Babe, listen
Your fic isn’t a flop, it’s a cult classic. Only the coolest freaks like it, don’t worry about it, it’s great.
there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago
me cross eyed and seeing double:
the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman
but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything
What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.
I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode
I love when people label different members of The Party as Steve’s favorite in fics. There is no wrong answer, they’re all good. Like,
Dustin: The obvious choice. He was Steve’s first duckling, they spend the most time together, they have that dorky/adorable secret handshake routine. Dustin will always be Steve’s favorite, even when he’s going through moody know-it-all teen phases
Max: He threw himself in front of a monster to save her before he even knew her. She saved him from being murdered by Billy. Big brother-sister vibes in s4. She gave him a goodbye letter!
Erica: SCOOPS TROOP. It’s probably hard not to feel extra attached to her after being responsible for her for however long they were trapped in the Russian elevator. Trauma bonds, man. Plus, she’s littler than the others, even if she doesn’t act like it; Steve’s maternal instinct snaps her up
Lucas: Look me in the eye and tell me that Steve didn’t practice basketball with Lucas to help him get ready for tryouts. Tell me he didn’t hype the shit out of Lucas. Tell me he didn’t take Lucas out to celebrate when he made the team. Tell me he wasn’t at every single one of Lucas’ games. You can’t do it
El: Obviously Hopper adopts both Steve and El, and obviously El is Steve’s little sister and he loves her. Next question
Will: Actually says please and thank you. The patience of a saint. Has been possessed by a demon but is the only one who doesn’t act like a demon. Steve’s calmest child. His favorite. (Also: queer kid solidarity)
Mike: It’s never Mike
st4 + text post conversations
Second time's the charm
she's matching with both of her brothers and i'm vicariously living through headcanons
Obsessed with the idea of Mike only-boy-yet-still-the-middle-child Wheeler viewing Steve as sort of a hand-me-down from Nancy, and getting kind of territorial and possessive when he thinks that they might be getting back together. Steve’s *his* friend now, Nancy! Just because he’s not Steve’s favourite and they aren’t that close, doesn’t mean you get to take him back!
He doesn’t even have a crush on Steve (because it’s funnier to me that way), he’s just *pissed* at the idea of having to share Steve with Nancy . Sure, he’s already sharing with Holly, but that at least gets him out of babysitting her. They already have fucking *Robin* to contend with…
:0 Steve being Mike's hand-me-down friend from Nancy omg. Once Dustin brings him in Mike is actually on board for it they're snippy bitches to each other. He no longer glares at Steve he's glaring at Nancy he's pushing Steve out the door like "let's gooooo stop looking at her it's pathetic and bums everybody out! Nancy you're not allowed to try to get him back he's OUR friend now! No takebacks!!! Holly gets him because I GUESS she got her sharp little baby fingernails into him first."
Then post S3 Robin's ALWAYS around Steve, and Mike is going okay I can live with this Dustin thinks Robin's cool, we can all be cool. Robin can have Steve while we have Eddie it's cool it's chill. ITS FINE THAT DUSTIN ONCE AGAIN GOT TO BE ON STEVE'S TEAM THE WHOLE TIME THE UPSIDE DOWN WAS BACK AND MIKE BARLEY GOT TO SEE HIM ITS F I N E
S4 and Mike gets back going NANCY WHAT DID YOU DO I TOLD YOU NO TAKEBACKS!! I CANT BELIEVE I WASNT ON STEVE'S TEAM AGAIN
God yeah he WOULD have middle child possession issues. I love him.
Honestly not a fan of Ronance for the simple reason that I think Steve should get to have his best friend dislike his ex a little on his behalf. He's too much of a self-sacrificing sweetheart to do it himself, and tbh he deserves it.
Like I don't hate Nancy or anything, and I often enjoy when people write Stancy as still being friends, but resenting the ex simply on principle is, like, best friend basics! How can we talk about Steve not used to having someone in his corner without letting Robin have his back in the simplest of ways?
So if we just combined, all our problems would be solved. Because, I mean, alone, let’s face it…We totally suck.
ROBIN BUCKLEY AND STEVE HARRINGTON | STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4
Stranger Things Season 4: Vol. 1 + Reductress Headlines
Stranger Things + text posts pt. 5
Robin + taking care of Steve
Robin and Steve playing a dnd character together because Steve said the only way he'd play is literally with Robin. They take turns each session for who speaks but always planning together. It's a teenage human, gangly and uncoordinated and a bit of a loner. Everyone sort of lets the "two people playing one character" issue slide, as they want to play a game with their friends.
Robin and Steve have wildly different character voices, and sometimes announce which way they are walking before stumbling in that direction, and also mutter to themself in character. when it's Steve's sessions to talk he flits with the NPCs Eddie plays, but Robin is just a little aggressive to them. The personality changes are kinda weird but everyone is just happy they're playing.
Everything is going well until the big bad of the short campaign they're all playing knocks them into a wall. Not hard, but hard enough they're scrambling and flailing and...splitting in half. By their own description. Immediately they start, with their respective character voices (they are committing to this bit) bickering about whose fault it is. And about what they should do now their cover is blown.
The table is silent.
Robin and Steve have been conning everyone the entire time. They're playing twin halflings, who alternated who sat on each other's shoulders pretending to be a human because they were goofing off the day they joined the party and were too embarrassed by the mix up to correct anyone about it until they had to. Their voices and personality changes are brilliantly embedded as not Robin and Steve not being able to keep consistent, it's because they've been playing different characters. It's brilliant. It's horrible. Everyone fell for it and the reveal essentially pauses play because everyone starts yelling at them.
JOE KEERY ph. by Christian Coppola
Thinking about Steve and Robin after Steve finds out she's gay and kindly putting it upon himself to teach her how to eat pussy by demonstrating the sinuous movements and deep flex of his tongue on different juicy fruits while Robin watches, reluctantly impressed, and says, "you whore."