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omfg thank you @lovelymoonmagic and yeah I'm tagging you because you are awesome ^^
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omg 🥹🥹🥲 tysm to everyone who tagged me & ofc ur getting tagged back!!!! @godswerecreated @toddperrys @four-pillars-of-welton @giolovesyousm
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Tysm 🥺 IDK WHO TO TAG I BARELY KNOW ANYONE ON HERE 😭😭😭😭
Staying up as late as you can reading stranger things fics>>>>
Hi ! I was wondering if you could do a Steve Harrington x male reader where steve gets set up on a blind date by robin whenever you want or have time to ? Thank you!
Robin the Matchmaker
Pairing : Steve Harrington x Male reader
Tags: first date, first kiss, fluff, Friendship
Word count : 1263
So here he was fixing his hair again for the hundred times in the past hour and slowly going insane listening to robin talk about something.
Steve has been on many dates with many different types of girls, His dates all went the same way he’d take them out somewhere sometimes to see a movie or dinner or he would take them to skull rock and just get down to the fun bit. However, they all had one thing in common they were all girls. However, after some self-reflection and talking with robin he came to the conclusion that he wouldn’t be against dating a guy. So, robin decided she would set him up on a blind date and wouldn't tell him anything.
“Maybe you should cancel it” Steve interrupted Turing to face her
Robin rolled her eyes “You’re not canceling and stop freaking out, I promise you’ll like him”
“What if he turns out to be a serial killer and I get murder then my death will haunt you for the rest of your life because you forced me on a date, what will you tell Dustin?”
Robin stared at him
“Are you finished”
“...yes”
“Okay, first of all Y/N isn’t a serial killer I'm pretty sure he rescues lost kitten from trees on the weekend, second of all how the hell did we not know you were queer earlier with how dramatic you are and third of all if Y/N did murder you probably deserved it.” Robin Lectured sitting up from lounging on his bed and picking up his jacket and offering it to him.
Steve accepted the jacket “Where are we meeting again”
“Lou’s diner”
“Why so far?” Steve asked whilst making final adjustments to himself
“Steve has all that Farrah Spray made you stupid, did you forget where we live?” robin scolded “Lou’s is out the way so not many people go there, and I've met Lou before he’s nice and he doesn’t care who you’re with, now go”
Robin stands and practically drags Steve out of his room and down the stairs to his own front door and pushes him out of it.
“Bye have fun” Robin says closing the door
Steve attempts to stop her from closing the door on him but fails "robin wait-”.
Steve parks his car and gets out as he approaches, he whispers to himself before opening the diner door "You can do this”.
The diner is pretty much empty aside from one lone person sitting in a booth facing away from the door he doesn’t turn around as the door chimes. This must be the guy then. Did it just get hotter in here or is it just him? He makes his way over and tries not to throw up.
“Hey Harrington, you made it” The guy greets him as he slides into the other side of the booth
Steve finally gets to see him properly and Jesus Christ he’s pretty “Hey, Robin practically pushed me out the door”
The guy laughs and Steve falls in love with him. He needs to thank robin when he goes home.
“Yeah, that sounds like her”
After the laughter dies down an awkward silence falls over the booth, Steve needs to break it, so he asks where Y/N knows robin from.
“We were in band together before I graduated”
“When did you graduate?”
Y/N looks at him with the same look robin gives him when he’s said something stupid, and she can’t believe it.
“Steve... We graduated at the same time; we were in the same year” Y/N explains
There is no way in hell, Steve wouldn't remember someone as pretty as Y/N, sure Steve stuck to the popular crowd but surely -actually the more he thinks about it the more he believes it.
“Oh shit, I really was an asshole in high school, wasn’t I?”
“Absolutely but you must have changed otherwise Robin never would have befriended you” Y/N answers with a smile
They are interrupted by tall man in an apron, this must be Lou Steve thinks looking at him
“What can I get you kids”
They both look at the menu then Steve answers first “Can I have the burger and fries with a coke”
Lou turns towards Y/N “And for you”
“Could I get F/N with a D/N please”
“Sure, I'll bring them over” Lou says before walking away and leaving them alone again.
