#otp: coparents to lovers

[manycoloureddays]

under the stars / relief

for @comethedaylight 💜

“Ugh I can’t wait to go home and take the world’s longest shower,” Robin says, picking at the congealed monster blood drying on her skin. “I think I might also be vegetarian now.”

Steve laughs, tips his head back too and beams at the stars. The sky is clear now. For the first time in months, the sky is clear of the Upside Down.

“Actually,” she says. “I can’t wait to go home and use your shower. The water pressure is so much better at your place.”

Steve elbows her. “Tomay-to, tomah-to. My house is your house.”

“Uh, don’t you mean ‘mi casa es su casa’?” Mike asks.

Steve rolls his eyes, grabs Mike around the neck and ruffles his hair. “Similar sentiment, but not what I meant.”

“Ow, getoffme,” Mike grouches, all the while trying to pull the back of Steve’s shirt over his head.

It’s nice to be messing around. They’re bubbling with excitement, they have nothing to worry about anymore. It’s the best high Steve has ever experienced.

They crest the hill, heading back to the prearranged meeting place. It’s where Eddie, Argyle, Dustin, Max, Dmitri, and Erica were stationed, defending one of the big gates at the edge of town.

Steve’s eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be, too many hits to the head and not enough time to get his prescription updated, but even at this distance a quick headcount of the figures on the hill leaves him one short of happy.

His heart drops to the very pit of his stomach. Further even. The scene in front of him is so familiar and he can’t. This can’t be happening again.

“No.”

He takes off at a run.

“Steve!” Robin calls after him.

He can hear her running behind him. Feels guilty for making her run on her bad leg, but he can’t stop, he needs to see, needs to make sure. Because it hurt enough the first time. He can’t do this again.

All that blood, and Steve had still tried to fix it. Sometimes he wakes up breathing like he’s giving CPR.

And he’s seen this before. Dustin on the ground curled over a body, curled over –

Steve’s heart has slingshot back up to his throat.

Steve had heard the sobbing before he’d seen them last time. This time there’s just a lot of loud noise.

Eddie had promised. He’d promised last time too, but it meant more this time. They’d got him back. El had brought him back and he’d been so clear, he wasn’t going to waste his second chance.

Steve hadn’t wanted to split up, but the only way the plan worked was for them to break up into teams. God, Steve is kicking himself for not doing more, being here, anything to stop this from happening twice, he wishes he’d…

Wait.

Dustin is curled over Eddie on the ground, that much is true, but both bodies are heaving with laughter. Laughter that sounds a little manic and high pitched for both of them, threaded through with adrenaline and relief, but laughter all the same.

Steve’s knees go out from under him and he collapses on the ground next to them, wheezing slightly from the run.

They both turn to him, their smiles huge and bright and exactly what Steve needs.

“Steve!”

“Stevie!”

Before he can respond, he’s being pulled into their tangle of limbs, landing with a huff on top of Eddie, with Dustin snorting loudly in his ear.

They’re quickly joined by most of the others. Robin flops down on his back, Lucas, Mike and Will are a heap of wriggling limbs down by his feet, Dustin and Max are shouting in his ear, Erica sits cross legged at his head, and Eddie’s heart is under his ear, beating, beating, beating a steady rhythm.

A walkie crackles to life. El’s voice comes through loud and clear. “We are all safe. The gates are closed. We are coming home. Over.”

There are whoops of joy all around them. Jonathan and Argyle flop down to the ground beside the EddieSteveRobin stack and Steve watches as the realisation that it’s over, finally over, washes over Jonathan.

“Fuck,” Jonathan says, dragging a hand over his face. “Fuck.”

“Yeah,” Robin says. “Fuck.”

She wriggles around to talk to them properly, and the movement sends Steve sliding off Eddie, gravity pulling him towards the grass.

Eddie pulls him back, arm wrapped tight around his back. Steve takes a deep breath, coming back to himself. Eddie is here, alive, warm and laughing underneath him. All the people he loves are safe, alive, breathing. Steve can hardly feel his toes.

The fear is leaching out of him. It doesn’t stand a chance when he can feel the dual heartbeats of Robin and Eddie at his chest and back.

“You alright there, Stevie baby?” Eddie asks, soft, just for him. And Robin, who is lying cheek to cheek with him, but she’s tactful enough that she’s pretending to be completely engaged by Jonathan and Argyle’s conversation.

