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PSA for Across the Spiderverse:

Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors.

I will not be spoiling the plot or anything happening in it, but it is important that people know, because ohhh my god the AMOUNT of flashing lights and rapidly changing colors from beginning to end was so rampant that even I, a non-epileptic autistic person, got a severe headache and wild overstimulation. They do not give a warning in theaters at all that this movie is NOT epileptic friendly from the literal beginning with the beginning credits - which is so, so sad!

This is a beautifully made film, it's wonderful, it's amazing, but unfortunately, it's not a good time for anyone super affected by bright flashing lights in rapid succession, especially those seizure prone.

I wanted to put this out there BECAUSE there are no theater warnings. Idk if anyone else has put it out there, but it is SUPER IMPORTANT!!!

I wish you all a lovely day and hope they eventually have a remaster that will be much more friendly to epileptic and other people affected by bright, flashing lights.

(EDIT: Changed all text to plain text for screen readers! Sorry about that, my bad!)

SECOND EDIT: please do not fight in the comments of my post please... if you guys wanna talk stuff out in DMs, that is a-okay and not my business but I directly get notifications for everyone's comments and replies- including people fighting in the comments.

I understand that some theaters have warnings in them. Mine did not, and many other peoples' did not. It seems to be a theater by theater basis, so please understand that is where I'm coming from. If you had a warning in your theater, that is wonderful! And I'm very grateful that ya'lls theaters had warnings! That is a great sign. But please under stand that mine and many others' theaters don't have warnings.

Please take any arguments off my post, it is not meant to be grounds for heated discussion, just a warning for people who are photosensitive or epileptic. Thank you.

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i got an ask the other day saying it was disgusting for me to ship Steve with Eddie because Eddie’s dead and it’s “fucking gross to ship characters with dead people” and I’m still like ????

pls this has me rolling into an early grave help lolol some people i swear

Great, now there’s coffee all over my phone 😂😂

He’s dead???

these reblogs are sending me dgdhdhfh

“protect heteroromantic aces” lmao from what? the sharknado?

from corrective rape? from mothers who are open and accepting of gay, bi, pan, etc people and still unknowingly tell their asexual children that people who don’t want sex are sick need help? from their closest friends at birthday parties starting conversations about how weird and fake asexuality is? from the fear of being alone forever because no one could want to be with someone like them? from going against sexual and relationship norms in a society that tells them they’re broken and wrong?? from people like you who delegitimize their struggles in the eyes of much of lgbt+ community, some of the only people who you’d think might understand

I had to reblog this twice bc you just got 100% fucking destroyed my dude

Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.

But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her. 

I can’t stop watching this. 

#I watched this for too long to not reblog

Whoa.

Okay so this is true, but a tiny part of a wider truth. 

Ginger Rogers was a FUCKING BADASS. Ignore for a sec the rampant sexism in Hollywood (they once bleached  her hair blonde in wardrobe without telling her beforehand), the fact that she fought her whole career against typecasting and stereotyping from fellow actors (Katharine Hepburn famously said of the Astaire/Rogers partnership “she gave him sex. He gave her class” ) for starting out in musicals, and went on to have a career lasting over fifty years, winning a Best Actress Oscar (Kitty Foyle, 1940). But… JUST focusing on the Astaire movies…

Not only did she dance “backwards” in high heels, the dances were a task in themselves. Astaire was an absolute perfectionist and choreographed for himself, so as a younger, less experienced dancer Rogers came in at a disadvantage and worked her ass off to match him. 

Then there’s the filming complications… these numbers were filmed in ONE TAKE. So one thing goes wrong and you have to start over. Maybe you make a mistake or maybe your dress flies up because…

Ginger had to contend with her wardrobe. Dancing in heels is the norm at this time, but dancing in a dress designed for cinema cameras… not so much. They were heavy, embellished, uncomfortable, restrictive and cumbersome and essentially a third member of the dance, strapped to the body of one partner.Not only did she have to dance and look good, she had to control the dress too!

Take this routine from Swing Time… (it gets going proper at 1:30ish)

This dress has weights, YES WEIGHTS, sewn in to the hem to make it fly out and create a visual effect. So it’s heavy, it hurts if it hits you, and your partner gets mad if it hits him. So you gotta control it. 

Well it turns out all these factors on this set, this particular day aren’t going so well. So you’re doing take after take, here’s no labour laws, so at 4am after 18 hours you’re still going, even though part of the routine requires you to spin up those curved stairs with no rail at high speed….

Okay so now back to those high heels. In Ginger’s autobiography she vividly remembers this night as the night she bled though her shoes. They did so many takes, her feet blistered, bled, and the white satin high heels she was wearing finished he night pink because they were literally full of blood. And still they keep shooting. She keeps dancing.

The take they use in the film is the last. Early hours. Bloody feet. And she spins, acts and bosses out until that last second. Because she was that professional, talented and bloody minded. This is the last set of spins… 

So I say once again. Ginger Rogers was a badass.

