#and steve basically says NO

[morganbritton132]

Hopper is ready to slap the cuffs on Richard Harrington right there and then when he’s eating lunch at the diner and sees Steve come in with a cast on his arm.

This might be the second time Hopper has ever seen this kid with his parents and he’s bruised up. Hopper frowns but then Steve spots him and announces loudly across the busy diner, “Hi, Mr. Hopper! Look at my cast!”

He’s shushed almost as soon as he opens his mouth and it is rather unfortunate for the Harringtons (and for Hopper) that one of the only open tables is near him. Steve is thrilled, talking a smidge quieter when he tells Hopper, “Isn’t it cool? Mama says that people can’t sign it ‘cause that’ll make it ugly but you can write your name in my notebook and it’s almost the same thing.”

That’s - god, that’s sound genuinely sad but Hopper signs his notebook anyways and asks, “How’d you break it?”

“Dad hit me with a car.”

Hopper freezes. Angela freezes. Richard freezes and then breaks, and says, “Steven, don’t word it like that.”

“I got a new bike and I was riding it real fast,” Steve tells Hopper, barely acknowledging his dad at all. “And Dad pulled out of the driveway real fast ‘cause him and Mama were fighting again,”

“Steven-“

“I couldn’t stop in time so I ran into the car,” Steve continues. “I flipped over the hood and Mama screamed like in a scary movie. It was awesome.”

“Awesome,” Hopper says flatly.

“I dented the car,” Steve adds. “Dad was real mad about it.”

“I was ang- I was more upset about the broken bone, Steven.”

“Now I get to have ice cream for dinner ‘cause Dad hit me with the car,” Steve says. “Do you want some? Dad is buying.”

“No thanks. But how about this,” Hopper says, eyes never leaving Richard’s as he pulls a sharpie out of his breast pocket. “How about I sign your cast for real.”

[papanowo]

what is their problem like actually

[uss-butterscotch]

Every Season Has Its Change: Part 7!

(Sorry if u missed the poll, that’s what we’re calling this now)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

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Max was right about the boys being off that day. They had beat him and the older Hellfire members to the lunch table, and when they arrived, Eddie caught the end of their hushed conversation.

“I was gonna call this morning, but then I remembered the time difference.” Dustin said, tapping his fork on his tray.

“This is so stupid.” Mike rolled his eyes, he was clearly trying to play cool, but the table was shaking slightly with the anxious bounce of his leg.

Lucas put a hand out. “Everything’s probably fine. If it wasn’t, we would have heard something by now-“

Eddie took his chance to butt in by slamming his own lunch on the table across from them. “Fine with what?”

All three of them jumped and turned wide eyes to him.

Dustin recovered first. “With… our friend. He moved away in September, and today is… an important day… for him.”

Eddie couldn’t believe this was the kid who had been successfully keeping some big secret from him for several months, his impromptu lying skills needed serious work.

Knowing full well what it was probably about based on his conversation with Max, decided to seize the opportunity for a possible slip up on the freshman’s part. “What, like his birthday?”

“If it was his birthday we would have just said that.” Mike snapped.

“Someone’s feisty today.” Eddie teased.

“We just want to check on him. It’s, kind of a rough anniversary for him.” Lucas eventually explained.

“This friend of yours wouldn’t happen to be Will Byers, would it?” Eddie asked, playing innocent.

Dustin and Lucas’ eyes widened in surprise, while Mike’s scowl just deepened.

“How did you know that?” Dustin asked.

Eddie leaned in theatrically and wiggled his fingers like he was casting a spell, “I know everything.”

Mike scoffed, “I highly doubt that,” he rolled his eyes, “I bet he got Max to tell him.”

Eddie raised an eyebrow, but Lucas beat him to a reply. “Why would Max tell him?”

“Because he drives her to school.” Mike said like it was obvious. When his friends just gaped at him, he went on, looking at Eddie now, “I’ve seen her get out of your van like 5 times in the past two weeks. You live in the same place, so it makes sense.”

“Wheeler has successfully figured me out in this case,” Eddie conceded. “I have been giving your grumpiest friend a ride to school for the last few weeks because we are, in fact, neighbors. And,” he adds dramatically, “she did, in fact, spill the beans about your friend, the formerly missing Will Byers.”

