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riality-check · 2 years ago

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[carefully sticks a ⭐ on what's in a name, dots and dashes, and like one of the girls] [thinks for a moment] [sticks one more on smin] I am a cozy blanket bundle, please talk to me about your stuff! <3

omg i'm so excited to talk about all of these (and i'm sticking a read more on this post because it's going to be long as hell)

what's in a name, anyway?

Nancy meets his parents about six months in. The whole time, during that catered dinner, his parents call him "Steven." His father asks him about basketball - he never went to his games - and why he wasn't captain yet. His mother made vague references to staying out of trouble, Steven James.

She watches Steve shrink before her eyes. Watches him become something small, so unlike “The Hair” and “King” and the boyfriend she knows.

Nancy isn't sure what to do, and she hates uncertainty more than anything. When they're alone, she tries for a joke about how much she hates when her mother yells "Nancy Grace" across the house.

It's not the same. They both know it. Steve laughs anyway.

Months later, when they're at that Halloween party and Nancy is too drunk to see straight, she calls him "bullshit" but makes sure "Steven" never leaves her mouth.

(She’s angry and scared and a lot of other things, but she doesn’t ever want to see Steve that small again.)

I love writing Nancy's POV so much. Seeing Steve through her eyes was so much fun and such a challenge since I had to go back to who Nancy was during seasons 1 and 2. The "calls him 'bullshit' but makes sure 'Steven' never leaves her mouth" line is probably one of the best I've written.

dots and dashes

Steve yanks himself out of his thoughts and back to the present, where he’s standing at the front desk of Family Video on an exceptionally dead Monday.

Dead, except for one Dustin Henderson.

“I’ve told him no five times, but apparently he only listens to you,” Robin complains.

“Bold of you to assume I listen to Steve,” Dustin shoots back.

“He doesn’t,” Steve tells Robin. “He only listens to me when there’s a crisis, and even then, I have to fight him on it.”

Dustin looks too proud of himself.

“It’s not a compliment, shithead. What has she told you no about?”

This interaction was so spontaneous as I wrote it, and I got so many wonderful comments about how in character it is! So, I'm really proud of it, and I'm laughing as I reread it.

like one of the girls

“No one else is like me, Stevie.”

“I know. It’s why you’re the best I’ve ever had.”

And before Eddie can respond, Steve is out like a goddamn light.

That’s fine. Eddie reaches over and turns out the light before he snuggles right back up to Steve. He’s gonna have to do laundry tomorrow, and he has a long-ass shift at Thatcher, but that’s all fine. All of it can wait.

This moment, right now, head resting on Steve’s chest and arms wrapped around him, is all that matters.

This moment, and the certain knowledge that Eddie is it for Steve. Because for a long time, probably longer than he’s realized, Steve has been it for Eddie, too.

And Eddie falls asleep with the thought that none of those girls, however many there were, have ever had that from Steve.

It took me forever to figure out how to end this fic. It started out as a drabble in my notes app with a vague concept of Steve taking the reins, and it turned into a fic that made one of my friends ask "why is there bowling in the porn." I'm really proud of how soft and sweet this fic ends, and I love its placement in my series.

slay monsters, if needed

But it’s not like she wouldn’t do it. Nancy might be a bitch, has known that since she was eight and got called it to her face for the first time, but she’ll always help people, especially when she’s the only one who can do it.

Live, love, Nancy Wheeler. I love writing her so much, and everything about her in SMIN has just been such a fun thing to do.

I see so much of myself in her it's scary. The bitch line is actually from my own life (it didn't bother me then - I didn't tell anyone because I didn't care. My friend brought it to a teacher - and it certainly doesn't bother me now.)

ask me more questions about my fics!!

