#but idk just wanted to talk about it ig

[foxenclockwork]

ermmmmm okay so i dont usualllyyyyyyyy make fandom-talky posts but i cant get it off my mind and ive already talked to my friends about it sooooo yk….. here we are.

SOOO anyway i feel like i see a lot of people talk about how katniss and peeta were sort of like. Destined for each other and that they would have still gotten together regardless of the games happening or not and im gonna be real, as much as i love them, i really disagree. 

i just feel that given their circumstances katniss just would not have allowed it to happen. her whole like,, Arc in the story is her becoming able to allow it. even if peeta did approach her, even if she did like him back, she just wouldnt have allowed him to get close, or opened herself up to him, due to that fear she has. this is not a world where she could live a normal life or get married or have a family. she doesn’t have time for love when she has to take care of her mother and sister. she can’t open the possibility of future children in her life when there is the constant threat that they will die, either through the games or starvation. it’s just not something that would happen.

like, i like the concept of soulmates as much as the next person and i see where everyone’s coming from. i Know that there’s some sort of romeo and juliet parallels happening here, especially with the “star-crossed lovers” thing, but, i’d also like to note that a lot of that came from the capitol observing their romance, not,, their actual love. a lot of people bring up the “this would have happened anyway” line, but i feel like that line is still more in reference to the outcome of the games happening.

but, i feel that this doesnt like,, Cheapen? or weaken? or invalidate their love. if anything, i feel that it makes it better, more interesting.

in fact, i’d argue that katniss and peeta are the Opposite of soulmates. i think there’s just something so interesting in the fact that katniss and peeta weren’t supposed to love each other. 

they were supposed to hate each other. they were supposed to want each other dead.

everything about their circumstances was designed for that. they are from a district in which their classes are divided and have spite brewed between them, they went into the hunger games where they were meant to be adversaries, they were meant to resent and kill one another once again after peeta got hijacked.

everything was aligned perfectly so that there would be hate and resentment and bitterness between these two, and they defied all of it. and i think this is the part where a lot of people would then view this as them being soulmates— that no matter the circumstances, that no matter what’s thrown at them, the outcome will still be that they find each other. it’s written in the stars.

however, i feel like it’s actually much more powerful when it’s interpreted that they weren’t supposed to be together. it wasn’t written in the stars that they would find love— they chose it. they fought tooth and nail to be together. and i honestly think this is way more impactful than the concept that they were meant to be.

because they weren’t. however, it’s Their lives and they aren’t going to let the universe control them. they’re going to put in the effort and work to be together in spite of everything else. not only is it a good message in general, but i also feel that it’s especially fitting, for two characters whose world has attempted to revoke their autonomy time and time again, that the person they chose in the end was entirely their choice. and like idk to Me that’s way more meaningful and romantic i guess ??? idk. shrug emoji

#frankly this same thing could be argued and probably has been argued about romeo and juliet but i digress #also btw this isn’t meant to like shit on anyone who thinks they Are soulmates or is meant to suggest those people are stupid #i 100% see where people are coming from and understand it i just personally disagree and wanted to speak my thoughts idk #someone’s probably already talked about this before but Whatever we ball #anyways. i go back to my hole BYE #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #clock speaks ig

[snekdood]

i hope all the terfs looking at my blog rn are able to grab me a beer and maybe make me a sandwich perhaps while they’re at it

#im sorry its so hard to not want to be misogynistic to them in a jokey way about it #i mean- if they're gonna keep pretending im a woman i gotta keep reminding them im not /jk #its just that so many of them are white cis women who have no real problems. its hard to not want to remind them that oppressing ppl like #me isnt about to change the fact that plenty of cis men still only see them as objects #like idk bitch maybe if you actually shut up with your transphobia and worked with other oppressed minorities we wouldnt have red pillers #out and about. but naw. your attachment to your womanhood is too important ig. #more important than stopping your actual oppressors. #yall would rather uphold white supremacy than do any meaningful change for women. #otherwise maybe you'd actually listen to us when we talk about shit that effects BOTH os us- trans people and women alike. #its almost like enforcing the binary is entirely counterintuitive to your actual fucking goals of equality #its almost like reinforcing the binary back to cis men and pretending its valuable only reinforces to them their misogyny and idea #that men and women are entirely different species #its almost like your insistence that theres a binary actually doesnt serve you at fucking all and actually only AIDS in your oppression. #whatever happened to 'gender equality'? or is that too trans friendly for you now #ig women cant do everything men can do #imagine calling yourself a feminist and genuinely believing this

