th30ra3k3n
th30ra3k3n
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th30ra3k3n · 3 hours ago
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Liam and Mason, your friendship means so much to me
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th30ra3k3n · 22 hours ago
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NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. THIS WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE YOU.
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The Truth
tags: post-s12x02, mutual pining, case fic, truth spell, cas and dean use their feelings irresponsibly || rated: E || now complete
“I think,” Cas grits out, “that the spell requires me to say the truth. I’ve been trying to suppress it with my grace, but it’s… not working.” “Got it,” Dean says, nodding, because he can work with this. “Yeah. Sure. So give me some truths. Some stupid little ones.” Cas narrows his eyes. “Such as?” “Like, I dunno, what’s your favorite color?” Cas’s face somehow goes stonier. “Green,” he ekes out. Dean clears his throat. Blinks a few times. “Oh.” Or: when Dean and Cas investigate a group of high school students getting mysteriously ill, Cas gets hit with a truth spell.
NOW COMPLETE ON AO3
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th30ra3k3n · 1 day ago
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(Might Be) Profound
by FlameHazel18 on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66657868
Jack brings Cas back from the Empty, fully restored with all of his angelic power. Dean is relieved for many reasons, including the fact that Cas finally looks like his angel again, healed up wings and all. It’s only then he finds out that, all this time, he’s been the only one able to see them.
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“I didn’t think it would come up,” Cas says coolly, picking at invisible lint on his sleeve like it’s much more interesting than the conversation at hand.
“You didn’t think it would come up?” Dean repeats, incredulous.
“Well, it hasn’t in the last eight years,” Cas says, irritation finally bleeding through the forced calm exterior. “Forgive me for assuming the pattern of imperceptivity would continue.”
🏷️: Post-Episode: s12e23 All Along the Watchtower (Supernatural), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Angel Wings, Dean Winchester Can See Castiel's Wings, Castiel and Dean Winchester Have a Profound Bond, Soul Bond, Getting Together, First Kiss
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th30ra3k3n · 1 day ago
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I am not dead and have FINALLY posted something! (By something, I mean a 3k word one-shot that took me like two whole weeks to write, but I digress.)
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As said in the author's note - this is an overabundance of rom-com tropes from the very first line and I have zero shame. I toed the line between 'established relationship so they're more comfortable around each other, specifically bucky feels safe enough to be at peace with sam and to engage in such casual intimacy' and 'glaringly and egregiously out of character' VERY thinly.
Feel free to check out this short, soft story, and do leave a comment if you read and enjoy!
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th30ra3k3n · 1 day ago
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A FOOL’S GUIDE TO GETTING BY — a post-thunderbolts ⚡️ #sambucky 🪽🦾 one-shot (10k words)
it’s here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66690778
tags: mcu young avengers propaganda, first kiss, first time, eventual smut (but it’s a bit tame ok)
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th30ra3k3n · 1 day ago
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"And I promised myself
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I would never fall in love with you.
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But it was 4am,
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and we were laughing way to hard,
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and I felt happy for the first time in a long time,
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and I knew I was screwed."
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For @throwawaybog 🖤
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th30ra3k3n · 1 day ago
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I think Merthur is the ultimate 'who fell first, who fell harder' debate cuz on the surface it's easy. Merlin fell first, he didn't hesitate to show everyone his loyalty and devotion to Arthur from very early on. Meanwhile Arthur was closed of at the beginning but with time is not only willing to risk everything for Merlin but also not even trying to hide it.
And those are valid points. BUT.
In truth Merlin thought of Arthur as a complete ass in the beginning while Arthur was intrigued from the first meeting. That boy might've not known what he was feeling but he was down bad. And sure he hid how much he cared in the first season or so but when you think about them in the actual context of master and servant? The fact that he not only didn't immediately fire him when, yk, Merlin obviously didn't know what he was doing but even rehired him? Yup that shows a lot.
Meanwhile I don't think we even need to talk about Merlin. He started out his let's protect Arthur quest out of duty(-ish) and because of his kindness. Because he wanted a purpose and was told it was this. But with time he got to see who Arthur really was and idk what to tell you, my guy literally devoted his whole life to Arthur. By the end he was willing to quite literally lose everything else before he lost Arthur. It wasn't even about destiny anymore.
