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Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy 21 He/Him

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Music played through the hallway, soft and familiar, beckoning Mike to continue forward. David Bowie. There was something distorted in the way it played, Mike couldn't figure out where it came from, stretching every word like the song would continue to play forever but never quite reach the ending.

He doesn't remember the last time he heard a song finish.

"Mike?"

Holly's quiet voice chimes out from downstairs, searching for him.

His head whips around, but the movement unsteadies him, and his shoe presses down onto the landing before he can fall. Mike is turned around, confused, and delirious —

OR, Hawkins had never defeated Vecna in the first place.

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happy birthday to this fucking idiot <3

sorry if it displays weird on desktop, it's too long to be a gif. frames under the cut!

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“What’s my necklace made out of?” But it’s Byler

Walk with me …

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Working on the outline for a potential season 5 rewrite/fix-it, ended a sentence with, “Fuck you all.”

I’m a little excited

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Ghostface Byler based on this Twitter Post:

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

"I just don't understand the hype." Mike didn't even look up from his notebook.

"For Valentine's Day?" Max always had a sharp voice, Mike pretended to ignore her, cutting straight to the issue. "You're such a liar. Come on, you're just annoyed you don't have a girlfriend."

Dustin, a traitor that he is, piped in for the first time in the last 15 minutes. "He wasn't even that into it when he had a girlfriend, though? This isn't surprising."

"It's boring. It's boring."

Dustin hummed. "So boring you had to order flowers?"

OR, Mike complains about Valentine's Day and is, undeniably, a hypocrite.

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It's the first of February, and the first things I get inspiration to write about is... bitterness involving love because that's where my mind went involving Mike Wheeler.

Maybe it goes somewhere, maybe it doesn't... we will see.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Mike had a problem, but it wasn't actually about Will and it wasn't even about Mike being queer. It didn't even have anything to do with Mike's feelings for Will.

Mike's problem was irrational, and stupid, and made so little logical sense even Mike understood that it should not be that big of a deal.

That's the fault to irrational fears. Mike knew it was stupid, but what power did he have to put it to bed?

Avoidant, is what Mike thinks Nancy would call him.

She'd probably be right.

OR, Mike has always eventually been proven right, which pairs awfully with the irrational fear of everything going wrong if he let himself open up a little bit more. Shenanigan's ensue.

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dude your stranger things fic is literally SO GOOD,, i loved your personal rep of mike’s coming out it was so well written :DDDDDD

I completely forgot there was the option of reaching me here lowkey LMAOOOOO

THANK YOU SO MUCH, I thought changing up the usual meta, Mike panicking over the fact he likes boys, to Mike having already accepted that part of himself and struggling with a similar gut-wrenching fear was fun to think about. I like that it's anxiety ridden but still sweet cause clearly Mike's being stupid to the point even he acknowledges it.

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Damian is an artist.

Damian being an artist is so dear to me in many ways, he can use this creative outlet to show how he views things, people, himself in such a deeply vulnerable way without having to say it.

Give me a Damian who paints his family portraits for their birthdays or just for himself, give me Wayne brothers each painted in Damian's style but distinctly different from each other. Different elements are highlighted for each person.

Give me Dick painted in chunky, light strokes reminiscent to van Gogh.

Give me Bruce painted in colors just off from being black and white.

Give me Jason so desaturated or monotoned that when Damian uses color for his eyes they almost glow green against everything.

Give me Cass unshaded and abstract.

Give me Duke painted in the brightest of bright colors against the darkest of shadows, bonus points if glow-in-the-dark paints were used.

But Tim? Tim has always been terribly difficult to draw, Damian just can't get his face right.

He won't let Tim best him in this way, it's unacceptable, but Damian will not let anyone see his artwork not at it's best. He does everything he can just not to draw Tim's face—his favorite is to spiral Tim's face, maybe he'll leave an eye or paint whatever flower he thinks best represents his brother that day right in the middle.

And Tim just loves it.

The first time Damian painted Tim and gave him the piece, he was uncertain of how it'd be received though he'd deny this with every breath in his lungs. He was prepared for Tim to hate it, to get angry that he distorted his face in such a way—and he could see the same thoughts on the faces of everyone who saw Damian present it to Tim. Why wouldn't he hate it? It'd be disrespectful to anyone, especially if the artist and the muse had such a disastrous relationship. He couldn't be blamed, but Damian was prepared to blame him regardless.

