#not that y’all needed that info

[estrellami-1]

Breathe

Also I’m trying my hand at a permanent taglist… let me know if y’all want to be added!

Inhale.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Eddie had gone on before him. It wasn’t fair to keep him waiting, but, well… Steve had tried to warn him about smoking.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Steve’s eyes drop closed as he thinks over his life. It was good. Once Vecna was gone, once the hospital scare was over and done with, it was good.

Exhale.

Inhale.

They’d all grown up, separately but together. Robin and Nancy, surprisingly enough, had been the first to leave. Then one by one, the rest of the Part followed in different directions.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Robin and Nancy had moved to San Diego. Dustin and Suzie settled in Maine, of all places. Lucas and Max picked Florida. Will and Mike were closest in Indy. El and Erica—with whatever they had going on—were in Oklahoma, trying to find normalcy.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Steve and Eddie had bought an RV and traveled the country. Visited the kids. They were there for Dustin and Susie’s first kid (and second, and third). They were there when Nancy got her first journalist award. When Mike and Will tied the knot, even if it wasn’t exactly legal yet. When El and Erica needed some familiar faces. When Lucas and Max had gotten hitched. They’d even driven them to the airport, seen them off for their Colorado honeymoon.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Never any kids of their own, Steve reflects. Except in all the ways they did. Everyone had been there for Eddie. Crowded into the hospital room, annoying the fuck out of the hospital staff and uncaring, because that was their Eddie, their brother, their uncle, their grandpop.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Steve had seen memories flash through Eddie’s eyes, like they’re doing in Steve’s mind right now. Their first kiss, sun-drenched and summer-sweet, tentative and so, so hopeful.

Exhale.

Inhale.

When they bought the RV and visited everyone for the first time, rolled up in front of their houses and laid on the horn until someone had gotten annoyed enough to peep out the windows, only to run outside when they realized who it was.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Will and Mike first, since they were closest. Eddie and Steve had taken them out to a gay bar—a nicer one than they’d ever been to at the boys’ age—and had fun for a night. They’d stayed for a few days before making the trek up to Maine to see Dustin and Suzie. Skiing and dinner and loud laughs long into the night.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Then they’d gone to see Max and Lucas in Florida, getting horribly burned the first day and regretting it for the next few days. Max and Lucas had both made fun of them. Then a rather uncomfortable drive to Oklahoma to see the girls. El, who had been learning to cook, made them all dinner. They were introduced to May and Alex, two kids who had needed help. Eddie had put his arm around Steve’s shoulders like he knew Steve had been holding back tears.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Then off to San Diego to see Robin and Nancy. Robin had yelled and barreled out the door. Steve had done much the same thing after parking the RV, and the hug lasted long enough that Nancy had helped Eddie bring their things inside and were well on their way through the first of many iced teas. They’d stayed there the longest, even toyed with the idea of making home base somewhere near.

Exhale.

Inhale.

But Steve knew Eddie, knew he’d want to be near Wayne, at least while he could be. So they returned, set up camp in a town about the same size as Hawkins, about an hour away. Settled in. Hired someone to cut the grass. Bought groceries. On their third day there, kids had come around, intrigued by the new RV, drawn close by the sound of Eddie’s guitar. Kept close by Steve’s snacks.

Exhale.

Inhale.

They’d pseudo-adopted a few kids from that town. The kids had decent parents, who would come over from time to time and joke about Steve and Eddie stealing their kids. The nights would end in beer and laughter and more guitar, softer than the metal Steve had fallen in love with, but no less beautiful.

Exhale.

Inhale.

They grew up together. They grew old together. What goes around comes around, because a few short years ago Eddie had been in this very same hospital, right back in Hawkins. The familiarity of it all had given Steve double vision at times. He’d been there when Eddie passed. Felt him squeeze Steve’s hand for the last time.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Steve hadn’t cried until he’d gotten back to the RV. After all the condolences, the paperwork, the well-meaning bouquets and cards. The family they’d made, who were just as heartbroken as he was.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Steve had driven off, secluded himself for a few months, as he learned how to breathe without Eddie around. He didn’t make any more trips, but he did return to the town they’d made their own. He saw their youngest kids, their parents. More condolences. More faked smiles.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Now, he gives the ceiling a genuine smile. He’d kept Eddie waiting for too long. He takes his last breath and steps into the rest of forever, Eddie by his side.

