emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo whose eyes were perpetually shadowed with slept-in black eyeliner and chronic insomnia. He looked like he'd never had a good night's sleep in his life, and survived entirely on caffeine and Zoloft. How he managed to blitz through all his courses, no one had any idea.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who was smitten from the day you complimented his ratty Pierce the Veil shirt. Yeah, Choso is enough of a loser to catch feelings over a minuscule interaction. But you're so fucking cute, he can't help himself.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo whose attendance is 100% for the course, and for a good reason. Quiet and painfully introverted, he gets to class extra early to pick a seat in your near vicinity. If he's lucky he'll catch a whiff of your perfume as you walk by to get to your seat. Don't worry about the bulge in his pants, its not everyday he gets to see a girl as pretty as you.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who curses under his breath when he hears you're already taken. Fuck, he should've figured. No way a girl like you would be single. But what really makes the matter worse is that he knows the asshole that you've been seeing - the resident campus hotshot. Choso sits in the library and seethes while he watches you two flirt. If only you knew how much of a rake that guy was, and how much better Choso would treat you if you'd only give him the chance, god damn it.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who's so far gone, he doesn't even care if you have a boyfriend. He thinks of the stupid guy like a placeholder, someone to set the bar low for him to absolutely blow you away. Choso ruins his sleep schedule even further smashing through his studies early, making sure he has time to extensively stalk your entire social media.
The music you like? He's got it playing on repeat because he found your Spotify. It wasn't hard, he's tech savvy. In fact, your favourite band is touring in a couple months. Wouldn't hurt to buy two tickets, would it?
That cafe you frequent? He stole a cup lid out of the bin when he was trailing you on your way home. Yeah, he knows your order now. Strong almond cappuchino with no sugar. He bets that your piece of shit boyfriend never bothered to find that one out.
Your digital footprint? You wouldn't rest so easy at night if you knew how easy it was for Choso to dig up your entire life on the internet. Your house on Zillow, your Music.Ly account from when you were twelve (don't be embarrassed, he thinks its super cute), extensive birthday shoutouts for your friends, every post you like and interact with. He's just being a good (future) boyfriend and getting to know you as best as he can.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who is so freaking shy, you don't even realise how horrifying obsessed the cute nerd in your Introduction to English Lit class is. You asked him for the date once and his bloodless face flushed entirely pink. You thought it was super cute, but he went home mortified.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who searches up porn videos of girls getting head to learn how to do it for you. He's woefully inexperienced, but he wants to know at least something before hopefully getting with you. He's determined to be a better fuck than your current piece of shit boyfriend, by whatever means.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who keeps a voice recorder running whenever you two are in class sitting together. He just wants to keep a note of how lovely your voice sounds, and have something to finish to when he goes through his nightly ritual of combing through the extensive photo gallery he's cultivated of you.
emo!nerdy! Choso Kamo who swears that Christmas has come early when you break up your boyfriend, whose downfall he's been praying on since the semester started. He hears you crying in the library to your friend - "and right before finals too, what the fuck is he thinking?"
Choso would never do anything like that to you, wouldn't even cross his hopelessly devoted mind. He grabs his bag with a gleeful expression on his face, formulating a plan to talk to you.
Yeah, he's never actually gotten the courage to speak to you!!! Pretty girls are sooo intimidating.
an: I have the hugest freaking crush on an emo guy at my school but he has a fuckass girlfriend. help :(
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I imagine Steve genuinely doesn’t think about Eddie, like at all. Besides the occasional “what is he yelling about in that table” or “ Munson actually showed up to class” or once in sophomore year he thinks “how much does Munson charge for an ounce of weed? Would he take a $50 for an ounce” which causes Eddie to wait around all day at the picnic table wishing for some shmuck to offer $50 for just an ounce, but no one shows up (Steve had to go pick up Dustin after school and didn’t want him to find weed the weed when he inevitably starts going through Steve’s car)
The lack of soulmate thoughts really irks Eddie, because he knows his soulmate is in Hawkins, but he never thinks about Eddie, like at all??? Positively or negatively?? Eddie jumps on more tables, he blares loud music from his van, he is in a band, he is the drug dealer for all the teens in Hawkins and all his soulmate thinks is “why the fuck did Munson double park his van, I’m going to be late looking for a parking spot now” it absolutely drives him crazy.
