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They/Them Genderqueer

[curtis-brothers-hug]

“You don't just stop living because you lose someone. I thought you knew that by now. You don't quit!”

I know Darry is addressing Ponyboy and referencing their parents’ death. But also. Darry may be harboring just a tad bit of unresolved anger at Dally for going out and getting himself killed the moment they lost Johnny.

[thehmn]

There’s a college in my city that has a rumor that there’s a secret basement below the known basement that can only be accessed via some hidden stairs scattered around the school or by pressing a secret number sequence in some of the elevators. The staff at the school are super annoyed by this and have no idea where this rumor started.

But I know. I think it was me.

In my defense I never intended to start a rumor. Many years ago I worked as a cleaner at the school and one evening I had to transport one of those big floor washing machines from the basement to the second level via the elevator. When the doors opened a very confused looking man stood inside. He was one of those slicked back gym-bro IT guys and made no movement to get out. The elevator wouldn’t fit him, me and the machine so I asked “Where are you going? Up or down?”

He gave me a smug shit-eating grin and said “Down?” in a mocking tone.

It took me a second to realize that of course he wasn’t going down, we were in the basement, but his look and tone annoyed me so much I refused to admit I misspoke and instead said “Yeah, down. I don’t know if you’re going to the second basement”

His smile disappeared “There’s a second basement?”

“Yeah but it sounds like you don’t have access to it so I guess you’re going up? I’ll just wait”

I never thought of it as anything other than a funny story to tell about that time I got so annoyed with a guy that I invented an entire second basement, but it turns out he probably refused to believe a cleaner fooled him and the story spread.

[iwriteonthisone]

Hot take: Neil Josten would hide his bite wound from the crew in a zombie apocalypse.

[emhidesart]

the astrophage dads

[instigatorjosten]

oops crying again ha ha sorry. i just realized andrew privably started feeling like he lost his mosnter mask after people found out about drake. because its not long after they all think they can control him into rehab, he falls for neil, his deal w aaron ends, etc.

and it further proves he shouldnt show weakness in his head if he wants to also remain in control and keep people safe: ie, if he didnt go to rehab he would have been there for kevin and kept neil from going to the nest; if he had kept neil at arm’s length neil would not have tried to protect andrew by letting himself be kidnapped quietly; and he would have been entitled to keep his deal with aaron and keep him in bubble wrap away from a relationship that could devastate his twin.

so for a while there, before lots of therapy, andrew probably had the extra layer of hating thanksgiving because it was the last time he had a semblance of control.

[nooneiscurrentlyavailable]

Little Pony was a master manipulator for two reasons. One he knew he was a good liar from a young age, two Sodapop.

If Pony wanted to play with Soda and Steve? Crying. Soda caved.

If Pony broke something he'd quiver his lip, swear it was an accident and Soda would take the fall everytime.

If Pony decided at three AM he needed a slice of cake, he'd go to Soda's room, wake him up, and they'd be in the kitchen eating cake like ninja's.

He could do this to the others as well but it was not as easy. For his mom he'd have to play the long game and be on his absolute best behavior.

When it came to Mr. Curtis he just became a suck up. Darrel he also needed to suck up too, but on top of that he needed to be on his best behavior. Because teenage Darry, one wrong mood swing and it was over.

Soda's will always be the worst victim thought.

[twiggy-boy]

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

[lorasx]

jean agreeing to adopting a dog and giving him his last name because jeremy wanted it

[jordiipordii]

thinking about jab, who jean has already told us ‘has no survival instincts’, lying in bed with jean & wandering up to lay his head down on jean’s neck. and jean flinches because of course he doesn’t like having his neck touched, but by fur it’s a little different. he waits to figure out what jab is doing, but all the little dog does is rest his head there and then fall asleep.

it happens several more nights and he can’t make sense of why. then one day jean asks cody if they know and cody, who has had plenty of animals in their day, smiles and says “sometimes it’s a protective thing. maybe he thinks he’s protecting you.” & that is so absurd because jab is so small, and they are in such a safe space; what could the little dog possibly think he’s protecting jean from?

but then comes jeremy’s crash out, and all of a sudden jeremy is in jean’s bed and jab all at once goes to jeremy instead of jean. he lays his little head down on jeremy’s neck and seeing it done on someone else, jean realizes why it seems so much like ‘do not touch him’.

it’s exactly how jean is feeling in that moment, too, and he reaches over and pets jab’s little head, running his fingers thru short scraggly fur and finally saying, “I see. Good boy.”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I actually think I like the film Betrayal Scene better.

Like don't get me wrong, the book one is good (the idea of Grace having to spend multiple days locked up stewing about how he's gonna die before they even knock him out is deliciously angsty, as is Stratt's last attempt to beg him to understand why she has to do this) but fuck.

He like literally starts climbing the walls.

Like he came in there relatively composed. He had a rationalisation for what he was going to do, he probably rehearsed his little speech. He's putting the walls up because he knows he's not doing The Right Thing, but he doesn't want to let on that he knows that. He's probably pretending to himself as much as Stratt. He's doing it For The Kids.

And then the switch to just pure, animal terror when the doctor comes in. Like there's a degree of comedy to it. Grace is always slightly goofy, slightly immature (probably why his students like him so much) and now he's climbing and running like a kid playing tag. Except its not a game and it's not working.

Eva's tone when she tells him to “sit down, we'll do it different”. Like I know I'm murdering you, I know that you're not capable of seeing this any other way, but please at least see sense and spare yourself the trauma of having to be literally dragged kicking and screaming. Please.

The resignation when she says “he's running.” Like, she doesn't have to say who's running, or why. She knew this was a possibility. She knew this was a likely possibility but why couldn't he just fucking be the guy she needs him to be? Doesn't he know how hard this is??

The realisation that, if Carl is by the fence, then it's probably because they were concerned that Grace might actually outrun the guards and would need to be ambushed. The possibility that Carl specifically is there because, in that scenario, Grace would be more easy to catch if he trusted his pursuer.

Like I think one reason I'm attached to Ryland Grace is that I honestly couldn't tell you that I wouldn't behave like that in that scenario. Like sure, we all like to say we'd bravely sacrifice ourselves for humanity, but like it's not like I'm currently chaining myself to rainforest trees or throwing soup at paintings in museums or kidnapping oil execs or whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I don't even really attend protests.

There are significantly more things that I could be doing right now to make the world a better place that I don't do because they would involve upending my life and putting myself at more personal risk than I am comfortable with. I have no room to judge Ryland Grace.

I mean, just look at how scared he is.

[tendebill]

[part 1] [part 2]

rocky make sure grace not know a moment of peace. statement <3

[tendebill]

[part 1] [part 2]

rocky learns about the Denmark incident :]

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[thatliznt]

Thanks to my friend, Grace and Simon now write love letters to each other in my version

[imapuppetqueer]

Gotta catch em all

[redstonedust]

yall ever lose interest in something so you stop seeking out content for it and your brain will be like. wow its so crazy that that thing used to be everywhere and then everyone stopped talking about it. so crazy that it fell off like that because nobody is talking about it on my personal curated social media and youtube algorithms. surely no other factors here.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.