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[steviesbicrisis]

First and last episode of Silvia uses her degree on tumblr:

✨ Steve's house is ugly as fuck ✨

You might see this picture and think "what are you on about? it's not so bad!!" and I would agree with you, since the pool, the lights and the huge windows on the ground floor are doing the most at making this house look very nice and expensive.

But then, I saw this

this is the front of the house... THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE! THIS FLAT MF WITH THE MOST BASIC ASS WINDOWS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIRST THING EVERYONE SEES???

And like, I know this is season 1, they were on a budget and this house isn't as important as the Wheelers or the Byers but I have an hyperfixation on Steve Harrington so I simply cannot let this one slide.

There are a lot of things that bother me about this house: the flatness of this entrance (seriously, never heard of a porch???), those boring windows, the fact that the house is basic but then you have that expensive-looking front door and those huge windows in front of the pool?? it seems as if they merged two houses together???

Now, I know we all joke about Steve having a lot of spare bedrooms but like, this house is huge???

LOOK AT THIS? is this really a suitable home for three people? You could fit all Hawkins after the earthquake in here, jc. They actually do have 400 spare bedrooms.

But then I realized, half of this is actually empty.

This is the best part of the house, let's be fucking honest. Finally some rich features in here. But also, this means that half the house doesn't have a second floor but just a huge living space on the ground floor with a double high which is very rich of you Harringtons, wasting half of the second floor just for the sake of aesthetic.

(Also, that exposed wood roof is gorgeous but the color... meh.)

At this point you might think that this house isn't actually that bad.. let me remind you that this house contains this room:

I rest my case.

[steviesbicrisis]

💫 Steve Harrington's House 💫

So, after this post, I couldn't let go of this house. I decided to rebuild it in The Sims and then I had so much info I felt the need to share it. Other than commenting on some crazy aspects of this mansion, I think it can give some input/ideas for possible scenarios in fanfiction! (for one, I'd like to know what Eddie thinks about half of the features of this house lmao). My process was: canon information > actual house information > gaps I filled the best I could Disclaimer: keep on describing Steve's house however you want to!! I'm sharing this in case you wanna be as close to the actual house as possible!

Listings: Zillow | Trulia | Homemetry

Credits: Sticky notes by rawpixel.com | Washi tapes by rawpixel.com | background paper by starline all on Freepik

[kassy-djomunson]

this is my weirdo btw

[snoopyracing]

many thoughts…. head full of many thoughts rn….

[cheugy-djobe]

yeah they hit the fucking pentagon

[anabunu]

Ready, Steddie, GO! (somewhere in Indy)

[clownifornian]

Steve and Eddie were in the same history class when they shared a senior year.

In this class, they usually did popcorn reading.

After Steve read his bit, he’d always choose Eddie to read right after him.

Eddie always thought it was a way of making fun of him.

In reality, Steve secretly liked the way Eddie’s voice sounded, the way he would read with so much enthusiasm and intensity.

It wasn’t until a couple years later, that Steve absentmindedly admitted to that, after their third date.

Eddie was stunned for a few seconds, but keeps that in his back pocket for later.

He starts to read everything.

Cereal boxes. Menus. Advertisements. Anything and everything that has words.

Steve is in heaven at hearing his boyfriend’s beautiful voice.

Eddie is in heaven at seeing the blush on his boyfriend’s beautiful face.

[morganbritton132]

Robin tells Steve how scary and uncertain coming out can be. Even if you trust the person you’re coming out to completely, it can be scary because you don’t know how they’ll react.

Steve internalizes this and concludes that he needs to make it as clear as possible that he’s a safe person to talk to about this stuff because these kid have already dealt with enough anxiety-inducing shit.

The thing is…

Steve decided to lay all this out to members of the party that he thinks might be gay, not all of them have discovered that about themselves so it sounds like Steve is testing the water to get their reaction. Because he’s planning to come out.

Which is fine.

They all tell him it’s fine and thanks, and that he’s a, uh. A great guy and, “There’s nothing wrong with uh…love?”

“Right,” Steve agrees, slapping Mike on the back. “You get it.”

“You should be your true self?”

“You too, buddy. You too.”

A couple years after this (after everyone has come out. He has excellent gaydar), Steve has a moment where he realizes a few things and - “Holy shit, I think I like guys.”

Everyone is just like, “Yeah, we know.”

