#also the handle length on the Fancy Totes is a bit weird

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if i had a nickel for every heavyweight, sturdy and embroidered No Expenses Spared fancy totebag that's been gifted to me by a watch-related company visiting our school and handing out goodie bags, i would have two nickels. i don't have any nickels though. only totebags

#swedenquest #ironically the totebags i use the most are the cheapest thinnest ones i got bc they can live in the crevices of my backpack #and i worry less about damages etc #also the handle length on the Fancy Totes is a bit weird #little too short to be comfortably on the shoulder. little too long for me to carry in my hand without scraping the ground #idk why im blogging about totebags. #there's just something about. ah yes you've heard of goodie bags full of cheap stuff in mass produced totes #now get ready for FANCY GOODIE BAG. even the obligatory ball point pen has some Heft to it #the one we got today came with an absolute tome of a coffee table book. you Need a heavy duty tote to carry it #the first totebag giver was a luxury watch company from germany so that checks out #and this is a well established watch shop so. yea....

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hahah your post about whether anon was ok is so adorable, how about we switch it up and have some fluffy harringrove prompt 18 for everyone!!

I just get worried about my anons, you know? I want to make sure everyone is having a good time! Prompt "you canceled plans for me?" from This List. This is functionally a S3 sick!fic AU with Billy taking care of Steve <3

Steve swears his cold-infection rates have skyrocketed since he started hanging out with Dustin and his friends. Like middle schoolers must carry more diseases than high schoolers do. He used to think he had a strong immune system, but now he wonders if maybe he just washes his hands more than the kids. 

What he knows for sure is that he was supposed to be meeting up with Billy, Robin, and Heather to go see some movie. Instead, he’s curled up on his couch with an empty mug of tea in front of him and a box of tissues. His head is pounding and it’s probably been enough hours that he can take another painkiller, but he’s also the most comfortable he’s been in hours. 

Steve’s just about drifted off again, when the doorbell rings. He jumps and grumbles, pushing himself into sitting. He’s pretty sure he called Robin to cancel and she promised to tell Billy. What if he dreamt that though? He’s been sleeping off and on all day. Fuck. 

Steve wraps his blanket around his shoulders and shuffles to the front door. He really hopes it’s just Robin who will understand why he can’t go out and might even give him a hug if he looks pathetic enough. Please don’t let it be Dustin with another hare-brained scheme, Steve’s entire body aches too much for that. 

He pulls open the door and yawns, covering his face with his arm and half the blanket. He probably looks like a cheesy vampire, Steve finds he doesn’t care. He’s just about to tell Robin that he’s sorry for forgetting to call when he looks up. 

“Oh, Robin told me she was gonna tell you,” Steve mumbles at Billy. He leans in the doorway and covers his mouth as he coughs. 

“She did,” Billy tells him and shoves his way into the house. He’s always shoving, daring Steve to do something about his presence, forcing him out of the way. 

“Then what are you doing here?” Steve asks, closing the door and turning. He knows he looks like shit. Sounds like shit. Generally just feels like shit. 

Billy holds up a tote bag and shakes it. There’s the sound of cans clunking against one another. “Soup. And I picked up a VHS from Family Video so we can still watch something.” He sounds vaguely annoyed, but he’s taking off his boots and jacket so Steve thinks that’s just how Billy talks. “Go back to the couch.”

Steve swallows around his sore throat and gestures towards the kitchen. “Don’t you want help?”

“I think I can handle your kitchen, Steve, no matter how fancy it may be,” Billy drawls, pulling out the VHS he brought over. Young Frankenstein. Steve might be a little bit in love. “Go, I won’t be long and I won’t burn your house down making Campbell’s.”

Steve shuffles back into the living room and flops onto the couch. He could get up and put the tape in, but he doesn’t want to move again. Just that trip to the door sucked. Billy will come in and put them tape in when he brings Steve his soup. 

It’s just- Steve can’t quite figure out what Billy is doing here. Like obviously he brought soup, but he still could have gone to see the movie. Could have just dropped off the soup if he was worried and left. But he’s here. In his kitchen. Heating up the soup and presumably planning on spending at least the length of this movie with him. Billy’s a weird person once you get to know him, Steve’s decided. 

He closes his eyes and dozes a bit, probably drooling onto a couch cushion. Steve feels like he should be more self conscious because Billy is beautiful and always looks perfect, but he’s too sick to care. 

When he wakes up it’s because Billy has nudged his shoulder gently. He’s pulled the coffee table closer and piled books on it so the bowl of soup sits a lot closer to Steve’s face, so he doesn’t have to bend over as much. There’s a matching bowl of soup on the coffee table next to it. 

Steve turns bleary eyes on Billy, blinking slowly. “Are you staying to have soup with me?”

“Didn’t eat dinner,” Billy responds, grabbing the VHS to pop it in the player. “Eat your soup, Steve.”

Steve also has a glass of water and a bottle of painkillers on the table. He picks those up first, swallowing two. Billy’s back is to him and he’s wearing…a soft sweater and sweatpants. Steve didn’t take that in at first. He looks cozy, like he’s planning on spending more than a couple hours here. 

