#rasepsm

[findafight]

Just found out Robin and Steve's Epic Platonic Soulmate Mixtape got uploaded to Scribd without my permission 😞 just to be clear I only upload fics to Tumblr and ao3, both under the name Findafight! I'm going to try to figure out how to report it and get it taken down. I know I'm not the only stranger things fics writer who has had their fics uploaded there. It sucks! Hopefully we can report and get them taken down.

[findafight]

Chapter 11 of RaSEPSM is done!! finally!! thanks for being pactient with me :)

Chapter summary: Steve talking to Nancy debrief, friendiversary, a smidge of Max, and lots of sillies.

Fic summary:

In late January, 1984, Robin saw Steve Harrington stand stock still in the middle of the sidewalk, staring at a house with twinkling Christmas lights. She thought it was weird, but wasn’t going to comment and was about to walk around him when she realized his hands were shaking and repeatedly clenching and unclenching. And, because Robin could never leave well enough alone, she placed a hand on his shoulder. Or, Robin and Steve meet post season 1 and begin their friendship early, despite Robin's confusion at how exactly it happened.

chapter 1 link

[findafight]

Chapter 12 is here!

Rating: teen and up

Chapter Summary: 11 pages of Salon Days finally making an appearance and Steve indoctrinating as many children he can into sports fans

Fic Summary:

In late January, 1984, Robin saw Steve Harrington stand stock still in the middle of the sidewalk, staring at a house with twinkling Christmas lights. She thought it was weird, but wasn’t going to comment and was about to walk around him when she realized his hands were shaking and repeatedly clenching and unclenching. And, because Robin could never leave well enough alone, she placed a hand on his shoulder.

Or, Robin and Steve meet post season 1 and begin their friendship early, despite Robin's confusion at how exactly it happened.

[findafight]

Please stranger things season five I don't care if Robin calls herself a dyke like I want it but I know you won't but please please let her call herself a lesbian please please

[findafight]

Have some out of context spoiler memes (and one already happened thing) for Robin and Steve's Epic Platonic Soulmate Mixtape.

[findafight]

Truck girl Vickie is so dear to me. She fixes up a second hand truck with her dad the summer after she turns sixteen. She is cute and feminine and spends her downtime covered in grease and getting calluses. She keeps her nails painted but short because wearing gloves is a pain with long nails and they break and also make playing clarinet harder and it's easier to get the gunk out from short nails. She rambles about whatever comes to mind. Her hair is short, she likes hoop earrings, she wears skirts and flannels and thick jeans and work boots. She's a bi girl who likes makeup and cars and band. She giggles when the cute girl beside her makes fun of Tammy Thompson with her best friend, and politely ignores the slip up that might mean they're more alike than being bandmates and Muppet fans. She watches fast times and pauses on fifty three minutes five seconds, and wonders if queer girls who wear lipstick and fix cars can risk breaking up with her boyfriend who doesn't like her movies or her hometown or the way grease sticks under her short nails no matter how much she scrubs.

[findafight]

(idk if you're accepting multiple asks so feel free to ignore if not) also chapters 11-20 of epic Platonic soulmate mixtape 💃🕺

yes i totally am! everybody wanted so much starbara lol so I'm happy to share a little bit of some tweaked RaSEPSM lines.

Steve just shook his head and said, “Nah. If he can’t handle being normal about you liking a sport, he doesn’t get to know about the fun stuff.” El hummed, nodding. “So I tell him about the goat curse as a… reward? For being a good boyfriend?”

[findafight]

late, but requesting some RaSEPSM for Wip Wednesday please!

this is from two weeks ago so we're both late haha.

Send me an ask to make me write wip wednesday fics

El tilted her head (not, Robin noticed, unlike how Steve would when confused) and asked “You have had a boyfriend though? You can…give advice?” Max nodded, “for when they’re acting like assholes.” Robin winced. “Uhhh, no. I haven’t. None of the guys at school have, ah, caught my eye.”

[findafight]

Gritting my teeth and shaking because there are so many little things I'm including that are so funny and eprfect but I cannot tell you because it's spoilers OR I will sound like I'm just following a trend but I swear I've had some thing in my back pocket for almost a YEAR

[findafight]

Wanna write but I'm only thinking of silly starbie aus and an alt perspective scene Robin isn't in for RaSEPSM 🥴

[findafight]

Listen there are many things I'd change about stranger things but I'm not doing that in Robin and Steve's Epic Platonic Soulmate Mixtape because that fic isn't about plot it's about stobin being chaotic and tender besties. I am not completely overhauling S4 just because the Russian plot was annoying this ain't about them it's about stobin hugging ok.

