Eddie who’s big into PDA with his partners. Hanging off of them, holding their hand, kissing any part of their skin. Practically inseparable from his partner when he’s in a safe space to express his love.
And Steve who watches from a distance longing to be the object of Eddie’s love.
Oof wait @nancywheelesbian you come back here because ow
Eddie is stiff around Steve, barely holding hand around the party, no kisses to his knuckles or to his bare shoulder and Steve’s SPIRALING because he’s seen Eddie in love and how Eddie shows his love and Steve’s receiving none of that. So steve struggles between thinking that this is the love he deserves and he shouldn’t be greedy, vs thinking Eddie doesn’t love him like he loved his other partners.
Eventually, Steve snaps and it’s going to be a messy break-up. He’s already in tears as he’s telling Eddie what they both already know. That Eddie doesn’t love him and that they should break up so Eddie can find real love.
Eddie is stumped out of his mind because what do you MEAN he doesn’t love Steve? He’s head over heels for him! Loved him for years! Never knew he could love him like this.
“Like how?” Steve asked, knowing he’s well beyond ugly crying. “I’ve seen you in love. You’re not like that with me.”
And it takes Eddie a moment before he realizes where he went wrong. Instantly, he’s touching Steve’s arms, his touch gentle soft as he leans in to press a kiss to Steve’s forehead. “I didn’t know,” Eddie murmured. “I’ve never — I’ve been told I’m annoying. Kyle used to swat my hands away and — you’re not him. I should’ve — I should’ve known. I just — didn’t want to ruin this between us. Being too loud.”
Steve’s brow furrowed. “Ruin it by loving me?”
“By being too much,” Eddie admitted. “I’ve been wanting this — you — for a while and I didn’t want to be too overwhelming.”
“Eddie?”
“Yeah, Sweetheart?” Eddie asked, gently running his thumbs across Steve’s cheekbone, wiping away the remaining tears.
“I want you to,” Steve said. “Touch me. Overwhelm me. I want to feel your love on my skin.”
Eddie grinned, pressing another kiss to Steve’s forehead. “I’m never letting you go.”
Eddie spoke true to his word.
If they sit next to each other, their thighs are pressed against one another. Eddie’s hand in Steve’s, fingertips gently tracing Steve’s knuckles or the lines on his palm. A gentle kiss buried into Steve’s hair. Fingers through Jean loops, keeping them close. Hands under shirts or clasped around a wrist. Steve loved when his legs were in Eddie’s lap and Eddie’s thumb finds the divot on his ankle.
Steve never questioned Eddie’s love again, evidence of his love pressed into his skin any moment they’re together.
Steve who spent so much time telling Eddie about his many romantic failures and general feelings of unlovableness when they were becoming friends as a way of bonding. And now worries that Eddie only said yes to him asking him out because he felt bad
today I was wearing my “yes homo” shirt and some lady told me “you’re going to hell” and I said “with you around it’s like we’re already there” and I swear she made this exact fkn face
I cannot believe this post I made in 2015 is still going around…. anyway plot twist this same lady got famous on my town’s facebook gossip group for divorcing her husband for a woman 💅🏻✨ I like to believe my yes homo shirt pointed her in the right direction
Eddie couldn’t stop staring. Even as his brain screamed to look away. Even as he pinched the inside of his bicep. His eyes refused to move off of the one and only Steve Harrington.
The two of them are in science together and Steve’s fiddling with his microscope, tongue sticking out of his mouth as he tries to figure it out. And it’s that tongue that’s ruining Eddie’s life right now.
The Party is the Cullins with Joyce being Carlisle and Hopper as Esme
Billy and Max are apart of the werewolf clan
I havent read the books or watched past the first movie, so my understanding might be wrong. Aro would NOT be Vecna. Aro would be the government. So I think this AU would still have the upside down, Vecna and the testing facilities (that I'm sure Aro would strongly disapprove of but again I dont know anything about the series. Only some text posts talking about the series).
Maybe the party plus Eddie, Billy, Max go through the normal events, adopting El and all the other children. Then Aro gets involved because children with God like powers are more known. Are the children vampires? Something else? Thats what he is trying to figure out but the party is in protective mode and ready to kill anyone who gets too close
I need help finding a specific steddie fic: its a hurt/Comfort with Eddie and Steve living together but they get in an argument. Eddie leaves the house/apartment and Steve starts to spiral that they are going to break up. There is a scene where Eddie is out on his walk and is realizing that he was being a dick. He comes back and at first fears that Steve got fed up and finally left him, only for Eddie to realize that Steve is in the spare room "sleeping" (laying there awake absolutely afraid that Eddie is going to leave him and wishing for everything to change)
I swear it was on ao3 but I looked through what I feel like is all the complete hurt/Comfort steddie fics. I added other tags hoping to narrow down the search but havent found it.
