#were getting close to Christmas!!!!

[stevesbipanic]

@steddiemas Day 21: Home

"There that's the last box all done!" Steve said placing the last of the dishware away in the cupboard.

"Eds, did you finish unpacking our clothes?" He called down the hallway to the bedroom. Eddie came out the door and wrapped Steve up in a hug. "Even folded them nicely, we, my dear Stevie, are officially moved in."

It had taken months of saving from both their works, cutting down on eating out, being firmer with the kids' arcade limits but finally they'd saved up enough to put a down payment on a small little house on the edge of Hawkins. Far away from any nosy people that wanted to bang on their door about the devil.

"You know what that means right?"

"We can break in that new mattress we splurged on?"

Steve blushed and playfully slapped Eddie's shoulder, "No! Well, yes, but later, now we get to open the fun boxes."

"The fun box under the bed?"

"Edward!"

"What baby, Wayne is already dropping the kids off, we're finally alone in our home."

The way Eddie said our home made Steve's heart flutter but he was on a mission.

"No, first we gotta put up the Christmas decorations. It's only a week away after all, we're basically behind in Christmas cheer."

Eddie smiled and gave Steve a kiss on the cheek, "I'm going to be dreaming of boxes for weeks."

Switching on the Christmas tree lights for the very first time in their new home felt magical. The soft yellow light spilled through the room, bathing the boys in its glow. Eddie wrapped his arms around the back of Steve as they admired their handiwork.

"Welcome home, sweetheart."

"Welcome home, Eds."

Ao3

#were getting close to Christmas!!!! #but remember steddiemas lasts all December #strangerthings #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #steddiemas #home #first home #moving out together

[sneez]

provocative puritan posing (inspired by this painting)

[id: a digital painting of thomas fairfax sitting at a small table in an interior. he is wearing seventeenth-century military garb, and is resting one hand on the table and holding a glove with the other. his legs are crossed in a manner which looks slightly (though unintentionally) suggestive. end id.]

#fairfax #artwork #if you saw me reblog this the other day you were witness to the exact moment i knew i had to draw this #mostly just because the bloke is wearing a cuirass in the original painting but also because i am gay. we know this #this is very messy i was going to paint over it properly but i actually quite like the effect when it is very sloppy like this so here it is #dont look too closely or you will see just how messy it is. i didnt stay within the lines at all my bad #i am quite happy with it though! partly because i think i captured the way he looks (in my head) and partly because i drew a background for #once. i never ever draw backgrounds and i wasnt even intending to for this one but i started it and then kept going for no reason #obviously not an impressive background by any means. but a background nonetheless :-) #anyway i hope you are all well my friends! i am home for christmas so i am hoping to get lots of drawing done if i get my act together #i love you all very much. look at the puritan. look at him. you want to look at him

[lesbiansanemi]

Do you think if I wish hard enough my mom will get electrocuted by a string of Christmas lights and just go up in a cloud of smoke. It’d be a Christmas miracle

#I’m not even DOWN THERE YET and I want to fucking KILL HER #I have to work Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. I live four hours away from my family #I told her this MANY TIMES I said I’ll drive down after work on Christmas Eve be there Christmas morning but I need to leave by 3-4 to get #home at a reasonable hour so I can have time to unpack/catch up on a couple days of chores/get plenty of sleep #she called me last night and told me she didn’t schedule Christmas stuff until SIX PM #and when I said why tf did you do that I’m not staying that late #she got mad and upset and was like ‘it’s the only time everyone is free :(‘ #BUT THEN proceeded to tell me we were having lunch with her HUSBAND’S family at noon #(ppl I am not close with never have been literally don’t talk to) #and everyone I know is like ‘just leave when you said you were going to anyways’ #and like yeah I could but then my family is gonna be ENRAGED that I didn’t do Christmas stuff with them #and they’re like ‘well explain that your mom didnt listen to when you said you needed to leave’ #but the thing is. no matter what. they’re going to take her side #I should sacrifice my time and comfort to spend time with them because they’re FAMILY #never mind that literally not a SINGLE ONE OF THEM has EVER come up to visit me #IM always expected to drive down there. but that sacrifice doesn’t count it’s not good enough #but if I stay that late I won’t be getting home until AT LEAST midnight or later #cuz my family has no fucking concept of time so if it starts at six that means it doesn’t ACTUALLY start until 7 so most of them might be #there by 8 so I’ll be expected to stay until at least 10 to sufficiently catch up with all of them #I’m going to scream I’m going to cry #if I leave early I’m the awful ungrateful terrible bitch who never comes to see any of them #but none of them could adjust their days by just a few hours to see me before I needed to leave #FOR MY FUCKING JOB !!!!!!!! SOMETHING COMPLETELY OUT OF MY CONTROL #and like the thing is. my piece of shit manipulative bitch mother #I KNOW she did this on purpose #I know she didn’t plan this until six to FORCE me to stay longer because she was mad I wasn’t staying long #(again… because of work… something I can’t control) #so she’s orchestrated this to put me in this position #where I have to suck it up and stay and be exhausted and have tired migraines for a week cuz I get only a couple hours of sleep and then #or leave and make everyone pissed. I hate her so FUCKING much

