#it’s 3:20am

[estrellami-1]

Keep You Company

So this happened because 1) I was babysitting and the little girl wouldn’t sleep until I laid in bed with her and my heart has NEVER been more full and 2) my dad’s an audio engineer with a home studio and my mom will just???? Sit in there with him????? He’s got a couch for when clients come over but 90% of the time if I can’t find either of my parents they’re both in there. I love my mom but I swear she’s tone deaf. Not to mention if any of you have heard someone else work on pitch correction you KNOW how annoying it can get after roughly .3 seconds. But she sits in there completely content because they just???? Want to be near each other????? After close to 30 years of marriage????? Where can I find someone who loves me the way my parents love each other. And the way Steve and Eddie love each other. Please.

Also side note if any of yall read Little Love I’m tempted to make this a future excerpt 👀 different name bc who knows if anything’s gonna come of this. and Joanie’s name comes from Joan Jett anyone who got that gets a gold star ⭐️ also Joanie is either 4 or 6. Idk which. But she’s one of those ages. Which if you know anything about kids you know there’s somehow no difference and yet every difference in the world between those two ages.

“Night, Daddy,” Joanie says, moving into Eddie’s studio to drop a kiss onto his cheek. “Love you.”

Eddie startles away from the computer screen, blinking as he realizes just how late it already is. The clock on his desk blinks 9:08 in red, incriminating flashes.

He smiles at his daughter and throws his arms around her as he stands, hugging her to himself and whirling them around the space, careful around the low coffee table. “Goodnight, my little rockstar!” He crows, peppering kisses to her cheeks and forehead, feeling laughter bubble up inside him in response to Joanie’s giggles.

“Daddy!” She shrieks, but doesn’t try to pull away. He laughs and finally puts her down, pressing one last kiss to the crown of her head as he kneels in front of her.

“Night, Joanie-bug,” he murmurs. “Sorry I’ve been stuck in here all day. I wish I could just play with you all day instead.”

He boops her nose and she giggles. “What are you doing?”

Eddie hums and picks her up, moving closer to the computer to save his project. “Well, y’know how Daddy’s in a band?”

“Yuh-huh.”

“Well sometimes, Uncle Gareth gets a note wrong.”

Joanie giggles. “Only Uncle Gareth?”

“Only Uncle Gareth,” Eddie agrees in a super-serious way that they both know he doesn’t mean.

“And sometimes Daddy forgets how not to be a perfectionist,” Steve adds from the doorway with a smile.

“Also very true,” Eddie nods, putting his computer to sleep. “But I did a lot of work today, so hopefully I should be done soon. How about for now, I do bedtime clean-up routine, and Papa can read you your book?”

“M’kay,” Joanie says happily, because she’s a heathen and prefers Steve’s storytelling skills over Eddie’s. Eddie wants to bite her cheeks, she’s so cute, so he does, takes a big chomp and makes a dinosaur noise that has Joanie shrieking and laughing.

“Okay, munchkin,” he says, swinging her around onto his back and trotting through the house, purposely jostling her. “Beddy-bye time, which means it’s time for teeth brushing!”

“Can you sing the song?”

Eddie fights back a groan. Somehow, he’d forgotten this was coming. “Sure thing, Joanie. Let’s get some toothpaste on that brush, alright?”

They do, and Joanie looks at him expectantly. “Sing it, Daddy! Sing it!”

“Brush your teeth, up and down. Brush your teeth, ‘round and ‘round. Brush your teeth from left to right, brush your teeth in the morning and night.”

He goes through the entire song, helpless to the smile that grows as Joanie bops happily along to his singing. “Okay, baby bug,” he says finally, standing behind her with a brush. “How d’you want your hair tonight?”

Regardless of the rat’s nest it will be in the morning, Joanie refuses to sleep if her hair is at all in her face. Steve and Eddie started with simple braids until she discovered the magic of YouTube tutorials, which makes the bedtime routine both longer and less mundane.

“Two Elsa braids,” she says, resolutely not learning the proper name and instead using the one Eddie had jokingly said once.

“Two Elsa braids, coming up,” he says, because it’s cute and he’s not going to dissuade her.

“Can we do beads?”

“Beads are a daytime hairstyle, ‘member, munchkin?”

