#and robin is doing her best

[marvins-linguinie]

robin: just tell steve! im sure he likes you back!

eddie: no.. he doesn't.

robin: you don't know that.

eddie: but i do, buckley! i've been through this before, and it always ends the same way. i tell him, and he'll give me that... that look. then he won't talk to me. he'll avoid me for as long as i exist.

robin: he won't-

eddie: i know, you rejected him and came out to him, but it's.. it's different.

robin: i know it's different. i was the one rejecting him. it was scary though. i was telling this guy i knew for a few days that im into girls. i understand what you're going through, eddie.

eddie: he's in love with nancy. he has been, and always will be. if i tell him, steve will just see me as an obstacle towards winning back nancy.

robin: well, your speech about how he should win her back didn't help either of us.

eddie: i was putting things into perspective. he loves her. i just needed a reminder that i had no chance and that i needed to stop trying.

robin: he won't love her forever. they aren't good for each other. and i think he knows that.

eddie: but, what if he does love her forever?

robin: then you give up. you find someone else. and that may seem impossible, but there are billions of people on this planet. im sure one of them need an eddie in their life.

[finntheehumaneater]

thinking about Eddie, who because of the upsidedown was in a coma for effectively the rest of '86. When he woke up he had to re-learn a lot of shit, since even after he could open his eyes and sit up, moving was still hard.

Steve and Robin go with him to all of his PT appointments as he works on moving and standing up, but not walking yet. The therapist overhears him complaining to Steve about how he misses writing, since his hands are too shaky for the words to be legible.

She tells him that if he wants to write better he should practice more, and maybe pick something else up that requires small, repetitive movements, like sewing or crocheting.

Eddie is about to open his mouth to say that sewing might be a good idea, because he can work on putting his old patches onto the new vest that the kids bought him as a "we're glad you're not dead present", when Robin comes back from the bathroom and pipes up that she has some crocheting stuff from when she and Steve tried to learn together a few years back, and that's the end of that conversation.

crocheting is his least favorite part of the night, even if Robin and Steve are patient and let him pick the movie in the background and don't get frustrated when he drops the hook between the couch cushions for the thirtieth time in an hour.

Eventually he gets the hang of it, but--out of spite--refuses to make anything other than a very long line with his yarn, telling Steve and Robin he's going to strangle them with it when he's done, because crocheting "is literally the least metal thing in the world."

He stops threatening to strangle Robin after she makes him a little bat.

[tutubola-moved-on]

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be smelled or touched: they are felt with the heart." - The Little Prince

A few paintings from last year to celebrate the live action :)

[imthursdaysyme]

Stobin talking about anything and everything all the time

[findafight]

Absolutely bonkers trying to find a fic where Nancy and Steve talk about her cheating on him in S2 and literally the whole ao3 tag besides like. Two? is filled with Steve cheating fics??? As though. He would do that???

I am a firm believer in just keep scrolling. Saying He Would Not Do That and moving on. But I find it fascinating in a frustrating way that such a fundamental and early introduced part of Steve (his extreme sensitivity to infidelity) is just. Reversed? Like I can and have forgiven a lot of characterizations I don't particularly agree with in fic. It happens in Fandom all the time. I just don't understand how you could see him in either S1 or 2 and think yeah...this guy would cheat...That's just a completely different guy for the most part at that point. Blows the mind

[formosusiniquis]

bela lugosi's dead

written for the @steddiemicrofic prompt: suck | wc: 480 | T | cw: none | tags: vampire!Steve

Like every good freak worth the nickname, Eddie made a habit of reading Dracula every Halloween. 

The first read led to closeted daydreaming about getting abducted by a handsome vampire. Letting himself poke at desires he hadn’t been ready to commit to. With age his fantasies and aesthetics matured, until he was the bloodsucking creature of the night stealing pretty boys away to give in to their secret temptations. So, if he's honest, he’s having a hard time dealing with life and the lemons it’s juggling off to the side of him.

“It isn't fair.”

“Hmm,” Steve, with his red puffer vest and his coordinating Nikes, sat across from him at some point in full view of Eddie’s misery over his annotated copy of Dracula.

“There's an aesthetic you're failing to appreciate and it isn't fair that you-”

“Are we going to do this every time?” He asks around the straw in his mouth, poked into a blood bag labeled ‘Robin:)’ like he’s sipping from a juice box.

“Until you stop dressing like a JCPenney catalog model, or vampires become lame, yeah we probably are, Harrington.”

“Fine,” he sighs, having the decency to pull the blood bag away from his face, “I'm sorry that you had to have five blood transfusions and basically have new, non-vampire blood. No one has ever suffered the way you, Eddie Munson, have.”

