My writer is still working hard on the fic that goes with this for the @strangerthingsreversebigbang so think of this as a teaser for when @tedewitt manages to get across the finish line ! I know you can do it lovely!
So watch this space for more art and the story link when it goes live !
Pez has been sitting on this art for forever. I appreciate them so much while they give me time to get everything finished during a truly terrible year.
After they're out, Shane and Ilya record a lifestyle video together for ESPN. ESPN is chomping at the bit: no one can imagine Racecar Rozanov and Hockey IQ Hollander's life behind closed doors, and they want the exclusive.
The crew shows up totally unsure of what to expect, charmed but surprised when it's Ilya opening the door in a tank and sweats and dramatically sighing, "Is meal prep day."
They spend hours filming the couple navigating the kitchen, arguing over how much salt to put in their egg cups, talking about how they learned to cook together when they first made a real go of their relationship.
Shane keeps his hands busy and his eyes focused on his prep work, and that makes it easier to talk about the murky grey area between healthy food choices and disordered eating. Ilya just rubs his back and mocks how he's dicing the bell peppers and keeps calling what he's wearing his "unlucky sweatpants" until Shane hits him in the face with a spatula while mumbling something about tuna melts.
Surprising exactly no one, the video goes viral when it drops on YouTube. It explodes on socials, with thousands of people stitching together Ilya saying "is meal prep day" with videos of their own meal prep, their healthy habits, sharing their own journey to loving food and treating it as fuel and not punishment. They use the tag #eatlikehollanov and it trends immediately.
Ilya's favorite part is when fans start to battle over #eatlikehollanov - the food posts get overtaken with videos and photos of them out at social events, serving cunt and generally looking like top designers battle it out for who gets repped by The Gay Wonder Twins of Hockey (which they do, and stop calling us that, we're married you perverts).
Then Shane and Ilya are spotted at a bar making out in a dark corner and everyone remembers these two probably spend 30% of their waking hours eating each other alive, and suddenly it's #eatlikehollanov munch munch munch yum yum yum.
The Centaurs jump on the trend, sharing their own food prep videos with increasing innuendo. Luca Haas turning bright red while eating a glazed donut gets 3 million views, but Troy really breaks the internet by eating a banana while maintaining eye contact with the camera the whole time. Harris threatens to replace the Kiss Cam at games with #eatlikehollanov and Shane tries his hardest to crawl into a corner and die because he just wanted to share how he protein loads, you guys, why did you have to make it so weird.
Scott Hunter helps not at all by making blueberry and banana smoothies with Kip. Shirtless.
ilya is so “rage bait and fuck with you” husband and also he’s very “ahhh shane it’s a spider get it get it” husband
and shane is very “carry me to bed and im passenger princess ipad baby” husband and he’s also “im going to fix things around the house with my bare hands and chop wood manly style” husband
the wife in the relationship is the friends we made along the way (the centaurs) ❤️
The silent conversation between Tommy's brothers when he announces that he's dating Carol because like, what the fuck. They already agreed to accept his gay ass just for him to date a girl? They workshopped what to say when he admits he's in love with Steve for nothing??
Steddie but it's handwritten and after Eddie finds an out of it Steve who, unbeknownst to the freak of Hawkins, had just been getting his pretty face beaten in at the pursuit of saving said town.
Surprise @svalinnside I am your Secret Santa for the @steddieexchange . It's Christmas themed and I'm a bit late, but I hope that's okay. The rest of the story will be out soon. I'm aiming for weekly drops. Enjoy!
There exists exactly one universe where Robin accidentally outs Steve.
It's the one where Eddie, alive but heavily injured, is hiding out in the radio station spending his time arguing with her over whose the better DJ.
(It's him, obviously.)
Alongside Robin, he grows close to Will, until the younger Byers finally works up the nerve to admit his very-not-straight crush on an unnamed someone. Eddie, who sympathizes immediately, rests a hand on Will’s shoulder, gives it a gentle squeeze, and says:
"It's alright Byers. We've all been there. Pity Harrington's the straightest man alive, right?"
