#( ft. steve harrington )

[jus-let-me-read]

"Where's Nance? Is she busy or something?" Steve asked as he loudly, but smoothly climbed through Nancy's window, a lot more gracefully than Robin had done.

Robin shrugged. "She's either yelling at Mike or ruining another pot. She's still trying to learn this dish her mom made way back when, and the pots are going through absolute hell."

"Geez, is her cooking that bad?"

"Well," Robin paused, "let's just say it could be a lot better."

A familiar static noise came from Robin's walkie talkie that layed on Nancy's bedside table. The familiar noise slowly turning into Nancy's clear voice. A shiver ran down Robin's spine as she awkwardly smiled.

"I can hear you two, you know. You aren't exactly quiet."

"Oh no," Robin mumbled, stifling a noise as Steve's reaction was making her laugh. "I've been caught." Steve's own laugh being infectious as he covered his mouth to muffle it.

"If you must know, I am cooking and the pots are completely fine, Robin." A fake stern and bitter voice was heard, as a random noise went on in the background. "I thought you enjoyed tasting everything I make, but if it could be a lot better than-"

"I'm sorry!" Robin broke, blurting out the apology as she haphazardly reached for the walkie talkie. "I love your cooking and I'll always be your taste tester, even if the half the stuff you make is slightly burnt." Robin finished, briefly pausing to glance at Steve before looking back down at the device in her hands.

"Over," she quickly added, just as Steve audibly sighed and visibly ran a hand through his hair.

She heard a giggle over the receiver and smiled at the sound. "Wait, are they actually burnt?" Nancy asked, her tone shifting to genuine worry. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was just nice to see you that dedicated over something," Robin admitted. "I am honest when I 'critic' your food. It just makes me happy to see how passionate you are over this. And I just want to support you in whatever, you know?"

Nancy couldn't resist the unconscious smile pulling at her cheeks. "That's very sweet Robin, but I don't want to feed you burnt food. I want to make dishes that you enjoy."

"I'll enjoy anything you make me," Robin said earnestly. "Except if it includes some nasty shit, or like something I'm allergic to," she added as an afterthought.

[spectrum-spectre]

Steve Harrington would absolutely love Matchbox Twenty. I said what I said.

[th30ra3k3n]

i was thinking just one time maybe the stars align.

and maybe i call you mine and you won’t need space or string me along while you decide.

and just one time maybe the moment is right.

it’s 8:05 and i see two headlights.

[acowardinmordor]

This idea really only works as a tumblr post rambling to someone about a fic, but it aches, so I'm sharing.

Standard issue setup where Steve gets thrown back in time so he can fix things. One minute he's trying to keep the last of his friends alive in the final fight, the next he's waking up in bed in 1983, a day before Will would have gone missing.

Will is safe and home, but has horrible nightmares for a few weeks. After the first night, when he told his mom and his friends about it - the monster and the creepy place he went and the cold - they have nightmares too. It's strange that they all had dreams, but Will has always been a good storyteller.

Nancy and Barb get stuck on babysitting duty for the kids, where they mostly gossip about how Steve broke up with her one day and became a social outcast within two more.

The Party meets Jane at the start of summer break in 84, and they become fast friends. They know she has something bad in her past, but she's very careful not to say something she shouldn't. The boy who found her told her it was important, and her Dad agrees. The boys tell her that friends don't lie, and she quotes the boy who found her first, that 'safe is more important'

Will gets new nightmares as time goes on. Dustin dreams about a tadpole that grows too fast and eats his cat. They dream about things that could never be real, and they dream about Jane having superpowers and fighting monsters. Sometimes they talk about them a little, mostly they don't. They're just weird dreams after all, using words from DnD, and they're not little kids anymore.

Steve Harrington goes missing in early 1985. His car is found near the construction site for the new mall -- well, what's left of the construction site after a gas leak causes a massive explosion and fire.

That's when the kids start to realize something is weird. They see photos of this missing teenager who has been in so many of their dreams. It starts them talking, and they start to listen, and they've always loved to solve a mystery. They hear Nancy talking about him, and how he broke up with her out of nowhere and became super weird. How he dropped out of sports and showed up with bruises and bandages and scars after that. How he pushed away his old friends and never made new ones.

It's not until they're talking to El, who says she's not supposed to talk about him, that they decide there is definitely something weird, but they can't figure out what it is.

The dreams get weirder, and the circle grows. Nancy eventually talks to Jonathan and the kids. Joyce and Hopper talk. Over the summer, Robin, confused and shaking, finds Nancy to ask what's going on. Eddie makes it to 86 before a nightmare breaks him so badly he calls Chrissy Cunningham's house in the middle of the night to be sure she's okay.

It's not everyone who was ever touched by the Upside Down. Barb and Chrissy and Billy don't remember it at all. Benny goes about his life. Its the people that Steve knew and loved and had a connection to that are stuck with these dreams.

Once they accept that they're all seeing a cohesive thing, they start to compile it. Notes and notebooks and pinboards and post its as their dreams tell them the story.

Eventually, El confirms it might be possible by levitating the toaster.

They all accept that what they saw is real, but they also know it never happened. The Mall never opened. No earthquakes. Eddie is alive and Will never fell into the Upside Down. Even as more of them have dreams about dying, they don't understand.

It's Robin who puts it together for real, because everyone had dreams about Steve outside of the big fights and horrors, but she had dreams of long conversations and hushed confessions all the time. So at the end of 86, she's the one who hears him crying after they lost Dustin and Lucas to a pack of demodogs. She hears him talk about how he'd give anything to take it back and make it right. That's her Platonic Soulmate, and she knows him, even though they've never spoken.

