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Bro hellcheer power is actually insane. You're telling me that 2 scenes jointly lasting 10 minutes between two now-dead characters has inspired almost 4k fics on ao3? And it's literally been years since they were first seen on our screens and we're STILL churning out art and fic and fanvids? Like what on earth

gunmetal-ring

Btw as of today it's over 4k fics on ao3. Hellcheer4lyfe

#hellcheer #stranger things #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson

skeletordraws

see you soon, my dear

#hellcheer #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson

bybats

the "Jaws" theme plays when Jason swims nearby.

#hellcheer #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson

winedark-maverick

i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

hannbl

chrollo-tw

me after I eliminated 21,042 people

cantotallyeven

Chihuahuas Georg

sweaterkittensahoy

While not factually true, absolutely the hope of every fucking Chihuahua if you look at their person wrong.

dualvoidanima

purple-sun

rapidlydecayingcorpse

i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this

Fifteen minutes since she got off the phone. Twenty minutes. Twenty-five minutes. Each one passing by is making him more restless. Well, she did say she was going to get ready, then come over. He’s just being annoying and a little worried since it’s so late. After midnight is when the drunks and morons prowl the streets.

It’s then that he sees bright lights shine through the front window. He turns the TV off and hears the gravel crunching under tires. There she is. Within a few moments, the car door slams shut and there’s a dark figure haunting the entrance of his trailer.

‘Why isn’t she knocking?’

Eddie takes the initiative and swings the door open. As soon as he does, Chrissy almost jumps out of her skin. “Jesus! You scared me.”

“Wasn’t tryin’ to, but I didn’t want you standing out here in the cold.” He blinks slowly, taking in what she’s wearing. A fluffy pink robe she’s holding tightly around her with slippers to match. Her hair is down and most of the makeup from earlier is gone. Seems like he’s actually getting that sleepover he wanted. Sweet. “Didn’t want the Boogeyman getting to you before I did either.”

She makes a strange expression at that before he steps aside to let her in. It’s not to the same extent, but it reminds him of the face she made in the van. When he asked her about first loves and it looked like the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future all showed up at once to scare the shit out of her.

“Sorry for coming by so late.” Chrissy walks to the small table against the wall to kick her slippers off beneath it. “I know you’ll say it’s fine and you were up anyway. I still feel kind of rude.”

Eddie watches her curiously. Something is up. First, stopping by at this hour. Second, she’s looking everywhere else but at him. Third, her cheeks are flushed and she’s gripping onto that robe like it’s a lifeline. Even her posture is rigid. She’s uncomfortable for some reason and he’s gotta figure out what’s going on.

“Hey,” he moves to stand next to her, placing a hand on her shoulder to rub it. “What’s wrong? Did something happen? You get in a fight with your dad?”

“No, no, nothing like that. It’s just…” Chrissy goes from a cute pink blush to straight tomato-colored. It’s a dangerous shade of red that even he hasn’t seen before. “Oh my God.” She turns away, covering her face with one hand while still holding onto the robe with the other. “...This isn’t how I imagined it at all. I’m so lame! What a loser. Maybe this was a bad idea.”

To say he’s dumbfounded would be an understatement. He’s lost in the sauce and now she’s insulting herself. “What is? I don’t get what’s goin’ on but you’re not. Okay. Let’s start over. Stop thinking you’re lame and be yourself. Say whatever it is you wanted to say. It’s only me. Nothing serious.”

It’s quiet for a moment. The hand over her face finally lowers to grasp the sash at her waist. “Right.” She lets out a long, shaky breath and gets to untying it. The robe slips off her shoulders and falls to the ground, pooling at her feet.

‘Huh?’

Eddie’s heart stops. So does his brain. The system is shutting down. He makes a fist to hit himself in the chest to jumpstart it again.

Underneath all of that thick fabric was a surprise he sure as hell wasn’t expecting. The princess is standing in his living room with only a light pink babydoll nightgown. The thin material is loose and flowy, with the ruffled bottom ending at the top of her thighs.

Oh.

OH.

It all makes sense now. Why she couldn’t sleep. The reason she needed to come over this late. Her oddball behavior. Holding onto the robe for dear life. She was still debating whether to go through with it and horniness won the battle.

Heat starts at the crown of his head and scorches its way through his body until it reaches the tips of his toes. He’s on fire. Frazzled. Shocked. Excited. Ready to go off like a teakettle.

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It's been so long since I've posted anything on here but I got the hellcheer bug again and wanted to continue the fic I started in 2022. I hope I can manage to finally finish one before I die 😭. I've done two chapters in the last few months so I'll post the links for them below. I also went through the entire story and edited it to tweak some things, cut extra wordy bs out and hopefully improved on what I've already done. Thanks to those who've left such lovely messages and still read my work despite the hiatus.

Chapter 21 "Tease" AO3 link, FF.net link, Wattpad link

Chapter 22 "Taste" AO3 link, FF.net link, Wattpad link

#hellcheer #eddie munson #chrissy cunningham #eddissy #stranger things #stranger things fanfic #corroded coffin #friends to lovers #Eddie is down bad

erythromanc3r

Hellcheer is in the ice cream ad……why are we not all doing backflips right now [x]

lucysinatizzy

Oh 😍💖

#hellcheer #stranger things #they said what they said #what a great day to check tumblr #they'll always be famous

alder-moonfox-deactivated202307

#me when I walk outside

sapphire-weapon

I think the fact that so many people want to label Leon/Ashley as canonically "sibling- coded" is because they feel threatened in the way they view other of Leon's relationships, they can tell Leon and Ashley have chemistry and they try to convince themselves that they have a familial bond going on (like Ellie/Joel) so that they can justify not shipping them and making people who ship it feel bad/weird.