[septimus-heap]

My parents r atheists with christian parents which means that me and my sibling r atheists with atheist parents. One side effect of this is that christmas is a Big Deal to my parents but I'm atheist enough that christmas has basically no meaning to me outside of "the time of year I get free stuff"

#sep talks #like it's nice to get presents and see family or whatever but there's nothing fundamentally special abt christmas day #as opposed to every other day #we could do christmas early or late and I probably wouldn't notice #idk. It just came up the other day when I was talking to my parents #bc my aunt is hosting and she doesn't have much room so I said oh well I could stay home #and my parents were like oh but it feels wrong for u to be all alone on christmas #and it's like well. To u maybe. To me it is just another day #it feels so weird. U atheist-ed too close to the sun and now ur kids don't believe in christmas as a special time #I have the same kind of feelings abt halloween like it's whatever. Doesn't rlly mean anything to me #but it feels weirder abt christmas. Bc I WAS brought up celebrating it. But its like none of it stuck ahdunfidndj

[cythanadiel]

local puppy too excited to sit still for family picture

#it took them almost an hour and a lot of tries to get ONE picture done #they were both so close to crack up at bamse whenever she started moving right before the pic was taken #anyway merry chrysler everyone #valorant sova #valorant breach #valorant #bamse #sova #breach #christmas #valorant fanart #valorant art #tremorbolt #fanart #digital art #my art #cythandraws #christmas art

[marclef]

i wonder if you’ve grown to like frogs because of fake pep

honestly? i've been a big fan of frogs ever since i was little, fake peppino just appeals to my love of that + weird little guys

though i DID get extremely excited when i first went through his boss fight with a friend, and shouted during his jump attack "HE'S FROG"

and then War comes along and theres dozens of fake peppino clones running around ribbiting at you. i think that awoke something in my brain.

#frogs are just extremely wonderful creatures. one christmas i was literally gifted a book about frogs because they knew how much i liked em #perfectly shaped little guys. nature was so right when they were cooking up these creatures. #big mouth? check. big dopey eyes? check. little webbed feets? check. big stretchy jump legs? absolutely. #and TONGUE for eating delicious foods with because sometimes getting close to what you wanna eat is too much effort. #side note. fake's probably gonna show off a lot of Frog stuff coming up in my comic things. he deserves it though. he's a good boy. #i've gotten the first few panels drawn out so thats good progress right? god i hope so.

[mqonlighting]

real talk in the tags for a second because i have a crush on a girl and i. a hehe. ahehehe.

