i headcanon that iida is totally a clark kent type guy. like, as an adult, he is tall, big, and beefy, but you don’t register it bc he hides it behind his nervous nerdy bravado. he could totally kick you with the force of ten thousand newtons, but it doesn’t register because he’s just stumbled through opening the door for an elderly person while carrying ten books, a bunch of files, and a box, and asked you for you coffee order because he “was heading that way anyway.” he acts like his looks aren’t a big deal because its just completely secondary to every other thing in the world.
he flies under the radar so well without even meaning to that, if given the time to think about it, its honestly impressive. he’s an all around total catch that somehow comes across as a total loser.
Steve and Robin from where they're standing behind the family video counter eyes closed, fronts as close together as possible with their foreheads touching and their palms and forearms raised and pressed flush: Shhhh Henderson we are trying to become one.
Mike: Is this some kind of weird sex thing?
Robin pulling slightly away: EWWWWWWW
Steve peeling an eye open to deliver an appropriately disgusted look: Oh my god no Wheeler, we're literally trying to become one person
Robin: Yeah, we've seen so much weird shit what with superpower girl, and the russians, and the giant flesh spider from an alternate dimension –
Steve: – that we figured 'hey, may as well try'.
Dustin: May as well try to... become one person?
Steve: You know what, shut up - why are you even here ?
Lucas: *holds up VHS* to rent a movie? Do you guys really think you can morph together?
Robin: Ugh, get out of here dweebs its like 2 pm on a Tuesday. Who rents videos at 2 on a Tuesday?
Mike: We're not the ones doing a weird sex thing in public
Robin: *throws a pack of Dots at Mike* EWWWWW
Steve: LEAVE!
I just think people should make the Stobin Platonic Soulmates relationship weirder.
Steve and Robin from where they're standing behind the family video counter eyes closed, fronts as close together as possible with their foreheads touching and their palms and forearms raised and pressed flush: Shhhh Henderson we are trying to become one.
Mike: Is this some kind of weird sex thing?
Robin pulling slightly away: EWWWWWWW
Steve peeling an eye open to deliver an appropriately disgusted look: Oh my god no Wheeler, we're literally trying to become one person
Robin: Yeah, we've seen so much weird shit what with superpower girl, and the russians, and the giant flesh spider from an alternate dimension –
Steve: – that we figured 'hey, may as well try'.
Dustin: May as well try to... become one person?
Steve: You know what, shut up - why are you even here ?
Lucas: *holds up VHS* to rent a movie? Do you guys really think you can morph together?
Robin: Ugh, get out of here dweebs its like 2 pm on a Tuesday. Who rents videos at 2 on a Tuesday?
Mike: We're not the ones doing a weird sex thing in public
Robin: *throws a pack of Dots at Mike* EWWWWW
Steve: LEAVE!
I just think people should make the Stobin Platonic Soulmates relationship weirder.
congrats again to one of my fave people in the world: @sidekick-hero for hitting 3.333 followers! all of them so well deserved <3 I managed to fit all three prompts (dog, running and coffee) because I'm nothing if not an overachiever. (also who had me writing steddie in 2025 on their bingo card? 'tis a miracle!)
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Eddie loves to start his morning with a coffee and a walk in the park.
It’s a habit he picked up from Wayne, who had always told him that the best way to start the day is with some fresh air. The coffee thing was Wayne’s idea too, but that didn’t happen until Eddie hit his teens and spent most of his nights working on his next D&D campaign or writing yet another angry Corroded Coffin song.
A lot of things has changed since then: he barely graduated high school, moved the hell out of Hawkins and he proudly owns his own shop, selling D&D manuals, fantasy novels, little trinkets and everything in between. But the one thing that hasn’t changed is his morning routine. It’s calm, it’s peaceful, it’s perfect.
That is, until Eddie’s peace and quiet gets rudely interrupted by the rapid sound of footsteps on gravel.
Eddie’s day immediately takes a turn for the worse. It’s six in the morning, who the hell is running at this hour? It’s bad enough that he’s awake this early, but he has a good reason: he has a shop to open.
He looks up from his phone, purely to scowl at the person who interrupted his moment of peace and immediately stops dead in his tracks.
That ass.
It’s been a decade but he recognizes that ass anywhere.
“Steve Harrington?” The words are out of Eddie’s mouth before he knows it.
Steve stops, his breathing heavy and his nose crinkled in confusion before his face spreads out into a bright smile. “Eddie Munson, as I live and breathe.”
