#bombshellsandbluebells

and then she's like oh right. Dustin is 16 right now. that hasn't happened yet. and everyone's like YET?!?!? and then future Nancy, who 100% had a HUGE issue with Dusteve when they first got together, is like "it is not that big a deal!!! we have bigger things to address!!"

also Jonathan is REELING right now. this whole time he thought Steve was coming for Nancy

Thank you so much for this ask! I realized as I started writing my other drabble series that I couldn't handle eight characters for such a prolonged period of time especially when I don't have that strong of a handle on writing Jonathan's character. That being said, I thought it would be fun to try writing in Jonathan's perspective for this to see where it went. Consider this, parallel universe #1 to dilf dusteve time travel drabble. this was a great suggestion, so if anyone has other concepts for my time travel shenanigans, shoot them into my inbox!

Behind a read more bc I'm incapable of writing anything short.

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Jonathan's head hurts, and not just because he fell through the roof of the Lab into conference room that had rapidly filled with unidentifiable white goop. No, the real reason his head hurts is because he's staring at himself. His hair may be gone and he might have deep lines under his eyes and along his mouth, but it's him alright. He's looking at himself from decades into the future. Beside him and on the opposite side of the table sits a woman who clearly is Nancy, brown hair most likely dyed and in a sleek short cut he imagines must be the fashion from whatever year they're from.

They'd woken up in a daze, struggling to get free of the goo and then nearly had heart attacks when they saw that not only were they not alone, they were looking at funhouse distorted mirrors of themselves. Nancy had scrambled for her gun, only to find it gone, lost in the explosion, and the other two immediately starting swearing up a storm, as if they had been in this situation before and were very unhappy to be back. They all scrambled for the table and after brief theories and confused explanations, they all sat staring at each other in suspicious silence.

The older Nancy breaks the silence. "We should call for Steve and Dustin, so they know where to find us."

"If the older ones are here too, they probably know where to go," the older Jonathan suggests reasonably.

"Hmm, true. Are you from 2012? I wonder if we all got yanked from the same time," older Nancy muses.

"Yeah. I was in the middle of a shoot. You?"

"Just finished up an interview. So...how've you been? Has the filming been going well?"

The older pair continue to talk, catching up, and Jonathan realizes swiftly that they're not together the way they cover months of activity in their conversation. He spares a glance at Nancy. Her expression, unsurprisingly, is unreadable. He rolls his eyes. Always the stoic, Nancy Wheeler.

When Steve busts down the door with a fire extinguisher, golden light bursting into the room, Jonathan imagines he should feel more relieved, but the way that Steve gallantly offers his hand to Nancy to help her through the hole he's created puts a sour lump in his craw.

The feeling grows when he catches sight of an older Steve standing just beyond in corridor, still with a full head of hair, and now with a thick beard. Typical, Jonathan thinks to himself. At least he's gone gray. An older Dustin stands next to him, looking much the same as the younger, though he sports a pair of thick glasses and his face is more drawn. Silver threads his dark curls here and there. The two Dustins are talking rapidly back and forth under their breath, too quick to follow.

Once everyone is out of the room, Jonathan is surprised to watch all of the older versions start to embrace each other, swapping big hugs and warm, firm handshakes. Even the older Steve and Jonathan seem to be glad to see each other. He can't imagine a world where that's the case.

So after he realizes Steve’s a decent guy he puts a lot of that aside. After all, Dustin still thinks he’s a hero for fighting off the bats. He can live with that. He can make peace with Harrington.

And meanwhile Steve is STILL crazy jealous of him because he hasn’t clocked that his feelings are a lot more complicated but he knows he feels SOME sort of way about Dustin’s obvious crush.

Eddie trapped in a love triangle that he doesn’t even realize is a love triangle

So this is obviously dated and before the finale, but I am still on this train!!

Sadly, I think we've left behind the world where Coach Ben is fully dissociating, though. Since dream!Paul kicked him out of the dream world and Misty talked him off the literal edge, Benny Boy's got his groove back. And that groove means attempted murder-by-fire of like, a dozen teenage girls (and Travis.) So I don't think anything about my theory of Ben eating in his dissociation dream world and permanently disconnecting from them is ever going to pan out.