“So, Steve I’m dying to know, who made Steve ‘the hair’ Harrington have a queer awakening?” Y/N said leaning forward slightly across the table
“Han Solo, Robin forced me to watch all of the Star Wars films with her a couple months ago and I've not been the same since”
“That checks out” Y/N grinned whilst looking at him.
Steve hopes he’s not blushing, is this what all his dates feel like because he’s starting to feel bad for them if they do. The Constant butterflies every time he gets Y/N to laugh might kill him. Robin would definitely never let that go.
“So, tell me more about this new mature Steve who’s not the same asshole from high school, Robin said you have kids?”
With a smile Steve tells him about Dustin and the rest of them minus some things, they spend the rest of evening trading stories and laughing. Lou comes by during this and drops off their orders before leaving again. Steve swears he winked at him when he told them to enjoy their meal.
It’s much later in the night when Steve offers to drive him back home and Y/N accepts. They drive in comfortable silence until they reach the road Y/N lives on.
“You know what Harrington? "Y/N questions looking over at him from the passenger seat
“what”
“I had fun today”
“Me too” Steve replied pulling to a stop outside Y/N's house “we should do this again sometime”
“I’d like that”
They both sat in silence waiting, this would normally be where Steve would be charming and swoop in for the kiss, but he couldn’t. Do you kiss a guy the same way as a girl or is it different? What if he messed it up and Y/N hates him.
Just as Steve begins to spiral, he looks over to see Y/N with his eyebrows drawn together thinking. Steve is just about to ask him if hes okay, when Y/N looks at him and nods to himself. Y/N leans over and presses a light kiss to Steve's lips.
Steve freezes and his brain goes blank, Y/N's lips are warm and soft, and Steve never wants to feel anything else again, he feels as Y/N starts to pull away and kicks himself, he needs to kiss back so he does, He brings his hand up to Y/N's cheek to keep him close. Y/N parts his lips slightly allowing Steve tongue to slip inside.
When they finally pull apart it's only because they need to breathe.
Y/N smiles at him then gets out with a slam of the car door, He ducks slightly and speaks through the rolled down window “Goodnight, Steve”
He replies smiling and with a wave “night”
With one last wave from Y/N walks away from the car and heads inside.
Steve can’t keep the grin off his face as he drives home or when he finally arrives and walks in spotting Robin longing on his sofa. She looks over at him and can barely contain her excitement. Steve takes the spot next to her and she explodes.
“Tell me everything, how do you feel?”
“ gay really fucking gay”
OMFG I LOVE THIS
i’m non-binary in the way that an animal has no gender
he's eating the breakfast burrito that El wanted to eat with Mike??? lmaooooo
And picking the present for Millie on his TikTok stream THAT’S SO UNHINGED OF HIM
he's literally chaos personified
Even the outfit lmaoooo
Noah?!?!?!?!
Not light-coloured pants too
had this quiz done for a while and forgot to post it ages ago LMAO anyway
which tumblr default icon are you?
i hope everyone with acne, eczema, vitiligo, psoriasis, dermatitis, and skin conditions have a good day today
thanks guys while im here PLEASE put an acne option on your picrews
Tw: vent with almost no context ig
I should've just killed myself a year ago. Everyone hates me, I have like 2 friends and they don't even go to my school. My best friend just left me , and replaced me with my crush. I shouldn't have said anything to him and everyone else. Everything is shit and I hate it so fucking much I just want to crumble into pieces. I've been crying so much and my (now ex)bsf knows I've lost all my friends and now he's leaving me. I hate it. I hate everything. The only thing keeping me alive rn is those two friends I have.
little ramble about will
i wish there wasn’t such a heavy association that heroism = violence. even if that violence is for positive intent, it isn’t a requirement to becoming a hero or a savior or freeing himself from constant victimization.