[cozylittleartblog]

who's your favourite lancer dad?

if you mean "who is your favorite character that happens to be in the lancer dad club" its The Big Hot Computer Wife, and that's almost surely the intended question, but if you mean "who is your favorite character to parent him" it is actually, by exactly One (1) point.... rouxls

because i love queen, i love her to bits and pieces, but for all her Mom Energy she is still actually new at the Mom thing. she has some stuff to learn beyond search inquiries and algorithms. and that opens up to all sorts of delightful shenanigans and the relationship To Be Built There is so wonderful, but rouxls has been here, by any canon or non-canon measure, longer than she has, and i think there is a very sweet bond between a naive, terribly lonely boy with a neglectful (sometimes worse) father and the prideful, terribly lonely idiot who has been put in charge of him, who Had to be there when nobody else was. and of course, this idiot caved. it feels like when you look at who they seem to be as characters, they mutually need each other, and i just think that's a really sweet kind of relationship.

... queen will catch up of course, really it's a learning experience for both of them as rouxls was the same brand of Clueless Idiot she is, he's just ahead of her on the board. he's got notes, she can borrow them. maybe they can study together.

comic relief characters can be really deep actually. or maybe i dug this hole myself. but either way, it’s there

#deltarune #ask #tckc-new-gen #rouxls kaard #queen #lancer #i could talk PAGES about rouxls and lancer i really could #and i have! in my notes app! i had Too Many Thoughts i had so many i had to offload them #they are hard to organize on command so they just sit in my brain rotating like a microwave #art #doodles #that boy loves his weird dad #rouxls and lancer got The Backstory lancer and queen get to build it all up together #doodle is only semi related ig idk i wanted to put something cute on here 💙 #i think i sound insane to people who have only casually played deltarune when i talk abt these characters #but there's a handful of people who are on the same brand of bullshit i am on and i do it for them lmfao

[motherfuckingbrad]

me when poppy li grew up feeling like she had to impress people in order for them to love her so now she chases success but at the same time her success is actively making the most important person in her life hate her because ian only values her as a tool to him and not as her own creator …..

#ow #can u tell i’m up late thinking about mythic quest again #TO CATCH A MOUSE WAS SO SAD #i know ian’s backstory was also sad and like yeah i’ll prolly talk about it eventually but #sjsjsnakkaja POPPY #s3 is lowkey making me anti ian what is this #why is he always tearing her down #why didn’t i realize this before #idk i’m just upset for my baby ig #she just wanted a partnership and his stupud fuckimg ego ruins everything #men (derogatory) #mythic quest #poppy li #ian grimm

[turrondeluxe]

#fer talks #sorry for not being around here much! ive been busy with life #BUT NOW A FEW THINGS HAVE SETTLED! #I STARTED T TODAY!!!!!!!!! :'] #kinda want to do a stream where i just work on a comic or an animatic but idk :'] will think about it #also thinking on opening sketch commissions on june so heads up ig!

[mamawasatesttube]

sometimes im hit by the urge to do a massive overhaul on sotm and rewrite the entire first half of it now that ive read more comics and have more opinions. like i probably won't bc i have other stuff i wanna write but also im like constantly tempted by the idea of completely redoing ch3 bc i want kon & kara bonding augh

#the getting into comics experience is that there's always more comics to read i guess and so naturally one's perspective will keep shifting #BUT ALSO. I WANT....... KON & KARA............ #and also tbh i kinda want to cut back on jason's role bc i kinda just assumed oh well everyone puts him back in the family so ig i will too #like i was just going uhhh if the rest of the bats are there at least in cameo he should be too... #but. with the perspective i currently have. actually i think it's better if he's not. i like it better with drama in that relationship #which of course is not at all even a little bit the point in sotm but i just. hm. cuts him out. adds in kara #generally i wanna lean further into like. kon's kryptonian feelings too. didn't do that bc i hadn't read much that wasn't sb94 #when i started writing it #but now that ive read new krypton. well i have THOUGHTS #maybe i should just commit and do a full sotm rewrite idk idk #much to think about #rimi talks

