#Over 8000

[yourslimeybuddy]

don’t ask me what i’ve been doing this is all i can give you

[steddieas-shegoes]

fool’s oil

for @steddiemicrofic prompt ‘fool’

rated t | no cw | tags: future fic, flirting, open ending but implied getting together

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It’s been a while since Steve has had to worry about taking care of a car. When he moved to Chicago with Robin, they agreed to sell his BMW for extra money. They’d be taking the metro or walking everywhere anyway.

But after graduation, Robin took a job offer in Indianapolis, and where Robin goes, Steve goes.

He managed to find a decent used car when he found his studio apartment, and after the initial hit to his bank account, he found a pretty decent job that helped him get back to a somewhat comfortable balance.

The chaos of moving had been more of a distraction than he anticipated. Settling into his new job as a first grade teacher, unpacking, catching up with Joyce and Hopper, had made him forget that cars do require maintenance.

The guy at the front desk of this mechanic shop wasn’t too thrilled about seeing him as soon as the door opened.

“What’s the hurry for an oil change?” He asked.

“It’s nearly 8000 miles past due,” Steve admitted.

“How did that happen?”

Steve didn’t like his tone.

“My whole family died in a fire.”

The guy backed up and at least looked apologetic, even if Steve was lying through his teeth.

“Well, you’re first to go back so it shouldn’t take too long, man. Our head mechanic just walked in.”

Steve nodded and walked to the seat by the window, watching as a guy with long, curly hair shoved it up into a ponytail and turned on a radio in the shop.

He leaned his head back and sighed.

Maybe he could convince Robin to move back to a big city in a few years. He forgot how much he hated the maintenance involved with owning things.

He was startled by a hand on his shoulder and a familiar voice in his ear.

“So you’re the fool who forgot about oil changes because his family died in a fire?” Eddie Munson’s smirk was just as annoyingly attractive as it had been four years ago in Hawkins.

“Eddie? What the hell are you doing here?” Steve laughed and stood up to give him a hug.

“I’m working. What are you doing here? Thought you were in Chicago.”

“I was. Robin got a job here and I came back with her,” Steve couldn’t look away from him.

Eddie had always been hot, Steve had always pretended he wasn’t.

But now he was having trouble remembering why he pretended.

“So you’re here in Indy?”

“Yeah. You?”

Eddie smirked. “Yeah. That’s why I work here.”

“Right, yeah.” Steve was embarrassing himself.

“You got dinner plans?”

“Um.”

“You want dinner plans?”

“With you?”

“With me.”

Steve nodded. “Yeah. Dinner with you sounds great.”

[photochoco]

Astarion had a very busy evening :)

[walrus150915]

Okay Google how do I write a smut fic short n sweet with a sprinkle of angst, which criticizes transmedicalism and ends on a bittersweet note yet still shows how gentle and genuine and raw the feelings between those two characters are despite them not really understanding each other in that one particular moment bc of their different life experiences

How do I make this heartfelt and NOT silly bc every fic I wrote includes some sort of a joke

[vvrong]

6 AM

[smoshers-comment]

▶ WE BOUGHT SMOSH!

[thefeastandthefast]

"For the second time that day, Yang Ying moves closer to the target of her persuasion, gentling with a purposeful touch."

[ultimate-guardian]

*Knuckles counting using his fingers*

Vector: I just asked how old you ar-

Knuckles: Can you SHUT UP for a second!?

[elialys]

thank you for your kind words guys, i was able to write over 2000 words today and made good progress on my chapter ❤️

[leohtttbriar]

it's how she considers sisko's theory, that it was yedrin who ultimately programmed the ship to not be flung back in time "again," how she considers and then very easily accepts that it was yedrin and then smiles and simply walks away from it. like, even though everything is sort of awful, and there was no good option for her, she's glad that yedrin did what sisko says he did.

i think it's something to do with how sisko said the people on the planet would always exist as memories. an idea that jadzia would be particularly sensitive to: an existence that is forever a memory. whatever her smile her is meant to indicate, the line about "memory" convinces her of something. she accepts that the sacrifice of these people is not un-complex, that the sanctity of remembering them will just be another set of memories for her to carry and honor, and she puts no argument up that it was not yedrin--it was not herself-- that reprogrammed the autopilot to take them away from the settlement and save kira's life. and then she walks off.

the fact that it's either odo or jadzia who did it---wrote over the 8000 lives in the service of one---is fascinating, when comparing either option to the other. odo does it explicitly to save kira's life for the present-odo. if jadzia were to have done it, it would have been through yedrin, who, according to sisko, felt for the whole of the crew, who were varying levels of accepting of a determined future. odo does something ultimately selfish (which i find compelling and am personally convinced by because, like, it's not the same as murder and kira was clearly accepting her death bc she was primed by her faith, which is not rational behavior and i'm glad odo was capable of saving her from it). so odo is somewhat selfish and jadzia is somewhat complicated because there simply is no option for her that does not result in a loss of life. the selfish decision of hers was already made. jadzia wanted to discover something on a new planet.

between the balance of pain and the balance of lives or "lives": jadzia comes out of the episode more burdened with more memories but retaining the thing that is most important to her, as expressed in her actions at the beginning of the episode: she's not stuck on a planet in a long-term relationship she's not sure she wants to be long-term. she's in starfleet, still able to discover things on other planets and beyond.

and to be honest, whether or not the argument is deliberate, that's an argument being made/question being asked. what's more important: scientific discovery or individual lives? or, what's more important: the potential diversity and expansion of understanding/knowledge of scientific work or a seemingly idyllic pastoralism produced from some closed-circle timeline and characters whose lives are written and reproduced perhaps happily or perhaps not, just according to the base survivalism of 48 stranded people (and now the knowledge of what comes)?

the fact that the episode leaves off with kira's anger at odo sort of gives me the impression that the show is more on her side here. but also, right before that scene, jadzia, the character known for holding the memories of many and honoring them carefully and loving beyond herself so easily, smiles and then walks away after a whole episode of her face twisted in grief and self-anger. it's an opaque ending, in a way.

[lordcaptains]

i, uh

may have figured out how to extract audio files from rogue trader

[spookyteeth]

god help me i cant escape,, i've been tied to a chair being force fed homestuck content

[james-stark-the-writer]

was just rewatching Jack Saint and Patricia Taxxon's video on Mauler (it's called "Long Critique Is Not Deep Critique" and it's like actually so fucking good) and was so taken aback by hearing Twin Peaks music in there now that i've actually seen Twin Peaks lmao, that Laura Palmer theme is so fucking good, Angelo Badlamenti is just truly on another level, i already wanna rewatch the show now (S02 is good, y'all are just cowards).

[apocalypticdemon]

oh god. first year of my master's is done

[bloodsalted]

castiel is a little surprised when she first spots him because she expects something different. taller, maybe. built like a warrior. not a man that's still half-boy and wearing a too-big leather jacket. -@qapsiel regarding pre-sam reunion season one dean in this new thread.

[egberts]

I've been dying to know, what exactly did you and Alana do to become popular on tumblr? Like I've been here nearly 10 years and i still don't know why

just being nice and rad and also a hilarious & relatable homestuck fan. alana is just tumblr famous by association but she's also funny and rad and was once a relatable homestuck fan