#Katie Henderson

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THE ACES | I'VE LOVED YOU FOR SO LONG Live from My Den

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The Aces for ENFNTS TERRIBLES

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Katie Henderson

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 22 January 1996

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician

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THE ACES ♪︎ “Physical”

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GALLERY: The Aces

by Alycee Byrd

“On tour, shows sometimes start to feel the same....this might sound crazy, but I think Charlotte is the best show this far on the tour.” The crowd was electric last Friday night during The Aces' show at The Underground. This Charlotte, NC, stop was the 8th show on their U.S leg of their I’ve Loved You For So Long (ILYFSL) Tour. The four piece band performed songs from all parts of their discography, dating all the way back to 2018. The show setlist ranged from high energy pop hits like “Daydream,” to alternative ballads like “Suburban Blues,” which touches on their experience of navigating their queerness while living in a small town in Utah. You could feel the passion and emotional impact the band has on their fans while looking through the faces in the crowd. Their music truly touches a wide demographic of people from all different ages, races, and gender identities. Their shows are a space where you can come as your authentic self. If you have an opportunity to catch a show in your city, I would highly recommend seeing and support this all-woman group who truly puts their heart into their music and performances. Check out our highlights from the show below!

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@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: free choice

Queer lyrics in I've Loved You For So Long by The Aces (02/06/2023)

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The Aces – Brooklyn Steel – October 11, 2023

Over the summer, the Aces brought their third studio album, I’ve Loved You for So Long, to Europe. And having recently launched a new American leg of their world tour, the Utah pop quartet headlined Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday night.

Photos courtesy of Ken Grand-Pierre | www.kenamiphoto.com

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Steve comes from a long line of only children. He’s the last one standing after his mother dies, left alone on a barren family tree. This deep longing for an extended family made a home in Steve’s soul at a young age. For so long, it was only Steve and his mother. She raised him as best she could, but Steve never wanted that lonely existence. 

Finding someone that would want that life with him didn’t pan out the way he thought it would. Dating in Hawkins was limited and if he wanted to be truthful with people, also dangerous. Robin was the best dating app mishap turned best friend Steve could’ve hoped for, and she encouraged him to look into solo parenting, promising to be his platonic coparent every step of the way. 

Before his transition, he started a grueling IVF journey. Wanted to quit more times than he wanted to carry on. It didn’t take the first time, and Robin was there to hold him when he wasn’t sure he could handle another round of it. They didn’t know how lucky they’d get the second time. 

Dustin was born just after Thanksgiving that year, and he turned into a precocious toddler faster than Steve could blink. He had this mass of hair that Steve was in awe of, the height definitely coming from him but the curls were a mystery gift from their donor. Steve loved his chubby cheeks and toothless smile more than anything on earth. 

Everything about Dustin brightened up Steve’s world, even when his screams kept Steve and Robin awake all night, or he spit up on Steve’s shirt right before work and he had to change into a questionably dirty shirt because he hadn’t had time for laundry. Steve loved it all. He especially loved how smart his kid was, shooting straight to the top of his class, reading above grade level, doing math equations faster than Steve could comprehend. Robin joked that the donor must have some strong nerd genes to come from Steve and be that much of a math genius. 

He doesn’t actually know much about the donor, other than the recording he has from the interview and a brief profile of his family’s medical history. It might be silly, but Steve ended up picking this donor because of his laugh. It was melodic, ringing in the air long after he finished laughing, and something about it pulled at Steve’s heart in a way the others didn’t. 

Steve doesn’t hide much from Dustin, there’s no point really when your kid’s a genius, but he doesn’t give Dustin the file until he turns 11, doesn’t even hint at it. While Dustin is a curious kid, he’s also got a knack for knowing when to press an issue or not. He had a lot of questions about the process, but always shied away from asking more about how Steve chose or who his donor was. When they finally talked about it as Steve handed over the file to Dustin on his eleventh birthday, Dustin said he always knew Steve chose to have him and that was all that mattered. 

But once he gets his hands on that file, the curiosity voyage sets sail and Dustin’s chasing leads on who this man is like he’s in an episode of scooby doo. The agency will only give them the contact information they had on file 12 years ago. It’s a long shot, expecting someone’s number to be the same, but it’s all they have. A single phone number. 

When a gruff voice answers the phone and Steve explains the situation, the man on the other line agrees to meet them. The address he gives is for the Munson ranch about an hour outside of town. He knows about the ranch in the same way everyone in a small town knows of each other. He’s never been there, but the owner brings a lot of money into the town and mostly keeps to himself. His nephew was a few years ahead of Steve in school, but they never crossed paths. 

It turns out there’s only one Munson left in Hawkins, and Steve’s pretty sure the bald man that’s twice Steve’s age and looks down his nose at Steve and Dustin, isn’t the donor. Recognition sparks in his eyes, though, when Dustin starts talking, some of that defensiveness melting off his face. It’s softening into the same fondness Steve has when looking at Dustin, that inescapable way he pulls you into his orbit and snatches your heart right up. He lets Dustin take the reins, watching Wayne fall under Dustin’s spell.

His first words after Dustin’s long rambling opener about their predicament are, “Your hair looks just like his at that age.” 

Hope blooms in Steve’s chest. He’d been afraid that they wouldn’t find anything, or what they found might disappoint Dustin. But there’s someone out there that’s half of Dustin. Someone that might have given him all these little quirks that Steve’s so fond of. Someone that might want to be a part of his life, even if Steve isn’t sure he’s ready for that. 

