don’t call me ishmael

my bestie sent me a steddie fic link in 2022 + now I have a tattoo inspired by the lathe

[papasmoke]

Girldick this, boydick that, I’m hunting MOBY Dick

[papasmoke]

[importantpics]

@importantpics

[romemok]

OFDO // JACK

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

I made you short?

[i-chew-on-pushpins]

today in "making up ways to help kids decompress on the fly": i had kids cup their hands in front of them and for 1 silent minute, picture a small mouse in their hand. afterwards they got to tell me, one at a time, what their mice did

[i-chew-on-pushpins]

figured it would be fun to add some quotes from my 4 year olds on what their mice did

"she danced and twisted"

"my mouse went to jump in a pond and then rowed a boat"

"mine ate cotton candy and then he got so sick"

"I let my mouse go and he went home to visit his family"

[theconcealedweapon]

"Forgiving student loan debt? What about forgiving medical debt?"

"Forgiving student loan interest? What about forgiving mortgage interest?"

Dude. There are already people advocating for that. You can literally just join them.

[2jihiir0]

The Crawl 🦇 Part 1

Part 2

[morganbritton132]

A fic told from the POV of the FBI agent that has to keep track of The Party and their slow descent into madness as The Party continuously disregards every line of the their NDAs

[morganbritton132]

Highlights of a fic not ever going to be written by me:

- You cannot bug Joyce Byers’ house. She always finds them. She steps on them. The feedback hurts this agent’s ears

- If you can’t bug inside of the house, you bug the outside. It was Johnston’s bright idea to put their bug in the telephone pole outside and they keep picking up interference every time the closest house answer the phone.

- the closest house is Steve Harrington’s. He talks on the phone All. The. Time. He almost never says anything important but occasionally will tell his Italian grandmother with dementia that there are demons in his backyard. They don’t know what that means so they have to monitor every call.

- Every one has a crush on Karen Wheeler.

- They sent an undercover agent into the high school to befriend the kids and gain information. Those kids are not friendly and they are cliquey. This mission was pulled after the agent joined Nancy’s tutoring sessions trying to get information about Barbara Holland and a long haired kid from across the room asked loudly, “What are you, a fed?”

- That cop will punch you, fyi. Prepare for that if you’re doing field work.

- Why are these kids always alone? Why are they always on bikes? Why are they at the arcade talking loudly about the creature???

- Dustin is on a watchlist. They’re all on a watchlist but he’s on a separate one. He’s also on a recruitment list.

-There is a betting pool on when Hopper and Joyce will get together.

-JIM HOPPER HAS BEAR TRAPS OUTSIDE OF HIS HOUSE. WHAT THE FUCK?????

[morganbritton132]

Dustin going to Eddie and being like, “My brother is becoming a shut in ever since his dad kicked him out and he started living with me and Mom. All he does is go to work and come home. He says there’s nothing wrong but I think he’s lying. He might talk to you since you’re pretty much the same age. Can you try?”

It’s not that Dustin is hard to say no to.

He’s actually very easy to say no to.

The problem is that he’s very persistent so eventually, Eddie gives in.

He goes to the Hendersons’ house, knocks on the door, and is greeted by - “Steve Harrington?”

“Yeah, man,” Steve says, wearing a little baking apron. “Dustin’s not here, man.”

Eddie doesn’t have the chance to say ‘what the actual fuck???’ because Steve is walking back into the house. He follows him to the kitchen where he watches Steve pull a tray of cookies from the oven.

“Is this the twilight zone?”

“What?”

“I…I mean.” This is so fucking weird. “To fulfill my friendship duties, I’m here to tell you that Dustin thinks you need to get out more.”

“That’s what he thinks? Okay,” Steve says easily. “It’s a date, Munson.”

“…What?”

“Yeah, if Dustin isn’t going to listen when I talk than I’m going to go out with his friend,” He says. “So, it’s a date. Pick me up at eight. See how he likes that.”

“Okay, wow,” Eddie says. “You guys really are brothers.”

[sp0o0kylights]

Steve Harrington was involved with six million clubs and shit at his school, so it stands that he knew about the Hellfire club and could reasonably put together that it--and Eddie Munson's constant ramblings about orcs and wizards--involves D&D after getting to know Dustin & co in S2.

