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the european urge to road trip across the american southwest (i've never been to the states)
they should make a dlc for pizza tower or a second game, i feel this game could be so, so much more
If I had a nickel for every time the rules of ancient magic are lost to time and become only the realm of the isolated academic despite once being known by everyone, and when the magic returns no one believes it except for the few people who have been chosen by the magic already and the specialized scholars, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't very much, but it's still kinda weird that it happened twice, yeah?
p.s. It’s in two of my favorite books, The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty and The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.
This post by @ellewritesandrants got me thinking about Will and Billy bonding, which is something I don't see often enough.
I think it would be really awkward to start. Honestly I think Billy bonding with any of the Party members would be incredibly awkward to start with. But Will and Billy have a lot of common ground tbh. Finding their way to it would just be...hard.
In an Billy Lives AU I'm imagining El and Max are the most likely to visit him in the hospital. Max learned how much she actually cares about him when she nearly lost him, and El has seen some of the deepest parts of his mind and knows hes more like a kicked dog than an actually horrible person.
They go keep him company almost every afternoon, to the point where one if the others, probably Mike makes a comment about it. Something something why are you wasting your time on Billy Hargrove of all people something something He's really not that bad when someone isn't constantly attacking him something something.
It gets brought up, probably by Dustin, that technically he killed a bunch of people, almost including them. That's when Will chimes in, because hey no Mindflayer murders shouldn't count against the Flayed. Dustin realizes his mistake and tries to backpedal, while maintaining that Will was different since Will was fighting it, obviously.
This does not have the intended effect. If anything Will seems more upset because how do you know he wasn't fighting it??? Fighting a mindflayer looks like your body sitting in place for hours while you're scratching at the walls of your own mind, screaming and trying to get back to yourself. None of them knew Billy well enough to know if he had just given in to the mindflayer. Or in Max's case, she hadn’t been home enough to know.
Someone, probably Lucas (which from his perspective is absolutely justified, btw, wanna be very clear on that), mutters that given what he was like before, he can't really picture Billy fighting being evil.
That pisses off Max, El, and Will.
Max snaps about how none of them knew what it was like for him at their house, for either of them for that matter. While he was a dick, yeah, he wasn’t just like that. He isn't evil any more than Max herself is, even though she can be a little much sometimes.
El is frowning when she explains what she actually did to get him to break the mindflayer's control, and it was essentially just reminding him that someone has cared about him at one point in his life. Reaching out to show him the smallest bit of kindness had been enough to let him break the mental hold of a creature that El herself had had trouble fighting.
And Will. Will storms out of the house, now determined to actually ask Billy himself because he's starting to get the sense that no one really ever has.
Billy is surprised to see Will when he gets there, having not ever really talked to the kid. From what he'd seen, he was shy and soft spoken, non-confrontational. It was almost alarming to see him roll up with a fire in his eyes.
His voice is still soft when he talks though, when he apologizes for storming in and asks if he can ask him some things. Billy is bored out of his mind and decides, what the hell, lets see where this goes.
So they talk.
It starts off just being about mindflayer stuff, given that they're really the only two people who can understand what that's like. Will never realized how...good?? It would feel to have someone to really talk to about it?? Billy is obviously still a little gun shy about it, but hearing that that's what happened to Will when he went missing, that he had to go through an experience that horrific at such a young age, immediately vaults him over a lot of Billy's walls. Its the worst kind of common ground, the kind found between vets after a war has ended.
Will attempts to place a hand over Billy's, which garners a flinch, and another piece of common ground is unearthed. Will knows that reaction, has seen Jonathan do it, has done it himself, knows his mom makes an effort to keep her own flinches under wraps.
He wants to hug him, if he's honest. Knows he could probably use it, but also knows that now isn't exactly the time.
Will doesn't mention the flinch and Billy doesn't either, but Will files it away for later.
After that, Will starts joining the girls when they go to visit Billy. They talk more, and for longer as Billy starts getting his energy back. Its weird to Billy, who's not had anything resembling an actual family, but he starts to develop affection for these kids who keep choosing to spend time with him.
He's still slow to truly trust, especially people who he should be able to trust like family, but hes learning. Its slow and its made of small steps like a newborn fawn learning to walk, but Billy starts to open up to them.
He tells El how he misses his Mom, but at the same time he thinks he hates her. El tells him how she feels about her own parents, and how she's still not fully sure about it.
He finally tells Max what Neil did to him when she asks. Little bits and pieces, never anything graphic, but enough that she can understand why he acted the way he did. He apologizes again, and this time when she hugs him and tells him she forgives him, its not with the looming knowledge that he's about to die hanging above them.
He tells Will how scared he's always been about someone catching him looking at his friends for just a little too long. Will hadn’t told him how he feels about Mike, but Billy isn't stupid. He could hear it in the way he talked about him, the way he smiled. He takes the leap first since Will took the leap to get close in the first place. Billy ends up being the first person Will properly comes out to, and Will cries for a good ten minutes because its as relieving as it is terrifying. Billy swears to take the secret to his grave. Its the first time Will hasn't felt like a freak because of something about himself that he can't change, and its the first time Billy hasn't either.
Just....Billy and Will being really ride or die for each other.
Oh the finale gave me SO many ideas for my aus I’m drowning in them
Characters who'd get along in a DJATS x 9-1-1 crossover.
Billy and Graham + Chimney. They were both abandoned by their dads
Maddie + Daisy. Both had a bad marriage
Camila, Warren, and Eddie Diaz would have conversations in Spanish
Toddler Julia would be friends with Jee-Yun
Maddie would bond with Billy over being older siblings
I can see Camibilly and Madney having a double date.
Can you imagine if Dean had been the one that Gabriel was trying to teach a lesson to during Mystery Spot? If Sam had been the one to die every day? Watching his baby brother die over and over and over and not being able to stop it? Of course when it finally rolled to Wednesday, and Sam died again but this time the day didn't reset, Dean would have just killed himself, which is probably why Gabriel didn't even try to teach him.
roberts rebellion au that the rebellion fails and rhaeger becomes king and then proceeds to burn kings landing and ruin westeros kind nero style
ROFL!
more spooky gijinka
go girl!
This.
Fucking this.
Aside from the fact he just snatched the Taser barbs like that, sweet holy fuck, can we please appreciate that he pulls the wires like he's drawing a bow? All while making direct, unblinking eye contact with Allison?
He didn't have to do that. He could've just wrapped the wire around his hand and yoinked the Taser away, but he did that instead.
We already know the Nogitsune was in Stiles's head, using his mother's dementia against him, so I wonder if they were also using Stiles's own anger and resentment against the others?
Because Stiles was in that basement with Boyd and Erica. Do you think they didn't tell him how they got there? Or that he couldn't figure it out of they didn't?
Oh, I'm sure he buried that anger deep, blamed it on Gerard, played happy for Scott, but there's got to be some part of him that is still hurt, still angry at her for what she did to them, to him, and that's why the Nogitsune does this. Mocks her by imitating her signature style back at her, letting her know what it feels like to be the prey instead of the hunter.
Why lie when the truth can hurt so much more?
spocktober 3
what if there were two guys and the other one was a serious guy burdened with unneccessary feelings and the other one was the protagonist with a strong sense of justice. and they wore primary colors.
alt color version below cause this felt so wrong
