#marmalade is here

[marzzthehuman]

for a game where one of the main focuses is the stories, it’s annoying how many people don’t read them

[alfheimr]

hi. here is my oc who is a pathetic knock-off selkie. they cannot swim. i hope u like them.

[psychotic-nonsense]

"I'm sorry."

It's the first thing Steve says after everything.

After getting Vecna Cursed. After nearly dying. After a hallucination of Eddie saved him. After running through a looped forest. After finding sanctuary in Steve's memory of that Starcourt bathroom. After Eddie reveals himself as Eddie.

It's the only thing he can think of. It's not big enough to fit everything, but it's the only thing that fits in his mouth.

"Don't be."

Maybe that's the only thing Eddie can think of too. The only thing Eddie can bear to say.

Because don't be can't stop Steve's eyes from watering when he sees the vest in his closet. Don't be can't stop Steve's feet from dragging him to the cemetery every evening to clean Eddie's graffiti-covered tombstone. Don't be can't stop Steve from sitting beside Wayne and listening to him talk about the Eddie he remembers. Don't be can't stop Eddie's body from showing up in Steve's dreams, nor Eddie's corpse from his nightmares. Don't be couldn't keep the pain away enough, didn't stop Vecna from latching onto it while Steve was walking alone in the woods.

Don't be isn't enough for what Steve wants to hear. But even stuck here waiting, hoping, for someone to get Steve out, there just isn't enough time.

"I miss you."

"...Why?"

Eddie says it back so quickly, so quietly, like it's just unfathomable to him. Maybe it is, considering their last memories. But their eyes meet and he looks just as sad, just as longing, as Steve.

"You were my friend."

Steve can't help but say it like that. Like they were friends for years instead of days. Like Eddie was that important to him in their final moments. Like his heart really aches for Eddie every second of the apocalypse.

Can't help but say it like he means it.

"I wish we could've had more time..."

Steve's voice cracks a little there as he turns away, hiding. It's all he wants. It's all Vecna used to entice him with. It's all that's keeping him going, to finally fulfill the last request Eddie made. It's all he has left to feel close to Eddie.

The Eddie that's sitting right next to him, silent, his sight weighing on Steve's skin. Conscious and aware and the real Eddie. Trapped in Vecna's head as a backup power source, yet who still risked everything to come save Steve. Who Steve will never see again because killing Vecna means killing Eddie for good, and his heart doesn't want it, is begging for another solution...

But for once, his broken head overpowers his shattered heart.

"Maybe we did."

Eddie takes Steve's hand. Meets Steve's surprised look with his own small smile of hope. They're both suddenly tearing up, eyes glistening with life in this gray stall.

"Maybe in another world, we got a second first chance. A first second chance. Maybe even a third, or fourth. Maybe in a different life, we had everything we wanted. Because you, Steve Harrington, are too good for me to be doomed to meet just once."

And for a moment, Steve sees it. Feels it. Versions of them connected through the universe.

Little kids playing in the lake. One with bruised skin and shaved hair, loud but unfathomably lonely. One with a bruised heart and soft eyes, timid but stubbornly hopeful.

A rockstar with glittering chains, center stage in the spotlight. A set of eyes in the crowd or behind the curtain, watching only him.

A werewolf and a vampire, two cryptids of horror, meeting in the dead of a full moon night to feel safe with the only other one who understands.

A future where they won, where the only death was the one that mattered. A process of healing and learning, coming home to a family every single day.

A world without pain, without their hell, where two high schoolers found freedom from their shackles and company in each other. Hiding away together in the dark corners of the town.

Steve even sees other versions of them. Versions that he knows were originally never supposed to meet, yet forces so much greater than them pulled them together.

A metalhead drug dealer, constantly getting into trouble with one nail-bat-weilding cop.

A criminal's fugitive nature leading him to a rugged trailer park, and the dangerous owner within one such home.

An eccentric king in an old coliseum, always choosing one particular warrior as his champion.

A young programmer being pulled away from his work by sobs above his apartment, running upstairs to check on the law student that recently moved in.

Two actors, finding an easy friendship in the months of filming one season of a show that would change their lives.

In that moment, Steve's overwhelmed by the closeness he suddenly feels with the soul beside him. Falling into tears, he pulls Eddie into a tight hug, holding him so so close to convey everything he can't say. Feeling Eddie hold him back, hearing everything Eddie can't say in return.

Familiar music comes on outside the stall. Robin's voice calls out to him, telling him to come home.

