Let's We All Give Han Sooyoung Standing Applause For This Masterpiece, Everyone!! 👏

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

I completely missed the parallels in s4 between el and max, especially in episode 1

- theyre both struggling with grief and loss of a family member who they had mixed feelings about. billy had been paralleled to max's stepdad, and hopper had been compared to brenner. they're both girls who have grown up in violent and controlling environments, but we see them bond in season 3 as each others' only female friends amongst the nerds. they get to have fun being girls together and el grows massively as a person for it

then in season 4 she's immediately tossed into the deep end as soon as she was trying to find a sense of self. we don't see max's mom, but we hear that she drinks, and we see joyce also having wine and being sad, not that this is ever shown to affect her parenting. but max and el are both incredibly lost at this point in the absence of each others' only true friend, and they both become withdrawn from the people around them in trying to act like everything is fine - el trying not to show will when she's upset, and max trying not to show lucas that she's seeing things, and being defensive to the rest of the party.

in s4e1 we see el getting mocked in her presentation while max is walking out of the counsellor's, both in positions of vulnerability trying to move very fast and get away from the past which is clearly haunting them (and they're both talking about the past and the specific trauma they're dealing with in the scenes prior) and failing to.

they're also both being pursued by vecna, which i feel is likely intentional on his part because he can read max's mind and knows he can use killing her to break down eleven.

and max is also so relieved when el finally comes to save her, from vecna but also from everything he is bringing up - el's intervention is as a hero but also as emotional support after max has been so isolated and alone in her feelings for so long, and we never really get to see her and el bond over their mutual grief before she moves away, nor exchange letters about feeling each others' absence.

it would be nice if in season 5 we get a reunion from them that explores some of that in their relationship as it develops, if they decide to bring max back.

i also think it's noteworthy that el and will and max and mike are also kind of parallel characters? mike and max have a lot of sassiness & sark and strength in character for standing up for the people they love & their friends, and a lot of their feud comes from being the same kind of defensive bitch (especially of eleven) and bickering cos they're just the same person? and even in terms of like gender nonconformity, max is a masculine girl while mike is not necessarily effeminate but by being the weedy gay autistic phenotype is kind of inherently gnc.

and el and will are both the sensitive, impressionable counterpart who they fight for, who've also both come from violent backgrounds, experienced a load of trauma pertaining to the same one guy, have the same terrible fringe and cry and have ptsd episodes a lot.

which i think is relevant because for both will and mike and el and max, that separation really strains on all of them, and when they come back together they realise just how much they missed each other.

in conclusion elmax byler supremacy

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Sterek Modern Odyssey fic where sterek get together and have Eli however it is they manage whether via magic, mpreg, surrogacy, whatever, and then Stiles' paternity leave ends when Eli is a year or so old and he's immediately got assigned an undercover case. "I know it's inconvenient," his surprisingly understanding supervisor tells him, "but six months and you'll be done, and can choose to be reassigned temporarily or move to the research side of things" he's told. But it's not 6 months undercover. It's 10 years, with bigger cogs and moving parts than expected, not just with supernatural creature trafficking but also hunting, torture, "research", it's a mess, and with no communication with Derek other than the mate bond they have which allows for feeling transference, only able to reassure Derek he's okay and not dead, able to feel every proud moment that Derek has of Eli even though it's always tinged with sadness-not-quite-grief that Stiles knows is due to his absence, unable to even know who their son looks more like.

When finally, it's over.

Except it isn't entirely because then he gets kidnapped by a radical supernatural group who want to use him as an example of what will happen to humans when they're "in power" and they don't torture him but they don't exactly ensure he can stay healthy, only letting him keep up hygiene by virtue of some of their sensitive noses not wanting to deal with that side of a prisoner

Most of the group is lost to a pack of sirens who didn't care for domination over humans as long as they had their lagoon and a steady supply of victims, but Stiles escaped by being left far enough away that he wasn't initially noticed and knew he couldn't be won over by sirens, he knew his hearts desire was to go home and it would never be replicated here.

Has to figure out where the fuck he is now.