Tim was silent for what felt like hours when he laid eyes on the portrait Damian had painted of him. He hadn't expected any portrait Damian painted of him, if he ever painted one of Tim at all, to make him feel so... seen? Understood? Viewed in a way Tim could have never described?

If Tim cried? That's none of your business.

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This is going to haunt me until I see that TikTok in my FYP… I got a TikTok and I haven’t seen it yet… this is information I MUST find… this is winner territory I can feel it…

If you see my content anywhere but posted directly please @ me on TikTok (lialcross) because I can’t properly feed my ego without it

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I wanted to say your design of Superman's Daughter, Laurel Lane-Kent, is really beautiful! I can see her being a fun older sister to the Supertwins, Otho-Ra and Osu-Ral ^^

Anyway, what do you think her Superhero name would be like? You talked a lot about her relationship with her dad, What about Lois? How does Laurel bond with her mom?

ALSO ALSO!!!

What do you think her relationship is with other Supers/ Steels are like? (Kara, Kon, John Henry Irons, and Natasha Irons)

I think it is so cool that, when Clark got a daughter, he named her after his biological mom (Lara Lor-Van), it kind of parallels the canonical fact that Kon named his Gemworld adopted baby-daughter after their mother (Martha Kent)

Sorry, if this came out as rambling, I'm just really happy to see discussion of Clark and Lois being parents to a daughter. In my head, they were meant to be girl-parents (parents to a daughter). I hope you have an awesome week!

In the tags where I posted Laurel's design, I had mentioned that I think she'd go by the superhero name "Power-Girl," as Supergirl is used by Kara, because I find the (currently) powerless child of Superman to use such a name incredibly funny. I tried to find a different name I'd think she'd fit best, but Power-Girl was the only one to really stick.

For Laurel's relationship with her mom, I think they'd be quite close. Lois is known to do some pretty crazy shit just because she knows she'll have a 6-foot-something alien to catch her and a very loud personality, I think it'd rub off on her daughter whether subconsciously or in a direct attempt to copy Lois. While Clark, Kon, and everyone else are off fighting aliens and this week's supervillain, Laurel and Lois would have a lot of time to bond without them even with work and school. Of course, while designing/making Laurel her relationship with Kon was always at the forefront of my mind. He's her older brother (Who in come continuities got the name Abomination in the house of El) and there's not a thought in my mind that Laurel wouldn't idolize him to an extent. She'd drop anything if it meant she'd be hanging out with Kon and any of his friends (because they'd let her do fun things like run around in a costume and fight people).

For the others, I'm not very well versed on Superman's adjacent family members. I kind of know Kara from when I was younger and watched a lot of the Supergirl show, but that's about it and you know how TV shows love to mess up characters. I'm not confident enough to make a decision about how they would interact with her.

I started working on Laurel when I saw people discussing Laura Kent in the Congratulations comic and found very little information on her because she was an 'imaginary' daughter. I don't know why they let them be girl-parents so many times only to make them boy-parents instead. There are too many black-haired, blue-eyed boys fighting crime, let a black-haired, blue-eyed girl do it instead. Anyway, thank you so much for the compliment! I love to see people ramble at me because it gives me more to work with when coming up with a response (I've heard I'm a very dry texter), so lengthy character messages are on my good list.

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WHERE IS HE.

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Sometimes I mistake depictions of Bernard for Lonnie

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In Anarky's short comic lines, Lonnie is shown to answer questions in a chatroom-based website/program. In the late 1990s.

So, what I'm getting at here is that the natural progression of Lonnie could look similar to streamer personalities that go over current world events, breaking down the news while explaining and answering questions about why and how modern media is lying and sharing carefully constructed propaganda. A modern Lonnie, a real modern Lonnie where he constantly tip-toes the line between good acts and neutral acts with none of this 'he is a criminal!!!1!' bogus, could very easily capitalize on a very real and very effective system that we can already see and consume on a daily basis. Pre-General or Post-General or both, it doesn't matter, Lonnie has a voice and there's no way he wouldn't use it to its full potential.

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In my defense, I was on track to finishing the third chapter by today on Frida,y and then I somehow ended up outside all day on Saturday

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Time meassured in Robins and Commissioner Gordon’s Hair. EDIT PATCH NOTES: Added steph.

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