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[scoops-aboy86]

steddie, time travel, fluff, mutual pining pls

You have no idea how much I am struggling to think up a scenario with time travel that's FLUFF instead of angst.

(send me a ship and 3 ao3 tags and I’ll make a little scenario for it)

Okay, how about... a no Upside Down AU where Steve graduates and leaves Hawkins. He and Nancy didn't last but it didn't blow up with her getting drunk and assigning him co-blame for the death of her best friend that she feels guilty about (Barb lives) or calling him and his love bullshit. He goes to college but is bored out of his mind majoring in business like his dad wanted, so he switches and studies to become a sports physical therapist instead. He still swims competitively but basketball is just for fun. He kisses at least one guy in college. He graduates. He meets a nice woman, they date and get engaged.

The night before his wedding Steve goes to sleep wondering if this is the life he wants. If he would be happier if he'd done things differently.

He wakes up and it's 1983 again. He's seventeen and remembers what happened in 1983's yesterday like it really was yesterday, but he also still clearly remembers being in his thirties and the perspective that came with all that life experience. It's... weird, he's kind of an adult in a teenager's body but not quite. He's got a note that yesterday's 1983 Steve wanted to slip into Nancy's locker today for their third meet-n-makeout in the bathroom.

Instead he goes to school and just sort of watches all of his peers, people who he simultaneously sees every day and hasn't spoken to or thought of in decades. He can see both with the clarity of hindsight and, you know, actual awareness that Tommy Hagan is a jerk and Carol Perkins is not nice and it's because they're so insecure they've turned climbing over other people to feel good about themselves into core aspects of their personalities. And he can see that Eddie the Freak Munson is the only one in school who really calls out and pushes back against that kind of thing, and that he (mostly) all bark and no bite, and collects lost, picked-on nerds to take under his wing, and is creative and opinionated and complex and... really cute, actually.

Steve doesn't know if this state of being old and young at the same time is a temporary thing or if he's really going to have to relive the entire second half of high school and the ensuing decades, but figures he has to assume the latter. He tries to talk things out with Tommy and Carol—probably shouldn't be surprised when they roll their eyes and start blowing him off. He tries to curb some of the bullying on the part of his fellow jocks, and is actually moderately successful. He spots a flyer for Corroded Coffin playing at the Hideout, goes on an impulse, and finds that he recognizes a surprising number of the covers they play from his "adult" memories. Eddie spots him in the sparse crowd and does a double so hard he promptly falls off the stage.

Because, unbeknownst to Steve and even to most of Eddie's friends, Eddie has the biggest crush on Steve. Mostly it's just been a physical attraction, but in recent weeks it seems like the King has turned over a new leaf and started being a reasonable human being. And now Steve is here, at a metal show? Looking surprisingly appropriately dressed for the occasion and also like he's actually having fun?

Steve rushes to help Eddie up and uses his future background in physical therapy to help him stretch out the leg or elbow or whatever Eddie banged up in his fall. And suddenly they're... kind of friends. Which is so weird. Eddie's bandmates are weirded out. Steve's friends at school are so baffled they just kind of ignore that it's happening. But Steve keeps showing up at Eddie's picnic table in the woods, sometimes to buy but mostly just to hang out and talk and... sit kinda close while making earnest eye contact... Sometimes their hands brush, and sometimes they share a joint between the two of them and that's, like, practically like their mouths are touching.

Basically, Steve has a perfectly fine life but then he also gets a chance to start over but with the knowledge that he can kiss guys and how to not be kind of a douchebag in high school, and he and Eddie Munson are going to end up kissing about it.

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[solarmorrigan]

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📷 What’s set as your phone’s lockscreen?

Books! Because I figured I'd just lean into the stereotype

Specifically, this picture:

[sidekick-hero]

thanks to your tags now im imagining Steve just has an entire collection of shorts with various messages including "I'm sorry", "I'm still mad at you", and "It's your turn to do the dishes"

Hahaha I assume you're referring to this post?

I absolutely agree. I think it starts as a joke. Like, maybe even Eddie starts it when Steve comes home one day to find a pair of tiny black shorts on his side of the bed with "Good Boy" written in white letters on them and Eddie comes up behind him, arms wrapped around his waist, his groin pressed up against Steve's ass, murmuring hotly in his ear, "I know how much you like to hear it, so I got you a reminder that you're my good boy."

Next, it's Steve who surprises Eddie, who has been ignoring him all day in favor of planning his next campaign. So Steve walks past the couch where Eddie is sitting, hips swaying, before knocking one of Eddie's huge nerd books ("it's a monster manual, Steve") off the table. As Eddie looks up, clearly annoyed at being interrupted, Steve bends over to pick it up, his ass right in Eddie's line of sight. He's wearing nothing but tiny orange shorts with green letters that say "It Ain't Gonna Suck Itself". Steve is right - Eddie is going to suck it.

But then it also bleeds into less teasing territory. I can imagine Steve getting the "I'm sorry" first, because he doesn't know how else to bridge the newfound distance after their fight, the silence so oppressive that all words leave him before he can utter them. When Eddie gets off work, Steve is standing outside the record store, wearing a warm hoodie because it's November, and plain royal blue boxer shorts with white lettering that says "I'm" on the left thigh and "sorry" on the right. He's shivering in the cold and Eddie wraps him in a tight, warm hug, chuckles in his ear and kisses his cheek. "Me too, sweetheart. Let's get you home, yeah? I'll warm you up."

And so begins his collection. He adds "I'm still mad at you" when Eddie forgets his birthday and goes on a road trip with his band instead. Eddie makes it up to him, of course, and swears he'll never forget again. And he doesn't, because right on the outside of his left thumb, where the joint starts, he gets a tattoo with the date of Steve's birthday.

He also gets Steve a pair of underwear that says "It's your turn to do the dishes" and promises to do them whenever Steve wears them. It's a pink lace panty, and Steve wears it at least once a week. He really hates doing the dishes.

[strangersteddierthings]

Claudia Henderson for character bingo

How interesting! Thanks for the ask :)

[redrosydiaz]

Favorite color combination?

oooh i think im gonna have to go with peach and teal! those are the colors of my bedsheets and the decor in my bedroom haha

[slimygreaseboy-art]

First in an upcoming series of @tododekubigbang posts! This here’s a bit from @apomaro-mellow’s fic Through The Viewing Glass, which I strongly recommend you check out because it’s so friggin good and cute and lovely dhhdjejfjvj

[strangersteddierthings]

lumax for ship bingo

Thanks for asking!! I adore Lumax <3

[pochayun]

Happy birthdayyyy!!!! <3

thank you!!