#California (There Is No End To Love)

[compacflt]

in regard to the icemav convo about american made cars: I think it would be funny if after mav gets his regular license, ice buys him a truck that they can use for transporting stuff to the hangar and when he gifts it to mav all the man can do is laugh bc stamped across the ass is MAVERICK. It’s a 2023 ford maverick (in area 51 bc I’m partial to that color)

and mav likes it, but he doesn’t love driving it bc it’s so big (and he just likes being a passenger princess too much), so ice drives it mostly which inspires a whole lot of jokes about ice liking having maverick’s name stamped on his ass. bradley gags from the other room every time.

if it matters to u, i agree with this hc 150% on rhetoric grounds. thank god for your mind.

however i would like to raise the issue that recent american pickup trucks have become non-useful, overexpensive, and suburban-coded in a way i think ice and mav would reject. the ford maverick was built with the intention of dropping kindergarteners off at school, not of actually doing hard labor. see below infographic for what I mean.

It’s a fucking travesty. Trucks are so ugly and useless now. the maverick is not immune to this. (maverick below)

what good is having a fucking truck if it can’t even hold two REGULAR ASS BIKES in the bed. & when the bed is empty the chassis is unbalanced in a way that leads to more accidents etc. (tbf that was true in the 70s/80s too but im feeling more hateful towards modern trucks rn). In short—the modern American pickup truck is no longer useful, it’s a way to virtue signal to other Americans that you *think * you know what hard labor is, even when you’re driving around in a glorified odyssey with a teeny tiny bed that can barely hold a couple bags of mulch for the back garden

ice & mav don’t even have any little kids anymore, i think they’d consider a backseat useless & a waste of space

SO i would like to offer you a Compromise, which is that ice & mav buy either (or both) a 1974 ford maverick AND/OR a 1990 ford maverick

for the Funny Name & coolness factor (& the “making Bradley vom cause of how cute his parents are” factor), and then soup up, like, a 1984 Chevy C10 for actual towing/hauling purposes.

#*slaps roof of 2022 ford maverick* you could hit so many grade schoolers with this bad boy #the 1974 ford maverick is. admittedly extremely sexy and i am only kind of a ford guy #god the 1990 maverick too. just kind of beast mode. i can see that. #love the ask though. i hope you don’t mind my tweaks. we’re on the same wavelength #my vitriol for the modern american truck stems from my hatred of my grandfather’s 2020 f250 #which he has never used to tow anything once and constantly complains about how hard it is to find parking in suburban california 😀 #yeah brother no shit! #the one cool thing about new trucks is you can use them as a generator for a few days though #we lose power for days on end where i live during fire season and that truck has been really helpful #but it’s ass ugly and not otherwise useful. #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #bradley rooster bradshaw #asks #mav being a passenger princess has to be canon #a man physiologically built to sit shotgun ❤️ #if u get a truck with an actual bed u can drive ur war hero husband out into the desert #& lay out a blanket in the back & make out with him under the stars #can’t do that in a 2023 maverick

[s-e-v-e-n-24]

The roommates ever

Reposting because the last time the pictures kept appearing (At least for me) In the wrong order

Florida: What's your biggest fear

Cali: Being forgotten

Florida: Damn that's deep, mine was the Kool-aid man but I feel stupid now-

#wttsh california #wttt california #wttsh florida #wttt florida #wttsh fanart #wttt fanart #welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #wttt #wttsh #the statehouse #the table #my art #sev's art #i love giving him shark teeth #i forgot his freckles though #can you tell i gave up at the end? #got this done in like 2 hours the wonders of actually refilling your meds

[starmanbyler]

think abt california dreamin from mikes pov then remember that was in st okay yeah

#i’m thinking kind of smalltown boy? hawkins is miserable and dark (both weather wise and socially lmao) and california is more bright and c #colourful and accepting #and that one part ‘if i didn’t tell her i could leave today’ #if he didn’t tell el he loves her he could have just ended things but it’s too late #idk #may be a reach maybe they just picked any cali related song but #hmmm?? #byler #mike wheeler

[fanatics4l]

billy walking in on steve cheating on him with eddie and the first thing steve does is try to protect/defend eddie, treating billy like he's the monster. that's when billy realizes that steve cheated on him in every way possible.