So yeah. Arthur fell first. And he did fall hard. But Merlin is unmatched in pure devotion.
(although you could ofc make the point they both fell from the start, and the both fell rly fucking hard)
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th30ra3k3n · 1 day ago
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okay okay okay sequel to this post I wrote forever ago about Steve sabotaging Eddie's dates and Eddie being oblivious about it
Steve is about to give up. Like, he's been doing this for months now-- He honestly didn't think Eddie and Amelia would last this long; who stays with their first ever girlfriend for more than three months? But their fourth anniversary is quickly approaching and Steve can't help but feel sad and pathetic about the whole scheme.
He tells Robin as much and she looks at him with obvious disappointment. "You can't give up when it's just about to work, dingus. Commit to your homewrecking." Max agrees, when he tells the kids to leave Eddie and Amelia alone on Friday night-- The boys haven't figured out why Steve is set on ruining Amelia's life, just happy to try and get their DM back, but Max and El have. Steve is pretty sure that El is already planning the Steve-and-Eddie wedding: no one has had the heart to tell her it's illegal yet.
Despite their advice, Steve is determined to stay out of it. Stay home and nurse his broken heart and let Eddie be happy. If anyone deserves the kind of love that they have in movies, it's Eddie, and Amelia can give that to him in a way Steve can't. Safety and acceptance and babies and white weddings. Steve can let him have that. Steve wants him to have that.
until 7:30 pm on Friday night.
"One last try, and then I'm done," Steve promises over the phone. Max cackles, like she knows he's lying.
When they blow into the diner like they own the place, kids chattering and yelling and laughing, Steve sees Eddie and Amelia before they see him-- Amelia already looks upset, a look that is increasingly becoming familiar on her face. But Eddie is frowning, too-- his face is crumpled and so obviously upset that it makes Steve's heart thump dangerously in his chest.
His plan was always to break them up, but but if Amelia made Eddie cry, then Steve would actually have to dedicate the rest of his life to ruining her's.
To Steve's relief, when Eddie looks up and sees the kids, he smiles. Lights up from the inside, that joy that Steve cherishes so much is shining out of him. His eyes scan across the diner-- looking for him, Steve realizes with a thrill --and his grin grows when he sees his friends.
Sees Steve.
"Stevie!" he crows, hands flailing. " What the hell are you doing here?" Like Steve hadn't been on every one of his dates for the last four months.
When Steve drops into the booth next to Eddie, ignoring Amelia's glare, saying some bullshit he can't even hear himself spout, Eddie's eyes are still locked on him.
"I haven't seen you all week," Eddie says gently, and his hand cups the back of Steve's neck. Steve's on fire immediately, like he has been since the first time his hand rested there. "I didn't think I'd see you tonight."
"You know me," Steve says, watching the grin shift on Eddie's lips. "I'm where the party's at."
"You have to be fucking kidding me," Amelia says. Neither of them look at her.
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th30ra3k3n · 2 days ago
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The Sam "perpetual third wheel" Winchester genre of pics 🤌🏻
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th30ra3k3n · 2 days ago
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“What are you talking about?”
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“Oh, c’mon. You and I both know what he’s been doing.”
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“What — no way. You’re actually jealous.”
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“Please. I am not jealous.”
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“Sure, you keep telling yourself that.”
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th30ra3k3n · 2 days ago
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as i watched you walk into the moonlight, all i could think was that i may love you
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more than i’ll ever be allowed to. but as long as you kept me around, i didn’t mind so much.
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For @missing-thiam
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th30ra3k3n · 2 days ago
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TV Show Game
Rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite television shows, then tag 10 people to do the same!
Tagged by @wolfboy88
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Tagging @throwawaybog @thiamsalpha @theoceanismyinkwell @ksbbb @blushingsastiel @maxity @chasing-chimeras @disasterpenguin @de-constructmybones @axxxx13
TV SHOW GAME
rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite television shows, then tag 10 people to do the same!
