#otp: invisible string tying you to me

[luucypevensie]

"get it off your chest" for sweet Thea?? 🖤🖤🖤

PAIN, SO MUCH PAIN RAVEN!

get it off your chest + Thea Munroe

“What was that all about? It feels like you’re mad at me, but I don’t know what it could be about…”

Thea felt her insides bubble with unbridled rage; after witnessing Finn, her supposed best friend, get kissed by Quinn, she had been spiraling in a endless whirlpool of fury. However, a wave of sadness also washed over because it was then that Thea realized she liked Finn and wished that she was the one kissing him.

Right now though, she didn’t want to kiss him. She wanted to punch him.

“OH MY GOD, SHUT UP FINN!” screeched Thea, throwing her hands up in frustration. “OF COURSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA, THAT IS SO GODDAMN TYPICAL OF YOU!”

“Whoa hey, why are you yelling at me?” Finn was shocked; never had he ever seen Thea even raise her voice at him. She was always patient with how he went through his thought process, but here, his best friend looked like she came out of the raging pits of Hell. “Look, you obviously have something to say, so why don’t you get it off your chest and—“

“I know.”

Finn paused. “Wait, what?”

“I KNOW FINN! God, I know that you fucking kissed Quinn like the hypocrite that you are. The fact that you told Rachel off for kissing Puck when you did the EXACT same thing with her is just rich.”

He felt his mouth drop open, but no words were able to come out because Finn was struck dumb by what Thea just told him.

Oh god, this was like his worst nightmare.

He didn’t exactly know how to feel when Quinn randomly kissed him after the football game, but Finn knew that Thea couldn’t find out about it. Yet, somehow, she did find out and he felt like scum.

“Wow, and you don’t have anything to say, huh? You know what, Finn? Have a nice life, and don’t even bother talking to me until you have your shit together.”

“Thea wait!” he called out, but Thea had already turned the corner and was gone. This left Finn to wallow in the despair that not only did he lose the girl he really wanted, he also lost his true best friend.

Tagging: @carmens-garden, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @eddysocs, @kendelias, @richitozier, @arrthurpendragon, @purpleyearning, @anotherunreadblog, @anobscurename, @witchofinterest, @darknightfrombeyond, @sunlitscribe, @stanshollaand

[luucypevensie]

Thank you so much for this lovely surprise @foxesandmagic!

So, Thea and Augusta have been friends since childhood. Their parents ran in the same social circle, so when a young impressionable Thea met a young rebellious (even at that age) Augusta, this was legit her:

As for Finn, Thea’s first impression of him was less than favorable. She didn’t like who he was friends with, she didn’t like how he treated other people, and she didn’t like how he treated school with a blasé nature.

It wasn’t until she was assigned to tutor him freshman year that Thea realized that her views of him were completely wrong, that Finn was actually really sweet and kind.

It was after many tutor sessions that the two of them became best friends and Finn developed a crush on Thea that wasn’t mutual until after season 2.

Dorothea 'Thea' Munroe and Augusta Carrigan ALSO Finn Hudson and Thea [Glee] nominated as part of my Creativity Exchange July 2023 for @luucypevensie

Question: What did Thea think of both Finn and Augusta when she first met them?

[dragonsbone]

THROUGHOUT THE YEARS ✨ ↳ stacey adams & steve harrington

They were an unlikely pair.

Next door neighbors and nothing more, Steve Harrington and Stacey Adams started their journey the way most do—as strangers. In the year of 1983, the two were hardly considered friends. They shared nothing in common aside being a part of the same group of Hawkins High’s most established teens. Then, an unexpected twist of events changed the lives of the young teenagers forever; the vanishing of Will Byers, Barbara Holland, and Nathan Grant.

Steve and Stacey were thrust into a reality where monsters from alternate dimensions existed, a young girl with a shaved head had telekinetic super powers, and a top-secret organization of the government trying to cover it all up. In their new world of chaos, they began to rely on each other, even become friends. 

The following year, Steve Harrington and Stacey Adams were inseparable. Even while the king of Hawkins High was still smitten with his girlfriend, Nancy Wheeler, one was always not too far behind from the other. They went to parties, did homework together, and even slayed a few more monsters along the way. They were a team. A dynamic duo, who, occasionally, required help from their much younger friend, Dustin Henderson. 

Then, summer of 1985 rolled around, and operation “Get Steve Harrington a Girlfriend” was a go. Stacey had concocted at least a hundred different plans for her best friend to find the girl of his dreams ever since his relationship ended with Nancy. Yet, even with her expertise, Steve either got painfully rejected numerous times or they didn’t mesh well with his extremely high expectations. Neither of which did he truly understand why until the upcoming celebration of Independence Day. After both were held captive, tortured, and drugged by the Russians, Steve came to the realization that he would’ve absolutely lost his sanity if he didn’t have Stacey by his side. 

The girl that was more than his best friend. The girl he had been so oblivious to his true feelings for. The girl of his dreams.

By the time the Harrington boy came to this conclusion, his best friend in the whole wide world had already abandoned him. 

