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absolutely obsessed with the class being set up in a VR simulation that temporarily erases their memory, and watching bkdk fall for each other in every scenario…
#like without fail they just gravitate towards one another#their spawn points could be halfway across this virtual world and they WILL STILL find each other#even if they’re strangers#like the class gets split into groups and the students/teachers outside watching are just in shock at how many times this keeps happening#and OKAY WHEN BKDK AREN’T IN THE SAME GROUP like one of them is a watcher#the one in the simulation STILL manages to vaguely bring up/reference the other somehow#even abstractly in passing conversation or mumbling just SOMETHING that has the watchers going:#’even with his memories erased he still thinks about someone that doesn’t exist in his world’#bkdk brainrot#bkdk#dkbk#bakudeku#dekubaku#:’)
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steve having a cat that refuses to be touched by anyone but him (it tolerates robin by extension ofc bc it has accepted the reality that they’re a package deal), and eddie gets warned by the entire party that steve’s cat hates people who aren’t steve or robin. eddie’s fully prepared to get scratched the fuck up, but the cat’s almost as friendly with him as it is with steve. huh. weird.
meanwhile, steve’s poor cat is trying to figure out a way to get its owner to stop being so sad all the time, and when one of the strange people he spends time with makes steve smile, the cat is determined to keep him around at all costs.
#steve is lonely and the cat can sense it#matchmaker pets are so important to me they’re such an underutilized trope#dustin probably named the cat and is deeply offended that it doesn’t like him#however#the cat likes him just fine it just Does Not Like Being Touched by anyone but steve#stranger things#eddie munson#steve harrington#steddie#steve x eddie#robin buckley#there is nothing more important than platonic stobin#even the cat knows it
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Hear me out. what if Mrs. Henderson decided to move out of Hawkins so Steve convinces her to let Dustin stay at his house and instead of telling Dustin they’re in a relationship, Eddie just comes downstairs for breakfast in his boxers and Steve’s hoodie one day.
Dustin: Wait wtf is Eddie doing here?
Eddie with a big ass hickey: Breakfast.
Dustin: where the fuck are your pants?
Steve, trying not to laugh:
Dustin:
Eddie:
Dustin: OH MY GOD WHILE I WAS IN THE HOUSE?
#Dustin isn’t even surprised that steve is bi#or that they’re together#the child is smart he picked up on the vibes a long time ago#steddie#eddie munson#steve harrington#stranger things#dustin henderson
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The people saying it was BARE MINIMUM that Steve was okay with Robin being a lesbian are literally making me so mad. It was the 80s, not 2022, so him accepting her while her coming out could’ve gotten her hurt badly or worse isn’t a bare minimum fucking thing.
Steve has gone through so much development and it angers me you guys are calling it bare minimum especially in a situation like this that was probably so fucking scary to Robin.
#It’s honestly life threatening still#But it has also changed a lot from what it was back in the 80s#Steve accepting Robin isn’t a small thing#It could’ve gone so wrong if she told it to a wrong person#Like UGHHHHH#This is @ those tiktokers#Who make those means edits of Steve and say shit like this#People don’t think sometimes because they just wanna hate even if they’re wrong#rant#personal#steve harrington#stranger things
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steve’s view as he tries to get them both up for the day
#eddie is not a morning person and steve wakes up with the sun#they’re silly in that way#i love them so bad it’s not even funny#RARGH#steddie#eddie munson#steve harrington#stranger things
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Murray, after watching Steve and Eddie for all of five seconds, confidently walks up to them and starts his whole spiel about pining blah blah etc etc, and like, Steve will absolutely not have that, there is no way.
So he snorts, looks at Murray down his nose, and with zero hesitation lies, tells him “We’ve been dating for a month, congrats on seeing the obvious... Or not since you couldn’t tell”
He just hopes Eddie will play along. Steve is sending him the strongest signals with his mind right now, and, just, he knows Eddie can be petty like this too (that’s why he likes him so much, and yeah Murray is a little right but fuck him so much more for it)
Eddie ‘lives for the bit and to fuck with people’ Munson does not disappoint. He slings an arm around Steve and is like “Yeaaahhh wow, real clever observation there buddy.” In the driest tone imaginable
And Murray, well he was sure he was right, still kind of is sure he’s right so he just squints at them for a bit and then breaks out in a wide grin, and only sounds a little sarcastic when he says “Congrats on figuring your shit out yourselves.”
