#milwaukee trip

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

just a little something for the darling @yournowheregirl to wake up to! it sounds kinda dumb and insignificant, but i always appreciate your tags in the fun tag games that come across your dash and for always being one of the first that ask something from those ‘ask me’ posts i reblog! it makes me feel appreciated and i am super grateful every time 🥰🫶🥹

There was meant to be two beds.

Steve specifically got a double king room for the goblins, and another room with two queens for him and Eddie.

So of course as soon as they got into Milwaukee the night before the D&D themed nerd fest, the (actually very nice) woman at the front desk says: “We had to swap around the rooms, but the two will still sleep all you boys, don’t worry!”

Whatever. That’s fine, right? They’ll all have a spot to sleep the next two nights they’re here for the kids’ (and Eddie’s) dragon game convention.

He gets back to their rented minivan and passes the key cards to Eddie in the passenger seat.

The van was just the first point of contention between him and the kids’ beloved Dragon Meister, followed closely by…everything else.

The first thing Eddie said when Steve showed up in the rented van was “King Steve is coming along on our journey?”, to which Steve could only respond with “This ‘super cool’ guy you assholes have been going on about this whole time is Eddie “The Freak” Munson? Really?”

Following closely behind are: the tapes and tapes of loud garbled ‘music’ Eddie insists on playing, his absolutely tragic way of unwrapping Steve’s burgers for him when they stop for lunch, the wariness Steve has in the first place about this being the guy Dustin wouldn’t stop talking so highly about…this nerdy, obnoxious, third-time senior…great.

“204 is the Hellions’ room, 207 is us.”

Eddie bends an arm backwards into the feral beast enclosure the second two rows have become over the last six hours and Steve’s surprised he still has his hand when it returns to the front.

Steve gets the van parked in the hotel’s garage, and they head up to their rooms.

“Alright, assholes,” he says to the somehow still rambunctious masses, “This is you guys, Make sure you’re up by eight so we—“

“Yeah Steve, we got it,” Dustin scoffs, “As if we’d risk being late to this.”

Steve rolls his eyes with a “Fine, goodnight.” and shuffles the few steps across the hall to his and Eddie’s door, leaving the troops to file into theirs.

The only thought in his head is of laying down and getting the fuck to sleep. It wasn’t even that late but—

“Oh you’ve got to be shitting me.”

So that’s what brings them here. To their one barely queen sized bed.

“I guess I’m on the floor then, huh?”

“I’m not about to let you sleep on the floor.”

“Oh, the King has chivalry does he?” Eddie rolls his eyes and throws his duffle onto the armchair in the corner.

“As much as you, asshole; I just want you to have the energy to corral the gremlins tomorrow.” Steve scrubs a hand down his face. “Look, we’ll just deal with it tonight and I’ll get another room tomorrow.” he lies. As if he’s got the cash for that.

Eddie looks him over, and seems to come to whatever conclusion he needs to because he says “Fine, but you better not be a blanket hog.”

Eddie’s the worst blanket hog Steve’s ever had the displeasure of knowing.

He thought Robin was bad, but this is something else.

Eddie’s fully a burrito within an hour of laying down. After a hearty, but silent, game of tug of war over the worn duvet.

Steve falls asleep angry and cold, and wakes up on a cloud.

He’s so warm and so entangled in the comforter, he can’t help but snuggle deeper into the pillow he’s clutched onto.

The pillow hums back at him and scoots itself under his chin with a sigh.

Steve squeezes tighter onto the pillow momentarily, but his curiosity of why his pillow’s making noise gets the better of him.

He cracks his eyes open, looking down at the thing in his arms.

It shifts as well, and Eddie Munson blinks up at him with those (holy shit…beautiful, deep, dark) doe eyes of his.

“Hi.” Steve breathes.

Eddie’s eyes flutter shut, and shuffles himself back into Steve’s neck.

Steve chooses to blame the still sleepy bit of him for curving himself back around Eddie.

“How’d you sleep?” Steve whispers into the now-bared hairline under the other man’s bangs.

“Fucking amazing…” Eddie mumbles, snaking an arm over Steve’s waist and settling a hand in the middle of his back. “How ‘bout you, Stevie?”

“Stevie, huh?” Steve chuckles.

It’s only then that Eddie seems to come to his senses, his head shooting up before he scrambles away, falling straight onto his back between the opposite side of the bed and the wall with an “Oof!” and a “Fuck!”

“Oh shit!” Steve shuffles off the bed and helps Eddie back up, ”You alright, Eds?”

“Yeah..yeah, I’m fine..” Steve gets Eddie back on his own two feet and (reluctantly) lets him go once he’s stable.

‘Reluctantly? Why reluctantly? What the hell??’

“Sorry I was all over you, not the greatest thing to wake up to, huh?” Eddie says, huffing a sardonic laugh under his breath.

Steve hums nonchalantly, “It wasn’t all bad, I slept pretty fucking amazing too.”

Eddie hums an acknowledgment, then: “I wouldn’t—“ Eddie starts at the same time Steve says “I should—“

“You go ahead,”

Eddie’s hands come up between them, spinning the rings on his fingers nervously. “I was going to say that…I.. Iwouldn’tmindifyoustayedtonight..too.”

Steve blinks. “Good thing I was going to say that I really should save my money.”

Eddie’s smile is slightly nervous, but there’s a hopeful tinge to it that Steve can only assume means what he thinks it does (hopes it does).