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Bestie, moshmellow22 in the comments, saved me. Blessings upon you, your chosen family, and the cows you have adopted. Many consensual kisses on your forehead and happy toe stomps from an audhd person in your direction
I need help finding a specific steddie fic: its a hurt/Comfort with Eddie and Steve living together but they get in an argument. Eddie leaves the house/apartment and Steve starts to spiral that they are going to break up. There is a scene where Eddie is out on his walk and is realizing that he was being a dick. He comes back and at first fears that Steve got fed up and finally left him, only for Eddie to realize that Steve is in the spare room "sleeping" (laying there awake absolutely afraid that Eddie is going to leave him and wishing for everything to change)
I swear it was on ao3 but I looked through what I feel like is all the complete hurt/Comfort steddie fics. I added other tags hoping to narrow down the search but havent found it.
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell
The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words
**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.
Eddie, who moves to Steve's after the trailer was destroyed. Comes to the kitchen and goes like "Good morning, babygirl" to Steve every day.
At first, it was just to annoy him. And Eddie's always petnaming Steve so it became a habit. And Steve realized he actually liked when Eddie does it when, one morning, Eddie just said "hiii".
Steve had to bite his tongue to not to ask why there was no "babygirl" that morning.
AU where Steve is running the kind of blog that starts with the artistic nudes/underwear photos, but it gets very thirsty and less artistic, more indulgeant as time goes on. He never shows his face and the spare room in his place is markedly neutral so even that couldn't be tied back to him.
He's always open for asks and requests, always writing sweet things to his admirers, he's a vague sort of queer, possibly demi but hasn't found the words for it yet, but he made this blog mostly to seek out the attention of men (he's been a little apprehensive about it irl), so the bio says gay, says anyone is welcome but requests that people present male/masc in his ask box ("treat it like m/m fiction, if you like?").
Eddie is of course a big fan, has followed for A While and sends way too many asks (all his besties think he has A Problem), is indulging in his guilty pleasure because this guy gives such jock vibes, especially given Eddie initially found him hunting for pictures of guys in jock straps (for personal reasons), only to find this faceless beauty had everything from jocks, oddly flattering boxers, to lingerie on his blog (he also has a photos of him in just skimpy undies and sports jerseys, because people actually pay for him to look sexy in their team colours. Wild. Eddie almost begs him to add some metal tees to his wishlist so he can buy them for him to take pics in, almost).
Steve doesn't know his anon is Eddie specifically, if they've met in the past it was fleeting and in passing, if they went to the same school, Eddie graduated first try and missed the rise (and fall) of King Steve (but probably had a fantasy or two about the slightly younger swimmer, he has eyes).
Steve does know his regulars though, Eddie is the only anon who calls him Sweetheart, who he calls Sweetheart back after a while, there's this weird sense to the phrase that has other anons avoiding it, finding their own petnames if they're regular enough to warrant them.
Eventually Eddie grows bold, makes a side/separate blog with a close up photo of his electric guitar, has Sweetheart in the name, starts asking without switching anon on, is fucking stunned when Steve follows him back, it's confusing because genuinely the only things he's posted are some photos of his guitars in similar leans and lighting to the sort of thing Steve might put out (he'd thought it was funny when he was doing it but honestly the pictures turned out really well).
He had been considering trying to DM Steve, he already knows the guy has Mutuals Only enabled, he's seen people beg for him to DM them, but he has chickened out every time, copying his flirting over to an ask instead and editing it to work better. So he's Shocked when he logs on to find a DM waiting for him, it's nothing crazy, just a simple little 'Hi Sweetheart' that makes his heart hammer in his ears and his stomach flip.
He thinks maybe Steve is seeking out someone to talk dirty to in depth, they've flirted around it in asks but Eddie's never suggested anything beyond almost-foreplay, he's always been obssessed with describing how he'd kiss every mole, how he'd dig his fingers into the swell of Steve's ass, never gone further than saying he wants to pull Steve's underwear down with his teeth.
