Hero...
I know I didn't draw the gloves, but shhhhh....
that's our secret now.
Gotta be honest, didn't save the thing when I was done so this is all I have. The pain is slowly growing, but don't worry, I... have nothing to reassure you with.
Circle's there but really tiny. Also, I think I understand how they're getting there now!
Edit: Mystery of the disappearing belt!
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Sometimes my inability to read things correctly makes life better, like reading "twitter link" as "twink link". The downside is the disappointment that comes when there is in fact no link to the twink 😔
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Okay im gonna keep posting ab the madwheeler role swap au lol. Because when it comes to dynamics and changes I have a lot to say.
First posts here and here. The first link kind of lays out the premise, and the second is about how meeting Max instead of Mike might shift dynamics for El.
Mike’s importance as a leader gets overlooked way too often, and there are so many lovely posts on this site about how fundamental he is to the party as a whole. He makes leaps, connects ideas, is practical and focused. All the party members are so important (how many times over would the entire party be dead w/out Lucas?????) but Mike is the leader, and he’s really good at putting together the pieces.
Mike was the one who encouraged everyone to go looking for Will, the night that they found El. Mike was the one who believed Will was alive, after they saw his body being pulled from the water. Mike is the one who made connection after connection, he and Dustin bouncing off of each other, and Mike’s conviction got the party moving (and… caused conflict & split them apart a bit).
There are a lot of specific examples, and i need to go through them more thoroughly, but without Mike, season 1’s party is a lot more disorganized in their efforts to help Will. We’re not just taking Mike off the board for a bit, though—we’re putting Max in his place. But Max, while confident, doesn’t LEAD the same way Mike does, and has more hesitation/uncertainty when it comes to matters of the upsidedown (i’ll probably grab the specific examples i’m thinking of eventually lol, this is kinda a brain dump). Max, like Mike, has a lot of faith in El. Max has more confidence in El than Mike does, and will likely have less arguments with Lucas in this alternate season 1… but without Mike’s conviction, the “party” won’t have the same momentum and focus in their efforts to find Will.
Also… without Mike as a founding member of the Party… dynamics within the group will be different. Growing up together and shared experiences shape people. While all the party follows their “rules” (Lucas, for example, is a big advocate of them), without Mike, these rules very likely wouldn’t have been written (I believe that Mike was the originator of the rules). Shared interests will still be comics, walkies, biking/skating together, video games at the arcade… but max isn’t as into dnd in canon (though this may be shaped by mike excluding her a bit, but we see in season 3 from the rain fight that they haven’t really played), and I think this would lead the party as a whole to be less invested in it (until they get to high school & meet eddie, at least). They’ll still love Lord of the Rings, but they may not call themselves “the party”. Things like that.
Idk i like thinking about how these shifts would affect realistically change the dynamics, and honestly, it’s so interesting to me.
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I opened my copy of The Tale of the Body Thief & immediately had to close it again because of this silly little annotation
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magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.
because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!
needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture
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"Oh the media being biased/silent on Gaza is a conspiracy theory"
I am a literal journalist and this is what happened when I pitched an article to a magazine I write for:
We covered conflict before. We denounced PMs' positions as wrong before. But this is where the editor balks - anything that makes it look even vaguely like we might, possibly, support Gaza. Even if the article itself would not have been an opinion piece, but a news feature about events on the ground.
We have free press, baby! But avoid the matter entirely if you can. It's delicate and depressing, why would you talk about it? Don't rock the boat. Be quiet. You don't need to go there.
Self-censorship is alive and well.
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