#IT SHOULD BE UPSIDE DOWN!
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I Canāt Be The Only One
(I probably am)
Okay, so⦠I have this very niche issue that isnāt rlly an issue at all but itās rlly fucking w/ my brain and I need to like⦠get it out there because, seriously, I need to know if Iām not alone.
Every time I see THIS SHOT:
Like⦠I always just inwardly thought that the hand he used to toss away the light was facing downwards? Like, palm down. But I recently like⦠actually LOOKED at these frames and⦠itās⦠itās not. His palm is facing upwards. And like⦠I have no clue why but it is absolutely MESSING me up. Like actually Iām tweaking over this. And, I donāt understaaand! Like, I just feel like his palm is supposed to be down. Every time I watch it, my brain thinks itās facing down. Thatās how it logics in my head BUT THATāS NOT WHAT HAPPENS AND ITS DRIVING ME INSANE SOMEONE FUCKING HELP MEā
Like I said, itās really not a big deal, but like⦠heelllp. Someone PLEASE tell me Iām not insane. Tell me Iām not the only one who thought/continues to think itās facing down.
#hazbin hotel lucifer#lucifer hazbin hotel#i love luci#hazbin hotel#apple daddy#lucifer#duck lord#short king#tumblr sexyman#hey#itās him#I gotta use that tag#no but fr tho#I think this is physically melting my brain to look at#I THOUGHT IT WAS UPSIDE DOWN#IT SHOULD BE UPSIDE DOWN!#IāM LOSING IT GUYS!#PLEASE SEND HELP!#Like you donāt understand how much this is messing me up right now#ššš fucking help.
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after the events of season 4, steve just wanting SO BADLY to be friends with eddie. just LOVING the idea of them getting closer and having eddie as a friend because hell yeah! a close male friendship with someone that is actually my age, and who i donāt have a weird history with involving bruised eyes and love triangles? count me IN! and eddie is FUN, he is actually hilarious! the way they share the same glances of understanding when dustin is being an absolute shit head, rambling on and on about some obscure topic, expecting everyone to always be on the exact same page as him. of course. and, although steve suspects that eddie actually probably is keeping up with everything dustin says, much better than he ever could, he knows that above it all eddie can appreciate the antics for what they are, and roll his eyes with steve at dustin, i concur, you dustin henderson, are a total butthead.
steve just about junps RIGHT IN to being friends with eddie. hey man, whatācha up to tonight? wanna watch a movie? get drunk, smoke a bit? hey eddie, how have you been, man? he starts calling eddie up on the phone regularly just to check in, shoot the shit, he loves it! he loves having this new friendship with eddie munson and he loves how much the other boy has surprised him with how much he actually enjoys being around him. heās not a freak, really, well ok maybe he is a little bit, but only in the best ways. heās kind, thoughtful, and is always looking out for the people he cares about, which is something steve can really respect in a dude. but heās also so funny? steve never couldāve anticipated just how much eddie has managed to make him genuinely LAUGH over their short amount of time spent together. and heās really, out there? with the way he presents himself, the way he takes up space with these big THEATRICAL movements, leaving no room for regret or shame or god forbid embarrassment. steve isnāt even sure munson is capable of feeling it at all.
eddie munson is a good dude, and steve could use a bit more of that kind of person around him. he loves all of his friends, the weird little bonded family heās found himself apart of, and they are all good people, but it never hurts to have afew more added in here and there. it never hurts to know there are more good people out there to find.
so steve is all over eddie, it seems.
at least, from where eddie is standing. nobody else seems as phased as eddie does at this sudden change in steveās demeanour, in his interest in what eddie munson spends his time doing these days. it seems like, to everyone else, to steve, itās just a natural progression in their relationship, after being sort of role model figures to the same group of kids, both being the two single dudes, who fought the same monsters together last spring, it seems nobody questions too much that theyād start casually hanging around eachother more. especially since eddie has found himself to fit into his own special spot as one of the group now after it all, after he unwillingly became tangled in this whole upsidedown-superpowers-supernatural-monsters and demons debacle, and tangled quite dramatically at that, the rest of the group thatās been with this since the beginning seemed to find no trouble in taking him in and seeing him as āone of themā now.