She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards, in high heels, wearing a 20 pound dress, exhausted, injured and standing in a pool of her own blood. And watching her perform, you would never know.

i would just like to add that the “old quote” about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards in high heels…is originally (yes, really) from the comic strip Frank and Ernest.

So add it to the list of great sentences from unlikely places.

So add it to the

list of great sentences from

unlikely places.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Corroded coffin, 80s and 90s metal legend band is seeing a wild resurgence of popularity due to a tik tok trend/ a song of theirs being in a movie/ etc.

This means young people are obsessed with Eddie again. Young people, his og fans. His name is trending on Twitter again. Steve is so happy for him.

One tweet, had 4 photos of Steve and Eddie. One old photo Steve had posted for their 35 year (who could believe that!) anniversary on Facebook of the two of them back in ‘86, one of them in ‘95 from the Grammys, one of them from ‘11 from their wedding, and one of them from a few weeks ago from robins Instagram which Eddie had shared to his story.

The caption reads “who was going to tell me that THIS is who EDDIE MUNSON is married to? He’s literally JUST SOME GUY oh my god this is hilarious this dude could be my English teacher how the fuck did these two even meet” and Eddie thinks it’s so funny, so he retweets it with the caption “high school sweethearts-ish. He’s a social worker BTW, close enough :)”

oh god now i’m imagining that bc of the resurgence, eddie decides to make a tik tok account, and his first video is him behind the camera. he walks into their living room and says “steve i’m making a tik tok say something.”

and steve is sat on the couch (i’m imagining it’s one of those couches with a longer end on one side for people to lay on), looking super comfy, dressed in sweats & a comfy sweater and wrapped up in like 2 blankets, wearing glasses and using his ipad. he looks up at eddie and says the most, like, middle-aged-dad-caught-off-guard thing to the camera, like maybe a confused “hello. tik. tok?”

and eddie bursts out laughing and ends the tik tok there and captions it ‘my first tik tok’ or smth, and the comments are full of teenagers light heartedly roasting steve. stuff like ‘his name is StEvE’ and stuff abt how he’s literally just some guy named sTeVe!!! (eddie goes through and likes almost every comment roasting steve (and some of the ones that just comment on how comfy he looks))

Eddie would low key have to attend a master class in social media but they would be so fucking cute.

Eddie starts a video walking into the home office.

“Steven my beloved-“

“Oh no, nope, this is how I got stuck with a fucking cat what do you want?” But he’s got this big loving smile while he looks at Eddie when he calls him,

Eddie just loves taking videos and photos of Steve, documenting their love, their life, especially videos of family dinner night especially.

Maybe he takes a video of them at dinner, clips of Steve and Dustin and Robin cooking, cackling, shoving at eachother, and Nancy and Lucas and will having some intimate conversation with Joyce. There’s a clip of max and el and Eddie very obviously gossiping that Steve got the clip of.

The caption is from the 1 by Taylor swift, specifically the lyric saying “rose flowing with your chosen family”, a song his fans are shocked he knows, but one of Eddie’s favorite lyrics. Not that he can relate, he did end up with the 1 after all.

In the video was a clip of Steve and hoper, a old man now, smiling, talking over coffee, so comfortable in eachothers space. So familial.

A lot of comments were asking “is that your father in law?🥺” “is that Steve’s dad?🥺”.

Steve and Eddie make a video reply to the comment, taking about how “well, my parents actually disowned me not long after eddie and I started living together, I think it was 87? Never spoke to my dad again before he died, but Hopper was always like a dad to me, I love him like a dad, love all those people like my siblings. They’re our family.” They end up talking about Steve’s parents on their account a lot actually. About maxs family. About Eddie’s wonderful beloved uncle. It ends up becoming a theme, a “it gets better”, a “help is out there” kinda thing.

They tell stories about being in love and half in the closet in the 80s, coming out to hop, to Wayne. Bearding with Robin and nance. About eddie touring while Steve was in college and how they made the long distance thing work, and how it made them love each other even more. The silly stories I’ve Steve blowing off school to surprise eddie, which made eddie so damn happy every time.

It makes them a real safe space to a lot of kids. People are talking about Eddie not just for being one of the most prolific guitarists of his generation, but because he’s a good role model, his husbands a good role model. and their relationship, their love story, is damn near admirable. They never got to tell their stories like this, and now they can. It’s nice.

(Bonus point side eddie and Steve having a reality show like gene Simmons or ozzy)

Steve’s first tik tok his him in a high pitched mocking voice walking through his house going “ ‘ooh Eddie Munsons so hot’ ‘I wish I was married to Eddie Munson’ ‘Steve’s so lucky’ THIS IS WHAT MY DINING ROOM LOOKS LIKE. YOU SEE THIS. HES A GIANT OVER GROWN NERD HIS CAMPAIGNS JUST GET WEIRDER AND WEIRDER AS HE GETS OLDER THIS IS WHAT I LIVE WITH” And it shows their dining room, and sure enough, their dining room table is covered in a D&D campaign and he cuts to Eddie, pouting dramatically and just grumbles “shut it I love you”

@ikebanaka oh my god your so right

That becomes a thing! People are commenting like “WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN” “HOLD UP WAS STEVE COOL” and their “known associates”/ Eddie’s posse/ the party TEAR THEIR PHOTO ALBUMS APART for old photos of Steve being a stone cold fox of a highschool heart throb.

