Bumbledoubletea

Robin’s not the one that introduces the kids to an actual queer community. It’s not Eddie or Jonathan either.

It’s Steve casually saying he was going to a concert in Indianapolis over the weekend and the kids demanding to know what band and if they could come.

Only for the band NOT to be some cookie cutter Tears for Fears wannabe. But it’s instead a small punk band full of very outwardly queer individuals who put on exaggerated costumes and characters for the show and are raising money for charity.

Will stares in awe.

Lucas is a little lost but he has the spirit.

Dustin cries at one of the songs/monologues.

Mike avoids eye contact with anyone.

And the lead singer flirts with Steve a little too long, singing directly in his face.

is this about my oc’s and their band? Well yes.

reading the goldfinch isn't enough I need to become an alcoholic

Robin fully thinks that Dustin is a dog that was sent to obedience school and not a human child that went to summer camp because Steve talks about him like:

Steve, sighing wistfully: I just miss the little guy, you know?

Robin: ?

Steve, right after servicing ice cream to a guy: That’s my mailman. Dustin fuckin’ hates that guy. Goes crazy when he sees him.

Steve: *does not elaborate on Dustin’s long standing feud with the postal service*

Steve: My parents are actually kinda happy that’s he’s gone. They think he’s loud.

Robin, thinking of her neighbor’s dog: Yeah, they’re like that.

Steve: And the jumping, they hate that.

Steve: - bunch of chocolate. Got an upset stomach and threw up.

Robin: They can’t have chocolate.

Steve: Yeah, I know. He’ll throw up!

Steve: Dustin’s coming back next week. I think I’m going to get him a welcome back gift. Got any ideas?

Robin: Something that squeaks?

Boy, walking up to the counter: Hi

Robin: Hi

Boy: I’m Dustin

Robin, internally: *no one can ever know any of my thoughts ever*

Thought about my oc in a different fandom than usual and oh god please save me PLEASE I SWEAR THEY CAN LEARN TO BE A TEENAGER IN THE 80’S I SWEAR I- *I scream, kicking as I get dragged into a padded room*

I’ve spent months, maybe even a year with the same two characters cycling through different fandoms and I want them to exist so badddd but I’ll never be able to commit to just ONE storyline when they can be a million different things all at once, without even having to do the work of drawing/writing

so embarrassing to get obsessed with your own oc but it doesn't fuel you creatively or motivate you at all you just sort of sit there. like yeah I've been thinking a lot about blorbo from my mind. no images of them exist in the world and they have maybe 3 personality traits so far. I would rather die than attempt to write about them. I've spent the last 48 hours rotating them in my brain though

going back to the source material only to be violently reminded that the widely accepted fanon ship isn’t actually canon is so strange

it feels like going off to war and keeping a picture of your dear wife on your bedside, only to come home to an empty house and divorce papers on the table. Or worse. You catch her with another man in another ship

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to sadomasochistically torture fictional characters

nothing can ever hurt me more than

“See Micheal? See what happens?”

“What happens when what?”

“I’m the only one that’s acting normal here, I’m the only one that cares about Will”

The thing is, if Mike had said in any other context ‘My life started November 7th 1983’ it would be understandable.

He could’ve meant that his life started because it was the first time he truly felt loss. Of course that loss being his best friend going missing and leading to a body being found.

It could have meant that his life turned upside down when he found out monsters and powers were real. The night his childhood became a cycle of pain and horror, with him and a gaggle of other children being in charge of saving the world. But his life didn’t start that night in the woods, his life started ‘that night he found El in the woods’. And I know it was supposed to be him professing his love or whatever, but El didn’t start his life. The Upside Down did, and Mike has the two confused.

I know it’s a bit nit picky but I think it’s fun to point out that it feels more like he’s projecting his feelings about the Upside Down onto El. He frames it as El being the catalyst of his life because at the time she symbolized the supernatural things happening in Hawkins and the hope of getting Will back. Because him finding El in the woods introduced the world that had consumed his life for the last 2 and a half years at the time of his monologue.

anyways Byler is canon

Oh nothing, I’m just thinking about the fact that Mike Wheeler jumped into the quarry to protect Dustin only to find out a couple days later that his best friend’s corpse was in that water. I wonder if he thought about that after they pulled the fake body out of the water. If things were different they’d both had been at the bottom of the quarry, or they would have found Will’s body faster because they’d be looking for Mike’s.

“crazy together” more like dead together 😭