will be burying this in reblogs and never touching on it again

#so random disclaimer this girl is like a year older than me and in high school it’s like a nono for older and younger batch to like be #a thing so i know i generally have no chance but i like to live in my own insanity and the progression of my crush on her has been absolute #ly cuckoo bananas. so like it started out as ‘i wanna be your friend’ and progressed into ‘shit they’re really pretty’ to ‘wow ur so??’ to #‘fuck i like them’ and then it died down and then by all golly it came back but more of a hallway crush now which is bearable bc i’m #not really a part of their life?? like we know each other but we don’t wave and shit and we don’t like ever interact that much so i was lik #ok this is fine bc they literally never think of me so i’m just admiring from afar. and the FIRST inciting incident was i request them onig #and i expect to not get accepted because according to their friends they onyl accept close friends and i’m like k this is a bad idea probs #but the worst that could happen is i get left in their follow requests right?? RIGHT?? but then within like two hours of reqing. lord. #i got. ACCEPTED. and they requested back. and suddenly it’s +1 tangibility like ok?? maybe we’re not as strangers as i thought we were #i later discovered i was not that special for this but also?? cool?? anyways for a while it kind of laid dead and we never spoke at all eve #tho i was in their acc now (at this time they barely posted but whenever they did it was so?? funny like they would slap the randomest shit #on that acc) and it was still a hallway crush altho my friends r awful (/pos) people who would always make me pass their hallway and i #would run into them so often but at this point we only ever like exchanged glances and they would walk right past me like i wasnt even ther #but THEN the second incident happened which was basically we had to play instruments for this christmas event thing and bc they’re literall #y amazing they played for it and i was roped into it and. i was so gay the whole time. bc who wears a leather jacket to school and gets the #prettiest haircut ever right on the last day before a long break?? and the worst part is whenevr something confusing happened they would #turn to me and this one other person and we’d b laughing together. like we r friends. and they’re so fucking nice they were checking up on #us the whole time i was literally dying i kept dropping my pick and stealing looks AURURUGH and they’re so gen funny and interesting i just #and the first few days of holiday break i just couldn’t stop thinking abt them it was so bad? like that was the moment where i was genuinel #like is this more than a hallway crush… eventually it died back down until the next event we had to play together where they were being SO #SO much more comf w me? like exchanging knowing looks when smt funny happens and that stuff.. at this point i didnt even know what to like #think of my crush on them so i just let it be yk. atp they’re not even waving at me in the hallways at all still so maybe they’re just bein #nice! BUT NO. THAT IS UNTIL I AUDITIONED FOR A BAND (theyr in charge of accepting) AND THEY ACCEPTED ME WHICH COOL BUT LIKE A DAY LATER I #HEARD FROM OUR MUTUAL FRIEND THAT THEY SAID ‘yeaa im so happy i got (my name)’ AS IN IN THE BAND. LIKE. HELLO?? HI U THIUGHT ABT ME?? and #during the first band mtg where everyone’s all awk they kept making eye contact w me and asking if i was good and making sure i got to say #smt before anyone made a decision and it. murdered. me. i’m sorry maybe it’s the fanfic writer in me or this shit is literally nothing and #think they’re just nice to everyone but who cares bc it means they’re nice to ME too. and then last week happened. which was like the nail #in the coffin. INTERACTION ACTIVITY. I IMPULSIVELY ASK IF THEY WANNA B GROUPMATES AND THEY SAY YES. THEY ONLY TALK TO ME AND THEIR FRIENDS. #I ACT STUPID. THEY ALUGH AND TOUCH MY SHOULDER. I ASK ABT THEIR CAMERA AND THEY GO ON A LONG-ISH (cute) RANT ABT SMTH. THEY ASK WHY I HAVE #BIG ASS STACK OF POST ITS. WE TALK. THEY LAUGH AT MY JOKES. SUDDENLY. THEY SAY A FULL HELLO IN THE HALLS. THEY WAVE AT ME A DAY LATER. FUCK

[autumnhobbit]

It is an odd and humbling experience to read the names on gravestones and the birth & death dates

#the gravestone i painted was for a guy who was born the same year i was #it's strange to think about because he died in 2020 and it's like. i was getting ready to spend my first christmas married #and you were dead before christmas #now i'm still here going on and your kids are fatherless for the rest of their lives #seeing people who got married on my birthday or were born on a loved one's birthday #or died on a loved one's birthday #seeing people the same age or a little older or younger than my parents' stones #knowing i'm probably the same age or around the same age as their kids #previously would have been bad for my anxiety but it does make you think about how many people are losing someone they love every day #and a reminder to hold your loved ones close and not take them for granted #don't put off spending time with them if you want to

[hellhoundlair]

venting sorry. i get emotional thinking of the media both me and my dad loved growing up and the father daughter bonds that were the highlights of those movies and tv shows to him and i feel like i failed

#my dad and i used to watch adventure time together and my dad LOVED simon and marcy and he learnt daddy why did you eat my fries on the #guitar and i used to sing it with him. and one time when i was 14 ish and severely depressed and anxious we had people over #and my dad was talking about adventure time lmao and was getting his guitar and wanted me to sing it with him and i just said NO. #because i was mad at him. and embarassed. and we never sung it together ever again. its been too long now. that window has closed. #but i wish we could #my relationships with my dad never really recovered after my teen years and its hard to talk to him. #i wish i could talk to him. we are really similar. in the bad ways too #vent #SORRY GUYS i need to find a therapist #my family just never talks abt their feelings. or when they do its when theyre angry. i dont feel like i can bring this up to them. #i just hate knowing i rejected my dad like that. he probably saw me not wanting to sing w him as very personal. not that hed ever say it #AND FUCKIN INTERSTELLAR me and my dad both loved interstellar at a time when i was -again- severely depressed and locking myself in my room #and the father and daughter go have scenes that feel very similar to things that were going on in my house at the time. where shes #baracading the door and not letting people in. it rly hit home is what im saying #and my dad loved the movie i loved it too but the family relationships in the movie were never discussed whenever we talked abt it #but for christmas one year my dad gave me a watch. like the one fuckin matthew mcconoughey give his daughter in the movie #and i wear it all the time. it makes me fuckin cry sometimes that stupid fucking watch. but it means so much. #i just wish hed talk abt his fucking feelings so i wouldnt need a watch to know my dad still loves me #also this post is about transitioning and my dad feeling like he lost that father daughter bond with me but we wont get into all that