Steve hides his face in Eddie’s neck, noses in real close and feels further proof of life.

“I saw you on the ground again. Panicked.”

He knows Eddie will fill in the blanks, and now he’s here, he doesn’t think he has the energy for much more. It’s been a long year. It’s been a long few years. Steve is tired right down to his core. Like even his arteries are tired of moving blood around his body, and his stomach is tired of breaking down food. It’s a wonder his hair is still growing.

Eddie is quiet for a moment, but the arm across Steve’s back curls tighter. His hand, resting on Steve’s hip, squeezes, and Steve takes a deep, steadying breath. It trips a little in his chest, but he doesn’t start crying. Thank God. Or whatever monster controls the universe.

“I’m sorry,” Eddie says, eventually, his voice heavy with emotion. “I didn’t think about what it would look like.”

Steve shakes his head, and lets his weight drop even further, his face completely mashed into the nook between Eddie’s neck and collarbone. His lips drag across Eddie’s skin when he says, “Not your fault. Just felt … crazy. For a moment.”

“Yeah,” Eddie says. His fingers tracing the outline of one of Steve’s scars. “I can imagine.”

He starts scratching up and down Steve’s side. It rucks his shirt up a little, sets his skin alight. Steve feels tingly. He feels hopeful. Really hopeful for the first time in too fucking long.

“Couldn’t lose you. Not again.”

Eddie turns his face just a little, presses a dry kiss to Steve’s forehead, just below his hairline.

“Yeah, I know exactly how that feels actually. I don’t think I’ve ever been as relieved as I was when I saw you running towards us.”

Steve nods. “Yeah.”

He thinks about all the ways today could have gone wrong. Thinks about all the ways things nearly went wrong every day for the last year. He never wants to do this again. Never wants to have to wonder or worry that the people he loves might not come home.

He doesn’t know if it’s the adrenaline, or the what ifs, or the pure fucking relief of a war over and the steadying presence of the heartbeat underneath his hand, but he thinks fuck it.

He shimmies his shoulders and Robin rolls off his back onto the grass beside him with a little oof.

“The fuck was that for?” she demands, pinching his thigh.

She glares at him until he manages to silently communicate that he’s definitely thought fuck it for long enough that he’s determined now and he’s going to do what he’s been putting off basically every day since Eddie got back. Once that’s been cleared up, Robin shakes her head, winks at him and rolls over to drag Max and Dustin into a cuddle pile instead.

Steve props himself up, hands either side of Eddie’s face, and looks down at him. He really is stupidly pretty. He pushes some of the fly away hairs out of Eddie’s eyes, tucks them behind his ear and then leaves his hand there, sort of cupping Eddie’s cheek. Rubs his thumb under his eye.

“Steve?” Eddie asks, a little breathless.

“Mmm,” Steve murmurs, brushing their noses together.

Eddie is almost cross eyed, trying to keep looking at Steve. It’s so fucking cute.

“What are you doing?” he asks.

“Unless you have any objections,” Steve whispers, “I’m going to kiss you.”. Their mouths are so close they’re practically kissing with each word already.

Eddie makes a strangled little noise in the back of his throat. His eyes bug wide. He looks a little overwhelmed, and Steve almost pulls back, except he’s nodding. He’s nodding frantically.

“Yeah, please, yeah,” Eddie says in a rush, blush spreading from his cheeks, down his neck and into the jacket that Steve made damn sure he’d done all the way up this time.

And one day soon, maybe even tonight, Steve is going to have a conversation with Eddie about the hope burning in his chest that he can see mirrored in Eddie’s eyes. They’ll talk about what comes next and what they’ve been keeping tucked away in their minds.

But that’s for future Steve and future Eddie.

He closes the tiny gap between them, slots their lips together, and finally, finally, kisses Eddie.

It’s not the kind of kiss he’s been dreaming about giving Eddie. Not deep and wet and a little bit dirty. He can’t kiss him like he wants to climb inside him, can’t lick inside his mouth and suck on his tongue until they can both feel it in their toes, because they are lying on the ground surrounded by their friends, their family. So Steve can’t kiss Eddie like he’s been wanting to, but he does kiss him like he’s never going to stop.

He never wants to stop.

Eddie is making the sweetest noises and his hand is tangled in Steve’s hair and he’s kissing Steve like he’s planning on stealing the air from his lungs.