It's also reasonable to assume that Steve, who is now uncomfortably familiar with several real life monsters and the idea that they can come back at any time, clocks the way the kids connect said monsters to D&D.

Dustin, bless him, can sometimes explain things well, but mostly lacks the ability to break things down in a way Steve understands without the two of them getting extremely frustrated at each other (typically ending in a wrestling match. Dustin is getting very good at getting out of headlocks, Steve's very proud.)

By the end of S3 and the start of the Party's freshman year, Steve drops off Robin off at school, glances over in the parking lot to spot Eddie Munson, and, while, visualizing a giant neon "GET ANSWERS HERE" sign above his head, decides to beeline straight for him.

Eddie never knows a single moment of piece thereafter.

[sp0o0kylights]

I like to imagine Dustin comes running over to Steve the first Friday of his freshman year, frantically pointing and hissing at Steve to;

"Look, look, that's him!" Dustin's practically vibrating in place, one hand on Steve's elbow as he utterly fails at being stealthy; "That's Eddie Munson, the Hellfire DM! All we have to do to get into the club is play this oneshot--Steve you're not listening, I can tell you're not listening, we have to survive this super brutal oneshot--"

Steve, whose watching Munson stage his own pay-per-view in the parking lot, complete with dramatic knockout, Oscar-worthy collapse, and interpretive fish dance for the encore, just deadpands "No, I'm listening. Think I might stop though."

Dustin ignores him in favor of calling Eddie “the coolest" right as Munson yells at a friend to go on without him, Samwise!

"Dunno what dictionary you're using but it's the wrong one." He says, and tries not to pinch his nose when Dustin just brushes the comment off.

(Later he will go on a long rant to Robin about how he's "totally fine with nerds, obviously, but why the fuck did it have to be THAT one!?"

"Was that an insult at me or the children? One of those options is safer than the other, Dingus."

"You know what I mean! He's like--like," Steve throws his hands in the air, as if he can physically pull the words to him. "So loud!? And he deals drugs, Robin. Can you imagine Dustin high? Can you imagine Mike!?"

"He is loud." Robin agrees, snatching on of Steve's hands and trapping it under her arm, nail polish armed and ready next to her knee. "But you know that's not your problem. Your problem is that the brats copy everything they see."

She examines one of Steve's nails as she talks, Steve not fighting her at all from his spot bemoaning his life on her couch. "You're about to end up with three Eddie Munson clones, table-top rants and all. They're gonna blast metal in your car. They're gonna make you watch sci fi movies." Robin lowers her voice dramatically as she picks up a nail file, restoring the single shiny nail that's fallen out of Steve's usually salon-fit standards. "They will never listen to you about hair care ever again."

"Paint my nails black, Robs." Steve says morosely, his free hand thrown dramatically over his eyes. "The world needs to know I'm in mourning."

"Can do." Robin chirps back.)

Two Fridays later, when Eddie realizes his new freshman are all deeply attached to the former King of the Jockstraps, it'll be his turn to stare across the parking lot, trying to glare a hole into Harrington's beemer as the freshman all jump around him like over excited puppies.

Harrington will waive a hand dismissively in the air.

It will (still) have pristine black nail polish on it.

and Eddie Munson's brain will proceed to make the dial up internet tone so loudly his friends can hear it.

[harringtondale]

Eddie lived in Forest Hills and now Steve has a trailer that looks like Eddie’s trailer and he wants to buy a house at forest hills??

[infinite-orangepeel]

FOR EDDIE????? FOR EDDIE????? CARRYING HIS WEAPON ON HIS BACK????? STEVE BABY YOU LOVE HIM SO BAD

[dustin-bird]

The fact that Dustin’s new Hellfire shirt says Hellfire lives instead of just Hellfire Club is very important to me

One last fuck you to those who tried to kill the club that means the world to him

[withdevovotion]

stobin lavender marriage going fucking strong. and their son, dustin, as he blasts ROCK MUSIC at his graduation in memory of his dad (steve harrington) 's dead boyfriend

[infinite-orangepeel]

THAT’S EDDIE’S MAN RIGHT THERE

[steddieasitgoes]

They had the winning plan the entire time

Season 4, Episode 6 - Chapter Six: The Dive Season 5, Episode 8 - Chapter Eight - The Rightside Up