#I’m going to write this if it kills me

[wheneverfeasible]

When Steve’s parents announced their divorce, Steve told Eddie he loved him. They weren’t dating at the time, though Steve thought that the feeling was mutual to at least some extent since Eddie always flirted back with him, but he hadn’t been certain.

He had known his parents stopped loving each other years ago. Hell, he didn’t know if they had ever truly loved each other, but in any case, Steve knew.

His parents decided to sell the house, to move away from Hawkins with its cursed misfortune and small town gossip, and there was no talk of either of them taking Steve with them. Which, sure, he was grown, he hadn’t been part of the conversation at all.

Steve was left at a crossroads on what to do. So, distraught at his change in circumstances, he’d gone straight to Eddie’s and confessed his feelings because he had to know if it was at all possible for anyone to want him the way he wanted them.

Luckily enough for Steve, Eddie did!

The Munsons still had a decent amount left over from the government hush money after everything, so Eddie took his share (Wayne tried to get him to take more since all Wayne had lost was physical possessions and the trailer while Eddie almost lost his life, but Eddie would only agree to a 50/50 split) and together he and Steve threw caution to the wind and found a small place to rent together in one of the new complexes being built as part of the town’s rejuvenation project.

Things were going great. They still visited Wayne, who could now stop working such long hours at the plant and who had moved to a small fixer upper on the outskirts of town. He even moved up the ladder at the plant after some of the higher ups were lost in the “earthquakes” (R.I.P.), which offered better pay and benefits.

Wayne even started dating again, which Eddie informed Steve of in such a scandalized tone, but Steve could tell that Eddie was happy for his uncle, ribbing the older man when they had stopped by one morning and the man hadn’t even been home, stumbling back an hour later with lipstick stains on his shirt’s collar.

(Wayne had told him that he was going to call the cops on them for breaking and entering while he was gone, but there was no heat in it as they set chocolate chip pancakes, eggs, and a steaming cup of coffee before him, having made use of the kitchen while he was out.)

Wayne never introduced any of the women he dated to Eddie and Steve, saying that it wasn’t proper to introduce anyone to the kids yet until he was certain that things were serious, never mind that the “kids” were well into their 20s now.

(Steve also felt a warmth at being included as a “kid” of Wayne’s, however, filling a hole in his heart that his parents had left behind, though his mother had recently reached out to him to rekindle their relationship. His father remained radio silent.)

Eventually, however, there was someone Wayne kept seeing repeatedly, someone he’d met while outside of town when he was at some convention for work and her car had broken down outside of his motel room. She hadn’t left the motel room until the next morning, and Wayne was certain it was just a single night of passion, but…

They had really hit it off, it seemed, and though Wayne hadn’t thought such an amazing and sensual—(“Uncle Wayne! For the love of everything holy, unholy, and whatever’s in-between, please don’t say sensual!)—woman would be interested in him, they exchanged numbers. And then, the day after he’d told her he should be home again from the trip, she called him.

Things only progressed from there, and soon enough there were talks of something committed, of something truly serious, and after a while, Wayne broke the news.

“Boys, my partner is going to be moving back to Hawkins and, while we know it’s a giant leap, we decided to move in together.”

As it turns out, apparently the woman is actually from Hawkins too but had left after the earthquakes tore the town apart, so she is someone that they actually knew. Wayne still won’t tell them who it is, however. He seems a little embarrassed by that, actually, but he also tells them that he is the happiest he’s ever been and he was willing to fight to be with her, so what else can they do but accept that?

They are thus excited for him, excited to finally meet her (again?), and the plan is set that they would have a family dinner together once she was in town. Steve and Eddie are, of course, moderately worried given the whole being queer thing, but Wayne assures them that they will be safe. That Wayne had made damned certain that both his boys would be safe.

(Steve again feels that warmth of belonging to someone, of being loved and cared for and supported in a way he’d never known before.)

And then the day arrives. Steve and Eddie show up early, looking pretty damn spiffy they believe, and help Wayne get the dinner ready, though it’s more like a late lunch really. Eventually, they hear the sounds of tires outside of Wayne’s house.

Wayne, smiling and looking absolutely besotted, moves toward the front door to let his girlfriend in without missing a second. Steve and Eddie hear the door open and close from the kitchen, hear quietly murmured words and what disgustingly sounds like kissing, and then there’s footsteps and—

Steve turns around to greet this mysterious woman, a smile on his face, before dropping the bowl of salad in his hands as shock and something very much like horror make itself known to him.

“MOM???!”

~

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[wishchip106]

i’ve been using my brain more than its used to

gonna think about gay mutant road trip hope my brain doesn’t explode

[morganbritton132]

I think one of the most interesting ways to write Steve’s parents (or his mom, at least) is as a deeply flawed person with good intentions.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a fic where they’re just bad people. Sometimes that’s all you need for a good story and this is not a criticism of anybody’s interpretation.

My personal preference in writing his parents is as people who are trying to be good parents.

Like, im currently messing around with this AU concept where Steve has a really complicated family dynamic. In it, he has bad parents. His mother made a choice to follow her husband because she thinks it’s the only way to preserve her marriage and thus preserve a good life for her son. It’s not malicious neglect but it is neglect. She’s trying to do the right thing but she’s making the wrong decisions. In the end, she’s still hurting her child.