The freshmen shared a quizzical look. “She also,” Eddie continued, “advised me to avoid a certain monster in our session tonight.”

“What monster?” Wheeler pushed, his face still pinched.

Eddie raised an eyebrow. “You don’t know?”

Dustin rolled his eyes, “Of course we know. And by the way, if it’s what I think it is, Max was overreacting. We would be fine with that, right guys?”

Lucas and Mike nodded defiantly. “Totally.” Lucas said with just a little too much confidence to be sincere.

Eddie just nodded mischievously and let the lunch conversation move on.

That evening when they were playing, though he hadn’t originally intended it, the demogorgon did make an appearance. He couldn’t resist a chance to see what all the fuss was about. So, in his math period, instead of taking notes, he worked on rewriting the encounters for the evening.

As he and Gareth made their way from their last period to the drama room to set up, he caught a glimpse of Henderson chatting with one Robin Buckley.

He overheard Robin say, “Look, just try to be on time today, he was really antsy this morning, I dunno how long I can stop him from busting down the doors and dragging you all into his line of sight.”

“Robin, we’ll seriously be fine.” Henderson replied.

“I know that,” Robin huffed, “and I think rationally he knows that, but, you know how he gets.”

Dustin nodded, “Yeah, I do. I’ll try to make sure we’re out on time.”

Robin dropped a hand onto his hat and squished it around his head. “Thanks, baby dingus.”

As she walked away, Dustin called after her, “I rebuke that title!”

She simply turned around and stuck her tongue out. Eddie made his way into the drama room hopefully before Dustin became aware of his eavesdropping.

At around 7:30, the boys had finally successfully defeated his traps and puzzles and made it to the room of the cavern he had been looking forward to all night.

“There are no torches in this room-“

“I have darkvision!” Four of his players announce, snickering. They had made a game of seeing who could say it fastest, even though Eddie was acutely aware of who had darkvision literally the entire game, since he had noted it in his journal when he looked at all of their character sheets in session one.

Eddie grit his teeth, “I’m aware. Which is why I am describing the scene. Because I know you can see it.”

Gareth and Doug snickered, but he powered on. “The room is dark. The rough stone walls slightly damp, and-“ he sits up and presses the pads of his fingers together, “actually, can I get a perception check from all of you with darkvision?”

A chorus of numbers rang out, Eddie dismissed most of them as too low, until-

“Natural 20.” Wheeler announced with a smirk. “Plus four, but does it really matter?”

Eddie grinned mischievously. “Sir Gloomglade,” he said, holding eye contact with Mike, “as you scan the room, you notice, on the walls, there are claw marks.”

Mike narrowed his eyes at Eddie. “I point them out to my companions.”

“As you all inspect the walls, you begin to hear something coming from the entrance you all just came through.” Eddie started, “At first it’s just a dull thudding, but as it gets closer, you can tell these are footsteps. Footsteps of something very big.”

Dustin groaned and flopped back in his chair, “It’s the demogorgon.”

“It’s not the demogorgon.” Lucas said, sounding more annoyed than anything.

“Deja vu.” Mike mumbled under his breath.

“As you all turn to the doorway, you see the creature emerge from the darkness.”

“I don’t.” Jeff said, raising a hand, “I don’t have darkvision.”

“I cast Light on Jeff’s hat.” Gareth said, smiling playfully as he ruined the flow of the scene.

Eddie made a frustrated noise, “May I continue my reveal?”

Mike butted in then. “Why? We already know it’s the demogorgon.”

“Why would it be the demogorgon?” Doug asked.

“Because Eddie’s trying to mess with us.” Lucas said, matter-of-factly.

Eddie slammed the miniature figure onto the board in a fit of rage. “Ok fine! It’s the demogorgon! Everyone roll initiative!”

Around 30 minutes later, their fight was just about winding down, when the drama room door burst open, startling everyone.

Backlit by the fluorescent hallway lighting was Steve Harrington, neatly tucked polo and all, closely followed by Robin Buckley.

“I told you they were fine.” Robin said, exasperated.

