very important question do you think 2023 eddie is dragging steve to see the dnd movie in theaters

yes, in any universe but if you’d like a snapshot of remarkable ‘verse:

they make a day of it. hell, it becomes a whole week of it. it’s not the usual time for the annual reunion (which they’ve taken to doing in earlier july), but it’s a time of year that’s tough on a lot of them so they say fuck it and all decamp to el + mike’s and the bnb at the end of the world in upstate new york.

everyone comes: the kids and their kids, joyce, murray and his current situationship (there are a ton of bets riding on this new one, because half of them think they might actually be common law married from way back, but mainly steve’s glad not to be the focus of will’s frankly alarming excel spreadsheet addiction), dmitri and his family, eddie even gets wanjeri and alejandro and their boys to come to town. steve + eddie bring their current foster kid (the one steve pretends he’s not way too attached to, perhaps).

there are costumes — joyce produces the old purple robe, will threatens to drown himself in real life, but his partner demands to wear it instead, insisting he thinks it’s sweet; and mike and el’s youngest rock-paper-scissor him for the hat — and eddie and will joint host a two day one-shot leading up to the premier. (robin + steve still share a character, a barbarian bard called stabbin that has been killed off several times over the years only to reappear with a new last name each time that they pick using scrabble letters from their own last names. yes, they refuse to acknowledge that it’s the same character, always pointing to the last name. no, no one has been able to stop them. yes, they think they’re hilarious.)

they descend on the movie theater like a very small, very efficient army, and the people of the town are used to them all popping up now and again so they tend to leave them to their privacy. they buy snacks by the bucket load, and there’s an actual, pulling fight between mike and dustin about the best seats in the house and who gets to sit where that ends when steve just picks dustin up and puts him in a seat and eddie does the same to mike while everyone laughs.

i haven’t seen the movie but i imagine someone cries at something, and also they almost get kicked out — again — when dustin takes issue with a plot point or maybe he just is way too aggressively into it.

afterwords, they get ice cream at a place nearby; and, as steve and eddie walk hand in hand with their foster kid, the in middle of the group, eddie leans down to the kid and says, hey, i don’t think the old man here has ever been in cahoots before.

the kid grins, turns to look up at steve, who is staring down at them, and they say, you wanna be in cahoots with us?

cahoots? asks steve.

eddie and the kid exchange their own look, and the kid let’s go of steve’s hand to grab the thick manila folder of legal docs that eddie’s been hiding under his jacket all night.

yeah, says the kid, handing steve the folder. cahoots.

Ahh anybody wanna chat

every day I am going feral over your nuggets.tell all of the nuggies that I love them very much but ESPECIALLY that yellow one.also your art is cute :3

Thank you, they love you too! (especially him)

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

do you think angels would perch upon electrical lines and radio towers like birds

sure. looks like a nice spot to share the interesting things they saw lately

Fuck it

If this post gets 30k notes I'll ask to go see a therapist.

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If no one else got me I know the Side Order Vending Machine got me.

shyly wanders in here putting my fingers together 👉👈 if. if you're still doing requests... could I request maybe a little bit of scarian 👉👈🥺 your art is soso soft I want to hold it so gentle in my hands

red means danger, doesn't it?

(gfdjgkfdjgdf i hope this is alright i've been trying to draw (almost) kisses for like an hour or so HEHEH,,, <3)

it's national draw your sibling day

world's longest staring contest GO-

I just wanted to say how much I absolutely adore your fics - I finished the steddie regency au today which was SO GOOD - I've put it off because it's a longer one and I wanted to be able to properly enjoy it but then I caved and read it all in a day 🙈 And of course eating in the underworld is one of my all time favourite series 😍

I was wondering if you had any fic recs or authors you enjoy yourself?

thank you! the regency fic is my baby, so i'm always thrilled to hear folks enjoyed it!!

i'll do a slightly different vibe for a rec list, which is stuff in my TBR (aka open tabs):

@sayesayes's "genius loci" (also hella pumped for her big bang fic) @palmviolet's epic series rewrite "better by you, better than me" OhlioOh's "i'm on the hunt (i'm after you)" @notesappwitch's "i sing the blues and you swallow them too" @sharpbutsoft's "road to nowhere" (which just concluded + is going to be my bathtime read today!!) @ruthofrhythm's "patron saint of lost causes" @daysarestranger's "an act of grace"

and then three i just read that i loved (of varying degrees of "just read"): peaktotheocean's "resolute" @artaxlivs "the second worst ever trip to mordor ever taken" thankyouplease's "error option romance"

your art style is very butch to me . Have a good day

apocalypse 5:6

someone asked for my fav c!disc scene. Guys why did he say this

yeah he's baby girl or whatever

Fig and the Cig Figs!!!