Because nowadays so many people can't just dislike something, they have to make up a reason why it's morally wrong and unacceptable so that way they can bully people that think differently and feel like their own personal opinions are objective and right while everyone else is wrong smh. This is mostly the case with younger fans (tho a lot of people older than me does this too lmao) so that's why I don't really find it frustrating bc it's most likely they have limited real life experience. Plus they might not be that good at interpreting canon from contextual clues yet.

In my case though I think a lot of these people are actually doing the opposite tbh because to me it just shows that they recognize that Ashley's relationship with Leon is real and they can't even concede that they're friends in the canon because they know it could lead to something else if followed through in the story, they admit there's potential there subconsciously with how hard they try to make it seem otherwise with nonsense claims. It's like when insecure guys feel uncomfortable but try to seem tough by buying big trucks and having guns on them all the time lmao.

So, I've talked about this before -- about how the "sibling coded" or "problematic age gap" discourse is just modern-day fandom's way of slutshaming and engaging in casual misogyny in a societally acceptable way.

I'm pretty confident in saying that anyone in my generation who slaps "siblings" on Leon and Ashley are probably people who have another ship and have had it for a while and don't want Ashley getting in the way of it, tbh LMAO

Like.... my generation has co-opted the current generation's vernacular, but make no mistake about the kind of bitches we are. We're ship war bitches. That's all we've ever been AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE OUR WAYS NOW fjdskfh

But if we're talking about the current generation...

Media illiteracy is a big factor in this. It's no secret to anyone that the US education system took a massive shit starting in the late aughts/early 2010s, and things like critical reading skills aren't being taught in schools anymore.

I graduated high school in 2007. Two years later, I went back to visit an old English teacher to get a letter of recommendation, and he was lamenting to me that he'd just given up. It wasn't worth trying to explain the deeper themes of Beowulf to kids who didn't care, because the only thing that mattered was getting them to pass standardized tests.

So, now, without an overt, explicit declaration of love or something visually concrete like a kiss, kids literally do not have the skills to parse through a text and pick out themes and tropes and use of symbolism and imagery. They were never taught how to do it.

But there's a more culture-based thing happening here, I think. It's this fucking mess of a cocktail of internalized misogyny paired with learned helplessness, social anxiety, intense sheltering possibly exacerbated by the pandemic shutdowns, peer pressure, and internet purity culture.

I think it's pretty safe to say that fandom is predominantly made up of women and teenage girls. That was true in the 60s in Star Trek fandom, it was true in my generation, and it's still true today. And what I've seen happening today is that young women are absolutely terrified of their own sexual agency -- because the internet keeps telling them that, if you're under 18, it is wrong and bad and unacceptable for you to engage with anything even remotely sexual and how dare you express your sexuality -- and you'd better not do it not just because it's wrong and bad, but also because you are GUARANTEED TO BE PREYED UPON IF YOU DO. SEX IS DANGEROUS ALL OF THE TIME AND YOU'RE LITERALLY TOO YOUNG AND TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING SO DON'T TRY TO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Because if you're 17 and he's 18, he's a pedophile!!!!!!!!

I just.

So, we've now basically turned an entire generation of young women into the same type of young women who created the BL genre in Japan. These are women who were too afraid to explore their sexuality on their own, and it felt safer to do it with two male characters, because it was always more "okay" for men to be sexual. This is happening here in the West, now.

Slash ships have always been a thing in the West, but not to the degree that they are today. In today's fandom, if you have an M/F ship at all, you are outnumbered by at least 3:1 -- because M/M just "feels" safer for a lot of the current generation.

So, I think young women look at the Remake portrayal of Ashley Graham, and they identify with her. A lot. They're probably around her age, and her personality is very relatable to the kind of girls who play video games. Ashley's clearly introverted, but she's a fast learner who just wants to help, and she's got a good heart and a weird, kind of awkward sense of humor.

And, not only do these girls identify with Ashley, they're probably thirsty as fuck for Leon.

But that's terrifying to them.

Because they have been taught to fear their own sexual agency. The idea that an attractive, traditionally masculine, older man would be romantically or sexually interested in them is immediately categorized in their brains as wrong and bad -- and they don't want to think of Leon in that way.

So... for them, it can't be romantic. It can't be sexual. But there's clearly something there, but Leon would never abuse or prey on anyone so... that bond must be a perfectly innocent familial affection. That's what it is. That's what it has to be, because anything else forces them to face the uncomfortable reality even young women like them go on dates and have sex -- and sometimes, it's with men like Leon.

So, they thirst over Leon at a safe distance through Luis, primarily. Or they self-indulge on reader fic, because that's so much easier to write off as "just a fantasy" and not a statement on who Leon actually is as a character.

And it's just kind of sad, man. It sucks to see this happen to an entire generation of young women.

That's why I don't really get mad when I see the "siblings" shit out in the wild. I just feel sad for those people -- because they can't just say "I don't like the ship." They're so insecure and neurotic that they have to think of a reason why the ship is literally impossible to ever happen so that they don't have to be worried about it.

One day, they'll finally suck a dick for themselves and learn that it's not that serious. It's really fuckin not. Dicks are stupid, and the boys that are attached to them are even dumber.

#i don't even go here #but dayum #this really helps explain part of the misogyny issue in fandom spaces #internalized misogyny #purity culture #fandom issues #I knew what it was but this shines a different light on the 'why' part for me