#daily dose of robin

[lovelydrusilla]

"from the vault". a deep dive into iconic robin tunney photos. 🎄tm secret santa 2022 day five for @thinkingaboutjisbon

[iamthehamburglar]

Your daily dose of insanity

[searsage]

"Stop being so damn sweet, Your giving me terrible impulses.." Robin snorted as she pressed another soft kiss to her architect's jaw, the soft content hum her affection earned her only further instigated her dotting.

"Impulses..?" Her architect asked softly tilting his head curiously, she could hear his intrigue but the poor precursor was far too distracted indulging in her attention then to pry any further into the less then innocent comment.

"Yes very invasive ones…" Robin laughed giving into the urge to kiss the side of his neck, trying her damnest to catch one of the anxious streaks of light racing over her carapace.

"Oh…Yes I believe I understand…" Al-an sighed, his claws contently playing in her long braids as he waited patiently for his human to get her fill of him.

"Oh..do you..?" Robin asked curiously.

"Yes, intrusive musings, I often experience these phenomenon when i encounter your coffee machine and contemplate my experiences with it.."

"Hahaha! What..?" Robin couldn't help herself, a mirth filled snort escapes her lips.

"Do you find my unfortunate encounter with your overwhelming bean stimulant amusing Robin..?"

Al-an huffed, a claw idly lifting her chin, angling her face up to meet his eyeless face.

"No..no..i just-" Robin was over taken by the laughter, made even more prominent when her architect blazed an incredulous yellow.

"It was not." Al-an moped broodingly.

"Okay, okay…i know" Robin snickered getting another soft kiss against her cheek for her indiscretion.

"You are still laughing. Perhaps i should recount some of your more questionable decisions in the past year…" Al-an sniffed, pinching her side gently.

"Don't be salty, that was one hundred percent your fault big guy." Robin squeaked with laughter, betting away her testy architect.

"Our vessels require very little salt, I am however experiencing a critical deficit in suger…" Al-an deadpanned rather urgently.

"You are..? No wait. Really Al-an!?" Robin wheezes equally appalled and amused by the terrible pick up line.

"Robin, please utilize haste, I require your aid, carry on." Al-an insisted, pressing forward for his demand.

"Holy sol, your rotten, fine you win." Robin huffed far more flustard then she rightfully should have been at the silly joke.

She didn't even try to stop the laugh the bubbled up when her architect gives a satisfactory hum.

[dolyx]

cw hospitalization, medical malpractice

(that does make me wonder how school li's would be as nurses tho.

kylar is def the most questionable. gets scolded a lot by both the head nurse and the doctors, usually bc (1) the patients find them offputting and (2) they do not (always) follow proper health standards (has their hair unkempt most of the time, carries items that can be used as a weapon). jealousy is easy to raise. u just have to share ur room with another patient and u'd get the | + Jealousy stat everytime kylar go in and out of ur room. even more so when they catch u talking to someone else, be it a fellow patient, another nurse, a guest, etc. would def try to isolate u. move u to a more private room, tell ur visitors ur unavailable. if at high enough love/jealousy, would start interfering with your healing process. gives u the wrong drugs, throws away your prescribed drugs, might even make people believe that ur not taking ur meds properly so you get to stay longer. u cant leave them if you dont get discharged.

robin also gets scolded a lot, but less than kylar, and mostly due to their clumsiness and… clumsiness. lack of confidence, maybe? but patients love them. the other nurse and staff love them. they do tend to get a bit closer to the patients than ideal and let it interfere with their work sometimes, but everyone knows it's coming from a good intention. i don't think they'd be very problematic, tho at high love and confidence will take more night shifts bec :) somno. takes a break by sneaking into ur room and napping while cuddling u. robin can just say they're checking up on u/the other patients in the room once they're done anyway. sometimes sexual shit ensues, but they clean u up before anyone else notice.

sydney is the most normal™. kinda. im drawing up a blank for them atm but they'd be the nicest… the kindest… the goodest… and honestly the most decent nurse out of the 4 lol. very normal. acts like a typical nurse. everyone loves them. has ideal patient-nurse relationship with their patients. next in line for the head nurse. but if harper's your doctor, u bet ur ass they will try to sneak u out of the hospital as soon as possible. high corruption, they'll just bust u out. if the hospital isn't managed with someone of particular importance to syd, they'll resign and get you out of here. wherever hospital u go next, they go. if the hospital is managed by jordan/sirris though… they won't resign just yet. they'll try to reason with them first to transfer u to a different hospital/be assigned to a different doctor. if that doesn't work, will sneak you out, but will also stay for a few more days/weeks before handing in their resignation to avoid suspicion.

