inspired by a conversation i walked past during my commute this morning
Eddie is outside when Steve arrives home from work, sitting on the front porch and waiting for their daughters’ bus to drop them off from school.
“Hey!” Eddie grins as Steve makes his way up the steps, “You’re home early.”
“Last client of the day canceled,” he replies, and he grabs Eddie’s hands to pull him to his feet and into a long kiss.
“I love you,” Steve said when he pulled away, snaking his arms around Eddie’s waist to hold him close, “So much.”
“I love you too, Stevie,” Eddie laughed, “Something happen today?”
“Not really. There’s just this guy – the guy who started at my practice last month.”
“The one you don’t like?” Eddie clarifies.
“Ed – I hate him. He came in all smug and smiling today and looked so thrilled to be there, and someone was like dude, what’s your deal? And he had the audacity to say, my wife is home with two sick kids, so…”
Eddie made a face.
“Like, don’t sound so fuckin’ proud of yourself, man,” Steve continued, shaking his head, “Whatever. Anyways, I looked at his schedule and – get this – he had one client today. At three in the afternoon. So he spent the entire day lounging around the office doing jack shit while his wife was home with a sick baby and toddler.”
“What a prick.”
“Right? Anyways, I just want to make sure you know how much I appreciate you and how you stay home with our ridiculous children while I go to work, and that I’m thinking about you guys all day, and all I ever really want is to be home with you.”
“I know you do,” Eddie tells him, because he totally does. He knows it in the way Steve’s week is about as short as it’s allowed to be, and in the way he always checks in on Eddie when he gets home to feel out the day he’d had and to give him a “night off” if he needs one.
Steve nods, and then he adds, “When I was leaving I made a whole point of saying, like, headed home to spend time with my husband and children who I adore more than anything.”
“Of course you did.”
“Kind of forgot he’s also a licensed and practicing therapist so he totally knew I was being passive aggressive.”
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HELP we had a woman in the library just now CLEARLY reading from a list of books being targeted for censorship in public & school libraries (presumably so she can read them & turn around to bitch about how they’re corrupting the children & need to be removed) & me, being an utter shit, checked out looking for alaska & the perks of being a wallflower for her, gave her a big smile and went “oh wow, you have GREAT taste—these were two of my favorites in high school!!!!!!” (which is true) and she looked like she bit into a lemon
listen she didn’t say why she was checking them out so i can only assume it’s due to her love of excellent 90s & 2000s ya fiction 😇😇😇😇
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Guy and Ophelia go on another date! I think this is their third date? I had Guy move out and in with Ophelia, because I plan on getting them married in the next round! Mickey also got a promotion to Culinary Lvl 2.
Also, bonus Liv content! The whole house showers her with love it's so cute.
LOVE: week three
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hii i love your walter art so much i want you to know /status/1383597645818515461 from your twitter is my fav walter art ever and i look at it weekly ❤️
bro I'm cryin' in the club rn thank you so much ... 🥺🥺💖💓💕💖
I don't think I ever posted that here ????? so it feels foreign to see it, I forget about my Twitter most of the time LMAO
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Middle-aged Steve, Eddie, Robin, and Nancy definitely have a group chat once Apple introduces it. They actually love it because it makes it way easier to stay in touch while Robin and Nancy travel.
Steve and Eddie's three daughters are usually the main topic of conversation.
As is the case one morning in October 2013:
Steve: Which one of you got my children to call froot loops gay cheerios
His text is accompanied by a video taken in their kitchen that starts with Steve, behind the camera, asking, “Wait - what did you guys want for breakfast?”. Robbie and Hazel giggle from their seats at the counter as they respond, “Gay cheerios, please,“ and “yeah, gay cheerios.”
Steve's long sigh is cut off when the video ends.
Nancy: Not me.
Steve: I know
Eddie: definitely not me
Eddie: Apple Jacks are way gayer than froot loops
Robin: ???
Robin: in what world are Apple Jacks gayer than Froot Loops?
Steve: Okay so it was Robin
Steve: Great work team
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"Shauna almost beats Lottie to death, and in playing that scene and watching it happen, I sort of physically realized, 'Oh. This is when Van accepts that they're going to start killing and eating each other.' There's a real deepening point of no return that happens there. 'It's violence. We've chosen violence. There is no way out but violence.' And she sinks into that then. [...] I think it was her idea. She’s the person who comes to the group saying, ‘We are not in control of this. We are at the mercy of this place and the power in this place and it is not up to us.’ She presents these things to the group as facts. It’s not a suggestion or question. She’s not brainstorming. She knows exactly what she thinks the course of action will be, and she presents it to the group as though it’s a given. She's the ringleader here." – Liv Hewson ©
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