July 4th was a day that haunted Stacey Adams to the core. It was the final nail in the coffin to her impeding downfall over the years. Her grades slipped tremendously, isolated herself from everyone, and resorted to the comfort of cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol to numb the never-ending hollowness inside. To her surprise, it was remarkably easy to push the people she cared about away. Everyone except him. Steve’s stubborn personality, and refusal to believe that Stacey wanted nothing to do with him anymore, made it almost impossible to keep him at a distance. He would offer to drive her to school, even though her car was in perfectly good use. He would suggest different plans for them every week to hang out like the good old days, knowing she would decline every single one of them. Hell, he even made (more like begged) their mutual friend, Robin Buckley, to join him on his mission to get his best friend back. 

All those efforts were in vain until a Freddy Kruger wannabe left a trail of murders in their town. Then, the unlikely pair found themselves inseparable once more. Mainly out of their own safety of course. But when the stakes of their survival became too much to bear, Stacey’s walls she worked so hard to build up came crashing down like a tidal wave. All the emotions she buried were drowning her, consuming her until she was trapped in an overwhelming storm with no chance to escape. Then, the boy she fought repeatedly to stay away from her offered her a life line. He was the light at the end of her dark and terrifying tunnel of pain and sorrow. She held onto that glimmer of hope to free her from the abyss, and Steve gladly accepted being the pillar of stability. 

It took more time, a near death experience, and an angry confession for them to finally admit how they truly felt about each other. 

And it would only continue from there.

+ bonus:

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[eddiemunscns]

Introducing Lorelei “Harbinger” Grimes in Invisible Strings

When Lorelei Grimes first came to Evergreen, she only had one goal in mind: avenging the death of her late fiancé by finding the motherfucker who killed him. She didn't bank on earning herself a rival in the filterless sociopath Vigilante, or that she’d ultimately end up working the same day job as said rival. She definitely didn’t see it coming when she ended up helping said rival, along with the rest of a band of misfits, take on a group of white supremacists either.  Oh, and there were aliens trying to take over the world...again. Yeah, she definitely see that one coming either. The most surprising thing of all though? Falling for Adrian Chase of all fucking people.

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[katnissmellarkkk]

For ☕️, why do you ship Everlark? Give top 3 reasons. Thank you

Hmm top three reasons ??? Okay :

I do have a soft spot for the tough girl who lets her guard down around one soft boy. It was also that way with my last two otps.

I love their whole entire book dynamic tbh. Esp in Catching Fire. How soft they were, how you could tell Katniss had fallen in love with him even before she could, how understanding Peeta could be with her feelings but also had his own personality, wasn’t perfect at all and had kind of an edge to him.

The hope they symbolize for the other one. The way it was always them against the world, even when others were on their team, the way they could never break the invisible string tying them together even when they both tried to cut it with a blowtorch. The lines “let me go” “I can’t!” really say it all. At the end of the day, the hunger games had a lot of themes (of hope and peace and war and violence and trauma) but in terms of love, it was really all about who would find their way back to you no matter what forces tried to break you apart. who would follow you back to your broken home and plant a garden in the ashes of your old life. who would fight for you, die for you and live for you all at once. and for Katniss that was always Peeta. Peeta and Katniss were the love story, he was Katniss’ love story and it was very apparent to me, right from the start.

[agreatandhonorablesoldier]

okay but I literally just flew to read this in the middle of my work day and I'm just so smitten and wanna read this over and over again. the characterization, the relationship dynamics, the banter, all of it, chef's kiss.

au where booker is the one to go pick nile up when?

[malevolcnt]

otp tags inspired by taylor swift’s folklore (2020)

otp: all along there was some invisible string tying you to me

otp: all this time we walked a very thin line

otp: are there still beautiful things?

otp: chase two girls lose the one

otp: clandestine meetings and longing stares

otp: cross your heart won’t tell no other

otp: cutting me open then healing me fine

otp: do i deserve the hell you give me?

otp: don’t want no other shade of blue but you

otp: for you i would ruin myself

otp: hell was the journey but it brought us heaven

otp: i am the ash from your fire

otp: i can see us in twisted bed sheets

otp: i could never give you peace

otp: i don’t know anything but i know i miss you

otp: i knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs

otp: i know i’ll curse you for the longest time

otp: i never needed anything more

otp: i would die for you in secret

otp: if i’m on fire you’ll be made of ashes too

otp: if my wishes come true it would be you

otp: if you want me you really should show

otp: i’m a fire and i’ll keep your brittle heart warm

otp: it still hurts underneath these scars

otp: it would’ve been sweet if it could’ve been me

otp: living for the hope of it all

otp: look at this godforsaken mess we made

otp: love you to the moon and to saturn

otp: patch these broken wings

otp: some things you just can’t speak about

otp: still trying everything to keep you looking at me

otp: tell yourself you can always stop

otp: the greatest loves of all time are over now

otp: the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me

otp: the worst thing i ever did was what i did to you

otp: try to change the ending

otp: we have a marvelous time ruining everything

otp: we never painted by the numbers

otp: we were something don’t you think so?

otp: what we did was just as dark

otp: will you miss me once the thrill expires?

otp: would you have me? would you want me?

otp: you are not like the regulars

otp: you draw stars around my scars

otp: you have beaten my heart

otp: you put chains around my demons

otp: you were never mine

otp: your faithless love’s the only hoax i believe in

otp: you’re a flashback in a film reel

[herarebels]

