soft asks to get to know people

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington Characters: Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, creature!billy, The Party (Mentioned) - Freeform, Trapped By A Blizzard, Secret Relationship, sweet boyfriends, semi-domestic, Soft Steve Harrington, Soft Billy Hargrove but only for Steve, Billy Hargrove Calls Steve Harrington Pet Names, Upside down (mentioned), Steve Harrington Has PTSD, Steve Harrington Has Nightmares, Billy Hargrove takes care of Steve Harrington, sweet smut, first time saying I love you, Not Beta Read, We Die Like Men, Protective Billy Hargrove, Billy Hargrove Is Bad at Feelings, Billy Hargrove Redemption, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart, Steve Harrington Is a Mess Series: Part 1 of A Light to Call Home Summary:

The realization has him pausing as he looks back at Steve, swallowing thickly as he looks over the flush sitting high on the other boy’s cheeks and down that long throat that he likes to mark. It’s a slow realization that he doesn’t just desire the other boy, doesn’t just like him more than anyone else… no he’s fully, deeply in love with Steve.

Billy didn’t expect a Blizzard to be the reason he had this type of realization, he knew he cared, knew he wanted to be with Steve till the other boy tired of him, but he never thought he could love someone the way he loves Steve.

Something I like about Tumblr is that the science tumblrites are fucking to-the-wall feral and the writers are strange kitchen witches but the computer enthusiasts are polite helpful anarchists and the artists are mostly sensible people who teach you to do hand stretches and enjoy a short walk. It's like I'm in a best timeline AU where someone took my high school and inverted it.

This is how things should be. A gremlin biologist teaching a fantasy novelist about the Ancient Terrifying Cornfields while a graphic designer uses a friend's homebrewed tablet to draw a nice picture of a nearby horse.

BTW for the outliers who reply to this with edgelord hot takes like “everyone on this site is an asshole” and “stop trying to make it nice here” and similar sentiments, I’d like to remind you that you choose exactly who goes on your dash and what you do and don’t see because of it. I’d also like to suggest that if this is a pit of negativity for you it’s because you dug that pit yourself.

Into every life a little assholery must fall, and I get that anon hate and bigotry and nasty reblogs are still a thing here. But if a post like this makes you so angry you have to take time out of your day to shit on it, maybe you should take a long hard look at the people you’ve surrounded yourself with, and then one in the mirror, and maybe prune your dash so that it grows fruit instead of thorns. 

(Nearby horses are much more fond of eating fruit.)

(So are feral scientists.)

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Everything about this is a masterpiece: the girl that says “wow” and the girl that says “hi” shyly and bill awkwardly lifting his hand to say hi to them I’m cracking THE FUCK UP

The way they all immediately straightened up their postures like the fuckin pope walked in 😂 the sheer power this cool science man has over the american people is palpable

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

I will honestly never forgive y’all for going crazy over kylo ren. like u literally had poe and finn and u chose kylo. that’s like saying u would fuck jar jar binks over anakin or obi. rip to ur taste in men but I am different

I mean HONESTLY

this isn’t just a complaint taste in guys.

all those painfully straight white girls thirsting over the space nazi is why the trilogy went as badly as it did.

we were supposed to get an amazing story with a woman, a black man, and a Latino man as the main characters. Who fight against evil and oppression.

instead because y'all went wild for the guy who killed his father in cold blood. And now we have two complete disaster sequels about him.

X-Men Legacy #234

#we have connected the dots

i forgot to post my moth girlfriends

A lesson that we can’t afford not to be taught.

let’s spread this again and again and again

Oh my god…

friendly reminder that native americans actually suffer more police brutality & police murders than any other ethnicity

friendly reminder that we got our right to vote after black ppl did

friendly reminder that up until the 19-fucking-90’s our women would have their tubes forcibly tied by doctors after they gave birth, as a way to get rid of us

Friendly reminder that most of our sacred sites have been polluted by mining, illegal dumping, or radiation. AND EVEN MORE OF THEM HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM US

friendly reminder that there is less than one percent of us left here.

Friendly reminder that even up here in Canada, there are mass amounts of First Nations women vanishing. Racism against natives is still alive and well. Residential schools were in operation until 1996. 

This is not just an American problem. 

racism is still racism when it's your faves, it's still racism if it's not meant maliciously, it's still racism if they didn't know.

We should already be planning how we’re going to support the nigh-inevitable mass teachers’ strike in a few weeks.

Listen to teachers now.

Follow some teaching groups like Red For Ed in Arizona who already are protesting.

Watch cities like Phoenix, LA, Orlando, Miami, and other hot spots in the next couple of weeks.

Donate to your local teacher’s union. Donate to local school PPE funds.