Harrington had a bit of a frantic look in his eye as his gaze flicked back and forth between the three freshmen. “If you’re gonna go until 8:30, don’t tell me 8!”

At that, Dustin looked at his watch, “Shit, sorry Steve, we lost track of time.”

“And as you can see, they’re all in one piece,” Robin attempted in a soothing, yet annoyed voice, “so we’ll just be in the car until you’re done.”

She grabbed Harrington’s elbow, and tried pulling him out of the room with moderate success. The former jock seemed really reluctant to leave.

In a split second decision, Eddie’s mouth moved before he could stop it, “Why don’t you guys hang out here. We’re almost done.”

Eight pairs of eyes blinked at him in silence for a moment.

“Really?” Steve, Dustin, and Gareth said at almost the same time.

Eddie shrugged, going for nonchalant. “Sure, why not?”

“Um. Because you don’t just let people sit in on Hellfire meetings?” Jeff supplied unhelpfully.

Eddie made a harsh shushing noise at him and gestured to a bench on the other side of the room for the newcomers to sit. They looked at each other for a minute, and if Eddie thought the freshman were good at holding telepathic conversations, it was nothing compared to what Harrington and Buckley had going on. Maybe that was their secret, Eddie mused as they held a whole silent conversation; they had all fallen into some sort of comic book-style vat of radioactive waste together, and now they were all psychically linked and bound by a superhero’s oath to not reveal their secret identities. Eddie chuckled internally at the idea.

Eventually, Robin and Harrington shuffled awkwardly to the bench and sat down. Eddie kept tabs on them out of the corner of his eye, and was surprised to discover that Harrington actually seemed to be trying to pay attention, while Buckley scratched away at a notebook.

The fight was over in only a few more turns. “The demogorgon lays dead on the cold stone floor-“

He was interrupted again, this time by Harrington, “That’s a demogorgon?” he said incredulously.

“You have a problem with my figurines, Harrington?” Eddie asked, really at his limit for the night, but slightly shocked Harrington seemed even a little bit knowledgeable about the game.

“It just doesn’t look anything like-“

“Steve!” Lucas and Dustin, and Mike all interrupted at the same time with matching pointed looks.

Steve looked between them and Eddie for a moment. “Like I… pictured…” he gave the freshmen his own pointed look. “You guys are really bad at describing things.”

Eddie tried to decipher their staring contest for a moment before he clapped his hands together. “Anyway. That’s the session. Get out of here before your moms get their panties in a bunch.”

“Ew.” Mike said as he packed up his things. “Don’t make me think about mom panties.”

As Eddie gathered his own belongings, he listened as Harrington made his way over to Dustin.

“Sorry about busting in here, I just-“ Harrington started, and was swiftly cut off by Dustin.

“It’s ok. I get it.”

Eddie snuck a glance as Harrington have him a grateful half smile. He then turned to the others. “Alright, nerds, first one to the car gets shotgun!”

The freshmen scrambled over each other to get to the parking lot as Buckley smacked him with an offended “Hey!”

Harrington shrugged. “Easiest way to get them moving.”

Robin sighed and pulled Harrington’s keys out of his pocket, then followed the freshmen out the door.

Before he left, Harrington turned back to Eddie. “Thanks for letting us join, I uh,” he rubbed the back of his neck anxiously, his cheeks slightly pink in what Eddie was just now comprehending as embarrassment, “I don’t really have a good explanation for why I was freaking out, but, I just needed know they were ok.”

Eddie nodded. The other members of Hellfire had made their exit, and the two of them were left alone. “Mayfield told me this was sort of an emotionally charged day for you guys.”

Harrington’s eyebrows pinched in confusion. “Max?”

“You know any other Mayfields?” When he didn’t respond, Eddie elaborated, “I’ve been giving her a ride to school every once in a while.”

Harrington’s frown deepened. “I didn’t know she needed a ride, I would’ve-“

“Look, man,” Eddie cut him off, “I don’t know what your deal with them is, despite how deeply curious I am about the whole situation, but you don’t have to be the only one looking out for those kids.”

Harrington just raised an eyebrow at him.