A folklore review by an aspiring author.

the 1

The beginning sounds like a college coming of age movie, and then follows the narrator as she looks back through her previous relationship.

cardigan

I really love the imagery. And I love the parallel of the narrator is told she knows nothing because she is young, but she insists that she knows one thing- her lover. I’m also getting young adult Victorian London romance vibes.

the last great american dynasty

I really like how Taylor equates herself to Rebekah, and says that she is the next mad woman to own the house. (Is Mad Woman about Taylor or Rebekah?!) I love that Taylor says that she did all of the things that Rebekah did. The past tense of the last few lyrics made it sound like Taylor sold the house?

exile

I loveeee this song to write about a romantic couple too. I love her imagery, and her word choice. I’m imagining this couple still being in love, but they were separated by a misunderstanding. And now that they see each other in a location, and now they don’t know what they’re living for because they still love the other person, but they feel like the relationship is unfixable.

my tears ricochet

I like the intro vocals/instrumental. I have two thoughts going off of this song. (WHEN I”M SCREAMING AT THE SKY?!) The woman died, and her ghost is watching her love interest at the funeral. What if this is the couple from the song before (?!?!?) and the woman died unexpectedly, and her ghost is haunting her love interest because she still loves them even after their mistakes. Or it could be the couple from above, and the burying is their breakup. She’s fighting because she wants to stay for her love interest. (I’m getting real forbidden love vibes here.) Maybe they were enemies to lovers, and he had to kill her, and now she haunts him. This song really fits Daenerys and Jon really well too.

mirrorball

I love the effect on Taylor’s voice. I see myself and what I used to do in the past in this song. This could be taken literally as Taylor’s need for the audience and how she changes herself to keep their attention. And she wants to be a source of comfort and entertainment for her fans, even when no one pays attention to her anymore. But it could be taken as another romantic thing where one partner just wants to make the other happy and they have each other as the world burns down (dancing with our hands tied bridge anyone?!)

seven

Aw I really like this cute song about Taylor’s childhood. I like that she recalls her attitude as a child being less subdued, and that as she grew up she had to do so to become more civil. I also just like her wondering if there are any good things in the world anymore, and equating those good things to her childhood. (Also, INTHAF vibes.)

august

Okay I claimed this one off of the tracklist, so hopefully it’s good lol. AHHH ITS SO CUTE! I’m getting college relationship vibes. *its one of the love triangle songs* “Back when I was living for the hope of it all” I really love the music and her voice in this one, it matches the vibes of the song perfectly.

this is me trying

So um I accidentally skipped this song, so this review is not going to be as coherent as the other songs in this place of the album. (You should probably skip this review and then come back to this after you read hoax.) I love the echo effect on her voice. This is the third song of the love triangle that I couldn’t find in betty lol. Another forbidden love. What the hell. Wait, this is super short. And I love it. Dang.

illicit affairs

The high *down* and *stop* and *him*. FORBIDDEN LOVE VIBES AGAIN. Could this be the same couple from exile and my tears ricochet? OOooh I love the harmonies. I love the bridge! (Honestly I think I’m going to need to make a couple of new OCs for this trinity of songs.)

invisible string

Hahaha bad blood easter egg. I really like the idea of invisible strings tying all of the people of your life to you. This is a really cute love song to Joe. This is sooooo cute.

mad woman

I have been forewarned that this is a doozy. Oh Taylor is out for blood people. She’s gonna be burning the witches now. We all know the “two” she’s talking about. Oh. Wait. I don’t really appreciate how Taylor is talking about one of their wives however. (I know that it does not directly reference the people that she’s talking about, but there is so much media attention on this topic that anyone could figure it out.) While she does make a good point that the woman isn’t mad at her husband because of societal conditioning. I believe that is not Taylor’s business and she really shouldn’t have put that in a song in my opinion. Overall, good song! I just didn’t agree with those few lines at the end.

epiphany

Oh frick this is going to be sad isn’t it. Wait is this the song about her grandfather in WWII?!? It is. Oh no. Anddddd she mashed it with covid. Nice dude. I’m totally fine. I like the servitude theme of the song. I like the notes and the backtrack of the song, I think it really fits the topic. This song really fits our world right now, and I like how she related it to devastated events of our history. It really shows that someday we will have our epiphany during this pandemic and we will get through it just like we got through everything else that happened in our history.

betty

So I saw three theories about this song:

1. Betty is Joe’s mom.

2. William Bowery is Joe writing with Taylor under a pseudonym.

3. Apparently Joe and Taylor are going to announce that they secretly got married in this song.

Let’s see how the theories pan out, shall we? I love the harmonicas! School children again? Maybe this is the love story of Joe’s parents? Joe’s dad better be named James. Wait what was the other song that talked about picking up somebody for a drive? August? Is this another love triangle song? Then if these two are the love triangle songs, where's the third? Did I miss it? Is CARDIGAN the third song? Why else would she reference it again? Dude I’m so confused.

