#jarglye

[robbinthemblind]

Sigh miss him

[anarcoqueer1994]

Steve's parents were definitely Reagan Republicans mainly due to his fiscal policies that allowed them to exploit people and make more money. But that also means whether superficially(or worse genuinely) were part of that "moral majority" bs. So imagine Steve, late middle school aged being stuck going to some fundraiser event his parents are hosting during Reagan's first election campaign.

He would have to sit and listen while people alluded to "family values" and other euthanisms for being anti-queer. And Steve may not always be book smart but he is not stupid. His parents and all their friends were affirming that him liking anything but women was wrong and gross and un-American. So he hid the fact that he liked guys in his class as much as girls. Focused on only his romantic feelings for girls. Wouldn't shut down Tommy when he made homophobic remarks even though it killed him because not only had Tommy been his best friend since the 5th grade, but he had also been his first crush.

But as he got older, and grew close to The Party and the other older teens, he started to feel like maybe his parents were wrong. Maybe people like he and Robin and Eddie and Nancy and Jonathon and Argyle and the kids deserve to be themselves, deserve to love whoever they want. And eventually he finds his romantic soulmate in Eddie, and they are so happy together.

Meanwhile, his parents left Hawkins permanently after the "earthquake. Ended up selling the house, sent Steve some money for a security deposit and first month's rent, and barely have kept in touch since. It's okay, Steve talked to them in obligatory phone calls a couple times a year. He doesn't really miss them. They haven't particularly been there for him most of his life. He and Robin (and later Eddie and Nancy who move into their respective partner's rooms) share that apartment and are happy.

So imagine their surprise in 1988, when they turn on the TV, they see their son on TV kissing the Munson boy at a protest in Chicago over the government's response to the AIDs epidemic. Standing next to them is all their friends, many in queer relationships of their own. Eddie is holding a sign saying Silence=Death, and Steve’s sign simply says "Fuck Ronald Reagan" And that's how his parents found out he was queer and that he hated Reagan.

[ao3snowbutterfly]

I think out of the ones I haven't seen yet, I'm most intrigued by Stonathan + Jargyle for the WIP ask!

Hello, lovely!

Here are the vibes: (Jancy are besties, and Jon is single) Steve had been crushing hard on Jon for a while when he moved to Cali. He comes back, Argyle in tow. Jargyle being Jargyle, no one is sure if they're dating or what. Steve is jelly and goes out of his way to try and woo Jon, spending a ton of time with the pair, trying to drive Argyle away.

But Jon is oblivious and Argyle is super chill, so it's not quite working. In fact, Argyle is super nice and gentle and great, and he gets why Jon likes him so much. Argyle, meanwhile, is happy to have another chill bro with awesome hair that's fun to talk to, and they get Very close.

I imagine it as a 3-way 'they didn't know they were dating' almost. Each in the throuple assumes the other two are in love, not knowing they're part of it, while everyone looks on this mess not really sure what's happening.

Endgame Stongyle (? Is that the name) This trio has so much potential and it is underutilized.

[foodiewithdahoodie]

Always enjoyed s4 showing the Byers brothers comforting their besties. Jonathan calming Argyle down while Will uplifting Mike. Cali plot was my fave just for the dynamic alone

[thewrongmoon]

There’s something so funny and also sweet about jarglye being friends when Jonathan is pretentious and intellectual but shy and argyle is more fun loving and lives in the moment and outgoing. But at the end of the day they’re both quirky in their own ways and unafraid to be different and be themselves. UGH they’re so they’re so theyre so

[strangerblogs]

nah cuz like the fandom's completely stretched out and oversaturated eddie's canon personality. I feel like the scene in the cafeteria (and the bigboy scene maybe) is what ppl latched onto the most- and it just overrode every other piece of dialogue he had.

in general he was very chill and laidback (arguably quiet), but the fandom's characterized him as being completely unhinged- like he's got bursts of it ig but that's not all he is . it's kinda weird ngl. I also saw a take that said jargyle's dynamic is what the fandom wants steddie to be? and i kind of agree

idk folks are just very weirdly obsessed with eddie and it really puts me off with the way they're warping his character to fit their narrative- same story with steve too tbh

I totally agree, Eddie is a great character I don't deny that, but like my mans isn't the "quirked up white boy" everyone plays him out to be and we wouldn't even get to know if he could be

I and i do agree with the jargyle comment, people would just rather ship the two cute white boys together than the person of color and the not conventionally attractive man, because the stranger things fandom is just fucking terrible

[thewrongmoon]

jonathan and argyle end up forming a ska punk band together in college that makes the worst music you've ever heard. if you even care.

[foodiewithdahoodie]

Just thinking about how Will got annoyed that Argyle needed to get stoned cuz Cali Gang was burying a dead body. Argyle was rightfully freaking out and Jonathan was trying to calm him down the best way he knew how cuz that's his bestie.

Like did Will forget that Mike was literally calming him down too all of s2? Will's out here claiming his sibs Jonathan and El don't got friends, and when Jonathan finally does get a friend who's ride or die cuz he's driving them to Hawkins in his van, Will gives a little teenage attitude that Jonathan is performing best friend duties cuz Argyle's new to this violent lifestyle.

It's so funny to me. Will, sweetheart, you were once an Argyle and Mike was comforting you and being mega protective. It's like Byler and Jargyle can't see that their paralleling each other. If only Will knew he's like Argyle, in the fact that both of them were stuck giving out relationship advice to their best friends who have a lying problem.