Tagged by @thiamsxbitch @haven-of-dusk @maplesyrizzup
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Tagging @ksbbb @mmoosen @thiamsalpha @genetic-hellhound @th30ra3k3n @chasing-chimeras @hemlocksandfoxgloves @rhyslahey @romanraekens @shinigamimailjeevas @thrillhoues @garoudensetsu
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th30ra3k3n · 4 days ago
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“I don’t need you, or anyone.”
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“I know you don’t.”
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“I can take care of myself.”
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“You have. You still do, always will — I’ve just joined in, too. Now, we can take care of each other.”
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For @thiamsalpha
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th30ra3k3n · 4 days ago
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Remember all the
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Things we wanted
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Now all our memories,
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They're haunted
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We were always meant to
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Say goodbye
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For @thiamsxbitch
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th30ra3k3n · 4 days ago
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💅 honestly rating dps ships cause I should be sleeping very much rn 🫦
Anderperry - 10/10. Do I even have to elaborate. It's almost CANON, there's CHEMISTRY ARHGRHSJ. MY MENTALLY UNWELL SHAYLAAASS.
Knarlie - 2/10. Don't come for me, I just don't like Knox and Charlie deserves better. Like, Knox's not a bad person (he kinda is cause wtf he did to Chris) but ehhhh.
Mittsie - 9/10. HEIGHT DIFFERENCE, LOOKS DIFFERENCE, INTERESTS SIMILARITY!! I looove this ship both as a couple and as best friends :DD
Chameron - 9.5/10. Not 10 cause idk why, I don't want this to be too bland lmao. OKAY SO. ENEMIES/RIVALS TO LOVERS + ROOMMATES TROPE. AND THEY'RE BOTH SO SIMILAR BUT SO SO DIFFERENT. AND IT'S SO ANGSTY BUT CAN BE SO CUTEEE
Charlie x Meeks (Cheeks?) - 6/10. I am NOT a multishipper I'm sorry 😭. But they're still adorable and healthier than Chameron... but Mittsie is too fitting and I love chameron w all my heart. But bonus points for cuteness and "Meeks. Doors. Close." "Yessir." Part
Charlie x Todd (Dalterson?) - normally 2/10 post-canon 7/10. Idk guys, after Neil neiled himself I think they'd comfort eachother but I don't rlly think it'd be an honest, pure love. I think they'd both cling to each other to not forget about Neil. If they'd end up as a couple, I think it would work out but... they wouldn't forget about their first loves. And they'd both know it.
Charlie x Neil (Cherry?) - normally 5/10 pre-canon 6/10. I LOVE them as besties but romantically idk. I can't see them as a couple. Maybe experimentally but nahhhh. Best friends forever!!
Cameron x Meeks (no idea) - 3/10. 3 points for nerds in love trope.
Cameron x Stick (idk either) - 4/10. Y'all I'm starting to think it's biased cause I have 3 main ships and can't ship the ppl with anyone else. Anyways, I lowkey can see it but still can't (?)
Chrisginny - 8/10. LEBANESE ICONS. Not 10 cause too little screen time so we can't really see it 😭😭. BUT I STILL LOVE ITTT. CHERRIES & CHOCOLATE SHIP 😖
Chox (Chris x Knox) - listen bitch you can't stalk
Chox2 (Chet x Knox) - FR 7/10. IT'S KINDA A CRACK SHIP OR IS IT??? I LITERALLY CAN SEE IT. PLEASE.
Keating x McAllister (dunno) - 6/10. WOULD GIVE MORE BUT KEATING HAS A GIRLFRIEND IN LONDON AND IT FEELS SO UNFAIR TO HER >:(. But def need it pre-canon!
Charginny - 4/10. I CAN see it but I don't rlly like it. Cute and even not-too-out-of-pocket but. Nah. Not for me. Still cute tho.
I don't think I know more cause does anyone ships smth like Neil x Pitts or Cameron x Chet lmao. Tell me if I forgot abt something.
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th30ra3k3n · 4 days ago
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th30ra3k3n · 4 days ago
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Steddie | modern au | famous actor Steve Harrington | 3.4k | ao3
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Eddie can’t stop the laugh that comes out of him because of the video on his screen, Gareth snickering next to him.
“This is great, I have to show this to the others later,” Eddie says. His fingers move automatically, pressing on the send icon and then on the profile at the very top, a move he has done hundreds of times.
