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A friend asked me to extend one of those and add a tub so here we go

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The gang all together 👍

Sketch v final + refs below!

First pic was reffed from My Own Private Idaho, which ended up being a really bad idea because this focal length was ridiculous to try and flatten out and match with the others lol

Second pic was obvi The Pieta by Michelangelo, but shoutout to my partner for suggesting the role reversal cause I was initially gonna draw Viktor in Jayce's arms again, but having it the other way around gave me the idea for the last piece where they're mutually in each other's arms and on equal ground in the composition

Third pic was reffed from The Blossoming Of Love by Miquel Blay! Had to move Jayce's hand to Viktor's shoulder because he was too yolked for his arm to fit between them lmao

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making friends via fandom is inherently hilarious because in many ways it's like a regular friendship and sometimes you'll share stuff that's going on in your lives and offer support and talk about food or pets or random cultural stuff because you live on opposite sides of the damn planet, but also some of your interactions are like "hello beloved friend whom I cherish deeply, I have brought you a deceptively platonic gift of lovingly crafted star wars porn"

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Stobin heckling hellfire meetings like statler and Waldorf

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Thinking about mid-20s Steddie that meet on a dating app. Eddie adds Steve because he's hot as hell, and Steve adds Eddie because — even though his profile doesn't have a picture of his face — his bio is interesting and Steve is just curious enough to talk to him.

They hit it off, and Eddie tells Steve that he can't put his face on his profile because of his job, but he does send Steve a picture and ohhhh boy this man is so fucking hot.

They decide to meet up that weekend and the instant connection is so clear, so undeniable, and they agree to try dating right then. Steve learns that Eddie travels for his job as a musician, so they're probably going to be long distance for a while because there's a tour starting in just a couple of weeks.

Steve doesn't mind, and is actually excited to not really worry about diving into sex with someone for a change — he's used it as a crutch for failing relationships in the past, and he knows it will be good to build something emotional with Eddie first. They do manage to get in a few dates before he leaves, and Steve can't remember the last time he had so much fun during the early dating stage.

It's hard once Eddie leaves, having to manage texts and phone calls and video chats around their schedules, but by the time Eddie is halfway through his tour, Steve is pretty sure Eddie is The One.

Steve tells his friends about Eddie, how they met and what Eddie does, how he likes the same things as the kids do (kids, they're fucking 21 now but they'll always be Steve's kids). The problem is that— most of them don't believe him. He gets a few jokes about his "boyfriend from Canada" and tries to tell them that Eddie also lives in Indy, he's just on tour, but all he gets is a couple of condescending looks.

When he gets permission to show Eddie's pictures to the kids, they really don't believe him. "Steve," Dustin says. "That's the front man of Grammy nominated band Corroded Coffin. I think you're being catfished."

"I'm not being catfished, shithead! That's my boyfriend!"

"Yeah, sure. If he asks for money, don't send it."

Robin is basically the only one that believes him, because she's been around for Eddie's video calls before. She tries to help confirm it to the kids, but they pass the video calls off as deep-fakes. Steve finally resigns to just let it be, and takes the lingering jokes while expressing his frustration to Eddie.

Eventually there comes a weekend where Dustin asks Steve to hang out but he can't, because Eddie is coming back from tour and Steve offered to pick him up from the airport.

He doesn't expect Dustin to kind of explode on him, to tell him that this is going too far and he's worried about Steve's well-being since he's clearly being naive about this whole scenario. Steve is hurt but says that he doesn't care if Dustin doesn't believe him, and they'll talk later because he has a boyfriend to go collect.

Later, once he's picked Eddie up and they've had a couple rounds of steamy reunion sex, Steve sends Dustin a picture he took earlier of himself and Eddie at the airport, before turning his phone off completely.

"You're not even gonna give him a chance to respond?" Eddie asks, grinning as he presses a kiss to Steve's bare shoulder.

"Nah. He's spent months trying to tell me that I was being fooled, so he can stew on this for a few hours."

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people have said good things about you behind your back, without your knowledge. people have shared their love for you with others.

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this was a doodle that got out of hand

(i had so much fun with the details pls look at the high res version afdfdfh)

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Partners sketches

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went to a metal festival recently and got inspired :'))

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If you ever feel like you don't contribute to fandom because you "only" comment—

A regular serial commenter just joined a fandom Discord server I'm on and people are coming out of the woodwork to thank her for her service to the fandom, expressing how much joy her comments on their works bring them.

Remember—they're never only comments.

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"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

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I kinda want a soulmate AU where on your eighteenth birthday your soulmates last name appears somewhere on your body

But in this universe Steve gets adopted by Hopper and changes his last name after high school

On his eighteenth birthday Eddie finds Hopper written on his neck and is so confused because the only Hoppers he knows are, the chief of police (who’s almost busted him for drug dealing multiple times not to mention several years older) and his daughter (who is much younger and definitely not his type (guys))

Steve has Munson written on his hip and he knows it’s probably Eddie but he doesn’t bring it up because Eddie probably hates him for who he was in high school

Then one night post Vecna they’re in the back of Eddie’s van out by the quarry and they get on the subject of soulmarks and Eddie asks about Steve’s

(Because he’s been slowly falling in love the last few months and even though it won’t be his name on Steve he still needs to know who the lucky person who has Steve as a soulmate is)

And Steve goes quiet

Eddie’s just about to start apologizing and backtracking when Steve pulls up the hem of his shirt

Munson

Right on his hip in deep red letters

Eddie just stares trying not to let his feelings show

“What’s the matter”

Unable to come up with words Eddie moves his own hair and twists his neck to show Steve his soulmark

“Oookay, why is this a problem?”

Finally Eddie can’t take it anymore

“Because it’s Hopper and not Harrington! Because the only Hoppers I know are the chief and El, and it’s definitely not either of them! Because I wanted it to be you! Because I love you!”

By now Eddie’s full on crying and Steve’s comfort instincts take over and he pulls him onto his lap rocking him back and forth until his sobs dissolve into hiccups

“Would this be a good time to tell you that Hop adopted me and my last name is no longer Harrington?”

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peter gabriel’s ‘in your eyes’ plays in the background