Joanie pouts at him in the mirror. “But they’re pretty!”

“They are pretty, but they won’t stay while you sleep. They’ll fall out, and then you’ll wake up in the middle of the night ‘cause you’re laying on beads, and you’ll wake us up, and then we’ll all be cranky.” Not that that exact thing had happened.

She narrows her eyes at him, trying to find a way around it, then finally huffs and agrees. “Okay.”

“You’ll look pretty even without the beads,” Eddie promises her. “And Elsa doesn’t have beads, remember?”

“Yeah, but Daddy, Elsa’s got magic powers!”

“That she does.”

Joanie pretends to shoot Eddie with her Elsa powers, and Eddie freezes in the middle of the first braid. “I can’t move,” he says, not moving his lips. “You froze me!”

Joanie giggles. “Unfreeze, Daddy!”

He dramatically relaxes and sighs. “Oh, good! Thank you!”

He finishes doing her hair and chases her into her room, where she picks out her pajamas: a pink shirt with ballet-dancing kittens, and a neon-green pair of leggings. “Bold choice,” Eddie comments. “You wanna do it yourself? Or do you want me to help you?”

“I wanna do it,” Joanie says, just like Eddie knew she would.

A few minutes later, she huffs, frustrated. “Daddy, help,” she asks, just like Eddie knew she would.

He helps rescue her from her shirt that had somehow become sentient long enough to wrap around her head, then gets her pants on and tucks her into bed before pressing a long, loud kiss to her forehead. “Nighty-night, Joanie-bug,” he murmurs. “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.”

Joanie giggles. “Only Joanie-bugs allowed in my bed!” She declares, and Eddie chuckles. “That’s right.”

He moves toward the door where Steve’s waiting to press a kiss to his husband’s forehead. “Sorry I was so busy.”

“You were working,” Steve murmurs. “It’s fine. I’ll come join you when I’m done, m’kay?”

“I’m gonna be in the studio for at least another hour tonight, babe,” Eddie says apologetically.

“Then I guess I’ll come keep you company.” He presses a quick kiss to Eddie’s lips before shoving him out the door. “Go work, I’ll be there in a bit.”

“Sir yes sir,” Eddie salutes, marching back to his studio.

The next time he surfaces, it’s to a tugging at his sleeve. He blinks, glances at the clock—10:37—and turns, ready to apologize to Steve, only to see Joanie.

A quick look reveals no Steve anywhere in the studio, so Eddie thinks he’s probably in bed. “Hey, munchkin,” he murmurs, picking her up and setting her in his lap. “We put you to bed an hour ago, what’s going on? Bad dream?”

Joanie shakes her head before resting it on Eddie’s shoulder. “Papa’s snoring.”

Eddie blinks. Steve does snore, but not loud enough she should be able to hear it from her room. “Oh,” he says quietly. “Did he fall asleep before finishing the story?”

Joanie nods against his shoulder, and he sighs as he cuddles her closer, once again saving his project before completely shutting the computer down for the night. “M’kay, Joanie-bug, let’s go get Papa into his own bed.”

“Daddy?” She asks on the way to her room.

“Yeah, baby?”

“Why’s Papa so tired?”

Eddie sighs. “He’s a teacher, sweet pea. He does a lot all day. And he loves his job, but it is very tiring. Then he comes home and cooks, ‘cause he’s better at it than I am. And there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be done around the house.”

Joanie’s quiet for a second. “And me?” She finally asks.

Eddie’s heart stutters painfully. “No, baby,” he murmurs. “Your Papa and I love you, so much, okay?”

“Okay,” Joanie agrees, wrapping her arms around his neck. “I love you too, Daddy.” After a few seconds of thought, she says, “Are there cooking videos on YouTube? Like for hair?”

Eddie blinks. “To learn how to do it? Yeah, I think so.”

Joanie nods. “You should watch those. And cook for Papa.”

Eddie chuckles. “Maybe I will,” he agrees, stopping short in the doorway to smile at the sight in front of him.

The bedside lamp is on and Steve, glasses askew, is halfway on the bed, on top of the covers. The book is open in his lap, hands still holding on to the sides. He is, as Joanie had said, snoring.