Steve sucks Eddie’s bottom lip into his mouth, bites down gently, then bites down a little harder when Eddie seems into it. He can’t help but lick into Eddie’s mouth, trying to get as close as he can, as much as he can, before everyone notices what he’s doing.

Eddie moans, a quiet little thing, but it’s enough.

“What the –! Are you two making out right now?” Dustin yells, incredulous and dramatic and a little bit bitchy.

Steve smiles against Eddie’s mouth, tastes Eddie’s laughter.

“What’s it to ya, Henderson?” Eddie asks, still holding Steve close.

With Eddie distracted, Steve moves to pressing little kisses along his jaw, down his neck, dotted across any part of his face that Steve can reach. He can’t help himself.

“What’s it to me? What’s it TO ME?” Dustin’s voice is reaching megaphone levels of yelling, and it’s happening right next to them. “I don’t care what you get up to when you’re more than a foot away from me but you’re practically in my lap and EDDIE STOP.”

The last part is yelled directly into Steve’s ear after Eddie licks a finger and tries to stick it in Dustin’s ear.

The chaos that follows is so much happier than the chaos they’ve been living with that Steve can’t even find it in himself to be annoyed when Eddie moves out from under him to chase Dustin around the hilltop. Especially because, before he leaves, he kisses Steve again. Once, twice, three times, both of them grinning too much for them to be anything more than short and sweet.

Robin rolls back into Steve’s side. He laces his fingers with hers, snuggles into her side.

“I’m happy for you, babe,” she says.

And Steve is happy too.

[manycoloureddays]

someone has written this fic and when i tell you it is everything i never knew i wanted from a fic with this premise

Whomst must I beg or bribe for Eddie being the one to find Steve and Robin wandering around Starcourt high off their asses?

Like, he knows Robin from band and they’re friendly, and he’s not going to leave someone so obviously under the influence unsupervised, especially a teenage girl who is definitely unfamiliar with hard drugs.

And he’d absolutely assume that Steve is to blame for the whole situation except that Steve looks like he just lost a fight with a cement truck, but he’s still threatening to throw hands with Eddie if Eddie messses with Robin, and they’re both babbling about Russians and secret elevators and alternate dimensions and goddamit Eddie just wanted to smoke some weed and watch Back to the Future.

[laelior]

Random fact about my otps: I am weak for enemies to lovers. My current OTP goes enemies to friends to lovers to strangers to reluctant friends/coparents to actual friends to lovers and honestly, I'm living for that complexity.

That sounds exciting! What does the lovers to strangers part entail? And what otp is this for?

[venndaai]

the untamed

yesss

M/F OTP: boy, this one is tough because I’m already extremely picky about m/f, and then there are so few women on this show and also I strongly headcanon more than half of all the characters as Kinsey 6′s. I’m going to go with Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan- as canon het goes it wasn’t terrible. I bought that they were into each other, their communication issues were a good Wangxian parallel, and their horribly clashing parent trauma was interesting enough for me to sit through so many dragging scenes of Heterosexual Soup Drama. Yanli frustrates me so much as a character though that I doubt I’d ever search out fic about them. (If I’m allowed to genderbend, it’s f!Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing.)

M/M OTP: my every waking moment is now consumed with Xiyao thoughts. I mean I’m definitely losing my mind over Wangxian too, but I adore characters who are gigantic failures and are destroyed by love and Xiyao came for my everything. 

F/F OTP: Baoshan Sanren/Lan Yi!!!! they appeared for about two minutes and completely stole my heart and I will NOT know peace until they get their own spinoff movie. Making the two mentioned but never appearing cool female ancestor characters into lovers to enemies lesbian grandmas who were another Wangxian parallel was by FAR the most galaxy brained change the adaptation made. 

OT3: I LOVE 3zun’s dysfunction but I’m so picky about it and absolutely cannot stand them being written as happy healthy poly so I suffer somewhat when looking for fic. But god they’re so tragic and it’s great. I’m not that into the Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue angle so much yet, though I’m trying to interest myself in it- I just mostly find both those characters interesting exclusively via their relationships with Meng Yao. 

Favorite Canon: I thought at first this was asking which version of canon was my favorite, in which case it’s an absolute tie between book and drama though I do love the donghua too, but I think it’s actually asking for favorite canon pairing which would definitely have to be Wangxian and their story of love triumphing over death and the joys of gay parenting.