[findafight]

WIP Wednesday Game

got tagged by @eriquin and I guess I'm actually doing it!!! YEAH!! rules copiy/pasted:

It’s WIP Wednesday, time for a little accountability, sharing your work, and getting a kick in the pants.

Here’s how it works:

In a reblog of this post (so people can find you in the notes) or new thread (w/ rules attached) if you want to play on your own, post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to play!

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can't share from (for example, an event or gift fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then 3 more on another to share.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in, or just post. I’ll be searching the reblogs to find people to send asks to!

If you’re reading this, you’re invited!

If you see someone posting a WIP Wednesday Game snippet, send them an ask! Make them write.

here's my file names for a few WIPs that I want to work on/finish. snippet under the cut with tags

Chapters 11-20

fail billy/eddie to soft steddie

starbara s1

from chapters 11-20

El scrunched her brows together before she shook her head. “No. I will. I want to cheer with you.” She smiled. “It is more fun with somebody with you, right?”

Steve beamed at her. “Yeah. It sure is.” he stuck his tongue out at Robin and Max. “At least El is willing to keep the faith with me.”

Robin laughed out a groan. “Oh my god! I cannot believe how you’ve tricked the school into thinking you’re cool.”

He smirked and shrugged with one shoulder while he batted his eyelashes. “What can I say? I’m charming.”

Robin and the girls burst into hysterical giggles, laughing more when they each looked at each other or caught sight of Steve trying to pout while holding back his own laughter.

@mystery-ink @withacapitalp @thestobingirlie

[findafight]

"Joyce doesn't like Steve au" is so interesting! Do you plan to continue it??

Thank you! Yes, I do plan on continuing it. I sort of wrote it on a whim and then immediately got inspired to write part two, and part 3 is kinda short ish but I think the other parts may be farther between. I have other wips I want to work on, and this weekend I'm hoping to get the next chapter of RaSEPSM out so that's what I'll be focused on haha :) but there's definitely more!

[findafight]

Ya I know I said the next chapter was going to be on time but then the spirit of baseball possessed me so it's gonna be a minute

[findafight]

here is the spotify link to Robin and Steve's Epic Platonic Soulmate Mixtape (vol.1) I'm going to say they made this version in the early spring of 1985. fic link

track list and explanations under the cut!!

Side A--the queer side

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler: I'm gonna take a wild guess and say y'all know why this is here

Rainbow Connection by Kermit: also self explanatory. and a bop. AND about rainbows. what more could you want?

Bangkok/One Night in Bangkok by Murray Head (Original Chess Recording version): 1) a banger. 2) from a whole musical written by the Bs of ABBA 3) Steve likes to listen to musical while vacuuming his pool :) 4) queer vibes. "the queens we use would not excite you" "i get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine" also to note they DID probably shave off the first minute of instrumental, but not all of it. I used this version and not the radio edit because in my heart of hearts I believe Steve picked up the Chess concept album in the fall of 1984, vibed with it, (I've answered an ask about stobin and the musical chess where I talk more) and that's the version he has.

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen: tbh always sounded gay to me, and it's such a fun song, I think they'd vibe with it and agreed it's a silly little nod to steve's previous rep.

Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon: GAY GAY VERY GAY SONG "it's against the law...what their mama saw/it was against the law" HMM also it's catchy and has so much potential to be an angsty queer ballad too. (also Robin's dad is 100% a Simon and Garfunkle stan that's just. a fact to me.)

I'm Coiming Out by Diana Ross: iconic song claimed by the gays. for the obvious reasons. bit on the nose but this is for THEM.

Sunshine (Go Away Today) by Jonathan Edwards: About not letting someone control your life. It's catchy and heartfelt, dreams about the future. Steve's Vecna Song for me.

You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes: stobin are losers in the love department, and it's a great and hopeful song about not rushing into things. The Supremes Version because Robin is influenced by her former Hippie parents, and Steve by his Aunt Evelyn and her love of 50's and 60's music. They have appreciation for the Oldie Goldies.

Lady Marmalade by LaBelle: Disco baby. I also feel this was a song for us queer folk. maybe because I'm queer and I like it. it's great, and robin loves hearing women sing about having sex.

Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler: throwback to the first song on the mixtape Steve gave Robin at the very beginning! now with the Upside Down between them it means more too. it's also SO FUN to belt in the car. frantic and with a good beat. I don't think I need to justify this one haha

Believe it or Not (theme from Greatest American Hero) by Joey Scarbury: Robin LOVES this stupid show about a cringe fail teacher with his cringe fail life getting a super suit from aliens and then losing the instruction manual. It just feels like a show she'd like even though it's so silly. The theme song is actually great tho. I think it'd really tickle the part of Robin that feels overly average and a bit trapped in Hawkins, but feels those confines lessen when she's with Steve and getting to feel like there's more out there for her. Personally, I first heard it on cassette of top 100 tv themes (along with MASH, Law and Order, Hawaii Five-oh, Andy Griffith etc) sitting in a booster seat in the front seat of my family's motor home on a long summer road trip in the early 2000's, as my dad drove and told me what show each song was from. (Steve buddy I understand your dream so much ok. There's nothing quite like being a kid and going on a roadtrip with your family. magical.)

Side B--The Besties side

You're My Best Friend by Queen: Love song for your best friend me thinks yes :)

Stuck With You by Huey Lewis and the News: the only anachronistic song on the playlist, but I couldn't NOT put it on. lavender marriage stobin REAL. They're stuck with each other :) also look at Steve. He is a guy who listens to Huey Lewis. We know this. He heard this song a year before it came out and was like robin :') it's us....I'm stuck with you...I'm so Happy about it :))

Stoned Soul Picnic by The 5th Dimension: Robin's parents are former hippies. This song is fantastic. Pure vibes. Steve and Robin are going to get rescue cats that are bonded together and name them Sassafras and Moonshine for this song.

Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles: Bop and a half. Sing along song.

Both Sides Now by Judy Collins: 1)gorgeous song originally by Joni Mitchel but this version is a bit faster 2) Robin's former Hippie parents influencing her taste strike AGAIN 3) she tries to convince Steve it's about being "queer like him" and he doesn't buy it but "I've looked at love from both sides now/.../I really don't know love at all" and "Oh, but now old friends they're acting strange/ And they shake their heads and they tell me that I've changed/ Well something's lost, but something's gained" hit different for him

Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel: I chose this billy joel song because it's 1) catchy as all hell 2) about having sex 3) mentions dying and stobin are like We didn't die!! hell yeah! Steve's a pianist and tbh he loves billy joel. who doesn't. it was between this one and piano man i guess, tho i love many Billy Joel songs that are "deeper cuts" ha. and "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints/the sinners are much more fun" line is like. what are they gonna do. not be an emotional queer teen about it?

Raspberry Beret by Prince: it's catchy, and whilst originally I had put La La Love You By Don McLean here, I like this one better. Robin is definitely a Prince fan. and a beret fan. happy coincidink. and its a fun song! about loosing your virginity to a hot girl in a barn!

Indiana Wants Me by R. Dean Taylor: okay originally I'll admit I put this on the masterplaylist because. obviously post-s4 Eddie running away angst song even if it's more folk-rock than metal. I think Steve and Robin would listen to it and really vibe with wanting to go home but not being able to. even if it's not literally. also they live in Indiana and like. you've gotta respect a song about where you live. ALSO the cop sounds in it. so good.

Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen: a song? about being disillusioned with the American dream after seeing the institutional failures of the government??? very Steve. the whole album is great, and I know I've reblogged a post about Steve and the album (My Hometown hits different). It's angry, frustrated, passionate. Being queer in a small town where the government covers up it's human experimentation and alternate dimensions probably makes you feel a lot of things. All with the veneer of Americana.

Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) by Peter Starstedt: purely self indulgent of me. I adore this song. I think Steve heard it, and thought of Robin. The remembering, the deep knowledge of another person, the longing. When he told Robin that it's a song he always associates with her she tears up a bit, because it's so tender and loving, and a bit silly. Like. Steve knows she'll be amazing and can't comprehend anyone not seeing it. It's sooo tender.

Thank You for Being a Friend by Andrew Gold: Golden Girls didn't air their first episode until fall 1985, and obviously when it does Stobin are loyal viewers, (Steve is in love with Bea Arthur. as is right) but this song came out in the 70's. It's fun and cute and catchy! They love each other and are so, incomprehensibly grateful that they found each other.

[findafight]

Chapter seven is here!

Chapter summary: robithan friendship talk, steve is a clingy boy, robin does good at sport,

Fic summary: In late January, 1984, Robin saw Steve Harrington stand stock still in the middle of the sidewalk, staring at a house with twinkling Christmas lights. She thought it was weird, but wasn’t going to comment and was about to walk around him when she realized his hands were shaking and repeatedly clenching and unclenching. And, because Robin could never leave well enough alone, she placed a hand on his shoulder.

Or, Robin and Steve meet post season 1 and begin their friendship early, despite Robin's confusion at how exactly it happen