whitney is most popular for the wrong reasons. at low love, skips frequently. loud as FUCK. u can't really tell if they got in the field purely bc it's their passion or if it's smth pushed onto them. treats u like shit. not enough to, let's say, cause some serious damage. but he will not care abt ur comfort, only cares abt getting u out of here so they'll have less ppl to tend to. at high love, will be "nicer". scolds u out of affection, not out of wanting u to get ur ass out of here. will indirectly tell u to visit them (or share their contact info w u?) if u get discharged. if at high lust will be a little shit. expect a lot of teasing. edges the fuck out of you by his words alone. if ur in a priv room, much worse. but if you ask them nicely, maybe they'll oblige. just maybe.)

[lonnieontherun]

Christian Slater as Will Scarlet in ‘Robin Hood Prince of Thieves’    

[roseworth]

Tim really is the easiest Robin to get rid of narratively and the sooner people realise this the better society will become

REAL. rip tim but it is so much more fun when you replace him !! people bend over backwards to put tim into aus when really you can just get rid of him <3 plus by not making him robin you’re actually decreasing his trauma bc most of the bad things that happen to him happen because he’s robin whereas if he’s not robin he just gets to live his normal ass life

[arkangelo-7]

Okay, but, BatAdvil.

At this point in his career, Bruce has developed more synthetic drugs than a Pfizer employee without health insurance—it just comes with the territory. Given his close proximity to the Rouge Gallery and Gotham’s semi-poisonous smog, he’s had to teach himself the art of medicinal drugs. There’s an entire fridge dedicated to his creations, but his magnum opus will always be BatAdvil.

Bruce designed it following a particularly godawful run-in with Killer Croc back in 2005, but it was Dick Grayson who actually coined the term. Alfred was suspicious but ever since BatAdvil’s creation, Bruce has kept a tiny bottle of it on him at all times; any time the Joker or Poison Ivy gets a particularly nasty hit in, he’ll pop a pill and suddenly he’s 25 years old again and pain’s only a distant memory.

Eventually, though, the Robins get their hands on it.

Dick routinely steals Bruce’s horde. It’s because he’s so generous with it; anytime he’s in a team up and his partner gets whacked around by one of Blüdhaven’s worst, Dick, guilty, offers up the pills to both superpowered and pedestrian hero’s alike. It’d made him extremely popular with the Justice League—there’s regular fights over who gets to assist Nightwing in hopes of getting their hands on some free BatAdvil.

Jason, once he’s adopted and learns the Secert, immediately sees the potential of dealing BatAdvil. He starts with the Titans, because their proximity to Dick means they’re already hooked, and goes on to dominate the Justice League as the leading BatAdvil dealer. He makes a killing off that stuff and keeps his cash stash locked away in a random chimney in Wayne Manor.

Tim knows about it. Tim knows everything, actually, but he’s acutely aware of Bruce’s miracle pills and Jason’s dealings with the JL. Once Jason’s dead, Tim not only takes over the Robin mantle, but also Jason’s superhero drug ring. He runs it so efficiently that when Jason comes back, he half considers hiring Tim for his criminal enterprises before he decides that trying to kill him would he more rewarding.

Side note: Tim 100% uses the chemical composition of BatAdvil to make a pain-relieving energy drink. It works great, but the problem is that it’s shit on his liver, so he has to go back to regular coffee after a few weeks to avoid losing another internal organ.

Damian and Steph are similar in that they both at first think BatAdvil is stupid. They stick to regular Advil or just go to hard drugs for when they’re seriously injured. But then they both have a scenario where they have some sort of project or test the next morning and have to study, but also just broke like three ribs fighting the Riddler two hours before. They take BatAdvil once and never go back.

Bruce, to this day, uses the stuff religiously. Like, on a daily basis. (He’s got eight kids, he’s forty-five, and he’s beating up criminals on the regular. It’s tough on his knees.) But like regular Advil, the more BatAdvil one takes, the more their immunity grows and the larger their dose has to be. Bruce accidentally gives Clark one of his every-day pills BatAdvils after he gets whacked during an alien invasion and Clark immediately passes out. The League freaks out and Batman awkwardly disappears and pretends like it wasn’t his fault. Dick cries tears of laughter when he hears.

