#don’t marry strangers

[grunklefordpines]

will u marry me 🥺

I will not!

[steviesbicrisis]

To me it’s the fact that Steve assumed Robin had a license but still woke up 3 hours before his work shift to drive her to school everyday.

That is not a plot hole everybody, that is just the kind of person Steve Harrington is.

[unfinishedslurs]

RIP Mike Wheeler’s heterosexuality

“Is being gay contagious?”

Steve stares at his phone groggily before putting it back against his ear. “…Mike?”

“Is it?”

“It’s three in the fuckin’ morning is what it is.” He rubs his nose, Mike’s words finally catching up to his brain. “Seriously, Mike? No it’s not fucking contagious, you’re not gonna get the gay disease or whatever from me. I promise you’ll keep liking girls.”

He’s a little hurt, even though he knows the question is innocent. They’ve been asking a lot of questions, like the inquisitive little assholes they are, but none of them had seemed like they weren’t okay with it. Until now.

“…that’s not what I meant,” Mike says. Steve realizes that his voice sounds shaky, even over the phone.

“Then what—“ he cuts himself off, realizing halfway through his bitching that there was only one reason Mike would call about this. “Oh.”

“Can you pick me up?”

“It’s three in the morning,” he repeats, even as he starts wondering where he left his keys. “Your mom…”

“Steve,” Mike pleads. “Please?”

He sighs. “I’m on my way.”

Mike is sitting on his doorstep when he pulls up, head in his hands. Steve doesn’t have to get out of the car, he stalks to the passenger door with all the vitriol of a boy with too many emotions to hold in, and wrenches the door open hard enough that Steve worries he’s going to break it.

“Watch it, noodle arms,” he says, trying to pretend this is normal. Maybe if he acts like it’s not well past midnight, Mike will relax.

It doesn’t work. Mike slumps in his seat, not bothering with the seatbelt. “Can you just drive?”

Steve drives. Doesn’t really know where they’re going, but it doesn’t matter. Just away seems to suffice.

He eventually pulls into a side road

“I’m scared to even touch another guy now! Because apparently hugging is gay when you’re older, and so is sleeping in the same bed, and telling your friends you love them, and…and I’m fucking scared all the time, ‘cause what if they’re right? How do they know? How can they tell by just fucking looking at me? It’s bullshit!”

“Shit, kid,” Steve says, heartbroken. “Shit. C’mere.”

He pulls him close, and Mike turns his face into the crook of his neck, shaking. His shirt collar starts to get damp.

“I don’t know what to do,” he cries. “I thought it was normal, I thought everyone was just…so scared all the time, and we just didn’t talk about it. But then you said that thing about being afraid and pushing it down, and I didn’t— I tried to ignore it. I tried so hard not to think about it, Steve, I swear I tried.”

“I know you did,” he says quietly. It hits him that he might be the only one who really gets it. Eddie gave up denying it long ago, deciding to evolve into something else for them to focus on. Robin’s a girl. Which doesn’t mean jack shit in most cases, because being a lesbian fucking sucks in a town like Hawkins, but girls aren’t as obsessive about it. Sometimes when they compare notes, Robin will just stare at him.

Mike shakes his head. “I don’t know what I did wrong,” he mumbles tearfully into his shoulder.

“You didn’t do anything wrong,” Steve says with a surprising amount of vehemence. He grabs Mike by his scrawny little shoulders, pulls him away so he can look directly into his bloodshot eyes. “Not a damn thing, do you hear me? There is nothing wrong with you, and anyone who tells you otherwise deserves a swift kick in the balls. Got it?”

Mike responds by bursting into loud, messy sobs.

Steve just keeps holding him, running a hand through his hair and soothing him gently, like he wishes someone had done for him or Robin or Eddie when they were young. Finally Mike pulls away, embarrassment starting to set in.

“Sorry,” he mutters.

“Can I tell you a secret?” Steve asks instead of a meaningless platitude he knows Mike wouldn’t accept.

Mike gives him a suspicious look. “I guess.”

“I’m scared too. All the time.”

“No you’re not,” Mike snorts. “You don’t need to make me feel better just because I’m a pussy.”

“I’m not joking,” he says. “Why do you think I dated girls? Why do you think I went through so many lengths to hide it? It’s fucking terrifying, man. But you know what makes it less scary?”

“Dating girls? Marrying a woman?”

“No.” He pokes Mike’s chest, right over his heart. “People. Friends who love and accept you. Friends who know what you’re going through, even.”

“Do you…” Mike chews his lip. “Do you think Nancy would be okay with it? With me?”

“Absolutely I do. She was okay with me, wasn’t she? And I was her boyfriend.”

“Yeah, but it’s different when it’s your family, right? Sometimes people don’t care if someone is… people don’t care until it affects them. Do you think Nancy is like that?”

