Steddie but Steve is a hairdresser
Eddie: I want layers, but kind of messy? and some bangs, but blended into the longer parts of my hair.
Steve: Ah. you wanna shag?
Eddie [flustered]: I- uhhh we- well, I don- I mean-
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…sometimes I just. Think about. How literal siblings get stuck with rumors they’re dating, and m-f friendships often don’t get a chance to truly start or develop because of the strain those assumptions and pressure causes…
…while literal same-gender and aspec-affirming couples get slapped with “like siblings” this and “just really good friends” that.
And then how this gets even more reductive with infighting like “m-f friendships can only occur when one of them is homosexual,” or aspecs picking at eachother over rep until it’s a very specific type of aroace on the aroace spectrum of the aspec spectrums (and nobody’s actually happy), and of course fanon ships pitted against gen-no-ships…
…and how everyone just ends up feeling stressed out and invalidated. Because anything—and I do mean anything—that doesn’t fit neatly inside of the heteronormative narrative of “men and women can’t be friends, men and women must be romantically involved, people of the same gender and/or aspec/any other queer identity(ies) must never date.”
And how it makes the queers and cichets alike absolutely miserable.
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I like to think Lance and Wallace are older than Steven, and they just treat him like a younger sibling. Wallace just moves Steven’s rocks and disorganizes them because Steven’s adhd/add makes him organize his collection a certain type of way. Meanwhile Lance just straight up takes his seat in Champion meetings. He stopped doing it after Cynthia announced Steven was her bf tho.
Also, Steven is just so sheltered that he literally doesn’t understand what a menstrual cycle is. It’s his big brothers who have to explain it to him. Steven’s just baffled, and is about to make a campaign for days off for menstrual cycles (that does not make any sense).
When Lance heard how Steven fought Team Magma/Aqua he scolded Steven so hard for not doing the right safety protocols.
Lance: “You’re telling me you didn’t have your strongest pokemon out to defend you?”
Steven, confused: “Well, no. Why would I? There was a kid there, he/she’d would have taken care pf that.”
Lance is just too stunned to speak. He just holds out a pokeball with one of his dragonites, silently judging Steven.
Meanwhile Wallace is just watching it all go down.
The cape duo (Wallace and Lance) just grill into Steven about Steven’s lack of knowledge when it comes to women and social situations. They always have to tell Steven that not everyone is as rich as he is. Like:
One time, when Steven visited Lance’s house, he asked Lance why it was so small. Steven also pointed out how much a Champion such as Lance would get double what Steven would get, not to mention Lance’s other job as a detective/in the police force. Lance has to take a minute to think where his money goes and remembers all the times Clair borrowed his money because she wasted all of hers for random stuff.
After one of Wallace’s contests Steven asked him why he didn’t get more intricate clothing. Wallace just sighs.
Steven definitely mourns his mother around Wallace instead of Lance since Wallace knows him the longest, but Steven rants more to Lance. Steven knows for a fact Wallace hates hearing about politics. Wallace is in it for the drama.
Wallace does grill Lance for not finding an s/o though meanwhile he and Steven does. He’s like that one middle child who just gloats about everything (at least that’s how my brother works). Lance is just done with it. However, when Wallace did hear about Lance and Lorelei’s relationship, Wallace just interrogates him about it. Lance is just like “eh, we broke up just ‘cause. Not that big of a deal. Besides, she still gives me dragonite plushies anyways.”
Also, Wallace knows about Diantha’s pathetic crush on Lance, so it’s his life’s mission to get them together. He has a whole entire file and billboard with the red strings connecting to the points. Wallace just breaks into Devon Corp just to use the vacant office for his plans. Steven’s just like, “I can’t cover for you. Just use your own office at your house.”
Wallace has no ear to pay attention to. “Shut up, Steven. I need to do this. There has to be a way to get these two idiots to fall in love. I’ll find out. Even if it’s the last thing I do.”
Yeah, that’s it.
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You knew my mother was here | Moth Work
Lonan has stopped paddling. The canoe sits in the middle of the lake, lifeless like a bone in the water. He’s turned so Harrison sees him in profile and can’t tell if it’s relieving or worrying to see his face. Lonan’s jaw is taut, like there are words he wants to say but can’t. Filling up the hollow bone. He blinks slowly, like he’s trying to re-centre himself, his chest quivering with breaths meant to steady him. The water laps at the base of the canoe, whirling like his head. Dark hair tangles down his cheeks like the fingers of a poltergeist.
“You knew my mother was here,” Lonan says.
“Yes.”
“How?”
“Research.”
LONAN PORTRAIT TO GRACE (HAUNT?) YOUR DASH!! <3
Excerpt circa 2019.
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No AI could replace my job of being the weakest fucking gay on earth, I melt from a lass even talking to me I’d like to see a robot spontaneously combust the way I do from a woman looking at them for too long
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Alright so I just finished Earthspark and boy fucking howdy do I have opinions, but I’m not talking about those right now because I’m tired and the ending broke me in such a way I no longer care about anything.
What I would like to say though is I think Tanatulas should have been replaced with Shockwave in that on episode he had with Nightshade. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Tanatulas. He was literally so good, I loved his designs and his vibes and the only bad thing about him is that he never said his pronouns back. But really think about it. He didn’t have to be there. Earthspark spends too much time with the Maltos to really develop anyone so the more characters you add the more everything struggles.
Tanatulas showed up for one episode, he’s not even in the finale. Shockwave was there though and vaguely important, but it doesn’t make sense for him to just suddenly be okay with the Maltos. Unless he took Tanatulas role. Then his sudden willingness to help them would have made so much more sense. It also wouldn’t have been a very hard change, just as a whole, because neither Tanatulas or Shockwave are that important.
Just give Nightshade a line about how they should save Shockwave because they trust him and well everyone else acts the same.
Shockwave even fills a similar general role as Tanatulas being a weird scientist who care more about their science than the war. So it really wouldn’t be a hard switch and would make Shockwave make more sense. If you want to go further too Shockwave doesn’t even have a normal vehicle mode so he really could have given similar lines about alt modes to Nightshade.
Obviously Shockwave actual introduction episode would be different or maybe he’d just get replaced entirely but I really don’t think any of those changes would be too hard. Because again, he’s just not important enough for any changes to his character to be hard.
Tanatulas in Earthspark doesn’t validate his existence much as is. I really do love him, but he’s replaceable and just clutters an already poorly handled cast. While I think it would be cool if he was just more important they clearly didn’t want that by not even giving him a finale shot. So I do think just swapping his episode with Shockwave (and whatever other alterations are needed to make that perfect) fixes the problem with having too many underdeveloped characters since it removes one character and in the process developes another.
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Started playing SWTOR, played for a long while and got to lvl 25 and unlocked the chat! Went to the imperial fleet and stood still for like 5 seconds before a guy stopped in front of me, called me gay and then left.
Guy, if ur out there, I want u to know that ur right, but I didn’t appreciate that and I’m killing u if I see u again
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