Singing and Flailing

Formerly how-wonderful-lifeis. A large portion of my time here was dedicated to the OUAT fandom, being a fierce Evil Regal and OQ shipper with a soft spot for Regal Believer, Snow Queen and Evil Charming. Nowadays this has become my space for expressing my (often fleeting) love for new obsessions, as well as my opinions as a raging liberal and feminist. Stranger Things and Stancy. Wicked and Gelphie. Smash the patriarchy. Destroy capitalism. Abortion is healthcare. All humans deserve rights.

[katestewartt]

Trinity taking shit from no one

[jaimeshanice]

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

The Matrix (1999) dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

[charthinksalotte]

Everything on repeat 🔁🤍

[tsunflowers]

I feel bad for people who’ve never experienced a corn maze bc it’s not even fun but you just have to do it

[tsunflowers]

I'd like to reblog this with some tags and comments bc I've really appreciated reading them

people who get what I mean:

people who have found a way to have fun in the corn maze but who I'm a little worried about:

person who we are going to put in the corn:

[virtuevistavalley]

you can't oppression olympics your way out of how your trauma affected you.

[virtuevistavalley]

"other people had it worse" bitch! I don't care! just from looking at you it's plain and obvious that you've had a time of it! a person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn't matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you're both still fucking drowning! show yourself a little bit of compassion before I come over there and do it for you. this is a threat

[anya-chalotra]

Do you remember what I said about Click’s class? About me being jealous and, like, obsessed? Yeah. It isn’t because I had a crush on you. It’s because she wouldn’t stop staring at you. Mrs. Click? Tammy Thompson. I wanted her to look at me. But… she couldn’t pull her eyes away from you and your stupid hair. And I didn’t understand, because you would get bagel crumbs all over the floor. And you asked dumb questions. And you were a douchebag. And… and you didn’t even like her. And I would go home… and just scream into my pillow.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO THIS ICONIC SCENE Stranger Things — 3.07 “The Bite”

[draconym]

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

[tboy-cock]

the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad

[stancyworld]

I want to jump into an alternate timeline where they went through with what they set up in S4. bc bro you cannot tell me they were planning on that awful fate for steve after he spent pretty much 2 seasons pining, then made him try and move on in S3, but came back to nancy in S4.

[kwistowee]

STRANGER THINGS | 4.01

[stancypilled]

Steve and Nancy had the potential to become one of the most beautiful love stories ever written on television, and I genuinely think Stranger Things wasted that.

What made them special was never that they were perfect in season 1. They weren’t. They were messy, immature, and both made mistakes. Their breakup made sense. That’s exactly why their story felt real.

But the thing is: even after everything, the feelings never truly disappeared.

Season 2 separated them. Season 3 barely gave them scenes together, yet even in those small moments, you could still feel that Steve would do absolutely anything for Nancy — he literally risked his life to save hers. And then season 4 happened — the season that reminded everyone just how much chemistry they still had. Steve admitting that he never stopped loving her changed everything for me.

I know Nancy and Jonathan cared about each other, but their relationship always felt more like a safe place built around shared trauma than a lasting love story. It made sense for that point in their lives, but deep down, Steve and Nancy always felt unfinished.

And honestly I don’t think Nancy ever truly stopped loving Steve either. I think she buried those feelings after Barb’s death because loving Steve became tied to guilt and pain. But season 4 made it so obvious that something between them was still there after all those years.

That’s why it hurts so much that season 5 never followed through on the buildup. The Duffer Brothers created something incredibly powerful between them again, only to abandon it completely. Steve and Nancy could have had such a beautiful full-circle story, two people who grew up, changed, made mistakes, and still found their way back to each other.

And no, Nancy ending up with Steve would not have made her “less independent” in my opinion. Choosing love does not erase a strong woman’s individuality. If anything, it would have been Nancy finally accepting what her heart had been trying to tell her all along.

I’ll never stop believing that Steve and Nancy were meant for each other and never forgive the Duffer Brothers to be honest and I don’t care how many people hate on this ship, I’ll go down with it lmao

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[puppygirllaika]

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

[animentality]

[dailycatsblog]

[angryschnauzer]

Happy April 25th Everyone. Remember your light jacket.

[exeggcute]

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

[existennialmemes]

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

10/10 post bringing it back for 2026