#Eddie Munson discourse

[wheneverfeasible]

Thoughts on Omegaverse…

Do you know what I think about sometimes?

Consider the omegaverse. In that universe, would that not mean that alphas, betas, and omegas are just the standard norm? As such, would those identities not also exist in every form of media as well (minus those artsy fartsy ones that purposely leave it out as a social commentary)?

Which means every bit of media that exists in that universe has to have such secondary genders attached as well. Meaning, for example, in the Stranger Things universe that such things as The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Dungeon & Dragons, Ghostbusters, etc all are omegaverse too, whether or not the sex aspect of it all is brought up in whatever media is in question.

Which also means that there is definitely fan discourse, theories, headcanons, and fanfic and fanart of people’s favorite characters either as their canon designation or changed to a different designation, meaning that there are also definitely fandom and shipping wars about this too.

��This character is canonically an alpha!”

“But it’d be real cool if they weren’t though.”

“You can’t switch this pairing’s designation for your own amusement!”

“Except I just did.”

Anyways idk imagine a modern omegaverse au where alpha Steve Harrington is fighting with some omega online about making Han Solo an omega and impregnated by alpha Luke Skywalker.

Neither know who the other is, but the initial antagonistic relationship soon turns friendly as Steve begins unlearning the biases he was taught, until eventually Steve begins harboring a crush on the strange omega boy he only knows as his handle.

Things become even more complicated when, having unlearned his biases about more than just secondary genders, he starts seeing omega Eddie Munson in a different light and, after an altercation at school, soon gets to know the older boy more and more.

What is Steve supposed to do when he starts developing feelings for Eddie also? He just can’t help that he reminds Steve so much of the boy he’s been flirting with online, k4stheb4nished.

Do you see my vision?

Oh wait, it technically is still Wednesday here. Even though this wasn’t originally supposed to be explicitly about Stranger Things, does this count as a Wiggly Worm Wednesday??

Guess I’ll tag my Hotties just in case…

Hostage Hotties (open):

@derythcorvinus @katyawriteswhump @scoops-aboy86 @dotdot-weirdlife @everywherenothere @bumblebeecuttlefishes @hiei-harringtonmunson

[eddywoww]

Just to add to the drug discourse because people are pissing me off lately (and I’ve mentioned it on discord before)

My cousin was a drug dealer by association. He was a young teenager in a very bad place, struggling with addiction. He got involved with a bunch of adults who used him as a scapegoat. He’s now in prison quite literally for life. His sentence started out around the 98 year mark. It’s gone down a few years but it won’t matter. He’s in his forties now. He went in as a teenager. Like, let that fucking sink in. My family has done everything in their power and there’s no getting him out. They barely allowed him a retrial when I was a teen.

I understand drug culture is different in different countries. I understand the want to paint everyone with a broad brush. My cousin made a grave mistake. But that’s reality. He writes poetry and studies law in prison. He’s an actual human being. Idk, people can see the way you talk about addicts. Each person is different and you don’t know every single one of them. And it’s ironic to me that a fandom so obsessed with being politically correct and moral, has no clue what real life situations look like. Or at the very least, takes their personal experiences and decides that a fictional character needs to be protected from the fake sin of being a drug dealer or doing drugs. These characters are not real but these people are.

[artbean]

@eddiemonth day 20: cryptids/folklore

if i die today, it won't be so hard / everything scares me, but never the dark / stay acting brave, but i'm too faint of heart / to pull out the thorn in my side, or: an alternate cover for the upcoming eddie novel (version without text under the cut!)

[queenimmadolla]

high thought of the night

it’s crazy to think a lot of the fandom would be sucking jason’s dick if he wasn’t so prep school-generically attractive. if he was a little more rugged, shaggier hair, maybe some stubble, his haters would have thrown every excuse in the book at his actions and i’d be seeing a lot more of x reader fics for him floating around lol

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

To the people in the Steddie tag and anywhere else,

Some people are still misinformed about Chrissy's age. Either they aren't aware of her actual age because other people have misinformed them, or they're making Chrissy intentionally younger, so that way Hellcheer looks gross. It needs to be rectified. Chrissy was not 16 or anything younger than that. She was 18 and a senior in high school. Eddie was barely even 20. They were only two years apart, and that's NOTHING. It's been said by the people who worked on the show that Chrissy was of age. If you didn't know, because someone intentionally misinformed you, you're forgiven, but if you are intentionally making this shit up to make people who ship it look disgusting, please grow the fuck up. I am a multishipper. I ship Steddie, Hellcheer, Stancy, and many others. Hellcheer is a harmless ship. If you don't like it, then block the tag and move on, but do not actively try to make up shit about it. That's not cool. And yes, I'm aware that it's not all Steddie shippers, but it's enough, and it's quite frankly, annoying.