Wayne explains that his nephew is out of town with his band, touring somewhere until the end of the month when they come home for the holidays. That’s only two weeks away and it doesn’t give Steve long to prepare for meeting someone that helped bring the best thing into his life, but it’s enough time for Wayne to welcome them into his home with an open heart.

It’s just long enough for Steve to find out that Eddie grew up on the ranch with Wayne and his father, who abandoned them when Eddie was about Dustin’s age. To find out that Eddie always loved music more than the horses and took off the first chance he got once he had the funds. To see pictures along a mantle of another precocious kid with a wild mane of hair that looks about as unstoppable as Dustin. 

Robin comes with them the night they’re going to meet Eddie. It’s a few days after he’s returned from tour. Wayne wanted enough time to prepare him before getting Dustin’s hopes all the way up. When they got the okay, Steve wasn’t sure he could do it alone, so Robin is glued to his side when they pull up at the ranch and come face to face with Edde Munson. 

But Steve relaxes when he sees the same wide grin on Eddie’s face that he sees on Dustin’s every day. And he doesn’t know it yet, but maybe he’s finally filled out that family tree and found the home he never knew he needed, with branches for Robin, Dustin, and maybe two Munsons.

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THE ACES // I'VE LOVED YOU FOR SO LONG

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Big Time Incorrect Quotes/Text Posts #46

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Charlie Barnett posted more Acolyte bts on his insta letsgoooooo

+another one, not from his photo dump but just as important to me

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I finally had some time to draw after been working a lot lately

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james diamond and logan mitchell is just drake and josh in another universe

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hii - director commentary for october from "(is there a moment) when saying goodbye doesn't feel like the end"

ask game for (is there a moment)

so, october was actually my least planned month, which is why they ended up… more of a collection of thoughts and not really a solid scene! they became my opportunity for dustin to really think about steve and his death, which was good because first, it helped me give more context as to what happened to steve, esp because i hadn’t written his actual death scene yet lmao. and it also gave me a chance to kind of delve deeper into dustin’s thoughts and guilt, and the way his memories and ideas about steve were forming.

first section:

the sinclairs—

i remember when writing this i made sure i mentioned that it was erica and lucas that ran to dustin when he collapsed.

i don’t think erica gets enough credit for being part of scoops troop and being down there with them. obviously erica is younger and had less of a connection with steve, but i still wanted to give her that mention. especially because, with dustin inevitably pulling away the way he does, the two of them wouldn’t be as close come s4. and i guess that was my little glimpse at the close relationship they have in canon.

also, lucas is my baby sweet boy, and i wanted to introduce early the way he’s stepping up for the others and trying to be a comfort for them before himself. he just wants to do right by them all and they all keep drifting away :(

dreams —

this section also sets up what’s become kind of a theme with saint stephen which is dreams. the first mention we have is dustin reliving the fourth of july, and seeing steve’s bloody corpse blaming him for his death. all pretty standard stuff lmao. but i do think it’s fun to look at the way people are thinking about steve in their subconscious. dustin, who… at this point i figure we all know is a target for vecna, is obviously drenched in guilt. dustin can’t “dream someone he’s never seen”, and he’s dreaming of steve cursing at him, so it’s this kind of… this is now the steve he remembers. the steve that lives with him. who spits all the worst things dustin is thinking about himself back in his face.

dustin’s guilt and anger at himself really is just like a slow poison of his and steve’s relationship. no matter how much dustin loves steve, he will always be haunted by the idea that he got him killed.

second section:

dustin’s ideas about the afterlife —

a lot of thought actually went into this, and it is quite fun to pick apart lol.

so dustin only actually thought about two different ideas: haunting and reincarnation. he never talks about steve actually moving on to some kind of heaven. now obviously we know that steve is alive out there, which that little section is kind of winking about, but dustin doesn’t. his thoughts about the afterlife are like a continuation of dustin’s guilt around steve and his inability to actually let go of him. even when dustin is consciously recognising and thinking about steve dead, he still isn’t really able to conceptualise steve no longer on the planet.

physical ghosts —

this isn’t specific to october, but i am obsessed with it, so i’m talking about it anyway lmao.

so in this section steve’s old sports trophies and headstone stand as this idea of physical memories of steve. now i use this in saint stephen a lot lmao. but i just think it’s so fun. steve’s fingerprints are littered around this town. they’re all that remain of him. just little snapshots of memories of who he was, of what he did and where he went. dustin couldn’t escape steve even if he wanted to, because glimpses of steve’s past follow him wherever he goes.

now in this section, all dustin mentions is dust covered trophies and his cold headstone. i wanted them to seem kind of neglected and abandoned. they’re cold and unused. does anyone really care about them anymore? steve’s greatest high school achievements and they’re just gathering dust on a shelf. delicious.

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#59

In 2010, Katy Perry releases the song The One That Got Away, and it becomes a radio hit practically overnight. Steve hears it once, and he hates it instantly. It’s not a bad song, but with lines like “All this money can’t buy me a time machine”, “I should’ve told you what you meant to me/Cause now I pay the price” and “In another life/I would be your girl/We’d keep all our promises/Be us against the world. In another life/I would make you stay/So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away”, plus many more that make up the entirety of the song, it instantly takes him back to the summer of 1985, and the blue-eyed blonde that now only exists in the minds of him, the three other teens who had been there at the time, and a gaggle of kids he’d terrorized, but ultimately sacrificed himself for. Whenever the song comes on the radio, he has to change the station.