when i was in the stranger things fandom i made a book rec thread and b1lly stans were mad that i excluded him, so i made them an anti-racist reading list and they really didn’t like that
it was so crazy to me when people found out gwen was staying at hobie's/using his things as a hint at a romance between them bc it immediately struck me as the very common happenstance where queer youth take shelter with friends/mentors when they have nowhere else to go
imagine 20-somethings eddie and steve as bickering cohosts on a radio show. everybody debates about whether these guys only bicker for the show or if they actually hate each other a little. meanwhile they’re literally married and drink out of the same coffee cup on air.
Recommending a queer-centered book for you based on your favorite
#StrangerThings
character - a thread 🧵!
RTs are always appreciated and please have fun sharing your own recs in each character's thread!!
Some people rightly noticed that I left Billy off of my book thread- my bad guys!! here’s a mini thread of some book recommendations especially for people whose favorite character is Billy Hargrove to make up for it <3
I love each one of these books and I think they suit him!!
nimona literally has every trope that matters:
-haggard male + his adopted daughter
-dad who's obsessed with the kitten he swore he didn't even want
-middle aged man + his chaotic teenage work bestie
90s au where wayne munson gets a cell phone and signs every text to eddie with "-LOL". this goes on for months before eddie finally asks wayne why he ends every message by saying laugh out loud. and then wayne tells eddie he thought LOL meant "lots of love"
@dmogrg
the fact that Steve was already half naked, half drowned, AND dragged for a hundred feet before the attack and he was in fighting shape 5 seconds later while the bats didn’t even make it through Eddie’s clothes?? logic has left the chat :|
and saying gwen being cagey about it when pavitr teases her in front of miles is proof of the romance theory is also whack because perhaps she just wasn't ready to talk about running away from home and losing her only family because of her identity ?
#steddie
👻 spooky 👻 season poll 🧵 because we deserve it 🍂💀🍂
(as always warfare is encouraged and rts earn u a kiss on the head) let’s GO!
who thinks that spooky season REALLY starts on the 1st day of september?
@mitsukileaks
OH oh I love this. Robin definitely started it and Steve was like “aren’t you worried people might think we’re dating if they see you wearing my shirt?” and then Robin laughed a little *too* hard and hurt his feelings 🫢
@kenmoos
we cannot be watching the same show… when lucas and erica, jonathan and will, even nancy and mike and freaking baby holly are all RIGHT THERE?
Hope you find something you love in these!!
And next time you want to ask someone to include your racist homophobic fave in their content that they create to be a safe place of expression for themselves and other marginalized people - maybe consider being quiet instead 💞
Steve Harrington - The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
⛵️ Historical speculative fiction / mlm MCs
⛵️ MC wakes up with no memory and no possessions save a postcard directing him to a mysterious lighthouse, the journey lands him in a world where history is completely changed
Eddie Munson - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
🔑 NA gothic sci-fantasy / sapphic MCs
🔑 lifelong enemies team up to score a powerful religious position for their house, mysteries and murders ensue + necromancy + swordplay for days
Robin Buckley - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
🍄 cozy dystopian/sci-fi novella / nonbinary MC
🍄 after a treaty freed sentient robots from servitude to humans, a traveling tea monk and curious robot are the first of their kinds to meet in centuries
scrolling tiktok after 1am is so hallucinatory like tell me why last night i was almost in tears because my fyp kept showing me the most beautiful poetry slideshows and then this morning i see that i saved this to my camera roll
@reallymunson
steve uses one (1) reverse on eddie and feels so proud of himself till eddie makes it his personal mission to land steve with half the fuckin deck
@ffreak_png
oh my god Steve would have NO regard for the rules, just gets bored halfway through a passage, slams his fighter on the table and says “I stab all of those guys, can we pick up the pace?”
@girlskth
the thing is I’m 100% convinced this is why Mike was so fwcking weird to Will in the airport, mans subconscious was sooo twisted up thinking Will had a crush on someone else in Cali 🥴
the sad thing is this *isn’t* before. israel’s colonial apartheid against Palestine began over 70 years ago, likely the only person in this video to have ever witnessed their country free of occupation is the old man. these are just people trying to live. these are PEOPLE.