Dont Fuck With The New Kids

For Xichengclipse2021 DAY 1: Strangers

POV: You just came back from traveling, tired yet fulfilled. Then you see the most beautiful being, in what essentially is, your backyard. Whatchu gonna do? (A. Marry them; B. Pine for another 15 years)

Btw a little self-indulgent shufu LQR adoring JC dialogue because its what my son deserves. 

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

👩‍❤️‍👩SenGen I kept getting obsessed over since last night. I was thinking maybe they‘re in the all-girl school dorm, something like that 😋

Two of my favorite shows❤️❤️❤️

And some more Howl AU!

SO WHAT’S THE THING? I was drowned to Suya/Mizu/Sakae and so…. so, yeah. Here we go /)////(\

Warning: Containing Poly and mention of harem (tho in a bit comical way)

More strips under the cut!

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The way Lucas is established to have issues with stress and by extension anger in season 1 but in season 2, we quickly see through Max that he is the type of person to switch into caretaker mode as soon as she expresses issues with her own and more easily and quickly calms himself with the goal of cheering her up.

The way Lucas Sinclair is a caretaker by nature in the way that he is more able to take care of himself if he’s taking care of others.

The way it makes me think of his relationship with Will and even potential added tension at Mike’s refusal to let him help on Halloween night and the way Lucas tends to heal himself in the process of healing others but Will tends to set things down to avoid conflict. The back and forth of someone who insists on apologizing, not selfishly so much, but because it actively isn’t a chore and is healing for himself.

Thinking about his parents and the way he goes to them immediately for advice on conflict resolution with Max. Thinking about how he only ever begrudgingly apologized when Max didn’t seem genuinely hurt in their relationship. Thinking about Lucas seeing Max hurting and not letting him in even later when she did ensuring that she knew he how much he wanted to help and how he even regretted not trying harder. Thinking about how he wouldn’t stop brainstorming until he realized the best and most comforting thing he could do for her against Vecna was trust her.

Thinking about Lucas, who we’ve often seen a bit tense with Mike, especially surrounding Will, jumping at the chance to help with something and offer advice and a place to vent.

Thinking about Lucas’ relationship with Dustin, who seems pretty self-sufficient (and sassy) so ends up just as a fairly harmless source of bickering that can help blow off steam.

Thinking about a similar relationship between Lucas and Erica. Thinking about the desperation required for the caretaker who cares for himself by caring for others to call for help from her.

Thinking about Lucas Sinclair as a caretaker.

saw a fic the other day where Yanli was like "my husband's half-brother is creepy and horrible and I'm never letting him hold my baby" and I was just like ??????? umm ding dong you're wrong ???? like she wouldn't see this bundle of deeply familiar traits and traumas and just go "I'm going to take care of that small tired man whether he likes it or not :) :) :)"

@rated-r-for-fear and sent me this catcrumb comic with the comment “Nieyao” and she’s 100% correct.

This…….was supposed to be a small one panel joke. About, WKX being good at recognizing beautiful backsides? You know?

Yet again a plotline they know how to write but didn't:

"Mike spends time with El that sparks platonic jealousy of her from a friend of his"

Season 1 Lucas vs Season 4 Will. Lucas is platonically jealous. Will is romantically jealous.

Lucas is jealous because Mike is spending more time with El, which he perceives romantically.

Will is jealous because Mike is spending more time with El, which he perceives romantically.

The romantic nature of the relationship they're jealous isn't what differentiates the nature of the jealousy. Both watch a romantic interaction between them from afar upset - Will in 4x02 at the roller rink and Lucas in 1x03 for the "I understand" scene. So why, then, is Lucas' jealousy platonic but Will's romantic. It isn't. They're identical. Except for one key detail I have strategically omitted.

Mike. Lucas and Will behave near identically. They are sad, gazing from afar, and irritable about the topic, fighting with both Mike and one other friend on the topic (Dustin, El).

But Mike only behaves abnormally in one scenario: Will's. Season 1 is a miscommunication - Lucas thinks Mike is prioritizing El over Will but really, he's just prioritizing Will through El. But season 4 is not that. In season 4, he committedly ignores Will without explanation for a full day before defending that any two friends who didn't see each other for 8 months wouldn't keep in touch during that time.

It isn't romantic of Will to be jealous of El. It wasn't romantic of Lucas and we knew that. Mike is the one who made it out to be romantic because that's the conclusion he jumped to (defend) out of fear. It's just that we, trained by the writers like good little viewers to equate straight relationship to straight, listened to him.

Will acted with Mike exactly like Lucas did and that played as platonic. What happened wasn't that Will behaved differently. What happened was we noticed that something in their relationship was more romantic. We turned to where it was coming from, to see: Mike ..........frantically pointing us to Will.

In season 4 when he defended not keeping in touch, in season 3 when he brought up queerness in defense of an accusation towards Mike and Lucas on Dustin's behalf,

Mike set off our alarm bells. And Mike redirected us. (And ironically, that is what told on him.)