I Love Pirates & Metalheads Apparently

aelora | she/her | bisexual | old and tired tbh Stranger Things, Our Flag Means Death, Black Sails, Interview with the Vampire, House of the Dragon, Star Wars

[hellfiredm]

I'm Odds and Ends: Masterpost

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 - Interlude: Eddie | Chapter 8

Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Tags: Alternate Universe-Canon Divergence Fic Summary: Steve Harrington had spent all of his high school years avoiding Eddie 'The Freak' Munson at all costs. But now that Dustin Henderson has started Hawkins High, and joined the Hellfire Club, avoidance is quickly becoming impossible.

Chapter Notes: Another shoutout to BoudicaMuse for being such a thorough and patient beta, and sounding board!

A little head's up that Steve's dad makes an appearance in this chapter, and yes, he is an asshole.

Chapter Summary:

“There’s something different about you today,” she says suddenly, instead of responding to the Christmas shopping idea.

“Oh? Well, I didn’t get a haircut or anything.” Steve peers into the rearview mirror to see if anything’s out of place.

“No. I mean, you seem… happy. Happier.”

Steve thinks it over. He smiles. “Yeah, maybe. Happy's a stretch, but I don't know. I kind of let go of some shit last night.”

Robin’s quiet for the next few moments, before she asks, “You hung out with Eddie, again, didn’t you?”

Chapter 9 on Ao3

[thechaosthatismybrain]

Poll Tuesday

How were you first introduced to fanfic? Not like the site you use but how did you find out if its existence?

On tumblr through fandom

I googled my ship and some how ended up on ao3

An irl friend told me

Heard about it on tv

I invented fanfic

On twitter

Other (please tell me)

Voting ended onMay 30, 2023

I feel like I’m exposing myself a little bit with this bc my introduction to fic is soo random I think, but whatever your answer please tell me the story! I wanna know haha

[darthsuki]

The fact that quizilla is not an option here makes me feel ELDERLY

I remember when there was a character limit on quiz-fics questions and we accepted the answers to them didn’t MATTER

[cesperanza]

Uh-huh...it's quizilla that makes you feel elderly.

*looks at older fandom like she's on The Office*

[hellfiredm]

*laughs in fanzines that you sent away for*

[phantom-evil]

[hellfiredm]

A year ago today I was introduced to this beautiful boy, and I haven't been the same since 😭😭😭

[hellfiredm]

327 days later and I'm still irrationally pissed off enraged over Eddie Munson's pointless death.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[drtanner]

Where is everybody? :(

[thickness-protection-program]

This has more emotional impact than most Hollywood movies today

[all-hail-trudos]

[virgoasf]

[curlsandstems]

I need this.

[poni1kenobi-deactivated20250915]

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

[everythingfox]

Sound on

(via)

[twopoppies]

You're not embarrassed being an old woman and being in tumblr? I would rather die that my grannies have an actual account on tumblr for celebrities rho

Why would I be embarrassed for having interests I enjoy? My guess is that you’re really, really young. And that maybe you don’t actually have solid relationships with adults who have lives outside of parenting or work. But I hope for you that when you’re my age you have hobbies that bring you happiness. And that by that point you realize that trying to shame someone for being an adult only makes you look too immature to be in adult spaces, which Tumblr is.

When I was 20, I loved music, making art, writing and reading good stories, fashion, talking about popular culture, making friends, going to concerts… You’d be surprised how little changes when you’re my age. I just have way more money and time to enjoy those things now. I’m only 55. I’m not dead. I’m also not a “granny”, but even if I was, I’d probably still like all of those things.

Ageism isn’t cute, love. And I sure don’t ever see people telling men they shouldn’t go to football games or have their little “fantasy football leagues” or wear their favorite player’s merch. For every comment you guys like to say is misogynistic (but isn’t), this is one that really reeks of it.

[twistedchickness]

What she said. ^^^ I am well over 60, I have been in fandom since I was 12, one way or another, and I ain’t leaving. And misogyny is never attractive.

[atlinmerrick]

I’ll be 60 soon and ha ha ha I’m in fandom forever.

(Enjoy your time with other children anon. And I promise you, they’re not creating all the content you love.)

[dduane]

Just turned 70 this last May. 

I am a fan. I’ve been a fan of one or another book series, TV show or comic since I was eight. I’ve been in organized, convention-going and print-based fandoms since I was old enough to vote. My generation invented online fandoms, and I’ve been in them from almost the very beginning of online. I’ve been on CompuServe and AOL and LiveJournal and the other earliest platforms where fandom congregated: Tumblr’s merely one of the newer ones. 

If some adorable, entitled, wet-behind-the-ears wee nonny thinks they’re going to roll up and have a little self-righteous fun shaming some senior Tumblrina into buggering off of here because she’s An Old—and should therefore (by their way of thinking) be embarrassed for enjoying the manifestation of her continuing passion for the best in media along with others, in long-standing community— Well, they’ve got another think coming. 

…And oh yeah: You don’t like it? Then just get off our lawn, sweetiecakes. We were here long before you were, and (if you’re so easily embarrassed) we’ll still be here long after you’re gone. :)

(waves) (And hey, hi there, Atlin!)

[neil-gaiman]

Yup.

[wip]

manifesting you guys add a poll post feature

Answer: Why hello, @souleater,

Like to charge, reblog to cast…

—Cates (Tumblr Marketing)

[mylittleredgirl]

👀

[hellfiredm]

In search of someone to help me design a logo for my new business. Will pay, but I have a modest budget since I'm just starting out.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hey if you have a pet or pets you need to reblog this rn and tell me in the tags what their names are. bonus points for including what kind of animal.

[egberts]

hopefully they never take away the way you can drag the little post icons around the screen on the android app

[egberts]

iPhone user WISH they had this

[userautumn]

the philosophical implications of goncharov are what grasps me the most. the entire concept of goncharov as a "lost movie" poses the question of what it means to exist, what it means to become. goncharov, as a piece of visual media, does not exist and will never be found in an archive or on a streaming service. but goncharov, the lost film, exists because a sudden, spontaneous, and largely unanimous decision was made by a unified collective that it should exist. the unified collective, prompted by nothing more than sheer will, subsequently brought forth a complete feature *film with largely consistent plots, characters, themes, motifs, and music featuring genre consistencies with other films of that type/era as well as genuine cold-war era aesthetic, musical influence, and self-reflective commentary. "goncharov doesn't exist" and yet, here it exists in just as much reality as any found-footage film (i.e. blair witch project or chronicle) that demands one believe in that which simultaneously does and does not exist, simply because it was decided that it must exist. insane.

[wearewatcher]

ryan and shane discuss the motion picture goncharov (1973)

[nihilnovisubsole]

me explaining goncharov to my mother: so tumblr made up this scorsese crime film and they're arguing about its themes and-

my mother, completely deadpan: well are they reviewing the theatrical release or director's cut.

me:

my mother: what does frances ford coppola think of it

[hellfiredm]

No lie. I've been away from Tumblr for most of the weekend busy with RL stuff. And I spent the first five minutes of my Monday morning so fucking confused....