Eddie kisses Joanie’s forehead and puts her into bed beside Steve before taking the book from Steve’s lax hands, shutting it and putting it on her bedside table before kissing Steve’s forehead. “Stevie, baby,” he murmurs. “Wake up.”

Steve’s eyebrows scrunch and his eyes flutter beneath his closed lids before he takes an extra-deep breath and his eyes open. “Eds?” He murmurs. “What’s wrong?”

“You’ve gotta get up,” Eddie murmurs. “This isn’t your bed.”

He watches as Steve processes his words then looks around. He sees the confusion morph into understanding when he sees Joan. “Oh,” Steve murmurs. “Sorry, Joanie.”

“‘S okay, Papa,” Joanie answers. “You should go to bed.”

Steve chuckles tiredly and kisses her forehead. “I am, right now,” he promises. “Night, Joanie.”

“Night, Papa. Night, Daddy!”

“Night, Joanie-bug,” Eddie answers, wrapping his arm around Steve’s waist, half as a hug and half to help his husband stay steady.

“Sorry, Eds,” Steve murmurs. “Meant to join you.”

“It’s alright,” Eddie promises. “How about tomorrow I take Joanie out early for breakfast and let you sleep in?”

Steve frowns. “But you have work.”

“I’ve done the majority of it already,” Eddie answers. “You could take her out tomorrow afternoon if you want. Or just have a movie marathon here. I’ll finish up what I have to do. Tomorrow’s Saturday, right? So I’ll finish tomorrow, then Sunday I can make waffles for all of us. How’s that sound?”

Steve hums. “Good, ‘sides the you cooking part of it.”

“Oh, you little shit,” Eddie says delightedly, pressing a kiss to Steve’s temple. “Just you wait, you’ll understand the power of YouTube tutorials.”

Steve chuckles, quiet, tired, but no less full of love. “I can’t wait.”

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#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #kid fic #is this what constitutes a kid fic? #or is that when the characters turn into kids #asking the important questions here #it’s 3:20am #I wrote this in like. two hours #send help #just an excuse to write fluff honestly #starambles

[mariuslepual]

no but actually the fun fact about oxygen and carbon dioxide?? we can't measure well-being directly, we can only detect it by measuring that which is toxic. and it has to be kept in balance, because too much of it and we die but not enough and we can't know if we're living.

THAT'S WHAT THE FIX MAKES SURE OF. he has to maintain focus to function but too much control and elias can't thrive. that's what he's asking for!! tell me what's wrong in the city so I can know if it can be saved!!!

#am I making sense it's 3:20am #dimension 20 #mentopolis #hanks fun fact are just so good!!!!!

[futuristichedge]

More of these guys

#sth #sonic the hedgehog #espio the chameleon #silver the hedgehog #espio #silver #its 3:20am. time for bed #quick doodles turned into a postable drawing turned into ''I need to color these'' and. yeah #my art #doodles

[loaflovesdoodling]

FINALLY AAAAURGHAGAHAGSG BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS IN THE LAST FOUR DAYS JUST FOR THIS I'M GOING TO CRY

time taken: 15hrs

program used: Ibispaint X :33

#kirby ocs #sir pleiades #miss dulciana #oc ship #dulciades #oc comic #ship comic #it's like #3:20AM now #yeah I'll go to sleep

[summeringminor]

wet rat girlfaggot (honorific)

#it’s 3:20am i have to get up in 4hs. but. downloaded new drawing programme and lost all sense of time. #it’s not like it’s the last day before my final critique and I have so much yet to do ahaha #sketch #tlt art #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #the locked tomb fanart #the locked tomb #locked tomb #tlt #locked tomb fanart #tlt fanart #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #ianthe #cw ianthe tridentarius

[shegottosayit]

- Andrew Scott and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Roaring Trade (2009)

- Andrew Scott and Phoebe Waller-Bridge at the 2023 GQ Men of the Year Awards

#andrew scott #phoebe waller bridge #fleabag #as <3 pwb and pwb <3 as #5:20am

[jeetlebeetle]

OH YEAH Gravity Falls never gets old- XD

Since Vox wasn’t aware of the dating sim game that has haunted by Lilith. Vox is a technology nerd. Alastor was obsessed by Lilith.EXE (Yes, I’d like to call her Lilith.EXE.)