[nordic-language-love]

So many people saying online check in isn't reliable but literally I have never had issues checking in online before which is why I'm stressing to high heaven lmao

#i always bitch about ryanair but y'know what? check-in is always reliable #easyjet? no issues #jet2? no issues #singapore airlines? no issues #virgin? no issues #british airways? no issues #ANA? no issues #lufthansa? had an issue printing a boarding pass at gardermoen but the actual online check-in was fine #flybe? worst fucking travel experience of my life so far and yet the online check-in was no problem #air china? ALL the issues :) #i fucking read the reviews with people talking about all the issues they had too and i was like ohh well it'll probs be fine #air china were the only flights left so not like i had much choice #ughh probs just gonna try and go to the airport stupid early #if no one's there to help i'll try online check-in again on my phone #if i'm still having issues i'll call them and at least by then their customer service line will be open #guess i'm getting what i paid for lmao this close to christmas booked 5 days in advance only £900 #anyway thanks for your comforting messages i feel a little better knowing other people experience online check-in problems #christmas homecoming crisis

[holographicbutch]

The world does not want me to go to my favorite restaurant

#i was planning on going there for lunch today but. i had an episode this morning and the weather is going bad #why is it always windy and rainy on the weekends 😭 #the last time i drove up there they were closed on a day theyre normally open so im guessing smth happened #i would simply like to check in and eat yummy food... and get my mom those eggs she likes (even though theyre absolutely disgusting akchskx) #i havent been in since before christmas and the owner gave me an entire giant cinnamon roll for free 😭 theyre literally so nice to me #skele says stuff #i am so drained i do not want to make lunch... but i dont want to drive rn either... aaaaugh #i honestly might say fuck it and just get taco bell today. ill make the drive next week if the weather is nice

[nerdie-faerie]

Apparently I timed my quitting perfectly

#work tag #the new manager is absolutely awful and since hes taken over nothings been done properly #the managers that are left are sick of everything they barely do anything on shift the slackers are worse than ever #the newbies dont take anything seriously or have any common sense whatsoever so its just completely downhill #we had an EHO visit last week on the boss' close had lost a star on our rating as a result so the area manager came in a couple days later #he bollocked our boss for the way hes been acting but then he went right back to being a prick #so apparently after i left last night the district manager visited and they had to shut the store early for cleaning #but this was after my manager told me that the boss has been blaming everyone for the state of things but #when they offered to close the store and do a deep clean he refused because of money #the district manager was not happy he pulled both managers aside and now theyre gonna have to close the store for a deep clean #but they might also have to shut down temporarily to get everything sorted but the thing is since this new guy took over only about #half of the closing cleaning tasks have been being done because close is usually made up of the slackers and they just dont wanna do #anything properly its been an ongoing issue for months now and now its catching up with them cus theyve got in the habit of not doing it #one of my managers has kept saying he doesnt think the store will last until Christmas but everyone else is sure were gonna be shut #well before that point like its gotten the bad its part of why i quit #anyway i just got the rundown from my coworker who was on close when this all went down last night

[patheticbatman]

Collage posting!

I’ve made others that are more patterned (like flowers) but these were made for specific people, so yeah. The Pegasus one is the closest to my usual work.

I’m going to put these into my book covers for the coloring books/collection of stories that I write (see the last picture, I use them as inside cover decoration)

#please excuse the Christmas one #my grandmother’ bday is very close to Christmas so I made both around the same time #the birthday (based off of a card I received myself) Xmas and cat one are for my grandmother #the manatee and Pegasus are for a little girl I know (though she won’t be getting these for a couple years) #and the horse and dog one are for my mom #because that’s her horse and her dog #unfortunately I was feeling cocky and I showed it to her yesterday #and she was like ‘thanks! I’ll take this right now and use it as decoration for my RV’ #and it’s Kind of hard to say no to that #so I’m going to have to make her a new one I guess #I didn’t want to draw anymore horses :’) #surprisingly it was the nose this time that gave me trouble #the legs were still hard but this time I redrew the nose more than anything