The first night they flirt, sweet nothings that don't really go anywhere until Eddie admits he has work in the morning, so Steve asks what he does, when he has to get up. Eddie is a tattoo artist, which Piques Steve's Interest, and whilst he doesn't start til 9 he has some errands to run and is up way too early (7:30, gross)
"I have SO many questions but I'll let you sleep! Goodnight Sweetheart x"
Eddie is smiling stupidly to himself as he types Goodnight Sweetheart right back, tossing his phone aside and burying his face giddily in his pillows like he's a teenager again. And he thinks maybe that's all it is, that it'll turn into fucking around again as soon as they're both free.
But Steve surprises him again, because when Eddie is dragging himself around his apartment getting ready the next day, his phone chimes and the app says his blog has a DM, he opens it and smiles,
"Hope this doesn't wake you, good morning sweetheart!" sits waiting for him, soon followed by a photo completely different to anything he's ever seen on this guy's blog.
The photo has been taken at the top of a cliff, overlooking a lake, the sun is rising over a forest, and Steve's bare legs are centered beneath the gorgeous view, the hems of some incredibly short shorts visible above hairy thighs, a slip of sneaker visible in the gap. He realises, seeing the sunrise, he never actually asked what timezone this guy is in, if they're in the same one, this photo was taken over an hour ago, Jesus Christ.
Amusingly, there's also the very concerned face of a light brown tabby cat, its got its paws on Steve's thigh as it peers at the camera and has a black harness on.
"Who's your friend? x" there's never been any sign of a cat on Steve's blog, and Eddie's never actually met someone who takes their cats outdoors on little leads, it's cute.
"That's Ozzy, my little guy! my handsome man!"
"I'm jealous! I thought I was your handsome man :c but also Ozzy???? Like Sabbath?" The prospect of Steve listening to good music is immediately crushed by the typed back ??? "The band? Black Sabbath? Singer is Ozzy Osbourne, literal legend."
"He was named by the shelter I adopted him from, but the band name sounds familiar I guess? I'll give them a listen x"
He decides he can make time for a list of recommendations before he goes to pick a few things up for his uncle, then work. Steve likes some, hates others, but that's fine, Eddie can just condition him into enjoying good music, it's not a deal breaker (as if there is even a deal being made).
Steve asks about his work, more about his favourite music, if he's in a band (he was, once, they meet up a few times a year to hang out and see if they can remember the songs), how his days are, he starts pulling out little details that Some Guy Who Wants To Fuck In DMs probably wouldn't. He sends a ton of cat photos, shows Eddie what he's making for dinner, what his disgusting coffee order of the day is (Steve's words, Eddie makes a note to try some for himself because it's sweeter than carnival air and that's his vibe), kind of cute little things like that.
Steve doesn't talk about his own work, just says he's on his way there or back, it's not hard for Eddie to extrapolate education from that, the times are too obvious, and the reason for keeping quiet are Blatant given his blog.
It takes a week for two things to happen, first, Eddie finally introduces himself and gets "oh! shit right yeah! I'm Steve!", and second, Eddie has seen many photos of Steve (never his face, never anything that can identify him as A Specific Steve) but has never sent one back. He's sent pictures of records, random cats he's spotted on his walk to work, tattoo designs he's working on for his flash sheets, but never one of him, the closest he got was his hand buried in the fur of an absolute Behemoth of a cat he found outside his uncle's trailer, and his warped reflection in a railing when he found the tiniest Ozzfest t-shirt (it was for a baby, Steve said it'd probably fit Ozzy, Eddie regrets not buying it despite having no way to send it to Steve).
He's not selfconscious exactly, but Steve's a catch, a god amongst men, he's in shape and hairy and just the right side of tanned (with those sweet tan lines made by the shorts only Eddie's seen, at least of Steve's followers), he's-
"Just a guy, sweetheart, I'm just a guy."
"PSHHHHHH!!!" just a guy, disgusting lies.
"But I don't really care how you look, you don't even have to be a guy."
"Your blog says gay, masc only?" He doesn't know why he's questioning it, Eddie is very much a guy,
"Just wanted to know how it felt to be looked at by men ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Fair enough. Eddie respects it, finds it interesting when Steve eventually explains how it just makes him nervous, living in a kind of rural, podunk area and "branching out from the comphet lifestyle" ("Am I even using that right? Straight passing I guess.")
