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“In a way they were the first you die I die” I laughed out loud. Relationship built on mutually assured destruction with the wheeler parents
Mike hated him so much in the first two seasons and I hope they never got ever the 'you're the asshole who dated my sister' beef, it's so funny
I'm writing a fic and included Steve's interrogation trauma because of your post.
I had never thought about that being the reason he freezes up in the job interview. Such a great catch! I wonder under what other scenarios this particular trauma could affect him.
Ahhhh we love to hear it! Seeing these tiny, easy to overlook details get included in fics is always such a delight, no matter who saw them first. (I'm sure I wasn't the first to notice, it's almost been 6 years)
But I've been thinking about it while waiting for my laundry and came up with more.
The only other potentially canon one is in s5 when he's trying to break into the fray with his beanstalk idea. The moment all eyes are on him he gets very uncomfortable, although he pushes through it once he's got his props in hand. (It's probably more him being self conscious after being called an idiot all season/series, but I count it.)
Any situation where he can't escape being questioned probably triggers it. Cashier being extra chatty at the grocery store? Loud truck behind him at the drivethru and he keeps getting asked to repeat himself becuase they can't hear his order? Nosy but well meaning old woman next to him in a waiting room? Etc. Probably not enough to trigger actual panic attacks, but definitely some moderate anxiety, 'I have to get out of here' unease.
He probably hates doctor/dentist appointments now, for various reasons. Multiple people asking him the same questions, often a second person observing while said questions are being asked. Being confined and restricted, even if not physically strapped down like they were in the bunker. Needles. Avoids going as much as possible, drags Robin (or Dustin while Robin is in college) along when he can't.
Calling a customer service or government agency line would likely be a nightmare. He'll be spared the automated menus for while, but there's still that gaslighty million question runaround like you're doing the person/people on the other end of the line a massive inconvience by existing, and they're determined to discover that you're just lying to them for whatever reason. Constantly getting transferred to other apartments and repeating the same information over and over and over.
Also a nightmare- getting pulled over by a cop that isn't Hopper and really wants to play hardball. THAT probably leads to genuine panic attacks and him being an obsessively careful driver so it doesn't happen again.
Mileage varies on this one, but if you're in the head trauma/hard of hearing camp, it could show up around be party. Someone asking him a question, he doesn't hear/understand it, repeating the question until he's suddenly rambling about working for scoops ahoy? Or just in general gets disproportionately frustrated and upset about it because it's two traumas in one.
Also mileage varies and maybe not an issue since he's an adult when it happens, but it could lead to further degradation of the relationship with his parents. Fully dependent on your own headcanons for them, but there's lots to play with there.
Your tags about angles are so right. SO much of s4/5's framing is very, very centered. Ironically a lot of the framing in s4/5 that aims to be more cinematic leads to the show looking more cultivated/fake than grounded and realistic like earlier seasons
(3 is kind of it's own thing. It's very much trying to be a summer blockbuster)
S5 is particularly bad. And it's not just stranger things- i know the Netflix version of avatar was particularly bad at it. There's a whole trend of shows and movies being shot almost vertically? You could stick bars on the side of the screen and miss almost nothing. Constant shots of characters dead center looking straight into the camera. Ensemble conversations where each character is alone in the frame, cutting back and forth as if everyone was swapping out from the same chair and not organically spaced around the scene. Or, worse, everyone is standing in a completely unnatural line, side by side, and still facing the camera. You can stare at the center of the screen and miss nothing.
They did it a little in s1 and s2, but it was intentional back then. Done to achieve something specific and not to keep the second screen audience up to speed.
I can't deal with it. It's why I haven't been able to watch Sinners despite people endlessly praising the cinematography. Maybe it gets better, but the 20 minutes I got through was just more of the same. Dead center, straight on to the camera, bland boring nothing with the anamorphic lens that makes everything blurry and distorted around the edge of the frame.
Sentence prompts: It took him a disturbingly long time to realize that the wetness coating his hand was not in fact water.