[gatitties]

Hellooo! Im so happy you opened your request 😩Can i request something for platonic Yandere strawhats (zoro and luffy really) with a teen! Reader who acts snarky and bold but they’re scared of everything form a butterfly to a emperor of the sea so they refuse to join the crew? If possible could you include law as well. Tyy💕

─Yandere!Strawhats (Luffy & Zoro) & Law x teen!reader (Platonic)

─Summary: you are a stubborn teenager and you refuse to have extra 'protection', bad luck for you…

─Warnings: manipulation, death, mention of gutting someone, blood, unjustified obsession, toxic behaviors, yandere stuff...

─ Are you an idiot? Affectionate question that these two ask each other when they meet you.

─ You are brave and stubborn enough to get hurt during a fight but you run away if you see a butterfly because bugs are ugly and scary according to you.

─ And on top of that you deny his offer to be on his crew? Your pride is going to make these two men bald, they are doing all this for your good, you should be more aware of their actions.

─ Luffy is by your side day and night repeating over and over again that you are part of his crew, he will refuse to leave the island without you, you are too young, inexperienced and afraid to survive on your own even if you have family who can take care of you.

─ In fact, Zoro already took care of that, definitely if your family members didn't exceed his expectations, which to no one's surprise, they didn't, they wouldn't be able to protect you like he would.

─ It took them at least a week to persuade you enough with some manipulation, with the help of Robin, and even when you were half convinced to leave in search of not-so-desired adventures, they ended up kidnapping you because you were still stubborn.

─ So you found yourself glued to two idiots against your will, playing games with Luffy that even at your age wouldn't find fun, watching in silence as Zoro flexed his muscles while he trained.

─ And if you thought that someone from the crew was going to help you get out of that spiral of obsession you were very wrong, if they weren't threatened, they would also be somewhat obsessed with keeping you safe after spending some time by your side.

─ They will take advantage of how scared you are, literally anything would make you jump two meters off the ground, once you were scared of your own shadow, everyone will take advantage of it to scare you and make you hug them.

─ No matter how much you fight, Luffy needs at least one hug daily and will wrap his rubber arms around you completely suffocating you, Zoro is not that fussy, but he will use you as a stuffed animal to hug during his naps.

─ Don't even think about seeking comfort from anyone other than them or at least part of the crew when you're scared, they are the only ones who can help you, understand, the others only want to use you and won't take care of you as well as they do.

─ Many failed escape attempts, either because you have been caught or because you were just sailing through waters infected with sea monsters, you always end up locked up overnight as punishment.

─ If necessary, they will knock you out so that you do not put yourself in danger, your sarcasm and sometimes bad temper can put you in dangerous situations and they are not going to go through that, they would have to kill someone again.

─ He was just passing by, your island was in a small fever pandemic and Law was just helping the whole town a little, however you seemed so out of it when you were sick, so lost and hurt, you reminded him of his sister.

─ He simply took you away to, supposedly, cure you since he had better equipment on the submarine, you couldn't even fight against this because seriously, it seems like you have one foot in the grave when you're sick.

─ He got rid of all your discomforts, but he also discovered that you were a big mouth, but hey, no one likes to be kidnapped so he got a good dose of irritating adolescence.

─ It was difficult to make you see reason that you would be much better off with him and that your island was potentially dangerous, it's not like you came to reason but he forced you to listen to him and collaborate with some threats.

─ He was quite surprised when one night you asked him to sleep with him because you saw a spider prowling around your room, even though you were a very sarcastic and sassy person, you were very scared and he used that as an advantage.

─ Do you want to get out of the submarine? It's okay, just hold his hand and you can go anywhere, do you want to go outside alone? No way, do you know about the insects, contagious diseases and monsters that can wait for you out there? Of course not, you're just a teenager.

─ He always makes excuses that something that terrifies you is hanging around the islands where you stop.

─ Maybe if you get too annoying or whiny about not being able to go out on your own, he'll let you go on your own for a bit… although it only gives you a false feeling of freedom since you always have one of the crew members watching you closely.

─ No teenage romance, he is not going through that time, if necessary he will show you the person you like dissected to scare you enough to think twice about trying to escape.

─ Consider all escape attempts a failure because Law has everything really calculated and the crew is too afraid at this point, they were the ones who had to clean the mutilated corpses of the people who were on the blacklist.

─ Because Law wrote down each of the people who have done something to you that he considers bad or harmful to you.

─ He has already lost a sister, he's not going to lose another even if you are not related to him by blood.