“What are you doing here?” Eddie stammers
“I live here.” Steve rolls his eyes. “Well, we live here.”
“We?”
“Yeah, me and Gimli over here.” Steve gestures to the giant white dog that Eddie has failed to notice until now.
A sweaty Steve has a dog named after a Lord of the Rings character? Eddie might be falling in love with him all over again.
i feel like i have a lot of dreams and they usually all tend to skew in weird nightmare realm territory for some fucking reason???
last night, i had a weird dream about an alien invasion that turned into a zombie apocalypse type situation where the aliens infected the people, and the people started turning into weird mutant alien/zombie/vampire creatures that wanted to eat/bite people and turn them into more weird alien mutant creatures.
the female main character at one point gets betrayed by the other girl that's been running around with her the whole time, and lets her psycho bf in a prison cell lock the fmc in the prison cell, and runs away with him. at the last second, its revealed the betrayer girl was turning into an alien mutant thing anyway, so whether it was a 'oh my bf! daddy i love him!' situation, or just a sympathy thing, or both idrk.
at some point, i think there was a dream-ception scenario where the fmc has a dream, but i cant really remember that part, i just know that it happened.. which actually happens quite frequently for my dreams. like, i'm actually super sure that there's more details to the dream- i vaguely remember a chase sequence through a middle school with the fmc and betrayer girl- but if i don't write what happened in the dream immediately afterwards, then they just completely disappear from my mind. sometimes, some details get lost within the dream even if they get written down because a lot happens very quickly, and some details take priority when i wake up so i don't lose all of them.
extra details, i guess:
the people mutants are like a kinda sickly-lookin neon/teal green situation (alien/zombie-like)
they bite victims with two sharp teeth that grow in the front of their mouth (think vampire, but the width of two teeth, and about double the length of what you would picture a typical fang size to be)
the fang size is so abnormally long, that they wouldn't typically fit in a human mouth, but the mutants are mindless, and keep their mouths open at all times to be ready to strike their next victims (zombie)
they tend to want to bite on the neck, but can bite anywhere else. they just have a preference (vampire)
they do have short little horns growing out of their foreheads, but i cant actually tell you much about them except that they might curl around a bit (alien/mutant)
betrayer girl is revealed as turning mutant, because she opens her mouth as she's turning away from the cell, and you can see her fangs growing in, which does suggest that fangs are one of the first changes (of many lol)
betrayer girl actually looks super dorky/nerdy. straight brown hair down to her shoulders, and some dorky round glasses. why she had a boyfriend in prison, we'll never know, but she does ultimately pass as someone innocent.
fmc is a big, beefy, muscular girl with long black hair. the type of girl you'd want to be in a zombie apocalypse situation with. the type of woman every queer person can't get enough of. total 'step on me, please' situation. she would've been totally fine if she hadn't ran into betrayer girl and apparently had a soft spot for innocent-looking nerdy chicks
this could totally be turned into a sapphic romance story. maybe a nice group of people find fmc and help her, and they join up to fight alien zombies and defeat evil, and along the way fmc and another girl/enby person in the group find love and comfort in each other.
maybe they also see betrayer girl, fully turned, turn her bf into a mutant too after he tries to run away from her- i imagine there's this whole background plot of betrayer girl realizing that the betrayal wasn't worth it, because her bf would never try to help her or even mourn her, and fmc would have, but its too late now. then, fmc has to kill both of them, and realizes that she could've saved herself the heartache if she never met and agreed to help betrayer girl in the first place, and now she has to mourn not only her, like betrayer girl knew she would, but also what could've been.
this is either a really long book/movie/first season, or the first installment just takes you on this really long journey to get to know fmc and betrayer girls relationship with each other, only to crush your spirits last minute and leave you on a cliffhanger for who knows how long until the next installment picks up where it let off. the terrible part of me loves option b lol
merlins magic is obvious to the general public but they cant tell if arthur is acting oblivious to it bc hes in love with merlin, or if he is genuinely oblivious to it (because hes in love with merlin).
like, im talking multiple people have straight up asked/told arthur abt merlins magic and hes in tears laughing every time because theres no way its true. he finds it so ridiculous that he never even bothers to tell merlin abt the situation.
like, merlin fully does not know how common knowledge his magic is to camelots citizens. the people of camelot cant decide whether to be mad at the favoritism or thankful for the obliviousness and generally try not to talk abt merlins occasional and (as far as theyre concerned not at all powerful) mild magic use.
