I love how Dustin and Steve deal with grief about Eddie the exact same way--only difference between them is that Dustin is rage baiting jocks and getting his ass kicked Steve is rage baiting Jonathan, who tbf clearly wants to kick his ass over it (but Jonathan is both a known entity and a "safe" person to ragebait)

They really are brothers

Don’t hide this in the tags!!

It got me:

Steve Harrington had a punchable face. 

Jonathan has known this long before he ever truly knew Steve, and to this day, he’s proud of himself for only giving in and acting on the fact once (instead of the fifteen to twenty or so time’s hes seriously considered it.

He isn’t his father, and violence isn’t the answer, except when it absolutely fucking is--but Steve isn’t a monster or a government agent and thus exists firmly in the Do Not Murder category.)  

There was a moment in time when they were sort of cool. When Steve seemed to be done chasing Nancy, instead shunted into a pseudo older brother role Jonathan respected because it got him out of driving duties. 

They traded nods at drop-offs and pick-ups, occasionally even a smile--and that's as far as that went because it didn't take long for them to reach a mutual agreement that, barring life-or-death situations, they functioned best when kept at least ten feet apart.

At least, Jonathan thought they had a mutual agreement. 

"I need to stop starting fandom projects so I stop disappointing people."

Stop treating yourself like you are the workers at a fast food franchise.

Your writing is a hobby, don't let it turn into a source of guilt, shame and frustration instead of a source of joy.

I live by the motto, “if you can’t buy what you want, make it.” And this motto came to life recently in the form of a floral mosaic dining table for my back deck.

Our deck table had been showing its age already when the wind caught the umbrella and cracked it. I wanted to replace it with a mosaic table because I’d been enjoying that art form recently. But I couldn’t get one the size I wanted so I got creative.

I spent a few weeks looking for tile and figuring out a very loose design concept. I started by picking a limited set of tile shapes and a color palette.

Once the tiles arrived I had a piece of particle board cut to size for the base and I experimented with different motifs until I settled on a selection of floral shapes that gave me plenty of variety to fill space without locking me into one repeating pattern.

And then I was off! I basically doodled my way around the table, attaching tiles with Weld Bond (I went through 4 full bottles!) and rocking out to the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack.

Once the florals were done it was time for the background…

Over 3,800 1cm glass tiles make up the not-design part of the design. It went pretty quickly though because I just had to fill the space, leaving room for grout.

Once I had the tile done, my husband assisted with disassembly and reassembly. We used the legs off the original table for this one (waste not).

One huge bucket of black grout later…

She is finished.

I enjoyed making it and just looking at it makes me so happy - I can’t wait for all the dinners we’ll have around this table 🌼❤️

This is the best idea of all time

You can’t tell me Eddie wasn’t high as hell and took one look at that buffalo chicken dip and went “hell yeah” before he picked up the entire crockpot and hid himself away in a room so he could starfish on the floor while feeding himself that delicious dip.

That’s how Steve finds him like 45 minutes later. He bursts into the room as he prepares himself for heartbreak again only to see his boyfriend on the floor humming to himself as he scoops dip into his mouth.

“Oh thank god,” Steve sighs loudly, leaning on the doorframe. Eddie raises his head just enough to see him and beams at him as he happily exclaims, “Stevie!”

Steve Harrington lore revealed to us in Season 5:

gotta respect a man who's willing to ask when he doesn't know something, tho

Tales of Eddierotica (Final) Chapter 5: See you, sexy cowboy

Eddie writes the world's worst erotica about characters who are just poorly disguised versions of himself and Steve. One day, Steve finds out exactly what's been going on inside the mind of his roommate all these years. Now complete!

Rated E | 7.6k words | Ao3 link Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | [Chapter 5] | Art

Overall tags: crack treated seriously/porn with a plot, modern/no-UD AU, friends to lovers, bisexual Eddie AND Steve, steddie as roommates, switch Eddie/Steve, vers Steve/Eddie, Eddie has a crush on Steve (and is horny about it), writer Eddie, the prose is so purple it has passed out from a lack of oxygen, friend fiction/erotica, so many bad puns and word play Chapter-specific tags: cowboy/western AU, outlaw Eddie, sheriff Steve, bondage, spanking, CBT, object insertion, painplay/wax play, erotic shaving, Wartenberg wheel, alcohol enema (DO NOT MIMIC THIS), captive and captor dynamic (mind the tags but the erotica is at all times silly)

Find the full chapter on Ao3 to read it in all of its comic sans glory, but enjoy a snippet below the cut (as well as tags). Pink is Eddie's writing below. Thanks to @vthx for giving this a read over <3

Dungeons & Dragons AU

Shane texting Ilya that NO we can't FUCK tonight are you CRAZY there's a GAME oh my god while throwing the first shirt he saw on his head and running out the door to Ilya's place is perhaps the funniest down bad moment I've ever seen.

WRONG. talk about it. shout about it. yell about it. scream about it. so what if it’s a fanfic? it’s done with love and passion. it’s art created by a fellow human being who, despite life and lord knows what battle they may or may not be going through, probably stayed up all night writing it before they shared it with the world for free. they’d probably spent months or years writing it. it’s as much a piece of art and literature as any other art and literature that aren’t fanfics. and unlike artists who make profit off their works, fanfic writers truly write for free, because they are that passionate about their stories. the least we can do is show them our love and appreciation.

Kill cringe culture. Fanfic is awesome.

The House That Waited by patientanxiety

Rating: Mature

5,919 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Haunted Houses, Alternate Universe - Horror, Horror, Scary, sentient house, Getting Together, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson

Summary:

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how it all feels lately

Preserving @corrodedbisexual 's tags:

since the finale, I’ve been thinking about how Steve and Dustin would both calm each other down after a nightmare, and during that time I happened to watch a few of those videos where toddlers copy their parents parenting techniques onto them? And I was just thinking. Like.

probably 90% of the comforting is Steve to Dustin, but when Dustin happens to find the roles reversed, he panics a little bit because Steve cries, like, never, and so he doesn’t really know what to do. So- he ends up basically copying whatever Steve usually does for him. I’m picturing them on the floor, and Dustin standing up on his knees so he can be taller than Steve to hug him. Or, using that as an opportunity to let Steve listen to his heartbeat, because that usually works for him. Or slowly running a hand through his hair, or like, humming, idk.

someone can add on please but I think it’s sweet to think that they’re so there for each other that Dustin’s main frame of reference for comforting someone is Steve. Or like- if a party member is upset he’ll find a way to be taller and hug them and then give them a lil forehead kiss. The concept of Dustin passing that down and doing it to Mike because that’s what makes him calm down 😭

LEE SHUT UP RIGJT NOW AUSUSUSUSJWJJSJSJSNDKDNDJWKSK

Dustin wakes up in the middle of the night to Steve standing over him, crying and shaking, and Dustin doesn’t really know what to do because he’s always on the other side of tjis and so Dustin just wraps Steve in his arms and Steve grabs on So Tight ñike he’ll never let go and after a few seconds they both sink to the ground, Dustin on his knees and Steve just like. On the flop still holding on, and Dustin gets an Idea, and carefully grabs Steve’s heaf and puts it against his chest and Steve just Freezes because for forever Steve’s needed to so desperately listen to Dustin’s heart but it añways felt like it wasnt allowed and now he is and he just starts crying in Dustin’s arms

Images created solely using mathematical equations by mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yaganeh