[morganbritton132]

Steve tells the other older teens about how he’s doing this and they’re all like, “Hm, yeah. We should probably tell them that we’d accept them too.”

So they all start having these weird probing conversations about acceptance with the kids and:

Mike: Man, gay people really flock together, huh?

Will: Yeah.

[morganbritton132]

Modern AU where Dustin keeps complaining that Steve is too trusting on the internet and is going to get scammed.

Steve won’t take any of his lessons on cybersecurity or social engineering seriously so Dustin decides to - “Catfish” - teach him a lesson by - “Catfishing” - scamming him.

It’s for Steve’s own good!

If Dustin didn’t - “Catfish” - teach him this lesson than someone else would’ve - “Catfished” -

“You’re not being helpful, Mike!”

“I’m not trying to be helpful,” Mike says. He’s a middle child. It’s not in his nature. But also, “This is insane.”

“It’s a reasonable request!”

Eddie blinks.

He blinks again. And again. And -

“Sorry,” He says slowly. “Let me get this straight. You used a picture of me. To catfish-“

“To educate!”

“- your so-called friend,” Eddie continues. “But you went too far and now your friend has admitted that he’s-“

“-depressed and has no friends,” Mike supplies.

“-very lonely and that talking to me is helping him a lot,” Eddie says. “Now you’re worried about his mental health if you tell him you were scamming him so you want me to…”

“Date him, yes,” Dustin finishes. “Do you want to see a picture?”

[precioussteveharrington]

Steve who only fell for the catfishing because he actually has SEEN Eddie, albeit from a distance, since Dustin is always hanging with him at Hellfire, so he knows he's a real person. But Dustin doesn't bring him up often, he guesses to spare his feelings? First he's shocked when Eddie slides into his DMs. He sort of assumed they were silently jealous of each other but apparently, no?? He thinks he's actually a really cool guy, that he wants to get to know? Suddenly this sweet REAL guy is regularly talking to him during an uncertain time for Steve. His best friend is leaving (and unfortunately sometimes the people you're friends with sort of drop out of your life with the distance college requires. He hopes this won't be the case with Robin and it's not that he doesn't trust her word but Steve knows all too well what being left behind feels like.) and he fears Dustin and himself are growing apart. So these little interactions with Eddie sort of solidify that yes maybe Dustin is there to stay for a while if Eddie and him can become close. Of course he doesn't bring Dustin up to Eddie at any point because he doesn't want him to think that's the only reason he replied to begin with. Having a sweet funny guy, who is quite easy on the eyes btw, greet him every morning and outright saying he missed him? Asking him about his day? What his dreams are??? Is a shoulder to cry on when he tells him how alone he's felt. Giving him little compliments and acting like he actually has an interest in him and even sharing a few interests as him (Dustin sort of makes up a few because he knows Steve likes them and sort of parrots some talking points Steve has made)? It's more attention than Steve can remember having in a long time, and for once it feels so genuine. Their conversations always stay nonsexual and it's nice to be appreciated for more than his body, so he never tries to take it that way either. He of course responds in kind, and truly loves to hear about what "Eddie" has been up to. Laughs at jokes "Eddie" makes (which Dustin parrots back some things Eddie has actually said). But for all the positives Eddie has dodged meeting up quite a few times but he respects Eddie's "not right nows" but he worries if it's something he's done, but wouldn't ever outright ask. Steve even feels he's solidified their interactions by waving at Eddie across the parking lot when he drops Dustin off. Eddie waves back, albeit confused, but Steve can't tell from the distance. Just knows their conversations are real! He wouldn't have waved back otherwise!! Then Steve receives the text he's been waiting for. "I'm ready." And when he arrives and sees Eddie awkwardly scratching the back of his head while standing around the kids Steve doesn't even question why they also arrived outside of assuming that Eddie had filled them in on their growing closeness(! He actually proudly told others he was interested???), just goes to hand him the sweet little bouquet of flowers he picked up and Eddie takes them with a strange expression on his face that is quickly replaced when he's elbowed by Dustin. He clears his throat and finally says hello, and Steve could swoon at his voice finally greeting his ears, even if its just shy and a bit cut off.

Maybe Eddie goes on to say the kids are going to another movie while they see something themselves (the kiddos actually plan on following them around to coach Eddie like its a sitcom or something)

[morganbritton132]

For the briefest second before Twitter reloaded, I saw a prompt or maybe just someone’s idea that was like, ‘Eddie has to win over the party before he can woo Steve’ and that’s all I saw before it went away.