had an idea abt a scream/scooby doo crossover where stu (somehow. miraculously.) survives and (i imagine maybe billy had a back up plan hidden somewhere in case things went sideways that stu knew abt bc billy is the plans guy, not stu) carves out a new identity as shaggy.
shaggy, who is a couple years younger than stu and a couple grades below, where he gets scooby and meets the mystery gang and graduates and becomes the one thing nobody couldve imagined stu could be- a total coward who both runs from danger and is actively apart of a group of world renowned mystery solvers who help people and specialize in uncovering criminals in masks.
world renowned being important, because theyve eventually gotta at least be drawn to or invited to help with the latest case of ghostface murders (whatever movie depending on what peaks the fancy and how old/experienced the mystery gang should be), and would have to run into at least one or two faces that stu would know but shaggy absolutely would not.
cue shenanigans where shaggy has to be as loveable cowardly goofball with a talking dog and a blackhole stomach for food as possible so nobody involved with the whole ghostface deal thinks he could ever be anything more than a doppelganger of stu, and so the rest of the mystery gang (who literally solve mysteries for a living) dont connect any pieces themselves.
stuff could probably be thrown in abt how stu deals with missing billy, and about how stu copes with his murderous tendencies as shaggy, and whether or not that coping mechanism particularly works when hes actively involved with a ghostface case for the first time in a while.
idk this crossover always intrigues me because it has some good parallels of both being chill guys (who probably both smoke weed) and have both been played by matthew lillard, but one solves masked mysteries and the other is the cause of them. like, shaggy is close enough to stu where its not the most challenging difference, but shaggy is still a very obvious difference that people wouldnt think stu capable of. shaggy is super kind and compassionate, best friends with a dog, and loves to eat, but is also a very afraid man who still helps people despite his fears. i just love the idea of shaggy just being there acting completely normal and the ghostface victims who knew stu being completely freaked out abt it.
spideypool aus are so hard to do and are often weirdly cast.
sometimes i come across a spideypool au where its your fav ship as spider-man and deadpool and i always have two many thoughts about it. its just always so hard to do correctly while making it seem in character for all characters involved, and it makes me a bit frustrated.
im aware its probably a stupid thing to be frustrated by, and that aus are aus and fics are fics and nothing has to be true to character or whatever, but ive just never thought it made sense and this is just a rant for fun anyways.
examples:
steve harrington/eddie munson (steddie obvs). people make them into this au and always make steve spider-man and eddie deadpool, and i think it makes sense reputation wise, but i dont think it makes sense morally.
eddies whole plot point felt like it was kinda abt how how people perceive him as a freak and hunt him down for a murder he didnt commit, and he kinda freaks out abt even the idea of him actually murdering someone- like, it feels like he literally would never, but thats deadpools whole thing. deadpool never really has moral dilemmas abt killing someone in that type of capacity.
meanwhile, while steve has only ever had a hand in killing literal monsters and losing fights with actual humans, i feel like he would have less of a problem than eddie with the concept of murdering someone.
bakugo katsuki/izuku midoriya (bkdk). obviously, same schtick of the one with the worst reputation (bakugo) being deadpool, and the one with the better/shakier reputation (midoriya) being spider-man, with both not really making sense morally. (shakier ofc meaning that within their peers they were viewed as one type of way at the beginning of the show and then viewed a different way gradually over the course of the show.)
bkg talks a big talk abt threatening to kill people and wishing death upon midoriya, but when hes kidnapped by the villains because of his violent quirk/attitude, its pretty obviously figured out that he could never kill like they do because his ultimate dream is to become the number one hero and killing instead of detaining is obviously not the way to do that.
midoriya, obviously, had his whole vigilante arc, and while i dont think hed point blank kill someone, i think he got a lot closer to actually doing it than bakugo did.
obviously i could sit here deliberating which one out of both examples has more of a dark/crude humor (dp) or more of a punny humor (sm), or which one is probably not worrying abt money (dp) and which one definitely is (sm), but my general conclusion is that deadpool and spider-man feel too nuanced to make into an au, and that neither of either pair fit enough to make it feel in character.
that all being said, this is just a pointless rant that doesnt matter, and this post is for fun just as much as the au itself, the people that write it and draw it and consume it. i just come across the au occasionally enough to have opinions on it that i figured id write them down.
Something lost in my drafts from when I watched Sleepaway Camp. Immediately thought of them when I saw this baseball scene and this particular dialogue.
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