He knows Nancy isn’t like that, but that's a talk they’re going to have to have themselves. “I really don’t,” he encourages. “I think she’d be really glad to know this part of you, actually. She loves you.”

“…I know,” he says, shifting uncomfortably. “I don’t… we made this dumb no secrets pact the first time the Upside-Down happened, I don’t know why. It’s stupid. But…I don’t want to keep secrets from her anymore.”

[thestobingirlie]

stobin’s lavender wedding is beautiful and full of tears and love. (it’s a late spring wedding, erica is a bridesmaid, dustin is the best man. he and steve have matching coloured ties, and robin wears an incredible 80s puffy wedding dress). robin’s dad sobs walking her down the aisle, steve’s crying before he even gets to vows, robin starts crying during the vows, and there’s no way dustin’s getting through his speech without tears, let alone the rest of the wedding.

they give each other a little peck, their vows are heartfelt, and from that day they call each other husband and wife. because yeah, it’s not sexual, but that doesn’t matter!! they love each other. they’ve chosen to get married, not just for tax benefits, but because they want to stay at each other’s side for the rest of their lives!! they’re still dedicating their lives to one another. their love being platonic doesn’t make it any less real than anyone else’s.

[whaliiwatching]

annual winners of most annoying couple award

[runraerun]

since this post of mine has reached the 666 note milestone, I thought I would post the mood board I made for it!🫶 Along with some bonus Corroded Coffin content. ❤️‍🔥🎸

bonus:

as always, feel free to use my edits for whatever, all I ask is you credit me &/or reblog/like this post. Thank you!

[infinite-orangepeel]

this photo literally feels like getting struck by lightning. his eyes are so soft, the little scrunch of focus between his brows, his hair all pushed back and pretty. the twin moles on his cheek. he’s an angel i’m sure of it.

[imthursdaysyme]

Sleepover shenanigans

[autistic-katara]

icl i would be at least a little happy with almost any ending for stranger things but one thing that would ruin all of it would be an epilogue (of a decade or more later)

[opticsel]

crazy to think that people my age want to have sex… and that many of them have had sex before… and that they are actively seeking out people to have sex with….. and that they talk about sex with their other sex-having friends……. couldn’t be me but y’all have fun tho! stay safe out there and stuff

[steviethehairyington]

LET’S GO BOIIIISSSSSS!!!!!

I’m literally so happy that season 5 was announced that it officially begun it’s production! I can’t wait to see the gang for one last big adventure and battle before saying goodbye to them.

I’m not ready! I’m both happy and sad that they announced the production of the last season 😭

[chloepleasestopdying]

Hi is it weird that I hate it when a coworker refers to a pair of her shorts as ‘dyke shorts’ because I REALLY don’t like it. For context she likes to tell an antidote about how her mom said they make her look like a dyke and how she doesn’t care.

Like. My dude you are like aggressively heterosexual. Why do you think you can just throw around the word dyke. We’re in the south- I know people don’t mean it well here.

[elfgremlin]

instead of doing my toxic trait of redownloading dating apps like clockwork i’m just going to vent here. i wish i had a steady long term partner already so i could split all the bills with them and be DINK and live my best life. why can’t i have a partner already

[thestobingirlie]

“stobin gender roles but robin is the guy and steve is the girl!!!”

yawn. boring. that’s still gender roles, and making the lesbian and (typically depicted as) queer guy the opposite gender is really the opposite of progressive

“stancy marriage but nancy is the husband and steve is the wife”

well that’s just real and true

[yoohyeon]

I’m seriously not made to be alone, it’s only been a day and I’m like this

[shutuprichie]

You guys have got me fucked up with this “Millie is too young to be engaged!” shit.

She is 19.

She has been with her boyfriend for what, 3 years now?

Here’s what a lot of people don’t realize.

When you have MONEY, you are able to build strong, healthy relationships because you have what a lot of people who get married at 19 don’t have: foundation.

Millie is a very successful actress who probably has more money than she knows what to do with.

Jake is the son of BON JOVI. DO YOU GUYS EVEN KNOW WHO THAT IS???

This is not a diss post, I promise. But these two literally do not have to build from the ground up and start from scratch and find a tiny apartment or sleep in their car until they save up enough for a down payment. These two won’t know what it’s like to go through college barely seeing each other until they graduate and then starting their careers and working their way up.

What most 19 year olds have to go through, these two will never have to go through. So while 19 is sometimes seen as too young to get engaged, what is stopping these two??

That’s what a lot of people don’t understand. They are not like most adults. They never will be.

Also, if Millie has decided that she is in love and they are happy, then what is the big deal?? Let her live her damn life! She’s been acting her ass off since she was like 10 years old! Let her have her break! Let her get through season 5 of ST and then get married and be happy!

If the relationship is happy and healthy and has a good foundation, which it seemingly does, then who really cares how old she is? Odds are, she isn’t going to get married at 19, she’s just engaged.

Let her be.