So yeah, she might not know how, but she's the one that realizes what must have happened, what he must have done, and how much he achieved. They've all seen how much happier he was as years went on and they got closer. They've seen him protect them and tease them and help them in a hundred different ways.

And they know he made the choice, like he always did, to keep them safe, even if it cost him everything.

[steveha1rrington]

"if this is the choice you want to make, steve ... then so be it. but you'll find out soon enough that you're wasting your time. and don't expect to come crying to your mother and i when these people see you for who you truly are."

[redeemed-wren]

Every single character I have ever obsessed over falls into one of four categories:

Kid with no one in his corner who's used to looking after himself realises that (often despite his best efforts) people actually care about him and he has a support system.

Older brother type vibes who is the comic relief and painted as dumb or clueless but actually has deep insecurities and is so so smart in other ways and has a fiercely protective streak.

Young (though not always) woman who has been through a rough time and has Trauma but is still strong and refuses to let her past define her and makes an effort to be kind. (this character tends to become part of my soul)

Loser man become dad.

Also bonus points to trope voted Most Relatable but is never my favourite character:

5. Kid who has had a reasonably trauma-less life compared to friends and feels a bit like a sidekick and maybe doesn't consider their problems worthy when their friends have been through so much more

[jonathanbyersphd]

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A continuation of this post

[ghosttotheparty]

something in the back of my mind

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It’s silent when the door shuts behind Wayne. Except for Eddie’s soft breaths. Steve gazes down at him. It’s getting dark now, the room dim except for the silvery twilight that makes Eddie glow a little. 

“I heard that, you know,” Eddie mumbles, and Steve’s face flushes with heat as he realises what Eddie’s teasing him about. Well actually I have a huge crush on you. Steve tugs his hair a little, watching Eddie smile. 

“Go back to sleep, baby.”

“M’kay.”

Eddie sighs, nuzzling into Steve’s lap, and Steve watches. His heart aches. He’s never felt like this before, almost claustrophobic with it, like he suffocating on his own affection. He wonders if he’s ever actually been in love before. 

He didn’t feel like this with Nancy. It was intense with her, of course, but not like this. He didn’t feel like he was dying a little bit every time he looked at her. It didn’t feel like the world was ending all over again. That’s what it feels like. The end of everything, unavoidable. Like his heart is being ripped straight out of his chest, and Eddie is holding it in the palm of his hand, and Steve is trusting him with it. 

He would let him do anything with it. Squeeze it until it stops beating. Lift it to his mouth and drain it dry.

[snnydcysa]

@theha1r liked for a starter

“remember  the  farm  you  got  me  for  my  birthday?”  sonny  questioned  as  she  rocked  back  and  forth  on  her  feet,  “i  turned  it  into  a  winter  wonderland  and  the  animals  love  it!”

[asbealthgn]

I was talking to @infinite-orangepeel and have been thinking about my fic Near Wild Heaven again. I’ve been rereading it and I honestly still think it’s my favorite thing i’ve ever written even if not a lot of people read it. so here is my little self promo asking you to read the fic if you’re interested ^_^ (excerpt below the cut)

The sun was setting up ahead. The truck was filled with orange light. Steve knew that he really should have been better about keeping his eyes on the road, but his gaze kept drifting sideways to Eddie, the setting sun washing over him. He was so fucking beautiful.

They were still listening to Steve’s mix. They listened to Half a World Away, The Same Deep Water as You, Disintegration. He turned the volume up once Near Wild Heaven came on.

“Whenever we hold each other,” he sang along, “We hold each other. There’s a feeling that’s gone. Something has gone wrong. And I don’t know how much longer I can take it. House made of heart, break it. Take my head in your hands and shake it in this near wild heaven. Not near enough.”

Throughout the song, two primary emotions were warring inside of Steve.

The first was a sort of melancholy. It stemmed from knowing that Eddie had no idea how Steve felt, and probably wouldn’t feel the same way if he were to say something. It stemmed from the fear that Steve would be shut down if he did confess. It stemmed from the fear that he would never have the courage to.

“Whatever it takes, I’m giving. It’s just a gift I’m given. Try to live inside, trying to move inside. And I always thought that it would make me smarter but it’s only made me harder. My heart thrown open wide in this near wild heaven. Not near enough.”

The second emotion was elation. Steve had been thinking about Eddie for the past five years, even longer, and now here they were, together. Eddie was a few feet away, hair and face golden, faint smile on his lips as he listened to the music. He was radiant. If this was all Steve could have, just watching Eddie, he would settle for it. 

Anything of Eddie he could have, Steve would take.

[mightbeasleep]

i was watching tangled with my family and i just spent the entirety of the movie thinking how perfetc a steddie!tangled au would be with steve as rapunzel and eddie as flynn rider

[lazylittledragon]

continuation of alt dads >:))

[discodeviant]

where r the fics about eddie having a thing for steve and selling him weed at a stupid cheap discount and thinking steve likes him too bc he tends to flirt by accident but it turns out steve's actually into billy who just so happens to be a former customer who stopped going to eddie bc he started bumming off steve's supply instead since he got it so much cheaper and then they graduate and billy and steve go off to cali and eddie gets his little heart broken bc King Steve was just using him for good prices

[icksam]

hermione granger!! plus those other two. and draco malfoy?

oh! and cant forget steve harrington! the guy that’s definitely also from harry potter and not at all from a different fandom :D !

my mind is a mess of threads

[liveshauntedmoved]

Steddie

do not reblog unless @antihcroes / like for your own!

[jonathanbyersphd]

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