peace

Okay, we are ignoring the whole love triangle debacle for now. Why is this titled peace but it’s explicit? I feel like those two words don’t go together. Wait this is the ultimate love song to Joe. I’m about to cry. I want this. I want what they have. I saw somewhere that Taylor told a secret sessioner during the rep sessions that the bridge to CIWYW was originally “dreaming of angels, raising angels into good people with you.” (I cannot confirm that this is true, I am believing this person’s word.) Taylor didn’t put it in because she was still worried about the delicate (lol) nature of their relationship, and she didn’t want any pregnancy rumors. But now in peace we get: “Give you my wild, give you a child.” Guys I’m actually crying rn. This is growth, and I want what they have one day. I want to be a part of a couple that never settles down and stays forever young. I want to be a part of a relationship that is romantic and that is also platonic. This is my next OTP song oh my gosh, it’s perfect.

hoax

I’m getting forbidden love break up vibes again. Why is this album full of songs like this? But this song also has a lot of references from Taylor’s life that she has sung about throughout the years. Is Joe the sadness that she’s referencing, idk? It’s really late and I know that she is talking about things in her life that she is already written about, but I’m not catching on to what they actually are.

overall thoughts:

I really like this album. This is a songwriting quality that we haven’t had from Taylor since Red. (Not that her other albums were bad at all!) I haven’t been a Taylor fan for very long. I grew up with YBWM and Love Story, and I knew all of the radio singles off of Red and 1989, but I didn’t become more than a casual listener until reputation (which is still my favorite album by her!) I write in the fantasy genre, so it’s really hard for me to write to 1989 and Lover, and I am not really familiar with self-titled, Fearless, and Speak Now.

What I love about this album more than her other albums, is that folklore isn’t really about Taylor’s life. As a media consumer, I like to know what the media I am watching, listening, or reading is about. Because of this, I know a lot of little details about Taylor’s love life and other things that have happened to her that she has written about. But as a writer it is hard for me to separate those instances in Taylor’s life from the songs. I can’t think of them objectively. So this album really gave me a lot of inspiration.

Also, this is a sound that we haven’t heard from Taylor since Red. Folk music really lends well to fantasy writing, and I was ecstatic when I saw the pictures yesterday morning. I just knew that it was going to be the Taylor version of a folk album. (One of my dream Taylor genres has been fulfilled, now I just need a WANEGBT 1989 tour-esqe album. Taylor pleaseeeeee.)

As of right now, all of the ones labeled forbidden love are my favorite. But I think my top three off of the album (in order) are:

peace

exile

my tears ricochet

Anyways, its 3:00 am and I am probably not making any sense anymore. I think I’m going to post this without checking it over. I apologize if any of this is incoherent. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[luucypevensie]

Okay, so you know how I said that Finn and Thea have three kids in an AU where Finn’s alive and thriving, and I posted the eldest, Carolyn?

I decided to post the other two kids as well!

So first, we have the second eldest daughter:

Name: Sadie Elizabeth Hudson

Gender: Cisgender female

General Appearance: Like her older sister, Sadie has her mother’s blonde hair. However, it is more wavy than curly and it’s also more of a white blonde than regular blonde. Unlike Lyn, Sadie inherited Finn’s dark eyes and she has a tan from being outside all the time

Personality: Sadie is very laid back like her father; it takes A LOT to get her mad because she prefers to go with the flow and see where life takes her. Sadie’s also very kind like both her parents; if anyone is feeling down about something, you can bet Sadie will be there to make you feel better

Special Talents: An incredible surfer, extensive knowledge about the ocean (she wants to be a marine biologist when she gets older), a decent singer though not as good as Lyn

Who they like better: Her aunt Betty Thea because she’s better at keeping a cool head like Sadie, and they have similar interests that they can do together like Finn and Lyn do

Who they take after more: Finn because they have that same laid back attitude, as well as that sweet naïve belief in people

Personal Headcanon: Sadie and her aunt Betty love to discuss climate change and how people are destroying the Earth; they also are protest buddies, and Betty totally encourages Sadie’s love for the ocean

Faceclaim: Natalie Alyn Lind

And now onto the youngest!

Name: Christopher “Chris” Robert Hudson

Gender: Cisgender male

General Appearance: Chris inherited his father’s brown hair, but it’s more wavy than Finn’s ever was. He also inherited a sprinkle of his freckles across his nose, as well as his height (Chris isn’t as tall as Finn; he gets there when he’s older), but his eyes are all Thea’s

Personality: Chris is a mix of his parents; he’s very outgoing like Finn, as well as being a bit oblivious. From Thea, he inherited her ability to buckle down and work hard (he also becomes a tutor like her because he believes everyone can succeed at school, it just depends on how they best learn)

Special Talents: Very adept at sports (specifically football and basketball, like Finn), best tutor at his school, and incredibly talented at the drums (whenever Lyn’s drummer can’t make a performance, she asks her brother to step in with permission from their parents of course)

Who they like better: Chris loves his parents for different things; Thea’s the best person to go to for school-related subjects and advice on certain subjects, while Finn’s better at relating to sports and music relating to the drums

Who they take after more: It’s a solid mix of both, but I think I would lean a little more towards Finn

Personal Headcanon: Chris is a huge fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Cavaliers; he and Finn love going to the games together and plotting out the different plays each team could’ve made if they were in a losing streak

Faceclaim: Jacob Tremblay

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[dragonsbone]

CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS SERIES 🎀✨     ↳ stacey + steve; moodboards

