#dusteddie

[allsunshin3]

Steve, Dustin and Eddie's dynamic really just makes me laugh. Steve is SO jealous of Eddie. Grown ass man being salty because his best friend has another best friend. He hates him. Little does he know that Eddie is equally jealous of Steve, because Dustin is constantly talking him up in front of Eddie. They're both insanely jealous of each other and Dustin lives in blissful ignorance.

[audisodd]

Me when I remember that Steve is CANONICALLY jealous as fuck over a dead man for an entire year and a half because of Dustin:

[crashoutqueenstevie]

who's talking about the steve/dustin/eddie love triangle in s4 but specifically that it's dustin at the center of this triangle? like its genuinely so crazy to me how that is just. literally what their storyline is. steve is so insanely jealous of eddie its incredible. i know eddie literally says "guess i got a little jealous, steve" ABOUT DUSTIN but steve is also soooooo mad the whole time bc he thinks dustin thinks eddie is cooler than him, and wants to spend more time with him (oh your new best friend who you think is cooler than me?)

dustin unable to breathe in fear during the boathouse scene as he watches one of his crushes try to kill his other crush.

also lets get nancy involved bc all of that is so crazy too. steve feeling rejected by dustin so he retreats to the familiar: pining after nancy and then dustin has the nerve to then call him out on flirting with nancy. dustin quoting sherlock holmes at steve who then immediately turns around and tries to quote the same line to nancy. okay steve, what was your thought process there?

that one shot at skull rock where dustin and eddie hug passionately while steve looks on in jealousy and gives eddie the barest courtesy nod bc why isn't he the one getting to hug dustin :(

and then we get to the upside down where eddie decides to have the weirdest conversation with steve where he a) projects hard onto steve b) admits he's jealous of steve bc of how much dustin talks about how great steve is (sidebar: i love that this means that dustin is glazing both of them to the other lmao) and then c) decides to talk up nancy. it's giving, let me encourage steve to chase after nancy so that dustin is free for me to pursue

ugh and then after all of that, steve deciding (against his better judgment) to let eddie protect dustin when that's steve's role, begging both of them to not be heros bc steve knows that if eddie dicks around then he's going to jeopardize dustin's safety. and then eddie goes and dicks around and gets himself killed

and then this means that steve is walking around s5 more jealous of a dead man than when he was alive. fucking delicious.

anyways eddie won the battle (confessed his love to dustin first while dying for him) but steve won the war (mutual suicide pact love confession and riding off into the sunset together)

my boy dustin really out here living the ya girl protagonist dream of having two older men obsessed with you and he doesn't even realize it.

[queerfables]

Sometimes my fyp delivers me posts bemoaning the fact that Dustin ships are not more popular and like. Obviously I sympathise. Obviously. But these posts then go on to list a bunch of ships with other party members and listen, I can tell you exactly why Dustin ships are rarepairs and it is not just the intersection of reasons people don't find him attractive. It's because ever since the end of season two, all Dustin's most significant relationships and all his most emotionally resonant moments have been with people five years older than him.

If people weren't so scared of age gap ships, the top two Dustin ships by far would be Dustin/Steve and Dustin/Eddie. These are the characters his story revolves around! I'm not saying the party is unimportant to him, they've been his best friends since forever, of course he loves them and they love him. But if we're talking about who he mostly shares the screen with and where the most interesting drama is, that's Steve and Eddie all the way down.

My point is not that you should be shipping dusteve or dusteddie. My point is that most people won't. So for Dustin, the relationships with the strongest foundation in canon are ones most people will never consider romantic, and the age appropriate relationships people think of as options are ones with minimal canon content. He just has no broad appeal romantic candidates, since all his screen time went to characters people won't ship him with.

And yeah, the unfortunate upshot is that Dustin ships will probably always be rarepairs.

Can I interest you in some Dustin gen? We have a pretty good gen scene round these parts.

[procyonloser]

Eddie stepped out of his van, boots crunching on the gravel below his feet. It hadn't been this busy at work since before the mall had been built; so, he supposed to made sense that after it collapsed, customers returned to his brick and mortar store. He walked down the long driveway, reaching up to tighten his ponytail, as the summer months were heating up again and stringy hair stuck to his neck was not the look.

He glanced over into the side yard, and nearly tripped over his own feet. A young man was next to their pool, in nothing but a fairly small pair of swimshorts. The young man looked up, noticing he was being stared at, and raised his hand to send Eddie a small wave and smile, before going back to- cleaning their pool?

"Okay," Eddie said to himself, turning his attention on the house.

"Dustin? Light of my life? My muse, my companion through the Shadowfell? My partner-"

"In the study," a voice called back to him down the hall. The study. The study that looked out over the garden and pool. Okay, Eddie repeated to himself. He made his way down the hall, and found Dustin at his desk, writing out notes, and make rough sketches. He was no artist, not in the classical sense, but Eddie's work would be lost without him. He had no idea about composition, framing, dialogue, but Dustin did. It's why they worked so well together.

"Hey," Dustin smiled up at him, eyes crinkling as Eddie leaned down to kiss him. "I love when you have your hair back. Makes a good handle."

