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alright Charles (i get it)

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Ben Coonley - Cardboard, 2020

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"Dude," Steve says, pressing on his eyes because he feels like he's about to cry. "What the fuck."

"What?" Dustin squeaks, alarmed. "What? Steve, you're freaking me out!"

"Good!" Because Steve just worked eighteen hours and it's past midnight and he got thrown up on twice and there was a bed pan incident and even though he showered at the hospital he probably smells awful and it rained and he lost his keys so he had to take the bus and he's sweaty and tired and wet and cold and Dustin's DnD friend is hot. "I can't believe you'd do this to me!" Okay, maybe Steve's feeling a little delirious.

"Do what??" Dustin is full on shrieking right now. His hot friend is standing in their apartment looking more and more worried and hot.

"You didn't tell me he was hot!"

The expressions that go across Dustin's face is impressive, before they stop and he settles on a flat glare. "Seriously??"

Hot guy is now blushing and Steve will collapse if he doesn't keep with the righteous fury.

"I've been TRYING to get you two to meet for months now!"

"You didn't tell me he was hot, though! Dustin!!"

"I don't know what guys are hot, Steve!" Dustin says indignantly. "I thought you didn't like nerds!"

"Dustin!"

"Um," says hot guy. He looks like he's panicking.

Dustin's face changes again. "Oh, no. Oh, no, you're right."

"All this time!" Steve says and he really is close to tears. "You've been nagging on me all this time to find my soulmate, and you had the perfect guy right here?? You had him in my home??? Dustin!"

"Whoa," whispers hot guy.

"I'm sorry," Dustin wails now, just as distraught. "You love nerds, all your favorite people are nerds, I don't know what I was thinking, oh my god!" He whirls on hot guy. "Eddie, give Steve your number right now!"

"Okay," says hot guy Eddie, immediately. His face is super red and his eyes are wide, and he looks scared out of his mind as he fumbles his pocket for his phone. "Yeah-Yep-Absolutely. This is a thing that's happening."

Steve, tears burning in his eyes, watches as Dustin punches his number into Eddie's phone. "Okay," he says a little nasally, wiping quickly at his face. "Okay, I'm going to shower and then sleep for two days, and then pretend like this never happened so I can look hot guy in the eye when he asks me on a date. Sound good?"

"Sounds great!" Dustin says, all cheery now. Behind him, still looking vaguely scared for his life, hot guy gives him a shaky thumbs up.

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Steve, Robin and Eddie vacationing and ending up on a beach one day but it just results in Steve and Robin playing in the ocean, having the time of their life, only come out every now and then to reapply sunscreen to themselves and Eddie and turn Eddie over every now and then bc it turns out if he sits in the sun for more than a minute he just falls asleep (Steve leaves a little heart on his stomach by applying way too much sunscreent here so it's still pale white <3)

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transforming dan into a golden pig

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yknow when a cat is socialized to children? letting the kids tug at their tails, move them around, dressing them up and putting them in general uncomfortable positions but the cat is sooo indifferent to it all?

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We often see Robin focused on her own love life (or lack thereof) while Steve collects more You Suck tallies on the board, but imagine Steve does find a girl he dates that he hits it off with?

He aces dates 1 through 5 and suddenly he's around a little less, his new relationship looking serious, and Robin isn't jealous but--

She is worried.

That's her best friend. Her platonic soulmate!

She doesn't think Steve would ever stop being those things--Her dingus has a soft squishy heart under all that hair.

Problem is, Robin's seen this play out before.

Had band friends drift away because someone's dating someone else and suddenly they're all wrapped up in each other's lives, friends pushed to the wayside.

She doesn't say anything though. Knows how lonely Steve is. How much he wants (and deserves) a relationship.

Then the worst possible fucking thing happens: Steve's new girl telling him she isn't comfortable with Robin.

That she doesn't believe girls and guys can be "just friends" and would Steve please stop seeing Robin so much? Please?

Her friends even saw him taking Robin out to lunch yesterday and thought he was cheating!