so, steve asking eddie to smoke, to watch movies, to go for a drive with no real end destination, itās not really something that earns them too many double takes. dustin makes a comment or two in the beginning, because steve since when did you like hanging out with eddie? you guys are like so opposite, you donāt like any of the same stuff he does? and steve barely gives a shrug and a dismissive yeah yeah whatever man in response, with a signature eye roll, and dustin had said it seemingly also not too seriously, poking fun at steve wherever he can, not really meaning anything by it, as he fidgets around and rambles in the backseat of steveās car, eddie riding up front. after that, though, heās dropped it. itās never brought up again. part of eddie thinks, too, that dustin would actually be enjoying that his two older friends are becoming friends themselves.
robin seems to be the only other person to look a bit harder at their situation, lingering stares at their interactions, all squinted eyes and eyebrows raised, though from her all this seems to be almost always and only ever directed at steve. eddieās not sure what to make of that. isnāt he the weird one? i mean, heās the one that stands out, right? heās the odd denominator that makes their friendship strange. why would steve harrington want to hang out with Him? HIM? but robin doesnāt spend her time studying eddie to try and search for what about him could possibly have piqued the interest of cherished steven harrington, no, shes always looking at steve. like sheās seeing him differently, almost. eddie doesnāt even think that steve notices it, either, because he doesnāt seem to be questioning or doubting anything odd or strange or out of the ordinary with their newfound time spent together. and maybe, maybe robin is seeing him differently. eddie knows he definitely has been. seeing him more, intensely. deeply. human. seeing the person that steve is, as just steve, not this idealised version of a boy that eddies starting to question ever really even existed at all, or if everyone around him just needed to believe that he did, and who was steve if not happy to comply to the wants of the people around him for who he should be?
eddie likes having steve as his friend, too. donāt get it twisted. he loves how unexpectedly expressive steve is about everything, even really small things. steve LOVES to raise his voice, rest a hand on his popped hip, scolding the kids for something stupid with no real heat or malice behind it. and steve is, like, kinda bitchy too. eddie knew he had the capacity to be a real asshole when he wanted to be, thatās all he knew steve for back in the day, when he was back in high school, hanging around tommy h and the basketball boys, the jocks. eddie would spend his days hearing only whispers and gossip in the hallways of the parties at king steveās house and the fights king steve had started and won on the court or out in the fields, only ever getting as close as a shove into a locker with the guy at the time, but eddie knew how it could go. he knew all about what steve had done to jonathan, what heād said to him, the words heād used. eddie knew it all. heād seen enough, and been through enough himself, to know how these guys acted in response to guys like him, like jonathan, people who were lower on the social food chain. so, eddie knew about steveās āmean streakā, if you will, but this kind of snarky bitchiness was something new to him. harrington was almost, sassy, when he wanted to be. it was less so cruel and more just, just sass. if heās being completely honest it kind of blew eddie away, at first. he thought steve was one of those dull headed jocks who thought with their fists more than their actual brains, but that couldnāt have been farther from the truth. steveās insults were well thought out, they were FUNNY, he was smart with his words. and silly. oh my god steve harrington could be so fucking silly, real honest to god goofball when the moment called for it, when he felt comfortable enough. eddie had caught on multiple occasions steve mimicking lightsabers to play fight with dustin, or the stupid fucking shit he would do or say just to make robin laugh, singing along to a song playing on the radio with a funny voice.
it was all a little, intoxicating, to watch. eddie didnāt know what gave him the right to be in on this now, to get to see this side of steve and better yet to be at the other end of some of his best qualities. it was fun, all the time they spent together, but there was always something else tugging inside eddie everytime they spent close time together, too. something, he knew steve wasnāt aware of. something he knew steve wasnāt equipped to deal with. something he knew, was him. was him, making things something more than they should be, because, nobody seemed to be questioning that they could become friends, so why ruin that? why disrupt it?