Favorite Crack: I am endlessly amused by the fact that Jin Guangyao (seemed to) fit every last requirement on Jiang Cheng’s list of traits he needed in a spouse. I love thinking about Jiggy seducing Jiang Cheng, to make coparenting go smoother, or to bind Yunmeng closer to Lanling, or just because Jiggy wants to blow off some steam and JC is amusingly repressed.

Guilty Pleasure:  if Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui got together, the cultivation ruling class would just be even more ridiculously incestuous, and I kinda want them both to meet attractive strangers who aren’t at all involved in the clusterfuck of trauma that went down between their parents a generation ago, but it’s still cute to think about. Also, Meng Yao/like every man he spends screentime with. 

Pairing I Hate: Deep aversion to any het pairing with the show versions of Jiggy, LWJ, NMJ, LXC, WQ, WN or NHS because I so strongly headcanon them as gay. I don’t actually hate it but I am very confused at the high popularity of Lan Xichen/Jiang Cheng because it seems very obvious to me that they are both the exact polar opposite of each other’s types. (I also just... cannot buy Xichen developing feelings for anyone post series. Lans don’t ‘move on’.)

[bthump]

Hi! What are your top 10 ships (any fandom)?

Hi, ty for asking! This is really hard to narrow down lol, but I tried.

In no particular order:

Guts/Griffith - Berserk

The current otp ofc. What can I say that I haven’t already said all over this blog?

Will/Hannibal - NBC Hannibal

This is my ideal ship. It’s stupid how perfect it is. It’s basically my ideal slowburn longfic but yk as a 3 season gorgeously shot and acted tv show.

Doctor/Master (especially Three/Delgado Master, and excluding het combinations lol) - Doctor Who

This ship is fantastic because it’s so versatile. You want childhood friends to lovers (to enemies)? Gallifrey era. You want bitter exes or frenemies with benefits? Three/Delgado. Five/Ainley was never my thing but if you want creepy villain/plucky hero there you go. You want former enemies who now live together in weird domestic bliss? Shalka. You want pathetic desperate protag willing to throw his ideals along with the rest of the world under a bus to get laid? Ten/Simm. It’s even got its own rairpairs, like cross era combinations or  Two/Warchief. This ship can run the gamut from fluff to angst to serious darkfic and never be ooc. It’s a delight.

Harry/Draco - Harry Potter

I mean I loved it when I was 14 and even though I couldn’t care less about Harry Potter now it’s still there for me. Like, if I want to read something gay and can’t find anything that strikes my fancy? I turn to drarry man, there’s so much genuinely fantastic novel length fic out there, you’ll never run out.

Xena/Gabrielle - Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena/Gab is an odd ship for me because they’re not really my type lol. Friends to lovers is something I’ve always been a little meh about, and while they have their tense and interesting and complex moments their appeal is mainly the soulmate thing. But this ship makes the list for two reasons: 1. they are immensely fun to watch together, like what they lack in an interesting dynamic they make up for in chemistry, and it’s a delight to watch the show and soak in all the ott subtext, and 2. Conqueror AUs. There’s a subgenre of Xena fic where Xena never turned good and met Gabrielle while she’s ruling the known world with an evil iron fist, and some of that has the good dynamics.

Fraser/Ray Vecchio - Due South

Honestly the main reason I ship them is because I love Ray and Ray loves Fraser, and Ray is one of those very rare faves that I actually want to be happy lol. But they do have a really interesting, and somewhat unique for me dynamic - Fraser prioritizes the abstract concept of duty over everything else, to really destructive lengths at times, while Ray prioritizes Fraser over everything else, also to really destructive lengths at times, and this leads to an unbalanced but v interesting relationship. Especially because like, this isn’t just a result of the show prioritizing Fraser lol, the narrative is very aware of this dynamic and explores it in interesting ways.

Eve/Villanelle - Killing Eve

I was into it from the start, and completely sold when Eve stabbed Villanelle. They’ve got the interesting shifting power dynamics, the disparate morals edging towards meeting in the middle, the violence, the chemistry, even the cute little domestic moments here and there. tbh I am a little.. nervous about where this show is going with them, because I am concerned they’re playing the Villanelle as a psychopath who can’t ~genuinely love~ thing straight, which could not be less interesting to me, but still, so far I’ve gotten more than enough material to keep me happy and hopeful.

