“Do You Think We Could Have Ended Up Together In Another Universe?”

what do you say?

buck subplot: my 8 year situationship is leaving me 😔💔

average maddie subplot:

@steddie-week Day 5: Reunion/getting back together

What's a more classic romance movie trope than a reunion in the pouring rain

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

Perpetually thinking about how they gave God boyfriends and girlfriends but they can’t make some dude from Kansas gay for an angel

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Hawkins High decides to do a Silent Disco to save money. Eddie and Steve agreed to go together as friends and share headphones. Eddie of course selects the music they’d be dancing to. Steve was expecting it to be filled with metal which he didn’t mind. Eddie had taken him to a few concerts and he liked it more than he thought. However Eddie was really secretive about the playlist he was creating and acted really shy when it was time to present it. He didn’t look him in the eye as they put the headphones in and he pressed play. Steve did not expect the music to be so soft and romantic and it made him absolutely melt. They slow danced with their foreheads pressed together the rest of the night.

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES S1 + TUMBLR REACTIONS

“I ain’t never seen two pretty best friend—“

Okay, so let me see if I understand correctly:

Boys wanting to write poetry is a metaphor for boys wanting the freedom to make out in the back of old bookstores and to wear lipstick while reciting Shakespearean sonnets without having to hear the constant disapproval of others

Men running away to become pirates is a metaphor for men running away from the safe, heteronormative lives society forced them into in order to start a more genuine, albeit more dangerous, life for themselves

Nerdy teens fighting monsters together is a metaphor for teens who were once outcasted by their community for being different helping each other to confront their trauma and to become the heroes of their own stories

And women playing baseball is a metaphor for women reclaiming their femininity after spending most of their lives being told they’re “not real girls” because they don’t fit the mold the patriarchy wants them to fit into

But ultimately all of them are just metaphors for a friend group being gayer than the fucking fourth of July