#upside down questions

[piratefishmama]

Fake it Till you Make It | Part 13

“Buckley residence”

“Melissa, my second favourite Buckley! Hi, it’s Steve, is Robin there?”

“Oh Steve! Yes, yes one moment, I’ll just—weren’t you on holiday with your parents aaaand—?” he’d been calling Eddie his ‘partner’ for the week leading up to the big holiday. Never dropping any names, but given he’d found a sort of second home at the Buckleys… they were relentless in finding out who he was dating.

Since it’d never be Robin.

He wasn’t falling for it, no matter how deep they’d been into flower power back in the day. If he came out, Robin would end up coming out in solidarity and he knew she wasn’t ready yet so—“Yep, calling from Chicago airport, bit of a time sensitive call” he wasn’t giving it up.

“Oop, I’ll grab her—” there was a scuffle on the line then a quick “ROBIN, STEVE’S ON THE PHONE” another quick scuffle later and suddenly

“Aren’t you supposed to be on a plane right now, Dingus?”

“I’m in Chicago! Just checkin in on my baaaaaby, how’s my little bun today? Any morning sickness yet?”

“Robin!!”

“Mom get off the phone!!”

“Hahaha I’m kidding Melissa! Can I talk to Robbie alone though?”

“Unbelievable, you kids are turning me grey.”

“You’re as beautiful as ever though!” The other line clicked off, and Robin’s snickering laughter was all that remained. “One day she’s gonna stay on just to call my bluff.”

“But that is not today, again, aren’t you supposed to be on a plane? What’s up?”

“…Okay so, hypothetically, if you were fake dating someone you… I dunno… maybe, sorta… click really well with, can laugh with, and maybe sorta like a little, would you—”

“Steven Leopold Harrington do you have a crush on your boyfriend?”

“Fake, fake boyfriend, Robbie, fake. And that isn’t my middle name.”

“You’re not DENYING it! It's not even been a DAY yet, Steve!”

“No, I’m not—well… I’d call it more an interest than a crush, but that’s why I’m calling you, what would you do?”

“Pine uselessly for years, you know this.”

“Got it, pine uselessly” He could do that. He was doing that already, sort of. He’d watched in squinty eyed rage while a newsstand cashier with a nose ring flirted with his fake boyfriend while he grabbed a drink to down during the wait between flights. It didn’t go anywhere, Eddie barely even noticed, but Steve noticed. Steve noticed everything. “You really should ask Vi—”

“NO. Listen Steve, as the kids would say, you have found an ‘ultimate cheat code’ to asking your crush out, listen closely now, don’t want you to miss it… you’re already dating him!”

“It’s fake though!” Luckily his parents were off showing Eddie a cool mural they found last time they flew through. No chance of them hearing him.

“So?! Just act like it’s real! It’s like a test, you have a week to see if you’re actually growing ooey gooeys for this guy, and at the end of it, you’ll know if you wanna keep him.” Brilliant in theory but one small hiccup

“What if he doesn’t want me at the end of the week?” The fact that he hadn’t had a solid date in forever before the scheme looming over his head and heart like a dark cloud of suffering.

“I will eat my own shoe. Trust me dingus, trust me. He’ll want you, just work that mysterious Harrington Charm I’ve heard so much about. You’re already half-way there, you get to kiss him already.”

“…Okay, it’s gotta be the real stinker shoe though, you know the one.”

“The skunk one?!”

“Yep. The skunk one.”

“But we were gonna use that on—” Kevin, they were gonna hide it in Kevin’s office after he refused every holiday request Robin put in for a month after she, very politely, shot him and his advances down, why they still had it was… a mystery. They kept forgetting to get rid of it. “Fine, the skunk one. I will eat the skunk shoe, that is how confident I am that Eddie will want you, now please go and spend time with your way cooler than you boyfriend before your parents turn him into a normie.”

“Miss you already.”

“Miss you more”

“Miss you most.”

“Hang up.”

“No you han—” she hung up, and Steve couldn’t help but laugh about it knowing that undoubtedly. She’d be laughing on her end too.