He eventually figures out his soulmate must be a jock of some kind because one day he hears “what is Munson doing under the bleachers?” when some sports team is let out of playing with balls practice. He is briefly heartbroken his soulmate isn’t a nerd like him, but then spends the night thinking about how a certain fluffy haired jock could play with his balls anytime.
Steve isn’t not thinking about Eddie on purpose, but they just don’t run in the same circles, so he doesn’t really think about him too much, just in a genuine, “I don’t know them, don’t interact with them, so I don’t really think about them” sort of way. Especially after befriending the kids, Steve’s focus goes to keeping them safe and being a babysitter instead of finding his soulmate.
Steve’s experience with his soulmates thoughts is completely different. Starting in middle school he heard his soulmate think he was cute which he thought was nice. As he got older his soulmate would still think he was cute, but also handsome or pretty which, he doesn’t know any girls who call their boyfriends pretty but ya know, he can roll with that. He thinks he will have to roll with a lot of stuff, since hai soulmate seems to into a…a lot of interesting things, to say the least. Steve has dated a lot of girls but none of them seemed to want to rub their face in his chest hair like his soulmate did, who also wonder is Steve was that hairy everywhere which- he was but he didn’t think a girl would want to know about that.
He would be in the middle of a basket ball game and he hit with a 15 minute monologue about how wonderful his ass looked in “thise little green shirts that ride up his ass in the best way” and how his soulmate “wanted to be those shorts” causing Steve to miss three different shots. Also with all this wildly kinky stuff and even general sex things Steve has never heard of or thought about he figures he should become more knowledgeable to better be prepared for his soulmate.
One day when Steve is cleaning up a drink he spilled in the cafeteria and heard “god Harrington looks good on his knees, bet he would look even better with my cock in his mouth” figures chances are his soulmate isn’t a girl at all.
With not much else to loose and a new door opened up to him, Steve starts spending time thinking equally horny thinvs about different guys he sees in class, just to see if they will react to what he is thinking. This is how he figures out Eddie is his soulmate.
Steve notices eddies table is getting a little rowdy, as is always does before Eddie gets up on someone’s table and he rants about jocks and preppy girls while stepping on people’s lunches, Steve thinks “what if comes over here, spits in my stretched out hole, and fucks me right next to Heathers Halloways tuna sandwich”
Eddie, whose soulmate didn’t even think about Eddie that one time his car got spray painted a fit was all the school talked about for a week, was NOT expecting that at 12:30 on a Tuesday and promptly trips on a chair and slams face first into the lunch table, breaking his nose.
Eddies friends rush him to the nurse and Steve is torn between this being a sign Eddie is soulmate or Eddie just clumsy, Steve has seen him walk into a door twice, so he don’t 100% sure. Steve decided to test this anytime he has a clear viewpoint of Eddie and starts thinking the most horny, kinky things possibly about Eddie to see if Eddie reacts proves he is Steve’s soulmate (also revenge because Steve had to go through years of Eddie horny pondering interrupting Steve during important tasks games or tests so Steve figures he should pay that forward during eddies dungeons and dorks games)
Still working on getting everything set up how I like it on Palamedes (the new laptop) and was reminded of my favorite browser extensions everyone should know about -- Unpaywall and Library Extension
Unpaywall automatically searches a database of open-access sources to let you know if an academic article you're looking at is available anywhere for free. (And yes, I know there are other ways of getting your hands on them if there aren't open-access options, but it's an easy, convenient first step in the search!)
Library Extension is kind of similar, except it's an extension that tells you if your local library (or its Hoopla catalogue, or various online sources like Open Library) has a book available in a little box that shows up if you're looking at titles on Amazon, Goodreads, or their less evil counterparts -- Bookshop and Storygraph, respectively. It even has a button that automatically takes you to the page to request it as a hold from the library instead, which I know is amazing for my "I'll look that up later [does not look that up later]" ADHD brain.
I cannot recommend these extensions enough, and the ease and convenience of both of them have definitely helped me read more academics articles and books than I would have otherwise. Definitely check them out if you're not already using them!
seeing ppl not know hey baby is a song is so sad. i thought we were all losers i just assumed we would have marching band history amongst us. i just assumed we’d all have had hey baby in our lives