Except he absolutely does not mean it because he wanted to do that, he likes doing that. And now he's sulking and will watch them so closely because something seems off
Eddie and Steve, so committed to the bit and to not let Murray win, start fake dating. All while Murray tries to catch them in their lie, and they’re all too stubborn to give up
Murray starts to slowly think he maybe was wrong though because they really seem like a couple. And even though there’s still something there he can’t ignore the proof.
When they straight up make out in front of him, and he can tell that they’re so lost in each other they probably don’t know he’s there he's about to concede
But then after that, they act so weird around each other again? It’s like before but worse and how did the pining get worse when they’re actually openly together? Regularly have their tongues down each other's throats and all?
Meanwhile, Steve and Eddie are going through it because they thought they’d be okay but that kiss was so much, and oh god they don’t think they can do this? But they can’t let Murray win?
A week and a half later at their monthly 'we survived the apocalypse, again' get-together at Hoppers and Joyce’s, Murray just gets enough of how twitchy they are. He grabs them both and locks them in a closet and is like “I don’t wanna know anymore, whatever fight you had or didn’t figure it out”
They sort of stand there shuffling from foot to foot not marking eye contact until Eddie is just like “Oh for fucks sake, I like you for real okay? The bastard was right so can we actually just date? Please?” And all Steve's can do is say "Thank god," while he smiles the most blinding smile and grabs Eddie by his collar pulling him in for a kiss
Fifteen minutes later they come out of the closet (the irony and symbolism is not lost on them) all disheveled and a little too satisfied looking and are met with very loud screaming from all the younger teens, ranging from a simple “Ew!” (Mike) to “Dude we are right here what if we'd heard? Or walked in there and seen?” (Dustin)
They’re lucky they’re too distracted by this to see Murray's self-satisfied smirk because if they did they would have pretend broken up and there would have been another month of sneaking around but this time actually dating and pretending they weren’t
#I'm bringing you all another steddie gets Murray'd take because well I can#and bc I think they'd be so bitchy to him about it and like see it as war#they refuse to admit he got them together until years later and even then they're like 'we would have gotten there quicker and with less#confusion without him- he was a roadblock actually'#they’re bitch boyfriends ok?#Murray moves on to Nancy and Robin after this and both Nancy who has been Murray'd before and Robin who knew this whole mess#just shake their heads and is like 'you quiet- we are not doing this let us figure out our own lives'#dels steddie thoughts#steddie headcanon#my post#steddie ficlet#murray bauman#stranger things#eddie munson#steve harrington#steddie
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Been thinking about that discourse over Eddie smelling bad and
I agree with everyone saying that this is incredibly gross and classist and just generally incorrect, but this ain’t about that. Someone said, offhandedly as a joke, that Eddie “doesn’t use 9-in-1 shampoo” and I had a thought. I get those a lot.
Imagine that yes, he doesn’t use ‘9-in-1,’ but he does use a very generic store brand shampoo. Which works perfectly well! His hair is clean, shiny, and smells amazing. I’ve used the generic stuff many times in my life and my hair has never been anything less than fucking fabulous. But our dear Farrah-Fawcett-Spray boy Steve gets very Shocked Pikachu Face about it.
They get into an (extremely mild) argument over this, with Steve reasoning that proper hair care is important, and Eddie countering that he’s done it this way for X amount of years already and his hair is FINE thank you very much (a fact that Steve, with how much he loves running his fingers through said hair when they’re in bed, should be well aware of).
Until Steve, caught up in the moment (or so he says later), turns to Wayne, who’s sitting off to the side reading a newspaper, and says “Wayne, back me up on this!”
And Wayne - beautiful, balding man that he is - slowly lowers his paper and says, completely deadpan, “Son, look me in the eye and then ask me that again.”
(Years later, Eddie still won’t let Steve live it down, and bringing it up just gets even funnier to him the older (and balder) Wayne gets.)