Of course she knows Steve isn't cheating. He'll prove it to her, right? By letting Robin know they can only be coworkers? And their friendship?

Robin hears all this at her and Steve's next shared work shift, and she feels the floor of her world give out beneath her.

Fear and hurt crawling up her throat because of course Steve can't tell whatever her name is why Robin will never date him.

Of course this chick clearly isn't taking Steve's regular excuses as an answer, and--oh God, what if Robin is losing him, isn't she?

Then Steve's done talking, clearly expecting Robin to say something, and oops she may have been panicking and not listening there at the end but she manages a very choked up;

"I mean if you think shes like, the one..." because what is she supposed to say!?

And Steve, the only person Robin's met who craves a relationship as much as she does if not more, frowns at her with a bitchy little twist to his face and says: "What part of "so I told her that was ridiculous and we broke up" didn't you hear?"

Robin gasps a breath, the world stable once again. She doesn't know when she started crying but she does register Steve's panic when he clocks it, panicking and pulling her into a hug.

"Oh my God did you think I'd agree with her!?" He says and he sounds a little hurt about it, she'll have to fix that, but presently all Robin can do is cling to her best friend and sink deep into the knowledge that he really won't leave her.

Even for the things he wants in life the most.

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"How could they do this to me, Wayne." Eddie says, distraught, to Wayne who shares a look with Steve.

Who only sighs, shaking his head at the tantrum Eddie will work himself up to and turns to watch the tv show the nurses left on, a blue cartoon dog on the screen talking in a funny accent.

"Wayne you don't get it, our son was supposed to be born on Halloween. October 31st, which is in a few days." Eddie continues, voice getting more distressed. As if he was the one who was in active labor for a full 8 hours.

"And then he came out on the 26th." Wayne finishes, repeating what Eddie had been wailing and moaning about since their son was born.

Devon Wayne Munson was born on October 26th, approximately five days before the due date, which was, coincidentally, October 31st.

Halloween.

Eddie was over the moon at the thought of their son (both of them having teared up when they realized they were having a son) being born on Halloween.

As Steve's own birthday was on Christmas, Eddie thought it would've been perfect if their son had a holiday birthday, too. Even though Steve's hated his birthday for years. You know, with absent parents not caring about him and all.

But the idea was sweet and Steve was also a little excited at having a Halloween baby.

Alas, Devon wanted out. And he made it known when Steve's water broke right when he and Eddie got back from buying extra party supplies for their early Halloween party before Steve's due date.

"And he came out on the 26th," Eddie mourned, dramatically throwing himself in the chair that was by Steve's bed.

"Give him a break, Eddie. The upside to this is that I'm being discharged tomorrow, and we'll be allowed to take Devon. Aren't you happy we'll be spending Halloween together at home instead of the hospital." Steve said, trying to reason with his husband.

Wayne was the only one visiting due to everyone planning on coming in a couple days for the party, and since only family was allowed in. Steve knows if Robin - who was planning her wedding with Vickie - and Dustin - who was in New York with Suzie in college - heard, they'd be yelling and making a worse scene together than Eddie.

Steve will never forget how Wayne looked when Eddie, who finally managed to stop his crying and flailing around when given their son, gently put him in Wayne's arms and told him his name.

It took Devon finally being taken by the nurses for anything being wrong with him since he was a Premature baby for it to finally hit Eddie that he wasn't getting a Halloween baby.

And he's been insufferable since, bringing it up to anyone who'll listen, mainly nurses who just nervously smile after checking up on Steve before scurrying out. He even called his friends to complain. Steve heard cackling and knew it was Gareth giving Eddie shit for all his bragging about having a baby on Halloween.

When Eddie starts his rant again, jumping from the chair to make his way to the ward where Devon was at, Steve and Wayne share another look, knowing their beloved feral raccoon was now going to just stare at the newborn in awe while the nurses tried to find reasons for him to go back to Steve.

They both decide they'll let the nurses deal with him for a while.