D/Leon - Pet Shop of Horrors

In general they’re just a ridiculously fun dynamic, like come on. You’ve got the odd couple thing, you’ve got Leon switching between criminally investigating D and basically coparenting his brother with him, they all go on vacation together at one point, they have like, a dragon kid together, and who doesn’t love the married couple bickering? Also the ending [vague spoilers] is exactly the kind of sad romance I love. They both realize they’re in love, and D chooses to run the fuck away because he doesn’t know how to love a human, while Leon chooses to run the fuck after him for the rest of his life if that’s what it takes. This is technically subtext, but only barely.

Troy/Abed - Community

They had me at the Somewhere Out There duet. I stopped caring about the show after season 3 and I’ve only seen a few episodes since, but man when Community was good it was great and Troy and Abed were the mvps and clear otp of the show. Tragic that Harmon couldn’t commit beyond gay jokes tbh, but at least we’ll always have the romantic zombie episode.

Starsky/Hutch - Starsky and Hutch

This is a bit of a weird choice because I was never super into the fandom, like I haven’t read much fic, and I watched the show back in like my first year of university but not really since because like, it’s a 70s cop show lol, there’s not a whole lot that’s worth watching about it. But man, Starsky and Hutch are the damn kings of the extremely emotionally intense homoerotic friendship. Their off the charts chemistry and constant hurt/comfort plots were next level, and fully engaging and super fun to watch despite everything else.

(Also the 4th season is terrible, but shockingly good and ridiculously coherent if you watch it with the understanding that in between season 3+4 they had sex or made out or something and Starsky freaked out and Hutch is alternately depressed and pissed off at Starsky for his avoidance. Like that reading legit ties everything together lol, from their suddenly strained relationship to random jokes(?) like Hutch encouraging Starsky to try free word association, giving him the word “closet” to start, and Starsky getting mad about it for no reason. And in the 4th to last episode (production order) they clearly finally get together for real, in the coda to Starsky vs Hutch. I mean come on they fight while dating the same woman and then make up off screen and the final scene is the two of them meeting her in a bar and telling her she gets both together or neither, then walking away with their arms around each other when she turns them down.

I may have just wanted to ramble about this lol.)

[squidproquoclarice]

Is there anyone you ship with Arthur other than Sadie?

Definitely Arthur/Learning To Love Himself. Because let’s face it, him not seeing himself as an unworthy burden to any partner, and then also unrealistically idealizing them, is going to be a prerequisite to him having a healthy romantic and sexual relationship with anyone.

I sorta low-key ship him with Albert Mason. They’re two awkward self-deprecating artists and animal lovers (with the same initials, I see what you possibly intentionally did there, R*), and the rapport they have between them is really lovely. Albert could have been scared shitless by this big intimidating wilderness-capable guy, but instead, he readily trusts him. And it’s really sweet how Arthur just doesn’t go after this man totally out of his depth in the wilderness as a fool, and instead eagerly jumps in to help him realize his artistic visions. He obviously treasures the wolf photo print, and seeing Albert’s work in the St. Denis gallery, including a picture of Arthur, really is a lovely moment, even if it’s left to the player to pick up on it. It’s a side of Arthur we don’t get to see much–inquisitive, artistic–and some part of me really wishes that he’d trusted Albert with seeing his sketches. The interaction between them feels like it has more potential than an artistic friendship: definitely biromantic vibes, possibly bisexual.

In a complete UA where he gets out of the outlaw life much younger, I could see him with Eliza because while they settled into a platonic “amicably coparenting” dynamic when she said she wasn’t going to live his life, it could have been more if he’d gotten out of the gang.

I don’t ship Charles/Arthur and John/Arthur, but I love the brotherly dynamic in both cases–quiet and solid with Charles, sometimes prickly with John.

Mary/Arthur I’ve addressed–two good people, but they’re absolute toxic hell on each other.

I don’t see him with the other single young women in camp (Tilly, Mary-Beth, or Karen) because for me, Tilly and Mary-Beth feel too young, and he and Karen have some of the same self-destructive habits that they’d only reinforce in each other.

All of this is YMMV, clearly, and it’s not like I have strong opinions against any of these other ships, I just don’t personally feel them.

I like Sadie/Arthur for the chemistry, the trust and rapport, the understanding of each others’ pain and darkness, and the lightheartedness they still manage to bring out in each other in spite of it. So that’s likely always going to be my OTP for Arthur, but I adore seeing and writing characters and their non-romantic bonds, because those are incredibly important too.

[lunafeather]

Top 5 ships that should have happened and Top 5 ships that should NEVER have happened

Anon, this is fucking hard and that’s why it’s taken me a week to answer. It was also a really good one. You’re gonna get descriptions for everything!