- robin and steve
āSteve.ā
ā-but then like, it wasnāt that I didnāt want to watch it I just thought, hey, yāknow, letās try something different for a change, but then he- oh my god he honest to god TACKLED ME Robin ā I mean, it was so fucking funny and it happened so quick ā and all over a fucking Tom Cruise movie-ā
āSTEVE.ā Robin lightly slammed a hand onto the counter. She had been standing behind it for no short of 20 minutes, watching Steve as he paced around, supposed to be stacking tapes onto shelves, but ended up spending the whole time going on and on, and ON, about how movie night went with Eddie last night. She thought she was badā¦
Steve jumped, almost running into a shelf and knocking down his hard work, and seemed to snap out of whatever trance he had found himself in after starting to tell Robin a story about something funny Eddie had done last night.
āShit, sorry. Sorry, what were you saying? Were you- were you saying something?ā
To this, Robin just rolls her eyes and letās out a laugh, āYou, sir, are goddamn hopeless.ā
āSorry. How long was I talking for?ā Steve wandered his way over to lean his arms onto the counter from the opposite side.
āOh, I dunno Steve, just about half an HOUR?ā
āThat is an over exaggeration Robin, itās only been like-ā
āHonestly, man, iām concerned for you. You are like next level OBSESSED with Eddie. Eddie Munson. You do realise this right??? You are obsessed with him, Steve.ā
To this Steve sputters, lazily waving his hands back and forth.
āNo, Robin, what the hell are you talking about? I am not OBSESSED. No need to be jealous, alright, Stevie-Boy here can have more than one friend. Your spot in my heart isnāt any less special now that itās beginning to be shared by another.ā He bats his eyelashes up at her, holding both hands over his chest as if to cradle his heart.
āOh my GOD! You even SOUND LIKE HIM!ā, she playfully slaps his shoulder. āSteve. You are obsessed.ā
āI am not obsessed! Heās just a really great guy, alright-ā
āBlah blah, yep whatever you say, lover boy.ā Robin quips, plopping down onto the chair chair infront of their staff computer, turning herself to face it.
āWha- what? Lover boy? What the hell Robin, that is not- that doesnāt even make any sense!ā
She is just smiling at him now, enjoying seeing him spiral like this. Steve letās out a sigh as he puts his hands on his hips, and shakes his head, looking at her right back.
He opens and closes his mouth afew times, like heās really thinking about what he wants to say next. Or like he has no idea what to say next, and his brain is not moving fast enough to formulate the next sentence his mouth knows he wants to say. He wasnāt obsessed. Thatās not- thatās like- no. No he was not, Robin was just playing around with him, she knew how to get on his nerves. Get him all wound up over little things just to see him react like this.
After a minute or two, Robin realises Steve was not going to reply anytime soon, so she turns fully back toward him. Saving him from his spiral.
āSo, what are youāre plans for tonight Steve-O?ā
He lets out a chuckle and walks around the counter till heās behind it with Robin, leaning his back against it so he can stand across from her and face her.
āWell, not really sure. Parents arenāt home, no early shift tomorrow, might drink afew beers, listen to some music, āā
āSee what Eddieās doin?ā Robin finishes for him, quirking her eyebrows up and down as she does it.
āOh shut up!ā Steve just laughs and softly throws a tape from the counter at her chest. āAs a matter of fact, yeah I will see what heās up to. Because we are friends now, Robin. Is that a problem? Actually I was also gonna ask you what you were up to after work, too, but you know what after this Iām having second thoughts, I mean, the way youāve been treating me lately-ā
āOh my god, you are the worst. Yes, Iām free, of course Iāll hang out with you dingus. You and your tweedle dee.ā
Steve laughs at this, then tilts his head.