“Dude, did you just send that to Steve Harrington?” Gareth asks with a dumbfounded tone.
“Yeah?”
“Why are you acting like that’s normal?”
“Because it is? I just send him the posts I find funny to find them later.”
“You know there is a way to save posts so that they are organized, right?”
“I don’t like it and this is like way easier.”
“It’s literally not,” Gareth says, but Eddie doesn’t pay attention to him or stop.
“Look,” he goes to the front page, slides to the dms and opens the conversation with Steve Harrington, always at the top. “It’s just right there.” He starts scrolling up to show him the long string of unanswered memes and videos, but Gareth interrupts him.
“Wait, wait. Scroll back down, what the fuck is that? Does he read your messages?” He is pointing to the little icon with Harrington’s profile picture just above the last video he’s sent. Eddie shrugs.
“It’s probably a bored media guy enjoying some memes on the clock or making sure I’m not a weirdo, it’s not like Steve Harrington actually uses this account.”
“You are a weirdo, I’m surprised you are not blocked yet.”
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Eddie is on his phone, passing the time as he keeps an eye on the lonely customer currently looking through the new vinyls. It’s a routine, a mindless action as he saves another post to show the guys later, preferring to see their reactions in person. Nothing ever happens, that’s why he gets surprised to the point of sitting up when a notification appears on his screen.
Steve.hrrgtn: Dude, you just made me laugh in the middle of a table reading
Eddie freezes as the notification disappears. Did he see that right? He couldn’t have seen that right.
He goes to his dms and surely, there at the top, is a message from THE Steve Harrington, or at least from his account. A table reading. It has to be him, right? Not an intern or a media guy. The one and only.
Eddie sends a look to the customer, still engrossed in the new releases. He is tempted to call her so she can check if the message is real or an hallucination provoked by his boredom. When he looks down, the message is still there. It is also still there when he opens the conversation. His fingers hover over screen.
He can picture him, sitting around a long table with his castmates, hiding his phone like a student in class but unable to keep his laugh in.
The vision is a bit surreal. He made Steve Harrington laugh.
Batking: why are you looking at your phone in the middle of a table reading
Steve.hrrgtn: new season boring af
It’s Eddie the one that can’t keep his laugh in this time. The girl sends him a look, but he doesn’t care.
Batking: should you be telling me that?
 Steve.hrrgtn: I don’t even care at this point tbh
Batking: you are the one that signed the contract my guy
Steve.hrrgtn: I didn’t
Steve.hrrgtn: Never let your parents sign you into a multi season show when you are fifteen
Batking: I’ll keep that in mind for my next life
Batking: Sorry your parents made you a millionaire and famous
Steve.hrrgtn: 💀💀💀
Steve.hrrgtn: but really, at the time I thought hey it’s only a contract for five seasons for a teen drama, how bad could it be?
Steve.hrrgtn: now here I am, almost ten years later, listening to the worst script you have heard in your life
Batking: that does sound awful
Batking: you are making me happy that my folks are not in the picture
Is Eddie about to vent about his life to Steve fucking Harrington? It seems like it.
In the end, he doesn’t, because Harrington doesn’t answer to his message, probably swept away into actually working, or maybe he realised how weird it was that he was talking so casually to a guy he didn’t know.
Eddie doesn’t have time to wallow on it too much, because the girl comes to the counter with a vinyl and a question. The interaction with the famous actor moving to a part of Eddie’s brain normally reserved to daydreams.
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Eddie thought that his interaction with Steve Harrington would be a one time thing, the guy looking at his phone because he was too bored and answering his message because, by some kind of cosmic coincidence, Eddie had happened to send it at the perfect moment. Just an impulsive action that he had regretted later. That’s why he is surprised when he gets a new notification after sending him the worst kind of shitpost ever, the ones that the algorithm feeds him at 2am – the current time – and send him in a fit of giggles with their complete absurdity.
Steve.hrrgtn: where do you even find these things
Batking: you are just jealous my algorithm is better than yours
Steve.hrrgtn: yeah everyday I dream about my instagram showing me a pig made with a sausage and sticks surfing some rotating meat skewers
Batking: It made you laugh though
Steve.hrrgtn: …..