❝ you hate every single guy that tries to ask me out. ❞ ❝ yeah, because all of them are douchebags ❞ ❝ says the guy that was all buddy-buddy with them in high school. ❞ ❝ exactly, how do you think i know that? seriously, stace, they’re grade-a assholes when they’re not trying to flirt their way into your pants. ❞ ❝ ew-okay, steve, i got the message. ❞ ❝ okay, good, now let’s circle back on me because i need your help. i wanna ask out that chick that always orders rocky road every friday. you know, the one with the real nice－ ❞ ❝ boobs, yes, i know! ❞ ❝ ...i was gonna say hair, but, yeah, that too. ❞ ❝ you’re unbelievable. ❞

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stacey’s taglist 🧚🏻‍♂️: @calpurniatypes

stranger things ocs taglist 🧚🏻‍♂️:  @m1ke-wheeler @kcthewifitheif @onplanetmars

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[dragonsbone]

joey makes videos ✨ ↳ stacey adams + steve harrington

❝ maybe she could be the one. ❞

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[dragonsbone]

"you think I'm jealous?" for stacey? 👀

ahhh thank u sm babe !! im pretty sure u asked this from stacey's pov, but i couldn't resist this funny opportunity. anyway, it’s a bit long, but i hope u enjoy and i adore u ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚

There was only one thing the former king of Hawkins High, Steve Harrington, knew for certain. It definitely wasn't his academic skills, or lack thereof for better terminology. Certainly, it wasn't his family's wealth either because he was now stuck making three bucks an hour while dressed in a ridiculous costume to serve ice cream to spoiled children with controlling parents. And it absolutely wasn't being a star athlete for all four years of high school since Tech didn't even consider scouting him for any of their sports teams. 

No, none of those granted the slightest moment of surety in his mind. What Steve Harrington would bet all his hard earned money at Scoops Ahoy was that he was a ladies’ man. Through and through. The only part of himself that consistently remained confident for years of disappointment after disappointment. After all, his fellow peers didn’t coin the nickname “King Steve” based on nothing.

send me ship asks from this list

He was a player in his own game. The guy who can make any girl in the small town of Hawkins head over heels for him. Hell, he even got Nancy Wheeler, a girl who was so out of his league, to be his girlfriend for almost a full year. The longest track record he ever had for dating someone. Even though it did inevitably end with Little Miss Perfect breaking his heart into pieces on Halloween night last year, Steve had faith his charm wouldn’t let him down.

Soon enough, he would acquire the girl of his dreams with his smooth talking, superb hair, and muscular build. All he had to do was weed through the pool of options until he landed on the one.

On the other hand, his best friend, Stacey, was a pitiful example of a flirt. A fact Steve wished could be erased from his brain every single time he witnessed the poor girl’s pathetic attempts to talk to other guys. It was a wonder how she ever managed to date her notorious ex-boyfriend, Nathan Grant, who was a total douchebag. 

That seemed to be her type too considering those were the only guys she went after until he had to put a damper on it. She would get swept up by their good looks and their sweet façade to the point where she believed they were misunderstood. Assholes on the outside, but softies on the inside type of bullshit. But Steve knew these guys. He could remember the conversations that took place in the boy’s locker room. How they constantly degraded and berated the opposite sex over and over again until it they were beating a dead bush. Typical grade-A asshole behavior. The type of scum Stacey shouldn’t mistakenly fall for.

Which was why Steve made it his mission to teach the girl everything he knew so she could use his expertise to find someone worth an ounce of her time. He explained all of his tips and tricks in full detail in hopes to make her a qualifying apprentice. Like that one Star Wars movie he watched with Dustin. He was the master and she was his... Well, he’d forgotten the word they used in the film, but that was besides the point.

The point was that he was determined for his best friend to get a boyfriend, even if he had to do it himself. The latter seemed to be a more favorable option as he watched her through the binoculars from across the mall. 

He was supposed to be on the lookout for evil Russians, though he didn’t have the faintest clue on what to look for. Dustin accompanied him as they staked out behind a couple of fake plants near the ice cream parlor. They searched for what seemed like hours to find anyone that would fit Dustin’s description of what their target looked like. However, all he saw was a bunch of random people scattered across the mall until he landed on the upper level where his best friend was supposed to be scouting. They’d split up to cover more ground per Robin’s suggestion. He would’ve rather teamed up with Stacey instead, but he couldn’t allow to leave Dustin, a kid, alone to fend for himself. Someone had to watch out for the little shit, and, of course, that someone ended up being him. Always the babysitter.

Stacey stood alongside the balcony with a boy he recognized from her year. Josh? Justin? James? Something that started with a “j” for sure. Either way, his name didn’t matter. What mattered was that the boy’s body language was clear as day. Even from Steve’s spot, he could see how the boy shifted closer towards her as they talked, the occasional brush of touch on her arm or her hand, and his unwavering eye contact. All good techniques in the art of flirting. All the notes he’d specifically given Stacey to replicate. The boy was already putting in a good chunk of the work. All that was left was for her to reciprocate it back, and the rest will flow from there.

Easy peasy. Simple as that.

Well, apparently for Stacey, it seemed downright impossible. She was stiffer than the statue of the founder of Hawkins in downtown. And she rambled. On and on and on. The poor guy never got the chance to utter a word in because she wouldn’t shut up. It was like all the tips he’d given her had vanished from her mind completely.

