Anyone Else Weirdly Obsessed With Pirates And Ancient Egypt At The Same Time?

ALL FOR YOUR SAKE BECAME THE VERY THING THAT I HATE I LOST MY WAYYYY SPINNING IN AN ENDLESS FIGURE EIGHT

Does this make sense

Like bro, this kid is crying absolutely destroyed in every movie. I want a scene for him where he can just straight up sock people without being verbally driven into the ground.

Most of the adult male characters who interact with Peter Parker: 🤗 lemme gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, mansplain, and manipulate this literal child

Exceptions to this that I can think of rn, the malewives:

Happy Hogan, Tobey and Andrew (duh), most of the NWH villains somehow, and the teachers from Far From Home

too many spirits without context

Steve's only 25 when it all catches up to him.

It starts off small, things people wouldn't even be able to tell is an early sign of something wrong. Misplacing keys, forgetting which day he has his shifts, what time he's supposed to get Robin. Robin notices though.

Robin knows Steve always keeps his keys on the hook next to Eddie's by the front door, that's where he always finds them, he's not misplacing the keys, he's forgetting the hook exists.

Robin knows Steve has the same shifts every week, they never change because they line up with Eddie's at the record store nearby. Robin knows Steve isn't forgetting what time he's supposed to pick Robin up, he's forgetting Robin moved away a few months ago after she graduated college.

Robin keeps noticing when the kids start calling her because the little things are becoming big things.

Robin notices when Dustin calls and tells her Steve thought he and Suzie were back together, "Like how crazy is that we broke up two years ago, I don't think I've even mentioned her lately."

Robin notices when Lucas calls and tells her Steve asked when his next game was, "The season ended months ago, he came to the finals."

Robin notices when Max calls and whispers softly, "He asked to take me to the skatepark, Robin, I told him I had to help mum. He's forgotten I'm blind Robin."

Robin wished she'd noticed sooner, maybe years ago when Steve was getting knocked around a lot. She wished she'd screamed in the face of those Russians to take her instead. She wished a lot of things when Eddie called her.

"He's in hospital, Birdie, he collapsed at work."

Robin is back in Chicago for the first time since she graduated. She wished she'd visited sooner.

"Do you think the feds are gonna let me go soon, Robbie? I mean it usually doesn't take this long for them to bring me the NDAs."

Robin hopes Steve doesn't notice her eyes going glossy as she runs her fingers through his hair, "Don't worry Stevie, I'm sure they'll be in soon, Dusty is probs just arguing over something in his."

"At least he isn't having to explain he raised a demodog. Did I ever tell you about that Robbie?"

Robin smiles softly, "Yeah but tell me again, don't want to forget any of it."

Eddie gives Robin the gist of what the doctors said, Eddie didn't understand much, a lot of technical words and shit. Too many concussions, more than they knew about most likely. They say it'll probably get worse with no timeframe of how quickly it'll happen, there might be good days, there will be a lot of bad days.

The first bad day comes a week later. Steve barely remembers Eddie, trapped in a time when Eddie was just the kids DM. Eddie sobs in the corridor in Robin's arms. The next day it's like nothing happened and Steve gets discharged. They tell Steve, this time Eddie is the one to comfort him.

"I don't want to forget you Eds."

"It's okay if you do, sweetheart, I'll still be here."

It's Robins idea to start writing everything down. Eddie, Nancy and the kids all help. Filling journals upon journals of stories and pictures of Steve's life to help on the bad days. Steve has to quit his job, Robin moves back to Chicago, they make it work.

On bad days depending on how far back Steve is Dustin or Robin or Eddie will read through the books with him, filling in the gaps of what he needs. On the worst days, Eddie leaves the pile of journals on the bed with a note and waits downstairs to see if Steve will join him later.

They make it work for a few years. Steve celebrates his 30th birthday with perfect clarity. He writes himself an entry in the journal next to a big group picture with Steve and Eddie's matching rings showing.

That July, over a decade since Starcourt, Steve is in hospital again. He'd collapsed at breakfast. Eddie had thought it was going to be one of their good days, Steve had woken up fine, all his memories in tact if a little fuzzy. He'd made them coffee and giggled at Eddie's singing while he made them eggs and just like that it all came crashing down.

Steve's brain is shutting down. They don't know if he'll make it past Christmas. There's more bad days after that. More days with books left on the bed. Most days Steve doesn't even come downstairs. On the good days, Eddie always calls off work. He'd rather be fired than miss a single second of Steve smiling at him like he does, so full of love.

They have Christmas, the whole family comes, they have to bring every chair from around the house and squish in around the table just to fit but it's perfect. Steve sits between Robin and Eddie, face bright and full of love and life. Everyone gives him the tightest hug as the night closes, all lingering, afraid of letting go.

"I love you, dingus."

"I love you too, Robbie."

Later, upstairs in their room, Steve and Eddie go through all the journals, laughing softly at each little note the kids have left. Steve writes his little journal entry, a tradition of good days, and curls into Eddie's arm whispering soft loving words to each other before falling asleep.

Steve never wakes up.

The funeral happens shortly after, all of the family is still in town. Robin holds Eddie afterwards as they go through the journals together. When they get to the last page, they struggle not to smudge the ink with their tears.

Dear Eds and Robbie,

I don't know how many more good days I'm going to get so I'm leaving this here for you now. I love you both so much, you're equally my soulmates and I want you two to look after each other while I'm gone.

Robs, go travelling with Nancy, ok? Thank you for looking after me all these years but it's time for you to go look after yourself. Go see the world for me, tell me all about it wherever I am when you get back.

Eddie, I'm sorry we didn't get as much time as we hoped, I hope you know that even just a day with you has been worth a lifetime with anyone else. Go follow your dreams, write music, perform, show the world how amazing I know you are. I give you full permission to fall in love with whoever you meet along the way, I don't want either of you guys to be alone.

Thank you for giving me a life worth remembering.

Your Dingus,

Stevie

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i just got kicked ouit of the reindeer games again 😢

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holy shit santa just stabbed my coworker

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i baked some cookies 🍪👩‍🍳😊😋

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just bullied some freak with a red nose LMFAOOOOO 😂

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my god theres blood everywhere

aftg from anybody else's perspective would have neil as like. this skittish weird kid who looks like we pulled him out of a dumpster turns out to be actually kind of badass and woah has he secretly been this cool and planned out the whole time?

but it's so important that its from neils pov because we get to know that he actually is a weirdo who's having a panic attack 90% of the time and the other 10% he's serving cunt on accident

TOUCHED. BY. ANGELS. THOUGH. I FALL. OUT. OF. GRACE. I DID IT ALL SO MAYBE ID LIVE THIS EVE. RY. DAY. ANOTHER-KNIFE-IN MY-HANDS A STAIN THAT NEVER COMES. OFF. THE. SHEETS (CLEAN ME OFF) IM SO DIRTY BABE!!!!!! IT AINT THE MONEY AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT JUST FOR THE FAME IT'S FOR THE BODIES I CLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Add in some Frank’s Red Hot if I’m feeling particularly fancy

Sometimes u just gotta make yourself a quesadilla and move the fuck on

What’s the deal with so many m x m fics being so misogynistic? Any time any of those gay male characters call a female character a bitch it just makes me feel so icky. It just adds to the normalization of men regarding any woman they don’t agree with as a “bitch” and gives the excuse that the only misogynistic people have to be men attracted to women. Definitely has something to do with internalized misogyny and the societal feminization of gay men but I’m too tired to think about it rn