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Wow, another late birthday drabble for @penny00dreadful? (It's more likely than you think) prompt: The Party throws an unsupervised house party

Rated M because Steve just wants alone time with his boyfriend

The door closes on the last of the unwanted guests, and Steve rounds on the six of them. “Are you kidding me?” Steve doesn’t shout, doesn’t even raise his voice, but all of them flinch at his tone and Steve feels a smug sort of satisfaction at the reaction.

They all start talking at once. Dustin even going in with some particularly dramatic arm movements in explanation, Lucas even going as far as to clutch his hands in front of him in a pleading gesture that Steve immediately feels himself begin to soften to.

He shakes his head, snapping himself out of it, and holds up a hand, the six of them falling silent. “In what world,” he starts, “did you think it would be okay to throw an unsupervised house party?”

It only lasts a second. But Steve sees it. The flash of eye movement as the six of them communicate something to each other that Steve is not in the loop with.

“What.”

“Nothing!” Will squeaks, his face red, arms immediately crossing protectively over his chest.

“We’re sorry, Steve.” Dustin starts, going into apology mode far too quickly, “we’ll clean everything up, even the pool!”

Steve feels his eye twitch. “How’d you even get in here? I didn’t give any of you a key.”

But the universe must have a sense of humor after all, because Steve hasn’t finished his sentence before the front door opens. 

“They were all out of Funyuns!” The voice calls, and Steve closes his eyes. Because he knows this voice. And now he’s so not getting the reunion sex he’d wanted. “So I doubled up on Doritos—Stevie!”

He hears the rustling of plastic, and Steve opens his eyes to see his boyfriend, holding bags of groceries behind his lanky frame like it would actually block them from Steve’s view. 

“You’re back!” Eddie goes on, his nonchalance doing little to hide the fear in his eyes, “we didn’t think you’d be back until tomorrow, love.” His gaze flicks to the kids, and Max tilts her head.

“The jig is up, Munson.” 

Eddie deflates, the bags of chips and sodas falling to the floor, and quickly saddles up to Steve’s side. “It was just going to be a little one!” Eddie starts, “just Hellfire! And then Jeff asked if his girlfriend could come, and then she wanted to bring her friends, and then—”

“And then suddenly it was a party!” Dustin interrupts, with far too much glee in his voice, and quickly the kid catches himself, schooling his own features. “Which we are very sorry for.” He adds, and the rest of the kids follow, little bobble heads, nodding and repeating the apology. 

Steve looks around. Nothing’s broken, thankfully. And… nothing’s really all that dirty or out place, either.

And then Steve remembers that he’s friends with a bunch of nerds. 

Nerds who wouldn’t know how to throw a party if it bit them in the ass.

“We’ll face our punishment like men.” Mike begins, and Max steps on his foot. Mike jumps, and, correcting through a wince, adds, “we’ll face our punishment, Steve.”

Steve’s gaze flicks to Eddie, who’s still looking at him with nervous expectation, and Steve narrows his gaze. “Eddie’s going to take all of you home.” Steve begins, “while I decide.”

An easy tactic. One he learned as swim captain: the fear of punishment is so much worse than the punishment itself. 

Besides, Steve hasn’t seen his boyfriend in five days. He’s going to get his reunion sex, even if he’s dating an idiot.

Eddie’s jaw drops. “Sweetheart,” he starts, and he wraps his fingers around Steve’s wrist, “I—”

Steve raises his eyebrows, and Eddie swallows, deflating. 

Eddie looks to the six of them. “Alright, kiddies, you heard ‘im. To the van, pronto.”

The kids mumble their sorrys as they file past, and Eddie hovers. “I missed you.” He mumbles, when they’re the only ones left, and Steve bites the inside of his cheek. 

“You better show me how much,” Steve murmurs, “when you get back.”

Eddie’s face twitches, like he’s trying to decide if Steve means what he thinks he does, and Steve sees the moment the realization dawns. 

Eddie’s entire posture straightens. His whole face lights up, and he nearly jumps out of his socks in his haste to get to the front door. “Fifteen minutes!” Eddie calls, and Steve rolls his eyes. 

