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Gibson Street, Glasgow. http://www.xiomaro.com/masters.html
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Fannon Steve Harrington is such a "you never asked so I never explicitly said (because I thought it was a known fact/obvious and I wasn't hiding it and I did mention it)" girlie and I appreciate it...
So here's some rambly angst.
The fall of 1984 was an absolute fucking nightmare for Steve. He had no friends, no girlfriend and no parents and the upside-down returned. To be fair, by simply choosing to be and stay with Nancy after last year was the main reason why most of his friendships by virtue of Steve pulling away. Nancy cheating on him and then leaving him for Byers crushed his soul and self-esteem but he should have seen it coming when he returned to school after missing a week to attend his parents funeral and she didn't acknowledge any of that, only focusing on the guilt eating at her from hiding Barbs death from her parents. It had crossed his mind to bring it up to Nancy what was going on in his life but... when they died in that accident it was all over the news and he had told her he was going to Italy to bury his parents.
His father Aidan Harrington, an Irish Hawkins born, was a famous international operatic tenor. It was during the production of La Traviata that his father met his mother Emilia and their romance and careers grew from there. They eventually got married and had their baby Stefano Harrington. So for the first few years of life he travelled with them to different productions until they eventually settled down into semi retirement until he turned 14.
It was Steve that pushed his parents to get back into opera once he entered high school. He was old enough to take care of himself and he had a phone so he could call every night. So when they died in a car accident on their way from the Opera house in Italy, Steve in that moment couldn't help but blame himself for their death. The crash was plastered over screens and the papers as the music community mourned heir loss and the funeral in Italy doubly so -now with his face attached. And for that week, he didn't cry
He had expected when he returned some acknowledgement of the event but, other than one band geek with the curly hair, that did not happen. So he did what he did best, ignore it and go to a party with Nancy on Halloween. Then everything with the upside down unfolded and there was no time.
By the time he returned from the hospital to his empty home, he broke down. He was now completely alone with no support system. Its probably why he reached out to Owens for a therapist. If it wasn't for Dr Kelly... Steve wasn't sure if he might have stayed around long enough to meet Robin and he certainly would not be around to save Eddie...
Which is how he ended up here.
In the hospital.
In a hospital bed and the rest of the party stuffed into the room.
El and her group had arrived at the hospital half an hour before and were exchanging stories from the past few days. Apparently, El was kidnapped, had regained her powers and was able to stop Vecna with the help of the guy with the amazing silky hair. Steve just watched them from the bed, trying not to move too much
"Xiomaro Argyle. But I prefer Argyle, dude" the man with the long silky hair introduced himself to Steve. somewhere in the background, Steve hears someone say, "his name is Xiomaro?"
"Stefano Harrington, but everyone calls me Steve," he replied. One of the kids echoed Stefano.
He hadn't expected Argyle's response. "Wait -like that opera couple my yaya always listens too? What were they called?"He paused as he racked his brain before snapping. "Adrian and Emilia, right? My grandma was crushed when they died in that car crash. She light's a candle for them every Dios de los Muertos. Sorry about that bro."
And at that, Steve's world froze, because this was the first person other than his parents to say those words to him. He quickly wiped the tear from his eye before the other's could see. He hadn't realised that the room had quieted.
"YOU'RE PARENTS ARE DEAD?" Dustin yelled.
Steve barely had the chance to speak when Nancy cut in, angry, for some reason.
"When did this happen and why didn't you say anything? Jesus H Christ, you're always hiding from your feelings like some macho idiot and you neve confront anything!"
Nancy had continued to berate him but Steve zoned out. Chest feeling tight with the boiling anger growing behind his sternum.
"I. did." He interrupted simply.
"No you didn't."
"I did because
You were still my fucking girlfriend at that time and it would be shitty of me not to tell you
I had to go to Italy to bury them at my mother's family cemetery according to their will. It would be wrong if I didn't tell my girlfriend I was going to be missing a week of school and why. Which I did the night I learnt about their death and I came by your house."
Nancy faltered a bit at that, losing some of her righteous fury, but she pressed on. "I would remember something like that, Steven"
"No you wouldn't. The same way you can't seem to remember that my name is Stephano and not Steven even though I told you that and it was all over my stuff home."
Her mouth clicked shut at that and an embarrassed blush covered her face. On a normal day, he would have stopped there and maybe vent to his therapist but he was still raw from the past few days and Nancy toying with his emotions only to forget about him once Johnathan came back.
"Okay, let's say I didn't tell you. My parents' death was everywhere including their funeral and you didn't see it although you always read the papers. I was not in the country for a week, which meant I was not at home for a week, and thus not in school for a week and you didn't notice that I your then-boyfriend just disappeared? You didn't think to question where I was, if you did notice, when I got back?"
There was no answer. He couldn't stop the bitter laugh from bubbling up
"Fuck. You really weren't paying attention to me? I just thought you were feeling guilty about barb and trying to fix things for her parents which is why you didn't say anything. Not just that I registered so low on your list of importance that my words just flowed into one ear and out the other."
He was getting worked up and his therapist would be disappointed that he didn't stop there. "And what about the rest of you? You saw my parents and just what? Assumed they abandoned me or something?"
The silence was now suffocating, and Steve could not stand their ashamed looks at each other.
"And none of you asked me any questions about it?
"You know what? Fuck you, Nancy! You're standing there on your pedestal, calling me a "macho idiot" that I'm hiding from my feelings as if I would have had anyone to talk to seeing that you and Johnathan avoided me once you started dating. Newsflash! That's why I have a fucking government therapist I see every Wednesday since 84!"
