#Juniebee 🐝

[queenimmadolla]

ALWAYS, ok just a fun little question, I need to know why you’re so drawn to Eddie, JUST GO HAM AND GUSH ABOUT IT BABE

Boy am I glad I fixed (i think) the read more thing because I’ll give you everything I got:

I gotta start this off by saying i had no intentions and no interest in watching stranger things 4 when it premiered. The wait between season 3 and 4 was pretty long, especially because of covid and while i had attempted to keep the interest up, there wasn’t a whole lot of the fandom active until a little before st4 dropped, but the last time i was here, it was dead as hell. And so i left, not ever expecting to come back. then one day, after st4 had started streaming i was just scrolling through twitter and i saw a picture of Eddie. He piqued my interest immediately, the only thing i could equate it to is like when you were in high school, catching sight of someone you never really noticed before and being completely smitten at first sight. I wanted to know more about him, needed to. So i finally started the new season.

One thing that’s important to know before i detail exactly why i became so interested in Eddie is a little background information that i wont go too deep into detail about, but i lost my dad in early 2021. We were very close, he also liked Stranger Things (both of my parents did but we’re not gonna talk about my mom’s favs rn) and our bond only deepened during my late teenage years because of how into 70s and 80s music i was (am, but you’d think I was a 70s girl if you saw me)—like everyone else who was a teenager through st1-3, IT, and watched all the 80s tv shows that aired on like nick at night, tbs, tvland, etc.—and those were my dad’s golden years, he’d been in several bands and a DJ. He played the guitar (left me with so many guitars and a ton of amps) and he could absolutely SHRED it. He appreciated all genres—really, he just loved any song with a good guitar solo—but he loved rock and heavy metal, for obvious reasons (the guitar shredding). He was definitely a metal head, though he didn’t look the part (he’s black, heavily resembled Wesley Snipes especially back then, and you wont ever see a whole lot of aesthetics of black metal heads of the 80s for obvious reasons, and he was rocking the jerry curl lol, but it was a mullet). He was a pretty intimidating looking dude, that never stopped him from singing along to R5 with me and the Jonas brothers, one direction, Kelly clarkson, he’d encourage my love for music in whatever form/genre I liked. He got so excited when I also finally started appreciating the same type of music he did, but that wasn’t til around 2 or 3 years before he passed. And then when he did, i didn’t have any to talk to about it.

And here came Eddie, to the rescue (he and the rest of the Hawkins gang also popped up when I was being iced out of my only friend group at the time and I was really depressed). I liked Eddie, not only because I was INSTANTLY attracted to him, I also liked his style, I liked his hair, his pretty brown eyes (what they do to me should be illegal), how adaptable he was (stern when the hellfire boys needed it, gentle around people he could tell were shaken) and how he encouraged people to maintain their individuality (namely Dustin, while Eddie was really hot in the cafeteria scene, I wasn’t too fond of how he was ragging on people for what they liked, because they weren’t like him—when they weren’t even harassing or bothering him and I didn’t care for how he was unwilling to see Lucas—one of his little sheepies who was finding his way—play in one of the most important games to him but we got more Erica out of it so I’ll forgive him). His voice is also surprisingly comforting to me, I can’t explain why. AND HIS THEATRICS! My god, I could imagine watching him goof around, letting himself collapse onto the floor because of trivial things and just being dramatic and funny, all day long. The best part about him, is that he’s the most real feeling boy out of the “core three” (Steve, Jonathan and Eddie, I don’t count Billy for me because I don’t like him for obvious reasons) to me. See, I’ve been interested in all three of those boys. Jonathan first, then Steve (and still kind of) but my loyalty is to Eddie. Jonathan was first because it was Jonathan VS Steve, you know? The quiet underdog from the wrong side of the tracks, the good boy. it’s a character trope but a good one. And then Steve, former mean rich boy with a heart of gold. Another excellent character trope. Both of those boys are picture perfect Teenage Dreams. Then you have Eddie, who—I can’t explain how I know, I just do—would bark at someone who was bothering him until they were freaked out enough to go away. He’s considered trailer trash, a metal head with messy hair who deals drugs, becomes a friend to freshmen who no one else wants to associate with, starts arguments with the ‘popular’ crowd—that boy is NOT a victim, if Chrissy hadn’t died in that trailer he would have been harassing Jason and his crew more than the other way around lol—talks in weird voices, has weird gimmicks all while comforting sad girls, being chivalrous enough to help them into boats and holding Robin during the quakes in the Upside Down. In my opinion he’s far from a bad boy and difficult to stick into one character trope box. And out of all the boys, he’s the most realistic Teenage Dream. He’s one of a kind but it also feels like I could find him somewhere out in the world.