The second flight was much easier to get Eddie onto. In fact, after they spent the hour between flights milling around the terminal, Eddie led him down the gangway, hand in hand, demanding he hurry up or “they’ll leave without us, my precious little harlot!!” there was no rush, they were actually first in line at the gate in front of his own parents, whom Eddie beat to the front of the queue, dragging Steve with him, still ribbing him for the mile high club thing.

He was not going to live that down any time soon.

The flight, in theory would give him a lot of time to think though. Nine hours. In seats that were too far apart. His parents in the middle of the cabin in a semi-enclosed pod-like structure comprised of two seats and a desk between them which they both shared to work on some paperwork, and he and Eddie on opposite sides of the plane.

Which sucked. Because he couldn’t hold Eddie’s hand.

He couldn’t make sure Eddie was okay, and that alone really dug into his time to think about things, because his brain was quite stuck on the fact that Eddie was alone on the other side of the cabin likely going through it as the second flight excitement could only last so long, and that just wasn’t okay.

Eddie couldn’t even do anything to pass the time, he’d packed all but one of his notebooks in his checked luggage, Steve was pretty damn sure he'd go insane if he had to just sit there with nothing to do for a whole nine hours.

So, they teamed up. From opposite sides of the cabin, because somehow Eddie just understood what Steve wanted him to do without having to be told.

It took them a joint effort all of one hour into the flight to puppy-dog eye his parents into switching seats with them.

This allowed them to pick at each other’s ‘gourmet’ meals, Eddie stealing several of his steak fries, and Steve stealing both the last bite of his steak, and two of his orange slices, it allowed Eddie to ramble on about the D&D campaign he was plotting to send the kids through when they got back, allowed Steve to subtly plant the idea into Eddie's mind that maybe... maybe he might be interested in seeing what that looked like.

Maybe they could hold the first session at his place when his parents went away again. Plenty of room! He could watch for once, instead of ribbing Dustin for it and purposefully never getting the name of the game right.

All leading to them both settling in their reclining seats, wrapped up in blankets, facing each other's smiling faces, and falling into an incredibly easy food-coma slumber for the remainder of their flight.

Both wishing the seats were just... a little closer.

Part 15

#PirateWrites #FakeItTillYouMakeItFiclet #Steddie #No Upside Down AU #Fake Dating AU #do not question my airline knowledge #i have none #i'm winging it #lmao winging it... cause planes? anyway #and i dont wanna know if i'm wrong #so shhhhhhhhhhh i'm right because i say i am

[cler1csfink]

WAKE UP EVERYONE.

#upside down #stranger things #gay byler #byler #<<target audience #omg #i have so many questions

[humunanunga]

I've been thinking on and off about Dreamtale for months, the way it left off with the twins perpetually clashing and how it adds to their mythological vibe... and I guess my mind couldn't let it go until it came up with a way to offer their story closure.

And that's how I got stuck on the idea of Dream and Nightmare always being two halves of a whole, Dark Crystal style, until I came up with a fusion– the guardian of emotion.

Maybe Nightmare ripped the golden fruit from Dream, maybe Dream got desperate and tried to separate Nightmare's SOUL from the black fruit, but either way, after they were absorbed or absorbed by the apples, maybe their SOULs would also involuntarily absorb each other if given the chance. Like they were always meant to succeed their sacred tree.

I really like interpreting Nightmare's tentacles as roots, leaving Swap!Dream's feathered wings to be the leafy branches.

Their motif would be an eclipse to combine Dream and Nightmare's motifs, and as for a name... Wake? Dawn? Psyche? Psyche... Psyche.

#undertale #utmv #dreamtale #swap dreamtale #molten dream #shattered dream #dreamtale fusion #psyche dreamtale #maybe dream's and nightmare's personal colors come back whenever they fall out of sync... #but the idea's that the result would be the same whether it were the og or shattered or swad or molten #reconciling the tentacles = roots re:molten aint too hard. dream himself represents the branches. and the goop is treesap. #a tree planted upside-down can start to grow leaves from its roots. #the real question is whether this fusion's appy juice would be able to work as a substitute for ink's prescription meds i mean paints... #fanart

[rottenaero]

Getting trapped in the Upside Down with some beasties while injured is surely a good time, right?