[dairy-farmer]

Tim is accidentally dosed with truth serum on a huge cross-team mission. Mostly everyone is trying to be polite and not ask questions but then someone (the ensuing chaos prevented anyone from identifying the person) asked Tim what his biggest kink was, and Tim said he has a Daddy kink.

Someone else nervously jokes that Tim must have a crush on Batman since he's a 'total leather daddy', which causes Tim to burst out laughing. Tim explains, between peals of laughter, that Batman is like an 'anti'-Daddy to him: Tim spent so much time essentially parenting Batman when he was younger that he could never see him in a sexual light. Yeah, he may have thought B was hot in the beginning, but that evaporated pretty damn quick; Tim describes it as being like when a wife stops being attracted to her husband because instead of helping and being a partner, the husband basically acts like another child - leaving messes for her to clean up, half-assing chores or straight up weaponizing incompetence, and just being a burden in general.

Tim wants a Daddy to take care of him and pamper and spoil him, and Batman has thoroughly proven himself to be incapable of that.

Needless to say, everyone loses their shit: laughter, incredulity, shouting additional questions. Most heroes were completely unaware of the parentification of Red Robin during his early years, and are heavily judging B for making a child shoulder his emotional and mental well-being.

Bruce himself is thoroughly disgruntled, partly because his coworker/friends are judging him, but maybe also partly because he was a bit attracted to Tim and upset that Tim saw him as the exact opposite of sexy.

(Bruce: I could be a good Daddy!

Dick: You barely manage to be a 'dad' half the time.😑)

While everyone is busy yelling/laughing/scolding Batman/whatever, Jason sidles up to Tim like: You know Red, I could be your Daddy if you wanted. *wiggles eyebrows*. Tim Looks him dead in the eye and says, "Hood, I've wanted to fuck you since before the Tower incident. If you promise to cook me dinner occasionally and spank me when I'm bad, I'll suck you dry on a daily basis."

Needless to say, it isn't until everyone has finally calmed down that they realize Red Robin and Red Hood are no longer there.

yessssssss!!!!!!!!!!1 i love this so much!!!!!! tim on truth serum admitting he has a MASSIVE daddy kink ❤️❤️❤️ but then also detailing about how bruce gives him the ick 😭😭😭, that if anything HE'S the daddy between him and bruce, that he's done everything but physically breastfeed him. that bruce is not erotic to him because of the amount of emotional labor he's had to endure for him and it has therefore made bruce essentially unfuckable 😭!

[morningstargirl666]

The wolf limped through the woods, blood coating its muzzle and dripping from its fur, staining the grey pelt a patchwork of crimson in the dying light. The full moon had already waned once, the sun breaking on a new dawn and now the moon would soon rise again, the wolf not bound by its phases. It did not know where it was going, exactly, only that it had to keep going, keep running until it reached somewhere safe.

Reached her.

As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the wolf's strength finally gave out, half-starved and exhausted. Bones began to snap in the silence of the woods, animals running in fright as its pained whines turned into human screams, piercing through the trees, raw in their agony.

"Did you hear that?" a woman asked her boyfriend when the last of the screams reached her ears, hurrily throwing her trekking backpack over her shoulder and standing back up, water break forgotten. "Hello? Is anybody out there?" she yelled into the darkening woods.

Her call was met by silence.

"Emma, this isn't a good idea!" the man worried, rushing after her, hiking his backpack further up his shoulder as he glanced skittishly around them.

"You heard the screams, Nathan," she said over her shoulder as she continued walking. "What if someone's hurt?"

"That's what everyone in a horror movie says. And do you know what happens to them?" Nathan hissed, grabbing her arm to stop her. "They end up dead."

She scoffed, ponytail flying behind her. "Oh, don't be such a baby," she said, yanking her arm out of his grip.

She continued walking, swiping branches out of her way and shoving her way through bushes, searching the dimly-lit trees for signs of the person she'd heard.

"HELLO!" she called out again, cupping her hands around her mouth. "Where are you?"

Still, no answer came.

Nathan ran to catch up with her, glancing wildly around them. "Emma, seriously, I don't like this, we need to get out of here-"

As he spoke, they pushed through some overgrown shrubbery, ducking under gnarled, hanging branches and arriving on the other side. The sight that greeted them stopped them in their tracks.

"Oh my god," Emma whispered.

A few feet away, a man was sat on the leaf-ridden ground, body curled in on itself, arms wrapped around his knees and head bowed. Dirt and blood was splattered across his skin, caked into his once dirty-blonde curls. He wasn't wearing a shred of clothing.