[martianbugsbunny]

Couples who insult Din Djarin together stay together

#paxe #axepaz #axe woves #Paz Vizsla #paz x axe #axe x paz #Din Djarin #they're both mean to him #call it a family hobby ig #and it's a multigenerational pettiness too #which eats #no crumbs left #idk what I'm talking about guys #I just want paz to be alive and him and axe to be roasting din every chance they get #martianbugsbunny ships

[cyber-neptune]

Thinking about this dude tonight

Would it be funny if I shipped an oc with him lol

#idk why Cupiridas specifically #but ig it's because he's a silly guy #he just wants to be a firework #also hes an absolute unit #big AND silly. the best things #bang brave bang bravern #yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #cupiridas #クピリダス #<- that's his name in JP #If anyone wants to talk about him to me pls send me an anon

[rexscanonwife]

Grrggh...good morning everypony = w = I rewatched the episode of the ppg reboot where Utonium gets a girlfriend...

#jane journals #self insert talk #🔬 starkissed scientist 🔬 #i woke up at 5 in the gah damn morning and MY HEADPHONES are gone so im gonna have to ride the bus w/o them >:[ #hell on earth 10 dead 4 missing!!! #and i choose to do this before i go ajfjg #anyways this sucks #like im not bothered by love interests but this whole reboot is ass and the characters are badly written #but theres like....at least one or two cute moments where utonium is smooth with it >//< #it cant even get the FIRST THING RIGHT ABOUT HIM THO #in literally THE FIRST EPISODE he says that spiders creep him out and they basically just. not even ignore but contradict it entirely #for why? the purpose of this ep where the love interest studies spiders and turns into one ig #they could say that hes PRETENDING to like them because he likes her. but they didnt do that #ALSO why spider? why not werewolf? that would be hot #and the love interest is that bland brand of 'adorkable' thats so disingenuous #on the other hand i DO like spiders. and the way she talks to one and like treats it like a pet...yeah id do that ._. #and idk they always write utonium as way more harsh than he'd usually be especially with bubbles #he wouldnt tell her shes being SELFISH by not wanting to give away her last piece of popcorn to a spider #especially when she barely got any #maybe he'd remind her that its GOOD to be generous BUT NOT CALL HER SELFISH #but yeah....theres maybe a moment or two 😒 #like when his love interest spoils a whole MOVIE for the girls and ofc theyre upset #but he holds her face and says 'everything i need to see is right here'...>//< #THAT was smooth #and idk they don't play with the idea of the girls wanting to break them up ENOUGH #they just write one fake email and its done. then spider reveal #it sucks maybe i shouldnt have started my day this way 😂😂😂 #whatever hopefully work is good!! #and i always have og utoniom to think about 🥺👉👈💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘

[deus-ex-mona]

l e t m e i n ! ! !

#d a m m i t d to the h to the l whyyyyy did you have to increase the shipping cost by 20 bucks the literal day before the preorders shipped— #thanks to that it only shipped today auuuuuuuuuaughdjejdjdjdhd #wdymmmmmmm the package is still in the same place from 4 hours agoooooooo #auauaaaauauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i want in s o b a d l y #s o bs the only song jp twt is talking about is last stage #i don’t care about last stage (for now) i want m e o t o ! ! ! #s. s o b s. unless a surprise mv drops ig im gonna have to wait till 12am for the midnight release… 7 hours to go… #ig i’ll just skip a few hundred times and do some pushups while i wait… im lich rally bouncing off the walls here i cant even auauauauaaaaaa #this. seriously hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for online purchases for me… #first my local shipment for [insert item] was delayed bc of last week’s oddly rainy weather #and t h e n that item was apparently mislabelled and locked in shipment purgatory for the weekend (sadge) #it only arrived yesterday (sadded) though ig i should be glad it even arrived at all #and nowwwwwww. this happens. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh #idk there’s so many other things i’ve been meaning to do while i wait for the cd but. i just. can’t #this sucks i wanna be marginally more productive too heyyyyyyyyyy #i wonder how long meoto is though… hopefully between 3-5 minutes… #if the song’s like. m. ilgram t2-length im gonna cry #but ymk said that it’s her favourite song on the album so it should be good!!!! right??!!!!!!!! #ausgshhssh he l p i should really go back to. like. cleaning idol sengen pages instead or sth. #see you in a few hours for meoto tl/if they decide to drop a sudden mv or sth idk

[fourteenthz]

I forgot to mention this but I started yakuza 0 and hear me out.

him. and them.

