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coming back to my summer job again & damn do i love to project so....

lifeguard steve, obviously, worked there for 5 years, its a dead-end job for everyone there, you either get out in high school or you're stuck there until you die. he's a manager, is best friends with the maintenance guy, has learned all the tricks of the trade.

& of COURSE robin is there too - comes back every summer on rotation, she's the life of the office, has created every lightning summoning ritual that works every time. she owns the aux, and will blast closing time 10 minutes before the actual time.

the Party are the neighborhood kids there every afternoon, when the community center daycamp gets out, harassing steve for free entry, begging for the slides to be opened. steve gives them a hard time everytime, but as long as they clean up the parking lot trash he lets them in.

& eddie..... eddie is a regular who steve can NOT figure out. he's a mystery. steve knows ALL the regulars, is best friends with dorene who opens the pool at 6am for her water walking, chats a storm with the swim coach elaine, even has broken down old harold who brings his baking experiments once a week.

but eddie, who comes in three days a week, always at 2pm, the least busy time at the pool, lays in the sun in all black for way too long, before hopping in to water walk for a full hour. and steve, always working, spends the whole hour staring daggers at eddie, who 80% of the time is the only one in the pool. it kills him. and eddie seems oblivious - little ear wrap headphones going, bopping his head. and then, by the time he hops out, the pool is back filling up again with all the water activities, and he always tries to hold a conversation with steve, who now is distracted and pissed at not getting his lull in the day, and nods not listening.

so eddie is his nemesis swimmer.

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here's a fake interview about my me & my girlfriend that i transcribed from my head. enjoy!

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Rashida Tlaib has set up a petition to send to the White House to recognize and stop the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement happening in Gaza. If you’re a US citizen please sign. I have no illusions that this will change policy, but the public outcry against their actions must continue. We will not be distracted or discouraged from continuing to object to these humans rights violations.

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If you’re really into hardcore music (and adjacent), 121 bands have come together to release a compilation album to benefit Palestinian children (all proceedings will be donated to MECA for Peace). The album was released on bandcamp and is called “A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation for Palestinian Liberation” and you can get by clicking the link.

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Something something, Henry giving Lark unconditional forgiveness and Lark wanting nothing but to be found at fault VS Henry placing Sparrow at fault for code purple and Sparrow hoping for forgiveness when they reunite.

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I see a lot of headcanons of Eddie being knowledgeable about the queer community, but alternatively I propose Eddie who’s always lived in a small town during the 1980s. Wayne who constantly works odd hours and needed access to their car growing up. Eddie who felt like he needed to be there for Wayne just in case even after he finally got his van for dirt-cheap. Eddie who never really had the chance to go to the big cities with established queer communities. Eddie who knows he likes a large variety of people, but never really knows what to do with that or how to express it.

Enter Steve Harrington who travelled with his parents growing up. Steve Harrington who was often left to his own devices in big cities like New York and Paris. Steve Harrington who’s first kiss was with a Parisian boy at 13. Steve Harrington who just called Eddie “babe” for the first time while Eddie is recuperating at the hospital after the Upside Down. Eddie who just went bright red with his jaw hanging open, staring at Steve with big dumb bambi eyes. Steve Harrington who isn’t as oblivious as he pretends.

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self recognition through the other (we depress to impress, i guess)

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Fancied drawing a cute soft pic where they are all tired out. Did they mean to crash out like that? What will Steve think of his leg hugging tendencies? Or will Eddie blush and mumble to find Steve sleeping practically between his legs?

Almost didn't share this as I wasn't very happy with the faces. But in the end I thought it's not so bad.

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They hear the ‘ding’ of the elevator as they walk inside the very luxurious building and Robin grabs Steve’s hand and makes them run to the door yelling, “Hold! Please!”

A hand covered in rings and with short nails painted black appears from inside and holds the door for them. They get in as Robin breathes out little ‘thank yous’ under her breath and Steve smiles at the gentleman who helped them. His brows go up a little at how handsome the man is. He’s wearing black dress pants and a black silk shirt under an also black suit jacket. The whole look is expensive and the man wears it very well. With his long curly hair tied at the back of his neck, plus the rings, the nails, and the surprising amount of piercings in his ears, he looks like a rockstar. He has a cute nose and full lips that look very enticing and big beautiful brown eyes that are looking back at him. 

Steve smiles once more and nods politely figuring he should stop staring. They have to go up like a billion floors or something so this is going to be a long elevator ride. Probably shouldn’t make their traveling companion uncomfortable. 