[cringefail-loser]

tbh part of the reason why I left the stranger things fandom is the amount of hate y'all have for each other. Who gives a fuck if someone wants two gay boys dating. Who gives a fuck if someone else wants a boy and a girl to date. Who gives a fuck if someone wants both. The amount of fucking disrespect the fandom has for each other is getting ridiculous

I was on Tumblr during the peak of the fandom. Season 4 had just been released, there was more byler evidence than ever, people were crying over Eddie's death, there were theories galore, and EVERYONE was dogpiling people who didn't ship the same thing as them. I know I can't be talking. I participated in the "anti-milkvan" tags, but it's honestly just straight-up depressing seeing shipping discourse ruin everyone's fun. Why are adults in their 20s going after 13-year-olds simply because they like the idea of Eleven and Mike getting married? It's honestly incredibly childish. And to be so honest with everyone, I think the people causing the least amount of issues in the fandom are those who self-ship, or cosplay Eddie and make "cringey" tiktoks. Those are the people who are minding their own business, we should all be more like them please and thank you.

[avi17]

Oops 😅

[uglynavel]

Harringrove antis and specifically St3ddie shippers saying we only ship Harringrove because they're two attractive white men is so hypocritical as if they aren't doing the same thing.

They act like they don't remember both Joe K and Joe Q saying they weren't romantically coding anything and it wasnt until st3ddie shippers asked Joe Q over and over about the ship until he caved in and said yes.

Dude was literally pushing Hellcheer at first and admitting that Eddie and Chrissy had chemistry

Also that's not the big brained statement that antis think it is when really we all need to be sideying the duffers for casting 98% white people for this show

Like who the fuck else are we supposed to ship these characters with? It's not out fault all the main adult characters are white

[even-more-pro-fiction-jellicle]

What kind of comics does Eddie Munson read?

CW: many

In the behind the scenes video showing the Munson trailer set, we see a specific issue of Heavy Metal magazine on Eddie's bedroom floor, beside his bed

I managed to find and purchase a copy of this issue

So let's take a look inside, see what kind of stuff is in the cover story!

(Black box censors done by me, this is a graphic comic.)

Here's our heroine, Druuna, being forced to show her breasts by officials:

Here's superior lifeform mutant leader not really knowing or caring how to tell the difference between their daughters and their wives. Daughters and wives are possibly one and the same.

Just to show I'm not kidding about the superior lifeform bit:

The Mutant gets interrupted by a daughter/wife wanting to have some fun. Huge size difference, some "child-coding" you could say. Also, beneath that lower left black box is a penis. The Mutant has both breasts and a penis and testicles. I can't remember it right now but I'm pretty sure there's a specific term used for this in fandom stuff, and it's a controversial topic

Druuna engages in an exchange with a doctor to get medication. He uses some sort of unspecified device that seems to be painful:

She enjoyed it though:

Druuna immediately gets held up by thugs wanting her meds and things like this happen:

Woman gets attacked by monster and this is the response of the general populace as they all watch:

And after all this, the back cover of the magazine is an ad for a movie with teenage main characters and a child actor:

TL;DR Eddie Munson is the freak in your DNI

[kittyphoenix12-xx]

ive had enough of people saying that billy and eddie would fight each other

they!! are!!! kissing!!!

on the mouth!!!!!

[songforeddiemunson]

100% agree @somnambulic-thing, and that's a much more nuanced and detailed response than I bothered to give the subject. Moving Hellfire was not just on Eddie, and the narrative that it does bugs the hell out of me time and time again. There are many pieces on the board here.

why do people hate eddie so much?

like what he did to lucas was very very shitty. he acts all anti-conformist and then created this whole nerd vs jock mentality, but i kind of assumed it was because he was bullied by jocks so he has biases. i didn't think he was irredeemable because of it.

i need to know, im new in this fandom. what did he do?

same thing with steddie. why do people hate it so much? is it not just any ship that didnt have that much screentime but became weirdly popular? that's pretty commonplace in fandom culture. i dont see nearly as many people hating on buckingham (except for the people who hate noncanon ships but yk what i mean).