Swallowing nervously, Emma took a step forward, cautiously approaching the stranger.

"Emma!" Nathan hissed after her. She ignored him.

"Hey, are you okay? Are you hurt?" she called out gently, moving slowly, like one would when approaching a spooked animal. The man flinched slightly at the sound of her voice, shoulders tensing and fingers clenching around his knees. He didn't look up at them. Biting her lip, Emma looked back over at her boyfriend. "Nathan, take off your coat!"

"Why?"

"Because." Her eyes widened pointedly, jerking her head at the stranger. "He's naked," she whispered.

Nathan's gaze moved to the man, brows furrowing in confusion. "Dude. What did happen to your clothes?"

"Nathan!"

"What? You expect me not to ask? We're in the middle of freakin' nowhere, surrounded by woodland in every direction and this guy isn't wearing any clothes and he's covered in blood. Practically drenched in it, in fact!"

"Blood that could be his," Emma snapped at him, holding her hand out and wiggling her fingers in a 'gimme' motion. "Now give me your coat, we need to get him to a hospital-

Nathan glanced at the guy suspiciously, leaning towards Emma consiratorally. "What if he's a serial killer? "

"Please, this is Mystic Falls," Emma scoffed, rolling her eyes. "The most exciting thing that happened here was those animal attacks that happened years ago-"

"Mystic Falls?"

They both froze, slowly turning to the man who had spoken. At the sound of the town's name, his head had lifted slightly, even though it remained bowed.

"Yeah, that's right. You're in Mystic Falls. Did you know that?" Emma asked when he didn't say anything else. "Are you hurt? Did someone do this to you?" No answer. Emma exchanged a look with Nathan, stepping towards the man on the ground again. "Please, let us get you to a hospital-"

"Your friend was right," he suddenly said.

Emma blinked. "What?"

"You should have ran while you had the chance."

And then he raised his head, black veins crawling monstrously over his cheeks, finally letting them see his eyes:

They were glowing yellow.

@kirythestitchwitch - over to you 🎉

Round Robin #1

Was it meant to be warm? The thought echoed through Caroline’s head, the sun causing beads of red sweat to trickle down her face, making her wonder when the last time she had seen it. The cement on her bare feet burned, the summer heat making it feel as though she was walking against freshly lit coals. Her skin was sticky, her pigment was pale and it only magnified the blood that was crusted onto it. 

The silky black dress clung to her as she walked, and not in the way it was intended to. Blood had soaked into, damaging it beyond repair. It was short, showing how long her legs were but the looks she got from those she passed were not glances of desire, but fear. Her hair was knotted, matted and so vibrantly red that no one would have guessed that she naturally was a blonde. 

They gave her a wide berth, moving out of her way as she wandered aimlessly. She didn’t know where she was or where she had been. All she could remember was that it wasn’t meant to be so hot. Or was it? Caroline wasn’t sure. She couldn’t pinpoint where she was or why everyone was looking at her so strange. Everything was muffled. Her head was pounding and there was this loud ringing in her ear, making the pain worse. 

Why was everything so loud? She reached up, pressing her fingers to her head and gripped her hair. She paused and pulled back, peering at the blood that coated her hands. Flashes of stone, blood and agony echoed through her mind like a flash. A memory she just couldn’t nail down. There was a body. Somewhere. Caroline couldn’t exactly say where. 

“Ma’am.” A gentle voice broke through her crimson red gaze. He was handsome with blonde hair, blue eyes and a badge that was pinned to his navy built uniform. A cop. Caroline remembered what those were. Her mother had been one. She stepped back, moving away from him as quickly as she could. They couldn’t be trusted. “Are you alright?”

“Klaus?” She whispered, her throat aching and dry, realizing that the last time she had used her voice, she had been screaming. The context behind those screams were a mixture of pleasure and pain. The cop looked confused, peering at her with more questions than answers. “I need to find Klaus.” 

And then the world went black.

@averseunhinged - your turn.

[witchwrestler]

I Eat Boys #2

part 1

summary: Much to your dismay, you find yourself at a house party, encountering the curly haired boy from the record store...

a/n: thx for liking the first one, sorry it was so disorganized, this one's far better !!! reblogs r appreciated + enjoy ofc <3 !!!

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You had not thought about that curly haired boy from the record store since it happened, which was only a day ago, but you hadn't thought about it nonetheless. Except when you find yourself remembering how cool his shirt was or thinking about what his hands looked like grabbing the cassette. But you didn't think about it. Just occasionally got pissed off by the fact that he had one of those faces that would just never leave your head.