I would imagine Lucifer gets angry reaction that Alastor for took his favorite waifu game character 😂😂😂

Hahaha its such a good show! I havent watched it in forever 😂😂

If it was Vox’s first and then he pressured Al into playing it, i love that Vox wasn’t her type so he was spared thats so funny! I could see him getting really offended/ indignant about it like “I’m sorry, what do you MEAN you’re not interested? You’ve SEEN Alastor, right?” Not because he wants Lilith.EXE to want him but because CLEARLY he’s better than Alastor is that woman BLIND??? Pure ego, i love Vox sm 😂😂

Or would he be jealous because no one is allowed to stalk Alastor but HIM thank you very much and how dare she do it so efficiently! Very rude!! How can he compete with such effective methods?!

OMG LUCIFER NOOOOO— it reminds me of like the stereotype of an Obsessive Anime Fan (like the parody tiktok account with the vaporeon stuffie or Sensei LaDew) where he has his fave waifu body pillow and a TON of merch and “NO GUYS SHUT UP SHES REAL TO ME WE’RE IN A COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP 🥺👉🏻👈🏻”. When he finds out that ALASTOR STOLE HIS GIRL??? Oh, he’s done-zo. He just stomps up to Al in all of his 5’4” glory and freaks The Hell Out. Loses his Goddamn Mind. I just imagine Al standing there like “:-) ……. Who’re you? :-)c” and of course he just starts screaming LOUDER cause how DARE this asshole steal his girl and then have the audacity to not even know who he is!

I like to imagine a Vox x Alastor x Lucifer team up to try and stop them all for their own reasons. Alastor cause he is like “im aroace lolol”; Lucifer cause he’s having a JD level spiral of “you were meant to be mine” proportions; and Vox either because he wants to reclaim the throne of No. 1 Alastor Stalker or because he’s so miffed abt her “shitty taste in men” and he has “nothing better to do”. Bonus points if they become unlikely friends by the end of it 🤩🤩

#its 3:20am im so sleepy but the inbox called to me like a sweet siren song #Giffany AU #hazbin hotel #alastor #vox #lucifer #lilith #alastor x lilith #lilistar #radiofemme #radiostatic #staticradio #answers #anon

[sherbetlemonss]

Fenro doodles!! I love them very much🤲🤲

#ducktales #ducktales art #ducktales 2017 #dt 17 #dt17 #ducktales fenton #ducktales gyro #gyro gearloose #fenton crackshell cabrera #fenro #my art #I love them #it’s 01:20am </3 #I’m tired #I miss them sm guys

[whisperofthewaves]

of course it's bloody full moon

#why else would I be awake at 3:20am reading a book while facing the threat of 8h workday in the morning #nothing important

[lilacthebooklover]

Hi! I'm the one that read Dehumanization and got inspired to write my own thing, which is done now if you wanted to read it!

Thank you again for writing Dehumanization, it was such a fantastic read and it was great to go back and re-read bits while I was writing mine. Hope the writing of the Uncle Paul AU third chapter is going well, can't wait to see where it goes next ! :)

-Wel

hey!! sorry for replying to this so late aaah, i'm going through my ask box and just read through this. you're so sweet!

once again, "my home, my saviour, my firefighter" is a work of art that everyone should go read, and as is its sequel "ghosted coffee (poisoned food)". your writing is phenomenal, you're one of my sweetest mutuals, and it's a joy to read both your fics and your comments! have an incredible day/night <333

#fic rec #srsly it's so good #both of them are! #i mean i've only read the first half of the 2nd so far #but the writing is top-tier!! #and i fully intend to finish it! <3 #(just maybe not at 12:20AM ahsjskhj) #starkid #team starkid #hatchetverse #hatchetfield #uncle paul au #paul matthews #starkid fanfic #hey melissa #we took #traumatized paul matthews #and ran with him #and also #dead ted spankoffski #which for some reason isn't an ao3 tag yet #guys his 2 things are liking sex and being dead #and neither of them are mentioned in his tags #smh #ted spankoffski

[charlescherie]

his soul might be a sun.