#kelly plays ykz #I can actually be so normal about man. #alright opinions no one asked: i care nishiki. so damn much. this man THIS MAN #I just giggle everytime they are together btw which isn't as often as I was hoping but also I'm just in chapter 3 so I can wait for my mans #Idk shit abt the yakuza games btw. nothing. I've seen older nishiki bc WELL...... I'M NORMAL ABT HIM but that is as far as my knowledge goe #I know a lot abt like a dragon tho like from seeing ppl play but just the first one. anything else is blank #so like if anyone see this pls refrain from spoilers lol I might silence this one too just in case bc I'm aware yakuza can be like. #plot twist heavy. so far I'm just vibing ig but bc of that I find it hard trusting ppl LMAO like alright kamaza seems alright ish so far bu #like I don't trust tachibana (?) and him all that much. I like the guy tho he's edgy and cool so I get that. #I adore kiryu. everytime. he is just so nice. such nice man. I love nice badass protagonists so dearly. every cutscene I go “that's my boy” #and then I get random him and nishiki lore and i'm bitting the walls. I like their relationship a normal amount. #I like brothers relationships an average amount actually. so normal. #I met majima like yesterday and I think I still care kiryu more but he is just like. also. so cool. I'm used to ichiban so like when I saw #him acting like THAT for the sawara (?) man I was like. giggles. #It's funny like sometimes I go “I don't think I'm the target audience for this one...” and other times I'm like #“this scene/character is made for me specifically.” #I'm talking abt nishiki no don't look at me I just like every word that comes out of his mouth I'm always like CHEERING when kiryu #even mentions him. embarassing. idk shit abt him but everything I know is ENOUGH I'll fight for that man and their brotherly relationship. #OVERALL I just. really enjoy the game. I wanted something to play casually and I think I choose well ?? instead of committing too hard #I know i'll surfer a lot down the line bc I'm as emotional as they get but I'm really liking so far. I love beating man on the street. #feeling the effects of masculinity rn and all that. also batamikai ROCKS and if they were brave enough to have a female lead her song shoul #be something like mayonaka no door bc idk why but they have the same energy. yes this comes from me after having one of the most stressed #weeks ever and finally having 1 night of playing yakuza 0 after a month or so of not playing anything. life isn't so bad turns out. #kelly says

[notthemonthbutmarch]

I’m thinking about Natlan and I just need one thing off my chest

If the theories are right and the Pyro Archon is currently dead and will be resurrection like the title of the chapter suggests, I want her to be a strong and respected woman.

Like, I know we’re already getting Murata and she’s gonna be a Murata Himeko expy (which I kinda don’t like but sure whatever Hoyo) from Honkai Impact 3rd, but idk I just feel like we need a single female archon that doesn’t have a bad relationship with her people AND is powerful.

Right now I think it’s safe to say that the power scaling of the archons is Zhongli, Ei, Venti, Nahida, and then Furina (I know she’s not an archon anymore I’m just including her bc I like her and I’m bias). Also, as an aside, this got to long so I’m putting it down here. I ranked Venti over Nahida not because her powers are weaker than Venti’s but because Venti has more experience. He can fight and knows the full extent of her powers and survived the Archon War; while Nahida would outsmart him no problem, Venti would overpower her physically I just wanted to clarify

Zhongli and Venti are from the OG Seven and have positive relationships with their respective countries. They’re both powerful and well respected.