And when he does leave, Steve hopes that someone out there will understand that he never can. Because here in Eddie's arms is the only place that will ever truly feel like home.

"Thank you... for everything, Eddie."

Thank you, Steve. For everything and more..."

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- List of AUs, in order, after, "Versions of them connected through the universe": Childhood Friends / Rockstar!Eddie / Werewolf!Steve & Vampire!Eddie / Eddie Survives / No Upside Down & High School

- List of Multiverse Steddie AUs, in order, after, "...yet forces so much greater than them pulled them together": Eddie x Gator / Baron x Michael / Geta x Sean / Keys x Eric / Quinn and Keery

[corrodedbisexual]

My one complaint about this movie: they should have devoted at least 10 minutes to Joe riding a bike in tiny little shorts 😌

[robinfollies]

I literally have No idea how to go about making a post for this but I have a teepublic now!! And I’ve put a BUNCH of bbu pride designs on it that you can check out now if you’d like!!!

Here’s just a few of the designs I have available right now!!! You can get them as stickers, on shirts, and many more things!!! Happy Pride Month!!!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[hummingbee-o0o]

Morning, love

[sciderman]

Hi! I hope you’re doing well! Not sure if you’ve had your surgery as of right now, but I’m sure by the time you read this you’ll have had your surgery. I hope the hospital food isn’t terrible (it’s terrible in America) and that your recovery is swift!

oh bless you! actually – funny – my surgery was postponed to – get this, the day after my birthday. fun, hilarious. i'm on some medication to get my stress levels down because - well, my stress levels were so high that they were worried i was going to bleed way too much in surgery. so - lamar's still here, waiting. buuuut... soon. soon...

[formosusiniquis]

Bitch who sees a leverage au in every fandom they're in: watches movie about Robin hood criminal being chased by an increasingly obsessed and mildly distressed federal agent who also happens to be aldis hodge

Foaming at the mouth: guys you'll never guess what I just thought of

[eddie4bat-president]

still thinking about her.... (marmalade)

[apomaro-mellow]

5 minutes in and im already in love with the chemistry between baron and his cellmate

[marzzthehuman]

hc that rui was the shortest little thing when he was little and then one day in middle school he just woke up tall. nene sees him walk out of the house like 10 inches taller and she’s like WHAT

[augustjustice]

simply must have some Untitled Marmalade fic on this wip weekend please and thank you

Thank you so much for the ask, dearie, I appreciate it so! 💕

“What was the plan here, exactly? Truss him up and hogtie him, then leave him on the steps of FBI headquarters for me to bag and tag?” Otis rolled his eyes, unable to keep the exasperation out of his voice. 

“Something like that.” Leaning forward from his perch, the Bandit’s eyes sparkled as he looked up at him. “Look, now, you gotta admit–we made a damn fine team last time. I reel ‘em in, you lock ‘em up. Sounds like a surefire system to me.”

Then, in an undertone, he added, “A whole helluva lot better than the one we got.” 

Otis hummed. “That’s why you tell yourself you do what you do, then. Justice?”

It was the Babydoll’s turn to roll his eyes at him. 

“Justice. Vengeance.” Hands splayed behind him, he gave a demure little shrug of his shoulders, the animal print of his dress rolling in dizzying patterns. “It all comes out in the wash, detective. Amounts to much the same thing in the end.” 

[flowersforvax]

Spoiled myself about The major thing in Marmalade and since then all I could think about was watching it (suck it marvel). Fuck that was a good movie. Weirdly, I don't know if I would have enjoyed it quite as much if I hadn't been spoiled? The details, man, the details

Manic pixie dream girl but make it good. with...... a twist

And even if it hadn't been good (it was) the eye candy in form of Joe Keery Aldis, Hodge and Camila Marrone would have made up for it

I loved how it got oddly unsettling when you least expected it, too. Also the dance scene?? With the masks and the sequins??? Bewildering and camp as hell.

[feltcreature]

jett and marmalade conversation

[robinfollies]

i have a LOT of art backlogged that i could post here, have some kitty cats i painted recently 🩵🩷🧡💛

[starsinthenigth]

★..ehem. Ignore this. or not-★

⭐|.. I love you tortilla with feta and sun dried tomatoes, I love you hardboiled eggs and feta combo, I love you spicy food, I love you spicy chorizo pasta, I love you sriracha and tabasco, I love you lettuce with salt, oil, and a ton shit of lemon, I love you salted caramel ice cream, I love you lemon slushies, I love you mint lemonade, I love you ice cold water, I love you waffles, I love you cheese and ham toasties, I-