“Oh, you’ve gotta be kidding me!” Steve groaned loudly. Why must he have a best friend who was the absolute worst at following his advice? Hell, even Dustin was better than her.

The aforementioned boy’s head snapped towards him, his blue eyes big and wide at Steve’s sudden outburst. “What? What is it?”

“It’s like watching a goddamn train wreck.” 

Dustin’s brows furrowed. He followed Steve’s gaze until it landed on the shit show on the upper level. The young boy rolled his eyes, slouched back down in his spot. “Are you seriously spying on Stace right now?” He glared back at Steve, who didn’t notice as his attention was obviously preoccupied. 

“Oh, Jesus Christ, she completely threw all my advice out the window! It’s embarrassing!” Steve cringed as he watched Stacey continue to talk the poor dude’s ear off. All the obvious signs of interest from him were gone as if they never appeared. “God, she’s not even trying to make a move on him! Have I taught her nothing?”

“Dude, you are the worst spy in history. You know that?” Dustin complained as he snatched the binoculars from Steve.

“Stop-hey. Hey, stop it.” Steve whined. He slipped the strap of the binoculars off his head and shoved into Dustin’s grabby hands.

The kid brought the binoculars up to his eyes as he scanned through the crowd of civilians. “If you’re gonna keep letting your jealousy get in the way of our top secret mission, I’m gonna switch you out with Robin.” Dustin half-heartedly threatened. Though, Steve was almost certain the younger boy would very much contemplate it. 

"Woah, woah, woah, now wait just a second. You… You think I’m jealous? Me? Steve Harrington? Jealous?” Dustin lazily pulled away his gaze to face him with an unamused expression on his face. He really needed to chill out with the attitude. 

"Yeah, it’s pretty obvious.”

"Nah, no way, man. No way.”

Dustin sighed heavily while he turned fully towards him, their mission now on the back-burner of each other’s minds. “Steve, it's been two days since I came back from camp, and all you’ve talked about was Stacey and her, quote-on-quote, pathetic dating life.”

That was fair. He did bring it up often. Maybe a bit too often, but whatever. What Dustin claimed had no truth behind it. “Well, yeah, dude. She’s my best friend. I’m just looking out for her, that’s all. It doesn’t mean anything.” Steve justified.

“Or maybe you like her, and don’t want to admit it because she’s your best friend. I mean, I don’t get why you’re looking at other girls when you got the perfect one right in front of you.” 

This was getting ridiculous. This was Stacey for crying out loud. Stacey Adams. The girl who lived next door to him since they were literally babies. His very best friend in the entire world. The person he would do almost anything for. There was absolutely no fucking way he liked her anything more than his friend. None. No way.

“Seriously, you’re, like, way off base, buddy. We’re not even each other’s type!” Steve said defensively.

"And how’s that working out for the both of you?”

"Ouch. Not cool.”

"Look, all I’m saying is you guys are meant for each other. And the quicker you dumbasses realize that, the sooner we can get back on task on finding our evil Russians.” Dustin fired back with finality. He reverted back to the binoculars and continued to be on the lookout.

Meanwhile, Steve sat there incredibly dumbfounded. He took one last glance back at the balcony where she was. At first, he couldn’t believe the sight before him, blinking repeatedly as if it could correct his vision. But a fucking miracle had been granted right before his eyes. Stacey stiffness had eased into a relaxed state. She’d finally stopped rambling, but what Steve witnessed was somehow far worse. The girl was smiling. Full cheek to cheek grin at the guy she was with. The guy was now back to giving her his undivided attention, his interest regained within a matter of moments.

Stacey had done it. She did the impossible and flirted back! All those painstakingly aggravating lessons finally worked in her favor! A part of him wanted to jump up from his spot and cheer loudly for everyone in the mall to hear. To showcase his achievement of still being an expert in the art of flirting. He didn’t need Robin’s pitiful "be yourself” advice. Not when his best friend took his own and accomplished the unimaginable. 

But something inside him made him stay alarmingly still. The realization began to dawn on him the longer he continued to stare. His best friend was smiling at some guy. The same cute, little smile that could easily brighten the darkest of rooms. It was his favorite thing about her. Apart from her sweet laugh, her crystal blue eyes, her kind personality, or the way she could make him feel like he wasn’t some washed up high school graduate, who had a hopeless future that lied ahead of him. She made him feel as if he could do anything. Be anything. Sure, Dustin was his hype-man too, but it was different with Stacey. A peculiar, but not foreign feeling whenever she was around these past few months. Something he brushed off or pretended not to notice. A thought he would never have acknowledged until this moment where he observed Stacey Adams smile at a guy. A guy that wasn’t him.

Oh.

Oh.

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Since you asked and I am forever inclined to grant your wishes... "if they had a kid" for my favorite child Thea and my barely-tolerated child Finn?? 🖤🖤🖤

THANK YOU!!!! Okay, so you have to understand, there are two universes. There’s canon, where Finn still dies and Thea grieves for a good while, and then there’s an AU where Finn is alive and well and the two of them have two daughters and a son together.