Steve.hrrgtn: It did
Eddie lets out a short, disbelieving snort. It’s a bit crazy, knowing that somewhere out there a famous heartthrob is looking at his messages at 2am and laughing.
Unless this is the media guy.
Eddie prefers to believe that he is so funny he made a guy with millions of followers want to talk to him. Twice.
Batking: why are you awake at this hour anyway
Batking: shouldnt you be getting your beauty sleep
Steve.hrrgtn: we start filming the new season tomorrow
Steve.hrrgtn: today?
Steve.hrrgtn: and I can’t sleep
Batking: nightmares about the boring script
Batking: I see
Steve.hrrgtn: you could say that
Batking: well, check this out, your nightmares will go away
He sends another stupid meme (of the best kind, the ones from accounts that write in Cyrillic) and receives a set of skull emojis in answer.
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Steve.hrrgtn: why have you stopped sending me memes
The message takes Eddie by surprise. It’s been a week since he texted with Steve Harrington for the second time – which still feels a bit surreal-, and he had decided to stop bothering the poor guy now that he knew he saw his messages. Going to his saved posts was still a nightmare, but Eddie knew how to behave.
Batking: didnt want to bother you now that you are working and I know you see them
Steve.hrrgtn: they have been my main entertainment for months you can’t just stop now when I need them most
Eddie blinks at the message. Months? The confirmation stuns him. The one that had been seeing his messages had always been him and not some media guy? Eddie remembers catching his name a few times on his Instagram stories. This is a bit trippy, if he is honest.
Batking: okay
Batking: as my liege commands
Batking: from now on I am your knight in shining armour your sole provider of memes
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Batking: *reel attached*
Batking: did you kill the villain today?
Steve.hrrgtn: This is a teen drama???
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Batking: *reel attached*
Batking: so, is the bad guy dead yet?
Steve.hrrgtn: Again???
Steve.hrrgtn: I told you like a thousand times that there is no bad guy to kill
Steve.hrrgtn: have you even watched my show?
Batking: I mean the scriptwriter
Steve.hrrgtn: lmao
Steve.hrrgtn: no, he is sadly not dead yet
Steve.hrrgtn: I think killing him would be a breach of my contract somehow
Batking: a pity
Batking: the way he insists on making your character straight? He deserves death.
Batking: don’t worry joe from normal life, I saw the way you looked at dacre, I know what you are
Steve.hrrgtn: I think that might have just been the way I was looking at Billy, the guy’s fucking hot
Steve.hrrgtn: an asshole though, glad he is not on the show anymore
Eddie pauses, his eyes reading the last two messages time and time again. Did Steve Harrington, heartthrob and ladies man, just admit to being attracted to a male coworker? Eddie’s thumbs hover over the keyboard. He looks up at Gareth from his place in their couch. He is not paying attention to him, too focused on his laptop.
Eddie is having a bit of a crisis here and his roommate is ignoring him. Maybe it’s best that he is, Eddie doesn’t really want to share this with anyone. Should he bring attention to it? Should he just ignore it and brush it off? The decision is not that difficult in the end. He needs to know. He knows that there is no way he has any possibility of actually bagging Steve Harrington. Exchanging messages and memes is one thing, a pseudo friendship is one thing, but something more? Not fucking likely.
He still needs to know.
Batking: did I just get exclusive confirmation that Steve Harrington likes men? Should I call tmz?
Steve.hrrgtn: you wouldn’t get any money
Steve.hrrgtn: I’ve been out as bisexual for years, the media just chooses to ignore it
Steve.hrrgtn: wow look at these pictures of Steve Harrington with his new male best friend that he goes to dinner and all premieres with! Totally platonic! Oh now they have stopped hanging out completely? What could have happened to their friendship?
Steve.hrrgtn: he cheated on me, that’s what happened
Eddie blinks at his screen. So, he had tried to avoid learning anything about Steve that the man didn’t tell him himself. Just a chivalrous, treat the guy like a normal person gesture, but now he is wondering if he should have paid a bit more attention.
Batking: ah yes, the joys of compulsory heterosexuality and conformity
Batking: that sucks, dude
Steve.hrrgtn: did you really not know anything about it?