“Wait- did you cancel plans for me?”

Billy turns and shakes his head. “I mean, Robin and Heather are still going to see the movie,” he drawls, giving Steve a crooked smile. “Decided I didn’t want to third wheel on that one.”

Steve takes a sip of water and picks up his spoon. He stirs it through the chicken noodle and tries to take a deep breath through his stuffy nose. Maybe the steam will help loosen stuff up. 

Billy climbs back on the couch and scoots close enough for his knee to touch Steve’s. He’s warm through his sweatpants and Steve kind of wants to ignore his soup in favor of draping himself along Billy’s lap. “Soup, Harrington. Then you can have your cuddles.”

Steve knows his cheeks and nose are already red from the cold, but he feels like he’s blushing anyway. “I can’t believe you canceled plans for me,” he mumbles. He leans forward to eat his soup as the movie starts playing. Young Frankenstein really is one of his favorites. He wonders if Billy knew that when he picked it up. 

Steve manages to finish the whole bowl and drink half the water before he decides he’s done sitting up. He curls on his side, directly into Billy’s lap to watch the TV. Billy drops a hand into his hair and then it’s over. Steve’s out for the count, his eyes close and he falls asleep. 

When Billy wakes him again, it’s to urge him towards his bed, blanket still wrapped securely around his shoulders. Steve assumes he’s going to sleep on the couch, but Billy follows him up, gets Steve tucked in. Steve thinks that will be the moment he leaves or crashes downstairs. 

But Billy comes back from brushing his teeth and climbs into bed too. He curls up on his side, looking at Steve who feels a little worse as he lays there. Nancy says it’s because your temperature spikes when you sleep. 

“Can’t believe you stayed,” he mumbles, mouth feeling slow. 

Billy smiles a little and reaches over to turn off the lamp. “Yeah well, feel kinda bad for getting you sick anyway,” he says softly. 

Steve smacks at his shoulder half-heartedly. He didn’t even think of that, when Billy missed a day last week because he had a cold. Asshole. At least he brought soup. 

Steve closes his eyes and falls into a fitful sleep, but at least Billy is there to coax him into sitting up when the coughing gets bad and to push painkillers into his hand.

When Steve finally wakes up, later than he likes to, he’s feeling a bit better. And he feels even better finding Billy at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and a plate of pancakes waiting for him. 

#harringrove #anon #greye writes #drabble #stranger things #billy hargrove #steve harrington

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Outfitter Creates Bulletproof, Size-XL Toyota Land Cruiser Limousine

The Toyota Land Cruiser is getting a bit long in the tooth, with the current model tracing its roots back to 2007. Despite a number of updates, it is fundamentally the same SUV that was truly new 13 years ago. Though ancient in car years, the Land Cruiser can be made to feel fresh again, and a company called Carat has found a way to do just that. Most surprisingly, Carat’s creation isn’t some rugged, no-holds-barred off road build celebrating the Landie’s renowned capability—it’s actually a limousine conversion.

Carat extends the Land Cruiser’s wheelbase by nearly 20 inches, turning the once rugged, high-riding SUV into a (perhaps slightly less) go-anywhere, do-anything conveyance. It’s one of the more unique Land Cruiser builds we’ve ever seen, but Carat didn’t stop at just making the Toyota longer. The outfit adds a “high level of ballistic protection,” and we assume that means it’ll easily fend off small- to medium-caliber bullets should you find yourself in a hail of gunfire and wishing your Land Cruiser presented a slightly smaller target. 

Given how a regular Land Cruiser’s back seat wouldn’t make for much of a limo-like experience, especially if you’re looking for distractions from incoming gunfire, Carat makes sure to make the big off-roader more comfy. Putting its limousine’s extra length to excellent use, the firm turns the aft half of the Toyota into a Maybach-rivaling luxury lounge. The interior has been totally redone with wood, suede, and leather covering just about every surface. The only leftover Toyota bits we can see are the door grab handles and lock mechanisms, and maybe the air vents embedded in the wood veneers facing the rear seats. 

Oh, and about those rear perches: The fully adjustable seats look like recliners, and in between them is a center armrest that has room for champagne and whiskey should you and your guest find yourselves needing to take the edge off from all that gunfire you’ll be driven through.

Carat also added a “parade roof” for those brave enough to poke their heads out of the top of this thing—is that gunfire still going on?—and upgraded the suspension and the brakes to help the Land Cruiser maintain its 4×4 skills in spite of its less-favorable breakover angle due to the lengthened wheelbase. We think it’s delightfully weird that the Land Cruiser, which is kinda-sorta a luxury vehicle here in the U.S. but largely a mainstream workhorse elsewhere, has been converted into a Lexus-like limo. (Ignore, for the moment, the not-limo, similarly fancy Lexus LX, the LC’s leather-lined cousin.) While we prefer to do our own off-roading, surely this Carat piece will cater to those who’d like someone else to do the driving—and if those folks have gun-toting enemies, all the better, right?

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Outfitter Creates Bulletproof, Size-XL Toyota Land Cruiser Limousine

The Toyota Land Cruiser is getting a bit long in the tooth, with the current model tracing its roots back to 2007. Despite a number of updates, it is fundamentally the same SUV that was truly new 13 years ago. Though ancient in car years, the Land Cruiser can be made to feel fresh again, and a company called Carat has found a way to do just that. Most surprisingly, Carat’s creation isn’t some rugged, no-holds-barred off road build celebrating the Landie’s renowned capability—it’s actually a limousine conversion.

Carat extends the Land Cruiser’s wheelbase by nearly 20 inches, turning the once rugged, high-riding SUV into a (perhaps slightly less) go-anywhere, do-anything conveyance. It’s one of the more unique Land Cruiser builds we’ve ever seen, but Carat didn’t stop at just making the Toyota longer. The outfit adds a “high level of ballistic protection,” and we assume that means it’ll easily fend off small- to medium-caliber bullets should you find yourself in a hail of gunfire and wishing your Land Cruiser presented a slightly smaller target. 

Given how a regular Land Cruiser’s back seat wouldn’t make for much of a limo-like experience, especially if you’re looking for distractions from incoming gunfire, Carat makes sure to make the big off-roader more comfy. Putting its limousine’s extra length to excellent use, the firm turns the aft half of the Toyota into a Maybach-rivaling luxury lounge. The interior has been totally redone with wood, suede, and leather covering just about every surface. The only leftover Toyota bits we can see are the door grab handles and lock mechanisms, and maybe the air vents embedded in the wood veneers facing the rear seats. 

Oh, and about those rear perches: The fully adjustable seats look like recliners, and in between them is a center armrest that has room for champagne and whiskey should you and your guest find yourselves needing to take the edge off from all that gunfire you’ll be driven through.

Carat also added a “parade roof” for those brave enough to poke their heads out of the top of this thing—is that gunfire still going on?—and upgraded the suspension and the brakes to help the Land Cruiser maintain its 4×4 skills in spite of its less-favorable breakover angle due to the lengthened wheelbase. We think it’s delightfully weird that the Land Cruiser, which is kinda-sorta a luxury vehicle here in the U.S. but largely a mainstream workhorse elsewhere, has been converted into a Lexus-like limo. (Ignore, for the moment, the not-limo, similarly fancy Lexus LX, the LC’s leather-lined cousin.) While we prefer to do our own off-roading, surely this Carat piece will cater to those who’d like someone else to do the driving—and if those folks have gun-toting enemies, all the better, right?

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Outfitter Creates Bulletproof, Size-XL Toyota Land Cruiser Limousine

The Toyota Land Cruiser is getting a bit long in the tooth, with the current model tracing its roots back to 2007. Despite a number of updates, it is fundamentally the same SUV that was truly new 13 years ago. Though ancient in car years, the Land Cruiser can be made to feel fresh again, and a company called Carat has found a way to do just that. Most surprisingly, Carat’s creation isn’t some rugged, no-holds-barred off road build celebrating the Landie’s renowned capability—it’s actually a limousine conversion.

Carat extends the Land Cruiser’s wheelbase by nearly 20 inches, turning the once rugged, high-riding SUV into a (perhaps slightly less) go-anywhere, do-anything conveyance. It’s one of the more unique Land Cruiser builds we’ve ever seen, but Carat didn’t stop at just making the Toyota longer. The outfit adds a “high level of ballistic protection,” and we assume that means it’ll easily fend off small- to medium-caliber bullets should you find yourself in a hail of gunfire and wishing your Land Cruiser presented a slightly smaller target. 

Given how a regular Land Cruiser’s back seat wouldn’t make for much of a limo-like experience, especially if you’re looking for distractions from incoming gunfire, Carat makes sure to make the big off-roader more comfy. Putting its limousine’s extra length to excellent use, the firm turns the aft half of the Toyota into a Maybach-rivaling luxury lounge. The interior has been totally redone with wood, suede, and leather covering just about every surface. The only leftover Toyota bits we can see are the door grab handles and lock mechanisms, and maybe the air vents embedded in the wood veneers facing the rear seats. 

Oh, and about those rear perches: The fully adjustable seats look like recliners, and in between them is a center armrest that has room for champagne and whiskey should you and your guest find yourselves needing to take the edge off from all that gunfire you’ll be driven through.

Carat also added a “parade roof” for those brave enough to poke their heads out of the top of this thing—is that gunfire still going on?—and upgraded the suspension and the brakes to help the Land Cruiser maintain its 4×4 skills in spite of its less-favorable breakover angle due to the lengthened wheelbase. We think it’s delightfully weird that the Land Cruiser, which is kinda-sorta a luxury vehicle here in the U.S. but largely a mainstream workhorse elsewhere, has been converted into a Lexus-like limo. (Ignore, for the moment, the not-limo, similarly fancy Lexus LX, the LC’s leather-lined cousin.) While we prefer to do our own off-roading, surely this Carat piece will cater to those who’d like someone else to do the driving—and if those folks have gun-toting enemies, all the better, right?

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