A couple years ago I wrote this fic about Steve spiraling into a severe depression and his parents are trying to help him. They just don’t listen. They don’t understand what he’s dealing with and they make the wrong choices when trying to help him. Everybody that tries to help him makes the wrong choices, but with the best of intentions. Steve says repeatedly throughout the fic that it’s not his parents fault they don’t know how to be parents.

It’s really fun to write and it’s really cathartic if your relationship with your parents isn’t easy.

[shorthaltsjester]

re the first three tlovm s3 episode title teaser fr. vex getting [redacted] while standing in front of percy . i will undoubtedly have Thoughts about plot n adaption once the whole season is out but i will say people acting like vex potentially dying again is a betrayal of the arc is . i say this politely. ridiculous. vex’s most common habit aside from haggling and flirting in campaign 1 was being knocked unconscious. she required full ass resurrection spells on four separate occasions. we currently have no idea what the shape of any arc in season 3 will look like beyond broad strokes and teasing shots. if they end up wanting to incorporate the exandrian magic lore of it’s harder to come back each time you die, vex seems like the obvious opportunity to do so. please at the very least save the panic posting for when you actually have something to panic about .

[atrashmammall]

Still thinking about the silt verses finale and all I can really think about is how sometimes older siblings are the only god you ever really know, and the parallel between Anathema “I have always dwelt in the shadow of my god” Carpenter and Richard “Perhaps to become who I truly need to be, he requires me first to be rid of the shadow that trails after me” Faulkner.

Calling Carpenter his shadow like calling her his god. Calling her his god before finally turning away from the trawler man, calling out for her, his god, only to once again be met with silence.

[transmasccofee]

au where Saiki has to fight a much worse version of him but a different kind of worse than light novel Saiki

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

Fics I would absolutely write if I could type one word without cringing at myself

Hinton universe addition

1. Darry gets a raise and an offer for a more secure roofing job except for it’s in California, the gang has to deal with the Curtis’s moving away

2. A Tex fic, where Tex gets phenomena and Mason has to deal with his baby brother having the same thing that killed their mama

3. Dallas Winston time travel fic where he has to try to stop the events from the book from happening while dealing with the PTSD of being shot and killed

4. Steviepop are dating but only Steve and Evie are dating publicly (hooray for the 60s), ponyboy gets home from school and walks in on Evie and Soda making out and goes through a panic because he assumes Evie’s cheating on Steve with soda of all people

5. A cute mini fic taking place a few years after TWTTIN about M&M Carlson and Brenda Mathew’s (two’s sister) being friends in the 70s

There’s more but that’s all I have the energy to write

[arithmonym]

happy “cam and pal kiss on the mouth” tuesday

[twoa-plus]

every day i wake up for another 13 hour shift of Beating The Gravity Falls Fandom Over The Head With A Shovel Until Y’all Realize That Ford Writing “F” Instead Of “Fiddleford” Is Not An Act Of Malice Or Unkindness He’s Just A Nerd And Thinks It’s Cool

[willowcrowned]

babe you’re going to bed already?? but you haven’t even loudly announced to everyone that you’re going to write and then stared at the blinking cursor on your wip doc for twenty minutes yet

[doctorweebmd]

the ‘why would anyone entrust Akutagawa with Aya remember what happened the last time he took care of a young girl 🤔’ is such a dogshit take. like bro are we gonna just forget his whole-ass younger sister who he dotes on or, idk, perhaps literally the fact that his villain origin story is that he COULDNT PROTECT HIS FRIENDS IN THE SLUMS i am killing all of you with hammers

[ghost-bxrd]

Me, doing a rough estimate of The Antithesis of Magic word- and chapter count and ending up somewhere with 50 chapters and >100k words like— 👁️👄👁️

[bellahunterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

Reasons Why The Chapter 'Unlimited Credit' is my favourite:

Danglars has FAKE ART AND it CLASHES WITH THE BEADING THAT DECORATES HIS CEILING??? What a loser 

Danglars: ‘Monsieur, no one has yet found my funds to be wanting’ Dantés: ‘so it seems I shall be the first 💅🏼

THE COUNT KEEPS A MILLION BUCKS IN HIS POCKET!!!! YOU MIGHT AS WELL GET YOUR DICK OUT AND SWING IT AROUND

‘A man like Danglars needed to be bludgeoned’ 🙃

Danglars with one last-ditch effort to show the Count how cool and rich and worldly he is: ‘i thought I was rather well acquainted with all the great fortunes in Europe; but I have to admit that yours, though it seems to be considerable, had entirely escaped my notice. Is it recent?' The Count: no hehe  

HAHAHAH DANGLARS IS LIKE COME SEE MY ART IM A CONNOISSEUR ITS REAL I SWEAR 

[delicatedemolition]

actually on the verge of a mental fucking breakdown but it’s cool

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

aau rework version of the overload/boss fight where it actually has consequences and bearing on the character dynamics save me,, save me aau rework,,,,

[voidartisan]

I normally take character deaths pretty well but I’m actually kind of mad about this episode of the acolyte.

like.

what was the point