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The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025. “The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650.”

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Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section

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I've said this before but David Tennant would play such a good Holmes. The former wholock girls would be gooped and gagged. He'd eat that. He would leave no crumbs

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one of the best gags in leverage is when the crew starts naming random cons, even better when they disagree and give us just enough information to be more confused - "it's like the cherry pie, but with lifeguards" or "the roper has a glass eye. No! It's a cue ball." bafflingly perfect, 10/10.

But a close second is when they just reference a con they did, without giving us any useful information. Now we see physical bits during like the broken wing job which is great. Or the night out jobs where they show the chaos of both nights in pieces from the other side. But I had forgotten in the 'cross my heart job' they were doing crazy crazy things. They were on the emerald isle, Sophie was pretending to be french on a topless beach, Eliot was in a shipwreck fighting three ex-brazilian combat divers with harpoons underwater, and hardison apparently faked a volcano eruption??

no notes. a perfect show truly

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STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

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tumblr is basically a gay bar in a mental institute

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No disrespect meant, but….are we watching the same show?

super best friends. buck and lou. ladies man eddie. so much to take away from this

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They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

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i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

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My favorite thing about fanfic Zuko is that he just does not have a reference point for sexism. Like:

Some person: isn’t that women’s work?

Zuko, thinking of Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee: women’s work? You mean homicide?

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Steve finds employment in Starcourt mall but instead of Scoops Ahoy, he’s employed as a mall singer. He’s supposed to just sing commercial friendly songs and look pretty to draw more people in to spend more time there and as a result spend more money. What they didn’t tell him to do was sing every song like he’s pouring every bit of him into it, but Steve gets so into it he can’t help it. Whatever he’s feeling, he bares to the world when he sings, and it makes him feel a little lighter and a little freer each time.

He begins to draw crowds made up of eighty percent women who come to stare at him and twenty percent guys who are bored waiting for their wife or girlfriend and little kids who are easily impressed and think he’s actually a famous singer.

Whenever he has a break, he starts running for the safety of Scoops Ahoy and the one girl who doesn’t seem to be interested in invading his space. It’s also great for when he needs to cool down from performing all morning or afternoon. He likes that there’s no pressure with Robin, like he doesn’t feel the need to try and impress her or flirt with her so he can just exist.

Eventually, he finds out that Robin likes women because he recognises the look she gets when she’s talking to one she finds pretty. They have a really long conversation about it after the mall closes which solidifies their friendship and opens up Steve’s mind to different kinds of love.

So when a cute guy who works at a kiosk near the stage Steve sings on shows interest in him, he responds receptively, letting curiosity take the lead. What he discovers is a) that he’s bisexual and b) there’s nothing quite like the heartbreak of learning that someone you put yourself out on the line for in a big way and experienced a bunch of firsts with just isn’t on the same page. Steve thought they really had a connection but then one day when the guy isn’t working, he sees him walk through the mall, right past where Steve’s setting up for his shift, his arm wrapped around some girl. A few moments later he kisses her on the lips and Steve’s world shatters.

Steve went and cried about it behind the counter at Scoops. Robin was his shoulder to cry on. At some point she says ‘it’s a shame you can’t sing all about it, I bet it would feel great to see the look on the guys face’. Steve is plagued by the idea until he sings a couple of songs with risque lyrics to test the waters and no one seems to pay attention to the actual words he’s singing. He decides to just go for it and get some closure.

Eddie is losing his mind because Steve Harrington should not be able to sing. That’s just unfair. He’s already rich, popular and ridiculously attractive. It has to stop somewhere. And now Eddie is spending hours in the mall of all places, listening to him bless some of the most commercial, souless, bubblegum trash songs ever written with that beautiful voice they don’t deserve.

He’s even got a regular spot where he can sit facing away from the stage and pretend he just happens to be loitering in the area and is not listening to Steve make his way through the same set of chart hits.

Then all of a sudden Steve begins to sing songs that are not exactly mall friendly and definitely not on the pop charts. It does nothing to disuade his loyal audience and somehow he doesn’t seem to have had any complaints or gotten in trouble for it. It must be the King Steve charm, but Eddie’s not complaining because Steve’s taste is far better than the crap he was being told to sing before.

Then one day, Steve sings something Eddie’s never heard before. And yeah it is a bit too pop like for Eddie’s taste, but then he realises in quick succession that this song is a one hundred percent Steve Harrington original and that the lyrics are gay as hell.

Eddie's so surprised that he forgets to pretend to be uninterested, he turns so fast to look at the stage that a couple of people give him funny looks for it. Steve looks so passionate when he sings, it's mesmerising, Eddie's so glad he hasn't looked until now because he would have been throwing himself at the guy's feet.

When the bridge comes up, Steve glares at someone directly across the mall. Eddie, curious, follows his line of sight to a nearby kiosk and the guy working there. Oh yeah, Eddie's been there, done that, cried in Wayne's arms about it. But he cannot believe the guy is stupid enough to fumble a chance with Steve Harrington, every gay guy's unattainable straight guy dream.

Except now Eddie knows he's not so straight and not so unattainable, and he'll be damned if he doesn't at least attempt to whisk him off his feet. He strolls over to Scoops Ahoy, asks Buckley to get him a cone of whatever Steve's favourite flavour is and endures the 'Steve's recently had his heart broken, so if you aren't one hundred percent serious about this then don't bother because I will hunt you down if you hurt him' shovel talk as Robin's ringing him up.

He practically runs over and pushes his way past several enamoured mothers to get to the back of the small stage as Steve is going on break. Steve looks shocked as Eddie hands over the ice cream, but the smile on his face when Eddie says he got it for him because he noticed Steve likes to go in there on his breaks is warm enough to light a campfire.