He distracts himself by looking at Robin, fixing her hair behind her ear. She looks great. Slack pants and a tight dress shirt in grey tones with black suspenders adorned with metal cufflinks. Short hair loose and just the right amount of disheveled and a graphic eyeliner so sharp it could cut you. He would know. He did her makeup. They were asked to dress party chick but professional, which neither of them knew what the hell meant but Steve is pretty sure Robin nailed it. He just hopes he did a good job too.

He’s wearing a white thigh shirt of a soft material he couldn’t for the life of him remember the name of and black dress pants, the ones that fit him like a second skin, paired with a big leather belt, just to add a little extra. He tries to inconspicuously check himself out in the mirrors of the elevator but accidentally meets eyes with the well-dressed man again. Who adverts his gaze quickly and Steve realizes he just caught him checking him out. He smiles to himself and looks down bashfully only to be horrified by what he notices because, his white shirt? The stupid fabric he can’t name? Totally sheer. Well not totally, but a little. Like he can see his nipples right now a little.

Oh my god. Oh my god.

“Robin, we need to go.” he suddenly says grabbing Robin by the back of the elbow. 

Robin turns to him previously just nervously watching the floor numbers change and frowns worried, “What? We are already here, Steve! What do mean?”

“I need to go home and change Robin! I can’t-” He whispers to her, although he knows it’s in vain, there’s no way the handsome man isn’t about to hear a very embarrassing conversation. 

“We are literally in the elevator. We are not going back home so you can change!” Robin huffs annoyed now that she knows it wasn’t anything more serious, “What’s wrong with your clothes?” she asks pinching his shirt between her fingers.

Steve turns his back to the man and crowds Robin, facing her, “Can you see my nipples?” he asks trying to keep his voice low but he hears a cough that sounds suspiciously like a chuckle behind him. 

Robin looks at him like he’s lost his mind but, as always she goes with it, “Yes?” 

Steve puts his palms over them and gasps and Robin starts laughing “What are you doing?” she says between giggles at the same time Steve exclaims, “I can’t show our new boss my nipples!” 

“Steve, what?! I thought it was on purpose! You know, just a peek, a little chess hair, a little nipple.” Robin says still laughing but stops when she sees Steve is looking actually distressed. 

She huffs and runs her hands up and down his arms comfortingly.

“Why would I want to show them my nipples!” Steve groans and Robin shrugs.

“It’s sexy? We were asked to dress for a party”

“Why would I want to look sexy for work?” Steve asks again, still trying to convince Robin to let him go home and change.

But Robin tilts her head to the side, “But you can’t turn that off, though? Like, you are always sexy.”

Instantly his mood changes and he smiles and coos at her, “Aww, that’s so sweet, babe! But you are biased…”

Robin scoffs at being babied and raises an eyebrow, “How am I biased?”

“Because you love me!” Steve answers like it’s obvious. And Robin nods as if taking in the information.

“Okay. I see your biases and I raise you the following point: It’s objective. Because I’m a lesbian.”

Steve laughs, but he’s not the only one. For a second, Steve had forgotten they had an audience member. A very handsome audience member. He blushes, the guy must think he’s such an idiot. But at least he thinks they are funny. He turns back to his side and smiles at him again. 

But Robin suddenly jumps a little beside him, like she had just noticed him, and says, “Stranger! Opinion?”

“Rob, no-” Steve starts but Robin leans over him to talk to the man, “Shirt. Good? Bad?” She says moving her hands in front of Steve as if she was showcasing him. Steve blushes some more and tries to keep a neutral face. So he ends up just white-man smiling awkwardly.

The man chuckles again and then looks at Steve from top to bottom and back again, “You look good,” he says smirking.

And Steve's blush deepens. But Robin either doesn’t notice or is enjoying it, because she keeps questioning him, “Good. What are thinking? Slutty or sexy?”

The man leans his head to the side, his eyes roaming over Steve's chest and Steve has to resist the urge to cover his nipples again.

“It’s sexy.” he says, voice deep and serious as if this was an important conversation and not Robin and Steve being dumbasses, “Like, sophisticated sexy.”

Steve shakes himself to try to make his blush go away and addresses the man, “I- well, thank you, first. And second, I’m sorry you were dragged into this. But would you want to look sexy meeting your new boss?” he asks him.

He taps his chin in thought and then says, “Your friend is right though, are already here. Just don’t flirt with them and you'll be fine!” 

At that Steve purses lips and Robin snorts rudely. “That might be a problem,” she says.

The man laughs surprised and Steve can’t help but think he has a really nice laugh, “How?” he asks them.

“Steve has a little miscommunication problem,” Robin explains, “When he tries to be charming people think he's flirting.”

Steve crosses his arms and huffs making the few locks that fall on his forehead lift a bit and fall back down, “I have no idea what I’m doing wrong! I’m just trying to be nice..”

The man is looking at him with raised eyebrows and he blinks a couple of times before snickering, “Looks like your friend is right, again. You just can’t turn sexy off, uh?”

Robin laughs really hard at that and Steve goes back to full tomato status.

“I could've tried!” he says, not even sure what are they arguing about anymore.

“How?” Robin asks him amused.

“I don’t know, a big sweater? Something knitted, comfy?” he tries but they both shake their head at him.

“That sounds sexy too,” The man says and Steve frowns,

“Literally. How?” 

“It gives off fuck vibes. Like you are really fuckable,” he says, and then his eyes go wide and he bites his lips.

Robin’s eyes go wide too and she snorts, looking at Steve who is just staring at the guy with his mouth hanging slightly open.

“Sorry!” the man says, raising his hands in mock surrender, “That was so out of line- I- oh! Saved by the bell it seems,” he says when the elevator dings, “This is my floor”

The doors open and Argyle and Jon are on the other side and Steve realizes, this is also their floor.

“Eddie!” Argyle says as the man moves towards him and they shake hands enthusiastically. 

“Steve, Robin” Jon greets them with a smile as they slowly walk out of the elevator, watching Eddie’s deer-in-the-headlights expression.

“Ah! I hope you had a pleasant elevator ride and didn’t do anything awkward!” Argyle jokes completely oblivious, “I’m a little sad I didn’t get to introduce you guys!”

“...What do you mean?” Robin asks with a forced smile.

“Steve, Robin: This Eddie Munson!” Argyle says moving behind Steve and Robin and hugging them by the shoulders so they stand directly in front of Eddie, “Your new boss!”

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i like a good rock star!eddie x regular guy!steve

but do you know what i LOVE

rock star!eddie who used to go to school with steve, making it big, coming back to hawkins, finds out steve harrington, rich kid extraordinaire, became a working class nobody, be it mechanic, school teacher, hair dresser whatever and wants so so SOOO badly to go up to steve and rub his fame and wealth into his face, only to be met with the most content, friendly, sweet man eddie's ever had the privilege of being in the presence of

steve looks at him in recognition, not because he knows who corroded coffin is or that eddie munson toured with metallica or played at the grammys, he looks at him like "oh hey, munson, hows it going man?" like they were old buddies catching up and it just tears eddie up inside cause he can't make fun of this guy, this guy who is completely happy taking care of cars or kids or hair, who doesn't mind living in a small house/apartment/trailer, who looks absolutely secure and loving his small life, far happier than he was in high school

and it makes eddie feel insignificant and petty and so, so, so fucking small and is just besides himself with horror, that he became this arrogant person who was going to make fun of a guy for having a blue collar job, so ashamed of himself but steve keeps looking at him with concern, more than eddie deserves and he has to run, says a quick 'see ya around' and high tails it out of there and confesses his sin to his uncle who looks on with disappointment and understanding

and unfortunately he keeps seeing steve around town that his uncle is forcing him to engage in, if only to get more of taste of reality and they get to know each other and eddie finds himself loving the fact steve has no idea of eddie's fame, of the gossip rags splashing eddie's rehab stint all over the place, or the fact he was seen on the arm of some famous supermodel he can't even remember the name of, none of the ugly or glamorous persona's he puts on for his fans and haters alike, steve just remembers eddie munson from school and is learning about eddie munson the adult and maybe he needs someone to teach him how to live like a regular person and yeah

give me more of that, please and thank you

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I am once again explaining that in order for walkable cities and public transit to work for disabled people, there also need to be more public bathrooms available in and around those areas. Not just places to sit down or rest. Bathrooms. We need accessible, clean bathrooms. With sharps bins. With multiple wheelchair accessible stalls. With an area to set down supplies needed to maintain one’s body. Even if it’s not being used to get rid of bodily waste, bathrooms are one of the few spaces disabled people have to maintain some sort of privacy when they’re in the middle of a flare up or they need to take medication or what have you. Designing a public space? Include bathrooms.

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This whole drive I can’t stop thinking about that one retelling where Odysseus is a long haul trucker and Athena is a voice on his radio…

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enjoying the sun (half of them are so cat coded actually)

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I think we as a fandom should acknowledge Scary’s little shit behaviour more.

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a brief & partial history, sam sax