#hi! my attempt to do one of those aesthetic pretty posts #not exactly a web weave but oh WELL #the post came up on my dash and it just. it just fits. #he's the sun!!!!! #charles leclerc #charles #web weave #(meh?????) #have scheduled this for 10:30am cause it's currently 3:20am and it'll get LOST 💀

[kaeyaphile]

i’m half asleep but i’m feeling very needy and emotional so i may have written a silly little aventurine blurb because i care him

#kayleigh.txt #dunno if i should post it tbh i am. so exhausted right now lmfao #i have a bunch of stuff to do tomorrow... or ig later today since it’s 3:20am #i usually write my fics when i am like. deliriously tired and/or half asleep #which is why i am absolutely never happy with any of them #(i’m feeling needy and emotional because i’m menstruating and simultaneously having a bad fibromyalgia flareup)

[tittyinfinity]

I don't think that kids should be exclusively homeschooled, but I also don't think that kids should be going to a building with hundreds of people 5 days a week during a pandemic. It's one of the main reasons why it keeps spreading so rapidly and won't go away. They don't take any preventative measures at schools anymore (at least not around here). You got kids? You're getting sick. Your coworker has kids? You're getting sick.

Schools are back to counting attendance. You can't even keep your kid home long enough to recover from covid before sending them back. They literally send a "truancy" (police) officer to your house if you keep them home too often.

I feel like we could be doing something better. I'm not entirely sure what the solution is. But this isn't it.

#.bdo #I tried homeschooling 3 kids at the beginning of the pandemic my ADHD is way too bad for that #this doesn't even touch on how I think the modern public school system needs to be abolished and rebuilt #the kids don't get enough breaks bullying isn't properly addressed the history they teach them is biased and/or outdated #attendance policies are ableist and classist and a fuck #PE shouldn't be something you're graded on and exercises should be given based on the individual child's abilities and needs #there should be more counselors and actual child psychologists in the building #school breakfast and lunches should always be free for every kid (thankfully they started doing that here in my town a year ago) #there should be different times of the day you can drop your kid off instead of one set starting time and one ending time #to work with different people's work and sleeping schedules #kids should not be required to be at school before 9 am but we have schools starting between 6:50am-7:20am now #my school years would have been 10000% easier if I could have started at 11am instead #kids need to be met at their level instead of forcing the same curriculum on everyone #MORE TEACHERS! More than one per classroom! Why are we making one person watch 30 kids at once! #this needs to be a whole separate post but I needed to get this rant out now

[watasemasaru]

#4am spaghetti at 3:20am who give a shit

[malboraslihan]

hi friends <3 i think it might be obvious at this point since i pretty much dipped on my tumblr threads but i’m going discord exclusive for now. i have work starting again in about two weeks and discord is just easier and quicker for me, not to mention i can use it on my phone so.. you guys get it. i’d love to continue writing with all of you, but i understand a lot of people prefer only writing on tumblr. either way, if you’re interested in having a server with me so we can write together, please like this or message me cause i’d love more writing partners. 

quick note: if we had a server before and i deleted or you deleted/left, no hard feelings at all. we can start things from scratch and try again <3 

also, this is already in my rules but ig it’s worth mentioning again, but i work a lot better with pre plotted threads or when we have at least one plot bunny to go from.. i love chemistry and i’ll sometimes engage but i’ve found my muse works a lot better when i can plot/plan things through before starting things. if that’s not your cup tea, no problems. 

i’ll leave under read more some of the muses i’ve been having the most muse lately and that i’d love more things for. (doesn’t mean all my other muses aren’t open to plotting but yk)

pretty much all my hawthornes but mostly

arthur hawthorne (jacob elordi)

hunter hawthorne (ryan manick)

benny hawthorne (dylan o’brien)

jean hawthorne (aron piper)

daphne ventura (alana champion)

grace hawthorne (mia ellingsen)

and now the others ig <3

giovana carneiro (cindy mello)

lola marquez (lizeth selene)

mei azuma (kazuha)

prija malai (fah yongwaree)

maddie ventura (bridget satterlee)

pinar pulat (meltem akçol)

yasemin kaplan (aslihan malbora)

andrew clarke (jordan lewis tucker)

benny thompson (keith powers)

lorenzo bianchi (drew starkey)

keegan mitchell (cody christian)

#it's 5:20am so i'll def message people tomorrow! #but yes hi <3 #i'd love new partners and more things #and i'll try to keep up with stuff for real this time #so yes #*