On my first viewing of SEASON 4 I was so concerned about Steve’s safety and him making it out alive that I didn’t catch onto the fact that Eddie was slowly changing Steve’s brain chemistry and making him question his entire life. When I watched again (and this is honestly before I knew people were rabid about shipping them) I went, “hang on” and analyzed! And for me, it wasn’t in the obvious scenes (boathouse, the Nancy talk, the “big boy” moment). It was the subtle looks of Steve being so bewildered by Eddie. And equally so, Eddie being a little spellbound by Steve. Those actors made a choice and rolled with their choice. And the Duffers left in moments (hello Steve looking at Eddie’s lips) that made us all go, wait what? And honestly, Steddie is so damn perfect because they’re plausible.
And for this reason I just want to say I love this community. 💙
Reblogging again because I took a screenshot of the side effects...
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Dustin manages to convince Eddie and Steve to accompany him while he uses Cerebro to talk to Suzie. It only takes convincing one of them to know that the other will join because Eddie and Steve have been inseparable since Hawkins was almost destroyed. They say it’s because they’re bonded with their matching bat scars, but really they just enjoy each other’s company.
And thank god they do because being around Dustin when he’s talking to Suzie is absolutely insufferable. Eddie tries to come up with nicknames that are worse than Dustin’s while Steve comes up with terrible pick up lines. By the end of the conversation, Steve and Eddie are outright cringing and complaining about love.
Dustin says goodbye to Suzie and starts packing up which cues Steve saying, “Henderson, never let me witness that again.”
Dustin scoffs, “Come on, it wasn’t that bad.”
Eddie and Steve exchange incredulous looks, and then Eddie dramatically drops to his knee and announces to Steve, “Oh, my sweet apple pie, my affections will forever be yours.”
Steve laughs and wonders why he’s feeling warmer than before. Must be the heat or something. He continues the bit and grabs Eddie’s hands. “How have I ever lived without you, my love?”
Now it’s Eddie’s turn to feel a bit overwhelmed with some type of feeling. He’s not entirely sure what it is, but it’s making his heart race. He takes Steve’s hands and plants a slow kiss on the left. “I will never know.” He plants a kiss on the right. “But I swear that you’ll never have to know again.”
Steve’s hands let go of Eddie’s to cup his face. “I love you.”
“I love you, too,” Eddie replies easily.
Steve and Eddie freeze. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. Both their heads spin as they finally put a label on what they’ve been feeling for weeks now. The reason they never want to leave each other’s sight. The late night phone calls where they joke about being away from each other for too long - knowing that they had just hung out minutes earlier. The sleepovers where Steve has held Eddie or vice versa depending on whose nightmares are worse that night…
“Hey! We’re not that bad,” Dustin whines. Steve and Eddie break apart quickly remembering where they are and why they’ve said what they said.
“Come on, it’s getting close to your curfew,” Steve says, mind reeling with his realization.
Dustin goes on a rant about something he and Suzie were talking about, but neither Steve nor Eddie truly catch everything he’s saying. They’re too caught up in their heads trying to keep a respectable distance from each other while realizing how often they’re in each other’s personal space: all the time.
By the time they get to Steve’s car, Dustin has started a new rant, and thank goodness for how much that kid can talk so Steve and Eddie don’t have to. But the drive to Dustin’s is quicker than it needs to be because suddenly Steve and Eddie are alone together and simultaneously freaking out.
“So,” Steve says breaking the silence.
“So…” Eddie responds, fingers rapidly tapping where they rest on his leg.
“Dustin and Suzie are just…”
“Absolutely disgustingly in love?” Eddie offers.
Steve nods. “Yeah.”
In love. The boys start freaking out a little more.
“I wonder what that’s like,” Eddie says, voice a bit higher than usual.
“I wouldn’t know,” Steve replies quickly, hoping Eddie doesn’t hear how false that statement is even to his own ears.
Eddie just nods, stuck so deep in his own thoughts he can’t even register Steve manically twirling his sunglasses around while driving. Steve stops it as soon as he realizes he’s doing his nervous tick.