Permanent Taglist:

@justforthedead89 @ilovecupcakesandtea @madigoround (you didn’t ask but I figured you’d be ok w it… but if not lmk, no hard feelings!)

#I hope this made y’all cry #because I cried writing it #but also it ends happily so? #my attempt at a no-dialogue fic #hope I did alright #stranger things #steddie #steddie fic #steve harrington #eddie munson #the party #ronance #but on the side #platonic stobin #fuckin always with those two #also may and Alex are my babies and I love them #I don’t know a single thing about them beyond their names #but I love them #also Alex is genderfluid #not that y’all needed that info #but now you have it #do with it what you will #starambles

[brookheimer]

what is it with this past 24 hours and absolutely baffling takes on the last episode

#like y’all think kendall had every right to ignore rome’s wishes to not have the abuse leaked bc roman is living in a dream world where #logan wasn’t abusive and needs to be brought back down to reality???????? y’all think he loses the ability to have a stake in this decision #bc his abuse is so deeply internalized that he excuses logan’s actions for it??????? it’s one thing to say ken made the smart move but it’s #a whooooole other one to act like he didn’t even do anything bad at all. you do realize they explicitly mentioned leaking the physical #abuse right? you do realize rome was the only one (we know at least) to have been phys abused? you think kendall is right to leak that info #to the masses?????? that would literally define roman’s life. like he’d be The Roy That Logan Beat. how the fuck is he supposed to grieve #his very-recently-dead father let ALONE heal from his abuse if roman’s forced to relive it in the public eye 2 days after logan dies #like the experience of having that leaked will be infinitely worse roman than for kendall bc he will be singled out as the only one logan #hated enough to beat and boy do tabloids love physical abuse and kendall is WAY closer to coming to terms w the abuse than roman who #really really needs to work through that shit before idk it becomes public domain #like idk if that’s what WILL happen but it certainly fuckin could. we have no rzn to think it wouldn’t!!!! #this isn’t like a Uniquely Evil Move from ken or anything it’s a pretty classic succession maneuver i’m not saying he’s the devil or smth #like… at all. but it’s still not a Great Thing To Do? especially to roman????? #seen this take multiple diff times now. insane <3 #it’s wrong to act like this is the single worst thing any character haa ever done (a take i have not seen but i digress) but it is also very #wrong to act like it literally wasn’t even bad #seen this take at least four times so i’m not talkin ab any one person or thing in particular just like… dude. cmon #succession #succession spoilers

[e2019]

does anyone know if these people are ok

val, his main blog was @opana but it got banned so he was blogging from his sideblog @f3ntanyl but both blogs are gone now

i think her name might be aisha like the neopet i vaguely remember someone saying something like that to her or it was her but i could be wrong about that, @pinkpsalm and she also had some other urls like @pinkdrinks

spynation, @spynation-deactivated20231205 he deactivates/remakes a lot so maybe this is another such case but he said he wouldnt do that again. he may have just changed his mind ofc. used to be @eternallyfallingfromgrace and some others

kissa, tellme-what @tellme-what-deactivated20231202 may have/have had some other names too, but idr rn. weird girl if ur out there hmu i have something to say to you that i bet you in particular will enjoy !

any other missing persons idr currently will update / add later if i do

#sorry if this is weird #i just worry about some of yall #which the way yall blog i dont think is all too unreasonable of me #tho ofc no need to share info if it’s personal i just hope y’all are doing well out there thats all

[goldenhypen]

,,,,,thinking about how one of the scariest things you can tell a fanfic writer on here is that you think you know them irl. at least that’s just my personal opinion. hbu? 😀

#PLS THE WAY I THINK ABOUT THIS ALMOST EVERY DAY #AND ESP W MY LAST POST OMG #like what if one day i just receive an anon ask saying they think they know me irl #LIKE ??? hi? who are you? how did you find me?? 😀 #i share way too much on here about a whole different side of my life that i don’t show to just anybody 😭 #esp not irls 😭 #and ik a lot of kpop stans and engenes irl #and i’ve given too much real info on this blog for them to identify me if they somehow do find this blog #i’m crying out of fear rn y’all #praying this never happens to any of y’all or me 🥲🙏🏻 #no but if you think yk me irl PLS lmk either through an ask or dm I NEED TO KNOW PLS DONT HIDE IT FROM ME #not me thinking i’m some celebrity or smth but this part of tumblr is v niche #and ik too many kpop stans 😭 #AND IN MY LAST POST IF YOU SOMEHOW THINK YK WHO IM TALKING ABOUT PLS REACH OUT TO ME OMGJSJDND #but there’s no way…right? 🥹 #em speaks