Nerds and idiots. Every one of them. 

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Steve finds love in clean sheets.

He comes home on a Wednesday night to his, Robin’s, and Eddie’s apartment, exhausted. They are packed in like sardines in the place; Robin gets a room to herself, having the space to create her own identity. But Eddie and Steve share a room and do so without much complaint.

They both want her happy.

They are friends, so it’s normal to share a room. It’s probably less normal to share a bed—but the space is small and they have so many things, so sharing a full bed is easier than squeezing twins into corners.

Steve doesn’t mind it being so close to Eddie. Thinks he should be worried about that feeling, but finds he isn’t bothered at all.

Their habits rarely butt heads, their organization skills somehow meet in the middle, and Steve doesn’t care how Eddie decorates as long he’s okay with the nail bat placed under the bed.

The only thing that is a problem that really isn’t much of a problem, is the bed sheets. Sometimes, Eddie forgets, so Steve’s taken it upon himself to change them. It’s not that he doesn’t like the smell of Eddie that lingers. It smells of a home he didn’t know he had on a warm summer day.

But after work, especially on hard days, Steve likes to shower and bury himself beneath clean sheets. The cold, smooth texture rubbing against he legs, the fresh linen scent feeling up his nose.

Steve doesn’t think Eddie notices; he is almost positive, and even if he did, he wouldn’t bat an eye. So Steve changes his sheets every five days or so, more often than really necessary.

Until this Wednesday night.

Steve isn’t having a good day—in fact, he would categorize it as one of his worst yet. Work was hell, and nothing was going his way. Steve walks into the apartment to see Robin and Eddie on the couch, and all Steve wants is to shower and crawl into a clean bed.

The problem is, though—the day from hell has actually been the week from hell, and Steve realizes he hasn’t changed his sheets in a week.

Steve groans as he heads towards the shower, ignoring the curious look from his friends. He begrudgingly accepts his fate—a dirty bed in exchange for an early sleep. Steve bangs his head on the bathroom wall.

Steve exits, and moves to his room to throw on boxers and a tshirt he almost sure is Eddie’s.

Then, he lifts the blankets and snuggles inside only to realize—the sheets feel amazing. They feel clean.

Steve glances down at them, realizes they are the flower sheets Eddie hates—replacing the dark grey ones that had been there this morning.

Steve knows undoubtedly that Eddie is the one who changed them. Steve could write it off as Eddie finally remembering a chore, but he can’t lie to his heart.

It knows Eddie did this for him.

Steve lets out a huge sigh of relief as he sinks down into the clean sheets, the smell of linen wafted through the air with hints of Eddie’s cologne from his shirt.

Steve snuggles into the bed—taking Eddie’s pillow instead of his own, and falls asleep to the steady thought that Steve Harrington is in love with Eddie Munson.

It’s the most peaceful sleep he’s ever had.

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PLEASE vote for phil. just think about how much he loves his golden pig.

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y’all are FOUL for wanting dan to be turned into the golden pig

are we forgetting that if we vote for phil then dan will be the one doing the makeover? lest we forget the way dan gently cradled phil’s face during the slittening (meanwhile phil tried to do it sitting like 5 feet away from him). the way dan can not stop complimenting phil. besides phil would LOVE to be that pig and i want them to be happy >:(

i need more dan being obsessed with his man on main and the key to that is phil as a golden pig

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grandma dan

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and if i killed myself then what

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When Eddie gets his wisdom teeth removed, Wayne already makes plans to toss him to Steve. It isn't because he doesn't want to take care of his boy, it's just because he knows Eddie's filter - however low it is - would practically be nonexistent and he'll hear things about Steve everyone in a ten mile radius would take damage over hearing.

So he takes Eddie to the appointment, nods at Steve when they see each other in the waiting lounge with a near delirious nephew, takes the apple pie the other man baked, and books it. Munson style.

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It turns out the cookies are real — sort of.

They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.

The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.

The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.

Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.

Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.

Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”

MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”

Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet's delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.

“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!' ” MacLean said.

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Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2024