#thanks so much for asking!!#asked and answered #mira-jadeamethyst #fic director's cut #smin #like one of the girls #dots and dashes #what's in a name anyway?#steve harrington #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #dustin henderson

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ayy-junipei · 7 months ago

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Fears

#Dungeon Meshi #Dungeon Food #Senshi #Chilchuck Tims #WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN HIS LAST NAME IS TIMBS #Anyway #OG Junipei content

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hinamie · 1 month ago

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post-graduation trip airport looks

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #fushiguro megumi #nobara kugisaki #itafushikugi #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #jujutsu kaisen fanart #these took ages but fr once i am choosing to forgive myself given th fact tht i was coming out of A State when i drew them #im normal now dw drawing the first years wearing merch of my comfort content fixed me #when in doubt play dress up. life hack #i am holding fast 2 my hc tht megumi is a fiend @ indie platformers and is a household name on the celeste speedrun leaderboards #argue with a wall this is my jujutsu kaisen #megumi designated Drink Runner also #alr in line at a cafe texts their gc 'what do you guys want' n gets mad @ nobara fr making him go to a Second shop 2 get her bubble tea #anyway theres not much 2 say abt these just bc i needed sth Light n Easy 2 get me out of my head #no lore to fashion pieces which is both a blessing and a curse but it Is what i needed #nobara serving looks fr a flight i love u so much. it's probably 8 in the morning n she is in a fully coordinated fit #its so criminal tht we don't have more alt hairstyle official art fr her???? iirc it's Just the lost in paradise mv with her in buns no????#robbed. i am fixing it immediately.#wonder where the 3 of them wld go on a trip

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nocek · 3 months ago

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And we all should be jelly.

(at least Miguel is so maybe they are closer to that dumb triangle than Wade thought XD)

#spiderman 2099 #deadpool #wolverine #deadpool and wolverine #poolverine #deadfang #spideypool #im not even attempting to figure out the ship name for them together #it's all only in wade's head anyway #unless....#continuing tags #miguel o'hara #wade wilson #logan howlett #spiderverse #deadpool 3 #idk what else to tag

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egophiliac · 1 month ago

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buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #lost in the book with nightmare before christmas #hajimari no halloween #(the origin of halloween huh) (oooh)#why yes i did wake up way too early to watch the stream and will have no memory of drawing this later #anyway THE MAGIC BOOK IS BACK TO EAT US ONCE AGAIN!!!!#this does make things make a lot more sense if it doesn't have to. y'know. actually take place in the established world #like how jack and sally are apparently just gonna be THERE as themselves WHY NOT #i'm certainly not complaining mind you #scully looks like he's gonna be super adorable and i love him already #spooky scary skeleman who just goes :O a lot and is excited for halloween #he seems like he might actually be more of a fusion of jack and sally? or maybe i'm just reading too much into it #still getting jazzy vibes off of him though. is not scully j graves an incredible jazz musician name.#does this open up the possibility that the last time we went into the book there was a sexy anime boy stitch just offscreen the whole time #...maybe some things are best left uncontemplated #god everyone in this event looks fantastic i'm so glad i saved up some keys after all #a little sad that there's no lilia but you know what the fact that a halloweentown malleus exists is still pretty dang good #and sebek's hat is SO tall #the biggest hat for the loudest boy #i hope oogie is here too i need him and jamil to meet #i need jamil to be faced with a guy who's just a bunch of bugs standing on each other's shoulders in a trenchcoat #i am not coherent right now i just needed to get this out before i go pass out again

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ninjasmudge · 8 months ago

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thats a red flag narinder, get that crown back while you still can

+ top panel without text below the cut

#cult of the lamb #cotl #rspect my privacy at this time by not asking what came over me to make a fully colored comic #cotl narinder #cotl lamb #cotl aym #my art #actully im like really proud of this not sure why it happened but it did #anyway i have at least another 4 cotl jokes to get out right now #if you look real close you can see my hcs for lambs design before and after they got the red crown #and also i need everyone to notice aym and lambs eldrich shadow #and yes i know you can both name the cult anything AND you can have a cult in someones name with it being their cult but consider. funny #narinder

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pokimoko · 5 months ago

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Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