[i-think-in-metaphors]

Guys you don’t understand The Sounds of Nightmares has caused my Little Nightmares hyperfixation to collide with my Underland Chronicles one! I have a whole au worked out some-else please take it off my hands I can’t afford another long fic

#tuc #the underland chronicles #little nightmares #ln #the sounds of nightmares #crossover #someone please talk to me about this #I need to info dump @ someone #y’all wanna see a trick? #*gives Gregor even more childhood trauma #don’t mind me #just gonna casually ferry man this rage baby

[victimized-martyr]

Why. Why is Cartman like this. Someone shut him up. It’s embarrassing, the way he talks. I’m cringing out of this plane of existence

#south park #the dialogue from this bitch istg #eric cartman #so listen fic writers more power to u I understand how y’all wanna interpret an older eric #but the facts are that this is a depraved little dude who has like. prolly the most embarrassing sexy talk on television #also not to post this to comment on his *ahem* interests in bed but *gestures* these speak for themselves is all i’m sayin #like there’s not much left to the imagination (land) #take a shot every time this ho says ’yEaH’ like 🤦🏻‍♀️ #am i calling cartman out or at i calling Trey out?? who knows…. #actually lmao i’ve watched so much SP i actually know trey’s kinks too i have a damn list lmao the man is consistent and :) I didn’t need #to know this info and yet. I do. Wonderful #hate my life hate this show

[pyritesdumpster]

When you make a AU that strays from the source material a bit to much, that your considering to make it into an(slightly inspired) original story/OCs

#pyrite chatter #i want to info dump about this au #but don’t wanna waste y’alls time with my obscure ideas #also i need to draw it out first too

[birthofvcnus]

say what u want abt the bts fandom but if there’s one thing u guys do it’s spread information fast as fuck

#this is a compliment <3 #can always count on y’all to share info quickly when needed

[dilf-din]

I don’t go there but I’m happy for the whovians

#y’all are gonna make me start watching #I need all the info on tenrose and ten and Donna in an IV immediately #no one cares Jess

[potatocut3]

Do any of y’all (if anyone sees this, which is pretty funny to think about) know about Sanskrit theater?????

#sanskrit #theater #Sanskrit theater #help #class #give me info please #I know that tags don’t work #I just thought that it would be worth a try #ahhhhhhh #I need this soon #I’m asking for too much #lol #*forghtnight dance* #do any of y’all know how to #roll your r’s? #I need help on that too

[hyacjnthus]

could you imagine if rick and mark told us the book wouldn’t be out until next summer and then all of a sudden opened up pre orders cause it’s releasing earlier???

#this will not happen but #y’all i need this book so bad #like getting little bits of info makes it even harder to wait lol #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #solangelo novel #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo

[merriclo]

i wanna talk abt my Links but i’ve also got no clue what y’all wanna hear so

send asks ?

#shh ik i still need to give y’all more info abt traveler and palette and cadence and such. i’m working on it. #but that’s all heavy important lore stuff #in the meantime lets have some fun asks #or asks abt the heavy lore stuff i also love talking abt that

[keylimejuice]

my head is a spinning wheel of

‘eliphas tried to do what he believed was good and genuinely didn’t know he was harming his people and his own creation by pursuing said good and he doesn’t exactly have free will cuz he’s controlled by the astralians like how astral is controlled by eliphas so like can he really be completely blamed for his actions’

and

‘eliphas is an absolute twat and i hope an anvil crushes him like in cartoons’

#juicetobs #ygo no #i usually STRONGLY dislike eliphas. i am not a fan of him in the slightest #but viewing him in such an absolute way is against the entire point of zexal’s story (don’t pursue an extreme on either ends) #i don’t like what eliphas has done. i don’t think i’ll ever enjoy him as a character #and it’s because he was rushed and his sacrifice felt so out of the blue to me #just a couple episodes ago you wanted to execute astral. now you’re saving him. bestie???? #also we never spent a lot of time in astral world so like #both astral and eliphas make me sad. i want more info on them but i know that’s never happening which makes me so bitter #anyway i need to go to class tmrw goodnight love y’all #severely due for a zexal rewatch #gummy ​sours