(Australia? How were they going to take over the human political system from Australia?!)

So now he manages to get to the embassy in Aus and get things started there, as far as getting a flight to Europe which would take him straight to California, once his identity has been checked and confirmed over a week or two there.

Plane goes down, now he's trapped with half the people initially on the plane while the rest are dead, in a country he doesn't know, and people need to stop wandering off. Turns out it was a group if harpies, one of their sisters flew too close and got caught in the engine, so several of this mismatch group get kidnapped, leading Stiles to have to rescue them with strict instructions for the rest of them. Has to kill multiple of them when negotiation doesn't work

(Doesn't tell them his name and where he lives, unlike some)

Now that the group is back together, and have no clue where they are country wise or direction wise, combined with waiting several days for any sign of search and rescue which doesn’t appear, so they decide as a group where to go and start walking, going into the wreckage of the plane which mostly crashed and didn't explode or have extensive fire damage when landing and stripping it for all they could with regards to food and water, emergency blankets and first aid etc, with thankfully decent enough weather that other than having to become uncomfortably close in such a short period due to sharing heat on a night, there is nobody getting sick from extreme weather conditions aside from a few sniffles for a couple of days after it rained

They manage to find themselves a rural town, who only one person of their group speaks a broken amount of Kazakh but combined with that, some broken English from their kind hosts, and a pathetic game of charades, arranges for them to be taken to the closest place with the transport to get them to the embassy

Now Stiles is going through this process again and waiting until last, where most of the people have returned to Australia to finally have time to grieve the loved one they lost in the crash, but some are on flights to various places in Europe

Stiles is alone in flying to America

He hasn't really let it process yet that since he got kidnapped by that first group after his undercover work, he has been gone another almost 2 years. He doesn't even know how so much time was lost

One of the harpies comes looking for him, managing to find him while in the crowded airport and slice his sides open with her claws, causing him to be bleeding out in a foreign airport

Luckily he gets to the hospital in time, unluckily he falls into a coma for another year and a half

Nobody in the hospital knew who he was and he couldn't talk so nobody has been contacted and when he does wake up it takes time enough for him to come around and be able to tell them his info. Again.

The FBI sends his old supervisor out specifically to collect him. He got lost 3 fucking times on what was only supposed to be a six month mission

"I think I want to work in research from now on," Stiles tells him, still kinda groggy from his morning pain meds.

"I think it's best you take a sabbatical for a while and decide if you even wanna come back, or want to spend all your time with your boy and husband from here on out."

It takes 2 weeks of pushing himself enough to make quick progress but not enough to injure himself for Stiles to be allowed to leave, with instructions regarding his need for supervision and crutches/a cane

Anyway, it's been 14 years, and he can finally come home to Derek and Eli.

Eli, all this time, has been aware of Stiles as his other parent and why he's not around, and Derek never wants to admit that there's a chance he's dead, even when he didn't feel anything for the time of his coma. Stiles has always been a presence in his life, that is his tata even if he's never really met him. His dad says it's like he never left with how similar they are clumsiness-wise, how Eli's sass will only get worse when he learns directly from Stiles. How he took photos and videos of every moment no matter how insignificant it seemed so that Derek has a comprehensive timeline he can show Stiles when he gets back. His dad never gave up hope, so he never did either, even when it seemed pointless or the other kids mocked or pitied him.

Derek can feel the bond awaken more the closer Stiles gets on the plane. The FBI hasnt contacted him this time because Stiles didn't want to get his hopes up in case anything happened again. But Derek can feel it and becomes jumpy and nervous the more hours pass, as Stiles gets closer to US soil, before he can feel excitement that's not his own bubbling in his chest and relief, overwhelming relief once Stiles, unknown to him still, lands on the runway, once he's safely out of the plane, and it's almost too much to contain in his body, far too restless, desperate to run so leaves Eli a note for when he gets home from school, and goes into the preserve

Eli returns home and thinks nothing of it, and then there's a knock at the door, and he opens it of course. Stiles promptly bursts into tears, "Eli?" And Eli knows deep in his soul that this is his other dad, even if he didn't recognise him from all the pictures around the house, didn't know all the stories back to front, he can feel it down to his very bones that this man was supposed to have been here to raise him

Derek returns from his run to the open door and Eli quietly crying into Stiles' arms while Stiles himself sobs while still trying to comfort Eli. "Stiles?" He can't quite believe his eyes, locked with Stiles' own, but suddenly all his feelings the past few days make sense.