Robin Buckley and you had been attached at the hip since you met in art class last year. Robin had told you at lunch about a party she was going to, asking if you wanted to go, saying "C'mon, you never go anywhere. Let go of your societal hatred for once and let loose a little!" to which you had replied, "Really? It's just a bunch of shithead jocks drinking beer to the tune of shitty music" Robin gave you a look. One that you recognized, "...You want to go so you can talk to Vickie don't you?" She shrugged at you and once again gave you a look, "Just remember that you love me" She said, grabbing your shoulders, and then rushing to the lunch line.

While Robin was off getting her daily dose of shitty cafeteria food and chocolate milk, you were reading. And peacefully so until she returned, slamming her lunch tray down on the table unnecessarily hard. "So, will you go with me?" She said, looking at you sort of eagerly. You sigh and reply reluctantly, "Ugh, ok fine. But next time you're on your own. I refuse to be a pawn in your game, Buckley" She nods happily, taking a gulp of chocolate milk.

Soon the time had come for you to entertain robins lady crush, and you still didn't want to go. However, you figured that helping robin was more important than your distaste for socialization. the metal of the dragonfly pendant you were wearing was cool against your skin as you pulled your shoes on. Soon enough, robin honked her car horn and you hopped up off the couch and walked out the door.

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As you got to the house, the shitty pop music spilled out into the streets and nearly half the school grouped inside like sardines. Robin pulled you through the crowd, and into the kitchen, where Vickie was standing and talking to some band kids. She promptly bid you adieu to go talk to Vickie, leaving you to fend for yourself. You moved to the other end of the kitchen, drinking a coke and searching around for anyone you could possibly know, trying not to breathe in the cigarette smoke. Clearly someone with status had just entered, considering the entire group at the front had parted down the middle. And, oh, there's that blonde dickhead again.

You decided you would move to the backyard so as to not get into anything, no matter how appealing making him cry sounded. But before you could make it through the hallway, one of Carvers goons cornered you into a wall. You rolled your eyes as you scowled at the basketball player. You didn't know his name, and you didn't care. You just wanted him out of your face. The stench of entitlement coming off of him like cologne.

"If it isn't the notorious man-eater. You really shouldn't be here, freak, " He said, inching towards you. "Oh, trust me. There are so many places I would rather be, " you said, patting him on the shoulder and continuing on your route. He quickly stopped you, cornering you again, his arms on either side of you. You pushed him off of you quickly, his back hitting the wall as you walked off.

You pushed your way through the tightly packed room, but not before you walked into someone. Hard. You looked up at the guy you had just hit, a scowl painting your face. Not recognizing him, you say sternly, "Look, if this is another drunk idiots attempt to have me, I would sooner kill myself than ever sleep with you" The guy looked at you for a moment, a confused expression appearing. "Not very keen, are we?" he said, his hands in his pockets as he looked at you. You squeezed your temple, a headache growing from your previous collision. You felt light-headed. "Hey, are you ok?" he said, putting a hand on your arm. "Yeah-Yeah, I'm ok." You said, pulling your arm away from his. "You sure?" he said "I think you need some fresh air, you look sick or something, c'mon" He grabbed your arm again you tried to wriggle your way out of it but you were too dizzy to have any strength.

He walked you out to the front yard and up the hill to a pair of swings. "I don't need your help. I'm ok." You said, almost falling off the swing you sat on. "yeeah I- woah.." He said, catching you and sitting you back up straight. There was a beat of silence before either of you spoke.

"Why are you doing this?" You say, looking over at him, a look of annoyance on your face. "I was not about to let you fall over in a room full of assholes who don't care if you live or die. They might've stepped on you if I hadn't brought you out. " He gives you a sarcastic smile, or - at least what you thought was a sarcastic smile. All that secondhand smoke was really getting to you, you thought.

"I doubt you care if I live or die," you say, squeezing your temple from the headache again. "Sure, I do," He said, another what you think is a sarcastic smile painting his face as he holds the swing steady from behind. "I still don't want your help," you say, turning your head to look at him. He catches you from falling again before saying, "Well, you're getting it." You sigh in annoyance, looking at him again. You noticed something familiar in his face. You think for a moment. His hair. He's record store boy. "You're the guy from the record store." You say, rubbing your head thinking it may help the ache go away. "I'm still jealous of your shirt, by the way," you added, still looking at him. His eyes had kind of a sparkle to them all of a sudden, you noticed as he looked back at you. "Is that so?" he said, helping you up. You take a deep breath, silence washing over the both of you before he says, "Eddie. That-Thats my name, by the way."

