Sweet as Stevia

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[sweetasstevia]

Everything is driving me nuts, and I want to scream

[youngchronicpain]

My great aunt tried to ask my mom what she fed me growing up and if she thought that that is why I'm so severely disabled (lmao). Even though there's a huge amount of evidence towards many of my conditions being genetic. (Partly from her side of the family!) People feel more comfortable seeking to blame a mother rather than realizing that sometimes, young people were always going to be disabled, no matter how they were raised. And not because of genetically modified foods. 🙄

[sweetasstevia]

It’s incredible how people love blame. I hate it. Stories are so rarely black and white. -and sometimes chamomile tea does help you sleep. Being healthy helps, but that doesn’t mean you caused it or didn’t try hard enough or that other influences/people are the problem.

Once you have a chronic condition it’s usually from a bunch of things, including lifestyle factors but also largely genetics and predisposition, and sometimes things just go wrong because our bodies are imperfect.

AND ~FFS~ 🤦 ME NEEDING TO USE A WHEELCHAIR TO MOBILISE AT 24

~Because of chronic muscle weakness, joint pain and excessive fatigue, ect~

ISN’T CAUSED BY DRINKING TOO MUCH DIET SODA.

(Yes I know it’s not healthy, yes I’m trying to do better -but no you can’t fix me by telling me what to do and controlling my life.)

Thx for coming to my Ted talk <3

[simpforsauron-deactivated202302]

(Edit: Reading this again, I've come to realise that this is utter chaos. Good luck.)

Headcanon time: Robin comes out to the Party all at the same time, probably at dinner.

"Steve's not even my type," she says. They're all at the Byers', probably, and she and Steve have been in a playful argument over movies for the past few minutes.

Mike raises an eyebrow. "Oh yeah? And what type is that?"

Your sister. "Same as Steve's. Girls," Robin replies.

Will's head snaps up to look at her. At the same time, Steve replies to Robin with-

"Bold of you to assume I only like girls."

This time, Dustin and Eddie join Will in turning their heads. "What?!" They exclaim in unison.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Robin asks, a sort-of-hurt-sort-of-amused look on her face.

Steve just rolls his eyes. "Look if I listen to ABBA and Queen in the car with you guys and you still think I'm straight, that's on you."

"Well, I'm not straight either, so I guess that's three of us," Will says.

Eddie moves to fist bump him. "Four."

Jonathan and Argyle take this wonderful moment to interrupt with a "five" and a "six!"

Nancy almost chokes on her milk. "What?!"

Max slams down her glass of water triumphantly. "Seven!"

Lucas softly smiles at her. "I guess that makes me eight?"

Mike stands up. "Is anyone here straight?"

"Apparently not," says Dustin.

"Oh, good. Me neither," Mike says back, before sitting down again.

El tugs on the corner of Steve's shirt. "What's going on?"

"Well, Jane, sometimes love doesn't have to be between a boy and a girl. Sometimes it's between a girl and a girl or a boy and a boy."

El nods. "Oh, so like you and Eddie?"

Eddie nudges Nancy with his elbow so that she'll hand him a napkin for the milk he just snorted.

It doesn't really help the mess, especially when Steve looks him directly in the eye and says, "Exactly."

And if the adults walk in later to a bunch of giggling teens and two adult women sitting very suspiciously close together, and then leave quietly so that they don't bother anyone... that's just for them to know.

EDIT: jeSUS that’s a lot of notes

[ronance-and-reddie-deactivated2]

Nancy teaching Mike how to drive: okay, now, you're driving and Steve and Eddie walk into the road. What do you hit, Mike? Mike: Steve, obviously, why would I want to hit Eddie? Nancy: *getting annoyed* the brakes, Michael. You hit the brakes

[anxietyproblem]

[mollybbyxo]

:(

[harringtonisms]

steve telling his students (teacher!steve, so true) about his super sweet and caring husband and they all think it's just some average, boring dude. and they find out that the guy who irons mr. harrington's clothes every morning and adopted 3 kittens so the siblings wouldn't be separated, is a rock musician, with tattoos all over his arms and is wearing a shirt that says sum shit like "the devil was an angel too" when he comes in for career day.

alternatively, eddie telling his bandmates about how super cool and tough his husband is & then one day some guy in a baby blue polo and pressed slacks shows up before their show to give eddie a specific pick and a kiss on the cheek and eddies band mates are like..........that's him? that's the guy who bit the head off a bat and hit billy hargrove with his car?

