genuinely do not understand the number of people who think Steve Harrington has not seen Star Wars at all, much less not multiple times. He literally has a secret handshake with Dustin involving lightsabers- a handshake STEVE initiates when they're reunited, implying he's not just playing along with Dustin, he's excited about it. When Keith asks him about his top movies, and he says Star Wars and then is kind of a ditz about what they're about, it's not because he's lying and they aren't his favorite. It's not because he's never seen them and he's trying to get the job or look cool to Keith. They're literally some of his favorite movies because he watched them with Dustin and he loves that little shit. And yeah, he probably genuinely didn't Get everything about them, but he doesn't need to. He gets enough to know that watching them with Dustin may have genuinely been one of the best experiences of his life.
Because, like, how do you think Tommy and Carol watched movies? I can guarantee you it wasn't with their whole hearts. I can guarantee you it wasn't with wonder. I can also guarantee you that Steve wasn't allowed to watch things that way in their presence, either, not with "aww king steve has a heart" carol, not with Tommy cackling over him showing one (1) emotion. Dustin nerding out over, like, basically everything, getting genuinely excited about the special effects or the plot or the characters, and encouraging Steve when he thinks the fight scenes are cool or when Steve tentatively makes a connection about something in the plot? Steve actually feeling like he has common ground with Dustin? Hell, Steve finally feeling like he has common ground at all with the person watching along with him? Don't even get me started on the fact that he got so comfortable in his love for them that he blurted out "the one with the teddy bears!" to Keith, as if he has just been allowed to like the cute, fluffy Ewoks not only without being judged, but alongside someone else that enjoys them- because I'd bet Dustin likes them, too.
And like. idk how many of you have seen Animal House, it's an old movie. It's a comedy about frat house shenanigans, and an obvious choice for who Steve used to be because you need zero thoughts to watch it. Of course that's the first thing out of his mouth, he's probably watched it a dozen times with Tommy, doesn't even have to really think. But when Keith makes him focus and actually think? And he names Star Wars? Listen I've seen the original movies at least 20 times each, my best friend when I was a kid was (and is) obsessed with those movies (when I grew up it was only those three). We biked around pretending to be xwings. He had every star wars toy it seemed like. We played a computer game where you ran missions as a pilot and he'd fly and I'd man the keyboard so we could turn the 1-person 1st-person shooter into a two person play. Like, my childhood was jurassic park and star wars. And I genuinely couldn't tell you the sub-titles of the three movies, definitely not the order. The fact that Steve doesn't immediately recognize "a new hope" as the title of one of the movies doesn't mean he didn't LOVE them.
idk man! I just love the thought of Steve actually really liking Star Wars. And maybe he doesn't really Get them in the same way Dustin or the other kids, or even Eddie and Robin would Get them, but I think he genuinely does like them in his own Steve way, and I think it's only half because they're good movies. I think a lot of it has to do with having seen them with Dustin and the bonding experience that came with it.
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Odypen definitely and equivalently adore each other BUT I weirdly can't see them as the type to actually say "I Love you".
They still definitely vocalize their love for each other but it's more so in "My Joy", and "Extraordinary Woman", "Strange Woman/Man", etc. And very cheesy lines (both say some cheesy shit in the Odyssey, and he definitely does in the Iliad as well. "Joy like a drowning sailor seeing land" bit???)
I could see "I adore you" but even then, that's probably during very specific moments but the actual "I love you"??? I just typed it just now for fic shit and... It weirdly just didn't feel right and I don't know why. 😅
Idk maybe it's kind of because I see them as over the top in ways, they love wordplay and riddles and I think they'd almost think "...That's not good enough >:( " about it??? I don't know???😂
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sharing an unedited snippet bc the painkillers are kicking in and idc anymore
“Maybe we should just leave,” he says with a sigh. He’s been suggesting it for the past half-hour. “Go find Gojo-sensei.”
Yuji’s already drifted off. He’s still got plenty of cash to burn. Well, Gojo’s cash, but he was gifted it to have some fun, right? The 80s-style carpet swallows Fushiguro’s protests chasing after his footsteps as he browses the array of cabinets on display. Most of them are either out-of-order or dysfunctional, their screens flickering with nonsense displays. He passes a Mortal Kombat cabinet, where Scorpion is permanently glitched in the middle of impaling Liu Kang. The screen is split horizontally one third from the bottom, giving the appearance of Liu Kang’s body being cut in two. On his left, another cabinet shows Pac-Man being ambushed by ghosts, only to finally be caught by Clyde. The preview starts up again and Pac-Man is off, mindlessly chomping down on every pellet in his path. The pellets twitch and suddenly they’re fingers. Yuji does a double take. Pac-Man swallows a pellet - a regular, yellow pellet - and then a powerup, and then the hunt is on.
“Itadori, let’s g- are you okay?”
Yuji tears his eyes away from the screen, now just urging him to insert a coin. In the distance, Kugisaki’s heading to the escalator. His eyes focus on Fushiguro, whose mossy gaze, rippling with concern, sets every point of his skin on fire. Yuji chuckles sheepishly, running his hand through the prickly regrowth on the back of his scalp.
“Can we stay a little longer?” he pleads. “I wanna see what else they’ve got.”
Fushiguro’s feathery brows pull together. “Are you sure? Because you look freaked out.”
Yuji watches the carpet go dark and light under the scrubbing of his boot. “I just thought I saw something.”
The air between his body and his clothes is becoming unbearably humid under Fushiguro’s intense stare. He’s been doing that a lot lately. Just… staring. Like he expects Yuji to drop dead again. “Fushiguro, I’m fine,” he wants to say. Sometimes his mind bursts with the image of him pressing Fushiguro’s hand to his chest to feel his heart thumping away in there, saying “Look, look! I’m alive! I’m alive!” But then his heart starts beating a little too fast and Yuji knows Fushiguro would feel it too and then he’d know. The thought sears Yuji’s cheeks and he turns away from the light, away from Fushiguro. He wants him to leave with Kugisaki so that he can explore the games in peace. But it’s kind of dark up here and some of the lights are flickering and he’s a little scared to be alone. Come on, say something.
“Fine.”
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I think people overestimate how feminist team black is. If someone brings up how Baela should be the heir to Driftmark, it's always "she would've been Queen if not for the Greens!", ignoring that 1, she would be Queen consort, not a Queen in her own right, and 2 she has a legitimate claim in her own right to Driftmark. Team Black's goal is to crown Rhaenyra, but Rhaenyra becoming Queen isn't a win for feminism because it does nothing to dismantle the rest of the patriarchal system that exists in Westeros. From what we've gotten so far, it reads that Rhaenyra wants to be the exception and not the rule. Rhaenyra has made a lot of bad political decisions, which means she can't acknowledge Baela's claim because it would weaken her own claim (blatantly admitting her eldest sons are illegitimate would not end well for her to say the least). So she betrothes Jace and Luke to Baela and Rhaena to kind of atone for that, like as a consolation prize Baela will be Queen and Rhaena will be lady of Driftmark, neither of them would hold either title in their own right. It's good matches because the kids like each other and will treat each other well, but it's not a feminist win or a feministic liberation. It's usurpation, usurpation that takes place because Rhaenyra has to do damage control after having illegitimate children and after a serious of bad political decisions (both hers and her fathers, Viserys is the arbiter of this entire mess). To me, Rhaenyra is very reminiscent of Mary Queen of Scots, I can see a lot of elements drawn from Mary's history in Rhaenyra's story and character, down to their sons eventually taking the crown they failed to claim/keep.
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