#nasty!steve #inspired by ickypuppi3 #i saw an instagram post and thought of them #billy would be so hurt omg #to know that steve cheated on him emotionally on top of physically #ouch #he'd feel so worthless #and then billy moves to california and finds a super sexy super caring super loving bf #the end #billy hargrove #harringrove #steve harrington

[rooolt]

The post canon college gothcleats that lives in my head has haunted me for weeks and I have no way of inflicting it upon anyone else

#“Roolt you’re a writer” SHUT UP #I wanna see what happens in canon before I write anything #But that means I must suffer alone #But to me norm stays in California for college #Herm and Taylor go to some sort of art school in like Seattle or something #And scary and link end up at the same college somewhere in the northeast (DO NOT ASK ME WHERE I DONT KNOW) #And they’re kinda in love with each other for four years but never talk about it #And scary does poetry and Link plays soccer #I am ill about them #dndads #gothcleats

[loveisinthebat]

Contemplating Life Choices

#California Leaf-nosed Bat #Bats of North America #bat of the day #daily bat #bat #bats #batposting #cute animals #cute bats #I love that face #Just #' How did I end up here' #' Why am I like this ' #Big energy

[koroleva-nazyalensky]

What happens when The Avengers Campus releases a Ms Marvel themed drink called Djinn and Tonic and I’m still stuck on the other side of the country? What then?

#how am I gonna support my GIRL #Sobbing #Disneyworld is wonderful but I miss home #also I love ms marvel #they said the target audience is YOU BESTIE #animation #dance breaks #bright colors #superhero origins #that is my JAM #Ms marvel #kamala khan #also I am on board with calling Kamala and Bruno djinn and tonic #djinn and tonic #I’d ship her with kamran but I just found out he’s my age so he’s mine lol #don’t be mad Kamala we all know you’re gonna end up with Bruno #avengers campus #California adventure #do it disney #but also wait till I come back pls #personal post #ish #jenna rambles

[biillys]

oh ohhhhhhh ohhh wait. wait a fucking minute. listen. listen!!!!

flayed!billy and neil having an run-in a few days before The End. flayed!billy not scaring as easily, actually not scaring at all, compared to actual real!billy. turning right back on neil. except the mindflayer has a soft spot for his host becos the mindflayers fucked like that, so instead of just killing neil, the mindflayer decides to play with it's food for a bit.

real!billy doing his Thing and managing to get that one tear out. becos his dad may be a piece of shit but surely, surely, out of everyone, he would be able to figure out something's wrong. that billy's not billy. the desperation and the hope that maybe this is it, maybe this is only option, maybe making him just that little bit stronger. maybe him getting a 'dad, help, please' with a few more tears out before the mindflayer takes over again. but neil's a fucking coward at most and a piss poor excuse of a father at best, so he takes one look at billy crying, begging, and shakes off any doubt's and worry's, and treats him like he always does when billy turns to water under his weight.

he makes his voice harder, his grip tighter. his words crystal fucking clear.

and then flayed!billy is shoving him off, stronger than neil's ever felt him, and he's laughing, but not in a way neil's ever heard him laugh. and then he's turning to walk right out the door, camaro keys in hand, even though neil just grounded him for the entire fourth of july weekend, except he turns around just before he makes it outside, face completely blank and familiar, but neil's never seen this person before in his life, and says 'when billy and i have finished what we started, i'll come back for you.' and then he's gone.

and neil picks himself up from where he was crumpled against the kitchen counter, shakes himself off, and denies everything that just happened in the past 15 minutes. grips the bench to stop his hands from shaking, and promises himself that next time he sees billy, then he'll really let him have it. that just because billy thinks he's old enough to throw his own weight around, doesn't mean he's gonna get away with it under this roof.