Ei is hella powerful, but she did steal everyone’s visions so I don’t think she’s respected exactly. She’s more feared in my eyes. Like, absolutely, they respect her because she’s their archon and is powerful and is trying to change, but the people of Inazuma are very aware that Ei is capable of hurting her people if it means achieving her goal. OBVIOUSLY Ei herself doesn’t want to hurt her people and that was the puppet being tricked by the Fatui that did all that, but the people themselves don’t necessarily know that, so they just think Ei had a change of heart.

Nahida’s whole storyline in the Sumeru Archon Quests was reinstating her as the highest and most respected authority. Everyone loves her and for good reason! She’s great, and she’s doing her job as an archon really well. However, she is possibly one of the weakest archons due to age and experience. I can see her being a MIGHTY archon when she’s older, but how long is that gonna take? We’ll probably never see Nahida at her peak.

Then there’s Furina. Her storyline was AMAZING, I think we can all agree the Fontaine Archon Quests were great. However, Furina was seen as a joke or mascot by her people rather than an actual mighty archon. They just followed her because her voice was loud and she played the role well. Furina was never strong or respected, not until AFTER she lost her divinity for good.

Ei is strong but not respected, Nahida is respected but not strong, and Furina is not strong nor respected.

And this isn’t me trying to say Zhongli and Venti are bad or anything. There’s absolutely a discussion for misogyny in Genshin, but I’m not really opening that can of worms right now.

I’m just looking at the dynamics we have for the Archons and am hoping that we get a strong and respected female archon at some point.

It could be the Tsaritsa for all we know! The Tsaritsa is incredibly badass and there’s some indications that the intentions behind the Fatui aren’t that bad but their actions are, so it could be that the Tsaritsa is our strong AND respected Archon.

Yet, Childe’s line about her makes me think that people have their doubts, so is she really that respected as we think?

That just leaves Murata, and I am hoping that if the resurrection thing is about her, then I hope Murata is very strong and highly respected.

But if the resurrection is about someone else, say,the Pyro Sovereign, then I am BEGGING Hoyo to make the Pyro Sovereign a woman. We lost a female archon to a male sovereign I don’t want it to happen again.

#I don’t think any of this makes any sense to anyone but me #and again this isn’t some bashing of Zhongli or Venti or anything #they’re great #I just want a female archon that has the same type of faith in her as Venti has with his nation #or the same type of authority as Zhongli had #Ei could have that but for as much as I love her she did nearly whip all ambition and spirit from her nation #every time I talk about her I feel the need to say that I love her because I’m usually talking about her flaws #so yes I do love Ei very much #moving on Nahida would probably be both powerful and respected when she’s at her peak and older #but again I don’t think we’ll ever see it #if she’s still a baby a 500 years old then I don’t think she’ll be at her peak for a while #and then Furina #my poor girl got ROBBED #like good for Neuvillette and good for Furina in the end #but I still would have liked to see Furina as an actual archon #would I change anything about the Fontaine Archon Quest? no #am I still mad Furina got dethroned by a man? yep yep yep #am I happy that that man was Neuvillette? sure ig it could’ve been way worse #idk the only chance we’ll get a female archon with the same clout as Zhongli or Venti is Murata and the Tsaritsa now #and the Tsaritsa is evil until proven by the game to not be so I don’t want it to be her #I feel like having a female archon that is both strong and respected be the ‘evil’ one is kinda fucked actually #so either the Tsaritsa will be proven innocent in some way or it has to be Murata #Hoyo just give us one strong female archon who’s widely respected please and thank you #genshin impact #genshin #natlan #genshin natlan #genshin murata

[mikkokomori]

*dramatically sighs* i miss dreamworld basil

#ugh. ugh. AUGH. ugh. #HES OK i guess hmph #umm but i like him a bit more fucked up sorry #ACTUALLY i really like aus where #hs basil just fucking gains awareness and hes like GOD DAMN #and then he finds out about sunny and hes like 👁👁👁👁👁👁 #anyways yea #i drew something like that once. on twt. sort of #there was gonna be a part 2 to it but ummm idk #anyways. you can probably see where im going with this #OH maybe i should post the first part here lol #if you guys want it ig #miko talks

[indigodawns]

.

