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Stranger Things 4 | Chapter Seven | The Massacre at Hawkins Lab

Another scene from the Upside Down that desperately needed some light. ("For your modesty, dude" and all that.)

💡Stranger Things scenes you can actually see (7/?)

I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person

#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life

Job applications: I am very passionate (true!) about normal and useful things (lie.)

This is the kind of thing I respond with when my conservative relatives (several of whom are cops) complain about movements to defund the police.

If you frame it as "police are supposed to protect us, doing all this other work isn't their job" then it sounds like you are actually on the police's side--like, all the good copaganda shows have cops who want to defend the innocent and put bad guys away, but how can they do that if they're busy doing wellness checks or wrangling stray dogs?

It's a foot in the door, it makes them think, and that's where you have to start with the blue lives matter crowd.

Steve Harrington gets turned into a hamster, a slightly feral-looking hamster, he has no idea what in the Upside Down could turn him into a fucking hamster.

Or why Eddie Munson would pick him up as he's trying to get to Dustin in Hellfire and baby-voice him.

Eddie fucking falls in love with this cute little thing that tries to bite him. It's small, covered in soot and the most precious thing he's even seen with a little swoop of it's fur.

"I will name you Sir Steven, cause you look like that jock, but you're much cuter,"

He swears the hamster stares at him oddly but settles after that. He runs around his DND set up and Eddie lets him run around during games. Play monsters. He talks to his hamster all night.

He sleeps in Eddie's hair and nibbles his nose.

He gets Sir Steven a good cage and sets up some black pipe system for him to run around. Eddie sews him a little jacket so they can match it takes him a week and his fingers are plastered cause he keeps poking himself and Steve the hamster is like pls oh my god.

When Steve is big again he cries cause he ripped the little jacket and turns up on Eddie's doorstep like "I'm sowwy I broke it," and Eddie is like "The fuck Harrington what are you doing here?" and Steve is like "IT'S ME SIR STEVEN PLS FIX IT."

Eddie of course is upset he can't find sir Steven and he's like is this a sick fucking joke Harrington where the fuck did you get that and tries to grab at the little jacket and Steve is distraught because he's still adjusting to being big again and he starts hyperventilating.

Only for him to go poof into a bunch of dark smoke. His clothes crumple and Eddie is worried he's killed Steve Harrington. Except when he looks down an angry Sir Steven crawls out of his clothes biting on the little ripped jacket.

Eddie: oh my god Steve Harrington's my hamster

Turns out Steve comes from a line of were hamsters and his father tried to breed it out by marrying a non shifter. They didn't think Steve would shift cause he didn't shift as a baby.

Only he needed a high-stress situation to shit. Ie the Upside Down.

Cue Eddie screaming down Dustin's house like I TURNED HARRINGTON INTO A HAMSTER WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR JOCK BROTHER.

Accompanying art:

More art links---> Swallowed a D20 | Wayne & HammySteve | Fourth Wall HS | Flattened

Wicked dolls by Mattel have the wrong website of the film printed on the packaging which directs you to an adult film website.

At Hellfire. . .

Eddie: RELEASE THE HELLHOUND!

Eddie opens the cage, and it's a five pound dog he adopted, who's just excited to be a part of this.

Eddie: *whispers* You buttheads better act scared, or you're out of the club.

The dog playfully bites Dustin's shoe, and Dustin sells it, causing the dog to look at Eddie with pride.

Think about how many chuckleworthy dumb ideas were never actualized before there was an internet to post the video to?

I’ve seen fics where Eddie sees Steve post-season 2, all sad and pathetic after his fall down the social ladder, and then Hellfire adopted him. They’re perfect. No notes. Ten of out ten. I will read every single one of them.

However.

It is very funny if Steve adopts the Hellfire Club as his new friend group. They have no choice in the matter.

The only good thing going on in his life right now is that Dustin has decided that he’s cool. Steve doesn’t want that to change so he’s going to have to learn a few things because he never knows what the hell Dustin is talking about.

So, “You guys know nerd shit, right?”

Hellfire blink at him.

“You do. Good,” Steve continues, pointing out the Starfleet ensigna on Grant’s jacket. He sits in Eddie’s seat like, “Have you heard of this board game called Demons and Dragons?”

They blink at him again and share looks with each other that say that this is a hell of a day for Eddie to be absent. Jeff is the only one brave enough to say, “It’s uh…it’s Dungeons and Dragons.”

“Oh,” Steve says, flipping his notebook open and writing that down. “Sweet. What else?”

Eddie comes back to school two days later still a little stuffy from his cold to find Steve “The Hair” Harrington in his seat, talking to his friends, making plans to watch Star Wars that weekend.

He’s just like, what the fuck.