“This is like, my whole thing.” Eddie said, spreading his arms wide, “looking out for the little guys that would otherwise get trampled.”

At that, Harrington’s expression shifted to something like remorse. “Yeah, well, I guess I’m trying to make up for doing some of the trampling.”

Eddie smirked. He thought about all the evidence he had collected on the situation over the past few weeks, all of it pointing to the frustratingly undeniable fact that, for some yet-to-be explained reason, Harrington had truly changed. That he sincerely cares about not only the geeky band kid that made it clear she had no romantic intentions for him, but also a group of some of the biggest bully targets Eddie had ever encountered.

He took in Harrington then, trying to reconcile this new version of the guy who once stood for everything he hated, and noticed some key differences in the man that stood before him now. The almost bruise-like bags under his eyes. The still styled, but less precisely cut hair. The air of uncertainty, like he was always waiting for the worst to happen. The determined glint in his eye like he’s ready to be the thing between whatever the worst happens to be and everyone else.

Eddie nodded once slowly, “That’s become quite clear.”

Harrington opened his mouth to say something else, but was once again interrupted by the door opening.

“Steve! What are you still doing in here?” Dustin complained, “Robin’s saying since she has the keys she has the power to bestow shotgun, and she’s bestowing it on herself.”

“Robin’s always right about everything,” Harrington replied, as if on instinct, “so yeah, she does have that power.”

“But you said-“

Harrington cut him off with a hand on his hat, similarly to what Robin had done earlier. “Oh so now you care about what I have to say.”

As he lead Dustin out of the room, he turned back and gave Eddie a half smile in farewell.

It was at that moment that something in the back of Eddie’s mind clicked into place, and he realized he was in trouble.

Part 8

[such-a-daydreamer]

Did a quick draw of these two idiots before bed :)

The lovely amazing fantastical (I've run out of words) designs of Bill and Steve belong to @taffypointby

Had a blast drawing these :3

[unluckedtj]

something bad’s about to happen to me

why i feel this way, i don’t know maybe

[maniaeofmadness]

YOURE TELLING ME THAT IN A UNIVERSE WHERE PEGGY BECOMES CAPTAIN CARTER THAT HER VERSION OF THE WINTER SOLDIER IS STEVE???????

[vagueeyes]

trivial pursuits

[deoidesign]

Hm... I'm feeling benevolent...

[dailyhtfboards]

Day 131

Today’s board is:

Most of the cast has kinda been posted recently so uhhhh… corn. (From TV episode 9C Aw, Shucks!)

[itswhatyougive]

Shout-out to Gaten Matarazzo, who when asked to choose between Steve and Eddie was like literally how dare you??? They are Dustin's dads and also in love

[draconicmaw]

The fact that Yuri Lowenthal gave Steve Shell sad wet puppy eyes until he could collaborate on the show will never cease to tickle me pink.

[wixterirox]

Billy and Heather recovering together is so important to me

[imavikingo]

Everytime I look at Tumblr and see the tl I remember why I hate endgame with a passion you couldn't understand.

They fucked up Steve and Bucky so bad (yes, Bucky too bc suddenly he doesn't matter/isn't even a secondary character that deserves to be near Steve)

It's so funny to me (not) bc they talked about gay characters being in the movie at panels and interviews and even talked about Stucky at some point (basically queerbaiting) for then... Steve not even acknowledging Bucky. An awkward and impersonal hug doesn't cut it.

And Steve suddenly yearning and talking about Peggy? When he didn't even mourned her that bad and already had let her go ages ago? They knew they fucked up in CATWS with Steve and Buckys relationship, so they tried to distance them and then inserted Peggy bc ofc

(they possibly didn't have the time for a new character and they already had fucked up pairing Nat and Bruce and Wanda and Vision). Steve didn't have anyone else he cared about so they couldn't give him a new girlfriend. So they used Peggy AGAIN.

I'm not mad bc "Stucky not canon grr"

No.

I'm fucking pissed off because they did the worst character assassination and friendship assassination possible. Every movie of Cap America revolved around Steve saving Bucky at some point and him caring about him above all else, and you want me to believe that Steven Grant Rogers didn't care about him when Bucky died in front of his eyes? AGAIN? That Peggy's death was more important and impactful for him? If that was the case then why the fuck did he crash the plane then? If he cared so much about Peggy since forever?

No, that was just lazy writing and a way to reinforce Steve's sexuality "He can't be gay and you can't say that bc he LOVES PEGGY"(even tho he only kissed her once, even tho he crashed the plane and didn’t give her the coordinates, he didn't really care that much after all) they could have paired him with Nat in later movies, but they didn't.

That's why I only raise my eyebrows a lil when people say that x character will be gay canonically in a marvel movie/series. Is more than possible they won't. And if they are they're Deadpool, a secondary character no one cares about (obscure in lore too, so they can cut them off) or is plain queerbaiting again (because yes, even if you don’t see Steve and Bucky’s relationship as romantic, they DID QUEERBAIT IT)

Steve and Buckys relationship wasn't even written in a romantic way (you can ship them or not), but they tried so hard to rectify Steve's heterosexuality in endgame, that they fucked up their character arcs on purpose. And now they will always feel hollow and inconclusive. A bad taste in the mouth, a painful reminder of what it was and a what? 11 year long? characterization.

Idk man, I know I've talked about this more than three times, but omfg Tumblr reminds me why I hate that fucking movie!!! It's not my fault!!!

I know I'm going to end up writing something out of spite bc I can't take it shdkdjjcif

"It's been more than 4 years get over it" NEVER

Also the bit with Johnny Storm in Deadpool and Wolverine was also a dig (a fuck you if you will) to the fans bc Deadpool explicitly calls him Cap. And it implies that Steve as a character (not that old Steve nonsense) won't be back.

It's funny they've remade over and over again some movies (Fantastic 4, Spiderman) changed actors for characters (James/war machine, Bruce) and they include them in the multiverse/plot, but they won't do the same to some movies and some characters when they fuck up their stories, because they know if they do, they will have to acknowledge WHY they did it. Like with James/war machine changing actors.

So yeah, that's one of the reasons I don't care about Marvel anymore.

**I mean remake the movies ((Also they Can't remake Cap America bc that would mean they need to remake every important movie. And they don't have the time, the money nor the need. So that's why they decided to fuck their character arcs))

or include some characters in multiverse (they're going to do that with Tony/RDJ/Dr Doom after all, no?) and they also won't remake Cap bc the movies are amazing.

But the point stands. Steve couldn't be in DaW bc that would imply he's an alternative one or that Old!Steve was an alternative one or wasn't even Steve to begin with. But they couldn't do that ofc, no, bc that would give the fans hope in seeing Steve and Bucky together once again. So they did a dig at the fans bc "haha you thought it was Steve, but it's Johnny!"

Idk if I'm making sense at this point I'm tired af, need to sleep.

The thing is that they fucked up Steve Rogers's arc on purpose (Bucky's too, and others charas too tbh) and now they expect the fans to accept everything they give us with open arms. And imho I won't accept shit.

"Deadpool saved the MCU" how? If the other og characters are DEAD or they fucked them up too? Or are the butt of the joke now? Don't make me laugh. Most people don't gaf bout the new charas bc they only are presented in series not everyone watches (only available in one place) or are presented with characters that are dead now or as a replacement for the og characters. They aren't interesting on their own (not really, at least in mcu) and that's why most of the new stuff isn't liked as much. If they wanted to present more characters the opportunity passed already.

Also now if you want to watch and really understand 1 movie (if you don't read the comics too) you need to watch like 20 other movies and 5 shows. it's fucking exhausting.

[batcavescolony]

Captain America #1

I definitely see why they didn't keep 'Camp Lehigh Child Mascot Buck Barnes' for the MCU but look at him ❤ he was just a baby

[vagueeyes]

I love this, from the big programme:

because it reminds me of this, from the ELIZABETH GADGE commentary:

Reece: Can't see now, the sun's come out. Steve: Close the curtains. (Reece sighs) (to listener) Reece is closing the curtains. Reece (in background): I am. (sound of curtains closing)

[perry-fics]

I'm having lots of fun with this We are The world reaction vid, so I thought I'd share.

The Steve and Bruce parts are the best!