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Wing Man: (AO3) Steve ‘the Hair’ Harrington is your best friend, and is constantly striking out. Sick of this, you two make a deal; you’ll wing man for each other. Hooking Steve up with dates is easy, but he finds himself struggling to find you a date. At least, until Dustin starts talking about his new cool friend Eddie. COMPLETE

Rating: T+

Current Word Count: 88k words

Tags: Strangers to friends to lovers, no use of y/n, reader is not described, weirdo!reader, rocky horror picture show, Flight of Icarus compliant, Steve and Reader are best friends, implied Upside Down but it's fine

Chapter 1 You are sick of seeing Steve striking out, so you come up with a solution that could work for both of you.

Chapter 2 You and Steve go hang out at the Palace Arcade with a bunch of high school students and pit two against each other in air hockey.

Chapter 3 You really should be trying to flirt, but somehow you and Eddie can only ever talk about Chris Morrison.

Chapter 4 Well, the arcade was a bust, but maybe going to a local dive bar and listening to music will yield better results.

Chapter 5 Ranting about Ozzy Osbourne counts as flirting, right?

Chapter 6 What DID he mean by five? The second meeting.

Chapter 7 Dustin spills the beans, and Wayne gives some advice.

Chapter 8 Eddie explains himself, and you two make plans to hang out on purpose.

Chapter 9 You and Eddie go on your first date, but the past always lingers

Chapter 10 It’s no longer Halloween, but the ghosts from yours and Eddie’s pasts are coming back to haunt you.

Chapter 11 Steve talks shit. Paige and Eddie talk business.

Chapter 12 You go to your audition, but things never go as planned.

Chapter 13 You remember.

Chapter 14 Corroded Coffin audition with Paige, and you take more than one risk.

Chapter 15 Everyone prepares for take off. The final chapter.

Epilogue Corroded Coffin takes flight, and you’re on air.

Post Credits Post Credit Scene

Bonus Stories

Next October: It's your birthday, and you're drowning in work. Thankfully, you have an amazing boyfriend to help you relax.

I would have followed you.

"Put your lips close to mine, as long as they don't touch. Out of focus, eye to eye, 'till gravity's too much."

🦋

Thank you all once again for trusting the process with me.

I am in love with this piece. A Red concept brought to life.

They feel, they know. Yet confessing makes it real. Something to act upon. But as long as they are silent they get to stretch the unspoken truth between them. Both an abyss and a bridge to cross through. A bright light they both choose not to look at, and neither the perfectly shaped shadow of their bodies standing so close they look like one. Light butterfly touches that need no justification. Sharing warmth, and gazes, secretive smiles under the wing of the autumn, where the decay and decadence of perishable life feels a lot too much like a foreshadowing of their untold story.

But they feel.

And they know.

Couldn't resist drawing this🤗

Rey is a morning person. Ben is not.

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You have no idea how long this took. You can tell I kinda gave up by the end but i have to admit it was fun! @the-music-keeper

i cry whenever i see this

found out about desktop goemon, very cute

lupin, jigen and goemon links download it into a virtual machine, windows xp can run it

these are amazing

For Clara, who wanted Pinof5 for our 8th annual fandom Julklapp. Thanks for the permission to post them on tumblr as well. 

I didn't even think of those scenes like that

The anatomy of interrogation

There are two torture scenes in The Force Awakens. Both involve Kylo Ren and a gurney, and those are pretty much the only features they have in common. While I don’t presume to know the filmmakers’ minds, I would be very, very surprised if the scenes weren’t deliberately staged so as to form a contrast with each other.

To briefly set the scene, Kylo is summoned to interrogate Poe after the normal ‘lines of enquiry’ fail. Kylo addresses Poe with sardonic humour, asking Poe if he is “comfortable” before proceeding to put him through agony by forcibly invading his mind to extract the information he needs. Kylo is ruthless and efficient, getting straight to the task after briefly indulging his ego with some comments intended to mock Poe and his captive state. This is a standard scene of cold, villainous efficiency that you could find in almost any film of this type.

The situation with Rey is played entirely differently, and is - suffice to say - infinitely more interesting. Kylo is crouched before her when she wakes up, having seemingly remained with her, watching her, after taking her captive on Takadona. When Rey asks where she is, Kylo replies “you’re my guest” - there is no trace of his former dark humour here, since he genuinely seems to mean it. He removes his mask when Rey expresses fear at being “hunted by a creature in a mask”, and gets close to her, coming close to touching her face. Instead of immediately focusing on the information he needs, he is drawn to Rey’s emotions - he comments on her loneliness, her hope that Han Solo will become the father she never had. He identifies with her feelings, and generally seems distracted and unfocused. The interrogation ends with Rey turning the tables, penetrating Kylo’s mind as he had vainly attempted to penetrate hers. He flees to Snoke in a state of abject shock.

In short, whereas the Kylo who interrogates Poe is firmly in command and entirely focused on his goal, the Kylo who interrogates Rey is a complete mess. In his own twisted way, he shows compassion for her - he wants her to be comfortable with his presence, so removes his mask; he wants her to share her memories and emotions with him, so tells her not to be afraid; he wants to spare her the hurt he believes his father will cause, so tells her Han Solo would prove disappointing. While his goal is nominally to extract the map to Luke Skywalker from Rey’s memories, he seems to forget that that is his purpose as soon as he gets close to her - instead, he is self-indulgent, greedily grasping at the first memories, hopes and feelings he finds upon entering Rey’s head. His behaviour, then, has little to do with his official role as enforcer and interrogator for the First Order. It’s the behaviour of a man with private concerns and obsessions, a man who forgets himself when faced with the inner thoughts and feelings of a simple peasant girl.

Kylo’s behaviour is difficult to interpret or write about because it is riddled with contradictions: Kylo demonstrates both an abundance of empathy and almost no empathy at all. While he attempts to share in Rey’s feelings as he discovers them, he pays almost no attention to the fact that tears are streaming down her face. While he can draw out memories and emotions from her, he seems incapable of responding to them in a truly sympathetic way. He filters Rey’s emotions and experiences through his own - her friends are dismissed as unworthy because that is how he perceives them, her affection for Han is denied and discounted because of his own hurt, her feeling the Force becomes his own experience. He is supremely selfish, concerned with gratifying his own curiosity, vanity and fascination at the expense of Rey’s selfhood. 

And that’s why her booting him out, sending him running to his master with his figurative tail between his legs, is so delightfully satisfying.

When your wizard son gives you a dead weed do you keep it forever? Yes.