#you're not obligated at all actually

[shushmal]

okay but a like post-series fic i want that's like: steve harrington being the only man left in hawkins fighting monsters

and not like a 'everyone died, last man standing' way but just. they beat it back, the story ends, nice little tie-up and neatly concluded, eleven loses her powers because their world is completely cut from the other. and life goes on. eddie (yes, eddie lives au don't fight me) goes off with his band, robin-nancy-jargyle off to separate cities for college. the kids go to high school, graduate high school, and scatter across the country. joyce and hop buy a beach house far-far-far away from goddamn hawkins indiana.

steve though. steve stays. he does it too without comment, takes all their calls telling him all these amazing things. the years pass. the calls are fewer and far between. he's mostly in contact with only dustin and robin. except robin's out of country doing some crazy temp job in some remote country, she never catches him at home right now so just leaves him messages. and it takes a couple of weeks for dustin to realize he hasn't gotten steve on the phone.

frantically he calls around "have you heard from steve???" except the most people talk to steve anymore is like phone calls during holidays and holy shit what could have happened??

and what if it's back?

cue everyone who can in that moment, rushing back. eddie hopping on a flight from fucking london direct to indianapolis somehow, heart in his throat. he manages to meet hopper in the airport and they pick up max and dustin at the bus station.

they get to hawkins that is even more different that what they left. a smaller town, a town that shuts down completely when the sun sets. it's creepy and deserted.

except for the fucking upside down monsters of course.

and they're in their stupid little rental in front of this demogorgon and they're screaming but then the thing just goes splat on the concrete and steve fucking harrington is blinking owlishly at them.

"Oh, hey guys!" he calls jogging up to the driver's side window. "Wow, what brought you back down this way? You should have told me, I would have told you about the curfew!"

turns out steve just forgot to pay his phone bill that month, didn't even realize he was missing calls and he's been fighting monsters the entire time because actually they WEREN'T cut off from the upside down at all and he's just been casually fighting monsters for the remaining hawkins residence—the whole town knows now and steve's the guy you call when you have a monster problem

sidebar: WAYNE still lives in hawkins, and he and steve are best friends, eddie munson you are gonna LOSE YOUR MIND

[mohntilyet]

illario + lucanis growing up together means a lot for obvious reasons ofc like the fact they did not have to go through the dellamorte villa torment nexus alone really helps. immediately from the moment they are taken to that house, lucanis has had something to protect and love. the snark and jokes that they share in wigmaker job finally having a chance to shine outside of the only person lucanis is socialised with and he learns that wow, he's actually likable. because up until this point everyone around him calls him a demon and is freaked out by him but ofc the veilguard only know him as lucanis "he banished harding from the kitchen" dellamorte. sure he's a big bad crow assassin but his reputation simply does not carry that much weight with people who are just equally deranged (maybe a de riva rook but that's also a little different) . and then he's able to share and extend that love with his new friends, and able to try being something that he's not had the chance to before, and his goodness is actively encouraged rather than being an unfortunate sidequest that is tolerated. and i fondly think also of how much of that humor is copied and mirrored off illario ("shoulders....... feeling tight...... need a ..... MASSAGE!") and it's his best experiences with illario that turned him into the man he is. wish the game explored this just a little more because the betrayal would have been made a lot more intense if they had just bothered to show any of illario's redeeming qualities. he has them!!!!! nobody is just born a traitor. you have to love someone before they can become that.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[bookshelfdreams]

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[hyperfixationwizard]

hi i see ur new shipping posts and i raise to u. single dad au. like non military au. price is the single dad of gaz and soap :) i just. want to suggest. idk if u already posted abt this actually i havent been keeping up.

Oh,,,, oh my god myla you're so right Price/Nikolai civilians au. @anothercrisis look,,,, please

Price lives alone with his two kids. Laswell is there too I mean she's like,, the aunt or smth.

Maybe he meets Nik through work or something. Anyways I have no thoughts on plot really all I can think of is cute dates and meeting the kids and stuff

OH MY GOD. MEETING LASWELL. SHE WANTS TO MAKE SURE NIK IS GOOD TO PRICE YKNOW-

(Also Nik gets along with Gaz and Soap a little too well, they're Agents of Chaos and he supports that-)

[lloydfrontera]

i don't think theo would relapse after rakiel dies but i do think he would overcorrect so hard to avoid it he'd end up developing a whole new eating disorder because of it. not really starving himself as much as controlling everything he eats down to the tiniest bite. not allowing himself to deviate from his diet at all and feeling extemely guilty and anxious when he does. in a horrible situation where nothing feels right and there's so little he can do to fix it, this is the one thing he has control over. this is the one thing he can do to make sure things go as well as they can. he fucked up once and rakiel had to step in to fix him but now his brother is gone and there'll be no one to catch the pieces if he breaks again so. he just has to make sure he never does. he has to control himself because there's no one now to extend a hand to help him up if he falls.

[adhdtsukasa]

if birthday nene is kind to me and comes home early (if i have to spark nene for the second time you will see me in the news i do Not want a repeat of my valentines pulling) i will try to write down my ena&nene parallels thoughts . maybe

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

@pretensesoup listen I know this is not the point at all but given the era I need to know about how the midcentury theories and experiments and stuff in child psych, especially thinking behaviorism and harlow's experiments with child/caregiver attachment etc interacted with magic theory/philosophy and barth et al's unethical experiments and so on bc I am having Some Thoughts About This from the perspective of someone who studied some psychology and has some opinions about midcentury behaviourist psych approaches

[lucyvaleheart]

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[erabundus]

BY  THE  WAY  while  i'm  still  picking  my  way  through  asks,  i  should  probably  mention!  you  are  absolutely  welcome  to  turn  anything  i  answer  into  a  thread  if  you  feel  so  inclined!  i  try  to  leave  things  relatively  open-ended  whenever  i  can  specifically  for  that  reason.  you  are  ALSO  under  no  obligation  to  reply  if  you  don't  feel  like  it  —  it's  entirely  up  to  you.  it  doesn't  matter  if  we  have  no  threads  or  twenty.  i  will  not  be  overwhelmed  or  upset,  i  am  here  because  i  think  writing  is  very  fun  and  i  want  to  write  with  you!

[honeysunchild]

Libraries are just about the punkest places in existence and ppl wanna be transphobic in them? Not on my watch fuck you very much

[miumiins]

When do you plan to draw Gaius x Robin again ?\>////</

mahalo 🤗

[ronanlynchbf]

hell day today and i'm only two hours into my EIGHT HOUR SHIFT

[stumpyjoepete]

他实在说过这样一句话

[oh-bonerline]

i’m trying to stay out of it for the most part but there’s just something really weird to me about having your new rebound boyfriend who is wildly unpopular with your fan base show up at every single concert and also having him play unnecessary guitar with the opening act every night (love him and Phoebe being besties but he serves no actual purpose up there)

[hihijayne]

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