Robin, in a knee-jerk, instinctive reaction, frowns and loudly protests; "Steve's not straight."
Eddie stares at her.
"What?"
"You've seen how much hair spray he goes through in a month, how on earth did you think he was straight?"
“Uh,” Will says, confused and unfortunately caught somewhere in the middle. “It’s not—my crush isn’t… um. It’s not Steve?”
"You can't call someone a queer just because they like hairspray, Starbuck."
"You can when it's Steve. Seriously how do you not see it?"
This argument will go on for twenty minutes, in which Robin will defend Steve's alleged queerness with her life while Eddie pokes hole after hole in it, until the man himself walks into the room and Will Byers, with the level of bravery people keep forgetting he possesses, looks him dead in the eye and asks;
"Robin says you're queer too. Are you?"
And Steve will wheel on his platonic super bestie in full offense, not because she outed him, but because; "What the fuck Robin, you said I wasn't that queer like, two days ago!"
"Different circumstance." She says immediately.
"Different--," Steve sputters, "You said that sweater was way too gay for me!"
"Because it was!"
They proceed to have another argument, and by the end of it all that's been accomplished is Will realizes that while he may have more queer people in his circle than he first thought, they're all insane.
I felt like I didn’t write a lot this year, but when I look at my completed list, I see a lot of hard work. I’m very excited for next year and I’ve got a few secrets coming up!
at this point no one is surprised we're already half way through the next month when i post my monthly fic recs.
✂️ ✂️ 15 STRANGER THINGS FANFIC RECOMMENDATIONS UNDER THE CUT (mostly steddie but also some mungrove and byler) ✂️ ✂️
Edge of Twenty-Seven
by @the-inspector-jones
steddie | mature | 38,296 words
second chance romance with burnt out rock star eddie / dissatisfied in life normie steve
Icing on the Cake
by roguesgallery
steddie | explicit | 5,822 words
omegaverse, mating service, unconventional omega eddie munson
Pack mom Steve
by Iliketoeatass
steddie | teen & up | 33,232 words
omegaverse, protective bamf omega steve, mutual pining
Unknown Number
by @billyharringson
mungrove | explicit | 19,962 words
florist billy/tattoo artist eddie, domestic abuse survivor billy
SABOTEUR
by @pukner
steddie | explicit | 34,224 words
dead dove: do not eat, cheating, rape, everyone is terrible
Meat Cute
by @tinytalkingtina
steddie | explicit | 1,595 words
frat boy exhibionist steve / drug dealer eddie
Lost Boys
by @hellfireloserclub
steddie | mature | 37,644 words~
the not lost boys au but also not not lost boys au
(steddie bang, i did art & art for this, and beta read it)
Living in a Lunar Spell
by @mysteriousxmidnight
steddie | explicit | 41,754 words
post upside down friends to lovers, oh and steve is a wolf shifter
(steddie bang, i beta read this)
Counting All the Stars and Waiting for the Dawn
by @starshideurfics
steddie | explicit | 46,290 words
historical omegaverse
(steddie bang)
King For A Night
by orphan_account
sapphic steddie | mature | 20,508 words
sapphic, modern/2010s au, high school prank trauma to lovers
(accidental re-read)
Path to the Rainbow's End
by gayhandshake
steddie | explicit | 17,225 words
post getting out of hawkins sexuality crisis eddie, trans stevie
(accidental re-read)
The Pollywog
by @medusapelagia
steddie | mature | 2,327 words
transmasc steve, pregnancy
(last stop hawkins)
Eye Of The Beholder
by @entanglednow
steddie | explicit | 22,542 words
naked pictures, masturbation, pining, yum yum yum
5 times there was a snowball and the 1 time it became an avalanche
by TheChipLife7
byler | not rate | 5,895 words
mutual pining, st5 spoilers
Pirin Tablets at The Ruby Slipper
by @tedewitt
steddie | explicit | 30,900 words
birdcage au w/ drag queen eddie & drag club owner steve, farce <3
(steddie bang, i did art for this)