#these are just some thoughts re: friendship as a result of tonight that i need to jot down somewhere but #realising that i really do have a strict and set idea of Good Friend(ship) and what that entails to me #and id written people off bc i wasn't yk ~receiving love or friendship the way id prefer and i was angry with them for that/hurt about it #did i communicate that to them though? nooo. was i fully right in that? also no. like just bc i felt unheard didn't fully mean #that they were doing something wrong. they were trying in their own way (and sometimes they weren't really or it just wasn't nice) #but that's about how we match and how we communicate right? this is so silly that's so basic but it never fully clicked for me like this #i was blaming them for stuff and building up resentment without ever expressing that (and i still haven't yk dhshsjd) #and i think where i went ~wrong was in thinking that bc i felt that way they weren't ~giving me what i need #when it's like... but did i pick up on the ways in which they DID appreciate me and show me love etc? did i give them ANYTHING to work with? #(ok yes occasionally but also... tangent but i was watching a variety show and they were teasing woozi about how #he gives interviewers/hosts literally nothing to work with. like no extra information for them to ask about or tease him for or anything #and i was like ohhhhhh. yeah i do do that sometimes with friends and it's genuinely smth i don't really know how to do like #giving casual information (but not too much and not too little???) so they can then ask questions etc. so then if im like ughh #they never ask (the right) questions or show interest (or let me talk but that's a different thing dhsjdjd) it's like... #well do i give them the chance to? much to think about thank you woozi) #anyways where was i dhsjsnsnsjns idk but it's soooo annoying that i haven't figured this all out yet #but im slowly letting go off a bunch of resentment that has truly no business being here and im trying to self reflect and all that #and im honestly doing so shit some days but others days it's? finding stuff that matters to me on a deeper level ig? #and all of it really does pale in the face of multiple genocides and it's. but yk. if i want to keep fighting #i need to build a strong foundation and sort my shit out as well and be present so im really really trying #and beating my stupid stupid depression and brain with a stick until i get there

[cha1cedony]

Trying to set up a filterable RSS-to-Tumblr AO3 feed is hellish 🥲 I want to automate tagging for Archive warnings… I’ve seen a couple blogs around who have done it sooo maybe I’ll DM them idk? I think it involves Javascript (scary). Also apparently IFTTT doesn’t allow direct links anymore, so I was trying Make.com, but there’s no templates and I can’t test it bc it runs on a timer 😭

DnDads is such a small fandom so idk if anyone would even care about an ao3feed blog for it, but I can set up a quick one rn if anyone is interested :3 !!!! I was mostly just looking into it for myself, though… thought it would be nice to have automated (and just kinda fun to mess around with lol)

#chalcy stuff #I don’t want people to get mad at me bc it can’t be filtered 😭😭 #which is fair if you don’t want E-rated or Archive warning’d stuff on your Tumblr dash #but ig I could just be like #‘hey this blog automatically posts everything in the tag. don’t like don’t follow’ #it’s not like I’d be endorsing everything or whatever #IDK I just don’t want to ruffle any feathers by not having a tagging system #wait ​probably 90% of y’all don’t know what I’m talking about. brb will rb with an explanation

[transvampireboyfriend]

"Eddie!"

Eddie hears the call coming from the kitchen all the way up in Steve's room, Steve's voice echoing in the eerily empty walls of the house.

A house Eddie knows that Steve hates.

The thought always squeezes Eddie's heart, but he reminds himself: this time next week they'll be settled into their new apartment where no walls will be empty if Eddie has any say in it, which he does, at least a third of a say.

And even if Steve and Robin don’t let him paper the walls with photographs, Eddie will do his damnedest so that Steve never hates their home.

 "Yeah?" Eddie calls back to answer Steve, the word a little garbled around the screwdriver he's holding in his mouth.

 "C'mere!" Steve replies. Eddie sighs.

He looks down at the very heavy wooden desk top in his hands then looks at the open door.

He balances the top of Steve's desk on his knee so he can hold it with just one hand, using the other to take the screwdriver out of his mouth.

"What is it, sweetheart? D’you need my help?" he asks, once his mouth is free, his eyes drifting towards the hallway as he waits for Steve’s reply.

"Come. here!" Steve demands. Eddie sighs again but Steve’s annoyed tone makes him hold back a smirk.

"I'm kind of in the middle of something, babe!" Eddie calls, he'd rather finish taking the desk apart first, if it's not too urgent.

