#he wasn’t in love with Steve

[envyenvys]

Some scenes from the Stevie Harrington au I’ve been rotating in my mind for months

Details & IDs under the cut:

[ID 1: Stephanie Harrington speaking into a walkie-talkie, her text bubble reads:

“Sound off, shitheads.”

She has long brown hair with big waves, and is wearing a white tank top and blue jeans. She looks vaguely annoyed or exasperated. End ID 1]

[ID 2: Steph lying stomach-down on the end of a bed, propped up on her elbows so she can hold hands with Chrissy Cunningham, who’s speaking. Chrissy’s text bubbles read:

“Jason just doesn’t get it. I wanna hang out, and shop, and cheer, and beat the shit out of interdimensional man-eating monsters. You know, I wanna do girly stuff!”

Steph looks indulgently down at Chrissy, who’s smiling and sitting on the floor. Steph’s wearing a red crop top and blue jeans, and Chrissy has on a yellow and white striped headband, a white and pink floral print button-up shirt, and sunny yellow overalls, which have multicoloured flowers embroidered around the hips and ankles. End ID 2]

Chrissy’s dialogue here is inspired by a similar quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, because I thought it would be a fun & cute thing for her to say, and her outfit is inspired by one of princess Diana’s bc she’s a fashion icon.

[ID 3: Steph and Robin Buckley, both in their Scoops Ahoy uniforms, complete with the hats. Robin’s holding up a whiteboard divided into ‘hit’ and ‘miss’ sections. ‘Miss’ has twelve tally marks, and ‘hit’ has a single tally with a small question mark beside it. Their dialogue reads:

Robin: Board’s getting full, Harrington. You’re a real heartbreaker today.

Steph: Told you I could make this outfit work.

Steph is smiling, holding an ice cream scoop, and her hair’s braided over her shoulder with a red scrunchie. Robin looks amused, like she’s teasing. End ID 3]

[ID 4: Steph and Dustin Henderson in the scene from season 2 where they’re leaving a trail of meat for Dart on the railroad tracks. They both have yellow gloves and are holding buckets of meat, and Steph has her bat over her shoulder. Their dialogue reads:

Steph: I’ll bring you some of my Farrah Fawcett spray.

Dustin: Isn’t that for girls?

Steph: It’s for hair.

The word ‘hair’ is underlined. Steph is wearing a light blue and purple jacket over a red turtleneck and blue jeans, and her hair is in a ponytail with a red scrunchie. Dustin is wearing his canon outfit, complete with the baseball cap and headset. He looks skeptical. End ID 4]

Bonus transcript of me explaining the single tally + question mark in dms:

🍓[me]: Snappy dialogue to indicate that the board is abt men failing to flirt with her and not the other way around 👍

🍇[beloved]: who's the hit?

🍓: Eddie lmfao

🍓: The question mark is there bc Robin was so baffled by Eddie’s complete lack of rizz that she’s not sure she even interpreted that correctly

🍇: KNEW it

🍇: robin watching the entire time: 🤨

🍓: He wasn’t even trying to flirt is the thing he just got up there and lost his mind and his friends were standing behind him clearly being like “we don’t know this guy” and somehow steph got like… giggly??

🍓: Robin, afterwards: what the hell was that

🍓: Steph, clueless: what was what? 😀❓

🍓: Eddie crouching down behind one of those large decorative plants for ten straight minutes desperately holding his head in his hands shinji-style to stave off the cringe

🍓: His ice cream melts btw

🍇: his friends are standing a full meter away from him, pointedly not looking

🍓: Yeah they’re on the other end of the food court sitting at a table facing him but very carefully avoiding actually looking at him. They’d put their backs to him but the last time they did that (different mall, long story, they aren’t allowed in anymore) Eddie got kicked out by mall security and it took them like three hours to find him

🍓: This was before Gareth’s time and no one’s ever actually explained the full situation to him bc 1) they keep embellishing it and 2) eddie gets screechy when they try

[rebecca--barnes]

The Winter Soldier before and after hearing Steve Rogers’ name

Steve will always be the one to save Bucky (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

He was in love :’(

[ahhrenata]

some steddie doodles inspired by @stevethehairington ’s super cute and amazing fic waving down the wind ✨

[crusheswhimsandfancies]

Blue Jeans Baby by Atlantic 5

[feralsteddie]

I feel like we don’t embrace the fact that Steve and Eddie are teenage/barely not teenage boys enough

[ickypuppi3]

say what you want but billy and steve have canonically seen each other’s dicks so who’s really winning at the end of the day

[wroteclassicaly]

Imagine thinking Steve tried to make Nancy forget for trauma and pretend everything is fine.

[miraclecereal]

If I was directing the Minecraft Movie instead of making it Jumanji for gen alpha I would make it about self discovery and finding one’s sense of self.

