a thing. A first complete short story thing…
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70255711
having a tumblr blog is for those of us who could never manage to keep a diary for more than two weeks when we were twelve
I think it's better than that. A Tumblr blog isn't just a journal or diary; it's more of what was known as a commonplace book.
Commonplace books aren't just for recording your thoughts and personal histories. They include quotes, stories, drawings, ephemera, and other pieces of things that catch your attention or that you find significant. If one heard a poem they wanted to keep, or saw a field they wanted to sketch, or had an insightful thought about a play, they would collect all that in the commonplace book.
Isn't that what we do here? We collect and create art, and jokes, and commentary, and political thought, and a lot of us cram it all onto the same blog and throw it at our followers who can then choose to keep it for themselves or let it pass by. We're basically in a salon passing our commonplace books to one another and occasionally copying a passage (reblogging), making an addition (reblogging with commentary), or making an aside to our companions (commenting in the tags/replying).
And I like that a lot.
I'm bothering my friends with theories so I thought I'd bother everyone on here again too. I still want to know why they put all the time, effort and resources into the injuries on Eddie's body if they weren't going to be shown. There isn't a single shot where you see his entire torso except when the bats are holding him down, and at that point he has no bites.
The bites aren't that deep and even though he is bleeding quite a bit, it's still not a life threatening amount. We do see the wound on his neck...but if it was a fatal bite through the jugular he'd be bleeding out and probably not able to speak...right?
I'm just saying...I'm just thinking...I'm just hoping...that they have the makeup mapped out and numbered so *in the future* they can still match the work.
I need a hobby.