There is an AITA out there that I can't find but it's been haunting me for weeks with visions of semi-angsty Steddie that I need to release onto the world. (If anyone happens to know what I'm talking about hit me up and I'll link it) ------

Modern AU, Eddie and the guys are a moderately successful local band in the Chicago area playing gigs on the weekends and doing small tours whenever they all have the time. Gareth and Jeff are both in college while Eddie and Freak are both working part-time at a game store. Eddie managed to lock down that assistant manager position that lets him work 30 hours a week with weekends off for gigs. All in all, it's a pretty sweet deal and they can't complain.

Eddie had sworn off dating after a small handful of disastrous relationship attempts in their first year in the city. He dismisses any advances from people who attend their shows and tries not to think about how much he wants to make a genuine connection with someone and have something real. He's been burned one too many times to try and make something with someone he met in a bar or at work.

He knows the guys talk about it behind his back sometimes, he catches Jeff and Gareth fervently whispering to each other and stopping when they catch him entering the room one time too many to not suspect they're talking about him and he can't think of anything else going on in his life that they would feel the need to whisper about.

The fervent conversations take a slight uptick one day and about a week and a half after they do, Gareth hits him up and tells him he wants to set Eddie up with a guy from one of his classes. At first, Eddie is skeptical and cites all the reasons why he doesn't want to try with anyone right now but eventually, Jeff jumps in to plea the case and Freak jumps in on top of that and under the combined weight of his best friends he agrees to meet up with this Steve guy.

The guys set up the whole thing and before Eddie knows it it's Saturday night and he's wearing his best black jeans and a gray button-down, untucked, to go on an honest to God blind date like his life is some low-budget romcom.

Steve is not at all what Eddie thought he would be. Not the kind of guy he thought his friends would pick out for him given they know he usually goes for other alternatives like himself. Steve, who is shyly waving him over and getting out of his seat to great him, is the very epitome of prep. Well-fitted polo, light blue chinos, and what Eddie assumes this guy thinks are casual loafers. He's handsome to be sure, a 12/10 at least with perfect hair and defined biceps but Eddie is fairly sure he's being punked.

But, Eddie doesn't want to be rude so he goes to meet Steve at the table, confirming just in case that he's actually here to meet with a guy named Eddie. Steve gives him a bit of a confused look, saying that Gareth showed him a couple pictures of Eddie before he agreed to meet and figured he'd done the same for Eddie off Steve's Instagram. Gareth had, in fact, not done anything of the sort but they both dismiss it and get on with their date.

In all honesty, Eddie is expecting it to be a complete wash, but it turns out that even if Steve is not at all what Eddie would have previously said what his type, Steve is damn near perfect. He's funny, kind, a little bitchy, and even though he proves himself to be every bit the sports nerd he looks like he doesn't turn his nose up at Eddie's own much more classically nerdy interests. By the end of the date, Eddie has a new type and that type is Steve Harrington. He's quick to lock down a second date for the next weekend which Steve happily agrees to. They exchange numbers and Steve gives Eddie a chaste kiss on the cheek that has him floating all the way home.

Steve texted him that next morning letting him now he had a great time and is really looking forward to their next date and Eddie thinks this might be the start of something big for him. When he gets to practice he's clearly still floating on cloud nine and in his own little world designing their marriage invitations and matching tombstones so he doesn't notice the sly grins on his bandmates' faces.

"So...how'd it go last night? Everything you dreamed it would be?" Gareth asks, a strange glint in his eyes that Eddie doesn't clock.

Eddie goes on and on about how nice Steve was and how he might be The One, thanking Gareth profusely. Freak looks pleased for him, giving him a hard pat on the shoulder in congratulations but when Eddie finally tunes back into the real world he's greeted by Gareth's livid expression and Jeff's overly concerned one.

He asks the guys what the fuck is up and it turns out that Gareth and Jeff set this whole thing up as a prank of sorts. Eddie was never supposed to hit it off with Steve who Gareth selected specifically because he's a "totally brain-dead prep" and as far away as someone could get from Eddie's previous relationships. He was supposed to be someone Eddie could go on a date with and not form a connection with without getting completely burned at the end like all his previous relationships in the hopes of getting him out of his slump.

Jeff was in on it as well. He wanted to get Eddie back out there, so when Gareth presented the plan he sat in on a couple of Gareth's general credit business class sessions to help pick the guy out.

After Jeff and Gareth finish explaining he does a complete 180 and just...leaves. In any other situation, he would be raging and verbally tearing his friends a new asshole but instead, he completely disengages and walks out the garage door, ignoring his friends' shouts to come back.

He goes back home, socked and hurt and so very confused about how the hell he found himself in this position when his phone lights up.

New Message: Steve H.

Fuck.

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Part two coming soon??? Maybe???? We'll see.

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Steve Harrington.

Bisexual, Frat Boy,

And a Romantic (in every universe)