[tea-time-with-london]

i high key disgusted by the amount of fans eddie and billy get. like their only appeal is that they are white and conventionally attractive. These stans, are the very same ppl who slander Nancy and make her seem like some stupid priss and then they turn around and kin a racist abuser and a useless drug dealer who died the first time around. Like the ignore how these characters are problematic and triggering af (especially billy) but slander Nancy whose only problem is being a teenager and a woman. I bet if Nancy were called Nathan and were played by a hot man these girlies would drool all over him. Also Argyle was 100 times more useful than Eddie and Billy combined but his fanbase are the 5 brave pocs who dare to call out the obvious racism and misogyny in the show. I'm not even gonna talk abt the amount of anon hate me and my fellow billy antis get for saying the fucking truth, smh...

Confession #82

[heartbreak-sandwich]

HI, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I SIMPLY CANNOT COMPREHEND ABOUT FANDOM DISCOURSE/WANK/BULLSHIT?! It's that we all can't just enjoy things and coexist together and also enjoy and appreciate that we're all loving the same universe that our characters came from even if we like/dislike different characters???

Remember this is FICTION. FICTION!!! We are enjoying fictional characters from a fictional world and adding and building onto the things we love or want to see for them and that's fiction, too!

People aren't bad people for liking, understanding, relating to, or wanting better things for a character that resonated with them or they felt like building a new story for. You are also completely allowed to dislike a character, not agree with the actions of a character, etc. until the end of the world. That's okay!!!

FOR EXAMPLE: I think that Henry Creel/Vecna/One was obviously a deeply disturbed and evil dude. I believe that with my whole heart, but I also believe that his character was masterfully written, he was a phenomenal asset to the storyline, and I also believe that it's totally okay and sometimes even INTERESTING for people to write deeper into his character, give him a redemption arc, be attracted to his darkness because that's human nature AND THIS IS FICTION!!!

This becomes a real world problem when people become so enraged over the existence of a FICTIONAL PERSON to the point of pushing hatred and bullying onto REAL PEOPLE for participating in and loving a fandom (the same fandom as you, mind you) because that's no longer a fictional problem, and we can't rewrite the world we live in, unfortunately.

Please just be fucking nice to people, man. Why can't we all just discuss things, learn from each other, and be a part of the same world and people we all fell in love with? We're all just big nerds for a fucking TV show, and I love that, and I want to love everyone else who loves it, too.

[roosterbox]

@sinloi

I agree that all teen boys are stinky to a certain extent, lol. I remember when my older brother was a teenager - good lord. Practically needed a hazmat suit to wake him up in the morning.

But I think The Discourse(tm) stems from the fact that Eddie’s economic state/living conditions seem to be brought up more than most (that he and Wayne are poor, live in a trailer, the weed, etc.), and then the addition of people automatically assuming that he smells bad, makes it seem like it goes beyond just “teenage boy hormones.” It’s very easy for some folks to fall into the trap of thinking poor = bad hygiene.

Does that make sense? Idk man, I only tangentially pay attention to The Discourse(tm). I’m just here to ship my ships and say funny things sometimes. I’ve had enough Discourse(tm) in other fandoms to last a lifetime, believe me. Also take every opinion I have about anything ST related with a grain of salt; I still have never actually watched the show, only read fanfics, lol.

[7spaceace7]

THIS PERSON IS BASED AS FUCK OH MY GOD

HOLY FUCK I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR MONTHS

I will NEVER understand why I have had to JUSTIFY HATING JASON CARVER to REAL LIVE PEOPLE.

To add onto this in a fun way before I split my brains open, here are some of the fucking WILDEST things I have personally experienced other Stranger Things “fans” do or say:

—Argue that the Hawkins High basketball team never had bullies on it

—Moreover, Hawkins High apparently never had bullies at all according to this same guy

—“No Tigers bullied anyone until the exact moment they attacked Gareth for information about Eddie”

(WHAT SHOW HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING?!?)

—Called the books “silly headcanons”. Lol. Lmao even. Yeah, because one of the main writers for the show itself is just out here creating headcanons, as if she’s not the GOD DAMN WRITER- anyways

—Inferencing = headcanons and media literacy is only about taking the show’s quotes at face value. Apparently.

—Angela is somehow worse than Billy? What? Like dont get me wrong, fuck her, but WHAT.

—“Jason would have joined the main cast if he had known” WE LITERALLY SEE THE OPPOSITE HAPPEN but okay sure, sure

—Thinking that Robin was way better in s3 and that s4 ruined her

—On that note, generally just ableist and gross comments about Robin

—This one has happened to me irl on a few occasions and it’s weird: grown adult women at least 20 years older than me grabbing my Eddie vest to “look at it closer”, compliment me, and then speak in graphic detail about how sexually attractive Eddie Munson is. I do not know these people. I was even at work when this happened. Like BRO WHAT.