This is their eldest child:

Name: Carolyn “Lyn” Rebecca Hudson

Gender: Cisgender female

General Appearance: Lyn has her mom’s blonde hair, but she decided to dye it brown in an effort to be closer to her dad. However, there are some lingering blonde highlights to give it some edge. Besides her mom’s hair, Lyn also inherited her eyes and long fingers that constantly have calluses from playing the guitar.

Personality: Lyn is incredibly loyal like her parents, but she is more vocal about it like her aunt Augusta. She is not afraid to smack down someone who is hurting her friends or family. Lyn is also very tough like her aunt Augusta, but has a secret sweet side that she only shows to people she trusts.

Special Talents: An amazing guitar player, as well as singer (she’s the lead in her band called Poltergeists), incredibly adept at karate, horrible at dancing like her dad.

Who they like better: Her aunt Augusta Finn because they bond over similar interests like rock bands and playing instruments (she still loves her mother and goes to her whenever she needs a good hug or cheering up).

Who they take after more: Her aunt Augusta Thea because she’s not as outgoing as her dad was in high school unless if she’s on stage.

Personal Headcanon: Lyn is a HUGE horror movie/book fan; her room is filled with books and posters from Stephen King and the Scream franchise (there’s a reason why her band’s name is Poltergeists).

Faceclaim: Peyton List

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I’ve loved and I’ve lost...

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Lorelei “Harbinger” Grimes in Invisible Strings

“You were worried about me, weren’t you?”

“Psh, no I wasn’t.”

“Yes you were, your face was doing that thing it does when you’re worried.”

“What thing? My face doesn’t do a thing.”

“Yeah it does, your forehead gets all wrinkly and you pout. It’s not a bad thing, it’s fucking adorable actually.”

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i miss you like it was the very first night

A/N: So, I’m not sure most of you know this, but Taylor Swift suffered from an eating disorder awhile back. I wanted to incorporate that into Thea’s story because eating disorders wasn’t really touched upon in Glee. Granted, I am not an expert on eating disorders. I will take any helpful critique (that is respectful) from anyone who knows more. This takes place during 2X20 Prom Queen, and just a titch of background: Thea stopped talking to Finn after finding out him and Quinn. She started dating an older guy she met through a mutual friend not from Glee, but he broke up with her before Prom because of the “age difference” and her eating disorder came back with a vengeance.

She didn’t really feel well.

No, it wasn’t because Finn was dancing nearby with Quinn Fabray, looking very handsome in his suit. No, it also wasn’t because of that heinous human being you could call her ex. Thea felt extremely…light headed. To be honest, she had felt that way since the beginning of the evening. Max, her best guy friend since preschool and her date to prom, had been worrying since then (even though she told him that she was fine).

Though, she wasn’t fine really.

Ever since Thea stopped talking to Finn after finding out he was pursuing Quinn again, it felt like her life had been circling down the drain. She realized too late that she really was in love with him, then Augusta introduced her to him.

Thea thought everything would turn around after that.

Boy, was she wrong.

He dumped her.

Because she was too young for him.

Everything spiraled from there: Thea started eating less, making it look like she had eaten because it was the one thing she could control in her sorry ass life. She knew everyone was worried: Max, Mercedes, Tina, her parents, Betty.

Oh god, Betty.

All Thea wanted to be was the best role model for Betty. Yet, here she was being a total mess.

Wait, are those spots on her eyes?

She heard Max call her name before everything became black.

“FINN!”

The panic in Max’s voice was what snapped Finn out of his Jesse-induced haze. As much as he wanted to continue to try bashing St. Jackass in the face, something was very wrong.

When he turned towards Max’s direction, Finn felt his stomach drop. Crumpled in a heap on the floor with him trying to revive her was Thea, looking deathly pale and fragile. Her eyes were closed, and for a moment, Finn thought she was Princess Aurora, waiting for him to kiss her awake.

Shaking the thought away, he ran over to them and gently took Thea’s head in his clumsy hands. Quickly looking over and seeing no other injury, he turned towards Max, who answered his unasked question immediately.

“I swear, I have no idea. She’s been looking like she was going to faint all night and I tried to get her to sit down, but you know Thea! She’s as stubborn as a mule sometimes!”

Finn dimly became aware that Mercedes, Tina, and Brittany had all run up behind him, Mercedes crouching down beside him to look her over herself.

“God, she looks so thin! I feel like if Thea were outside, one wind gust would blow her away.”

Thin…

Oh no…

As the horrifying realization came over him, Finn swiftly picked her up and ran outside, shouting behind him:

“Max, call 911! Tell them I’m meeting them at the hospital and explain Thea’s medical background! Mercedes, call Thea’s moms and dad! They need to know what happened! Tina, you and Brit come with me! I need you guys to watch over her while I drive!”

The four of them sprang into action, with Max and Mercedes feeling like they might throw up as they came to the same terrible conclusion as Finn.

Thea’s eating disorder had come back.

The wait at the hospital was excruciating.

As soon as Finn, Tina, and Brittany pulled up to the hospital, they were met with nurses waiting to put Thea on a gurney (they had managed to make good time; it helped that every light they hit was green). Once she was safely on, they pushed her away immediately.

The three of them waited in the waiting room with Tina and Brittany nervously watching Finn pace like a caged animal from their seats. Soon, they were joined by Max, Mercedes, Sam, Mike, and Artie. Max informed Finn that Mr. Munroe was on his way and was notifying both Mrs. Munroes the situation as they were speaking.