Nancy retweets Eddie with a photo of that terrible season one hair with the caption “vintage Steve from when we both thought we were straight. they called him Steve ‘the hair’ harrington too.”

Robin finds some old Polaroid of him at scoops and tweets it too, “the man the myth the legend king Steve”

Jonathan managed to find a photo from that Halloween party. “The keg king shortly before being dethroned. Forever in our hearts”

“When I first met Steve he was insufferable. He still is but I love him to the ends of the earth.” Is Dustin’s photos caption.

Steve’s in the group chat like “you guys are fucking assholes” sending screenshots of everyone’s posts

Eddie takes a video with his screenshot of the group chat (titled “I survived hawkins Indiana and all I got was PTSD”) of him giggling maniacally saying “I married the most popular boy in school and now he’s ‘just some guy’ that a rockstar married”

Oh my god I can’t stop…

Ppl asking eddie on his tik tok what certain songs are abt, particularly “is (this song) abt Steve?🥺”

And Eddie responds in videos, sometimes with Steve sometimes without.

One time Eddie walks up to Steve doing laundry. “Hey Steve is (extremely sexually explicit song) about you?” And Steve bristles “I sure fucking hope it is, babe, what was that, ‘91? That’s off vecnas lair is there something you wanna tell me? the hell?” Steve chuckles. Eddies proud of Steve’s accuracy. “The people of tik tok want to know honey pie, I’ve gotta give ‘em what they want”. “Was there a doubt?” Steve chuckles. “Not in my mind. My one and only, baby” Eddie grins kissing Steve’s cheek. “Mhm I better be love you too Shit head”

“If (song) is about Steve why does it use feminine pronouns?”

And Eddie just reply’s cackling. “It’s 1989 what the fuck was I gonna do write songs about SUCKING COCK? Just get on a metal stage and start singing about my committed, comfortable, gay domestic partnership? I’d get lynched! Had to fuckin gender bend my lyrics for a decade and a half! How the fuck people thought Steve was ‘just a friend’ for those years on tour and at award shows fucking boggles my mind we were NOT good at playing closet I mean look at us we were in fucking puppy love” and he picks up a photo of the two of them backstage at one of Eddie’s tours. It’s a very old photo, you can see by how young they are. (The photo was on the kitchen counter) Eddie is sitting on-top of an unused amp, and Steve is standing between his open legs, grinning, staring in his eyes with his hands on Eddie’s thighs. “People thought we were just bros! How the fuck!”

CASEY SHUT THE FUCK UP CHALLENGE

Eddie having a raw audio clip of Steve at the end of a song.

I have two ideas.

Maybe steve drunk calls eddie one night when he’s on tour, and gets voicemail. “Eddieeeeee~ edwarddddddddd munsonnnnnn, hubs, hubs, I need you to get half and half on the way home. Just kidding! Yoooooure on touuuuur so I have no half and half and I’m gonna have to drink my coffee black in the morning like-like-like I’m hop or some shit. Thanks a lot. I hate you. No I don’t, I love you, love you so much baby. I miss you~ *crash* RoBbIe! Gimme back my phone robbie!” “You’re drunk Steve, sorry eddie” “no I’m nOoT-“

The other idea is like early early in the morning Eddie going “Steve, Steve, babe, wake up” “what the fuck it’s 4 am Eds” Steve whines. “I just got like the best idea for a song, you’ve gotta help me, come on listen to it-“ “no! Let me sleep eddie!” “Okay I’m just gonna play it anyway” “oh fuck, damn it eddie! Not too loud- DAMN IT EDDIE I SAID NOT THAT LOUD! Look what you did you scared mavis! Oh, mavis come here baby I’m sorry did daddy scare you because he’s GOT THE AMP ALL THE WAY UP at FOUR AM? I know baby daddy’s a bastard”

(Mavis is said cat from like the third post)

Maybe people like the first SO MUCH eddie realizes it’s in his best interest to put a second one on the next album🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m feral, I’m sorry.

Someone does some INSANE DIGGING and finds an old rolling stone issue where Nancy and Robin, unnamed, were photographed and named as two Corroded coffin Groupies who fallowed the band around on tour one summer, and then they realize two of the 50 people eddie fallows on Instagram are, drumroll please, Robin and Nancy. The Robin and Nancy who constantly are in steve and Eddie’s tik toks, Instagram posts, and retweets. Who are MARRIED to EACH OTHER. And the fan who found this and made a deep dive video or Twitter thread on this catches all their attention and Robin texts steve and is like “so nance and I were groupies but you were just Eddie’s pal?” And Steve’s like “huh I guess”

And Eddie retweets the post and posts a video that someone (Nancy) took of Steve and Robin passed out in the back of a tour bus cuddled up back in like ‘89 and Eddie comments something like “help this lesbian stole my husband” to the person recording to laughs, as Eddie leans down and licks Steve’s face like a fucking golden doodle and Steve wakes up and goes “what the fuck rob” and Robin wakes up even more tired and confused like “huh what the fuck Steve I was sleeping” and Nancy from behind the camera goes “can I have my girlfriend back Steve” and Steve goes “she’s my cuddle buddy first get fucked” and Eddie laughing his ass off.

