( that's him, so straight. thanks for noticing, Eddie. frankly, Steve doesn't entirely know what he is, and straight isn't entirely wrong, either. he's... mostly straight. but Robin likes girls, and he's okay with that. used to be even the concept of a guy being into another guy was something he'd instantly reject, it's just. he's not. that person anymore.
and he's... he's thought things. wondered. things that don't feel entirely straight. but being maybe bisexual in small town midwest is pretty goddamn difficult, actually. everyone assumes you are straight, and you assume everyone else is straight, too. how the hell are you supposed to know a guy might be interested?
surely they won't stroll up to you and call you big boy. )
What the hell is a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man? ( how does Steve literally work at a video rental place and not know these things?? ) Nevermind, the marshmallow part alone tells me all I really need to know.
I'm serious, Munson. It's been a year since then. And after the whole... russian interrogation thing? Kinda made a point not to be so shrimpy next time the world decided to nearly end.
( and he's definitely not. bigger in the arms, the thighs, and the shoulders. would it get on his body still? yes. would it fit the same? absolutely not. )
Fine. Goddamn it.
( a photograph is included under extreme duress here, Eddie!! but if he kept his uniform as a memento of his lesbian wife, of course he has pictures of him in it with said wife. of course he does. )
[ surely not that. big boy is for straight dudes to say to other straight dudes in a completely platonic and not gay way. obviously. ]
no no not nevermind ghostbusters?? how do you not know ghostbusters? i swear to christ, steve i will get some culture in you if it kills me
[ wHat'S mOrDoR, wHo'S oZzY, wHaT tHe HeLl Is a StAy PuFfkdjhfg. jesus christ. anyway. there's a picture, apparently. eddie doesn't know why he's so surprised, when he was practically begging for one, but he doesn't expect it. and it's cute??? it's a really cute picture, even if robin is kinda mean muggin' it a little bit, and steve's... doing whatever the hell he's doing. and holy shit that uniform. eddie was picturing white, and - and not shorts, for some reason. blue's a good color on harrington, he's gotta admit (although he knew this before looking at this photograph). and the shorts - the shorts are. something. ]
wow i guess you weren't lying you're definitely bigger now not like in a bad way, just beefier?
Oh, it's a Ghostbusters thing. I know Ghostbusters. I mean, I know the song. Everybody knows the song.
( it's catchy!! Steve's favorite sort of music is the catchy kind, songs that stick in your head. and probably he has seen Ghostbusters, Steve just pays so little attention to a movie, it's remarkable he remembers enough about Return of the Jedi to refer to it as the "one with the teddy bears". )
Thanks for making me sound like a piece of jerky, that's nice. And yeah, I told you, didn't I? Feels like that happened a lifetime ago.
( and it's barely been a year. wow. time is fucked up, isn't it? staring at that picture, he can almost remember the guy he was then. almost. before the Russians, striking out with every girl that came in for the scoop of the day, a dead end guy at a dead end job. he's at least slightly better off than the Steve in that picture. if only because he's got a better job, and isn't quite as string-bean-y. though, looking at that picture, and the goddamn uniform...
well that's more thigh than he remembered flashing, is all. )
Oh, and, the shorts were... Uh. Longer. Longer than that. Usually. It was worse when I sat down.
( DO STRAIGHT GUYS ALSO INSIST ABOUT THE APPROPRIATE LENGTH OF THEIR SHORTS??? FUCK. at least Eddie being a (charming, unfortunately funny) asshole is a distraction from his own upper thigh. )
You're the goddamn worst, you know that? Just for that, now it's only two days to convince me I need to learn guitar.
you know now that i think about it you're... the ghostbusters "when there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call" you, probably. i mean, no one calls you because everyone in this town is clueless but it's been you guys like the last four times shit's gotten weird in hawkins
[ apparently eddie does not include himself in the little ghostbusters crew. one attempt at saving the world is not enough to qualify, apparently! ]
at least jerky's good? people wouldn't pay so much for it if they didn't like it
[ god, he needs to shut the hell up. what does that even mean? ]
you don't have to justify your little shorts to me, harrington i'm not gonna judge you for showing a little skin gotta make those tips somehow :)
[ this is the worst. ]
hold on, is that supposed to be a threat? two days is plenty of time hell, all i need is two hours
[ maybe not to teach steve anything impressive, but two hours is enough time to get him hooked on it. eddie's convinced he could pull it off. somehow. ]
If we're the Ghostbusters, who is Bill Murray? He's the only one I remember.