[ultimate-rat-bracket]

Ok I’m gonna post the bracket this evening (edit: maybe tomorrow if I keep the latest poll up for a day) but real quick I just wanna say that when y’all start sending in propaganda please avoid major spoilers y’all don’t have to spoil your blorbo’s character arcs or whatever to try and convince ppl to vote for ‘em I prommy

#am I saying this bc I got spoiled for a show I watch bc of a propaganda thing somewhere else on tumblr #perhaps #it’s just smth to consider bc I’ve seen ppl put spoilers in propaganda posts for other brackets #and I’m always like. damn I wonder how ppl who haven’t watched/read/played that feel rn #idk I never understood the need to spoil #I just ask that y’all avoid that here pls #rat bracket #ultimate rat bracket #the bratcket #other info

[crossbackpoke-check]

I have to ask about good dog bad dream <3

🥰🥰 oh i was HOPING for this one. ok so y’all may actually know a little bit already because it exists in the tags as tyler borzoituzzi but! good dog bad dream is the working document title/notes compilation for a fic that started with the premise of “well you see that’s actually not a dog that’s my blorbo from my hrpf shifter wolf au—”

and, because i have never formally addressed it or put it anywhere other than the tags, three important details about this fic:

this IS a semi-au fic about the detroit red wings, set vaguely in the 2018-19 season, because the wings sucked that year (but not as bad as 2019-20)

this is ALSO a fic that is mainly about tyler bertuzzi and dylan larkin, with some other wings thrown in because i've never met an ensemble i couldn't shove into a love story

this 100% exists because of mickey redmond calling tyler a junkyard dog every chance he gets and me every time going "okay but what if literally though" -> 🐺

#me 🤝 the detroit red wings hippo campus hive mind #liv in the replies #the way that this fic exists fully formed in my brain & i just need it!!! to come out as a narrative!!! #where is the brainworm to print fic button. where is it #also the way in which i’m just like ‘yeah the fic is tyler borzoituzzi’ ok but can we have a title please. like a real one. #because somehow out of 20 pages of bertuzzi-thesis-dog-related quotes i have not found a title. ???? help. i also have a whole titles note #for just collecting phrases to use as titles (sometimes with specific ideas sometimes just vibes sometimes like oh i like that phrase) #not to mention the fact that my quote doc for the bertuzzi thesis has a more embarrassing title but like it’s fine!! #UPDATE THE DOC HAS ACTUAL WRITING IN IT 🚨🚨 I REPEAT WE HAVE REAL NARRATIVE NOT TAG NOT!FIC #WE ARE AT A SOLID ALMOST 1K!!! THIS IS THANKS TO Y’ALL!!! don’t ask how long the document with notes is tho. also how many scenes are done 🙃 #anyway i have had this reply written for like two days but keep not posting it because i wanted to be able to have something written to give #but also there’s another ask about good dog bad dream so this one will be info (boring) (sorry) and i will post a snippet in the next ask <3 #me vs not wanting to spoil things vs literally the entire plot of this already written out in the tags: fight #tyler borzoituzzi #WAIT MY TAGS DIDN’T SAVE 😭😭😭 #you’re missing the one of me going ‘🥺🥰☺️😭💕‼️🥹 thank you for the ask’ #lmaooo tumblr out here like ‘bro you can’t do that every time someone sends an ask’ ok well watch me. what if i DO cherish every interaction #wip ask game

[wttcsms]

i’m sorry if this question bothers you and feel free to ignore this but do you have any idea of when your Alejandro fic will be out?

i wanted to aim for this week, but with holidays, exams, interviews, commissions, and me working 3 doubles (out of only working 5 days 😭), im a bit busy + spread thin. also, these are slight plot/actually plot driven fics, so i want to put more care and thought into them. a good majority of my wips that i do share (fic concepts included) are probably going to be posted around december; january is when i’ll be posting only 1-3 long fics + maybe a couple of drabbles bc i already know i’m going to be even busier then!

#for tone indication i gave this info happily!!! #y’all i promise i don’t mind if u ask when fics are being released #only whenever i get comments like ‘I need this soon’ ‘are u or are u not going to drop it?’ etc