"I've been listening to your set for weeks and I think you have the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. Would you please consider going see a movie with me when you finish work today?" Eddie says, and he feels a little bit pathetic over how mushy it comes out.

He doesn't regret it though, because Steve is beaming at him when he says, "Sure, I finish at five thirty." And follows it up with, "So, what movie are we going to see?"

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I'm not going to lie, the idea for this came from a MLM cover of Good Luck, Babe! I found on Spotify and imagined Steve singing to someone while Eddie looks on and thinks 'what kind of idiot would do this to the Steve Harrington?'

I've put a link to the cover here if you want to hear it.

Unrelated to this specific idea, but there's also this cover of Ain't it Fun that I sometimes imagine him singing to Billy or Tommy H. [x]

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Jet Lag The Game + Even More Silly Little Textposts

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Vampires in 2020: *Shitting themselves because phones and CCTV are everywhere*

Vampires in 2025: My Prince, I know my childe slipped up and their Masquerade violation is now on Reddit, but I think you should let this one slide because half the commenters are saying it's staged or AI

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Modern AU where the party have a famous paranormal investigation and unsolved mysteries youtube channel. Steve is in the background of their first ghost hunting video because he wasn't going to let them go and stay overnight in an abandoned building without supervision. Their audience finds Steve's sarcastic comments and parental attitude towards the kids really compelling and most of the comments on that video are begging for him to become a regular in their on location videos. Before long, Steve is a reoccurring presence in their videos playing the skeptic/concerned parent role.

For example:

Dustin: I’ve connected the dots guys. This must be the work of a demon.

Steve: You didn’t connect shit. It's just an old creaky building.

Dustin: I’ve connected them.

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In an abandoned hospital.

Max: Hey this giant metal door has some kind of engraving on it.

Lucas: Oh cool, it looks like old graffiti.

Steve: Yeah that’s great, do you know what else it looks like? Rusty as shit. Now get back here and don’t touch anything because your parents are gonna be so pissed if they find out you had to get tetanus shots at 2am on a Saturday because I let you wander around an abandoned hospital with a bunch of shady ass camera men. No offense.

Camera man: None taken.

Mike (from the doorway): Guys! Will, El and Dustin found an operating theatre and there are a bunch of old scalpels and needles and stuff in there.

Max: Awesome, let’s go.

Steve: No! No! Let’s not go! Let’s stay as far away as possible from the room full of potential infections. Where are Dustin, El and Will? They didn’t go inside the room, did they?

Mike: See, I could answer that, but I don’t think you’re gonna like it.

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While exploring a ‘haunted’ hotel:

Mike: Hey look, all of Steve’s bitches are in this room.

El: There is nobody in there.

Mike: Exactly.

He turns to look directly into the camera with a sly grin and the others start laughing.

Steve: Yeah, yeah. You’ll be laughing when I drive home without you.

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At the same hotel.

Steve: Dustin. Your little light box thing is broken, it’s been flashing on and off for the past five minutes.

Dustin: Oh my God, Steve! That means it can sense a spirit. Why didn’t you say anything?! Did you not listen to my long and detailed explanation of how the equipment works?

Steve: I’m gonna be so honest with you. No, I didn’t.

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On their Mothman episode trip to point pleasant.

Steve, staring at the statue (we all know which one): Ok, but why is he kinda…

Lucas: Please stop talking.

Dustin: No sexualising the cryptids please, Steve.

Steve: If they didn’t want anyone to sexualise Mothman, then why would they give his statue such a defined ass and abs?

Max: I mean, he’s not wrong.

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Eventually, Steve gets peer pressured by the comments into starting his own channel. And since he still has no idea what he wants to do with his life, he decides to go ahead and do it.

At first his audience are super confused because his content is a hard pivot from the supernatural and unsolved mysteries content people are used to seeing him in. He mainly reacts to DIY haircare videos and gives tips on how to do what the people in the videos were trying to do properly without risking ending up bald.

He also makes wholesome baking videos, and has a side podcast with Robin, where they talk shit for 3 hours about anything they want - usually celebrities and assholes on the internet - as well as having a segment where Robin makes Steve watch a movie he's never seen and they review it. People who came from the paranormal channel still love his content because he’s funny and sassy and his videos are surprisingly helpful at times. He’s soon catching up to his friends in subscriber numbers.

Eddie and his band have a channel where they upload music videos, live performances and backstage/tour vlogs. They also make the occassional song covers where they take requests in the comments for metal versions of pop songs. Eddie also has a side channel where he runs D&D campaigns with other influencers (he hates that word).

One day he’s doing a Q&A and when someone asks which influencers he’d like to invite for his next campaign, he mentions Steve and says he’s been secretly watching his videos for a while and they’re kind of a guilty pleasure. He’s even tried some of Steve’s hair care tips because his hair was looking a bit frazzled under the heat of the lights on stage and it was getting in his way during performances. Now he swears by them because his hair has never looked or felt better.

Steve’s never seen any of Eddie’s videos but he starts watching them after that, he particularly likes the metal versions of pop songs because it makes the genre more accessible to him. Sometimes he makes joke song suggestions in the comments. Every single time, the song he suggested gets covered.

The boys are all insanely jealous of this new development because they’ve been fans of Eddie’s channels for years and have been bringing up references to some of his campaigns in their videos to try and get him to consider them for the next one, but so far have had no luck. Meanwhile, Steve, who doesn’t even know the first thing about D&D has his full attention. Steve was going to ask Eddie to consider asking them out of the kindness of his heart, but after they’ve given him a little too much attitude over it, he decides he’s gonna join the campaign instead just to spite them.

Cue Steve going from completely clueless to kind of a decent player and the two of them going from fascinated with each other to constantly flirting and appearing in each other’s videos.

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you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this