—People who genuinely believe Nancy should give up her dreams and character for the sake of “being with Steve”

—Some asshole replying to someone’s interpretation of Eddie’s “hanky code” (I like both the queer and metal references) saying that if that’s the case, they should have had him “die of AIDS” 😐

—“racism was gone by then, so Billy’s not racist, he just didn’t like Lucas” HUH WOW I WONDER FUCKING WHY THAT WOULD BE-

—Xtian weirdos (i unfortunately live in the South as of writing this) that have claimed to my face how much they “love eddie!!1!” And then turned around and sneered in disgust at me when they realized I was wearing a pentagram. This has happened more than once.

—Don’t even get me started on what happens on reddit when someone says they like two characters together. Even canon ones.

Like I know, I know genuinely that every fandom will have their bad actors. But this is something that surpasses that of normal fandom, honestly. This is the type of crowd that exists when something so loved and well made connects to so many people, but some connect simply on the grounds of it fitting their own hateful narrative.

It’s so amazing to walk into some general place and see at least one Stranger Things fan every day, but that’s not always a good thing. It’s so fucking weird.

They’ll never understand that they play the part of the antagonists in these kinds of stories, not the heroes.

saw a TikTok comment that I think deserves to be shared

[fuctacles]

April Fools drabbles pt2

Part 1 | Part 3 | @strangerthingswritersguild

nursing home au | G | 100 | Steddie-ish

Robin doesn't even look up from her textbook. "It's your turn," she says to nobody, because Steve is already on his way to break apart the commotion he assumed was another scrabble discourse between two residents. But instead of flying letter tiles, he finds a man, looking extremely out of place. Guess Mr. Munson wasn't completely delusional about his famous rock-star nephew. "I'm not leaving!" "But I promised!" They argue, and the family resemblance is uncanny. "You must be the Eddie I've heard so much about." Eddie turns and, immediately distracted, looks him up and down. "Well, hello, Mr. Nurse."

(Eddie moved Wayne into a nursing home after promising he'll buy him a house once he gets famous. He does, but now Wayne likes the place, he made friends, and likes not having to cook. Wanting to keep his promise, Eddie eventually buys the whole fucking nursing home.)

too hot to cuddle | G | 99 | Steddie

"Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope," Eddie chants, kicking away the thin sheet that's covering his body. He rolls away from Steve, and keeps rolling, until he stumbles out of bed. "Eddie?" Steve mumbles groggily, wiggling his way to the edge of the mattress. "What the hell. Get back on the bed." Eddie straight up hisses at him. "No, it's too hot. Fuck off," he says, pressing his cheek to the wooden paneling of their floor, much cooler than his furnace of a boyfriend. "'aight. Suit yourself," Steve gives up on him quickly, taking over the now empty bed.

fake amnesia | G | 100 | Steddie

Eddie blinks his eyes open to the sight of Steve Harrington, gorgeous as ever, albeit looking worried. "What happened?" "You hit your head, baby. How do you feel?" "'Baby'?" He looks around. "Where am I?" "In our house." "'Our' house?" Steve frowns. "Baby, we've been married for two years-- Oh no, Eddie, don't cry!" "We're married and I've forgotten?! I can kiss you and I just forgot?!" As they start kissing, the kids sitting outside groan. “I told you this prank wouldn’t work!” “I don’t know, it’s working pretty well for me.” Steve flips Dustin off. They aren’t even dating.

principal's office | G | 100 | Steddie-ish

Eddie expected to find a lot of things In the principal's office. Contraband, for starters. Badly hidden booze. A janitor or Mr. Higgins at worst. Not Steve Harrington. "The fuck are you doing here?!" he whispers heatedly. "The fuck are you doing here?!" "Getting my lighter back! You don't even go here anymore!" "My stupid friends got their walkies confiscated," Harrington murmurs. Eddie is stunned for a second, but then remembers they should be in and out. "Okay, whatever, let's just get the stuff and dip." As their hands touch reaching for the contraband, Steve asks: “You doing anything after?”

"i got you!" | G | 100 | Stobin

"I got you!" "Oh no, you got me," the fae in his net deadpans. "Whatever will I do." The man holding her frowns. "You could act a little more distressed, you know?" he says, reaching for a prepared fairy jar. "Why would I be distressed. My friend is going to get me out." The man snorts in surprise. "Oh yeah I'm so scared of another fairy. I'm quaking in my boots." "You should be." As if on cue, comes the noise of rustling leaves and snapping twigs. Soon, a huge werewolf tears into the clearing. "Steve! Took you long enough."

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