Thought Dumps

Also not to shit on Steve but like he had to be dragged in every time, Jonathan jumped in as soon as there was a whiff of something wrong

so we remember how i’m planning a will byers never found au? well i just thought of something way better, will actually WAS found in 1983, but he got taken back at a different, VERY IMPORTANT time that im very excited to write and for you all to read

Haha author I am in your walls, gently encouraging you to write so I can cry to it

cleradin where (soon to be) paladin michael sneaks out with his peers to a tavern the day before their training starts to celebrate their ‘last day of freedom’. michael hasn’t actually drank a lot but can’t handle his alcohol to save his life. on their way back to the castle he starts serenading under what he believes is princess jane’s balcony but mid song, royal advisor william opens the curtains— his curtains, to look down to see what’s all the ruckus about. michael falls, in love and literally because he loses his footing and that’s the last thing william sees from him. until the next day when william shows up at the field and he could swear of all the trainees, the one in the far back, looks— and sounds— awfully familiar

Ahhhhhh!! I am sooooo Cleradin pilled, I need this concept!

doing fic research and learning that most of the fandom hates Sasha (who isn't even a named character in the books lol) is my personal tumblr moment

rewatched a bit of s2 and honestly it’s so easy to understand why will fell in love with mike because if someone looked at you like that, took care of you like that, and asked you how you were feeling like that, i’d fucking fall in love too

There’s something so interesting in Amy giving up the driver’s seat to Whitaker when she’s the one picking him up. On the surface level it’s very Traditional Gender Roles that Amy can drive her own truck but only if The Man isn’t there, but there’s also the subtext of Dennis’s subtle martyrdom that he’s getting off a 15 hour shift and the person picking him up is making him drive and I don’t think it’s intentional for either of the characters here but it’s interesting to see Dennis kind of slot into this traditional masculine role to his own detriment when he’s clearly pretty insecure about his masculinity at work given his awkward interactions with Ahmad and Antoine earlier in the season and with Langdon later on. It makes me wonder how much of him playing farmhouse with Amy is about affirming he can still be the person he was raised to be.

there's a certain h**ringrove/st**die trope whereby because Steve is the protagonist and Nancy's actually in love w Jonathan and not him, Jonathan just sort of exists in the background as a homewrecker. and it does make me laugh bc look at him. oh yeah that tempter, he knew what he was doing when he told her he wanted to stay at home reading instead of going out for Halloween. standing there in 15 layers of flannel like a HARLOT

byler au where el is the eleventh doctor (lmao that wasn’t even on purpose) and byler is rory and amy