I like this idea and I like the idea of Mike being the final hold out.

Eddie was kinda figuring that Dustin would be hard to win over (and he was) or maybe Max (and she was too) but Mike won’t budge.

Everybody thinks it’s because he doesn’t like Steve but it’s actually because Mike knows Steve too well.

Steve was over at their house a lot when he was dating Nancy so Mike has seen Steve when he’s not being The Babysitter, and honestly. He thinks Steve deserves better like, “You don’t even like the stuff he likes. What are you talking about?”

“Well,” Eddie jokes. “There wouldn’t be a lot of talking.”

“Oh, so you just want to use him for his body?” He asks. “Like that’s not one of his biggest fears? You wanna feed into the belief that he’s only a pretty face?“

“Wait, what fear?”

“Maybe you should know who you’re trying to date before you date him. Munson.”

[pchvunk]

I want an Older Steddie Au where Eddie is an eccentric mailman that everyone loves and chats with when they catch him humming sabbath songs on their porch and the community cherishes this guy, y'know?

And Steve just moved in and he has a very under trained dog that absolutely hates Eddie, and in return Eddie does NOT like this dog because it's keeping him from talking to the new hot guy on the block and-

shenanigans ensue.

[morganbritton132]

V funny to give Steve a service dog named Tommy in your fics. Imagine being in love with your former best friend and then hearing him say ‘I love you, Tommy’ and it’s to a fucking dog.

[morganbritton132]

Steve keeps casually telling Robin the most devastatingly sad things about his childhood like it’s normal and it’s driving her crazy.

She feels insane when she tries to explain that it’s actually not normal to take away your kid’s allowance because they didn’t qualify for the spelling bee and then leave them for a month with nothing but a small jar of peanut butter to eat. It’s actually not funny that you feel nauseous at the smell of peanuts ever since, Steve.

It’s actually child a- don’t say I’m taking it the wrong away! How else am-

Robin goes to Tommy and Carol and asks how they handled it. She asks how they handle Steve when he makes light of this abuse and…turns out they didn’t know any of that.

They might actually kill Steve’d parents.

She’s trying really hard to find a reason to stop them.

[morganbritton132]

Fic that’s just the reversal of that scene in the van when Steve suggests they should take flowers to Nancy at the hospital and Jonathan accuses him of trying to he with her, except it’s Steve and Nancy.

Jonathan and Nancy are maybe/kinda/not really rekindling their relationship. Neither knows what they really want but it’s hard to figure it out with a Steve-shaped elephant taking up Jonathan’s attention.

Then one day, Jonathan bails at the last second on a group hang because his mom was rushed into emergency surgery (she’s fine) and he has to go to the hospital.

He tells them to go ahead with their plans and he’ll call with an update later.

“You think,” Steve starts, “maybe we should like, take him flowers.”

And Nancy explodes.

She accuses him of trying to get with Jonathan and Steve is just as confused this time as last time because like, “Jonathan is a friend.”

Steve just likes to give people flowers.

[morganbritton132]

Conversations happening in Tommy’s room at any given time between 1971-1983

Tommy: I mean, would your parents even notice if you didn’t come home? You can stay here.

Steve: Your parents would notice.

Tommy: And you think they’d care? They ask you to stay for dinner every night.

Steve: That’s different

Tommy:

Steve:

Carol: We should kill your parents

Steve, resigned: No.

[morganbritton132]

Steve, the most offline guy left in Hawkins, is completely meme-illiterate. Except he also coaches children so he does know the six seven thing.

[morganbritton132]

I think a really tragic aspect of those fics where Steve gets taken by the Russians like Hopper that doesn’t get talked about is that Robin doesn’t join the party without Steve.

We’ve seen how Dustin grieves.

It builds and it explodes, and Steve didn’t have an enemy to direct it at like Eddie did. Steve left nothing behind that hits back and Dustin is just. Numb.

The town mourns a guy they never really knew, and Dustin is left with. Variables. A bunch of Could’ve-Been scenarios where things were different and Steve wasn’t…

All Dustin knows for sure is that he wasn’t there to save his best friend and Robin was. And she didn’t.

Dustin cant vouch for her and the others don’t really know her.

Robin went through this big traumatizing thing and the only other person that would understand is gone.

She’s completely alone.