You perk up a little, and give him a small smile before telling him yours. His eyes light up at hearing your name, replaying it in his head a couple of times. "I will say, i'm kind of impressed that you scared Carver away so easily," he says, holding you steady still. "Well, he's gullible. And he thinks my outright feminism means I kill people, so that helps." You reply. He laughed at your reply. Eddie looked nice, you thought. Too nice. The secondhand smoke was really getting to you, you think to yourself, again. Usually, you looked at guys like him and would rather die than kiss them. But right now, you found yourself contradicting that opinion. Your eyes flicked to his lips for a split second, and his eyes went sort of big, noticing the action.

"Hey, do you have a ride home? You should probably go get some rest, " He said, looking stressed or maybe nervous, you couldn't tell. You think for a moment, gathering your thoughts, "My friend Robin is here somewhere." You say, remembering she was here and talking Vickies ear off probably. "I can just walk home and call her later," you add, pulling yourself up, but soon the dizziness came rushing back. He looks at you, running a hand through his wild hair, and looking at you like you just said the dumbest shit ever. "What?" You say, your brows furrowing. "You are not walking home." You raise an eyebrow this time, "yes I am." The look stays on his face, "no you aren't. not at night. c'mon" he says to you, helping you up from the swing and softly taking an arm to walk you to his car, "I have free will, you know," you say as you walk with your arm in his hand, "nothings stopping me from running away right now" He raises both eyebrows, "that's true. but it doesn't really seem like you want to run, so," he says, giving you another possibly sarcastic smile. "I hate that you're right" You reply, scoffing.

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The drive was silent, with the exception of sabbath playing faintly in the background. As he was turning onto your street, you looked over at him, propping your head up with your hand, "I did not need your help, but I guess I appreciate you helping me." You say, leaning over to give him a pat on the shoulder. You go to pat his shoulder, and pause, a beat of silence washing over. Your eyes flicked back and forth from his lips, but quickly you blink and seemingly snap back into reality.

You get out of his car, and stand outside the door for a moment before leaving, "have a good night" He says, swallowing hard. You gave him an awkward smile, stupidly mad he didn't catch the hint and kiss you as you walked to your front door.

He was most definitely going to ruin your life. You had a feeling.

[lovelydrusilla]

"from the vault". a deep dive into iconic robin tunney photos. 🎄tm secret santa 2022 day four for @thinkingaboutjisbon

[yours-etc]

wiggly worm wednesday 🪱

shout out to @someforeignband for encouraging this brain worm madness

(don’t know if i’ve posted anything from this yet so if i have pretend like it’s the first time you’re seeing it 🫶)

here’s a moment from my Twister / Storm Chaser AU

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Robin was full of questions when he got home. Steve debriefs the whole interview, conversation, whatever it was.

“Eddie sounds hot,” she says halfway through, “and that's coming from me, a capital L Lesbian, I don’t know how you survived.”

Neither does Steve, to be honest. He’s known he’s gay since Nancy broke up with his senior year. Being with girls in a more intimate way just seemed like a chore to him, Steve just thought that’s how everyone felt. That was until Nacy screamed in his face about how obvious it was he never enjoyed being with her like that, how he needed to get checked out medically because any guy would ruin his own pants just to feel her up behind the bleachers. And yeah, so maybe Steve never really understood why his friends were so obsessed with their girlfriends until he and Tommy drunkenly made out on graduation night and Steve saw stars when Tommy started making breathy sounds and grabbing Steve in ways that made him feel light as a feather and heavy as a brick at the same time. And, yeah, they never spoke about it again.

“Yeah well, I’m not trying to get into something right now Robs, especially not with my much older new boss.”

Robin lets out an exasperated sigh, “Steve you are no fun! Just because you don’t want to buy does not mean you cannot window shop. A daily dose of eye candy is good for the soul.”

So Steve has a small, tiny, minuscule crush that's not even a crush on Eddie. He’s attractive and he clearly knows it. Steve is sure everyone in this town has Eddie on their hall pass list.

What didn’t help this budding crush that's not a crush was Eddie showing up on his doorstep at one in the morning about a week later.

“Hiya Steve, time to go, A big storm forming a few hours away, If we speed we can make it in time before any rotation starts,” He says quickly, letting himself into the apartment.