āWait, does that make me dumb? Tweedle dumb?! Thatās how you see me?ā
āYeah it is actually, got a problem?ā
āOh wow, sheās feisty today. Canāt believe you think Iām dumb, Robās. When you come knockinā tonight, do not expect a warm greeting at my front door.ā
āYeah, yeah, Iāll take my chances.ā
- later. steveās house. to be continued?
#just been having steddie post season 4 thoughts#been missing the era of the fandom just sort of starting during that time between vol 1 and 2#how every fic had their own little way of resolving the upside down/vecna problem just written into afew small paragraphs#really just getting to know these characters as a pairing#most importantly before seeing them as a couple#seeing them as friends#how they would genuinely interact and get along#what their dynamics would look like#steddie early days truly have my whole entire heart#coming onto tumblr the weeks following vol1 of s4 was magical#anywho yeah non vol2 compliant steddie for you#more so just#eddie didnāt die steddie for you#they become friends bc truly i actually believe that had he lived they would have#it just makes sense#stranger things#eddie munson#steddie#steve harrington#stranger things 4#stranger things season 4#robin buckley#dustin henderson#also lmk if i should keep adding to thisā¦might abyways bc iām enjoying this#steddie fic#steddie fic idea#steddie ficlet#steddie fanfiction
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hey you! do you like physical art and handmade media? look no further! I made some little zines to sell at a local con next month! Featuring some splatoon weapons and a pokemon team :] Each zine has 6 pages of art, plus the front and back cover. If you're interested, I have put them up on my etsy. I hope to make more, because they're fun and easy to make!!
#my art#splatoon#pokemon#debated on whether I should post the Full Art spread but it's best as a surprise. and also since half the page is upside down#alolan marowak#tinkaton#flingza roller#custom splattershot jr#splatoon weapons#zines#etsy
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I made a design for pre-corruption Eternal Sugar ^^

#i like her#eternal sugar cookie#eternal sugar CRK#CRK#cookie run#cookie run kingdom#my art#my drawings#canāt wait for her release!#maybe I should draw more pre corrupted designs#sorry silhouette her entire helmet is now upside down#lol
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hotel manager
#zeno's art#i'm not sure if i should tag the show itself as i'm not a fan but i guess its āfanāart so i will#hazbin hotel#charlie hazbin hotel#vivziepop#i was bored and wanted to draw something#my main goal here was to create a design that looked distinct and could (potentially) be moderately easy to animate#of course based on charlie's character i added as many angel images as possible through the hair and bowtie#(i know white on white is a character design sin but i wanted to show the angel wing detail ;w;)#also to express the personality and juxtaposition of a sweet devil her horns are supposed to curve into a heart shape#of course the garterbelts are upside-down/st peters crosses because of her satanic themes#i also tried to go harder into the goat theme but its still subtle i think#i actually think the goat theme is really interesting because of the story of the sheep and the goats in the bible#but i cant remember if it was actually something intended in her original design#i'm not going to draw anyone else so dont even anticipate that#this was basically a cooldown? ok i think i'm rambling now#goodbye#ok edit to say it clearly: i am not a fan of vivziepop or her work. i just wanted to redesign charlie as a cooldown/exercise for fun#because i used to be a fan of the character before i wised up about what vivzie had and has done#and before i matured and noticed the cracks and fundamental flaws in her works#so yea i dont support her at all and this redesign is critical i guess#also the reason why the tag āvivziepopā is there in the first place is so that anyone who has that tag silenced can scroll past#without seeing anything related to her work. in case that clears anything up#its the same reason why i tag ālong postā and āfoodā and the like
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I have a problem. šØ
I've shown my husband some of the art on Tumblr and mentioned repeatedly how cool it is that the people here can make such breathtaking digital art and that I wish I knew how to draw like they do.
Today's my birthday. Wanna guess what he gave me?
Yep. I now own a drawing tablet!
The problem is that I don't know the first thing about drawing or digital art. He said it's just for fun so I can try to learn some basics and that there's no pressure. Oh, but there's pressure! He's such a sweetheart to buy this nifty gift for me, and now I feel like I need to learn how to draw something asap to show him how much I appreciate it.