except billy never comes home, and then it's the fourth of july, and neil and susan are trying to enjoy a nice dinner at home, a dinner that both their children were meant to be home for but aren't, but at least him and susan are having a lovely night. they enjoy it right up until the phone rings late that night, and then they're speeding to starcourt mall, and there's smoke and flashing lights and fucking military everywhere, and max is distraught, hugging susan like she's the only family she has left, and no one will tell him anything about billy except for a brief 'billy didn't make it, we're sorry for your loss.'

they won't let him identify the body. won't even release the body to be buried. won't tell him why all those people were in the mall after opening hours, what max and her friends were doing there. what started the fire. why there was fucking military clearing the scene. won't even give him a cause of death.

and every single time he closes his eyes, he hears 'when billy and i have finished what we started, i'll come back for you.'

he starts hearing it when his eyes are open, too, when he's trying to put together the funeral. when he tries to go back to normal life, back to his job, where his boss pulls him aside and gives him time off until his current family situation can stop effecting his work, back home, where there's no longer loud music shaking the doors, no car flooring it up the street, no fourth place set at the table for dinner, no shitty attitude and lousy excuses and brave backtalk.

everything's suddenly so fucking quiet.

so he fixes it. overcorrects. takes his sleepless nights and his workless days out on susan, is loud and brash and a constant immovable object. makes sure it's never quiet again. susan kicks him to the curb within a month, threatening police involvement if he doesn't leave quickly and quietly.

so, he leaves.

(then, susan and max leave for the trailer park, becos neil Left. and that's all susan will say on the matter. and then the upside down comes back with a new big bad, and max is right back in the thick of things in a way she never was before, but then suddenly billy's back. billy's alive, and he's back, and he's pulling himself with his bare fucking hands out of the upside fucking down before reaching around and helping her pull herself out and he's covered in blood and black goo and scars and injuries for days and, honestly, she probably doesn't look much better, but he's coughing and bleeding yet his heart's still fucking beating. and they somehow fucking found and saved each other.

and max is sitting by his bedside in hospital after every single surgery, and she keeps him company and puts headphones over his ears to listen to music and picks out the comic books that she knows he likes to read and she does her best to just never mention anything home related.

billy makes it a week after being back from the dead before he asks about neil.

'he left,' she says, because that's all that matters.

and billy fucking remembers. he remembers how hard he fought, how it took everything within him to overpower the mindflayer, even for those brief few seconds. how the only thing on his mind was this is it. this is my only chance. this is all i've got. and he remembers neil's eyes, wide, scared, fearful, but the second billy broke through, the moment billy shed a tear, fucking begged for help, his voice cracking over the word 'dad', neil went from speechless to loud. his eyes going from uncertain to cold. how the one time billy remembers asking his dad for help, probably the first time he's asked his dad for help since he was a kid, neil didn't even take even a moment to think about it. just took one look at him begging and crying, and steamrolled right over him, fucking sentenced him to death. all because he asked for fucking help.

billy closes his eyes and nods, doesn't think he could ever face neil again without falling apart for good.)

#idk what this is im very sorry!!!!! #anyway neil runs back to california before he even realises thats where he's heading #and ends up on billys mums doorstep #becos he always knew where she ran to when she left. he's not stupid. she never really fucking tried to hide. #and he tells her billys dead. because he may be battling his own parental demons and while she may have her own parental demons #they both loved billy in their own fucked up way. not a way he deserved but they're unreliable narrators at best #and he knows that hes the reason she left. and why she left billy too. #that of neil was a different kind of man; she would've tried to take billy too; but neil was the one with the job and the money #and she had none of that. she wouldntve stood a chance in court. #its fanfic and unrealistic so i can wholeheartedly say they end up back together becos unhealthy relationships + shitty coping mechanisms #obviously are the right choice to grieve your dead child. its the perfect midlife crisis. #anyway YEARS later when billys back in california and he someway somehow runs into them #and sees his dad who he still to this day blames for his death #and his mum who once told him that the reason his dad and her always fought was becos of him #together??? bro causes a fucking earthquake #im kidding hes just like. he was going so well and healing so good and max was so proud #and then he starts spiraling again. #okay enough from me again idk what this is im sorry #m #nqff

