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Cursed Steve and Kas Eddie for @psychotic-nonsense as part of the @steddiebbang art exchange - ref x

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Sometimes a guy in a fanfiction has the ability to read someone's gaze with the same level of detail a wine taster can taste the wine

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I heard we’re in Steddie Summer again

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He's going through it

(INPRNT)

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Understanding a line of foreshadowing so well that you have to stand up and walk around the house saying “shit shit shit shit shit” until you’re composed enough to go back. 

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#imagine having marriage down pat before you're even dating

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Modern AU where Dustin has a YouTube channel and posts eight hour long documentary-style videos titled Setting My Adult Male Friends Up With Each Other: Epic Love Story (1/4).

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Love the universe need of all babies human and animal to just lay on adults

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personally? i enjoy being a fan of characters who have done Wrong. i like when a character is not a perfect victim, has hurt people, has transgressed, has done bad things. sometimes its nice to feel the sting yknow? and to recognize that a character is not a flawless perfect victim, but is deserving of understanding and compassion anyway. a lot of people in fandom refuse to let go of moral absolutism and its... rough.

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i think theres two types of sex in fic, both of which can be good and serve different purposes: fics where the aim is to fufil the authors/readers' specific kinks and fantasies as much as possible, and fics where the aim is to try to be as realistic and in-character as possible, including the sex scenes. so im talking specifically about that second type of fic when i say that, as someone who has now read an academically significant quantity of buddie fic, i think it's really fucking hard to thread the needle of doing a d/s buddie dynamic where both of them actually stay recognizable as their character and neither of them just become like Generic Hornyfantasy Sub and Generic Hornyfantasy Dom.

what are MY headcanons for their sex life thank you so much for asking. i don't think either of them fufil some rigid role all of the time and i don't think either of them become wildly different people during sex. i do think buck is fairly kinky and gets off on being a little bratty and getting pushed around a little and being called a good boy and loves being made to use his willpower to hold off. and i think eddie's very happy to give buck all of that. but i think eddie himself is not particularly kinky, and when it's up to him they probably have like fun athletic sweaty playful but overall comparatively vanilla sex. and i think sometimes - like in their relationship - eddie is also able to let buck take care of him, and buck probably loves getting to just worship him and be of service, not in a particularly kinky way but in a buck kisses him all over his body and gets him totally relaxed and makes him come three times while not even noticing he hasn't come once yet because he's so zoned in on making eddie feel good and loved and taken care of kind of way. and eddie probably also likes sometimes being a little bratty and pouty and playful and feels safe and comfortable enough with buck to do it. (also obviously both of them love slow meaningful staring into each other's eyes Lovemaking.) like they are two best friends who match each other so well in all ways, i think the realistically non-fantasy version of their sex life is fun and playful and balanced

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Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha

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tsunami thoughts 🌊

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Lito, Hernando and Dani at Sao Paulo Pride

Sense8 | S02E06

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Concerned (& possibly horny) background Eddie

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after a tense moment while buck and eddie are babysitting, jee-yun sees eddie do his classic reassuring shoulder grab. she asks “are you mad at uncle buck?” (buck is like “oh god oh no eddie are you mad at uncle buck??”) but eddie says “no of course not jee, why would i be mad?” and she says “you didn’t kiss him :( mommy and daddy always kiss.” buck is clearly mortified but before he can say anything, eddie says “oh understandable, that was my mistake,” and he holds buck’s face steady with one hand while he presses a kiss to buck’s cheek

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meta thoughts on the misinterpretation of steve harrington's self-sacrifice

what frustrates me about steve's fandom characterization, specifically in steddie, is not that he's self-sacrificial, because he is. its that so many people root steve's self-sacrifice in self-loathing. there's this overarching idea that steve feels so worthless that he throws himself in front of others because he believes they deserve to live more than him.

and that characterization does a severe disservice to him and blatantly ignores the best part about him - how deeply he loves his friends.

yes, he throws himself into danger, but it's not because he hates himself.

steve is an incredibly confident character. the reason he lets the others' snarky comments roll off his back isn't because he believes he deserves them, it's because he doesn't give a shit. because he knows who he is. honestly, out of every character in that show, he's the only one who really knows what he's about.

when steve throws himself between his friends and danger, it's simply because he loves them so much that he'll do anything to protect them. it's nothing more than that.

his humbleness when eddie waxes on about his heroics in season four stems from steve's protectiveness being so intrinsic to who he is that he just sees it as a fact of life, not as a big sparkly thing deserving of special recognition.

also as a side note, a lot of people make this self-hatred come from how he acted when he was younger. either he acted that way as a mask for his low confidence, or he can't forgive himself now for who he used to be. and i'll be honest, i don't think he ruminates on his past self at all by season 4. one of steve's core traits is that he's incredibly pragmatic. by the end of season 1, he realized he didn't like the person he was becoming, he spent season 2 changing that, and then he moved on. i don't think he spared much thought to it since.

that pragmatism also extends towards his protectiveness. he sees a threat coming for him and his friends, and he steps in front to protect them, typically because he's the oldest and/or physically strongest in the group (season 2 in the tunnels, the fight with billy, the strongest swimmer in the lake, etc). he's the best for the job so he'll step up and do it, no second thoughts or second guessing. that's what makes him so interesting and i hate to see it diminished.

no more self-loathing steve, please. i promise he's a much more fun character if you go deeper into the well.