When the trailer park gets in sight, Steve takes a deep breath then asks, “What if I did know?”
Eddie glances over at him with a questioning look. Steve elaborates, “Know what it’s like to be disgustingly in love.”
Eddie’s fingers freeze as he finally looks at Steve who parks in front of Eddie’s trailer. He nervously licks his lips and runs a hand through his hair as he turns to look at Eddie. There’s absolutely no way. No way at all. But Eddie replies, “I think I know, too.”
Steve breaks out into a wide smile and leans across the car. “You’re talking about me right?” He asks as his nose brushes against Eddie’s.
“Yes,” Eddie says against his lips before they both surge forward into a kiss.
Later, they both agree to never let Dustin know that he’s the reason they realized their feelings for each other because that kid would never let it go. (Of course, he still manages to say that he’s the reason the two of them met and therefore the reason they got together, but Eddie and Steve will forever argue that it was their matching bat scars just to keep Dustin angry.)
being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit
Because it’s happened to us on a trek, if you see abandoned clothes, stop and search for anyone nearby. Late-stage hypotherima causes a thing called paradoxical undressing where the person feels too hot and starts taking their clothes off.
for a little bit of an order for this if it isn’t obvious: Take any wet clothes off (including sweaty clothes!! underlayers can become soaked with sweat while working in the cold and lead to hypothermia later) BEFORE you wrap the person in warm dry blankets/clothing.
Also I cannot stress the ‘do not rub’ thing enough. If you have a frozen steak, let it thaw a little bit and then give it a good rub. Take a peek at it via a hand lens. You’ll see tons of little cuts/gashes. That’s from the ice crystals cutting into the flesh. NEVER rub the skin of a hypothermia/extreme cold exposed person to warm them up unless you want the same damn thing happening to their flesh.
Don’t warm the extremities (hands/feet) too quickly. Not only would it be extremely painful, but the vessels in said extremities opening too quickly can lead to shock (part of the direct heat issue).
“I love playing characters whose actions people disagree with. In a world where we don’t really care to understand other points of view, I feel like if we as an audience can have empathy for people we don’t agree with, that’s a good thing.”
ELIZABETH OLSEN for Harper’s Bazaar UK 2022
Steve who's too scared to let love in because no matter how hard he tries, it always goes wrong. He's never good enough. He brushes off Eddie's flirty comments and ignores Robin when she tries to tell him that Eddie really likes you, Steve. He's trying so hard. Why won't you let him in?
Because he knows how it will go. Eddie will whisper sweet nothings to him, he'll hold him and promise that he'll never let go and then Steve will wake up one morning with a note on the bedside table saying, 'I can't do this anymore.' Steve's done this dance hundreds of times, he's tired, he just wants to be left alone.
But Eddie is relentless. He's constantly in Steve's personal space, constantly brushing his fingers against Steve's and bumping their shoulders together. He can read Steve like an open book and that terrifies him. Steve will sigh a certain way and Eddie will instantly be up on his feet to clear the kids out of his house. "Go annoy your actual parents for a while." Eddie teases.
Steve will squint once while trying to read something and Eddie will already be there with Steve's glasses in hand. "You'll get wrinkles if you keep squinting like that."
When his migraines are bad, Eddie will keep the kids away and take the time to close all the curtains in his house and bring him ice packs every hour. If Steve tries to protest, Eddie will just shake his head and gently ease him back down on the bed. "Just.. let me help." He says softly.
Steve Harrington, who has tried so hard to keep his heart safe, finally realises that Eddie has been holding it gently in his hands for months, cradling it and slowly breathing life back into it with every little thoughtful gesture and warm smile.
He decides that Eddie can be trusted to keep his heart safe, to handle it carefully and mend the cracks.
Plus, how can he say no when Eddie is standing outside in the snow with a ridiculously large bouquet of flowers while the kids hide badly in the bushes as they wait for Steve's reply to the message written in the snow.
'Will you go out with me?' It says in Eddie's messy handwriting and Steve feels his heart flutter for the first time in a long while.