#stranger things#steddie#wayne munson#the discussion of how generally terrible it is to assume the worst of someone’s hygiene because they’re poor#is extremely important#but#the mental image of Wayne being asked his opinion on hair maintenance#was too funny to me#lol#both because he’s (pretty much) bald#and because i imagine that he wouldn’t care that much even if he had hair like Eddie’s#Wayne is the chillest of men
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“might see a familiar face back here very soon”
📢 WE’RE FINALLY GOING TO SEE WILL 📢
#manifesting 🕯️🕯️🕯️#i know they’ve been seeing the posts about where’s will#he’s the main character and we haven’t seen him so it has to be him that they’re going to post#byler#will byers#stranger things#also i never trust the word ‘soon’ as in like the next few hours#they probably won’t post anything until this weekend or even next week… i feel like that’s what they mean by soon
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It was extremely sexy of Percy to remember Nico after Hera wiped his memory.
#percico#percy jackson#nico di angelo#percy jackson series#pjo#riordanverse#just imagine that every face you see is that of a stranger#not a flicker of recognition in your brain or heart when you look at people#not even a whisper of belonging#and then you do#getting that tingle of recognition#that immediate relief of recognizing someone anyone#you still don’t have a name but here’s a familiar face at last#the safe harbor in the storm#and he says no but his eyes say yes#and neither of you can stop staring at the other#ugh they’re just so fucking perfect
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established mike and will regularly have the i love you more, no, i love you more argument that doesn’t end until the someone from the party tells them to shut the fuck up after an hour
#literally u all know i’m right#they’re one of those INSUFFERABLE codependent couples#u know they are#but like in a healthy way#not in a ‘i don’t want to see my friends when i have a bf’#but more in a ‘he’s already my best friend but i’m also in love w him so we’re even more of a package deal than before’#byler#mike wheeler#byler endgame#will byers#stranger things
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If I Should Stay
Part 1 | . . . | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35
Eddie shifts nervously as he waits for Steve to open the door. He’s halfway expecting Robin, which is why he completely blanks when Allison opens the door instead.
She casually leans against the doorframe and crosses her arm, raising a judgmental eyebrow. “Yes?”
He winces. “Is Steve home?”
“Maybe.” She studies her nails. “Why should I let you see him?”
He takes a deep breath. “I fucked up,” he says, more confidently than he feels. “I’d like to apologize.”
She hums. “And if he decides not to forgive you?”
Eddie spreads his hands hopelessly. “I’d deserve it.”
She tilts her head. “Would you keep trying?”
“It depends on how I feel he means it, what you say, and how he responds to it when I do try again. If I do.”
“Damn,” Allison says, smiling. “I like you.”
Eddie blinks. “Thank you?”
She pats him on the shoulder. “C’mon in. Just know I was the one who taught Steve how to swing a baseball bat.” She smirks as she shuts the door behind him.
Eddie gulps as Steve calls from the kitchen, “Al? Who’s- oh,” he says, walking into the living room and stopping short at the sight of Eddie.
He’d had half a smile on his face that quickly drops at the sight of Eddie. Eddie feels his heart drop in tandem. “Steve,” Eddie says, begs. “Can… can I talk to you?”
Steve looks at him for a moment, then glances behind him to toss a hand towel back in the kitchen. He clenches his jaw and nods. “Sure.”
Allison slips past him and ruffles Steve’s hair on her way to the kitchen. “Asshole,” he mutters.
“Bitch,” she calls back at him before the door shuts behind her.
Eddie snorts, then sobers when Steve raises a brow his direction. “Sorry, I’m not laughing at you, just… is that what having a sibling is like?”
Steve’s expression softens as he glances behind himself. “Yeah.”
Eddie takes a breath and glances at the ground, building his courage, before looking up at Steve. “I’m sorry. I didn’t give you any chance to speak, I just assumed and when you didn’t say anything—again, because I didn’t give you a chance to—I took it as confirmation.” He shifts. “I’m not… this isn’t an excuse, okay? It’s an explanation. And it’s me saying I’m not willing to let it get in the way of us before we’re even a thing. I’m a runner. If things don’t go my way, if they get hard, if I get scared—hell, especially when I get scared—I run. I run, and I hurt people.” He takes a breath and looks Steve in the eye. His hands are shaking. “Like you. I hurt you, and I’m sorry. And I’m… I’m not going to run. Not now. Not later. I do believe you’ve changed—the past few days are evidence enough—and I want to get to know you.”
Steve takes an eternity—five seconds—to process his words. “What you said hurt me,” he says quietly. “And I’m not sure I can get over it just like that.”
“I’ll grovel every day if I have to. Until you believe me.”
Steve offers him a half smile. “That’s the thing. I do believe you, Eds. And I want us to be okay again. But I think it’s gonna take some time.”