“Leaves me with more to spend on the Gremlins, right?” he shrugs.

Eddie beams. “Glad to know we’re on the same page, Harrington.”

also, if you haven’t heard it recently: Alice, YOU’RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE 🤩

[holyjost]

Luke Prokop: PROUD via Milwaukee Admirals

[anxietyfrappuccino]

in need of st. louis, chicago, and milwaukee bookstore recommendations (thrift/antique/art hubs, too)

[killerchickadee]

Thing is, being Jewish and growing up knowing what your people went through really does prepare you for being a queer adult. Balancing what you reveal vs what you hide in order to "pass" in a society that's hostile to you.

So my question now is how much do I give in to the fear of being targeted? Do I grow my hair out and stop wearing a magen David? Or do I say fuck you, you can't make me hide? When does my comfort and freedom of expression become a risk to my own safety? I'm really fighting with myself on this one. Because I don't want to endanger myself, but I also don't want to let those people WIN.

[randomtrippics]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 🇺🇸

[weirdwisconsin]

Check out the brutal lineup for the Milwaukee Metal Fest this year! Tickets available now. More info here.

[rustbeltjessie]

Green Day: The Saviors Tour // Eagle Movers // Basilica of St. Josaphat

(August 19 // Milwaukee, WI)

[artistmacposts]

North Shore Line Trip, Forest Preserve back to the Depot, co-starring the home of a true railfan! The backyard looks right out on the trolley tracks. When my ship comes in, I want one just like it!

[s0livagant]

Ok where is the kwik trip love

[teenagefeeling]

🙄 checked out a book of "day trips around chicago" and half of them are like 4 hours away and there's whole sections in the book on hotels.... that's simply not what a day trip is

[fossilized-honey]

I like when different cities have avenues named after each other.

It’s the navigation equivalent to bff necklaces

[mondoradiowmse]

06/12/24 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Headphones", featuring classic trip hop and more. If you dig it, don't forget to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Massive Attack - Safe From Harm - Blue Lines

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix) - Mustt Mustt

Massive Attack V Mad Professor - Moving Dub (Better Things) - No Protection

Massive Attack - Karmacoma - Protection

Tricky - Ponderosa - Maxinquaye

Nearly God - Yoga - Nearly God

Bush - In A Lonely Place (Tricky Mix) - Deconstructed

Tricky - Carriage For Two - Angels With Dirty Faces

Portishead - Pedestal - Dummy

Portishead - All Mine - Portishead

Ilze - Mall People - Out Of My Brains

Björk - Human Behaviour - Debut

Björk - Headphones - Post

Hooverphonic - 2Wicky - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular

Laika - Almost Sleeping - Sounds Of The Satellites

Hooverphonic - Out Of Tune - Blue Wonder Power Milk

Lamb - All In Your Hands - Fear Of Fours

Lamb - Ear Parcel - Fear Of Fours

Nightmares On Wax - Morse - Carboot Soul

Cornershop - Candyman - When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Bomb The Bass Feat. Justin Warfield - Bug Powder Dust (UK Album Version) - City Of Industry: Soundtrack

The Beta Band - The House Song - The Three E.P.'s

Smoke City - O Cara Lindo (Mr. Gorgeous) - Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon

Planet 4 Folk Quartet - Message To Crommie - Help

UNKLE - Unreal - Psyence Fiction

Bomb The Bass Feat. Sinéad O'Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah - Empire - Collaborations

Massive Attack Feat. Sinéad O'Connor - Special Cases (Radio Edit) - Collaborations

[boasamishipper]

imagine being fields goodman. your husband gets severed and starts working for lumon and whatever your feelings on the matter are the money is good and your husband seems happy so you let it slide. then one day out of the blue your husband gets canned because (lumon's words) his innie had an unsanctioned erotic entanglement with another worker and they don't tell him who. you suggest a trip to milwaukee (the original brew city) to take his mind off things. while you're both busy packing you're suddenly distracted by someone pounding on your front door and screaming your husband's name. when your husband goes to answer the door the man on the other side has no idea who your husband is or how he (the man) got there. the only possible explanation you can think of is that this must be who your husband's innie was having an affair with and so you cancel your trip to milwaukee so your husband can spend his nights in a car with roll-down windows to stake out the man's house and watch him make clandestine phone calls from the only phone booth in kier. and then you have to have dinner with your husband and the man whose innie your husband's innie was erotically entangled with. has everyone tried the ham. you think the ham is lovely

[hbogirls]

Top 5 housewives franchises? Rhobh seasons?

franchises (luckily i have watched exactly five cities)

1. og new york

2. beverly hills

3. miami

4. salt lake

5. potomac (not all the way caught up, but i heard this season was kinda bad anyway)

bh seasons (no particular order) (i actually don’t think they’ve had a bad season lol)

2 (so dark to the point that i truly cannot believe it aired, but undeniably gripping tv), 13 (could be recency bias but it’s been a blast), 7 (erika vs dorit, hong kong trip, etc), 5 (amsterdamn!), 10 (even though kyle’s bangs made her temporarily evil)

[shootwithheart]

Had a great time visiting Milwaukee for my Birthday!

I didn't take as many photos as I thought I would, but it's just enough to get a mini zine out of it.

Read the full story on Patreon:

[rustbeltjessie]

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure were such formative pieces of media for me when I was a kid. This is a really good piece about Big Adventure.