Top 5 Ships That Should Have Happened

1. Wynonna x Dolls (Wynonna Earp). For fuck’s sake, it was a perfect slow burn between two messed up, truly good people. They had chemistry, they had humor, they had each other’s backs. They are seriously one of my OTP’s of OTP’s. Xavier Dolls is one of if not my absolute favorite character of all time, and he still deserves better than what he got. He deserved to fall in love with Wynonna, he deserved to know she loved him, they deserved to find happiness with each other and their found family. I’M STILL MAD ABOUT IT.

2. Jack x Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean). STILL MAD ABOUT ELIZABETH SWANN’S ENDING, GONNA DIE MAD ABOUT IT PROBS. Look, Will is nice enough and whatever, but Jack saw who she really was and stoked that fire. She’s a fucking pirate, not a little mom who sits on an island with her kids waiting for Daddy to come back from sea every 7 fucking years. Jack and Elizabeth had chemistry out the wazoo, they would have OWNED the 7 seas. Please pretend Jack isn’t played by Johnny Depp but still looks like he does.

3. Jane x Maura (Rizzoli and Isles). I was so done with this show’s shit that I almost buried all my memories of it lmao listen. LISTEN. Maybe Sasha made it gay on purpose. Maybe they had no idea what they had on their hands. I don’t know. All I know is that there is so much chemistry between Sasha Alexander and Angie Harmon that you could power the United States for 10 years. THE LOOKS. THE TOUCHES. THE FLIRTING BANTER. This show was painful to watch. This show is also one of the absolute best examples of actual queer baiting. It pains me to think about the “bound for life” promo poster. IT PHYSICALLY HURTS. These two are god damn soul mates and you can’t change my mind. Fuck JTam. They did their level best to not let it be gay, and yet they somehow failed.

4. Jackson x April (Grey’s Anatomy). Lord have mercy, I know this ship technically DID happen, but it should have fucking KEPT HAPPENING instead of all the god damn bullshit that happened instead. Slow burn, friends to lovers, perfect for each other. Ugh, I stopped watching the show because of the crap they kept putting these two through. THEY WERE SOULMATES. At least they didn’t kill April off I guess???

5. Katniss x Gale (The Hunger Games, books). I am still so god damn mad that this series ended with Katniss marrying Peeta and having his babies and settling down like a little farmer girl (this is apparently a trend in media). Katniss and Gale were best friends and should have ended up together. He understood her. I just… I really hated the second half of Mockingjay. I think the author just stopped getting her own characters?? Gale’s narrative made no fucking sense! It wasn’t who he was! She turned him into this violence, for-the-greater-good asshole just to make it easier for Katniss to end up with Peeta and I’m always gonna be mad about it.

Honorable Mentions:

Clint x Natasha (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Why have Nat wear a fucking arrow necklace? Why throw away that chemistry? Why randomly create and insert a family for Clint?? It makes no sense, Joss Whedon can go fuck a cactus.

Elliot x Olivia (Law and Order: SVU). We could have had it alllllll. And we almost did. At the end of Season 8, I really thought they were gonna do it. They didn’t. I stopped watching.

Mulan x Aurora (Once Upon a Time). STILL MAD ABOUT THIS.

Top 5 Ships That Should NEVER Have Happened

1. Lorelai x Christopher (Gilmore Girls). I literally stopped watching the show because Lorelai slept with Chris at the end of Season 6. I mean, Season 6 was just not written well AT ALL to start with, everyone was super out of character. But for Lorelai to run to Chris when Chris was such a huge sore spot between her and Luke? When her parents had been pushing Chris on her their entire relationship? When she had repeatedly hidden her conversations with Chris from him? When he (rightfully) was worried about her connection to Chris? Like, yes Luke sucked for hiding April and for delaying their wedding indefinitely, but jesus. Cheating on him with your ex and the father of your kid? Fucking low. I still can’t watch Season 7. Some people say she needed to be sure that her and Chris would never work – I say that how deeply she loved Luke should have shown her that.