But it's still very interesting to me that there were other similarities between Ben's dream world and the death dreams of the girls in the wilderness. In the death dreams, the girls are tempted by something they really want. Jackie drinks the hot cocoa and dies, and before that she dreams of her friends warmly accepting her and telling her they love her. Lottie's dream is a weird inverse, where her friends judge and belittle her, and Laura Lee pushes her out of the dream before she can eat food there and die in real life. Even Shauna's death dream, difficult as it is, involves her successfully feeding her baby and connecting with her child. So the pattern of not eating/eating and survival/death is pretty well established at this point.

Ben's dissociation dream world is so similar to these in some ways. He gets what he's dreaming of - he's with Paul, he never got stuck in the wilderness or lost his leg, he's not surrounded by cult-ish cannibalistic teenage girls (and Travis.) And at the end of it, Paul forces him back into the real world, just like Laura Lee did for Lottie. And Paul tells him he loves him, just like Shauna did in Jackie's death dream.

I don't know what these parallels mean, lmao. I'm not even sure they mean anything, anymore. And I don't know if they were ever going to get so literal as the "even if you're not dying, if you're dreaming and you eat, it's bad" route. That was probably too on the nose.

But I do think it's interesting that there are a lot of similarities to all these dreams. Maybe, since Coach also wasn't eating in real life, being the only one who hasn't given into cannibalism, the similarities between the dreams were only supposed to suggest that, if Ben hadn't woken up, he would've eventually succumbed to starvation and died anyway. And they just thought it'd be too obvious to have him be offered and refuse or nearly accept food in his dreams with Paul.

I thought it was clever, though, dammit!

It's 10AM here and YOU are going to make ME cry over fictional characters so who's the real villain here???

(the writers of The 100)

honestly though... I'm so bitter about this show in hindsight, to the point that I wonder why I even ran a blog in the first place. and then you show up and remind me of my spacekru feelings and of all the lost potential there, but also how the crumbs we got were SO GOOD. and I remember again, that, despite its many, many, many flaws, sometimes The 100 was actually very emotionally impactful and occasionally well-written.

2. Why do you write fanfiction?

Because it’s fun!  And I like exploring how the same people can fall in love in dozens of different scenarios!  And I love the characters I write about just so much!

4. Are there any writers that inspire you?

@pawprinterfanfic 100%.  I dream of being as good as her.

6. What element of writing do you find comes easily?

Funnily enough it’s dialogue!  I used to rp a lot, so getting into the heads of different characters is surprisingly easy for me to hear their voice in my head and think of things they’d say.

18. Wildest fic you’ve ever written?

What do we mean by wildest?  Because if we mean the most out-there fic, it’s probably A One-Time Thing (Captain Swan, E) because it’s definitely not something I normally would write.  But I also feel like in terms of what actually happens, when life gives you shit, you make kool-aid (Becho, M) is pretty wild too.

I feel like the point of this hat is to oppose the "Make america great again" hat though. It might not be worded the best because America has a lot to improve still, but it seems like an intentional response to the mentality of trump's maga hats, which say we need to go back to less freedom and rights for minorities to make america great. I think it's meant as a direct argument to the Trump mentality.

It’s been said before that he’s a Trump supporter and privately mocked Miller for being gay while enjoying the higher profile and plot armor he got because of it. And a lot of us ignored it because there weren’t adequate receipts.  Maybe here his intentions are good and his execution is terrible.  It doesn’t help that it’s Isaiah Washington making the post, and his own history on social issues is complicated at best.  For me, Jarod Joseph has the day to come out with an unambiguous “Fuck Trump” or he’s dead to me.  An asshole of the first order who supports further human rights violations.  There is no middle of the road or vague blogging on Trump permitted. He opened the can of worms so he needs to eat it or throw it.  

If Trump’s official campaign site considers “Keep America Great” products to be worth selling then wearing them implies supporting Trump. https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/official-donald-trump-keep-america-great-hat

Edit: Further research shows that Keep America Great is the official slogan of Trump/Pence 2020.  Jarod Joseph needs to come out with a huge “My bad, I misunderstood” or it’s safe to assume he’s intentionally supporting Trump with the hat.