@whorenerdking HOW COULD YOU HIDE THIS IN THE TAGS

I ADORE the idea of CC doing metal ass covers of never ending story at the end of shows sometimes, random times.

Dustin comes to shows wherever there’s one in the city he settled down in. Fans notice the never ending story but always happens at san Fran shows, but randomly whenever and wherever else.

People are obsessed with the lore of “when did this start and why” but no one has and answer. The closest they get is a family video is Steve and Eddie at a house party in ‘89 singing it with two friends of there’s (mostly unidentified, lucas and max) and some guy being really pissed about it. Steve and Eddie are preeeeety drunk from the way they’re physically leaning on each other, but they look so happy.

For some reason when people ask Eddie what his favorite song is he ALWYAS answers with running up that hill by Kate bush. People think it’s a joke. It feels like a meme. But him and Steve have such a tender spot for that song. It’s true. It’s very meaningful. If they had to pick a favorite song of corse that would be it. But again, to fans it’s just some weird long drawn out meme.

Steve gets grumpy and someone says “oh no Steve’s gonna get the bat lookout” and people think they vaguely get it, but do they?

Eddie DOES NOT fuck with bats.

People mention ‘83 / ‘84 / ‘85 / ‘86 and steve will dramatically yell “GREAT fucking year. Hell of a fuckin year!” And eddie does the same thing about ‘86. So dramatic. So hostile. Towards a fucking year.

Eddie often ends up shirtless at shows. Lots of rock stars do. But he’s covered in these insane scars, and at some point paparazzi get a photo of them on a beach vacation and Steve’s got a fuck ton of them too. And Eddie leans over, kissing at the scars on Steve’s chest, and the photos feel far too intimate. Steve’s hands rest on Eddie’s scared torso when he falls asleep on the others chest on the beach.

Upside down references litter Eddie’s discography. Album names, un understood lyrics, it’s all there.

Memories of the upside down haunt their lives, their memories. But sometimes it’s not so bad.

NO I HAVE TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN BC IMAGINE

imagine someone does a little digging into eddie’s life (bc that’s what fans do) and they find out about the whole ‘munson murders’ thing.

like they just find this old archived newspaper article about eddie being cleared of murder charges, and the article like explains the whole vecna thing that went down in hawkins (but obviously it’s the govt cover up) and it also mentions steve and the fans go fucking wild

bc eddie munson, metal GOD, was apparently accused of being a murderer in buttfuck-nowhere, indiana in the 80s and apparently his now husband saved him from the real murderer and somehow, in all this time, no one fucking knew??? there were no interviews about it, neither eddie nor his band mates have ever mentioned it, but it’s like public information technically.

and when eddie’s asked about it, he just kinda replies with a “yeah that was a thing that happened” and never mentions it again and everyone is SO CONFUSED

DONT BE SORRY I LIVE FOR THIS

Steve’s like so casual abt being asked about it.

He’s like “Eddie being accused of murder? Yeah that’s the LEAST weird thing that happened to me in high school that’s like the most chill thing that happened in the spring of ‘86. Hiding from the police is pretty romantic.”

Eddie also has a long history of (trying to be quiet abt it) quietly donating to eating disorder foundations and a little more digging and shitheads form hawkins wanting their 5 minutes of fame leads to people finding out that that girl eddie was accused of killing was his friend. Who struggled like that. And oh, does that earn the “awe”s.

HOLY SHIT @bunk12bear I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS

First of all YES SO IN LOVE

They just get more and more in love as the years go by. Every new scar, new wrinkle, new line on the others skin is a new part to love. The kind of couple where they randomly just hug the other from behind and rest their head on the others shoulders, just bc they need it. They don’t even flinch, either a hand comes up to rub at the others hair and ask what’s up, or they’ll put their hands over the others. They’re not as in love as they day they met, that’s stupid. More.

Doesn’t matter that it’s been 30 fucking years, Steve still falls head over heels every time he sees Eddie smile. Eddie mad been making Steve’s coffee every morning for 35 years and he does not plan on stopping any time soon. They celebrate two anniversaries, and are absolute saps for both.

And the Halloween costume point? Oh fuck. Somehow Steve knows about it and Eddie doesn’t. Like Jeff send him a photo years ago of a couple dressed as them at some party so he’s been aware of it since like, 05. Somehow he never got around to showing eddie.

And then this year steve showed eddie a tik tok of some highschool kids being like “when you show up to the function and the one other gay couple is dressed as that Steve and Eddie photo too” and Eddie just kinda realizes that this is the span of their influence. Not just corroded coffin, but Steve and Eddie. Steve’s baffled that Eddie didn’t know.

