#(jeff)

[jeff-offical]

What if I am five gay rats? What then?

[ilyasmole]

can't go to sleep in the hr fandom bc you'll wake up 6 hours later and suddenly ilya has a komodo dragon named Jeff living in his bathtub

[ryonello]

i want that shark out of my game please

[offbeatrinkydink]

Loosely inspired by this post from @whereismymonsterlover about Steve being the Yoko of Corroded Coffin.

The first time Steve shows up at a Corroded Coffin practice, he's pretty sure he's the problem. It's a familiar feeling for Steve so he just accepts his presence as a major distraction for Eddie and thus the cause of strife within the band that particular night. However, the fourth time Eddie stops mid-song to steal a kiss, Steve dodges out of the way, moving to a back corner of Garrett's garage as he mumbles, "just pretend I'm not here." He usually only gets to see Eddie strumming at his guitar when he's working on a song, half singing broken lyrics as he furiously writes and then crosses them out. He never actually gets to see him play so he just wants to watch his boyfriend in his element

By the third practice, Eddie and the rest of the band have completely forgotten that Steve is in the room. Like a fly on the wall, he watches as they waste the first hour of practice, shooting the shit, not even bothering to tune their instruments until Garrett's mom sticks her head in and says something about it "being awfully quiet in here for band practice." As a result, the last two hours are spent trying to cram as much practice in as possible. If anyone attempts to take a break for any reason or, God forbid, messes up, Eddie grinds practice to a holt, screaming "does anyone else even care about this fucking band? This is metal! Jesus Christ, show some fucking respect!" It's the first time since they started dating that Steve finds something he doesn't really like about Eddie so he decides to change it.

At first, he's pretty subtle about it. Steve resets all the clocks in the trailer so they're 15 minutes fast. That combined with Steve's insistence that they leave early gets Eddie to band practice with plenty of time to chit chat while Steve subtly plugs in the amps and hands Warlock to Eddie to idly tune as they talk. After practice, he saying things that he used to hear his coaches say, like "you know, all the guys really look up to you. You're like their leader and good leaders lead by example."

This all only gets him so far, Eddie tones down his language but he's still acting like a dictator, not realizing that even he needs to take a break, get a drink, and most of all, eat something. The next time Eddie unloads his gear from the van, Steve removes the cooler he'd packed. Everyone makes fun of him at first, "who brings snacks to band practice." But half way through the second hour, when everyone's patients is at it's end, Steve pulls out the orange slices, peanut butter-filled celery sticks, and string cheese he brought. "I haven't had ants on a log since I was like 5," Jeff exclaims, snatching up half of the contents of the Tupperware.

The last hurdle to overcome is scheduling. They're supposed to practice a few times a week, Eddie would prefer three times, but everyone else has stuff to do. By the time they're packing up and trying to settle on the next practice date, it ends up being a week away or sometimes more. Finally, Steve talks to each of them, figures out their individual schedules and settles on set practice dates and times.

With everyone getting along and double the practice time, Corroded Coffin starts to sound really good. So good in fact, that the next time Eddie, Steve, and Robin go to their favorite gay bar in Indianapolis, Steve can't help up talk them up to anyone who will listen.

"Well, of course you think they're good," the Manager says with a roll of his eyes. He'd only been talking to Steve cause he was so cute but he was kind of over it now that he knew he had a boyfriend.

"No, seriously, I hate that kind of music but unfortunately, they're actually really good," Robin groans, against her better judgement. She'd never wanted to develop a taste for Corroded Coffin but over the last few months, if she'd wanted to hang out with Steve, that usually entailed also hanging out with Eddie so she'd tagged along to a few practices and, much to her chagrin, she'd started to like them.

"We don't really play that kind of music here. It's not very danceable!"

"Yeah, but you have theme nights, right? And have you see how metal fans dress? Lots of leather... well, not lots if you know what I'm saying," Eddie said, shooting Steve a flirty wink.

And that's how Corroded Coffin booked their first professional gig, paid and everything. No one gave Steve credit, he wouldn't take it if they had, but deep down, Eddie knew they couldn't have done it without their Coach.

[garnetdawn]

got into Rivals for Stephen but i got captivated by this little powerwashing shark as well

[incomprehensible-phasmid]

Adapting to human behavior

[jinxpiperxd]

"You always get the best candies!"

Did some Jeff and sally. I suffered with the perspective and had to re-do this twice, but I got it...i guess.

Hope you enjoy