"I'm home," he whispers

Me after that one scene from the Teen Wolf Movie Trailer:

Stranger Things, Finally got around to finishing this

Do you have any triggers?

Jello, Popsicles, Soup Broth. 

a reddit user that actually understands willel's dynamic ??!!

Idk if anyone else remembers, but Batman canonically carries around Bat-cookies according to the Batman/Scooby-Doo crossover.

I LOVE to think Batman carries them around as snacks for Robin. I love it even more to think he uses said cookies to bribe Robin into good behavior in a similar fashion to Scooby Snacks.

Little Dick Grayson: I don't wanna go to some stupid Gala! U can't make me!

Bruce, in desperation: would u do it for a bat-cookie?

Dick: woah! Bat-shaped! Cool!

Bruce: andddd you can have another one after the party

Dick, mouth full of cookie: okay :)

Bruce, internally: thank fuck a parenting hack that works

Batman: stop! Don't kill him!

Red Hood: and why do I give a fuck what you-

Batman: would u spare his life for a Bat-cookie?

Red Hood:

Red Hood: I'm not a kid anymore-

Batman: they're fresh, look, still warm

Red Hood: ...

Red Hood: this works ONCE. This ONE time. Gimme that damn cookie.

Batman: of course

Red Hood: Fuck I've missed these what the hell does Alfred put in em

Bruce: go to sleep, Tim

Tim: I'm almost done-

Bruce: go to sleep now and you can have a bat-cookie

Tim: a what?

Bruce: a bat-cookie. See? Here, first taste is free. Try it.

Tim: bribery? Really?

Bruce: positive reinforcement

Tim: giving me treats like I'm some kind of dog?

Bruce: try it and then we'll debate the ethics

Tim [eats cookie]:

Tim:

Tim: okay

Bruce: Okay?

Tim: if I promise to sleep a full 8 hours I want two more and a glass of milk

Bruce: u drive a hard bargain but I accept

Dick: aw, c'mon, Damian. One picture. For me, to remember your first day of high school. Do it for a bat-cookie?

Damian: -tt- I've heard of these so-called "bat-cookies" Insulting. I am not a child. I refuse to participate in such an asinine tradition.

Dick: shame. Alfred made animal-friendly ones so you can share with Ace and Batcow. I guess they don't get any treats either, then

Damian: well

Damian: since it would please you so very much, I will overlook this patronizing lapse in judgment

Damian [tries one bite of cookie]:

Damian:

Damian: given Batcows higher food intake requirements, I will require at least a dozen.

Damian [takes another bite]: perhaps two dozen

Duke: you agree I did a good job today?

Bruce: yes? I suppose. Earlier, when you stopped that-

Duke: shut it. Don't care. Cookie me.

Bruce: excuse me?

Duke: I know about the cookies, old man. You've been holding out on me. The cat's out of the bag. I did a good job, I get a cookie. That's how it works, right?

Bruce: uh well

Bruce: that was a long time ago

Bruce: i had to discontinue that method after-

Duke: are you saying I'm not a valid member of this family because I was never Robin?

Bruce: of course you are! But I don't have any on me-

Duke: don't. Lie. To. Me.

Bruce: Okay! Okay. You're right, I'm sorry. Here, take it. Just... do me a favor, and don't go announcing to the whole cave you got-

Duke: YES. MY FIRST BAT-COOKIE! SCORE!

Every batmember in the vicinity: BAT-COOKIES ARE BACK????

Bruce: NO! stay back! Stay back you animals! Alfred! Alfred! It's happening again-

Alfred, sighing: I'll preheat the oven, sir