Where do I even start?
#what should i do first to build up some basic skills?#i currently scribble like an upside-down toddler#help me artists of tumblr#you're my only hope
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i started writing an entire steve is seven fix-it au ficlet just because of this one scene that was stuck in my mind. but it's turning out way too long, so here's the scene instead
and god when he first meets eleven again. they all gather together at steve's to strategize and eleven steps into the house with hopper and the kids in tow. and steve just. starts crying as soon as he sees her.
"ellie," he sobs out. everyone, but robin, looks confused. eleven frowns but as steve takes his watch off and shows her his tattoo, her eyes widen in recognition. the kids move to interrupt, but eleven runs towards steve.
"seven!" she yells as she jumps into his arms. he holds her tight and sinks to his knees as his body is wrecked with sobs. el begins to cry into his shirt.
"i'm so sorry, ellie, i didn't want to leave you there, i'm so sorry," he gasps out.
"i know, it's okay, seven," she whispers.
the room is silent with varying levels of shock and heartbreak on everyone's faces. steve pulls away to put his forehead against el's.
"it's steve now, actually. well steven, but everyone calls me steve."
"steven... did you just add a t to seven?" el asks, scrunching her nose.
steve laughs and says, "my mom, or well the family that found me, gave me that name. it's a real name, i swear."
"what the hell is going on?" mike interrupts them.
steve sighs. it's time to explain everything.
#in this au steve has flashes of visions of the future#and starts planning to bring the entire gang together before canon#because he sees visions of them and realizes they will all be important against the upside down#he sets out to prevent a lot of canon events#stobin and steddie from s1 baby#steve harrington as seven#steve harrington has powers#steve harrington#el hopper#eleven stranger things#stranger things#ficlet#fanfiction#mine#fic#should i tag the others who were mentioned?#mike wheeler#jim hopper#robin buckley
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A little promo with my little obsession on the side...........
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Ā mmezzy.bigcartel.com
#klance#halloween au#im projecting on the internet my own impostor syndrome#i feel that im awful and should be learning how to draw instead of writing shitty fics#and when i want to write a post and share a little doodle or smth - 'sorry' is right between the lines and its so frustrating#like???? nobody probably cares#im either here or im not#and if i need to finish that little abomination of a fic then so be it you'd think people wouldnt mind too much#and would still want to listen to my captions and see whatever silly doodle however silly it is as long as its true#..............but what if its all redundant#what if i cant draw after i had to flip my entire routine upside down#and will forever chase a thrill of feeling like a prolific artist and it will be always out of reach now#what if people scroll past my art and feel nothing now#what if world is filled with people who kinda hate klance but stay out of reflex and not bc its their deeply routed source of comfort#what if i reached an artistic plateau and will never be good enough#what if this is the limit of my 'talent'#what if i will forever love the projects i want to share but will always hate the execution of it wanting to fix it fix it fix it learn mor#i keep reading the little notes i get on orders#some screenshots i saved#i find good words and opinions and love letters to art as a whole#and i feel insufficient#subpar#i drew a comic about it to an old poem and still havent finished it#there is a point of trying your best when it stops feeling like a challenge and feels like a failure#its the moment where you keep going of course#and yet#there are emotions im sure nobody shares on social media bc we just try to get through them#but who else will take it better than tumblr tags#either way if im less around its because im dealing with creational self-hatred and artistic ambitions#but on the other hand arent all artists like that? i ran out of tag space btw have an awesome weekend
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Hi when was someone going to tell me that the Adventures in The Pale Heart have SECRET MEMORIES like Zavala's and Crow's sections but with Mithax and Eido (And another with Caiatl and Calus)????
This is some of the dialogue from it but God hearing it in game was something else...