And it’s a little emotional for Eddie. When they were that age, there was no way in hell that they could go to a party in bum fuck Indiana as a couple. It just wasn’t safe. They’d be good as dead. So that notion makes him a little emotional too. It is safe to say eddie loves the ppl dressed up as them for halloween.

Eddie waking into a room: “hey Babe? What’s a dilf? The kids are calling me a dilf again”.

Steve, from his couch, in his rich divorce cardigan, looking eddie up and down: “oh yeah, definitely the kids are right”

Eddie, distraught: steve what is a dilf”

Steve, snickering: “male milf.”

Eddie: “awww I’m flattered. They’re so sweet”

SOME MORE THOUGHTS.

This photo would be SO FUNNY like if it was something Steve posted on Instagram. Like him and Eddie showed up late to brunch with Jonathan and Nancy one day and this is the photo Steve took of the scene

Also saw this on Pinterest and thinking abt these being Polaroids from back stage at one of coffins first real shows. Not a big venue, a little venue in Indianapolis. 🥺🥺🥺 steve finds them again, posts them to Twitter and captions “it’s my year, ‘86 baby”.

Thinking abt Steve and Eddie being on some celebrity game show version of like the newlywed game but YK,, they’ve been together over 30 years. Every answer is either correct or a inside joke that sends them fucking giggling into each others arms.

Steve starts making tik tok story times about stupid Shit Eddie’s done over the years. Greatest hits include “Eddie lost his shit the first time he met ozzy” and “Eddie used to bring home stray cats in our first apartment”.

ok but corroded coffin re-records eddie's version w he/him pronouns and the original gayer lyrics

HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK THIS ADDITION EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS ADDITION

hi I am a massive swiftie so I love the idea of Vecnas Lair (Eddie’s version)/ Kas’ revenge (Eddie’s version), but instead of it coming out of licensing and ownership struggles, this idea comes about when Nancy is trying to drunkenly explain the importance of the 10 minute version of all too well and laughs and looks at Eddie, giggling “you should make like, an Eddie’s version, but you know, it’s gay”.

And Eddie takes it personally.

Lyrics change to he/him pronouns. Certain lyrics change to be more explicitly political. There’s vault tracks, things coffin never released because they were too personal, or they didn’t think they’d be revived well. Some of it is more tender, soft stuff that almost drifts into grunge and numetal territory. Some of it, songs more explicitly about queer experience that cut to the emotional bone. Songs about trauma that are a fucking lot. (Think, Billie Eilish’s refusal to explain the lyrics of everything I wanted)

Oh my god. When they release it to streaming it’s one of those releases where the artists put voice memos in the playlist (idk if yall know what I mean) where he tells brief little stories about the songs.

LONG OF THE SHORT OF IT people LOVE the stories and the demand comes for a podcast. A podcast series of him talking about all the songs the band has made (each episode is a song) with guests, sometimes/often the other band members, certain songs Steve, sometimes Dustin or other members of the party who experienced what the song was about, or are part of the story of how the song came to be. Nancy would of corse be one of the first guests after her idea sparked the rerecordings.

Thinking abt the fan made YouTube compilations:

“Eddie and Steve being soulmates for 14 minutes and 52 seconds”

“Vintage Eddie and Steve footage that makes me scream into the void”

“Every time Eddie talked about Steve that time he hosted SNL” (note: I have like 3 SNL stranger things AUs)

“Fuck Romeo and Juliet I want what THESE bitches have (Eddie munson and steve harrington edition)”

“Eddie being GREAT at being in the closet for 20 minutes”

One of Steve’s kids at work starts telling him about how he’s into this super old band lately, his dad showed him them, and they’re freaking awesome mr steve, like, revolutionary.

And it’s Corroded coffin. Which just makes Steve’s devoted husband heart swell with pride bc that’s his man.

And he waits for the eager teen, who he just asked “what kind of music do you like?” As an ice breaker bc it’s rly the best way to get to his kids, and smiles and asks, “yeah, I know coffin. They’re not that old, because if they’re old, then I’m old. Whose your favorite member?”.

The kid beams. “You know them? Oh my god no way! Uh, Eddie’s my favorite”

And Steve just grins, opening his phone to his wallpaper, a goofy photo of him and Eddie that Dustin took while they were cooking last thanksgiving. “This eddie?” He asks.

“Woah! You know Eddie? No way! How?!”. And Steve preens like a peacock. “He is my husband. We’ve been together since 1986”. He brags a little.

The next session Steve had with this kiddo, he gifts him two signed corroded coffin tee shirts. One for him, one for his dad.

Here we go again I’m so fucking sorry put me down

I didn’t picture steddie as dads in this universe but fuck it.

This isn’t exactly the social media verse but uh, it goes with the AU so. Bleh, I puked this up for you

Rock star! Eddie, steddie as dads.

Steve back stage at one of Eddie’s shows, toddler in big headphones on his hip, waiting.

Spending the whole show back stage playing with uncle will, and the rest of the band members partners, friends, and tour team members. Because everyone just adores Eddie’s little one. His spitting image, personality wise. Same smile. Same mischievous joy in their eyes. (yes I’m insinuating my Gareth/will HC fight me)

Eddie comes off stage, and yeah he’s tired, long show. yeah he’s ready to go home and crawl into bed with his hubby and be the little spoon tonight, but the second he sees his precious little family the biggest grin spreads across his face.