"EDDIE!"

Eddie gets so startled, he drops the heavy slab of wood right at his feet. He's glad the floor is carpet up here and not the dumb precious hardwood floors of downstairs.

"Jesus Chris-" he mutters, dropping the screwdriver too, before running down the stairs, sliding in his socks down the hallway and grabbing onto the door's frame to haul himself into the kitchen.

He enters the kitchen a little winded to find Steve standing in front of the stove with a worried frown.

"WHAT is it, Stevie?? you scared the shit outta me!" Eddie accuses, heart hammering in his chest.

Steve at least has the decency to look sheepish while he just stares at Eddie for a second.

"I think I over seasoned the chicken" Steve says quietly after a bit.

Eddie rolls his eyes at him. His heart wants to give out and he kinda wants to strangle Steve. Not in a fun way.

He looks so worried though... it's kinda cute.

He gets kinda serious about cooking for them, whereas when it is Eddie’s turn, he takes it as an opportunity for chaos.

Robbie is more of a toss up, Eddie has noticed. She notoriously contributed to the legendary popcorn s'mores but then she also pinches Eddie really hard whenever he tries to intercede with soup night so it'll be interesting to see how they all work out once they split all meals among them.

Eddie sighs for the third time in five minutes. This time, though, the tension in his shoulders bleeds out with his exhale and he feels a fond smile appear in his face.

"I'm sure it's fine, baby" Eddie tells Steve, both a reassurance about the food and about Eddie not really being mad at Steve for scaring him.

Steve switches the sheepish look for a pout.

"No it's not!" he whines, dragging the words out, Eddie has to contain his grin, he’s so endeared "It doesn't taste right, come taste it" Steve demands, his hand reaching out and flexing his fingers like he wants to grab Eddie and pull him close. Eddie wouldn't be opposed.

"You know I eat anything, right?" Eddie comments, walking over to Steve, "I literally eat your sp-" he gets cut off by Steve's hand coming up to cover his mouth.

"No!! !" Steve declares, his eyes wide, "You are not finishing that sentence, Eddie, ohmygOD!"

Eddie snickers behind Steve's hand. Steve's clearly trying to chastise him but Eddie can't take his boyfriend seriously when he's red in the face.

Steve eyes him warily, but presents him with a small piece of chicken speared through with a fork. "Here," he says, and drops his hand from Eddie's mouth.

Eddie takes the offer and slowly chews on it, making a show of figuring out what it tastes like. He gets a light smack on his arm for his troubles.

He shrugs.

"It tastes fine." he tells Steve with his mouth still half full. Steve scrunches his face a bit.

"It's not too salty?" Steve insists. Eddie chuckles and circles his arms around Steve's waist to hold him lightly.

"No, baby, it's fine. It's good!" he assures Steve, and presses a kiss to his jaw for good measure.

"I feel like it tastes different than usual" Steve grumbles, pouting again, making Eddie want to kiss his face all over.

Instead, Eddie presses the back of his palm to Steve's forehead.

"You coming down with something?" he half-jokes. Steve chuckles and bats his hand away.

"M' fine." Steve protests, leaning his head to the side in an attempt to get away from Eddie's chasing hand.

He fails, and Eddie pinches both his cheeks in his hand, forcing him to pucker up.

"I've probably tasted it too many times" Steve explains, his words distorted by Eddie's hold and Eddie laughs, delighted with what he achieved.

He presses a kiss to Steve's mouth and Steve smiles against it.

"Sorry I interrupted your woodworking" Steve says when Eddie releases him. Eddie snorts.

"I'm just taking it apart" Eddie tells him, walking right into Steve's setup.

"Oh! Well," Steve starts, in a tone that lets Eddie realize what he's done, way too late. "To hear you tell it, baby, you had to go chop the wood and sand it down and build the desk so you can then start taking it apart-" Steve trails off with a satisfied grin when he sees Eddie's scandalized look.

He's helping disassemble the desk because Steve had given up on it in the first place, had even said he'd pay for the one moving truck they'd have to hire just because of it, since the damn thing didn't fit in Eddie's van.