I highly recommend watching a video of it (if you can find it) or doing yourself, because this is only a small cut of it
If you wanna find this, load up The Hollow Part 1 Adventure, and instead of going through the portal, ignore it and head to the Cyst behind The Waterfall, there should be one of those pyramid key things you can interact with and it'll play this memory.
#destiny 2#mithrax#scribe eido#to get the Caiatl and Calus one#load up the Home Part 2 Adventure#and go through the entire snowy section like normal#when you're going through the weird green upside down waterfalls section#hug the right wall of the cave and keep a very keen and close eye out#there should be a spot with bright light and you can interact with it#when you do I'll play a memory of Caiatl and her talking to Calus#i wont say what it is about neither will i explain in detail what this one is about#i wanna see you personally experience it :)
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Supergirl (1996) #37
#I love everything about this image.#Kon should carry Tim like this more often tbh#and same with Cissie and Cassie in the background OMG#I Iove those lesbians <3333#and Bart running upside-down in the background is the cherry on the cake fr#also Cissieās outfit looks so good here? normally I donāt like that suit too much but this slay#young just us#timkon#cissiecassie#cissie king jones#cassie sandsmark#tim drake#yj98#supergirl 1996#Robin#superboy#arrowette#wonder girl#impulse#young justice#heckās angels
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happy day of birth hereās some blazamy for the soul
SJKHDAJKSHF AAAAAAA
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! THE GIRLS!!!!
#lookit them....... ouhg#i LOVE how you draw them#amy's bangs..... the upside down hearts as her ears... blazes lil eyebrows...........#eating this btw#oh i love them so#love the other images lmao#your art gives me LIFE asudhjdsl#saved#for a milliion gazillion years#my birthday#cool moots#man i should change that to like...... ācrazy amazing and totally awesome mootsā#blaze the cat#amy rose#blazamy#my sillies....... i hold them gently
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I donāt think Willās favorite song is āShould I stay or should I go?ā anymore. I mean, it was the song that helped him survive the upside down but at the same time Iām sure he canāt listen to that song anymore without reliving the trauma of it all.
I have a theory that he will be under the grasp of Vecna and they need to play his favorite song, assuming itās that song, they play it for him but it doesnāt work. Also, whose favorite song doesnāt change throughout the years?
#byler#mike wheeler#stranger things#stranger things cast#will and mike#geekedweek#netflix#will byers#should i stay or should i go#upside down#vecna
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Heavy TF2 wants you to have Sandvich (or an equivalent) so that leetle one can be big and strong
#This idea came to be while I was making a sandwich and apparently sapped 100% of my brainpower because it caused me to spill the entirety#of the leaves container onto the floor. Upside down. Plants everywhere. I washed it it's ok. But it determined me to post this#tf2 heavy#tf2 memes#Been thinking about Heavy a little lot lately maybe I should draw him
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One day I'm gonna make an RTC bootleg but it's just me playing everyone and it's terribly edited together so the conversations can happen, with bad choreography cause I can't dance, only serviceable songs cause I'm a soprano and the boys songs have notes that are too low and I'm not an opera singer so I'm only kind of okay at The Ballad of Jane Doe, and there'll be costumes but no set cause I live in an apartment and have no where to film, and I'll piece together my favourite bits of scripts and edit parts that are kind of iffy (get ready for the best Ricky origins), and it'll be equal parts awful and brilliant
#yall should tell me what you want to see in it#do you want Ocean to be ableist or not I am open to opinions#do you want me to sit upside-down on a chair for tbojd#whats your favourite choreography that you want me to butcher#ride the cyclone#rtc musical#ride the cyclone musical
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Fake it Till you Make It | Part 9
Eddie felt like heād been dipped directly into some kind of crazy world where nothing made sense. Or rather where everything he thought was true, was actually the opposite.
He was in an opposite world where despite being the obvious odd one out, he was being made to feel comfortable instead of ostracized.
These rich people? Not assholes.
Steve Harrington? Not a douche.