Eddie nods. “If there’s anything I can do, to prove I mean it…”
Steve offers him a cheeky grin, and his heart skips a beat. “Kiss me?”
It’s half-joking, half-serious, and Eddie takes it as the olive branch it is. “Absolutely,” he immediately answers, smiling, moving to cup Steve’s cheeks in his hands.
He leans in and kisses him, slowly, heartfelt, the way Steve deserves to be kissed, then leans back and swipes his thumbs over Steve’s cheekbones. “God,” he murmurs. “You’re incredible, d’you know that?”
He feels the heat from Steve’s blush in his palms. “I’m just me.”
“No such thing as just when it’s you,” Eddie answers, completely serious.
Steve chuckles and rests their foreheads together. “How long did Robin yell at you?”
Eddie’s brows furrow. “I haven’t seen her. Wayne pulled the story out of me and said I was being an idiot.”
Steve begins to snicker. “Last I knew, she was heading over to give you a piece of her mind.”
Eddie chuckles, then suddenly pales. “Oh, fuck.”
Steve blinks. “What?”
“Knowing Wayne? He invited her in. They’re best friends now.”
“I see no downsides to this.”
“They’re going to gang up on us, Steve. It’s all downsides.”
“Nah. You, maybe, but Robs and I are soulmates.”
Eddie gasps and puts a hand to his chest. “Are you insinuating you’d chose your soulmate over your-”
He stops short, heart thumping oddly. “Um. Steve?”
“What are we?” Steve answers.
“Yeah.”
“That’s… a really good question, Eddie.”
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#if I should stay#stranger things#steve harrington#eddie munson#steddie#NOW I can finally use that tag!!!#even if they’re still not completely sure where they stand#they’ll get there eventually#Allison Harrington#oc#my oc#time travel#fix it fic#time travel fix it#starambles
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past relationship stancy
#stranger things#drawing#art#steve harrington#digital art#nancy wheeler#nancy wheeler fanart#steve harrington fanart#stancy#i’m not a romantic stancy girl#i am tho a#we had a absolutley devastating soul crushing past relationship and wr both still love each other but not romantically#that’s my love#i love divorced stancy with a kid#i love past stancy where they’re nervous around each other bc they both crushed each others hearts#i just love the way you can see their relationship change and grow past the romantic#and see what might happen if they let themselves be friends later#and then they still have such a softness toward each other in later life after the breakup bc they need to be delicate with each other#overcompensate even with softness and kindness#bc they both look at each other and see what they used to be and what happened between them#anyway#comic#stranger things fanart
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Just remembered that Will sat on the icebox in the van for the 30 hr ride back to Hawkins
#byler#stranger things#that willelmike dynamic in the van after the monologue needs to be studied under a microscope#like why couldn’t we see the aftermath of his monologue???#what happened??#when will sat on the icebox did el and mike look confused??#did they offer to leave room for him to sit there but he declined politely like no that’s okay…#followed by the next 30 hrs of awkward#I know the vibes were OFF#that’s the reason they only let us be confronted with them by the time they arrived in Hawkins#they needed to shift the mood to confusion about Hawkins’ state#bc they could not reveal what the vibes were like before that#no but the prospects of el hugging all of them after saving max#and it’s like emotional and they’re all so relieved she’s alive#but then shortly after that when they’re planning going back to Hawkins#she’s distant again#maybe it’s with everyone so they just brush it off as her needing time to process everything#but it’s still suspicious because…#why are things with her and mike still feeling very off#and then that’s when they’re getting into the van and then will just adds to the awkwardness even more by sitting on the icebox 😭#I also noticed 2 pillows on the backseat so it’s likely that’s where byler slept in s4 during their shenanigans#so I’m guessing that where el and mike slept while Will slept on the floor 😭#no but seriously they could not show any of that without giving it all away#the angst and heartbreak and confusion and regret would have been so loud 😅
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steve and eddie and touch is just like. steve grew up in a big empty house, alone with no one to ruffle his hair or kiss his cheek goodnight or hug him when he got home from school. even when his parents were home, they were never the very touchy sort. his mother might give him a brief hug, but it was always short, always impersonal, always under the watchful eye of his father.