Because look at them. They’re perfect. Steve, the portrait of a devoted, loving partner and father. And such a perfect little Angel of a child. Their child. Eddie isn’t sure he deserves it, honesty. But god is he so lucky.

“Look, it’s daddy” Steve whispers to the toddler, who is now excitedly looking around, and breaks into the biggest smile squealing “daddy!” And making grabby hands for the smiling man rapidly approaching them.

He greets Steve with a soft, quick, gentle kiss and one armed hug, before picking up the toddler. His eyes meet Steve’s, exchanging the sweetest, softest gaze.

Because he’s bone tired, sure, but he’s never too tired for his little one.

“Hey pumpkin! Did you and papa have fun?” And the little one laughs happily, nodding. “Mm I’m glad you had fun. I had more fun knowing you were here too.”.

Steve rakes his fingers through the sweaty bangs on Eddie’s forehead. “Oh hon, you’re a sweaty mess. You look exhausted” he mutters in worry. Eddie smiles softly. “Late night, long day. you know how it is.” Steve smiles and nods. He’s been on this ride many years now, he knows.

“You sounded amazing, honey. Looked great out there too. And I get to take you home at the end of the night? How’d I get so lucky?”.

Eddie looks down, realizing the four year old is asleep in his arms. “It’s late for them”. “Yeah, it’s late for us too” Eddie snorts.

“When’d we get so old? There was a time that, 1 am, we’d be going hard for a few more hours easy”. Steve whines. Whines quietly, not wanting to wake the little one.

“I don’t know, probably around the time we decided to start paying taxes?”.

Steve chuckles and rolls his eyes. “Gimme the baby. You’re dead on your feet hon. Don’t be shy to nod off on the way home” Steve insists.

“Yeah whatever” Eddie deflects. But he listens to Steve, passing back the child, and he does doze off in the passenger side after insisting he won’t for ten minutes.

At the red light Steve looks over, and yup, Eddie’s out cold. Sleeping as peacefully and pretty as ever.

His family. He has one of those. A husband, a child. They’re safe, happy, sleeping in his car while he drives them home. To their happy, lived in, love filled house. His life is so fucking good. He couldn’t have ever imagined this much peace and joy at 16.

Eddie would make a Tik tok to that one sound from moana that’s like “I know it’s a lot the hair the bod when your staring at a demi god” and it’s just him being his absolutely ham attention whore self and Steve looking completely done with his bullshit. Like, lovingly done. Video ends with Steve, show as just trying to sit on the couch before eddie tried to thirst trap him, wrapping his arms around Eddie’s waist and dragging him down onto the couch with him.

I just love them.

Fount footage, drunk eddie, 1990-something

Eddie, looking wrecked in a hotel room, jeff chuckling behind the camera.

Eddie slurring “you know what, that sex drugs and rocks and roll shit is fucking bullshit! Lemme tell-hic- lemme tell you something, okay, #1, sex. What sex? My boyfriend is in fucking- Fucking Chicago, and I’m in, where the fuck- (“we’re in Huston, Eddie”)- I’m in fucking TEXAS so that means I’m having ZERO sex, like, half the yeah when I’m on tour, and like yeah when I’m home it’s like, the best sex ever but like, I’m never home! (“TMI man, T-M-fucking-I” “shut up garreth let him keep going I wanna see where this goes”) #2, drugs, drugs? What drugs man? I smoke weed, that’s it! What am I gonna do, be like my dad? Fucking ew, fuck, so just weed and that’s not even a real drug man. And then- wait what’s number 3? (“Rock and roll eddie”) #3 is rock and roll. And okayyyyy, I’m doing that one but like, be honest guys. Being a rockstar isn’t like, it’s not all that crazy man” “

Since they don’t teach gay sex ed in school let me tell gay guys and anyone else that wants to use the back door that douching is bad for you. It will cause long term problems.

Also starving yourself all day will not work because sometimes it can take up to two or three days for something to move through you.

Just eat a bunch of fiber and use the bathroom at least an hour or two before your booty call if you can. If you hate eating fiber just get yourself some fiber pills to take with meals. If you eat enough fiber the section after the colon should remain relatively clean on its own. Just wash the outside part. Not your insides. Those clean themselves.

Also if he shames you for anything that happens by accident in the bedroom and/or refuses to use a condom he’s a jerk-wad and an idiot and you should dump him.

Yes! It dries out your colon and makes you more susceptible to micro-tears in your anal walls and makes it more likely that you’ll get constipated. There’s also a small but real chance that you could get a perforated bowel which is a medical emergency. It also washes away a natural layer of mucus in there which, while gross, is necessary.

Doing it once in a long while is probably fine but it’s not necessary unless you’re doing something super intense that goes up into your colon and you’re not willing to clean up afterwards.

