“Give Me Some Time, Let Me Learn How To Speak”

Jack | 25 | A Random Bi Dude| Stranger Things (ST1-3), Fallout, Rock Music, 80’s Music, Solarpunk, Hopepunk | I write fanfic (Fallout 4, Stranger Things) and sometimes draw stuff | Gang of Youths and Manchester Orchestra |AO3: Total_Serene

[saintprey]

2 quick bylers in chloe's pickup truck

[lolunaa]

max and her rainbow shirts

[teashoesandhair]

'A popular fanfic author stopped updating her fic because she said that the stress of being constantly falsely accused of using AI was a witch hunt and it was destroying her mental health to the extent that she needed to take a break from writing, leading to multiple online discussions defending her and debates about AI accusations and how You Can't Really Tell So Leave Her Alone, and then someone realised that there were Claude coding artefacts in her fics and that it was a super pervasive problem in that particular fandom, proven definitively by looking at the source coding of each work on AO3, and she denied it for a bit but then ultimately admitted that oopsie, she had been using genAI all along, and then she deleted all of her fics off AO3 and people got mad because they were being denied access to their favourite fics, even though they now knew definitively that they were genAI slop, and then it turned out that she'd actually stopped updating the fic on AO3 in the first place because she'd been shopping it around to agents and editors as an original work with the serial numbers filed off, and she'd been in conversations with a publisher which ultimately got dropped because she'd lied to them about her AI use' oh cool, so we're in Hell, then

[teashoesandhair]

Let me be clear: if you use AI to write fanfic, paticularly if you do so in the hopes of snapping up a tradpub deal off the basis of the popularity of your worthless slop, then you are an absolute grade A ding-dong, and may the vengeful spirits of our beloved Spirk Elders haunt you via the medium of perpetual papercuts forevermore.

[creativitycache]

I am unaware of who this is referring to and feel like a small fishing boat that just saw the dorsal fin of Leviathan off the starboard bow

[teashoesandhair]

That is so extremely valid, and truly I wish that I had not myself plunged into the depths and seen the truth of the Leviathan (a gigantic plastic fish effigy that's broken off a derelict Fish & Chip shop and washed into the Atlantic: a harbinger of doom in its own synthetic tongue)

[lttrsfrmlnrrgby]

So many lessons in fandom and life boil down to make your own works for love of the game, don't go looking for ways to be an asshole to people, don't lie when people ask you something that challenges you to be better, and don't fucking cheat.

[forbescaroline]

favorite platonic relationships: el hopper and max mayfield “There’s more to life than stupid boys, you know?”

[deathcomequickly]

Tomorrow, but gentler.

[imactuallyreallycool]

Will didn’t mean to do that (they aren’t even dating lmao)

(Sorry I haven’t posted in a while)

[cinematicnomad]

STRANGER THINGS ▸ 2.02 chapter two: trick or treat, freak

[adhd-vibes]

does anyone want to tell me what to do with my life? looking for puppeteers

[adhd-vibes]

my benevolent puppeteers

[b0nkcreat]

i think people get so used to their own creative work that they forget how amazing it is so i’m making this post as a reminder You are the only person capable of making art the exact way you make it. nobody else on earth can do that. there are always going to be those little habits and intricacies and details that simply cannot be replicated whether it’s in writing or painting or textiles and you make life all the better for it i love my friends’ art i love art from strangers im trying to love my own art I LOVE YOU!!! THE PERSON READING THIS!!!!!!! YOU ARE A PART OF THIS WORLD NEVER EVER STOP MAKING THINGS THAT CAN IMPACT IT

[total-serene560]

Rules: Make a poll with 10 of your favorite movies. They can be just 10 movies you loved seeing, or your top 10 movies of all time, then tag people and let them choose.

thanks for the tag @magentamee !

Favorite movie of my favorite movies?

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Sinners (2025)

Edge of Seventeen (1998)

The Blob (1988)

Close Encounters of The Third Kind (1977)

Christmas Vacation (1989)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Little Women (2019)

Voting ended onJul 18

(no pressure!) tagging: @fireflywitch @design-thoughts @oldfashionedmorphine @nooneparticular17 @booksandpaperss @foodiewithdahoodie

[total-serene560]

I am alive and also have a bachelors degree now! I've been working on stuff that I put on hiatus for college, so I am hoping to be able to post updates again in the near future. CRAZY having free time again!

[will-mcfly]

the fatal flaw in ‘will falls for mike lookalikes’ fanon is that will already told us what he saw in mike, and it didn’t have much to do with that he looked like. will fell for him because of the intimate nature of their pre-show friendship and the way mike behaves in general, “leading and inspiring” the group. in a scenario where he doesn’t branch out from “mike’s type,” will would likely end up dating a long string of assertive loudmouth leaders of all sorts of looks

[will-mcfly]

so i guess the answer to the classic question “would will have loved mike if he was a worm?” is yes. yes he would have. as long as he did mike things and not wormy things. also will would probably be a little grossed out but he’d take very nice care of mike’s worm enclosure anyway

[bylerween]

🎃🧟‍♂️🦇👻 Bylerween 2026 is in the works, and the mods want know:

Which theme from past Bylerween events do you most want to see again this year?

Ghosts & Hauntings

Slasher, Body Horror & Gore

Halloween Party

Demons, Devils & Exorcism

Came Back Wrong

Demo Creatures

Summon

Graveyard & Zombies

Demogorgon & Flesh Monster

Flayed

Pumpkin Patch & Apple Orchard

D&D

Voting ended onJul 10

We'll be including some of the themes with the most number of votes into Bylerween 2026! 🎃🧟‍♂️🦇👻

[shiverandqueeef]

if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Character who doesn't get to die & character who doesn't get to live. Is that anything.

[will-mcfly]

there’s unexplored nuances to will learning to drive.

first of all, obviously he prefers to be a passenger princess. he is not driving people around all the time, and they don’t even want him to. not wanting to be treated like a baby means he gets his license and has basic autonomy, but will still abhors unnecessary hassle and driving is the most hassle-y hassle there ever was. not to mention the constant split second decision making and aggressive drivers. nightmare!

will would give the right of way to absolutely everybody on the road. he would let everyone else go first at a 4-way stop even if he got there first and they’d all be like what the hell is that guy doing. parking lots fear him. his first accident is in a parking lot and not even his fault but he just assumes it is and takes the blame. he would HATE merging and double check so many times before doing it that sometimes he’d miss his window. he would sweat like crazy getting onto the city interstate and always take the back way.

BUT, every once in a blue moon, when he’s on an open road with no one else around, he would floor it like no tomorrow