A.M// aching pt4
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@jocked
A.M// aching pt4
modern steve would unironically play rhythm games
:-) this is how i win
today i was thinking about how st4 did the super literal athlete - coding thing in putting all the new basketball player characters in lettermans and like obviously they can’t retroactively zoom backwards and put former token jock character steve in a letterman, so i just think it’d be funny if i headcanoned that steve just doesn’t like how he looks in green. blue’s his color, he knows this, he capitalizes on this, if eddie’s vest wasn’t blue denim then he’d stay topless
there's dust on the inside of the store's singular gumball machine ( how'd 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 happen ? ) all nice &. coated, like when great aunt dorothy's hugs left cheek - shaped powder prints on his shoulder. but you spend eight hours a day rubbing grime off the tapes' cardboard cases, figured he'd built an immunity to it by now. ❛❛ i need ──── ❜❜ &. steve's pausing to turn his pockets inside out, fingers fishing for loose change. ❛❛ d’you have a quarter ? ❜❜
oh ??
re. punksrock .
“ i know i said , like , this was my BEST plan ever . so , um , on a scale of one to ten , how hard are you gonna hit me if i say i might’ve fucked it up ? ”
& . closed starter : @jocked .
steve’s breath 𝐩𝐢𝐧ᶜʰᵉˢ on the way out, deflating inward with hands fluttering up to rub across both eyes / just brief. a choice at the crossroads has him straightening &. slumping, elbows on his knees, smiling weakly. ❛❛ ʸ’ want a wallop ? i’ll show you what for ❜❜ &. bunches up a sleeve already hanging high up his bicep. his nerves are fried, too tired to drag out that 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎. but it’s alright if it’s just on the underneath, right ?
mods asleep ? ok cool :-|
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I’M BOUNCIN’ OFF THE WALLS AGAIN , & I’M LOOKIN’ LIKE A FOOL AGAIN .
the “this guy looks weird” to “this guy looks weird 😳” pipeline literally so dangerous.
steve do u want to be boy best friends
he pops up with about as much velocity as 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘢 - 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦, a head heavy on its spring, bobbing delirious &. bewildered while his brain chugged along to pick through the words like pieces of a jigsaw : 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚋𝚘𝚢, 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝, turned out pretty crucial to get those in the right order. still later than sooner if the heat bubbling pink up to his ears felt like being a traitor about it.
❛❛ we’re ─── ❜❜ &. steve stops to scrub the sleep from one eye, one baggy plaid sleeve stretched overlong over his wrists. ❛❛ aren’t we already ? 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 . . . ? what - ❜❜ rewinding, like the best part of a song, making sure, double checking he got that right. @jonbyers
anyway steve's kind of pathetic
barb's death did further screw up steve's perception of nancy, he's not ok, send tweet
also the fact that the new king jock character is described as "the guy we thought steve was going to be before we all fell in love with him" and is likely definitely the one initiating the attack on eddie, like yeah the foil-isms are all coming together
hey talk about Steve and his lil basketball game 🙂🔪
no. anyway let's talk abt steve and basketball and how up 'til now its presence in the show was only there to function as a framing device for steve's fallen from grace storyline. basketball isn't steve's favorite hobby or lifelong passion or any of that, it wasn't even his identity. it was just padding for his identity. can't be a hot shit jock if you nix the jock part, right ? and he's decent enough at it, something of a mix of natural athleticism &. showmanship, and the team / coach hoisting him up as the golden player and working around him - and once steve'd hit rock bottom, they don't play around him, and his light footedness exposes itself as a fatal flaw not just to his play style, but to steve as a person, as someone who’s a flight risk, who won’t commit, who has always run away. so it's interesting how so much of where steve's development is headed is presented through courtside imagery with very little ( almost zero ) dialogue from steve himself. really, the only times he ditches his determination to completely ignore new hawkins king billy is about basketball. it's this last ditch desperate effort to prove something, maybe more to himself than anyone, to claw back on top and get out of those woods and say " i'm still that guy, that guy is still me " and everyone's watching, even laughing now.
this hot shit jock identity is slipping through his fingers, and he was alright with it because he used to have nancy and to him, that was more than worth the exchange. but now even that's slipped through his fingers. and really, that's a huge reason why steve's eventual partnership with dustin and the party became so integral to his entire characterization in the episodes moving forward. he lost his identity as king steve, he lost his identity as the one nancy loved, he'd become recluse &. isolated, and was prone to these short manic bursts of overwhelmed uncomfortable discontent over walking in shoes that he no longer recognized. he lost the whole jock identity both by choice and by circumstance, but he found new purpose in the role of a protector, of someone who can and therefore will.
+ it’s just funny how steve’s trying really hard to cling onto the d&d reference - riddled conversations in 2x08, then when he starts talking in sports metaphors in 2x09 mike tells him to stfu lmao. also majorly fascinated by st4 comparably using basketball as a sort of wedge with the funniest hdgashk “ mike &. lucas have a little fight because lucas has a basketball game the same day as a hellfire club meeting, so eddie forces those little nerds to run around the entire school like jehovah's witnesses to find a replacement ” like i’m crying but the correlation between the belonging-ness that eddie preaches in hellfire with that “ these don’t have to be the worst years of your life ” dialogue vs. the example that steve serves as the only graduated student, and having lamented how his former popularity &. jock status wasn’t everything it was cracked up to be, but that’s a huge can of worms for another day lmao