will has the unique trait of never engaging in violence throughout the show. every character has a different relationship with violence and what the line is for when it needs to be used. el often reacts with violence regarding her emotions and to protect her friends. hopper will use violence to get what he wants from people. mike is adamantly against all violence unless it’s for the sake of protecting others. almost every character has some sort of line they’ll get to from when violence isn’t okay to when it is okay. will doesn’t have that. will can’t shoot the demogorgon, he offers his friendship to dart knowing he’s a creature from the UD which he’s never had a good experience with, the only time he ever actually physically hurts something is when he’s throwing fireworks at the meat flayer which is a creature he knows isn’t alive and can’t feel real pain. it’s made of dead people. he isn’t actually hurting anyone by helping take down the meat flayer.
will is steadfastly against violence to the point where he won’t even hurt living creatures he knows are dangerous. will, while struggling against the hold of the mind flayer, still feels such intense guilt about being forced to lead the demodogs to the lab that he breaks through the possession again. it takes deep emotional reactions for him to be able to do this, as we see with him only reacting to the people closest to him and through mike’s monologue. he feels guilt for what he’s done deep inside him in a way that allowed him to overcome the possession. he was struggling to recognize his own mom at this point, but he still broke through to say sorry. will’s feelings about violence run to the very core of his person, it’s something that has not changed over the entire course of the show.
will’s path to becoming a hero doesn’t mean he learns to use violence to protect others. will’s hero arc doesn’t come from protecting others or being their savior. he’s already done that, over and over and over. he tried to sacrifice himself in S2, he ignored his own feelings in S3 and embraced the feeling the MF triggered so he could warn others. he has been protecting others, just through non-violent means. him being a central victim doesn’t erase the way he has been selflessly protecting people just like how him not using violence doesn’t get rid of that fact either.
will’s path to heroism has nothing to do with violence or protecting others. what he needs to learn in order to be a hero is selfishness. he needs to learn to care about himself as much as he cares about others. he needs to learn that he doesn’t need to give up everything about himself to protect others. his life is important. his feelings are important. his safety is important beyond just because henry wanting him. will doesn’t see himself as worthy of escaping this constant cycle of giving himself up to protect other people. he cares so much and he’s give up everything to keep the people he loves safe. there’s someone in this story who wants him to be this way, who benefits from his sacrifice.
if will wants to be a hero and finally escape this ever present victim-status then he needs to be selfish. there are so many important things he can achieve through this, but the most pressing one is this: henry wants him to give up. henry wants him to sacrifice himself to protect the town. henry has always been going after will because he needs him, and if will tries to give himself up because henry will leave other people alone then he will have doomed the entire world. in that act of selfless protection of others, he’s giving henry the exact weapon he needs to continue his plan. what will needs, more than anything, is to be selfish. he needs to prioritize himself. he needs to learn to love himself because he loves others.
defeating henry doesn’t come through violence either. that clearly doesn’t work, based on what we’ve been shown. henry has been subjected to violence his entire life and not once did it prevent him from ending up where he is. no attempts to kill him have worked. will needs to break through to henry’s emotions and show him the compassion he’s never experienced. he shouldn’t forgive henry, he shouldn’t say he loves henry or anything, but he should show that same kindness he’s always had within him. henry doesn’t deserve any type of redemption arc, he doesn’t deserve to be saved, but he deserves to be understood. listened to. it won’t be violence that ends henry, but will’s compassion.
everything will needs to be a hero lies in loving himself. that’s how he can protect others. that’s how he can defeat henry and free himself of his most prominent abuser. it doesn’t lie in violence but in love, and i don’t think those concepts coexist in will’s mind.