But my favorite thing about Eddie is the fact that I know I’d be gushing all about my love for him to my dad if he were alive. And my dad wouldn’t mind because he’d be his favorite character, too, with all of their shared interests and how Eddie is kind of the epitome for the crowd he used to be a part of. Sometimes, I entertain the idea it’d feel an awful lot like telling my dad about a boyfriend and him finally like him, my dad hated all my boyfriends and refused to let me tell him ANYTHING about them. Like everyone else who loves Eddie, I wish he was real, but mostly for that reason. Honestly, I’d barely be able to be friends with Eddie. My crush on him would be way too intense for me to like operate as a normal human being around him and with him, I can tell I’d regress to my high school self and love/admire from afar because of my shyness. Those high school crushes were pretty magical for me, though nothing ever came from them (I didn’t start my maneater ways until after high school when I got hot and started doing drugs) and yeah, that’s the type of teenage dream he is for me. My love for him is intense enough to have me not only reading fanfiction—which isn’t all that surprising because I’ve been doing it since elementary school—but freaking WRITING it!!! I can count the amount of times I’d done so in the past on one hand (most of which I deleted a long ass time ago) and still have fingers available. Now, i can’t stop. I just can’t. And it’s all because of him. Everything i write is like my way of writing a love letter to Eddie. Even if I did stop writing, I wouldn’t ever stop being drawn to him.

So, all of that is why I’m so drawn to him, why I really do love him, and why I don’t think I’ll ever be able to let him go. And you might notice a lot of that also reflects in my writing.

So, all of that is why I’m so drawn to him, why I really do love him, and why I don’t think I’ll ever be able to let him go. And you might notice a lot of that also reflects in my writing.

[queenimmadolla]

Babe, have you seen Palm Springs??? First of all, soooo gooodddde, second of all, all I could think about was a time loop!au with eddie like bruhhhhhh I need this and I don’t even care where I get it lol

P.s. I’ve missed yah, luv 😉

I swear I feel like I’ve read a timeloop fic about Eddie once, and saving him. I’ll try to find it for you! 🫡

P.s. I’ve missed you so much 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[queenimmadolla]

I have an Eddie thought because you’re the only person that I tell these to lol

If you have a septum piercing, Eddie would grab it and use it like a door knocker, and then would tap on your forehead with his knuckles and ask “anybody home?”

If you have ring nipple piercings?? Same thing. You’ll be riding him and he’ll wrap his arms around your waist to trap you, while he taps one and then presses his ear to your chest and says “I have a package for the smoking hot babe residence.” When he says this, he totally means his dick lmao

I have a septum piercing and I hate this in an endearing sort of way lol

He is so BOYFRIEND!!!! Ugh, I hate you and love you for putting this in my head (don’t ever stop)! You’d be a little annoyed too cause he always commits to the bits. You’re all, “Eddie, c’mon.”

“You’re not gonna sign for it? I need a signature.”

“Edward, I swear to god…”

“No signature, no package.” Never mind the fact that he’s literally balls deep.

And then when you scoff and get ready to climb off of him, he’s hurriedly grasping your sweaty thighs to keep you in place.

“Wait, wait! I got another loa—delivery for you, mailman’s about to come around again, don’t stop. Please.”

He’s so stupid, I love him.