Batking: sorry to burst your celebrity bubble where everyone knows everything about your life
Steve.hrrgtn: no no, it’s… nice
Steve.hrrgtn: I have a question though
Steve.hrrgtn: why did you start sending me memes if you were not really interested in me?
Batking: well
Batking: I needed someone very famous that wasnt likely to really see my messages and seemed chill enough to not block me immediately
Batking: and dude, you are like waaay more famous than the show you are in, it’s ridiculous, thought you must be a douche for a long time
Batking: but an interview with you and your friend Robin showed up on my fyp and I saw that you were pretty chill
Batking: so it was between you and Timothee Chalamet
Batking: and it ended up being you because you are hotter
Steve.hrrgtn: of course I am
Steve.hrrgtn: thank you for choosing me tho
Batking: anyone would have
Steve.hrrgtn: the casting director of a complete unknown didn’t think the same
Batking: well thats THEIR loss
Batking: you do a great job with the shitty script of normal life
Batking: you would have acted the fuck out of bob dylan
Steve.hrrgtn: I do a better job in my other stuff
Batking: you have other stuff??
Batking: I’m going to be honest with you here, I only watched normal life so I had context to bitch about the boring new season with you
Eddie looks at the three little dots that indicate that Steve is writing appear a disappear a few times. Did he fuck up? Maybe he sounded too eager, maybe Steve thought it was a bit weird that Eddie assumed they would continue talking. But they have been talking for weeks now. Was it bad to assume?
Eddie closes the app, deciding to give the guy some privacy to write down what he wants to write down and heads to the kitchen to prepare his dinner. If Gareth senses the way his mood has soured, he doesn’t say anything about it.
It takes a couple of hours for an answer to appear. It’s simple.
Steve.hrrgtn: that’s nice of you
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It’s Steve the one that starts the conversation a couple of days after that. Eddie only sees his messages an hour after he sends them, too busy with customers. The group of notifications on his screen when he is finally able to look at his phone very welcome.
Steve.hrrgtn: so I just realised
Steve.hrrgtn: well, my best friend made me realise
Steve.hrrgtn: she basically said that it’s weird that I’ve been talking with you for weeks and don’t know anything about your actual life and that you could actually be a stalker with a lot of patience or something like that
Steve.hrrgtn: so tell me about yourself? You are not living like down the street from me and waiting for the right moment to kidnap me like Robin says are you?
Eddie tries not to feel giddy at the thought of Steve talking about him to his friends. He has not done it himself, mostly because he tried once and they made fun of his ‘delusions’ as they called it. Whatever. He doesn’t really expect Steve to still be online, probably already swept out to his own job, so he just sends his answer.
Batking: a very reasonable fear, some facts to follow
Batking: I live as far from you as you live from Chicago
Batking: I am a humble employee at a record store where I have to deal with pretentious assholes daily that don’t really care about music and just about bragging about their record collection
Batking: I also have a band with my friends
Batking: we have a whooping 1756 listeners on spotify
Batking: I know, I know, you didn’t know you were talking with a rockstar try not to be very starstruck
The answer, to his surprise, comes almost immediately.
Steve.hrrgtn: 1757
Batking: what?
Steve.hrrgtn: what kind of friend would I be if I didn’t listen to your band now that I know it exists?
Eddie would be lying if he said that that didn’t make his heart skip a beat. Is this healthy? Probably not. Is he developing a weird parasocial relationship with the guy? Probably yes, but is it even a parasocial relationship if he is actually talking with the guy and he called him his friend? This should be considered a normal crush, a normal, hopeless crush.
Batking: a very shitty one tbh here’s the link
Steve.hrrgtn: can I ask something else?
Batking: course
Steve.hrrgtn: you only have one pic in your profile and it’s with your friends
Steve.hrrgtn: which one are you?
Eddie taps the back of his phone a few times. It’s only natural that Steve would wonder that. He could just tell him, or… Eddie opens the camera and takes a picture, too close to see his face properly but enough that Steve will know who he is in the group picture now.
