lmaoooooo so a video popped up on my TikTok of a story time of some guy trying to buy his wife tampons and some woman going up to him thinking he was a trans man saying, “see? you’ll always be a woman!”

Finished the Byler DnD AU piece!! Took me about 36 hours in total :)

Lion King (1994) explaining the importance of stylized 2D animation: Lion King (2019) and Cats (2019):

Kimba The White Lion (1965) explaining the importance of an original idea:

Shakespeare (1564) explaining the importance of an original idea:

Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1160 – c. 1220) explaining the importance of understanding that all creative work is inherently derivative once you study the oral tradition of storytelling and history and that’s okay because generations have always reformatted tropes and themes to make them relatable to their current audiences 

Tyrannosaurus rex (Late Cretaceous) explaining nothing because he’s a don’t give a fuck

they knew Will was going to be gay since before netflix took the show, in season 2 Will already had a crush on Mike because it's even in the script and they decided in season two to make it clear that Mike and Will have a really different relationship than all the others, more intimate and they understand each other and support each other many times during the whole season, Mike touches Will's hand and they decided to focus on it with the camera... they made Mike do a freaking monologue for Will, super intimate and emotional for both of them... they knew they wanted this storyline about Will having feelings for Mike since the start and still showed that Mike even having clearly feelings for a girl is way more attentive to Will than anyone else in season 1 & 2... then we go to season 3 and they make Will and Mike have a super emotional fight in the rain that is literally what happens in romantic movies usually... at the same time they portray the relationship that Mike is in as almost frivolous and childish and Mike is finding it difficult to express his feelings + is acting different and leaving his true self behind, thing that they showed Nancy do in season 1 for Steve... they explicitly made both Barb and Jonathan point this out to her... how she was acting different because of Steve... like Mike was doing in s3... jump to season 4 and Mike and El are both pretending to be cooler than they are and lying/omitting to say the ily, at the same time Will and Mike have a SECOND big emotional fight and lots of emotional conversations, heart to hearts with the interruption trope, Will is being the emotional fluffer in Mike's relationship and keeping them together basically by lying about the painting + Mike and Will get paired together all season and El and Mike have a BIG awful fight were they both invalidate the feelings of the other person... Mike makes a love monologue prompted by Will and then they don't show any cute milkvan scene after that, El doesn't react on screen at all except she looks weird at Mike in the cabin and isolates herself....

"Cause I'd find you in any world" it's them for real!

Mike: ew a spider

I will say this thing and I am right about this

Literally. You know what I was doing at age 14? Playing videogames with my dad and board games with my grandpa. Did that just about every afternoon and night. Why? ‘Cause it’s normal to do at that age. And hell, I still enjoy my videogames now and I like watching people play D&D who are way older than even Will is. People in their 30s. “Will wants to play games because he’s a kid” and “games aren’t inherently childish” are two statements that can and should coexist here. Playing games with Mike is one of Will’s favorite things to do. It’s something he misses that he hasn’t gotten to do in months.

exactly! and not only this, but the narrative in the show is framing this desire of the kids of being kids as positive, the narrative is trying to tell the viewers that playing d&d is not something childish, it's something normal for their age (and older) as is playing Nintendo and just having fun together... and that wanting to play with the Christmas presents at 14 is not something you should be ashamed of!!!

The way people tried to shame Will for being a kid in s3 cuz he wanted to play DnD with his friends is atrocious. They were legit mad that Will wasn't trying to grow up too quick like Mike, when he's doing exactly what his age range should be doing, having harmless fun.