[technoxenoholic]

anyway. i hate when i'm trying to find information that will help me find things that fit my body better for physical comfort reasons, and literally all of the search results EVEN WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT COMFORT are actually just about how to look "best" according to western beauty standards. have you fucking people ever heard of pain before. i'm trying to fucking avoid it. go fuck yourselves

#stfu blue #the current struggle is glasses #most kinds of nose bridge don't have enough room so they just hurt #and if i spread the nose pads wide enough to NOT hurt they are no longer angled correctly so 1) they fall down & 2) they hurt in a new way #the 'comfort bridge' is insanely fucking painful. i know. it's super ironic isn't it. ha ha ha. #but yeah. i'm going to be buying from zenni optical once i get my new prescription because like hell can i afford optician glasses prices #so i won't be able to try them on before i get them... and i'm trying to look for like. keywords i guess. things to look out for #i still have to make an optometrist appointment but listen it's the holiday season and everything is closed i'm doing my best out here #i wish stores were not closed over christmas. fuck christmas. we don't need this shit. be closed for other holidays instead

[socraticmethadon3]

had such a warm and cozy christmas. drove to san diego with my dad + had dinner with my 3rd grade best friend's family. she flew in from boston and i haven't seen her in 2 years!! her family is wonderful and hilarious. i'm super close with her parents bc they live 15 minutes from the monastery, and they've hosted me a bunch of times. i said i'll come back for a weekend visit, and her dad was like "or for a week. or a month. we have a bedroom with your name on it" i loveeeeeeee them

#they call me their adopted daughter and they treat me like it!! like they spoil tf out of meeee idk what i did to deserve this #they gave me so many clothes and giftcards for christmas #the dad is an engineer for playstation and he's so chill. it's fun eavesdropping on his meetings when he works from home #i can talk deep spirituality with them and they've visited the monastery with me a bunch of times #we get along so well sometimes i forget they're my friend's parents #like we just vibe #they also hosted me for the immediate week after my mentor died so i wouldn't be alone. like they were there for the THICK of it #so we're v close

[bunnyb34r]

Well glad to know I'm not the only one not feeling the Christmas season this year. Mom isnt either

Now we dont know why, but here are my guesses. Feel free to place your bets.

Is it:

Bc our aunt/great-aunt died and essentially dissolved the family

|_> Bc of this we've faced so much bullshit from the surviving family we have left.

Bc the only remaining family we have are major assholes aside from like 4 people.

Long covid?

Work stress/ working under a tyrant piece of shit.

Bc I'm an adult now so the *magic* is gone?

All of the above??

#marquilla #we still havent made cookies and are like i want the cookies but i dont want to make the cookies... #so we agreed we can do it after christmas if need be #i really think it's all of that combined. like my g-aunt dying really tore this family apart. we weren't like close close before but i mean #everyone started taking sides (the executors (my mom) vs my cousins. like listen you motherfuckers she left you [insert number bc i also #got this amount and am not disclosing]. you little freaks need to get over the fact that she loved me as much as if not more than you. #maybe bc i wasn't a fucking entitled brat and was always a polite well behaved child (for her) and didnt take my mommy/daddy issues out on #her. you already got: 2 free cars. 3 fully paid for weddings. 4 college degrees (one that you're not even using bc you havent worked since #college bc you became a tradwife. (not dissing stay at home moms im dissing her making college a BIG DEAL for her and then just #essentially saying haha thanks for the 100k in tuition but no ❤). COUNTLESS hours and money poured #into your lives from her and our g-uncle. amongst the 4 of you. (only 1 is not a brat but thats bc they pretend she doesnt exist bc shes #annoying and autistic so a drain on them they were ever so happy to dump on their dad) #you aren't entitled to any of that. that was a GIFT. your inheritance was well thought out. it is an insult for you to suggest otherwise #anyway so theyre being whiny brats and oh boo hoo you exects are SO MEAN to poor Ally who didnt sign the fucking will and thus held up #$50k FROM A CHURCH. and my uncle (not their dad. their moms brother) is taking their side. his wife is a massive piece of shit ab it too. #dont know whose side dog cousin is on bc shes close to my mom but very close to them. and i know lesbian cousin is on moms side to some #degree. and idgaf what Murderer cousin thinks bc that bitch can and will rot in hell. #so anyway any one we could possibly spend time with this season is either dead or hates us. or lives states away and won't be in til after #and only for a day anyway. and we just dont have the fucking energy to deal with anything