#the ‘beasties’ in question are friendly #in love with the ‘smelling demo bat venom so friend’ idea with upside down creatures and Steve #stranger things #steve harrington #tagging this as steddie because thats my target audience #steddie #eddie munson x steve harrington #steve harrington x eddie munson #rottenaero #rottenaero rots #digital art

[florgesblooms]

troll design ideas on aggie + dove

#homestuck #feferi peixes #dove strider #karkat vantas #eridan ampora #i really like fraggle rocking the trolls #if u turn doves hair upside down it sort of looks like a bird flying question mark

[mariana-oconnor]

having not been on tumblr at all on April Fool's Day makes coming back on 2nd April really fucking surreal

#I decided to take a reading break #by binge reading a series I've read some of before #then I got to the first book I hadn't read before and regretted my decision because that was a hot mess #holy fuck what did I just read? #But upside: #I read 5 books over the last 2 days #roughly 3500 pages #That's pretty good going #Even if the last one did make me go 🤨🤔😣😒 #The question is do I read the next book and see if the series can recover #or do I just put that series down and never reread it again?

[env0]

My Hips Might be misaligned I remember standing squared. Correctly mirrored

#Selfie #Selca #Mirror Pic #Me #Full body #Newtype official #streetwear #Aw you can't see my. Kufiyeh #Emo #My students wouldn't stop asking me questions tonight #One of my students kept crawling over me as I was laying on my stomach #Boyfriend coded #Will place nice with your little brother #Minus thst time I flipped one upside down

[lovestuckyhatemarvel]

Powers in Stranger Things

Okay so, I want to do a powers au for steddie where one or both Steve and Eddie have powers. And I started wondering about how to do that. There seems to be like, 3 different ways most people do this.

1.) Secret Lab Children.

Steve usually gets labeled 7 because Steve and Seven are close in terms of just the words themselves. Eddie usually gets labeled 10 or something? No idea why, but whatever. Both have a lot of potential for both answering questions not answered by canon while also giving angsty opportunity.

2.) Exposure to Creatures/weird shit in Hawkins

Steve got a mouthful of something in the tunnels underground Hawkins, and people sometimes have that give him powers.

3.) The Upside Down/Dimension X

This one's less common, or at least less common from what I've read, and also apparently the canonical answer to how Henry got powers in the first place even though that makes no fucking sense. According to the stage play, apparently, when Henry was a child he got transported to Dimension X and interacted with the mind flayer which gave him COMPLETELY NEW BLOOD AND A NEW PERSONALITY AND ALSO GAVE HIM POWERS.

So what I'm saying is like half the cast should have powers at this point, especially Will. And that we can all just start saying shit. Why do Eddie and Steve have powers? Fuck you, that's why. They have powers and they're gonna fuck because I said so. And then they're gonna use their powers to fuck and then they're gonna kill Vecna just by letting him know how lame he is.

#stranger things #powers #powers au #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #the duffer brothers are hacks #this also doesn't take into account that El just has powers because the duffers stole Charlie McGee's origin story but made it darker #And we still DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHY OR HOW THE REST OF THE EXPERIMENT KIDS GOT POWERS #because El didn't open a door to the upside down until after they were dead #and she didn't get her powers from the upside down #SO HOW THE FUCK DO THE OTHER KIDS HAVE THE POWERS #DID THEY ALL TOUCH A SPYGLASS IN A CAVE IN NEVADA #the fucking show doesn't care about these questions so why should we

[pinkeoni]

Speaking my truth. I think destroying the Upside Down would be lame

#it could happen in show but if it did… i wouldnt like it #the show about wierdos and outcasts ends with the mass genocide of a bunch of creatures who were forced into a hivemind…. yeah idk ab that #also if the ud is representative of trauma i dont think it would be realistic if the resolve is ‘no more trauma it doesnt exist anymore’ #its like the end of the babadook #the trauma doesnt go away but you learn to live with it #same thing goes for the ud as a representation for homophobia #you cant just get rid of it the roots go deep #so whenever i see the theory that el and or will need to sacrifice themselves to get rid of the upside down #my question is… but why do we need to get rid of the upside down #byler #<- target audience #stranger things