“You're being sarcastic, but I have suffered so apology accepted, Stevie.”

“Now you.” Steve prompts, gesturing with the bag in his hands.

“Now me what?”

Steve sits up, a languid move that makes Eddie’s prey brain sit up at attention and his horny boy brain poke its head up too. “Say I'm sorry, Steve, that you had to save the world for the fourth time so a bunch of freaky bat venom metastasized-”

“You absolutely stole that word from Henderson,” breathless, the jab doesn’t carry the weight it could.

“-in your bloodstream and combined with the remains of the experimental Soviet drugs and now," He crawls closer, "you can't eat garlic anymore.”

“That's the hang up for you? Not the blood drinking?”

“I'm Italian, I can’t eat anything anymore. Sure I can supplement the blood with raw meat, but what’s the point if everything is poorly seasoned.” Blood bag all but forgotten in the arm chair, he has Eddie pinned in place looming overtop of him, talking shit about what he’ll never be able to eat again.

The white collar of Steve’s t-shirt is visible beneath the color-block vest, even that isn’t enough to stop his brain from screaming predator on repeat. Supernaturally strong, it doesn’t take more than a hand on the shoulder to push Eddie down horizontal on the couch. He has to feel Eddie’s heart beat, the way it pounds in his chest as Steve noses up the collarbone to his neck. “Really does suck for me, huh baby?”

[thestobingirlie]

“i only care about lesbian robin and her lesbian relationships”

*no mention of vickie anywhere on their blog*

okay lol

[oifaaa]

I’m pretty sure normal timeline Damian and Jason also haven’t made any original identities (Jason has in a couple alternate timelines but it depends what we’re counting), so I’m not sure this is just a Tim problem. Dick’s the only creative one.

Yeah but I give Jason creativity props for choosing to go by red hood and then making that name his own which is similar to dick bc both of his main hero names he too didn't come up with on his own robin comes from his mum and nightwing comes from superman - damian hasn't really had the opportunity to choose a new hero name for himself so we'll see where he goes but Tim has literally had several good opportunities to get a hero name and make it his own and what has he come up with red robin, Drake and Mr Sarcastic

[phoebelovingcare]

i think the most shocking feature of the full-release version for below zero is al-an's threat level.

i think that might be lowballing it a bit tbh

[kavehater]

I support girls but NAH THIS IS REACHING “if you look carefully LIKE REALLY CAREFULLY 🤓☝️”

[batcavescolony]

Batman #189

Ah yes magnificent scientific equipment! A....What his that? IBM 360 Model 75 computer? Oh how the time changes, my phone has more computing power then that.

[donutcats]

i don’t think we as a society appreciate or even acknowledge the fact enough that in s1 it’s mentioned nancy used to dress up as an elf for the boys d&d campaigns and she used to hang out with them.

all I’m saying is please imagine nancy getting back into d&d and she pulls robin into it because robin seems really intrigued by the whole thing, and robin finds the things nancy used to dress up in and lovingly teases her about it even though she thinks nancy makes a Gorgeous elf queen or whatever it is she’s meant to be.

[wigglesdtuff]

When you just want to take your kids to a fun concert and you sure hope nothing goes awry for once in your pirating adventures

[thebestfriendstoloverstrope]

in case you've missed it: i'm doing a series of polls for everyone to vote for their favorite season per st character! currently on-going are the polls for the party, which you can find below this poll! but next up on our list is the most badass resident of hawkins (yes, i said that)... nancy wheeler!

*since "best" is subjective, it can mean whatever you want: the version you love the most, the version that's most well-written, the version that's most compelling, the version that shows the character making the most "right" choices, the version that displays the greatest performance from the actor – whatever you think defines the "best"!

click on their names to vote for: mike wheeler, will byers, dustin henderson, lucas sinclair, max mayfield, and el hopper before their polls close!

see you in 12 hours for our other favorite sibling-of-the-party: jonathan byers!

and as always, lmk why you picked your season in the tags!!

[vulcanette]

one piece is so crazy bc I will see someone say that [wildly unlikable character I was just introduced to] is their favorite character and I have 100% learned to have faith and trust that they will have a backstory or character development that is SO mind-blowing that they will become my favorite too

[catharusustulatus]

Steve and Robin go to Vegas for Steve’s 25th birthday. They say fuck it, let’s get married for fun and so they do, with an Elvis impersonator as their officiant. After beautiful vows that make even Elvis cry, Steve shocks everyone by turning to kiss not his “bride” but his “best man,” who has been Eddie tagging along on the trip the whole time. After Elvis kicks them out, they eat pancakes as newlyweds.