Things are good, they keep talking, keep swapping photos of their day-to-day life, Eddie keeps apologising for never sending a "hot bod shot back" when Steve sends him "Exclusives", Steve keeps brushing it off because it doesn't matter, besides he's seen Eddie's arms now (Eddie has shown off his tattoo sleeves, he just got the shading finished on one arm) so he can extrapolate body type at the least ("Unless you're a very peculiar shape but I suppose that just makes you special.") not that it matters to Steve.
Eddie is falling ass over tit in love with a guy on the internet and he's pretty sure not even he, Eddie Munson, King of Fuck ups, can fuck this up.
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"I'm thinking about deleting this blog."
It comes out of left field and Eddie feels his stomach drop, they've been talking for a few months and Eddie felt something, the thought of losing this guy, his sweetheart, was devastating.
"Oh, I mean... if you want?" he wants to respect it, to sound okay with it, he's glad Steve can't hear him. He has a million questions, what about me? Did I do something wrong? How did I fuck this up? What he types is "Mind if I ask why?"
"I've met this guy"
Oh Jesus no.
"I really like him, and I think I've felt it, you know? The Spark?" Eddie is dying inside. "We've been talking for a while now. He's really sweet, funny, I love hearing about his day, and that he thinks of me when he hears certain songs, or sees little tchotchkes I might like, he asks me how my cat is, he's a real sweetheart. I just need to get the courage to find out if he likes me too, and not ruining things if he doesn't."
"If he doesn't he's an idiot. but he sounds fine, happy for you man." his eyes don't sting and he's not petty enough to consider blocking and hiding, he's not.
"I don't think he's an idiot, little slow on the uptake maybe."
"Okay?"
"Maybe subtlety wasn't it, maybe Robs was right and I should've written my number on my tits and sent him a photo."
"Okay."
What the fuck is his problem? Eddie slouches in his chair, he's at work waiting for his next client to show up and he's starting to fume. Jeff's client is looking nervously between her tattoo, Jeff, and the angry puddle Eddie is becoming as his gangly form practically drips over the edges of the seat.
"I'm blocking him." He doesn't, he folds his arms across his chest and seethes like a 6 year old,
"Who?" Jeff visibly regrets asking when Eddie kicks and flops around in his chair, throwing a micro tantrum.
"Steve. Comin' in my damned DMs telling me he's met someone, fucking asshole." If he throws his voice around like he's mocking someone stupid, well, who cares? It's just him, Jeff, and a lady who is now trying really hard not to laugh.
"I mean... he is just some guy on the internet, Ed..." Jeff offers helpfully,
"Just some guy," Eddie huffs, "Just some guy? I opened my heart dude, I cracked open my fragile ribs and bore everything to him," he very much did not, but he wanted to, "I tucked him deep inside with the hopes he might stay there forever," he did do that, "I-"
"Never told him any of this, by the way." Jeff informs his client, who bites her lip and nods before returning her attention to the buzzing needle near her arm, hoping to focus on it and not Eddie's hilarious expression of misery.
"So?! We had chemistry! We had vibes! We had something! We had-" he gestures with his phone, pausing as he looks at the screen for the first time since his declaration. "really nice tits..."
"What?" Jeff stops tattooing again, frowning over at Eddie, who is gawking uselessly at his phone.
"He sent me his tits," he pulls the phone close, squints at the blocky, shaky numbers printed around the edges of the goddamn rug of hair covering Steve's chest. He flicks his finger across the screen, slack jawed and stupid as he sees Steve's face in full for the first time, a whisper escaping him unbidden,
"I'm the idiot."
~
PS I looked at a random shelter to find a cat for Steve because I thought it'd be fun and saw Ozzie and was like omg he (with a spelling tweak), they seem to be active on FB but IDK how up to date their website is... so I hope Ozzie finds/found a home he's so cute
@eternal-sunflowers Who let your brain be so big? I never would've considered Robin that's so good.
She susses it out through photos yes yes, but before that, shortly after Steve starts swooning over this guy he likes, she meets a cute former cheerleader on a dating app, and after literally 2 hours of conversation they have an In Person date planned.
Some point during their date Robin says "I was nervous reaching out because my best friend has been talking to this guy for a month and they still haven't exchanged numbers!"
"oh my god, that sounds just like Eddie and his supermodel cat-dad! Why are boys like that?"
"Eddie? He's not... is he talking to a guy named Steve?"
They bond over their dinguses for a while and the rest of their date goes great.
Both girls promise each other not to get involved (unless asked), but Robin does go through all the pictures Steve has forwarded to her and susses out where Eddie works. As nice as Chrissy says Eddie is, she wants to scope him out too, she also has been looking for an excuse to get one of the two tattoos she wants.