there were clapped shoulders on the swim team and team huddles on the basketball team, but those were fleeting touches from people who didn’t really care about him. occasionally tommy might sling his arm around steve’s shoulders or give him a high five or shove his shoulder, but those felt more like tommy saying to everyone else ‘look at me, i’m friends with king steve’ rather than being kind or gentle. he had nancy for a while, but touches stopping lingering long before the end of their relationship. there’s the kids, but steve always feels like the parent he never had with them, always ruffling their hair and herding them where they need to go. there’s robin, who touches him most frequently, who will give him hugs or bump shoulders or press their legs together, but she has a hard time sitting still so it’s always over quickly.
and then there’s eddie, who grew up with tight hugs and fond hair ruffles from wayne, but that’s about it. because really, who was lining up to touch the freak of hawkins? sure he shakes hands at the end of a deal and he has hookups in dirty bathrooms and dark parking lots. but those aren’t gentle, or soft, or because a person really wants to— they just serve a purpose, business transactions in one way or another.
so when they find each other, they latch on. finally, they have someone who wants their touch as much as they want to be touched. finally, they have someone who’s gentle and soft. finally, they have soft kisses and legs slung over each other and long hugs in the kitchen at 3 am and someone cuddled up to them during the night. they’re holding hands while driving, sitting on each other at movie nights, hugging from behind while cooking, kissing lazily for long stretches, plying with each other’s fingers when the party is hanging out. they’re just wrapped up in each other constantly, because they waited so long for someone to be gentle with them.
#touch starved steve and eddie is something that can be so personal#just. them constantly touching each other without even realizing they’re doing it??? i eat it up.#anyways inspired by my last reblog 🥰#steddie#stranger things#nellie.txt
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I have a selfish request/proposal for a conflict in s5: what if they put a strain on Joyce and Will’s relationship.
Joyce is Will’s most solid support system on the simple basis that she is his mother, and we’ve seen how much the two love each other before. So it might be interesting if there was tension between them.
Maybe Will “everybody treats me like a baby” Byers starts pulling away from her, possibly out of teen angst/supernatural influences, and maybe it’s a little cliché but Joyce just wants her baby boy back and can’t understand why their dynamic is changing.
And THEN we throw in Will heading back to the Upside Down, something that is needed for him to come of age, and Joyce who is trying desperately to get her son back on mulitple levels. Except this time the thing seperating Joyce from Will is Will himself, and it may not end with the two of them having the exact same dynamic they had in season 2.
Not saying that this WILL happen or that it’s the CORRECT option but idk, I think after two seasons of seperating Joyce from her boys and centering her story around Hop, it might be refreshing to see her put focus back on her boys (including Jonathan!) again in a way we may not have seen before.
#since we’re on the topic of joyce’s character today…#and yeah hop can be there as emotional support blah blah blah#and like. i even like jopper but now that we are past all the bickering and longing and they’re together now can they just work together#toward a similar goal which has to do with their family?#and center things around their family again? which is now a blended family which could lead to a lot of interesting dynamics??#but maybe i am asking for too much 😔#also i think its interesting to create conflict between characters who dont usually exhibit conflict ie byers family#will byers#joyce byers#byers family#stranger things#byler#<- target audience
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I’ve been thinking a lot about all of Eddie’s nicknames for Steve lately. Like, I have ones that I love: sweetheart, pretty boy, stevie. I also have some that align with my need to make Eddie have grown up in the south/Appalachian, things like sugar and darlin’. But I’ve been stuck on Princess for a while now and I adore that nickname, especially because I headcanon that it started as a joke.
After Vecna, Eddie starts hanging out with the older teens more and occasionally he calls Steve “King Steve” and variations on it, he doesn’t really pick up on the fact that it bothers him (this also leans into Eddie having ADHD, as someone with ADHD we can miss social cues and subtle reactions). Eventually Steve brings it up after Robin pesters him to do it and Eddie just goes, alright then, I can switch it up, and out pops the name Princess. Steve is immediately flustered, and has to think for a while about why he likes it so much, but again, Eddie just assumes Steve is embarrassed or something and the name sticks.
When they eventually figure their shit out, Steve comes clean and explains that he really, really likes when Eddie calls him princess. It has the same idea as King Steve, respect and importance, but without the nasty connotation that title has.
For Halloween that year, Steve dresses up as a princess and Eddie loses his mind.
#stranger things#eddie munson#steve harrington#steddie#eddie loves nicknames and half of them come out without him even thinking#they’re absolutely the couple who only uses nicknames so Steve always assumes Eddie is mad if he calls him by his name
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