"Maybe later," Eddie said, before fixing him with an expectant look. Dustin just blinked at him owlishly, but Eddie knew it was a ruse. They hadn't been together for fifteen years for Eddie to not be able to see through the puppy dog look.

"What?" Dustin asked innocently, as though he wasn't a 33 year old grown man.

"Love, why is there a barely dressed twink in our yard?" Eddie asked him, and while he trusted Dustin to never cheat on him, it was still not at all what Eddie expected to see upon getting home.

"Twink?" Dustin repeated, as though he didn't know the word. "Oh, you mean Steve? I hired him as our new house keeper. We talked about hiring someone, remember?"

Eddie nodded his head repeated, feigned agreement. "Right, right, yeah. And you decided on... the twink."

Dustin just rolled his eyes, and while Eddie loved him to helheims gate and back, the guy had an attitude sometimes. A tone.

"I went to pick up a few movies, and I heard him trying to get a job there. Or, rather, he was firmly rejected, and his girlfriend was trying to argue to get him said job. They'd both lost work from Star Court collapsing. I just... stepped in and asked if he had experience cleaning, cooking, pool work. He did. So..." Dustin trailed off with a shrug, but that was a pretty big shrug for what he'd actually done. They had been looking for a live in house keeper. Eddie was expecting a nice grandmotherly type, not... Steve.

".... So, the twink." Eddie repeated, and Dustin let out a puff from his nose.

"He's barely a twink, Eds, he...he has chest hair and he's 19." Dustin said quickly, clearly pulling at straws.

"Babe," Eddie said softly. "He looks like if Bambi was a human, who was also a gogo dancer."

Dustin finally dropped pretenses, shoulders falling. "Okay, maybe, but... Is it that bad to have someone around who can do the job and is nice to look at?" Dustin looked out the window to where, Jesus Christ, Steve was on his hands and knees getting something out of the pool drain.

"It's a little creepy, my gentle bard." Eddie said, reaching over to cup his cheek. "But, you know I can't deny you anything."

Which, was exactly why they weren't unaccustomed to finding a third from time to time. When they first started dating, it became pretty clear, pretty fast, that they both leaned dom, though neither of them was super picky on topping or bottoming. But, as Dustin was getting older, his tastes were changing. His taste in wanting to dom and top were more common, and Eddie had no issues with watching his boyfriend fuck another cute guy into the bed.

"I don't want to fuck him," Dustin said, like he could read Eddie's mind. "He's Daniel Harrington's son. He's just... attractive."

"Eugh," Eddie immediately reacted. He'd been closer in age to Danny in school than Dustin had been, and the guy was a stuck up dick. Now that Dustin mentioned it, he could see the similarities between Steve and Danny. "Hopefully he doesn't act like-"

"Excuse me?" Steve's head peaked into the office, and Eddie jumped slightly. Hadn't he just been outside? Oh, he looked even nicer up close. Broad shoulders, little waist, nice ass, thick thighs that looked soft from tanned skin and soft brown hair. "Hi, Mr Henderson. Uh, you must be Mr Munson? My friend Robin is a huge fan of your store and your comics. She loves, uhh, what was her name. Daphne?"

The lesbian character in his comics. Interesting. "Thanks, nice to meet you." Eddie told him, sending him a small wave. "What's up?"

"I unclogged the pool, but the water levels are all off. I was going to get the chemicals out of the shed, but it's locked." Steve said, shifting from one foot to the other, hand on his hip. "Do you have a key?"

"Yeah, of course." Dustin said, standing up quickly, and smiling brightly at Steve. "Let me help you out, I can show you exactly where everything is."

Eddie sent him an amused look. Maybe he should have felt more jealous that Dustin was eying up Steve, but honestly...it was kind of cute.

He supposed it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to have Steve around.

[bylertruthr]

official results of me and parents’ favourite characters, least fave characters and fave platonic/romantic ships of the show after finishing ST4:

dad’s favorite characters:

1- nancy, 2- dustin, 3- steve

dad’s least favourite characters:

1- max (WHAT), 2- mike, 3- robin

dad’s fave ships:

1- PLATONIC dusteve, 2- PLATONIC dusteddie, 3- stancy

mom’s favourite characters:

1- steve, 2- hopper, 3- eddie

mom’s least favourite characters:

1- ted, 2- suzie, 3- vickie

mom’s favourite ships:

1- platonic stobin, 2- PLATONIC dusteddie, 3- PLATONIC dusteve

my favourite characters:

1- will, 2- mike, 3- robin

my least favourite characters:

1- jason, 2- ted, 3- angela

my favourite ships:

1- byler & lumax, 2- jancy, 3- platonic elmike

[alehskeating]

AS I WAS TELLING YOU HARRINGTON, IF YOU GO BACK WITH NANCY WHEELER, I CAN SPEND MORE TIME WITH DUSTIN.

A WIN, WIN😌💚

[danndrea]

You know, if you're reading: How soon is now? (One of my dusteve fics for the fest).

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If you're interested in knowing how Chris was conceived, weeks ago I posted this fic: Come crawling faster. (It's not dusteve but it has Eddie because you know, he's Chris's dad) Those who are reading me already know that.

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Be kind.

Besitos💋