[turning-n-into-random-pokemon]

togekiss? togekiss please

#pokemon #n harmonia #n harmonia pokemon #n pokemon #n pokémon bw #natural harmonia gropius #pokemon bw #pokemon edits #pokemon n #pokémon art #Sinnoh #pokemon diamond #pokemon pearl #TRIANGLES!!1!1!1!!1! #Accidental upside down french void cube question mark

[gritty-big-naturals]

gritty i am On My Way

via grittynhl on instagram

#if you told me today i would see gritty hanging upside down in a spider-man costume? #honestly wouldn’t even question it #gritty #philadelphia flyers #flyers lb

[ttimecode]

twirls hair how did you feel about starlo whenw when wheb he when when when CEROBA NOOO

uty spoilers// (just in case HAJHFHSJD)

UUHH i'm guessing you're talking abt when he tried to stop her from attacking clover?? WHICH. I WAS LIKE GO SILLY BOY GO before he got fuckin blasted but 😭

MAN I WAS KINDA EXCITED TO SEE HOW IT WOULD PLAY OUT IAUAUFHDHHF

also the fact that both him and martlet were knocked out while i was DYING was pretty funny. especially on the last phase, i struggled a lot on that one and in the middle of it i was just like. huh. are starlo and martlet just zzzzmimimi'ing through all of this?? HAHAJFBNSBD WAKE UP MFS 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣 HELP MEEEE

starlo getting up afterwards just like "ouch that hurt haha wow ceroba" WAS SO FUNNY TO ME

#ceroba fight genuinely gave me chills. i dont think any other game has ever made me feel like that holy shit dude #like the part where clovers soul turns upside down so you can shoot OUGGGJHHHHHH #starlo is so failboy and i love it #milo rambles! 🎉 #jil! 🎉 #SORRY IF I MISUNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION BTW. OOPS #it's like destiny or somethin'. ⭐️

[hyunpic]

i have a november-december with hyunjin compilation edit marinating in my drafts all ready cooked up but i don’t know when to post it

#cause what if he posts something in the last days of this month that #turns my whole world upside down and makes me question my decisions i have already made

[nesleepng]

Favourite immortal ✨

#south park #sp kenny #kenny mccormick #art #artists on tumblr #illustration #idk why hes upside down dont question it

[whatisgoingonpaul]

So, your Eddie’s a vampire.

Basically a bunch of select ramblings on my take on a vampire/Kas Eddie. Some basic lore/fundamentals stuff. Most of the rest I’m going to leave to a fic I’m writing up…

Eddie as a 80s vamp and some animalistic vamp elements tossed in for fun. I also didn’t shy away from the fact his vampirism originated in the upside down.

Brain rot brain rot brain rot

I’m also not holding this for myself only. If you’d like to use some of this go ahead

#literally willing to talk about him all day ask questions #80s vampires #80s vamps #vampire #vampire lore #stranger things #upside down #vecna stranger things #eddie munson #vampire eddie munson #kas eddie munson #demobats #henry creel

[alinethatisfine]

ok I’m now realizing that if byler became cannon by season 5, it would have to mean that the entire show has been leading up to that moment when Mike realizes that Will has been in love with him and that he has been in love with Will. If you had to pick main characters from this show (because there are a LOT of characters) Mike and Will would definitely be on the top of the list. In Season 1 and 2, the story practically revolved around these two, their friendship, and their relationship with the upside down (and those involved with their friendship and the upside down, like Dustin, Lucas, El, Joyce, and Hopper).  Which, in my head, means that the entire stranger things plot up to the point it becomes cannon is literally centered around two boys who fall in love in a reality where the upside down and vecna and the demogorgons just happen to exist. Which means stranger things is just a love story with a very very slow burn.

#lets just hope it doesn't take 15 seasons to admit their love like some certain SOMEBODIES #this also begs the question #would they have realized they were in love if the upside down hadn't been part of their life #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #st