#and then this happens

[starrystevie]

eddie knows his crush on steve harrington is a hopeless cause, okay?

he's somehow been friends with steve long enough to know what he looks like when he's flirting, what he looks like when he has a crush, when his sights are set on someone very non-eddie munson shaped. he also now knows how to hide his jealousy in a fake smirk that he flashes steve's way when yet another pretty girl walks their way with her sights set on him and a smirk of her own.

eddie always watches as steve reaches out a hand just so to gently brush it against a lovely lady's arm with that charming fucking smile and sees how that lovely lady will always melt at the touch. and who could blame her? certainly not eddie, the same eddie who's had his own sights set on steve harrington for what feels like a life time. if anyone knows how painfully a heart can beat when it sees him from across the room and imagines a date and a future and a life with steve, it would be eddie.

but that's where it ends. steve harrington, the ladies man that he is, always stops things there with a smile and a wave thrown in the woman's direction as she walks away. it throws eddie for a loop every time. he would watch the two flirt for minutes that that felt like torturous hours for him only for it to end with a disappointed look on her face and steve turning his attention back to eddie like nothing had happened.

it makes no sense.

"i don't get it, man," he says one day as steve lets yet another girl walk away down to the opposite end of the grocery store aisle they're in. steve's turned back to staring at the shopping list in his hand and is muttering to himself instead of watching her walk away like eddie is, disbelief coloring his face.

"don't get what?" steve asks back, not bothering to look up until the silence goes on for too long. his eyes land on eddie's and he frowns slightly, shaking his head slowly. "... did i miss something?"

eddie reels back, eyebrows furrowing together and motions his arms every which way, from the girl's retreating form to the empty space around them.

"steve, you're just going to let her walk away and not get her number? she was obviously hitting on you, dude."

he watches as steve's face crinkles slightly before smoothing out and shrugs his shoulders, turning back to grab the cat food eddie feeds to the strays off the shelf. he lurches forward and places his hands on steve's shoulders to face him, watching as his eyes go wide.

"what do you want me to say?" steve shrugs again and eddie can feel the movement under his hands. "i guess i wasn't feeling it."

eddie sighs, scrubbing a hand down his face before returning it back to steve's shoulder. "wasn't feeling it... steve, i'm gay, not blind. you two obviously were hitting it off with your fucking charming lines and flirty eyes. you always do this and it makes zero fucking sense-"

"-you're gay?"

steve says a bit too loud for eddie's liking even if they are currently hidden in the pet food aisle. heat floods his cheeks and he throws a hand cover steve's mouth while shushing him to keep him from saying it again. he sees steve's eyes go even wider and feels warmth spreading under his fingers.

is steve...

"you knew this!" eddie accuses in a whisper and tries to breathe evenly while steve's gaze travels all over his face. "we talked about it with robin that one time!"

... is he blushing?

there's a sudden pressure at his side and he looks down to see steve's fingers curling over his waist. eddie takes in a stuttering breath and brings his own wide eyes up to meet steve's. it's like looking in a fun house mirror, seeing his flush creeping up steve's neck and watching steve blink in time with him. he can feel when steve tries to say something, his lips ghosting over his palm and eddie pulls back like he's been burned, but steve's hand stays right where it is on his side.

"i absolutely would have remembered if you told me that before," he says and his voice is a little breathless. "there's no way i was there when you guys talked about it."

eddie thinks back to the party when he and robin were huddled up on their couch together. argyle and nancy were dancing in their socks on the living room floor, bouncing around to some experimental track that had been badly recorded on a cassette. jonathan was sitting at the coffee table snapping photos of them, joint hanging from his lips and easy smile spreading on his face.

eddie's trying to pinpoint where steve is in this memory and that's usually the easiest thing for him to remember, but he can't...

until suddenly he can, because steve walked in through the sliding door with his shirt over his shoulder and his swim trunks low on his hips and water dripping down his chest and a cigarette behind his ear and the sunset bleeding in through the windows was painting him golden and he was walking over to dance with nancy with a wide grin pulling at his cheeks and-

"god, i'm gay," eddie had breathed out. robin followed his line of sight and nodded because she gets it like she has a steve problem of her own and that was that.

eddie focuses back in on steve while they stand in the fucking pet food aisle, focuses on the shrill jingle pouring out of the grocery store speakers and not on the way he can hear his heartbeat in his ears, focuses on the way steve can look good even in harsh fluorescent lights.

"well, now you know," is all he can breath out.

steve smiles, all white teeth and crinkled eyes, and his fingers curl even tighter around eddie's waist as he takes a half step even further into his personal space.

"you're why," steve says back easily and eddie reminds himself to breathe as the other side of his waist suddenly has a hand covering it, too. "i don't take their numbers, i don't give them mine, i don't go on the stupid dates they ask me out on because..."

the fingers dance up his side and eddie can't breathe.

"... they're not you, so why would i?"

eddie sends up a silent thank you to whoever is listening that they're hidden away from prying eyes in the pet food aisle so he can lean it and learn for the first time what steve's smile tastes like.

#under a read more solely for length one day i'll learn how to write short things #me everyday: oh this would be fun to write about! maybe 2 paragraphs or so! #and then this happens #steddie #steddie headcanon #my writing #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie drabble #steddie ficlet

[violaobanion]

AUSTIN BUTLER on his character FEYD-RAUTHA in DUNE: PART TWO (2024) [x]

for @sansaorgana

#austin butler #austinbutleredit #dune #dune part two #dune part 2 #feyd-rautha #this had me cackling #his thoughts on feyd up until this point were so deep #and then this happens

[cardiacass]

1/2 Doctors duties

Part 2

#trafalgar one piece #trafalgardwaterlaw #tony tony chopper #one piece #one piece fanart #wano kuni #they sit down and trade notes about crew injuries #strange occurances etc #and then this happens #its funny how Law is So Fking Cruel when in the novel he still has the inherent spirit of a doctor to help anyone in need #guess the seas roughed him up #or he chooses his pateints now

[a-skirmish-of-wit]

#can we work on breaking down low block defences please 🥲 #trying to walk it in and playing slow passes makes it easy to defend #the defence can just remain compact #but that’s what we seem to do every time we come up against a team with a low block #and then this happens #spain without the s #arsenal wfc

[pjo-worshipper]

#December 20th #i thought it was next year #i was fucking sick #and then this happens #screaming crying throwing up #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #pjo #rick riordan #rrverse #annabeth chase #grover underwood #percy jackson disney+ #pjo tv show

[vaguelyaperson]

I think Katsuki deserves the ability to break through the 4th wall and hunt Horikoshi down for this 🥰

#'ganbate izuku~' #and then this happens #i'm smiling right now because this chapter broke me #i'm probably not done screaming about it yet #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnha 419 #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki

[occasionallybirds]

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

October 14, 2022

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

#I keep telling myself I don't need any more great blue heron photos #and then this happens #photographers on tumblr #bird #birds #great blue heron #birblr #birdblr #birbs #nature #animals #ornithology #Ardea herodias

[dustbon]

This gives me heavy Escobar vibes, guys. Still, Cordelia accepted because she has no chill. She ended up quitting the next day since we don't earn much and we lose valuable skillbuilding time, dahling.

#Why in every. single. save. Mr. Kim is super shady? #Honestly I think he's a sweet little grandpa #and then this happens #ts4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #ts4 mm #Holiday Legacy #Talk Like a Pirate Day Gen

[freaky-flawless]

Oh my god. I HAAATTEEE how Mercari shows you items that have been sold by default. I just saw a sold listing for a complete I Heart Fashion Wydowna doll for $30.00!!!!!

#monster high #monster high dolls #wydowna spider #i am LIVID #I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN OBLIVIOUS TO THIS #im in such a bad mood now... #someone commented on the listing “do you have another” which made me laugh a bit #but really!!! what in the hell??? #i was sooo excited to start looking for a second hand doll because buying new dolls just feels so exhausting right now #and then this happens #text post

[ame-exe]

Game: Edgeworth is incredibly touched by the way Maya stood up for him during his trial to ensure they could buy time and prove his innocence, even though she has little reason to do so because of the way he had been treating her up until that point. Gumshoe describes his reaction with “He was so moved I saw his lip trembling”

Anime showing Edgeworth’s reaction:

#ace attorney #turnabout goodbyes #miles edgeworth #i started watching the anime and this killed me #during the episode I kept thinking “are they gonna actually show Edgeworth’s reaction to Maya’s arrest ? that would be so cool” #and then this happens #I’m not even mad about it it’s just funny #and shoutout to key-lime-soda for posting it all on Google drive you’re a life saviour #i would have had to deal with the french dub otherwise

[more-profound-bond]

Erik: *Kicks the door down looking panicked*

Charles: What did you do?

Erik: Nobody died.

Charles: WHAT KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT?!

#cherik incorrect quotes #somehow i can see this happening #everytime erik does something with peter #one of them just gets a dumb idea #and then this happens #and charles' headache just gets bigger and bigger #cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #professor x #magneto #x men #peter maximoff #erik just being a good father #or at least a decent father

[mountainashfae]

I'm going to go feral on Owlcat how dare they give Shyka voiced lines in the true ending and then not even do it right. How hard is it to have layered voices for the few lines they actually speak in. Didn't even swap VAs between lines or give them a voice filter. Even the Lantern King gets a filter. Fuck off.

#rowan plays pfkm #don't mind me #I have a favorite #I'm getting extremely mad over an Eldest #this was my favorite writing of them in the game #and then THIS HAPPENS

[rozugold]

I’m so distraught

#wolfquest #silly doodles #cw animal death #the ONE LITTER I FINALLY GET ATTACHED TO #AND THEN THIS HAPPENS #WA #I was standing right over the pup idk how the eagle did that

[traumxrei-archive]

I INTERRUPT MY OWN HIATUS. WITH CONFUSION. BC WHAT THE FUCK. I'LL LET THE PICTURES EXPLAIN TO YOU MY SHOCK RN.

MY JAW IS LITERALLY ON THE FLOOR WHERE AM I WHO AM I WHAT AM I— AND HOW DID I OBTAIN DORM AZUL BEFORE I GOT JAMIL ????? I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM STILL IN SHOCK AND IT HAS BEEN 20 MINUTES SINCE THIS HAPPENED.

#/trau rambles #GACHA PAYNE #i finished submitting my essays #and i was like #yea i'll take a break #and wish on twst for jamil #AND THEN THIS HAPPENS #I AM THROWING UP RAINBOWS #I'M STILL IN SHOCK #listen. LISTEN !!! #as SOON as i saw the octa lavender i was like NO FUCKING WAY. NO FUCKING WAY AZUL ASHENGROTTO IS DOING THIS TO ME. #he said 'don't look at jamil trau look at me instead ✨️' #still sobbing crying rolling around doing the nae nae sadly on the floor #azul ashengrotto