He let the last statement hang heavy in the air like the sword of Damocles over the group before deflating and flopping back In his hospital bed, emotionally spent. Eyes glued to the ceiling.
"Everyone, just... just leave."
He waited until he thought he heard everyone leave and looked back down, startled when he saw that Eddie was still in the room.
"Don't be too hard on the shitheads for too long. For all their collective intelligence they are still a pack of idiots too sure of themselves to not consider that surface-level Steve is all that exist."
Steve said nothing to that, already feeling shitty for blowing up on the kids, and a little less shitty about blowing up on Nancy.
"Anyway, you also seem to forget that I wished you condolences that week so maybe yoy should not be too hard on them."
At that, Steve focused on Eddie, wracking his brain and being confused with its results.
"You were a band kid?" Steve asked incredulously
Eddie lazily shrugged, "It was a phase. Now, seeing that it seems that you have it on your chest heavy enough that just hearing their names almost made you cry; tell me about your parents, Stevie."
In Steve's chest, he felt something... Flutter.
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This one got away from me, but this is all I have. This is slightly inspired by a post I saw from piratefishmama about Steve having good parents and everyone just assumed they were bad people even though they never asked him any questions (it's deleted; don't look for it). And don't ask me why they are opera singers my brain just latched onto that being their profession and why their death was everywhere.
#this is the moment Steve falls in love with Eddie#outside the room Johnathan is trying to get back into argyle's good graces because argyly isn't happy Johnathan was such a bad friend#Nancy is reassessing her relationship with Steve and is catatonic#Robin and the party are trying to figure out what to do to make it up to steve#steve harrington#eddie munson#steddie#just thoughts
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Zoom Call with Xiomaro
On the 31st of March at 4pm, Xiomaro and I had a zoom call.
Xiomaro was very enthusiastic and very positive. He spoke of everything which he felt were the tick points of my portfolio. I thanked him for his statement in my feedback review which said that he would let me work with him if I was in America. I then asked him for tips on how I can market my work in order to get work. He talked me through that and then he just spoke of the photographs in my pdf portfolio which he liked the most.
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Photographer <b>Writing</b> Book On Weir Farm — Connecticut's First National Park
Xiomaro is an internationally recognized artist, writer, speaker, and curator. His work has been widely exhibited at venues such as Harvard University, Fruitlands Museum, the State Capitol in Hartford and U.S. Jim Himes' offices in Bridgeport and Stamford. For information about visiting Weir Farm ... http://ift.tt/2G14lNE
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Photographs Illustrating New Book About Weir Farm on Exhibit at Mark Twain Library
Photographs Illustrating New Book About Weir Farm on Exhibit at Mark Twain Library
To celebrate the new book, Weir Farm National Historic Site (Arcadia Publishing), a select number of the photographs showcasing the park are on view now until July 31, 2019, at the Mark Twain Library in Redding. The photographs were created by the book’s author, Xiomaro, who is the Visiting Artist at Weir Farm and an alumnus of its Artist-in-Residence program. The book tells the story of…
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Pheromones - Buy Pheromones - How To Find The Best Pheromones Products!
buy pheromones: The question of how and where to buy pheromones can be answered simply by going on the internet as well as looking for human pheromones on the market products. The now famous poncho that Martha Stewart wore upon the woman s release from Camp Cupcake can now be your own. Created for your ex as a going away gift from a fellow inmate, it has become known as the particular Welcome Back poncho. The woman who made the poncho, Xiomaro Hernandez, can get 10% of the profits after her release from... Pheromones
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Weir Farm workshop to teach smartphone photography - Danbury News Times
Danbury News Times
Weir Farm workshop to teach smartphone photography
Danbury News Times
The first book about Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut's first national, will be authored by Xiomaro, the park's visiting artist, in a deal he signed with Arcadia Publishing. The first book about Weir Farm National Historic Site ...
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National Park Service Photo Exhibit on Display at Fruitlands Museum - GoLocal Worcester
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National Park Service Photo Exhibit on Display at Fruitlands Museum
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To showcase New England and the work being done to preserve and promote the national parks, Migdal selected four super-sized photographs by Xiomaro. The images, which are on public display for the first time, are hung from the ceiling so visitors can ...
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Harvard’s Fruitlands Museum celebrates the National Park Service with photographs by Xiomaro
Having turned 100 years old, the National Park Service inaugurates its second century with a fine art photographic exhibit at Harvard’s Fruitlands Museum titled “Find Your Park: National Parks in New England,” which includes several large-scale photographs by New York artist Xiomaro. The group … http://internationalnewslive.com/harvards-fruitlands-museum-celebrates-the-national-park-service-with-photographs-by-xiomaro/
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New York City. http://www.xiomaro.com
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New York Botanical Garden. www.xiomaro.com
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Glasgow, Scotland. www.xiomaro.com
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Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.xiomaro.com
Glasgow, Scotland
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Fort Tryon, New York City. www.xiomaro.com
Billings Mansion Arch
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It’s fun when friends send me snapshots after they find my book – this one at the Bush-Holley House gift shop in Connecticut. But the only place you can get a signed limited edition copy with an uncirculated Weir Farm commemorative quarter is at my website: www.xiomaro.com/book.html
#photography#xiomaro#fineart#history#nationalpark#architecture#connecticut#book#author#writer#landscape
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Bryant Park (on Sixth Avenue at 42nd Street).
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