2. Wynonna x Doc (Wynonna Earp). Ohhhh boy. Look, I would have been cool with them just hooking up a couple times, but the second this shit turned romantic – nah. They are too alike to EVER work as a romantic couple. He literally knew and was likely romantically and sexually involved with her great great grandfather. Doc should have been written as the father figure Wynonna so desperately needed. Barring all that, when she got pregnant, they could have gone the progressive route and been like, alright, we obviously aren’t good as partners but we can definitely coparent this baby since you are obviously in love with Dolls. BUT NO. We have to have a fucking love triangle (oh I’m sorry, a not love triangle that is oddly shaped like a fucking triangle). Ugh.

3. Rose x Finn (Star Wars). Nope, no. Uh-uh. Nopers. No chemistry, no time, no lead up. Rose hero worshipped Finn and came crashing down and suddenly loves him??? After like 2 days??????? Finn who showed no interest in her because he is clearly in love with Rey???? God, fuck this. Fuck The Last Jedi. Give Rose Tico the substance she deserves.

4. Jane x Casey (Rizzoli and Isles). If you’re gonna force Jane to be straight, at least pair her with a decent dude??? I kind of shipped her with the police guy in season 1 (can’t remember his name, Donnie Whalberg played him) because he took her sass in stride and was attracted to all her tomboyish BS. I thought they would have been good if she just HAD TO BE WITH A DUDE. But instead we’re gonna pair her with this manipulative, gross, christian-values-but-only-so-we-can-say-christian-values veteran dude? Who treated Jane like an accessory and not the badass boss detective she was??? Fuck that. It still pisses me off.

5. Rachel x Joey (Friends). Look. I shipped Ross and Rachel when this show aired. I still kind of do even though the ship is so problematic it hurts (their chemistry is insane, y’all.). But for serious? You’re gonna put JOEY and Rachel together?? Really?? I checked out during seasons 9 and 10 because of this. I mean, first of all, how gross for Joey to just go with the whole proposal snafu despite knowing how Ross felt. How fucking selfish. Second of all, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc have literally no sexual or romantic chemistry of any kind. It was so forced, it was so awkward, I still can’t watch reruns of this time in the show because it is so painful.

Honorable Mention:

Ted x Robin (How I Met Your Mother). WHAT KIND OF MISOGYNISTIC HETERO BULLSHIT VOMITED ONTO THIS SHOW, I DON’T EVEN GO HERE AND I KNOW THIS IS WRONG. Straight white whiney Nice Guy™ Ted should have ended up alone.

Put “Top 5″ anything in my ask and I’ll answer!

[manycoloureddays]

bending the shadows for light | steve harrington & robin buckley, steve harrington x eddie munson

“God Robin,” he says into her neck. Her arms are around him before she consciously registers him moving, and she holds him tight. So tight it probably hurts. “I’m fucking terrified. The part of my brain that’s been whispering to grab all of you and run every day for two years is screaming at me. Why the fuck are we still here? I have such a bad feeling about this.”

or: the one where Steve dies (temporarily) ♥️

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i was talking to a friend about eddie & steve bringing their first kid home from the hospital the other day & thought i’d put it here too:

neither of them had what you would call a traditional upbringing (”what does that even mean?” is a question that gets brought up a lot in their extended family. the wheeler household is as traditional as they come but none of them would say ted was a good example for parenting. the conclusion tends to be “as long as there’s love and support and we’re trying our hardest” but it’s a complicated question) 

anyway, neither of them had the picture perfect nuclear family growing up. steve dragged himself up into adulthood with inconsistent boundaries & very little emotional support, and eddie had all that good love and support from wayne but he was every bit as much of a latchkey kid as steve, what with wayne’s work hours. and while they have seven practice babies, the youngest they started with was a 10 year old, so when they get handed a baby and told “congrats dads” they maybe freak out a little bit. it’s not a big freak out, but it is both of them, which means there’s no level head in the car on the way home. eddie’s brain is going too fast for any of the worries to loom larger than the others, but steve is stuck in a loop of “dad was alright for the first few years of my life, what if i go bad the same way”. they get inside, put the baby carrier with their beautiful baby girl down on the coffee table and call, in this order, the buckley-wheeler apartment, joyce byers, uncle wayne, claudia henderson, and then the jargyle household. 

robin tells steve to calm his tits, she’s on her way over with nancy and a bag of parenting books they got from the library just in case there’s any in their pile that steve and eddie haven’t read yet, nancy yells out “you’ve got this, i promise!” and robin reminds him “you’ve saved the world multiple times and nancy would never lie to you!” which makes eddie feel a lot more sane (nancy is his barometer for normal reactions these days). 

