whimsy yet to be determined

It just kind of… happens.

In the Vecna aftermath, the find themselves more touchy with each other - as if physically holding on to each other is their reminder that they’re both still alive.

Steve goes on less and less dates until they eventually stop. And along with the end of them comes with the end of Steve’s complaints.

One night, Eddie wakes up from a nightmare and finds Steve holding him close to his chest, stroking his hair and keeping his breathing even so Eddie can match it. When his heart rate returns to a normal tempo, he looks up at Steve and smiles at him.

Steve kisses him.

He doesn’t know if it’s because Steve’s likely half asleep or if he’s still trying to distract him from the nightmare, but Eddie kisses back.

And that really seals the deal that they’re dating although… they never really talk about it or acknowledge it. They just become a bit more touchy and kiss often.

A little while after this first kiss, Steve and Eddie find themselves cuddling at the Wheeler’s house in the basement. All the other kids are doing some random shit, but then Eleven looks at the two of them and asks, “Are you two… dating?”

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

we see eddie with the kids, giving his all to make them feel like they belong to hellfire, we see him with chrissy, putting on a little show so she doesn‘t feel threatened by him, we see him with dustin, roughhousing and telling him to never change (and that he loves him), we hear wayne talk about eddie lovingly, we see him DIE for a town that hates him. and then we see the eddie who talks down on himself, talking about how he always runs, „hunt the freak, right?“, and him blaming himself for chrissy‘s death. we see him being shunned and hunted by the whole town for who he is and for something that he was a victim of.

we see steve with the kids, always the babysitter and yet so serious about his role, we see him with robin, accepting her with open arms and driving her to school probably every morning, we see him with nancy, his ex, who he still tries to protect with all he has. and then we see steve who calls himself stupid, who talks about how weird he was as a child, who says how horrible he is as a boyfriend, who blames himself for not being better at school. we see him being ostracized by his old friends for becoming a better person, getting beat up multiple times and no one ever properly acknowledging it, and we know his parents are basically never there.

I try not to make sweeping statements but I think there’s a case to be made for bernini as the greater sculptor there’s ever been.

here’s his bust of costanza bonarelli

here’s apollo and daphne from the front, where she’s mostly human

from the back, where she’s mostly tree

and details

Was doing this treasure hunt and came across this. It cracks me up bec a u s e- 

Cayde roll around in his sleep. 

 For example, like this gif here, showing how Cayde rolled in his sleep and fell to the edge-

Red pandas at Shanghai Wildlife Park getting some snacks

An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.

Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.

What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.

Past kittenhood, I mean. Kittens meow for the same reason human babies cry; to tell their mom "I have needs and wants and I'm so so small and I hardly even know it!" But adult cats have other ways to communicate with each other. They only continue to meow because they realize it's the only part of their language that gets have anything close to the correct response from humans.

Anyway. Whenever I see videos like this where a human and cat are doing that sort of call-and-response routine, like-

*human talks at the cat like its a person*

meow

*human talks at cat like its a person*

meow

-so on and so forth, like I dunno, it just hits different somehow. Like it's not the same as dogs barking at humans, dogs barking is a "natural" dog instinct (to my knowledge), but adult meowing is a specifically domestic behavior. They developed it for us. They know we can't really understand them, the same way the mom in this video knows the cat can't understand her, but they meow at us anyway. And this cat's plaintive meows are it begging to be set free of the grooming torture, obviously, but sometimes it seems like it's just a call and response.

Like you'll see a video of a human talking at a cat, and the cat meows back between sentences, and the cat is like lying with its eyes half closed or sitting with its back turned to the human and it's meowing back anyway and you stop and think about it and realize that they're doing the same thing.

The cat and the human talking at each other when they don't need anything from each other, that's- that's just conversation. It's literally cross-species small talk, because both the cat and the human are engaging in it just for the sake of hearing a response back.

They can't understand each other at all, but they continue to communicate purely for the sake of communication. For the pleasure of each other's company. For the sake of socializing with each other. We don't even understand each other, and it's still small talk.