Okay so⦠that was only two things, but they were two pretty huge things on the Munson Doctrine that heād now need to mentally re-write
Especially when the response to āweāve known each other since high school butābut I guess I never really thought much about him until I saw him with Robin at The Hideout, apparently he was making sure my band was child safe for Dustin and the other kids and Iā"
Was, āyour band?ā Interrupting him may have been rude but Lynda looked damn near sparkly eyed at the idea of him being in a band, as if middle-class people like the parents heād freaked out thus far only thought they knew how to behave to appear richer, and rich people were actually this whole weird little species of their own. āSteven here has always sort of gravitated toward talented people, first Nancy, Iāve never known a girl quite as driven to be heard by the people around her as that one and Iām a lawyer, I really admired her for that.ā
āYou did?ā Steve asked in surprise, why had they never said anything?
āOf course I did! Karen told me she wanted to be a journalist, gosh let me tell you sheāll make an incredible journalist someday, weāre already proud of her.ā They knew she wanted to be a journalist? They were proud of her? āThen there was Robinā"
āRobin is my friend.ā
āOh, I knowā he didnāt like how she said that word, that know, she couldnāt know-know, right? How would sheāhow could she? No⦠no she couldnāt. Robin had never said anything, never hinted at anything, she was terrified of being known, scared of the consequences. Itād taken being stuck in a broken elevator at work and him freaking out about enclosed spaces to come out to him, and heād had to, in a moment of panic so sure he was going to die in there, come clean about his crush on her for her to do it! āThat doesnāt change the fact that you had a crush on her first, donāt think we donāt know about that, we do. Your children are loud.ā Dustin. It had to be Dustin. Not the queer thing, the crush thing. Heād never even told the little snot about that, heād just noticed it, latched onto it, and like a dog with a high prey drive, just refused to let go, shaking it around until it was nothing but tatters. āSheās so talented in linguistics. and languages arenāt easy let me tell you, I donāt know what she intends to do but sheāll go far in it when she gets there.ā
Steve was just kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop, still semi-convinced that the whole thing was performative and that the second Eddie left, the moment Steve was on his own with them, theyād pull the rug out and itād have all been for āshowā and they werenāt supportive at all.
He was ādatingā a musician. Not a rich one. An unknown musician from an unknown band, living in a trailer park, with zero prospects, zero connections, and frankly a terrible reputation around the parents of Hawkins for his little fake date scheme.
Surely that had to be breaking some kind of unwritten rule for rich kids. Right? Surely his parents would have expected more from him, right?
Surely this wasnāt actually okay⦠was it? Was it really okay? Could it be okay? If⦠if he actually wanted that? Would it continue to be okay, or were they just saving face until it was safe to return to being the disappointed set of parents heād come to know as an adolescent?
āI didnāt know you paid that much attentionā¦ā Eddie squeezed his hand, he didnāt have to look at him to know heād fixed those bring brown eyes on him all warm and supportive. There for him, if he needed him to step in.
If he needed him to make it all about him again, to shine the spotlight on himself in either a positive or negative light, Eddie would.
He squeezed back, heād be okay.
āOh sweetheart⦠we may not be the best at showing it, but weāre not blind. You were just a little harder to speak to when you were younger, all those parties, and the drinking, the drugsāā
āIt was justāā
āMarijuana is a drug, son.ā John finally spoke up and that was the end of that argument, although Eddie was visibly trying to hide a grin as the towns resident ex-drug dealer whoād maybe supplied that marijuana once or twice. āNot one a boy that age should have been consuming.ā True, heād kill the kids if he ever caught them smoking weed unsupervised.
Maybe if he was there, heād let them do it once just to show them what it was like. But once would be the maximum, and theyād be supervised!
Heād been unsupervised surrounded by strangers with alcohol and bad decisions to make. He was lucky he hadnāt wound up knocking some poor girl up or something equally life destroying.
āYes, like your father says it was difficult, your father and I⦠we had to be the bad guys more often than weād have liked and then things at the office got busy and well⦠maybe all that put a strain on things, but we were never not paying attention, Iām sorry we made you think that.ā Another gentle squeeze. Eddie was there.