So, Eddie had volunteered to do it himself, take it apart that is, and after the first try he had developed a thirst for vengeance against the thing and now here they are.

And Steve has the nerve to tease him about it.

"Stevie, they put that thing together in hell!" Eddie exclaims, pointing an accusatory finger out the kitchen door "and you didn't keep the manual-" Eddie turns his finger on Steve now. Steve chuckles and interrupts him to point out:

"It didn't come with a manual, my father had it built"

Eddie doesn't miss a beat.

"Well, whoever built it is a moron!!!" Eddie says. Steve loves hearing Eddie rant against every decision David Harrington has ever made, so Eddie appoints whoever took his money for that desk as his mortal enemy (one of many, needless to say), before he continues his rant,

"There are screws all over that thing! and I had to spend two hours just figuring out how to take it apart without doing irreparable damage to it- I can show you my notes!" Eddie makes to take the folded notebook out his back pocket but Steve extends a placating hand to remind him:

"You have,"

Eddie remembers now, and if that didn't tell Steve how big a deal this is, Eddie can tell him just fine,

"I'm telling you," Eddie continues, wildly gesticulating, and feeling like he's about to hop on the kitchen table, or at least a chair "I'm keeping a journal of how I'm taking that monster apart so I can trace back my steps when I have to put it together again,"

Steve is now covering his mouth to keep from laughing out loud, so Eddie turns it against him, "because you are certainly not gonna help me with it! Stop laughing! I'm so serious!!"

Eddie is not serious, at all. But Steve is full on laughing now and Eddie thinks if he didn't need to work for a living he'd choose to do this instead, spend days on end just making Steve laugh so hard he briefly loses his breath.

Eddie dons a put upon look that he knows is just absolutely ruined by the grin he's trying to contain.

Steve wipes at the corner of his eyes trying to take a deep breath.

"I'm sorry, baby," he tells Eddie, wrapping his arms around Eddie's neck, "I won't tease you about it anymore, I promise" he can't seem to stop smiling and Eddie loves it, wants it to last as long as it can.

"Empty promises!" Eddie answers dramatically, "you men are all the same" he earns a snort and another bout of laughter from Steve. Eddie shakes his head vehemently as Steve rides it out.

When he manages to breathe normally again, Steve places a kiss to Eddie's shoulder.

"No, but appreciate it, Eds. You know." Steve tells him honestly, pressing a sweet kiss against the corner of Eddie's mouth.

"Hmm" Eddie hums disapprovingly, making Steve huff.

"I love you" Steve tries, tracing the sides of Eddie's face lightly, playing with the ends of his hair a bit.

 "Yeah, yeah" Eddie says dismissive, while his heart tries to beat out his chest.

 Steve sees right through him and nuzzles against his cheek.

"Lunch will be ready in 20" Steve murmurs, and Eddie's always been helpless against the casual affection that Steve can inject into the most mundane things, he can't really contain himself any longer.

"I love you too." he tells Steve, before burying his face in Steve's neck. Steve chuckles a little and hums against Eddie's temple, clutches him tighter and runs his hands through Eddie's hair gently, making Eddie sigh contentedly.

"Should I set the table?" Eddie offers after a bit, coming back to eye level. Steve caresses his cheeks adoringly.

“No, no," Steve says, "you go fight that desk, honey."

Eddie snorts and crumbles into laughter, everything he had to hold back before, coming out in giggles as he bats Steve's arms away from him.

"I hate you!" he exclaims between laughs. He playfully flips Steve the bird and turns on his heel to march back up the stairs.

"Give it your all!" Steve calls after him, barely coherent in the middle of his laughing.

Eddie rolls his eyes but has the biggest smile on his face.

#steddie headcanon #steddie #stobin #a tiny bit? #nsft #not really but just to be safe bc they allude to sex ig #anyways. cleaning this up a bit made me want to see them on like property virgins or one of those shows lmao #all three of them #they'd become famous from it just from how ridiculous the three of them are agsgsjksks #i was so convinced i this scene isn't a part of anything when i decided to post it but now i keep getting ideas 🤦🏽‍♂️ #like robbie wasn't initially on it but how will they move out without her that makes no sense #idk just. someone come talk to me about them please i love them 😭💗 #.