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Stranger Things

(WIP) Shapechanger - Already trapped in an apocalyptic quarantine at the hands of Vecna and the US Military, a violent triple homicide rocks the shaky foundation of Hawkins, uncovering a growing rot that threatens to turn its remaining populace against one another.

In a last bet to keep their nerve, Robin makes a promise she intends to keep. Eddie refuses to ever run again.

And sometimes, when Steve looks in the mirror, it isn't him looking back anymore.

i follow where my mind goes - All Eddie had to was wait for April, when track teams met and the school year slowly dwindled to a close. Then King Steve would stop breathing down his neck, and unanswered questions could be left on the shelf.

Absence Makes It - My entry for Steddie Winter Exchange '24. Steve's had enough of the rules, the sneaking around.

(WIP)The Art of Folding Paper - Steve devotes a lot of his time to folding paper. He can make anything: frogs, birds, cranes, and about a million little paper stars.

Even before everything went to shit, origami was probably the only thing that had ever kept him sane.

Waiting Angels - My entry for the 2025 Steddie Big Bang. In the wake of an ill-planned act of vigilante justice, Eddie Munson plans a quiet exit for his last year at Hawkins High. He says goodbye to his drug-dealing, loosens his tight grip on The Hellfire Club, on his friends, and on the one person who had made everything make sense. Months later, alone and still licking his wounds, he receives a mysterious phone call from the one friend he'd never gotten the chance to say goodbye to. Desperate to solve the mystery of her disappearance, Eddie is forced to enter an underworld of crime and deceit that has somehow managed to infiltrate every last corner of the life he'd thought he'd left behind.

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Stranger Things

Scarred to the Soul - one shot centered around my Kas!Steve AU, in which Vecna turns Steve into a toy to play with and guilt the Party, drawing them in to trap and kill them.

(WIP) Restless Lakes Arise - my take on Lake Monster Steve. Robin has a habit of poking around where she isn't supposed to, and in her latest expedition to an abandoned mansion in Loch Nora she stumbles upon a strange creature taking up residence in the pool

[twinkhole-destroyer]

someone is putting up pictures of me around town and they all say I’m ‘wanted’. which is nice

[amarcia]

Bonding with the Living Force :)

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

[faggot-rat]

Aborted Descartes voice: I would've thought...if I was.

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[athingofvikings]

I've made this observation before, but there's a distinct and strong correlation between "wanting simplistic, saccharine, and morally binary media" and "authoritarianism". It's not a 1 to 1, which is where a lot of people seem to misunderstand things; it's not "If you like fluff, you're a jackbooted authoritarian." Very much not. This is a pattern that grows up out of thousands--hundreds of thousands--of individual interactions, out of culture, out of a shift of perspectives on what is seen as the norm and what is seen as outrageous.

Individual people liking cutesy fluff? Not a problem. Thousands of people insisting that fluff is the only acceptable option and if you dare make them think and consider, you're the problem?

That's a Problem.

It's the shifting of norms in culture, and fandom is not an isolated bubble--it's a representative of larger trends. And the trend right now in our larger culture, especially in America, is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism that has gone past "creeping" and is now "prancing", "dancing", "galloping", or dare I say goosestepping. Of course that's going to have an impact on the cultural scenes, including fandom!

And there's a correlation in societies that want saccharine fluff and their own authoritarianism. I can point to numerous examples--Victorian England with the censored stories for children. The USSR with an entire kitschy style of stories and art. The USA before the rise of Trump with Thomas Kinkaid's art. And that's just scratching the surface.

The main point in bringing this up is to be aware of the trend, not to take it as a personal attack for enjoying fluffy stories.

[notaplaceofhonour]

And I think the way to keep this from pendulum-swinging into “fluffy stories bad” (because we know this does happen with any observation of problematic trends—see: feminist critiques of objectification turning into puritanical sex-negativity, critiques of appropriation turning into enforcing cultural “purity”, etc) is to shift the focus from the presence of this kind of fiction to the proportional absence of the alternative.

Obviously, the presence is easier to spot—you can actually see something that is present, but you can’t directly see something that’s absent—so it makes sense that this is the first piece of evidence in building this critique, but the critical thing that makes this an issue is the absence of engagement with challenging works, not actually the engagement with unchallenging ones.

Positive emotions and things that make us feel safe and cared for are as important a part of the human experience as for the negative. And safety-seeking can be as much a response to the rise of fascism to get away from it as an indication of people falling into it. We just can’t only have the safe, unchallenging stuff. Because it is that censorship and cutting out of fundamental parts of human experience that feeds into the social conservatism & puritanism of authoritarianism.

[blaxploitations]

some American Library Association ‘READ’ posters.

[pericardium-and-glass]

An Angel came to save me.

Daylight horror my beloved... Environment study. In 2026, I want to be able to paint backgrounds.

[oliviawebsite]

snacks will make me powerful. sweets will make me wise

[narrativelydoomed]

OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) - PART VI

"Then my friend is truly dead. Goodbye, Darth."

[mychemicalraymance]

based off of these edits

[kuinesis-deactivated20190107]

Yugo Kohrogi mouth paintings

[energyprison]

popcorn explodes too violently. they need to breed a new one that unfurls like the delicate wings of a newly emerged moth

[1five1two]

'The Ubiquitous Goddess'. Carlos Merida. 1970.

[skelesass]

welcome back

[nubbsgalore]

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)

[loop-drawz]

Done!

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

do not invite me over to your house if you only use the big light