[queenimmadolla]

Today at the swimming pool I work at a bunch of dads brought their babies AND OMG IT WAS CUTENESS OVERLOAD! All I could think about was Eddie lathered in sunscreen to the point he looks like a ghost and wearing one of those huge sun hats cuz the last thing he wants is to get sunburned (and he acts like a damn vampire the way he hates the sun) holding pretty baby penny in her adorable little swimsuit while mom sits at the edge of the pool with baby Waynie, kicking her feet in the water and making sure he’s alright while he splashes his little baby fists in the water and laughs at the way the water jumps. And then when they get home, despite his best efforts, Eddie gets a nasty sunburn and reader just spends the rest of the night rubbing aloe on him and kissing his shoulder when he hisses at her touch. I literally love my fictional family so much 🥹🥹

the way i was about to run down the stairs to make some popcorn bc this idea alone had me expecting a fic 😭

Oh my goodness, this made my heart so happy! I love imagining outings for this little family. Now, if we’re talking the community pool, Penny would be so afraid to go into it alone, and while Eddie actually HATES the community pool (bc of the large amounts of people + he burns so damn easily, and he doesn’t tan—he turns pink), he’ll do anything for Penny so he takes her in, yes she is decked out in the cutest swimsuit and pink floaties, and plays with her to keep her amused and keep her from drinking the disgusting pool water bc she keeps doing that. But he is constantly dragging her back over to mama and baby Wayne so he can reapply sunscreen whenever he’s paranoid that it’s washed off. This man almost goes through an entire bottle in a single trip.

And mom and Waynie 🥹 imagine playing with our little baby, letting him slap the water with his chunky little hands, his little squeals and laughs when the water splashes him back and then getting him used to the water! You’d start by getting his hair wet, which he doesn’t mind too much, and then holding your breath with him while you dunk the two of you underwater and when you come up a second later, you’re waiting for his reaction to see if he’ll cry—meaning you’ll have to get him used to it a little more and comfort him—but he just looks a little confused before he starts smiling that gummy smile so you do it again and when you come up this time, after blinking the water from his eyes, he’s laughing that magical baby laugh 😭🩵 our little water baby ♡

Eddie will always end up with a sunburn at the end of the day, no matter what, which is why he HATES going to the community pool. He ends up spread out on the couch, face down while you coddle him with aloe vera and a kiss or seventeen, and try to keep penny from pressing her hand onto her daddy’s skin because she’s just so fascinated with how her palm print shows up on his reddened skin when she does lol

If it’s the pool at their apartment complex, Eddie is full on playing mermaids with Penny

[queenimmadolla]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRnpWNsT/

Ignoring the fact that this is about two women lmao I could totally see Eddie getting so excited if you told him this, I don’t care what anyone says, this man has the fattest breeding kink known to man!!!!

Legend has it his dick grew three sizes that day

NO BUT REALLY. This man says he doesn’t want kids, can’t stand them. Then you see him interact with them and he is obviously wrapped around their sticky little fingers, making faces at babies in the grocery store to make them smile, answering the questions of a few curious little kids brave enough to come up and ask him about his ‘drawings on his arms’, and when he holds a baby??? Oh, man. He is a GONER every damn time, always chuckling and pulling his hair out of their grasps but he can’t be upset about them playing with his hair when they’re smiling at him like that and laughing along with him. When you jokingly refer to having his baby, make a comment in passing, or if you’re literally just singing along to this song, singing at him??? He’s locked, loaded and ready to go. I’m positive that’s when the seccs (spelling it that way so a bitch can’t flag this post for a label) is really primal—but intensely love filled—and deep in every way imaginable.

But he definitely pops a woody every time you convey wanting to have his babies, it’s kind of embarrassing cause you say it in public and he’s forced to walk around with that weapon of mass destruction lmao

[queenimmadolla]

It is a MONSTER of a heatwave in Indiana, so I imagine my precious little babies are indulging in one of those kiddie pools that kinda flop open, splashing in front of the trailer, baby Wayne reaching out of the pool to scoop up a handful of mud while mama who’s wearing a bikini that makes the neighbors turn their noses up, has to intercept it from his little hands before he can contaminate the whole pool. Penny is having the time of her life playing with the hose, shooting it up in the air so it looks and feels like it’s raining, spraying it towards the windows of the trailers because she likes to watch the water drip and appreciates the tinny sound it makes. But she especially likes tormenting her daddy, chasing after him with the hose, giggling as he screeches when the cold water soaks his back. And when he cries for your help you pretend not to hear though you snicker under your breath as you curl your lips in towards your teeth to conceal your laughter. Once the sun goes down you head back inside and since it’s too sticky and warm to sleep in bed you make a nest on the living room floor where you sprawl out and cuddle until the combined snores of your little family trickles into the cacophony of cicadas of crickets and that one lonely owl.