#ask #art request #my art #art #superb fairywren #fairywren #penguin #little penguin #australian little penguin #fairy penguin #ace #asexual #ace pride #bird art #birds #queer art #pride art #digital art #pride month #lgbtqia+#lgbtq+#queer #critter series #you get two because i couldn't decide which one i wanted to do more so i decided just to do both because i love them both #and also once i realised the fairy name connection between them i couldn't not do them together #okay well technically they're officially called little penguins but i've always know them as fairy penguins #there is actually a lot of them in the state i live. i just haven't had the chance to spot any in the wild yet #but i did see them at the sydney aquarium once. they are such lil' cuties. big fan of penguins me.#as for fairywrens. well i see 'em all the time fluttering about. definitely one of my favourite types of birds #anyway that's enough about what i like. i hope *you* like them too bluesky :3

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noctilin · 2 months ago

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could we kiss and perhaps… fall in love…? haha just kidding… unless…? 😳

available for preorder as charms, standees and stickers until nov 1~

#dats my art thx #ouran high school host club #ohshc #tamaki suoh #haruhi fujioka #fanart #i was gonna make a ranma one but i started rewatching ouran recently and it's still funny as hell so i thought this was more apt #still wanna make a ranma one but we'll see if i have time for it #i actually am not sure what the ship name is for these two #tamaharu #i think?#anyway. my pookies <3

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caitmayart · 5 months ago

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Silly warmup doodle but GODS I LOVE THESE TEENS

#dimension 20 #spoilers #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #mazey phaedra #fabian seacaster #fabzey #mazian #what the hell is the ship name #anyway #cait may

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mirrorhouse · 2 months ago

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Bartering with desire. Is that what makes you fascinating?

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv amc #daniel molloy #iwtvedit #tvedit #*#the bartender asking if he has money has always come across to me as kind of #yeah to convey that daniel was a regular since he was known by name (a nickname even)#but also that he was in the habit of letting guys buy drinks for him maybe in exchange for sex sometimes #since it's what he also did for drugs #maybe that wasn't the writers' intention? but it's what i got anyway

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hugs-and-stabbies · 6 months ago

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The self-awareness on this guy 😞 someone pls send him an "are you bi?" quiz STAT

#dead plate #rody lamoree #rody x vincent #vincent charbonneau #rodince #rodincent #my art #i saw someone tag one of my drawings with a version of their ship name using their last names and it was nice but i forgot what it was #aksjdhf #also NOO i forgot Rody's lil moles 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#thankfully at least tumblr allows edits #anyways #rody looks so wonky to me but I just wanted to stop fidgeting with it and post it since i wasnt getting anywhere anyways aksjdfh #also little story time lol #when i was in 10th grade there was this girl in my chemisty class that i was kinda frienemies with #we just always got into arguments with each other but the vibe ultimately stayed light and friendly between us #kinda like a <<fuck you but anyways what did you get for no. 5>> kind of situation #one day she slammed one of her hands against the door right next to my head 😳😳#i think she was trying to intimidate me but instead it just gave me a core memory LMAOOO #thankfully by then i already knew i wasnt straight lol but it definitely unlocked something in me hahahah

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rythyme · 1 year ago

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a lot of the popular "queerbait" ships are just "these two characters are friends / they stood close together once" but every once in a while i'll stumble into an unfamiliar ship tag and see shit like "in episode 169 Scrungko gives Blorbis multiple prostate orgasms with an anal vibrator while pretending to date him" and like. idk what the hell is going on there. but if it's not queerbait then they just invented something even more insane. maybe y'all are right sometimes.

#also this post is not an exaggeration bc i literally saw this in a post today #it's always sunny in philadelphia #iasip #<<< i'm not kidding what the HELL is happening in that show. how are they even still on air what season are they on #macdennis #I think that's the ship name idk. anyway i don't go here but y'all seem a little unhinged and i can't even blame you #theo.txt #100 #500 #1k #2k #5k #10k

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tibli · 9 months ago

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I love when arthropods have a pseudopupil. It's so whimsical and cute, and they come in so many varieties!!