Alex would be transported into a world she’s never been in before, scared and confused with her only confidant being a guy named Steve. Steve never talks and always calm to match Alex’s abrasiveness. It’s obvious he’s been trapped in whatever world they’re in much longer than her and so he shows her the ropes, getting her to find beauty in a world she was terrified of.

Herobrine could be a representation of past traumas or relapsing back into unhealthy mindsets and he isn’t something that they just fight and it’s not like suddenly all bad things go away but they keep each other safe and grounded when he does come.

I think the turning point of the movie could be Steve and Alex taking different turns in their life. When they find out about the dragon Alex chooses that she’ll go to The End and confront it while Steve chooses to stay behind and focus on the things he’s building and discovering in the main world. Them being separated could focus more on their depths with Steve having to deal with Herobrine alone while Alex fights with the dragon (Herobrine could represent self hatred and the dragon could represent an inability to move on both stemming from past traumas)

And the movie would end with Alex coming out of the portal and exiting the cave with Steve waiting for her outside of it.

[soullessjack]

my thing with soulless jack is that it’s just sooo interesting and funny bc Steve Yockey looked at the other writers’ blasé characterizations of jack as a plot device with a pretty face and said “what if this dog was really fucked up” and I love him so much for it

[scoopsgf]

okay i’m a big stoncy shipper and so i obviously love both jancy and stancy, but what i don’t get about the whole “jonathan lied to nancy when he said steve asked him to drive her home from the party” debate is that like, there’s no way that steve could have known jonathan was the one to take her home unless they talked about it. he had no idea jonathan was at the party or that he was even coming, and yet

“no, that was your other boyfriend, that was jonathan.”

this is said definitively. it’s not “that must’ve been your other boyfriend.” while i don’t wanna outright discount the possibility that jonathan did lie and steve left her there, i also think it’s well within the realm of possibility that there was a brief interaction at that party between jon and steve, and jonathan wasn’t actually lying. anyway tl;dr we shouldn’t be so quick to assume steve would just abandon her.

[catharusustulatus]

I just literally can’t believe they won’t have Argyle back because he would have been such a good catalyst for blending the Byers gang back into the Hawkins crew. He was such a kind and caring and helpful character who could have had so many amazing moments. And I know they totally removed him so two white boys could be together and they won’t let Jonathan have two friends but imagine if Jonathan had finally come around to Steve because Argyle and Steve bonded! Imagine Jonathan sees Steve and Argyle laughing during downtime and is like “well, I guess he can’t be too bad.” Argyle is pure sunshine and has chemistry with everyone! But nooooo they have to make everything angsty with room for the love triangle.

[daydreamerdrew]

Bucky thinking, even before all the Winter Soldier stuff, that his positive image to Steve is at least somewhat manufactured/a mask and that he has to hide parts of himself from Steve so that Steve doesn’t think badly of him, and Steve idealizing Bucky after his death and thinking that he was perfect.

[pretty-emo-dad]

If I ever come across as a Nancy anti I promise I’m not, she’s one of my favorite of the older teens and I love her, but when I’m talking about characters like Mike and Jonathan, some of their main conflicts are the result of her stubbornness/inability to recognize when she’s wrong

[aceofstars16]

A random video: talking about why the mcu is going downhill

Me: *nodding while listening*

The dude talking: praises no way home and hates on Hawkeye

Me:

[ghosttotheparty]

diff anon here- im glad to see i've found someone who thinks similarly! the only difference is that i find myself a little more open to people writing redemption arcs or alternate timelines in which he joins the party some way or another. not complete ooc rewrites, thats just people being in denial, just some canon divergence. but ive been keeping that to myself because im too scared someone will call me out and tell me to pick a side or something like that, so seeing your answer gave me some hope in making friends in this fandom just yet!

yes!! i would be so down for billy to have a redemption arc or for him to grow as a character but it never happened and most ppl act like it did in the final scene w el just bc she showed him a memory of his childhood

i read a fic a while ago (can’t remember what it was called) in which steve said that he wanted to try to explain to billy what was going on and why max was at the byers house w steve but billy went inside before he could say anything and i think that could have been a good arc moment; billy might not have listened just bc of who he is a character but if he’d seen something (like a demo dog or the nail bat or something else that’s just Weird enough for him to actually ask questions instead of throwing hands) i think it would have been nice for him to grow as a person and become a big brother for max (and obv he’d have to grow as a person in regards to his racism and apologise to lucas)

i also think max rly rly deserves a big brother which is why i love her and steve’s relationship so much but it would have been nice for billy to just,,, not be such a douche

[cricketgoesploot]

something about ugly and hurt characters. about characters who weren’t kind in the face of abuse and neglect. who decided to lash out and take the world as their own. characters who hurt, and want to make the world hurt with them. who want so badly to play nice and look pretty on the inside but never learned how. characters who heal and grow and change when offered kindness. characters who know their past is not an excuse for their actions. characters that, when faced with adversity again, don’t fall back into lashing out no matter how badly they want to. who stumble but never fall. characters that protect. characters that care. characters that heal.