Okay, these thoughts and things you imagine? Yeah, I’m gonna need you to send them to me whenever you have them because YOU HAVE BEEN HOLDING OUT ON ME!!! Oh my gosh, Junie!!!!

I can imagine everything so clearly, Eddie fleeing from Penny, his curls limp and dripping wet, graphic t-shirt made translucent from the water of the hose and I can hear the laughter from both of them as well as baby Wayne’s. I can even see the neighbors peeking through their blinds, disapproval in their eyes simply because your family is happy and not hiding it (nor are you trying to hide in that bikini 👀—you did enough of that as a teenager).

And oh, how I live for family livingroom camp outs. The floor covered in sheets, blankets, and every pillow you could find as you all cuddle, cartoons displayed on the tv as everyone settles down from the excitement of the afternoon that had extended into the evening. Eventually, there are no more movies, nor is anyone awake to watch them. The tv screen is blue and the only sounds are the soft breathing (and Eddie’s snores) as well as the sounds of nighttime woodland life and that owl that definitely scares Penny whenever she’s awake to hear it.

[queenimmadolla]

Babes, i need to know what’s up with heather holloway lmao! Why are you do obsessed with her? Its def not a bad thing, just curious :)

I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE, here’s why i love Heather :)

One major thing is the injustice and lack of acknowledgment she gets from the fandom. ST3 came out in 2019 when fake feminism was on the edge of retirement, not kept quite as in check as it has been since 2020 *shoutout to drew afualo and the mass of people who decided it was finally time to defend women and female characters*—i know if she had been introduced in st4 she would have gotten the love and defense she deserved like Chrissy has—stemming in this case from the hate Heather and her actress received from billy fans back then because they interpreted her as a possible love interest for him and hated her into pretty much non-existence. Some people had the audacity—and still do—to approach her actress and tell her she looks plain and not very pretty. She’s got a decent amount of screen time, a pretty badass role as an unwilling side villain and I cannot figure out for the life of me why she’s forgotten about. Especially since she was a pretty big part of the plot for ST3. The fandom treated her very much so like the older women at the community pool did.

And it just breaks my heart that two younger girls Heather didn’t know were the only ones in the entire town that noticed she was missing and cared enough to notice something wasn’t right with her (not even her parents noticed she was different, though you can see with their comfortable family portrait that while they might not have known her very well, they still genuinely loved her and she loved them) and when she didn’t show up to work, none of her coworkers gave a fuck about her. So, that tells me she wasn’t really popular.

It wasn’t until after st4 came out and i rewatched the entire series, that i developed my obsession with her because i noticed my absolute favorite thing about her: she’s not anything special, she’s just a teenage girl who wasn’t popular, didn’t grab the attention of her hot co-worker, wasn’t his love interest, sat down with her mom and dad for dinners and was criticized by older women for simply existing. She was a normal teenage girl, just like i was. And it’s kind of self-deprecating to admit it, but there have been plenty of times where i thought if i would have gone missing, no one would notice and it made me really sad to notice that was the case with her.

I also love the symbolism with her being a lifeguard and how she went to Billy’s aide when she thought he was in trouble, even if it got her killed in the end. Don’t even get me started on the fact that her occupation is one that makes people need her (always have to have a lifeguard on duty), makes me think she might have gone for the job because of that. She’s not popular, doesn’t have a whole lot of friends but now she’s needed somewhere, she’s got a place. And the experience i got with Eddie was very similar to the one i got with Heather, I honestly thought she would survive. El and Max were trying to save her and everyone, so surely if the main characters were trying to help her, she’d prevail, right? No. She died a horrible, gruesome death.

And other than a quick name drop in st4, she was forgotten about. There was no Nancy like character to seek revenge on her behalf, no Joy Byers character to mourn her loss, no Murray character in her life to miss her as a friend. She’s just gone.