We are already organizing. Help us prepare.

many of the worst places for this are where striking, collective bargaining, and/or labor unions (… effectively even if not literally) are illegal - meaning they could lose licensure, pensions, and/or be jailed for attempts at these.

even if you’re not in education, i truly encourage you to protest a full reopen of schools. call and ask them how many of them have pulled their own children but demand the teachers and students show up. as the op mentioned, donate money if/where you can.

children will die — especially those with disabilities. their guardians will die. educators and janitors will die. bus drivers will die. and now teachers are the ones who have to figure out what to do.

the governments know. they expect everyone, including children, to be okay with it when they get sick or are permantly disabled, or when people around them die or are permanently disabled from the government creating what WILL be entirely preventable nationwide superspreader events.

national unions and teachers’ organizations still provide aid where local chapters cannot. some examples are the NEA, the AFT, and the IWW.

Please understand that if we are forced back into the classroom, we are all fucked. If you think the numbers are bad now, wait until the end of September.

So I’m a teaching student and I’m here to give my two cents. I am terrified to go back and have considered putting off my application to the teaching program so that I can choose to return to the classroom when it’s safe. The reality is that even doctors and nurses who have all these things are still getting sick and dying. So how are teachers going to fair in this environment?

In my circle of teachers there is a huge fear of getting sick and dying. That is a reality teachers are facing as,

So please support teachers who are striking, but if your local school has in-person classes, make it so hard they have no choice but to keep the school shut down. While your doing that, support teachers who have to be in the classroom by giving them protective equipment. If your a parent and your not working or working from home pull your kids out and dedicate yourself to teaching. them. Complain to your local school district, your Governor, and blow up Betsy DeVos‘ inbox. 

When they shut down, support teachers and parents who have to work, volunteer to tutor across Zoom or other platforms, AND DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT DISTANCE LEARNING! Because you’re not the ones in the classroom who will be dying because of in-person learning. 

And wear a fucken mask!

some gay bantz from eddie izzard & alan carr

#i LOVE when famous gay ppl talk exactly like me and my gay friends

He apparently goes by he/him pronouns and his gender identity is more kind-of-in-the-middle (I don’t think he’s nb or Demi though)

I think he’s an AMAB Trans-guy (I don’t exactly know how that works, but I respect and love him)

-SHE! uses she/her pronouns IN ADDITION to he/him pronouns

-she is genderfluid and identifies as both male and female at the same time

-she identifies as “transgender” or “trans” currently and used to identify as “transvestite” which was her RECLAIMING that word and she originally identified as “TV” in the 1980’s when that language was common which was a shortened version of “transvestite” which she has always described as being under the trans umbrella/transgender when again, the language just changed

-i have heard her use she/her pronouns for herself and call herself transgender in person with my own ears

-the fact that she ids as both “trans” and also a “guy” is what she means by that, not that she is a trans male amab.

-she identifies as a lesbian because she partially identifies as a woman and is exclusively attracted to women and when she came out in the 80’s and 90’s it was a common misconception that transfeminine people were all attracted to men hence her usage of the lesbian label (ive also seen numerous people who are nonbinary and dont fully identify as women use the term lesbian, amab transfems shouldnt be an exception)

-*also to clarify i originally replied to that person saying shes trans because i forgot i captioned the video with “gay bantz” and thought they were confused at her saying she came out, but also i was using the term gay in a more general way here not gay as in “man attracted to men” but as in “gay/lesbian” and even just broadly “two lgbt people making jokes about coming out and beards” which is, broadly speaking “gay bantz” imo

Yay! Genderfluid! A genderfluid icon!

Eddie Izzard is a genderfluid icon!

Fuck being just one person with just one gender all the time.

This is Sarah Grimké.

She was born to a rich plantation family in the American South during the time of slavery. She owned a slave, Hetty, a girl her parents gave her when she was a child. She was absolutely the sort of person whose racism you could justify as being ‘of her time’ and ‘just the way she was raised’.

And she cited the injustices she saw growing up on the plantation as the motivation for her becoming an abolitionist as an adult.

When she was a kid, she tried to give bible lessons to the slaves on her Dad’s plantation, and taught her own slave to read and write. As an adult, she and her sister campaigned for the end of slavery. When she found out that one of her brothers had raped one of his own slaves and gotten her pregnant three times, she welcomed her nephews into the family and paid for education for the two that wanted it.

This was a woman who was raised in a culture of slavery, looked around her as a child and said “hey, wait a minute, we’re all assholes!” and spent the rest of her life trying to put things right.

It absolutely was a choice.

casual intimacy kills me every time. grand gestures are cute and all but seeing two people who are just totally comfortable with having each other in their space, who dont think twice about leaning into each other and thoughtlessly holding each other while doing unrelated things….. thats love