He'd continue to be there.
āSo Stevie here has a type is what Iām hearingā Eddie finally spoke up, breaking the tension, a small but warm smile on his face that Steve appreciated more than he could possibly say.
āSo I like people to be passionate about what they like! I like intelligent peopleāā
āOof, puts me out of luck thenā Eddie cut in with a dramatic little pout on his face, hand over his heart.
āAre you kidding me? Youāre smart, youāre really smart!ā
āDude I failed high school like, three times. Pretty sure they finally let me graduate out of pity.ā
āYeah but that was bullshit, not everyone is good at school. I barely passed an Iām still half certain I only did cause of the sports shit.ā Maybe the money thing too ābut you can come up with all kinds of stuff on the fly, I know you āDMā for that dungeons and demons shit an you deal with Dustin, Mike, AND Erica like a pro and honestly that takes some work the kids are nightmare children normally, so itād probably be actual hell when you have to believably improv their characters taking a liking to some random NPC youāve conjured up to be a weird little one time interaction andāand I know you can recite Shakespeare! And come up with your own Shakespeare-like poems, that SOUND like Shakespeare, and you write your songs which is cool, and you play guitar which is tricky I know I tried once itās not easy, and in debate, people couldnāt keep up with you ever andāā and he was rambling.
āāDragonsā¦ā Eddie gently cut him off, eyes wide but his smile⦠it looked like a cross between awe and affection. It was beautiful, and the dimple was there which made it extra pretty. Fuck why was Eddie Munson so goddamn pretty all of a sudden?
Was it even sudden? āHuh?ā
āDragons⦠you know NPC, but you donāt know itās Dungeons and Dragonsā¦ā he sounded so fond, so soft spoken it was strange⦠but a good kind of strange that made Steveās cheeks warm āyouāyou know all that about me?ā
āW-well⦠yeah I meanāweāre dating, of course I know about the Dungeons and Dragons stuff Iāā he could explain it away for his parents but Eddie, who was in on their fake dating thing, emphasis on the fake couldnāt be so easily fooled.
āNo, not the D&D stuff⦠the Shakespeare thing, poetry, debate class, you saw that?ā
It was his turn to be bashful, to be shy, to squeeze that hand, to be honest about something heād never thought too hard about but god he had to now, didnāt he? āā¦You were hard to miss, Eddie.ā Heād grown up, he could appreciate what heād scoffed and rolled his eyes at back when he was a dumb teenager, he could admit that heād seen Eddie, that deep down, despite the scoffing, the eye rolling, that deep down he liked that.
Deep down heād always liked Eddie. He just wished heād have been less of a douchebag, maybe theyād have known each other sooner.
āEhemā Lynda gently cleared her throat, not cruelly, her smile definitely a little mischievous, a little āi'm going to be INSUFFERABLE about thisā but not trying to break up the moment, she just had to ask āEddie⦠Iām not sure if you still live at home, but⦠if you do, are your parents⦠okay with you being away for a week with total strangers? Do⦠do they know aboutāā
āAh! Uhm, yeah! Well, yes and no. My parents arenāt really⦠around, I live with my Uncle Wayne, he took me in when I was a kid.ā He wasnāt going into that story, and nobody could make him for the sake of a fake date scheme āHe knows about me⦠uh⦠about us⦠heās okay with it, but he did ask that he meet you both before we go, if Iām allowed to come with you?ā
āWeād be thrilled to have you, Eddie, he can meet us any time he likes.ā
Main Goal. Achieved.
Part 11
#PirateWrites#FakeItTillYouMakeItFiclet#Steddie#No Upside Down AU#Fake Dating AU#they're so believable someone who knows this is all fake should probably tell them#probably
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#she does in fact go upside down#thought i should tell yall that#jane doe rtc#rtc#ride the cyclone#ride the cyclone jane#jane doe ride the cyclone#jane rtc
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