If you absolutely must, use clean douching equipment and lukewarm water with a teaspoon of salt per cup of water dissolved in it. The salt mixed in will keep the water from dehydrating you because yeah, that’s another risk of douching. Your body has a very specific balance of salt it wants and plain water will sap away some of that.

Also remember to use lube, kids! It reduces your risk of getting an STD or a minor injury!

Not applicable to me, but I've always been an advocate for inclusive sex education.

Stay safe!

Douching is also bad for vaginas for anyone on this thread with those. They are self-cleaning as well and putting soap up there can mess with your ph balance and increase your risk of yeast infections. Just take a piss before and after sex to avoid a UTI and let your parts take care of themselves.

It’s when you squirt water up one of your holes to “clean” it. It’s unnecessary and bad for you but unfortunately a lot of people do it.

Hey, gang! This post isn’t a safe space for homophobes, transphobes, or slut shaming! If this info isn’t relevant to you then you can just scroll past it!

Since there are a lot of new people on tumblr these days, I'm going to start this whole thing off by saying that this is my personal blog and while this blog does have AO3 in the name, this is in no way official or affiliated with whatever OTW might have to say on this subject.

Yes, I've seen the reddit post  about the GPT-3 bot scraping AO3. Yes, I'm aware that Sudowrite.com are using the data from that bot to generate text.

A few things I've learned as I've looked into this:

1. Bot scraping is legal. If a website is publicly available on the web (does not require a user to login in order to see its contents), then they don't have grounds to try to stop a bot from doing what anyone can do. Here's an article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation about why this is the case  and also why it could be considered (on balance) a good thing . For example, scraping websites helps academics and journalists do their work.

2. Elon Musk doesn't own GPT-3. He's listed as one of the founders of OpenAI, the group who created GPT-3, but he resigned in 2018. He could still be a donor, but he has no official capacity in the organization.

3. Sudowrites is a tool that generates text, but it is a writing assistant not an AI author. It can not structure a story and develop a plot independently. It can not do research. It is meant to assist a human author by giving them prompts or ideas, helping them find a word or a phrase. But anything created solely by the bot would be at least somewhat incoherent and also in danger of committing plagiarism. For more information, I recommend this article.

What does this all mean? First of all, just because it's legal doesn't mean you have to like it. I'm not a fan of it, myself. but I also know that Google scrapes AO3 in order to provide search results for fans trying to find fic so I've kind of resigned myself to it.

Second of all, there's nothing AO3 or the OTW can do about it, really. There's a technical fix they can implement to prevent scraping by one particular bot (the one mentioned in the reddit article), but that's about it.

You, as an author on AO3, could lock your works to the Archive (restrict access to only logged in users). This might or might not protect your works from scraping. I don't know enough about these bots to give you an answer one way or the other. This feels gross. I understand that. I feel it too. Do what you need to do to feel better.

The original reddit post author states that they contacted the OTW Board, so there's no need for you to write in to AO3 Support. They're already aware of the situation.

Games on Twitter

undressing from tw1tter but make it pocketverse

🔪🔪🔪 в вк не репостить🔪🔪🔪

I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.

Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.

Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.

This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.

Goncharov score masterpost

I want to make a post to keep track of all the Goncharov score that’s been uploaded to tumblr, so I will link to all the one’s I’ve found so far and update with any new ones that come up (if you know any I’m missing please share the link!)

Main Theme uploaded by @caramiaaddio

Main Theme (End Titles) uploaded by @if-only-angels-could-prevail

Main Theme (Reprise) uploaded by @raccoonfink

Main Theme uploaded by @eternenty

General Soundtrack uploaded by @mortal-ghost

Shortened Main Title as used in the original theatrical release, uploaded by @somanyofthekids

Main Theme (Opening Credits) uploaded by @fireball-me

The Bridge Breaks uploaded by @nicewizard

The Clocktower uploaded by @dungeonmastersconsortium

Farewell Scene uploaded by @levuna (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Farewell Scene - Extended Version uploaded by @levuna

Tempus Fugit - “Clock Theme” uploaded by @trupowieszcz  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Goncharov Theme in Minor uploaded by @mapplejuice  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Katya’s Leitmotif (Vinyl Rip) uploaded by @unscharf-an-den-raendern  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Andrey’s Theme uploaded by @the-frosty-mac (pointed out to me by @muzic4sewerratz , thank you!)

It Is True (Extract) uploaded by @hex-of-els (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Memories Of Water - Goncharov Soundtrack uploaded by @rismrus (pointed out to me by themself– please do feel free to toot your own horn!)

Katya’s Sonata uploaded by @arcanistvysoren

“For My Love” Andrey’s Serenade uploaded by @shits-getting-weird (pointed out to me by themself)

Stolen Time uploaded by @avatar-of-the-vast (I lost track of who pointed this one out to me I’m sorry but my notifications at the moment are A Lot, so thank you to whoever it was and I’m sorry I don’t know who you were)

Sharing A Dance uploaded by @the-frosty-mac (pointed out to me by themself)

In The Boathouse uploaded by @madame-karenina

What Was And Will Be uploaded by @piano-flute

Overture on the Clocktower uploaded by @dead-minecraft-fandoms (pointed out to me by @mccoppinscrapyard, thank you!)

