(Most Of) Awesome Mix, Vol. 1

“Where are you?” asked El, holding her hand up. Mrs. Wheeler quieted. They all did. “Can you tell me where you are?” For another horrible second, nothing. El’s face was still screwed up in concentration, and the connection almost looked painful to maintain. But then— “—don’t know—” Mike’s voice. Breaths hitching between the words. He sounded far away. He sounded scared. Then “—like Hawkins—but—upside down.” “Oh god,” whispered Jonathan, from their corner. And Max wondered if that’s when she knew, or if she’d known the second that Will told them Mike hadn’t been at school that day. Joyce let out a gasp. Mrs. Wheeler’s wild eyes had turned towards them.

chapter 14: the flea goes back

Why did I have to go into this episode so unprepared? I thought this fandom was supposed to be supportive.

What the actual hell?! I’m watching Season 6 of Supernatural, the episode where they’re sent to our universe (so fucking perfect) and it’s too great and I don’t see enough on Tumblr about this episode and why didn’t anyone warn me because now it’s 1:08am and I’m crying because I’m laughing and now I’m never going to bed.

I'll stay right besides you

MIKE WITH A HEART BIRTHMARK 😡🤬🫶💖✨✨‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Silly little bonus thing

since im on a roll about tragedies:

i am sick to death of fourth wall breaks that are funny. i want fourth wall breaks that make me want to cry.

give me hamlet looking up during his monologue to see the audience and plead with them for help. give me orpheus, on the road back up from the underworld begging us to make sure eurydice is there, to tell him she is safe. give me orpheus turning when the audience stays silent.

give me someone, bloody and full of tears monologuing to the camera when the narrative has wound itself so tight that they can't escape it anymore.

"youre just watching me. help me. im dying and im rotting and im losing myself and you wont do a thing."

i want the tragedy to be the performance. i want the tragedy to be, truly, in the eyes of the beholder.

mad max, the party's zoomer - apoc au character details under the cut!

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max's role in the party:

a runner - fast and quiet, tends to be the one who makes out with the most supplies

mechanic - knows best about cars and is one of the party's designated drivers (the other being mike)

medic - not as skilled with plants and medicine like will, but is good with first aid and physical treatment!

thief - who the party sends out if they need to "borrow" from other groups (second nature to her)

skills + hobbies:

incredible with melee weapons and hand-to-hand combat -> everything she knows was taught to her by billy

decent shot, but prefers using melee way more!

stealthy, like a ninja - her and el are the quietest in the party! max's fighting style is much more brawler-like despite this

good with card games (likes poker, speed and BS) -> likes to play them with the party a lot, but in particular with dustin and lucas

skateboards whenever she can -> her favorite thing to do next to driving!

really loves listening to music (fave artists are madonna, taylor swift and destiny's child) -> likes having el or will in shotgun so they can listen together!

quirks / fun facts:

whenever dustin goes to bed, max takes his current handheld and tries to beat his high score on whatever retro game he's currently playing (dustin does not know its max who's actively beating his ass on dig dug and tetris)

she took billy's jacket and baseball bat and made them her own - very complicated relationship with him and her upbringing with her stepbro made her very skeptical and suspicious of others (especially the party when she first met them)

when she steals things, she tries to keep the party in mind when grabbing extra :')

--- other notes: ladies and gentlemen, our newest addition - maxine! i'll admit, the two characters i think i'm most shoddy on for their characterizations are dustin and max. since max's story in my au is so heavily tied to her issues with trusting people again (specifically men) and family, i'm scared that it will make her character intrinsically tied to relationships instead of having her own character. i'll try my very best for it not to be that way, of course!

for now, she's how i imagine her in the show - she's still a cheeky, sarcastic, stubborn and awesome tomboy with insurmountable trust and distance issues, and i love her for that! the circumstances that drew her to the party are currently a secret, but i will establish now that billy is tied to her storyline and how the party meets her for the first time - while billy's an interesting character in his own right, i straight up don't like him :P so i'm warning people now that billy's more a plot device for max's arc and i probably won't be diving incredibly deep into his character. this is a party centric au after all!

when i was thinking of max's character, i was trying to keep the things she liked in mind and why she was so cool in the first place! ofc, she had to skateboard, even if it was only a little, and she's honestly just great at games in general (to dustin's dismay).

her upbringing in canon and the way she acts is pure "survival instinct" behavior. she knows first aid, she knows how to drive, she escapes vecna, she's incredibly independent! she's a fighter, through and through. she's also not really one to hesitate often to be hands on, and i can see it in the way she acted seasons 2-4 :')

lucas is almost done - maybe a few days give or take!

unseen art for mike wheeler day part 2/2

I read "nervous" as "invisible" for some unexplainable reason and now I'm laughing so hard but not out loud and it's kind of both nervous and invisible, but very real

real

CEASE AND DESIST ST WRITERS LMAOOO (x)