#summer in the city

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Was he pushed? Boy entering pool, 1952.

Photo: Arthur Leipzig via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

#vintage New York #1950s #Arthur Leipzig #vintage summer #pool #child #boy #urban summer #summer in the city #vintage NYC

[palmtreesx3]

Prologue

SexShop!Steve x Reader : SexShop!Robin x OC

Series Masterlist

Series Summary: Steve and Robin have about had it with Hawkins, so on Robin's 25th birthday, the pair decides that there's nothing holding them there anymore and they start packing their bags. The friends move to Chicago and quickly find an apartment to call their own. As luck would have it, Robin stumbles on a no-strings-attached job offer for both of them - what could be better?! Now just to break the news to Steve…. This multi part story will both explore their platonic relationship and their chaotic experience working at the sex shop together as well as their own paths of self discovery as they plant their roots in their new city and finally deal with the invisible baggage they drug along with them when they moved. 

Warnings: no warnings...this time. Some non cannon relationships in this AU but cannon themes and Easter eggs a-plenty.

Chicago: Summer of 1993

It's only his 5th trip up and down the steps in the last hour, and Steve has about had it. Being left to haul a car full of Robin's personal belongings and boxes up the three flights of spiraling staircases to their brand new apartment building while she goes off in search of dinner and some help wanted signs seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn't until he opened the hatch and saw how MUCH she actually packed did he immediately regret his choice to stay behind. He stood there regretting his current situation in an unfamiliar, bustling and loud city while sweat beaded on his hairline and flush spread across his cheeks in the humid June air.

Muttering to himself as he passes a redheaded teen girl carrying a skateboard who refuses to get out of his way on the staircase, he finally pushes his way through their doorway and he's thankful to feel the window unit he threw in first thing after they arrived starting to rev up and cool down the space. Steve repositions the particularly heavy box full of Robin's things on his hip while he reaches over for his cup of iced water setting on the counter and pooling condensation. Desperate for the reprieve, Steve gulps down an extra large sip and attempts to swallow but all sense of relief washes away as something slams into his whole left side. The glass he is holding ricochets down to the ground while Robin's box of nostalgic memorabilia topples over and spills out too. Hawkins High all over the floor. 

 "Jesus Christ, Robbie, what the hell!?" 

Bending over to start collecting all of Robin's teenage memories, the last threads holding her down to a town that didn't love her as much as she loved it - Steve doesn't hear anything she says when she first lifts her fists over her head and into the air in celebration - barely registering that she body checked the boy as she threw open the door. 

"Rob. Robbie, what the fuck are you saying? You're doing the thing… " he waves his hand in her general direction. 

"Oh fuck, sorry." Closing her eyes, she takes a deep breath to regroup, realizing now that she came in making a whole lot of noise and saying not a damn thing at all.

She takes a deep breath and with a gleam behind her eye proclaims "I landed us a job, Dingus!" Both fists jolting upwards into the air again, he now sees the job applications crumpled up in her fists and yielded like torches. 

"Dude, gimmie that." Steve says. "You're gonna ruin it before I can even fill it out. We can't start a new job being that unprofessional. Christ… . What are we doing anyway? Gotta be better than that restaurant gig we both bombed before we left Indiana."

"Ok so, yeah, yeah this has the potential to be better than that. Definitely better than Family Video. For sure. And there's no stupid costume like Scoops. God. That sucked. We should pretty much know how to do a lot of it already and the manager seems like he's kinda chill. I told him I don't really know much about the ... uh...topic…but uh…that I'm a fast learner and he said we start on Monday and to bring the paperwork with us." She rambles, motioning to the pages Steve now holds in his hand. 

"O-oh kay Robin. Details please. You know them in your head but I don't yet. You-you gotta share." 

"Ha! Yeah! Sorry about that, I mean…." while she trails off and starts to fidget, Steve immediately knows there's more to the story.

"Robbie. What are you not telling me? " 

"It's called The Hideout. It's on Clark St, just a few streets over. 20 minutes walking - tops."

"20 minutes is doable." he says, and then quips back "Man, don't tell me it's a restaurant. I really didn't want to eat shit at that job all over again. I guess I'll take what I can get so we can at least get on our feet… "

" It'snotarestaurantit'sasexshop!" Robin blurts out in one rushed garble of words. 

"I'm sorry, WHAT did you say?" Steve stands with his hands on his hips, looking at her incredulously. "Did you say SEX SHOP?" 

Steve is freaking out. He's immediately embarrassed for something he hasn't even done yet. He can feel the tips of his ears going hot and shades of red staining his face and neck in splotches. Are those hives? She's giving me hives, he thinks to himself.

"What am I supposed to tell people when they ask what I do?! What are we supposed to tell the kids back home when they start to call non-stop? What am I supposed to say to my DAD, Robin?" He can feel her mere existance giving him heart palpitations while she looks on at him sheepishly, shrugging her shoulders. All he can do is focus on his breathing so he doesn't blow a gasket on his friend. 

Among the myriad of other things this move has going for the pair, Robin sees moving to Chicago as her opportunity to live who she is out loud and finally be free of the confines a small town puts on someone who looks a little different, thinks a little different and loves a little different. Steve, just happy for the fresh start and the chance to maybe do things for himself for once, was not really thinking this is how it would all start out, but looking at the excitement on Robin’s face made him soften just a little. 