She books her appointment with Jeff (she tried so hard to get Steve to book one too, so they could finally get their matching tattoos, but Steve is being a dork and hoping Eddie will give him his first tattoo, and Robin can't outright say "EDDIE IS THE OTHER ARTIST, DINGUS", so she has to get her other option).
It takes everything in her not to crack the second she gets the text of "So I'm finally asking him out, gonna try be smoothe about it, subtle, see if I can figure out if he likes me before I say it say it, wish me luck" (where she promptly sends her suggestion), because she's about to get a front row seat to the other side of it, when all she'd wanted to do was get a tattoo and either a) get her bestie to meet his boyfriend, or b) see what the boyfriend was like.
Robin is absolutely howling when Eddie confirms Steve went with her idea, she can't breathe to explain herself either.
Eddie is losing his mind because he's an idiot and Steve LIKES him.
Jeff is Very Confused.
Robin definitely tells Steve to come tell her everything (and also bring snacks because the tattoo is making her wooooozy she is a liar she has snacks but worried Steve will show up quicker) and is like "watch this" to Jeff when Steve texts like "I'm parking be 2 min".
Steve almost exclusively sends His Best Side to Eddie, always dressed nice (or undressed nice), so he's kind of embarrassed when he realises how he's dressed when meeting his maybe-boyfriend for the first time, he rushed out because he didn't want Robin to pass out during her tattoo.
Eddie is buried in layers the way he always is, eternally formless but he also loves those hoodies that are loose and cropped with the t-shirt sleeves (maybe a compression top/vest or vest-like binder beneath, something snug and black tucked into his jeans) so his tattoos were definitely on display but Steve was in full Robin-Care-Mode and missed them, and Eddie was distracted cleaning his space up for the fiftieth time as he waited for his next session.
They have their spider-man pointing meme moment, Steve with his light bickering with Robin, Eddie swearing he's gonna curse Chrissy for this.
Then they're so fucking awkward and cute as they try to figure out how they're supposed to behave together after so long Falling before Meeting.
Jeff is light headed from laughing, he's fully given up finishing this tattoo in one uninterrupted session (Robin was sitting like a trooper tbh, she'd have dozed off if she didn't know This was happening) "we'll take a break, watch the show, have some snacks." (Robin shares her bonus snacks)
Then once things settle down and the awkwardness fades, Eddie creeps into Steve's space like "wasn't very long ago you sent me that photo, was it, big boy?" biting his lip,
Steve, very embarrassed, is rubbing the back of his head in that sweet way, "Yeah, guess not..."
"Need help getting that pen off?" Eddie is grinning like an imp, even though his stomach is flipping like crazy and he's so nervous, but then Steve looks him over like he's so fucking hot, his insides turn to goo, and he has to remind himself they have an audience.
Eddie's client is still late, too late, with no contact, so he has no qualms telling Jeff to turn them away if they show up, not breaking eye contact with Steve as he says "I'm gonna take Stevie in the back to help him clean up..."
Jeff and Robin watch as Steve blushes furiously and Eddie drags him by the wrist, they look at each other with reluctant understanding as the door swings shut behind the boys,
"So you guys absolutely have stuff that can clean ink off of skin in this room, right?"
"Yep..." Jeff is quietly hoping they pick the piercing room, that's easy to clean.
"So they're definitely-" god he hopes they don't use the break room...
"Yep..." he looks at Robin, she's grinning ear to ear and doing nothing to hide the fact that she is texting in all caps to Chrissy.
A regional manager of Scoops Ahoy took one look at newly hired Steve (fresh highlights in his hair, lipgloss on) and said: do you want to participate in Scoops Ahoy yearly charity calendar? (said calendar did not exist until a second ago)(it will be wildly successful and reprinted for many years)
Sometime later one Eddie Munson finds the calendar at some underground queer bookshop in Indianapolis and almost dies from lust-induced nose bleed
have we considered. Steve believing all the rumors about Eddie throughout high school but having a crush on him anyway. his fantasies are basically “he’s evil but what if i were his favorite”
and then he gets to know him after S4 and he’s just a gooey marshmallow
@tangerinetravis yeahhhhhh. the reason he was so bitter about Dustin hanging out with Eddie wasn’t even jealousy it was “I genuinely believe what I’ve heard and am worried for you”. In the UD he went from “this is a guy I want to fuck but NEVER let near my children” to “he’s my coparent now it will be a spring wedding”
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