He was in a cut-up Dio shirt that stopped just below his belly button and showed off his muscular arms. His worn jeans sat on his hips perfectly creating a perfect peek-a-boo for Eddie’s happy trail. And oh and Eddie now had thick and heavy rings on that made his hands look so much… more. Steve had to take a deep breath and force his eyes to stay up.

This is just embarrassing he thought to himself You’re not fucking thirteen Steve get it together.

Eddie’s eyes rake over him darkly. Steve looks down at himself suddenly very aware of only being in a pair of boxers and he turns around without a word and goes to his room to change. When he reappears he sees Eddie standing in the middle of the living room looking around like he’s afraid to break anything.

“So how’d you know which apartment was mine?” Steve asks.

The older man turns to look at Steve, now properly dressed “Steve, it’s not too many people moving in, just had to ask the night shift front desk what room ‘the new kids’ lived in,” he says with a sly smile, “and I happen to know Tracy personally so it wasn’t difficult to get her to give up the information that she definitely definitely should not just be handing out.”

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I want to see everyone’s worms!! YES EVEN YOURS! if you see this you’re tagged 🫵

[asim786air-blog]

DDD - Nico Robin

[otteranha]

Hey it’s your daily dose of Steve’s parents being the absolute worst!

Once he gets over the shock that his skirt-chasing son has a boyfriend Dick Harrington fully tries to bribe Eddie into going away. He offers him whatever it takes, enough money to get out of Hawkins, go someplace and start over. Anywhere he wants. Eddie won’t have to work at least for a few years, he can focus on his music, really have the kind of shot so few people get.

Eddie listens to him for about five seconds and says he wants the money up front, in cash. Obviously Mr. Harrington isn’t going to do that but he’s glad that Eddie’s being reasonable. If having his heart broken by a girl set Steve off on this tailspin to begin with maybe having his heart broken by a boy will be just the kick in the ass he needs to get himself back on track. He gives Eddie what cash he has on hand.

And Eddie immediately drives over to Family Video. “Hey, Stevie, Robin- we’re going out for Hawkins’ fanciest milkshakes tonight. I’m buying.”

[yikesharringrove]

eddie stumbles across steve injecting himself with his daily dose of T and because eddie has No Idea what trans people are just goes "oh, you're diabetic, just like my bandmate!"

steve spends a good fifteen minutes laughing his ass off

Eddie has been a fucking weirdo lately.

Which is definitely saying a lot.

He caught Steve in the bathroom two weeks ago, syringe in his hand, pinching the skin on his thigh, ready to jab.

He would assume it was Eddie not being accepting, but he's being, extra caring.

He's started giving Steve food at random intervals. Sliding a protein bar into his hand with a knowing look.

He gave Steve a pair of thick socks with red cheeks and an awkward look in his face one day, and told him to keep his feet warm with the winter setting in.

"He just likes you," Robin said, licking the sugar off her fingers.

Steve stared at his own doughnut, heat creeping over his cheeks.

"No he doesn't," he mumbled, shoving nearly half the doughnut into his mouth when Eddie flopped down at the table next to him.

"Who doesn't what?"

"This is the employee lounge, Munson. Family Video employees only."

Eddie only flipped Robin off in response. He furrowed his brows at Steve.

"Should you be eating that? I mean if your blood sugar's low, is that the best thing?"

Steve swallowed the huge bite, nearly choking like an idiot.

"Why does my blood sugar matter?"

Eddie's eyes bulged, and he looked from Steve, to Robin, to Steve again.

"Why does it matter? Steve! Of course, it matters! You're diabetic!"

"Uh, no?" Steve could only stare at Eddie. "I'm not."

"But, I saw you! You had to give yourself an insulin shot! remember, in the bathroom at school? Gavin is diabetic, too. He was born with it. I can't remember which type that is, but he has to give himself shots, and like, check his blood pressure. It's totally metal, honestly."

Robin stared at Steve.

"Did he see you giving yourself your shot?" She slapped his arm. "Why didn't you tell me!"

"I don't know! It didn't seem like a big thing. Especially because I thought, well, I was surprised when he didn't run for the hills."

"Dude, why would I do that? Diabetes isn't, like contagious."

"Eddie, I'm not diabetic. I'm trans."

Eddie's eyes were blank.

"Huh?"

"I give myself hormone shots so that my body reflects my insides. Which is a man."

Eddie blinked.

"Oh. So, you sure you're not diabetic?"