Ngl this is so true
#but the meat flayer #I'm sorry ik its probs autocorrect but im dying rn
no that was 100% intentional
Omg slay the meat flayer would be eaten in seconds by the Demobats and shit tho lmao-
Omfg if Wilhelm and Simon closed the curtains and August didn't see they would be so happy istg 😭
Mike went from checking on Will
To checking out Will
little ramble about will
i wish there wasn’t such a heavy association that heroism = violence. even if that violence is for positive intent, it isn’t a requirement to becoming a hero or a savior or freeing himself from constant victimization.
will has the unique trait of never engaging in violence throughout the show. every character has a different relationship with violence and what the line is for when it needs to be used. el often reacts with violence regarding her emotions and to protect her friends. hopper will use violence to get what he wants from people. mike is adamantly against all violence unless it’s for the sake of protecting others. almost every character has some sort of line they’ll get to from when violence isn’t okay to when it is okay. will doesn’t have that. will can’t shoot the demogorgon, he offers his friendship to dart knowing he’s a creature from the UD which he’s never had a good experience with, the only time he ever actually physically hurts something is when he’s throwing fireworks at the meat flayer which is a creature he knows isn’t alive and can’t feel real pain. it’s made of dead people. he isn’t actually hurting anyone by helping take down the meat flayer.
will is steadfastly against violence to the point where he won’t even hurt living creatures he knows are dangerous. will, while struggling against the hold of the mind flayer, still feels such intense guilt about being forced to lead the demodogs to the lab that he breaks through the possession again. it takes deep emotional reactions for him to be able to do this, as we see with him only reacting to the people closest to him and through mike’s monologue. he feels guilt for what he’s done deep inside him in a way that allowed him to overcome the possession. he was struggling to recognize his own mom at this point, but he still broke through to say sorry. will’s feelings about violence run to the very core of his person, it’s something that has not changed over the entire course of the show.
will’s path to becoming a hero doesn’t mean he learns to use violence to protect others. will’s hero arc doesn’t come from protecting others or being their savior. he’s already done that, over and over and over. he tried to sacrifice himself in S2, he ignored his own feelings in S3 and embraced the feeling the MF triggered so he could warn others. he has been protecting others, just through non-violent means. him being a central victim doesn’t erase the way he has been selflessly protecting people just like how him not using violence doesn’t get rid of that fact either.
will’s path to heroism has nothing to do with violence or protecting others. what he needs to learn in order to be a hero is selfishness. he needs to learn to care about himself as much as he cares about others. he needs to learn that he doesn’t need to give up everything about himself to protect others. his life is important. his feelings are important. his safety is important beyond just because henry wanting him. will doesn’t see himself as worthy of escaping this constant cycle of giving himself up to protect other people. he cares so much and he’s give up everything to keep the people he loves safe. there’s someone in this story who wants him to be this way, who benefits from his sacrifice.
if will wants to be a hero and finally escape this ever present victim-status then he needs to be selfish. there are so many important things he can achieve through this, but the most pressing one is this: henry wants him to give up. henry wants him to sacrifice himself to protect the town. henry has always been going after will because he needs him, and if will tries to give himself up because henry will leave other people alone then he will have doomed the entire world. in that act of selfless protection of others, he’s giving henry the exact weapon he needs to continue his plan. what will needs, more than anything, is to be selfish. he needs to prioritize himself. he needs to learn to love himself because he loves others.
defeating henry doesn’t come through violence either. that clearly doesn’t work, based on what we’ve been shown. henry has been subjected to violence his entire life and not once did it prevent him from ending up where he is. no attempts to kill him have worked. will needs to break through to henry’s emotions and show him the compassion he’s never experienced. he shouldn’t forgive henry, he shouldn’t say he loves henry or anything, but he should show that same kindness he’s always had within him. henry doesn’t deserve any type of redemption arc, he doesn’t deserve to be saved, but he deserves to be understood. listened to. it won’t be violence that ends henry, but will’s compassion.
everything will needs to be a hero lies in loving himself. that’s how he can protect others. that’s how he can defeat henry and free himself of his most prominent abuser. it doesn’t lie in violence but in love, and i don’t think those concepts coexist in will’s mind.
Ngl this is so true
#but the meat flayer #I'm sorry ik its probs autocorrect but im dying rn
guys, what if will’s already BEEN vecna’d
the nightmares…
the visions…
it all seems awfully familiar, doesn’t it?
Noah...
Finn and Noah both indirectly and unknowingly confirming Byler endgame within a few days of each other is so funny to me 😭
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