[we-survive-endlessly]

These three songs are holding hands in my brain btw

#immaculate vibes to end the album on #doyoung #kim doyoung #doyoung solo #youth #lost in California #rest #Dallas Love field #nct #nct 127 #Rae’s recs #Spotify

[tatsuma-forever]

this manga did fuck me up, yeah

#california story #this might end up being my favorite manga i read in 2024 #i doubt i’m going to find something i like more this year #i love my fucked up yaoi

[donuts4evry1]

@tomnookishot​ you reblogged the hitori milf post with a picture of my old ugly art so it became my personal mission to redraw it before I die of embarrassment

#SOBBINTG #I WAS JUST STARTING TO DRAW EVERYONE AND HITORI WAS LIKE. THE LAST BIRD I DREW #sakuya was first naturally #followed by yuuya #then I kind of went on the deep end afterwards #i wasn't expecting to get hitori requests at the time but damn. was i nervous hasjdfh'kbsg #my art #hitori uzune #nageki fujishiro #hatoful boyfriend #why the sudden glowup? jellyfish jadsfbsghsdf (it's been almost a year since I drew this tho so... hm.) #btw I haven't started coding the new ite! it's jellyfish love! game at all today lmao #I have a flight tomorrow tho so I might do that #goin to california tomorrow :sunglasses: #actually wait why am i still up i should be getting ready smh

[quietblissxx]

12 hours at Disneyland 💕💕💕

#me #i love it so much #my heart is full #i started the day with my boo and I ended it at Disney and I'm so happy #California I loved you dearly. tonight is my last night here and I'm sad to say goodbye #i love sunshine and shopping and theme parks and spooky season and great food and the ocean

[hyypervvieww]

#the world is ending inside you #let it love you to death #elvis depressedly #holo pleasures / california dreamin’ #rfc #mf tunes

[fionarara]

still randomly remembering that one time i attended the creator of Minecraft's annual house party even though i've never even played that video game lmao and after getting to watch Skrillex dj in such an intimate setting (surreal), we all hung out and he had like a harem of cute girls surrounding him on the couch, haha it seemed super platonic though and he was really respectful,,, literally he was so kind to me and everyone,, by far the nicest celeb i've ever met besides elijah wood.

#the infinity pool view was truly epic tho. best i've ever seen like #i've been to my fair share of random LA hills parties whenever i'm in california where the house was fire #but this one took the cake #apparently he beat out beyonce n jay-z in getting the property or somethingn.. as i later learned by someone that evening ?/ hm random fact #also he had like a massively ginormous room *inside* his home dedicated to displaying LIFE SIZE transformers and actual cars i felt so tiny #i wish i could remember that moment better but i think the party drugs i was on kicked in right then lol #the uber ride home later was a mess though bc i was p fucked up by the end and i had to teach some guy about #consent with the girl he was with in the backseat and i got really protective of her. she was so grateful she ended up kissing me instead ! #like actuallymaking out with me and i was shocked but okay hell ya why not right? #i think the dude understood and got what i was saying in the end tho so that's dope #fuck i love teaching problematic 3D men how to think with their heart and not their cocks<3 #i honestly think i get super off on it. i've done it too many times to count #teachable non-misogyny moments FTW bling~bling! <3 #sorry this is so random i just needed somewhere to dump this thought out bc i could never to do it anywhere else in my actual life lmao #anyway hope y'all have been healthy and well <3 how's the anime world doin...? #haikyuu's comin back soon eh? and AOT too? maybe maaaybe i'll be back around then 👋 #➕ara~ara gomen ! #minecraft #video games

[wakasagayhime]

hi sweetie i love you :)

hiii i love you too <3

#this is my gf guys life update for anyone who doesn't follow me in twitter but I've been with her in California all summer!! #so i was telling her i was answering asks on tumblr while we were chilling in the living room together and she sent me this #i love her so much she takes such good care of me and gives me lots of hugs and cuddles and pets me on the head a lot #also shes so talented and makes really good chiptune music #i have to go back home at the end of the month but i cant wait to live together for real one day and be with her every day ;;