Reblog If It's Okay To Befriend You, Ask Questions, Ask For Advice, Rant, Vent, Let Something Off Your

Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask questions, ask for advice, rant, vent, let something off your chest, or just have a nice chat.

I keep seeing posts that are like:

Person #1: *Meme about breaking news* Person #2: I can’t keep learning the news like this. Person #3: If you’re going to a circus, expect to see clowns.

But the thing is, sure, everyone on tumblr expects to see clowns.

What we don’t expect is for the clowns to do this:

And this has been the exact energy of this website for months.

The Teen Wolf movie’s lack of context to the Derek & Sheriff Stilinski relationship is a travesty because you know this man helped Derek Hale raise his son.

You can feel the history in their shared frustration over Eli’s fixation with the jeep. You see how easily either of them show up when the other calls for back up. Sheriff didn't hesitate to be the bad cop and threaten Derek’s son so Eli would cut Derek some slack. Stiles’ father was there to help Derek figure out how to be a good parent, I have no doubt he showed up a few times to the house on his days off to babysit. And I know Derek has called the Sheriff at the station over the smallest emergencies. In the process Derek found himself growing fond of Stilinski, even seeing him as a father figure. Surely he enjoyed how much it drove Stiles up the wall when his dad called to talk not about the FBI, but how amazing Derek was doing with Eli. I can almost hear the frustration in Stiles voice as he realizes Derek Hale is trying to replace him, maybe to spite him. Definitely to spite him.

Derek and Argent had an understanding. Derek and Stiles put aside their differences to save each other over and over. But when Derek needed someone, the one man left to protect Beacon Hills stepped in to help the big scary werewolf without hesitation. Sheriff Stilinski never forgot about the young Hale boy who lost everything, even when that boy jeopardized his son’s life. He knew Derek needed a parent to show him the ropes. He also knew how hard it was to raise Stiles as a widowed father, and one look at Eli told him Derek couldn't do this alone, not like he had. Claudia would want her husband to help Derek, to put aside their differences, and be there for each other. And he was there to defend Derek after he was gone, to ensure Eli knew just what kind of father he had. The film’s ending aside, I know Eli wound up in the Sheriff’s care, staying in Stiles’ old bedroom because there was no way that man wasn’t seeing what he started through for Derek’s sake.

This Sterek-adjacent dynamic is everything, and it hurts that we will never get the Hale spin-off these two deserve because, wow the emotional subcontext that carries through those 15 unspoken years is too much.

I seriously need this to be made into a fanfic. This has the potential to lead into an incredible, emotional rollercoaster of a reunion between Rooster, Maverick, and Iceman.

Bradley Bradshaw doesn't get through losing both his parents without some tics.

He sucks his thumb much longer than most kids do and he has a little comfort blanket in the form of a duck plush his dad gave him for his first birthday (while insisting it was a goose). It's faded and it's lost an eye and it flops over a lot more than it once did but Bradley loves it. He sleeps with it every night, it went with him in his backpack to his first day of high school and he clung to it all through both of his parent's funerals. He almost left it behind for his mama's but Ice grabbed it, knowing he'd need it.

It mostly just lives on his bedside table until the day he's rejected from the Naval Academy and finds out why. There's anger and tears and Ice having to get between Bradley and Maverick, watching his family fall apart in front of his eyes. And Bradley storms out, just needing to get away from the man who he always trusted and who hurt him worse than he's ever been hurt. Maverick's just stunned, like he's stood there pale and shaking. Ice is trying to blindly think of a way to fix this, the way he's used to fixing everything and coming up empty.

And Maverick's shock lasts until Ice is trying to ring Bradley and know he's safe but hears sobs from the next room over. He finds Maverick in Bradley's room- can they even call it Bradley's room anymore, is it ever going to be Bradley's room again- breaking down completely., collapsing into sobs. Because the little duck is still on Bradley's nightstand and he can't sleep without it.