Now pacing back and forth across the entryway to dispel her nervous energy, she looks on at her exasperated friend and he gives her an almost indistinguishable nod of the head in agreement. She smiles softly at him and says, "Anyway, I distinctly remember you once encouraging me to talk about boobies with you, Steve. Lighten up and get ready for tits, dicks…all of it! I'm ready and this city is my sexual awakening!" 

Divider by @firefly-graphics

Taglist: @livsters

#joe keery #steve harrington #steve harrington x reader #steve harrington smut #steve harrington imagine #steve and robin get a job #steve and robin 4l #robin buckley #robin Buckley x oc #sexshop!robin #sexshop!steve #summer in the city #get off!steve #get off!robin #platonic soulmates stobin #platonic stobin #stobin fanfic #steve and robin fanfic #steve Harrington x you

[latenightsushi]

Not going to lie, right now things are still kind of tough, but at least I'm starting to feel more optimistic about future plans 🤗

X

#sunset #dusk #chicago #skyline #chicago skyline #skyscrapers #city life #summer in the city #citycore #city aesthetic #summer #clouds #latenightsushi

[route22ny]

Coney Island at dusk

June 27, 2017

#coney island #brooklyn #summer in the city #original photography

[hearts-hunger]

“What do you think of Molly?” you asked... he looked across the living room at her. Her emerald eyes widened and she looked away quickly. Danny’s cheeks glowed as he looked back at you. “She’s okay,” he answered... He chuckled, glancing back over to her, admitting it out loud. “She’s pretty far-out.” - Summer In The City by @gretasmokerising

#HI KAIT HERE'S YOUR PRESENT!!!! #i was trying to think of what those pics of danny reminded me of and i was like OH. THAT'S SITC DANNY!!!! #and i love him and molly so much so uhhhh here <33 #everybody go read sitc RIGHT NOW (including me jhBJH) #danny wagner #summer in the city #maddie attempts art!

[lovewithoutragedyy]

NYC summer selfies 🌟

#thegirljt #braids #black woman beauty #nycmodel #citygirljt #city girls #soft black girls #soft life #such a cutie #summer in the city

[lemondedelamode]

Cosima Fritz by Sophie van der Perre

for Madame Figaro March 2024

#cosima fritz #supermodel #beauty #sophie van der perre #fashion editorials #fashion photography #editorial #fashion editorial #fashion #photography #summer in the city #summer love #summer girl #ss24 #madame figaro

[myimaginaryradio]

Summer In The City - Lovin' Spoonful - 1966

#lovin' spoonful #summer in the city #classic rock #60s #city songs #Youtube

[oldieliebe]

Chillout Modus

Was gibt es Schöneres, als einen coolen Oldtimer? Nichts 😂 Cruisen ist mein Lebens-Elixier.

Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Sommerzeit 🍦🍦🍦

www.oldieliebe.de

#summer #sommer #summervibes #sommerzeit #summer in the city #strandurlaub #bulli #bus #vanagon #gipsy #picofthemoment #oldieliebe #hochsommer #oldtimer #roadtrip #lust auf sommer #sommertime #funfact #oldie but goldie #vanlife #camper #campervan #auszeit #draußen zuhause

[antolingarcia69]

Palma. Mallorca.

#photographers on tumblr #street photography #mallorca #beach #candid #summer in the city

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A sprinkler is the inner-city child's maypole. Canal Street, 1937.

Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts via ClassicStock/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1930s #vintage summer #H. Armstrong Roberts #sprinkler #Canal St. #urban life #summer in the city #street scene #street photography #street life

[woundgallery]

Alice Notley

#alice notley #summer in the city #poetry #summer #moods #you go like the blossoms #text #the art of losing isn't hard to master

[latenightsushi]

Finally something good after a year of unwelcome surprises ٩(˘◡˘)۶

X

#sunset #dusk #chicago #chicago skyline #skyline #skyscrapers #city life #city skyline #cityscape #citycore #summer #summer in the city #clouds #latenightsushi

[montrealmagique]

Centre-Sud, Montréal

📷 @wittylittle

#montreal #montréal #molson #pink sky #sunset #summer in the city #original phography

[kpforpresident]

How do ny clexa celebrate their first summer vacation together?

They take Lexa's beat up old "antique" (a rust bucket, as Clarke affectionately calls it) blue short bed Ford out to go camping for the week after they're both out of school for the summer, Lexa finally finished her first year of Law school and Clarke having some time off before starting her final internship of art school.

They drive up to the Catskills, Lexa managing to call in a favor from Anya's old schoolmate to let them borrow their cabin for the weekend.

They spend the weekend reading and lazing in the sunshine, drinking in the free time and each other and the quiet stillness of nature.

When they get back to the city, they carve out pockets of time for each other between Clarke's internship and Lexa's part time job at the local hardware shop (where she works as a favor to Gus). It includes lots of popscicles in front of their fridge in their underwear when their little AC unit breaks, and happy hour cocktails with Clarke's art buddies Wells and Emory on the cute little patio in Brooklyn that they know and love.

Sharing a headphone on the subway line, staggering home tipsily to wait at the cheap, so-greasy-your-fingers-will-shine-but-so-good one dollar slices that exist beside the bodega beneath their apartment.

It's a summer of love and nature and silly giggles and memories.

#ny au #clexa #summer in the city

[antigonipapantoni]

Athens, Greece, 2023

#photography #greece #mobilephotography #portrait #athens #street photography #heatwave #summer in the city