Sep 24, 2024
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The surprise
He's Got Soul
<Hear me out- Steddie with a Julie and the Phantoms vibe. Ghost Eddie who died in the 80's and Popstar Steve living in present day.>
-> Ao3 <-
*Now a FULL FLEDGED FIC* (Posting all 10 chapters as they're edited, so far Chapters 1-5 are now live)
Steve is a budding pop star fresh out of high school in present day, a rising star, signed and rolling out his first album soon. But he's not happy.
Because the record execs have taken all his original songs and given them to producers with the note to "make them top of the chart hits" and the producers have taken all the heart out of them to be cookie cutter pop bullshit. Steve doesn't like it but he's listening to everyone around him who is telling him this is just how it works and he'll be a huge star, the songs are still his, they're just "more universally palatable" going to get him "selling to the right demographic".
One night Steve runs away because he's not sure he made the right choice and wants to quit the music industry before he even really got started. He ends up back in his little home town, in the empty house his parents left to him when they moved away from Hawkins when he was finishing his Senior year of high school. And he doesn't like the feeling of being in this cold and empty house that he grew up in, that even after being vacant for a few years, feels exactly like how it did when he lived here. So he goes for a walk into the woods.
He ends up finding a picnic table and realizes he walked almost all the way to Hawkins High. He lays down on the table and cries a bit and then he starts singing one of his songs, but how he originally wrote it.
"Wow, someone's got the Blues." Eddie startles Steve. "Sounding good though, that's some real soul you got there."
Steve sits up and panics a bit, looks around and sees Eddie in his Hellfire Club shirt, black ripped jeans, pretty wild 80s hair band curls, and silver ringed fingers, leaning up against a tree across the clearing.
"Oh, I didn't realize anyone was out here. Sorry, I shouldn't even be here." Steve jumped down off the table and turned back the way he came.
Eddie appeared right in his path, "Wait, NO! You can SEE ME?!"
Steve screams and passes out.
When he comes to, Eddie is leaning over him staring at him with a goofy smile.
"Well that was a little dramatic, but I can't blame you for swooning at my good looks." Eddie smirked and fluffed his curly locks.
"Oh my God, what happened?" Steve grabbed his head, saw Eddie reach out a hand to help him up, reluctantly reached for it. And when his hand went through Eddie's like a mirage and felt like icy spiderwebs clinging to his skin, he stared at his hand for too long and back up to Eddie, his heart pounding in his chest so hard he could hear it in his ears, Steve felt like he might pass out again.
"Oh, sorry. Yeah, not really corporeal anymore. That's my bad. Hold on Pretty Boy, don't pass out on me again. You're the first person who's been able to see me in ages. I mean there was that weird bald girl in the late 80's just after I died, but since then it's been pretty boring around here."
Then they find out pretty quickly that Eddie is attached to Steve and can't really disappear from his sight for long or he starts to feel like he's gonna fade away. So they're stuck together.
Steve finds out Eddie was a budding rockstar with his Metal band Corroded Coffin in the 80's that in present day has a cult following. People have dug up every original recording from their gigs and immortalised them on the internet. Steve was never into Metal but loves their music and thinks Eddie is a genius songwriter.
They end up working on music together and falling a little in love because their souls are just two halves of the same sandwich.
But Eddie finds out Steve is going to be a cookie cutter pop star and HATES IT. He tries to sabotage and poltergeist everyone around Steve who's pushing him and trying to force him to conform and change. And he lectures the shit out of Steve about being true to himself and standing his ground and not selling out and losing his soul.
Steve feels seen and finally heard but frustrated because he's stuck, he's under contract, he's scared that he won't get to live out his dreams and share his music with the world if he doesn't listen to the people in the industry. And Eddie is sabotaging his chance and ruining his opportunity.
And so they fight.
Steve tells Eddie to leave him alone.
And Eddie does.
But when he doesn't come back Steve gets worried.
Eddie is staying away because when Steve said he should go he got punted all the way back to his old haunting grounds in Hawkins. And now he can't get back to Steve and the longer they stay apart, he is fading away.
Steve is scared because he doesn't think he can do this without Eddie. Eddie brought out the best in him and made him stronger.
So Steve tries to go back to Hawkins because he feels he's being pulled there and knows he has to get Eddie back.
But he gets stopped by his manager who is telling him he can't leave- he has commitments, the music execs are expecting him, and if he doesn't go to this meeting he's going to get dropped, his album will never roll out, and the songs he made will be owned by the label so he'll never get to put them out.
Steve straightens his spine, tells his manager he's fired, and he WANTS them to drop him. Those songs aren't his anymore anyway. And he'll be fine because he is a real artist and they can't take that away from him.
He gets to Hawkins and goes to the picnic table in the woods behind the high school because that's the where he met Eddie.
And Eddie's not there.
But Steve feels him.
Steve opens up, pouring out his heart, and confesses his feelings for Eddie. How he wishes they'd never fought and he didn't mean it. Eddie was right the whole time and it may be too late, but Steve finally heard him- he finally stood up for himself. And he doesn't know what he's gonna do without Eddie. He feels like he's missing half of himself.
Then Eddie walks out of the woods smiling like a loon and doesn't stop until he lands lips first on Steve's face, kissing the daylight out of him.
Steve pushes him back, shocked speechless, gives him a searching look as his hands connect to real, warm, LIVING flesh- running up Eddie's sides, his shoulders, his neck, even twisting a curl around his finger.
"Boo!"
Steve jumped, smacking Eddie in the chest.
"Sorry, sorry, I know this is a shock, but my fairy godmother came back and made me a real boy again. She said she couldn't do it when she was younger because she didn't have full control of her powers yet and also I had to meet my soulmate so my soul was anchored to this plane again." Eddie explained.
"Soulmate?" Steve shook his head, wide eyed, massive smile overtaking his face.
"Just go with it." Eddie laughed and Steve jumped him- pushed him onto the picnic table and climbed on top of him to make out with his new, real ghost boyfriend soulmate.
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How do you set the timeline of your TMNT stories?
If you're writing a version of the turtles that takes place significantly in the past (say, before 2018), like the original 1987 series, the 2003 series etc, do you write your stories in present day or do you keep it in the timeline of the show?
I typically write mine in the timeline of the show. It means I sometimes have to do research but it makes it feel more authentic to me.
I'll read either one though!
Which do you prefer?
How do you set the timeline of your TMNT stories?
Present Day
Timeline of the show
I honestly don't think about it 😅
Technics Chronicle
The Technics brand originated with the release of the Technics 1 speaker system in 1965. Here we present the legendary models that created the history of Technics, as well as the unique technologies that impacted the hi-fi audio world at the time.
SL-1200MK2 (1979)
The First Standard Turntable in the Disco Club Scene
The SL-1200MK2 is the first standard machine in the disco club scene. The original SL-1200’s quartz lock enabled even more precise rotation control, and with the arrival of the SL-1200MK2, the turntable evolved from a “player” that plays records to an “instrument” that plays records.
Protective Parallels (IsaMantha)
Their Friendship Really Went A Long Way :3
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