[cplumb-tree]

i must write this

[weewoooweeeoo]

Steve: Why do people always assume me and Robin are a couple? Girls and boys can be friends!

Eddie: … it’s not because you’re a dude and she’s a girl… Steve… I hang out with Nancy all the time and no one thinks we’re dating.

Steve, running his hand through Robins hair: What is it then?

Eddie, giving a sign of frustration: You are literally holding her hand right now.

Steve: so??

Eddie: You shared a milkshake with her at the diner yesterday, with one straw

Steve: Is everyone a germaphobe now?

Eddie: YOU SLEEP IN THE SAME BED

Steve: We have nightmares!! It’s comforting!!

Eddie: you’re wearing her shirt right now!

Steve: we’re the same size!! Clothes have no gender!!

Eddie: YOU HAVE PROMISE RINGS

Steve: FRIENDSHIP PROMISE RINGS

Eddie: You got matching tattoos! You have her name tattooed next to your heart?? Friends don’t do that!!

Steve: Well obviously they do!

Eddie: You spent last week openly planning your wedding! I’ve seen your wedding planner! It’s like 200 pages!!

Steve: HEY I’ve always wanted to get married okay I’ve been making that binder since I was 8 and she needs a beard!! It works for both of us!! She’s letting me plan the whole thing!!

Eddie: YOU INVITE HER TO OUR DATE NIGHTS STEVE!!

Steve: IM NEW TO DATING MEN OKAY SOMETIMES I NEED SUPPORT

[lizardsister]

thinking about the time back when i was in middle school & we had a bomb threat at the school and after standing outside for a couple hours while the place was searched we got taken back inside around when it was my particular lunch period, and the school was like "we know you only have like 15 minutes left in the lunch period now because of that but we're not gonna give you any extra time lol we're getting back on schedule"

and the Entire block of middle schoolers in the span of like 5 minutes all quickly organized & agreed that we were NOT leaving until we had had our proper amount of lunch time and flat out all refused to get up when administrators kept trying to get us to because what were they gonna do? give like a hundred different students detention?

anyway after like 40 minutes we'd decided we'd been given our due and agreed to leave and go back to class & i think that display of collectivism & power of unity was what radicalized me

[daitheflu-mx]

[i-am-justbeth]

Stranger Things season 4 is like

Robin: this is my girlfriend Nancy, and her boyfriend Steve, and his boyfriend Eddie, and his girlfriend Chrissy

Will: this is my boyfriend Mike, and his girlfriend Jane, and her girlfriend Max, and her boyfriend Lucas

Jonathan, blazed out of his gourd: woah, how does that work

Argyle, Functional Stoner: it's called polyamory, brochacho

[itjammy]

i dropped everything at work just so i could make this

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

Max's death scene is fucking devastating, absolutely, but there is something kind of hilarious about El seeing it and going, "mmm, no. I actually don't vibe with this situation. ♥️"

[lilyrevelis-deactivated20220911]

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

[perfectquote]

“All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.”

— Paula Heller Garland

[tropes-r-us-deactivated20221120]

Here's the thing I've been ruminating on... Whether the Duffers were queer baiting or are a bit homophobic or scared to actually make any characters queer bc the straight audience is the important audience or whatever-- The cast, tho, aren't. I think possibly what they've been hinting at or alluding to is that whether they were supposed to or not... They were playing their character that way. Like Maya and Natalia were leaning into the chemistry and like the idea of ronance. Like Joseph making Eddie flirty with Steve and Keery being on board with it. Or Noah and Finn do think Will and Mike like each other. And yeah, you could say it's another form of queer baiting but I see it more as the Duffers aren't going to make it canon but the actors actually know what people want and give us what they can. Does that make sense?

I could be way off with this but... It's just food for thought and all that.

[lovelaughlesbian]

no words, just Robin Buckley admiring her wife and their kid

[elizabeth-mitchells]

leaked image of Natalia Dyer and Maya Hawke meeting with the Duffer Brothers