Privyet Goncharov uploaded by @rismrus (pointed out to me by themself)

Goncharov’s Gun uploaded by @netcup

Sofia’s Serenade to Katya, from the deleted scene in the boat where she sings “Come Raggio di Sol,” uploaded by @melongumi

Sofia’s Theme uploaded by @andrey-transgenderism

Icepick Joe’s Leitmotif uploaded by @whimperandabang

Waltz of the Pearls uploaded by @raynaonyourparade

Katya’s Theme uploaded by @fancydunamancy

Katya’s Theme (a different version) uploaded by @katyathemegoncharov

Katya’s Death Song (ночь, улица, фонарь) uploaded by @traumagician

Lovers Forlon - “Katya and Sofia Final Goodbye” from the deleted scene, uploaded by @colours-of-the-galaxies

Andrey On The Bridge uploaded by @reinbel

Palace Dance Scene uploaded by @lostlovepunk

Dirge of the Living uploaded by @paradoxicalpockets

Smoke and Mirrors uploaded by @andrey-shot-first

Goncharov, Alone uploaded by @khufiya-khaufnak-antariksh

If You Loved Me, You Wouldn’t Miss uploaded by @thetasteoffire who also provided a transcript in a reblog of this post (link)

Clocktower Confrontation uploaded by @rismrus

Goncharov’s Dream uploaded by @verochkasnightmarecorner

Love Theme uploaded by @literary-potat0

Time Motif (All Things Twist) uploaded by @oldbay-on-apples

Predatel'stvo (Katya’s Lament) uploaded by @lierdumoa

Shootout on the Old Bridge uploaded by @raynaonyourparade

This Is It uploaded by @angrycatlovesfandoms

Gonchorov’s Theme and Sofia’s Theme uploaded by @koalas-cave

Last Train uploaded by @minotaurlovesyou

Now Departing uploaded by @theshadowbastard

The Courtroom uploaded by @traegorn

Goncharov’s Death uploaded by @loruleyuga

Katya in Peril (Vinyl Rip) uploaded by @unscharf-an-den-raendern

Te Deum (Cathedral Scene) uploaded by @3liza

Katya and Sofia uploaded by @elluminis

Love Theme uploaded by @tweltchy

Katya’s Theme uploaded by @maebird-melody

The Betrayal uploaded by @kip-can-fiddle

Chase Scene uploaded by @fireball-me

Prayer Scene uploaded by @fireball-me

Delusions by the Clocktower uploaded by @sleeveace22

A Clockmaster’s Lament uploaded by @rismrus

If only time would stop for us uploaded by @fireflydragon2005

Apples at the Market uploaded by @raynaonyourparade

Four Seconds (The Clockmaker Reprise) uploaded by @lostinthewinterwood

Dockside #2, one of the unreleased tracks, uploaded by @reptilemodernism

Unnamed Fragment from Goncharov’s death scene, uploaded by @quizshow1994

Bonus:

Cover of the song Goncharov (2010) by @idiopathicsmile  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

At Goncharov’s Gate (PC Version), song written for the PC game with a Super NES port released in 1994 for PC-DOS, uploaded by @badgraph1csghost (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Intro to Goncharov (Super Nintendo version) uploaded by @badgraph1csghost

You Think You Have Time, a remix of the original theme that wound up in Hotline Miami DLC, uploaded by @coolwitchaunt

One of the official trailers was recently recovered by @talkshowhost1996

A soundtrack compilation is now available on soundcloud

Analysis of the music in the Ballroom Scene by @clarionglass

Analysis on the overall sountrack by @odense

Happy (early) Nov 15th! Remember that Stone Butch Blues is free now and always to read here

Leslie was a communist, a butch lesbian, a nonbinary and transgender activist, and the person who made me who I am today. Consider checking out Stone Butch Blues if you haven’t already 😘 Do it for Leslie, and for hir surviving partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt 💕

hey remember that person who said they'd read homestuck if they got 10k notes

yeah come kill me tumblr

STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS TEN CENTS A POP TOSS THE BALL AND GET EM WET

Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.

On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on.

I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'"

That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag.

Never.

These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it.

And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much.

Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do.

You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups.

But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag.

That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died.

It was 1985, 4 years after the CDC first released papers on what would eventually become known as HIV/AIDS and 7 years after the first known death from an infection from HIV-2. Reagan hadn't even said the word AIDS by the time Hudson died.

Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is.

Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean.

Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device.

They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful.

But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit.

I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes."

(Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005.

Fucker.)

But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up.

I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time.

But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them -- and he's not -- then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can't trim ourselves down to something they'll accept.

The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we're here, we're queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It's revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don't challenge them too much, or it's conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we've got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning.

That's it. Either it's all of us or it's none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don't agree with it but we'll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.

The brunch gays can come, too, I guess.

This is the only day you can RT this

[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]

begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.

but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.

diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).

she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.

and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?

diana ignored her and kept fighting.

and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason