#and me writing food related reddie fics is part of my ed therapy lol

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Diners drive ins and dives?!?! Tell me more!

ahhhh i love this doc bc i have like 2 simultaneous fics going on in there at once and i just need to figure out which path i wanna go for that vibe lol

one of them is a post-derry 2.0 road trip in which richie is taking eddie home to LA in his obnoxious red sports car and is narrating the whole start of the road trip like it's the beginning of a DDD episode and eddie is like "i have no idea what you're talking about" and richie realizes that not only has eddie never eaten in a diner, a drive-in, or a dive since the losers split up as teenagers, but he has never even watched the his guy fieri show diners drive-ins and dives which is INEXCUSABLE. so he takes it upon himself to introduce eddie to like, the best/worst food in each state they pass through and kind of help eddie piece together his past and his new future on a slow burn food-fueled road trip which i will probably never fully flesh out bc i have no patience for slow burn or multi chapter fics lol.

the other angle is that they're both living in LA and richie loves bringing eddie to new trendy food places or just any good cool cultural fusion places he can find just bc he wants to introduce eddie to everything he's kinda been deprived of in the years they've been apart, but kind of hides it in like "i'm annoying i wanna try new food i'm gonna drag you along with me" but it ends up being like, richie uses these little outings as a way to break big news to eddie and the focus on in the fic is that richie's management team wants him to kind of have a PR relationship now that he's out and he's kind of giving eddie this look across the table being like "well i don't have any reason to say no, do i??????" 👀 waiting for eddie's response.