Batking: *picture attached*
Batking: this one
Steve.hrrgtn: fuck
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Steve.hrrgtn: okay so the thought of you only seeing me in normal life is eating me alive
The notification comes when Eddie is with his friends, preparing for a night of DnD. Eddie was looking up some music to get the atmosphere going, but the music app immediately gets abandoned in lieu of the message.
Batking: can’t get me out of your head?
He knows he has been unable to keep the stupid smile out of his face when Jeff tries to glance at his screen. Eddie immediately slams the phone against his chest.
“Jeez, I thought you were looking at stupid memes again, who are you texting that got you smiling like that?” Jeff asks. He moves back to sit straight, so Eddie can look at his phone again.
“No one,” he says as he reads the new message.
Steve.hrrgtn: so I have a couple of indie films that are very good
So Steve has decided to ignore his message. Okay.
“He’s been like this for WEEKS now,” Gareth intervenes as he sits down at his spot. “He said it was Steve Harrington when I asked him when he started and has refused to say anything else.”
“The white boy of the month?” Jeff asks.
“White boy of the century,” Eddie feels the need to correct.
Batking: that’s great and all but I can’t watch your limited release indie films anywhere
Steve.hrrgtn: that’s why I’m sharing a link to the latest one with you
Steve.hrrgtn: don’t share it with anyone though
Batking: aw breaking the rules for little ol me?
Steve.hrrgtn: yeah yeah don’t get too cocky now
Steve.hrrgtn: can’t wait for your reaction 😉
Eddie stares at the winking emoji in confusion. What is that supposed to mean?
“Can you stop texting your white boy of the century now so we can start?” Gareth asks.
“Just a second.” Eddie sends a quick message back before he moves to the music app again, chooses the first song he sees and puts the phone down.
Batking: send it to me, soldier, I will watch it tonight and give you my honest opinion
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Eddie stares at the screen of his laptop, currently on his thighs as he was lounging on his bed, seeing the film Steve had sent to him. The film is currently paused, Steve’s face staring at him with eyes and mouth half open.
Okay, so Eddie just watched his famous guy turned friend have an orgasm – fake! Fake an orgasm, Eddie feels it’s very important that he makes that clear to himself – on screen after probably the most erotic sex scene he has seen in a non porno in the last 10 years. Fuck. How did he not know about the existence of this? How did this not make the news? Probably because it was with another man. Double fuck.
Maybe this is normal for Steve, for actors in general, to send their friends a link to a film where you have a soul shattering orgasm with a message about wanting to know their reaction with a winking emoji. It is not normal for Eddie. It is also not normal for his dick, who has not gotten the memo about this not being something it should be getting so excited about.
Eddie bites his lip. His finger moves on its own, backing the film a few minutes so the scene plays again. Eddie tries to convince himself that this is not weird if Steve was the one that wanted him to see this in the first place.
Eddie curses and takes a deep breath. He eyes his phone. It’s late, nearly midnight, but he knows that Steve is normally away at this hour.
Maybe this is not normal for Steve either, maybe he did want to get some kind of reaction out of Eddie.
Eddie snaps a picture of his laptop screen, careful to get the tent in his pants just in the edge of the picture. It’s very obvious on it what scene he is watching.
Batking: *picture attached*
Batking: you sure know how to get a guy hot and bothered
Maybe he can play it off as a joke if Steve didn’t mean it like Eddie wants him to mean it.
Steve.hrrgtn: glad to see my acting is that good
Fuck, Eddie fucked it up, right?
Steve.hrrgtn: it did come out very natural
Steve.hrrgtn: but the real thing looks better
Eddie feels on the edge of a precipice, as if there should be a warning on his field of vision about how his choice here will change the trajectory of his story.
Batking: can’t say
Batking: I haven’t seen the real thing, so I can’t really compare them, can I?
Steve.hrrgtn: would you want to?
Eddie can’t get his hopes up, he can’t assume, Steve is so out of his league, this can’t be happening to him.
Batking: have you acted in a porno I don’t know about?
Steve.hrrgtn: are you always this dense?
Eddie’s heart is dying in his chest, that’s the only explanation to how it’s feeling.
He doesn’t have time to type an answer, Eddie’s screen is suddenly filled with something else.
Steve Harrington is video calling him.
Eddie has never accepted a call so fast in his life before.
part 2...???
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