Oh man I couldn't think of anything for this one for ages, but then I remembered drunken teenage parties. However, I will NOT be contained to 5 sentences. Posting it before it gets any longer
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It took him a disturbingly long time to realize that the wetness coating his hand was not, in fact, water. Not the ocean he'd been walking in, hand in hand with the girl with clips in her brown hair, watching a trio of kids splash ahead of them. Reaching down to pick up a shell, feeling the Pacific and if he was really there, warmer than any pool he'd ever swam in. Hot, almost. And smelling like-
Dumped back into reality, Steve scrambled out of the way so fast that he crashed right off the edge of bed and onto the floor. Head pounding, he squinted up at the overhead light to see Tommy H standing over where he'd just been, still wearing that damn Burger King crown as if he was anything special for making homecoming court. Pants unzipped, hand at his crotch, dribbling onto the mattress as he howled with laughter.
"What the hell, man?"
"I told you he'd think it was piss!" More laughter, this time from whoever was watching from the other side of the room. Energetic enough to suggest he was still drunk, Tommy hopped down to reveal an empty beer bottle. "Hair of the dog, lover boy."
"Why's it hot, and where-" Suddenly remembering why he'd been in the bed in the first place, Steve hauled himself upright, fighting gravity and his own churning stomach. It was a wasted effort. The bed was empty apart from a dark circle where the beer had soaked into the blankets. "Where'd she go?"
"What, you expected her to stay? After getting fucked by you?" More laughter, almost painfully loud with the hammer in his brain. Tommy slapped him on the shoulder, the impact making his teeth clack together. "Hate to keep telling you this, Stevie, but you gotta last more than fifteen seconds."
Flopping back to horizontal, Steve screwed his eyes shut, took several deep breaths to settle the spinning, and held up his middle finger for all of them to see.
"Fuck off."
"Don't forget to clean up your mess."
"Fuck you."
"You might have to once you scare off every girl in the county."
"Get out."
"You see what I have to deal with? Just a miserable bastard nowadays, can't even take a joke anymore." Tommy's voice faded away as they all left the room, hopefully heading off to harass someone else. "Little Andy was more fun than him, and he didn't even last until midnight!"
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Send me a first sentence prompt (and maybe a character to make it more specific) and I'll eventually write at least five more!
Saw your tags on a post. Are you ALSO a tlou2 fan?? 👀👀
If tlou2 has no defenders, I am dead.
It makes me so sad that so many people refuse to engage with the actual story, especially Abby's section. They never get to know Lev! My boy Lev! Hell, forget Abby, they don't even want to discuss Joel and Ellie being anything but 'happy fun father-daughter times in Jackson', even though their estrangement is the most interesting part about them.
Also I kind of said it in my reply to that ask, but how you feel about cinematography as an art form right now is how I feel about both set dec and blocking lol. Let people move around a real space and do things!! Let them interact with things!! Also stop throwing everything on a green screen, omg, bring back physical sets. AND stop making so many sets look so polished. Where's the gak???
Proper blocking is like. My favorite thing ever. Even if it's static and they're all just sitting around a room, done right it can actually tell you something about the characters and their dynamics! And it's just! Dead now!
I use blocking in my *writing*! Text based media! I'll still physically build out the scene and where everyone will go because I will NOT have them standing around doing NOTHING the entire damn time. I wanna know where we are! Where we're going! (How did I not put Interstellar on that list what is Wrong with me)
Do not get me started on everything looking too clean. Do. Not.
Erica/Dustin?
I can't decide on this one. I'm not opposed, but I also think they're a little TOO similar, ya know? And it can be hard to break out of the 'you're my friends little sister' mindset.
Platonically though? Hoo boy. Watch out, they're an unstoppable force and you are in their way.
For the character ask game:
Steve Harrington
1. Why do you like or dislike this character?
7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?
8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?
26. What's something the character has done you can't get over? Be it something funny, bad, good, serious, whatever?
My SON!!
1. Oh man, I spent all morning trying to come up with something I dislike about him, but I really don't think I have anything? Like sure he has flaws and unlikable traits, but that's also *why* I like him ya know? But I guess if I was gonna name anything, it's the way he often gets bogged down in his own hurt and stops listening to what is actually being said. It's like he tosses all of his emotional intelligence out the window
(Edit- just realized that question says WHY do you like/dislike and not WHAT do you like. I can read I SWEAR)
7. Love how the fandom is obsessed with Joe Keery. The Steve gifs are in vast supply
8. Really can't stand how as a whole it was decided that he's horrifically abused at home, instead of the somewhat neglected spoiled rich kid that he is
9. Him waking up in the backseat of the Camaro will live in my head rent free forever. It's the best.