wayne reminds eddie that even his biological parents managed to keep him alive for the first 10 or so years of his life and eddie’s a damn sight more cautious, kind, and prepared. “just hold her as gently as you held the strays at forest hills and feed her slightly more often and you’ll be fine, ed. i had no idea what i was getting myself into when i took you in, it’s okay to be scared, just as long as you love her.” 

joyce reminds steve that “no matter what your little girl is going to grow up so loved and cherished, and that’s more important than anything else. she won’t remember that it took you a few days to find the best way to calm her down, or if you couldn’t figure out the quickest way to change her diaper. she won’t remember when you gave her a too cold bottle, she’ll just remember the love.” and hop jumps on for a quick “we’ll be there this weekend kiddo” which is as good as a long distance shoulder squeeze. 

claudia is in the middle of packing a care package while she’s on the phone and tells steve and eddie all sorts of stories about trying to wrangle dustin on her own, “he was always too clever for his own good, but sometimes they need to learn things on their own. they just need you there to pick them up once they’ve fallen over, to kiss it better and remind them they’re never really alone.”

jonathan and argyle congratulate the dads and jonathan reminds steve that family is what you make it, “you’re nothing like you’re dad, man. none of us are. we made our own way and the fact that you’re worried you’ll fuck up is a pretty good sign that you’re going to keep on trying to do your best by her. but how about i promise you this. if you ever look like you’re heading down a path that leads back to him, i’ll pull you out. you’ve got all of us, an insane number of aunts and uncles who aren’t afraid to call you on your shit. but steve, you’re as much like dick as i’m like lonnie.” 

by the time nancy and robin let themselves in with their spare key, the boys have exhausted themselves emotionally, and all three of them are snuggled together on their bed. steve with his back to the headboard, eddie between his legs, and their daughter on his chest, steve’s finger clutched tight in her hand. robin takes a photo, and then she and nancy creep back down the hall to the kitchen to make dinner

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stranger things fix it fic featuring the goonies, the lord of the rings and lots and lots of snuggling 

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steve says i love you with his body. steve says i love you with bruised knuckles and a bloody grin. steve says i love you with every hidden wince and gruff 'i'm fine'. 

this is why steve's family learns to say i love you with their bodies too. nancy says it with her readjusted grip on her weapon, taking aim before the monster gets to steve. robin says it with gentle fingers cleaning deep cuts and reapplied bandages. jonathan says it with armfuls of groceries carried in from the car and a silent offer to cook tonight instead. lucas says it with a rearranged lounge room and a table that's slightly closer to the couch, where steve can prop up his swollen ankle. dustin says it with his body standing shoulder to shoulder with steve because “if you die i die is for life”. eddie says it with gentle hands at night that always remember where each new bruise is

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“Okay but what I keep coming back to, and correct me if I’m wrong, is that monsters aren’t real.”

Buck glances at Eddie out of the corner of his eye. He’s sitting in the passenger seat, almost fully turned towards Buck, gesticulating wildly. There’s a look in his eyes that’s a little wild and a lot like one Buck remembers from the day Ravi jinxed them. Gremlins? Boogeyman? Santa Muerte?

[Buck gets a call from his Aunt Robin in the middle of the night and suddenly he and Eddie are fighting monsters]

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Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson & Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington & The Party Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Erica Sinclair Additional Tags: Everybody Lives, Fix-It, Found Family, Sleepovers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, The Goonies References Galore Summary:

All it takes to get them to stay, in the end, is Max hanging back awkwardly when Steve gets up to take her, Dustin, and Eddie home.

  or - the one where they all have sleepovers and everyone gets a happy ending.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington & The Party, Eddie Munson & The Party, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, The Party (Stranger Things), Joyce Byers, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Erica Sinclair, Murray Bauman, Literally everyone is here Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Found Family, the mystery inc gang, Marriage Proposal Summary:

Eddie sticks his head out the window, tongue hanging out like a dog. Steve’s hand leaves the wheel to yank him back into the car, and Eddie just cackles, howling at the moon in the pale evening sky, before letting himself be rescued. Not from certain death this time, just the high chance of bug swallowing. 

“You’re a maniac,” Steve says, and it should be disgusting, the fondness dripping from his voice. But seven years is a long time, and Steve’s sappiness has yet to make him sick. In fact, he thinks he might have been infected by it. Turned into a big old sap himself. 

 [It's 1993. Eddie and Steve go back to Hawkins for Erica's graduation and make some plans for their own future]