Naturally, what with me favoring the underdogs, I feel the need to protect and defend her, and maybe give her some justice. Which is why the Reader in Cruel Summer is based ENTIRELY on my interpretation of Heather, I actually debated on just writing a Heather/Eddie fic, but I was pretty sure it’d go largely ignored because it’d be about Heather, and i was afraid more people would hate her if I paired her with Eddie, so I went the Reader route. But all those character traits about Reader in it, Reader’s portrayal, everything, is how I imagine Heather Holloway. She deserved so much freaking better. If you try to scroll through her own damn name tag, you’ll find she’s still somehow barely in it. VERY FEW, and i mean FEW edits, pictures, anything about HER. IN HER OWN TAG! It’s been almost five years and you can still barely find a trace of her. Even KEITH gets more recognition. Fucking Keith who doesn’t have a last name and has less screen time in all of stranger things than she had in one season of it.

YEAH. WHEW, that’s a lot. That is a lot of information. But thank you for letting me rant about her, again lmao. Anyways, everyone pay more attention to Heather.

[queenimmadolla]

I’ve been holding back my truth for too long! I wanna give Eddie Munson a double purple nirple so bad!! He just looks like he deserves it! Ok that’s all I came on here to say 😌

now all of tumblr knows you’re here and sees your sins

he’s sad that the bats bit his nipple off so you can only twist one :(

[queenimmadolla]

Do you have any girldad!eddie recs cuz omg! There’s been so much baby content on my tiktok and I just need to read about Eddie being the best dad ever

I do not get to read nearly as much as I used to, so I haven’t kept up on girl dad!eddie other than what I write, so if anyone knows of some good recs, please share! I wanna read em too!

I also am in the mood to write some girl dad!stuff so 👀

[queenimmadolla]

Babes, I’m writing some smut but I’m feeling a bit stuck, do you go some tips for smut writing?

You gotta put yourself in horny mode and be as unrealistic as possible, because let’s face it, most of what we read is anatomically impossible and that’s why we love it (ain’t no way a penis is reaching my guts in real life, we got barriers in between lol and anything touching your cervix is painful as fuck but in fanfiction it is sexy). Mentions of bodily fluids will immediately make it 100x sexier, and sounds. Describing sounds is what truly makes it smut, in my opinion. Its one thing to read and imagine porn but imagining the sounds? The moans? Skin slapping? Squelching? the hills are alive with the sound of that music 🥵🥵🥵

also, I hate writing smut. it’s not actually enjoyable to write cause you gotta think super hard about it, but it’ll be worth it when you re-read it after you post it

[queenimmadolla]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRvjMD6f/

For some reason, this give me Joe vibes and I felt inclined to share with the class T-T I laugh so hard every time I watch it

I am so happy you brought this up bc LETS TALK ABOUT IT 😂

I am so proud of this man as an actor, but the fact that he knows so many accents always makes me giggle cause I know he has to do shit like this, break out an accent out of nowhere and especially when he’s alone lmao I need someone to ask him if he knows what an Irish goodbye is at a con bc I have a feeling he’ll just say ‘goodbye’ with an Irish accent lol

[queenimmadolla]

Babes, I got a job as a lifeguard and now I’m living my 80’s Heather Holloway summer dream lmao

how does it feel to be living MY (teenage) dream???

just remember to learn from Heather and Cruel Summer, don’t help anyone screaming in showers or you’ll get flayed and there’s no Eddie to be your hero lmao

[queenimmadolla]

I know we’ve been friends for a while and this is so embarrassing to admit but even longer than that I’ve been trying to figure out what your username means lololol! Would you please explain for my dummy brain??

Lmao, I actually love this cause I know it’s a weird one and people are probably like wtf whenever they see it.

It’s a Star Wars pun! I was in that fandom when I made my tumblr years ago! I always thought it was so freaking funny when Padme was referred to as Queen Amidala cause it sounded like people were saying Queen ‘I’m a dolla’ (as in dollar, $) so I just went with it and queenimmadolla was born 😭

[queenimmadolla]

Babes, I just want to remind you how much I care for you, you’re genuinely such a true friend and I appreciate you so much! xoxo

You tryna make me emotional, huh? HUH?! I appreciate you too, my friend 💞 I'll never forget how gobsmacked I was that another human being on tumblr was reaching out to me when I first started writing here. I'm so lucky it was you, thanks for all your encouragement 💗