Slowly, time moved forward. Artie and Brittany were quietly talking to one another (probably about their breakup, Finn mused) while Tina had her head on Mike’s shoulder, tears silently streaming down her face. Mercedes was gripping Sam’s hand as though it was her lifeline, and Max had his head in his hands.

Finn took a seat next to him, giving a quick pat on the shoulder. Silence stretched on between them until Finn suddenly turned towards him and asked, “Did you know?”

Max started at the question. “No way! I mean, I noticed she looked a little thinner than the last time I saw her, but that was it!”

Finn could tell he was telling the truth; Max was a pretty honest guy, unlike most people his age. Plus, he lived in a different town further away from Lima, so it made sense that he hadn’t had a lot time to hang with Thea.

“What about you?”

“Huh?” He snapped his head back towards Max, who was looking at him inquisitively.

“Did you have any idea about this? That Thea’s eating disorder came back?”

Finn had never in his life felt more ashamed than he did right now in that hospital waiting room. Maybe, if he had noticed that something, anything, was wrong, he could’ve stopped this from happening.

“Thea and I haven’t spoken in awhile,” he told Max quietly. “If I hadn’t been such an ass, then maybe I’ve could seen that she wasn’t herself. I could’ve done something!”

A wave of self loathing came over him so strong, he thought he could’ve fallen over from the weight if he was still standing.

“I hate myself for not being there for her when she needed me the most.”

It was in that moment that both Mr. Munroe and a doctor came up to them. “Dorothea Munroe party?”

Everyone shot up at that, but only Mr. Munroe approached the doctor. “I’m her father.”

“Your daughter will be alright Mr. Munroe. Her friend was able to get her here just in the nick of time, and we were able to get some nutrients into her body.”

There was a collective sigh of relief at the news, and hugs were exchanged all around.

“However,” the doctor continues. “You’ll need to monitor her over the next few days, make sure she keeps on getting the proper nutrients her body’s lacking at the moment. I would also recommend a therapist specializing in eating disorders once she is feeling better.”

“Thank you,” said Mr. Munroe, shaking the doctor’s hand vigorously. “You have no idea how much this means to my daughter’s mothers and I.”

The doctor raised an eyebrow at the plural usage, but didn’t comment. “She is allowed visitors, but I suggest doing one at time as to not overwhelm her.”

He thanked her once more, and immediately turned towards Finn. “Go on son, I think she’ll want to see you first.”

Finn was gobsmacked; he didn’t think Mr. Munroe would even let him near Thea after their fight.

However, there was no sign of protectiveness radiating from Thea’s dad. He only saw relief and gratefulness reflected back on his face.

“Finn, if it weren’t for you, there’s a good chance that Thea wouldn’t be here now. You saved her, and I know you were worried ever since you brought her to the hospital.”

“Plus,” continued Mr. Munroe, a mischievous grin on his face. “Thea has missed you ever since that fight the two of you had awhile back.”

He flushed at that (but, if he was being honest with himself, Finn missed her too). It had felt like he was missing a limb that he didn’t even know was gone.

It took a little bit to find her room, but when he did and went inside, what Finn saw nearly broke his heart. There was Thea, pale as a ghost, lying quietly in her bed. She looked so withdrawn and broken, the guilt came back full notch. Turning towards the door and seeing him standing there, her face crumpled and Thea broke down into tears.

Finn started crying too and walked over in two strides to pull her into a hug. “I’m sorry,” she sobbed while clutching to his arms as though he was her lifeline. “I’m so sorry, Finn.”

“No” he fiercely responds back. “You have nothing to be sorry about. You were right: about Quinn, about me being a ass, everything. I should’ve listened to you.”

“We were so stupid,” whispered Thea, snuggling deeper into his chest. “I was so angry at you, but I missed you so much. It felt like I was missing a part of myself, and when he broke up with me, all I wanted was for you to come over and give me a hug while telling me I deserved better.”

“You did deserve better; that ass did not treat you with the respect you were due.”

The silence that stretched between them was comfortable, like how it used to be before the fight. After awhile, Thea spoke up again.

“After the break up, I felt like I was spiraling and there was no end in sight. You and I weren’t talking, Mercedes was busy hanging with Kurt and Rachel, and I just got dumped. I needed to feel in control, and this wayward thought that maybe my weight had something to do with everything made a switch in my brain.”

Finn’s response was to hold her closer to him.

“It felt so good to be in control of something; I thought that, if it got really bad, that I would stop. Of course, that backfired on me, like everything else in my life.”

The last statement was filled with so much bitterness and self loathing. Finn had never hated himself more in that moment.

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there when you needed me the most,” he said quietly. “Some best friend I am.”

Feeling her hand squeeze his, Finn looked down to see Thea gently smiling up at him. “You’re here now, and you saved my life. I’d say that’s some pretty good best friend mojo there.”

“And I’m going to use that mojo to make it up to you.”

Thea laughed at that before a yawn escaped her and she settled back down on the mattress. “Stay with me?”

Finn nodded, and he sunk back into his chair while taking her right hand in his left. He watched as she fell asleep, and once her breathing evened out, he whispered to her, “I missed you like it was the very first night.”

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