( is it Dustin? oh, god. he'd be so insufferable, if he got to be Bill Murray. and yep, Steve did not even know the half of how worst Eddie could be. first he's dried out meat, and now he chose barely-there shorts for financial compensation?? )
I didn't pick the goddamn shorts, man! And we never even got many tips. We had three dollars to split, tops, and it blew up too. God, that job sucked. Thanks a lot, Dad. Learned so much from that one.
( probably hitting on every girl that walked into the place actively worked against the tip jar, but, shh )
Two hours isn't enough time to learn anything, are you crazy? Not enough time for me, anyway.
[ eddie almost says that steve can be stay puft, but he's teased him about the scoops uniform enough as it is. definitely still changing steve's contact pic in his phone though, that's non-negotiable. ]
two hours is enough time to convince you that you want more
We'll see. Considering how well I played drums, pretty sure the temporary tattoos are as close to metal as I'm gonna get.
Oh yeah. Guess I should get back to it, huh? ( swimming isn't gonna reclaim itself, now is it? so, back to the grind, if he wants to make good on that summer job idea. )
Let me know when you want to do this guitar thing, I'll show up.
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Date: 2022-08-04 02:53 am (UTC)and he's... he's thought things. wondered. things that don't feel entirely straight. but being maybe bisexual in small town midwest is pretty goddamn difficult, actually. everyone assumes you are straight, and you assume everyone else is straight, too. how the hell are you supposed to know a guy might be interested?
surely they won't stroll up to you and call you big boy. )
What the hell is a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man? ( how does Steve literally work at a video rental place and not know these things?? ) Nevermind, the marshmallow part alone tells me all I really need to know.
I'm serious, Munson. It's been a year since then.
And after the whole... russian interrogation thing?
Kinda made a point not to be so shrimpy next time the world decided to nearly end.
( and he's definitely not. bigger in the arms, the thighs, and the shoulders. would it get on his body still? yes. would it fit the same? absolutely not. )
Fine. Goddamn it.
( a photograph is included under extreme duress here, Eddie!! but if he kept his uniform as a memento of his lesbian wife, of course he has pictures of him in it with said wife. of course he does. )
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Date: 2022-08-04 03:16 am (UTC)no no
not nevermind
ghostbusters?? how do you not know ghostbusters?
i swear to christ, steve
i will get some culture in you if it kills me
[ wHat'S mOrDoR, wHo'S oZzY, wHaT tHe HeLl Is a StAy PuFfkdjhfg. jesus christ. anyway. there's a picture, apparently. eddie doesn't know why he's so surprised, when he was practically begging for one, but he doesn't expect it. and it's cute??? it's a really cute picture, even if robin is kinda mean muggin' it a little bit, and steve's... doing whatever the hell he's doing. and holy shit that uniform. eddie was picturing white, and - and not shorts, for some reason. blue's a good color on harrington, he's gotta admit (although he knew this before looking at this photograph). and the shorts - the shorts are. something. ]
wow
i guess you weren't lying
you're definitely
bigger now
not like in a bad way, just
beefier?
[ beefier? beefier. what the fuck. ]
thanks for your new contact picture, by the way
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Date: 2022-08-04 03:33 am (UTC)I mean, I know the song. Everybody knows the song.
( it's catchy!! Steve's favorite sort of music is the catchy kind, songs that stick in your head. and probably he has seen Ghostbusters, Steve just pays so little attention to a movie, it's remarkable he remembers enough about Return of the Jedi to refer to it as the "one with the teddy bears". )
Thanks for making me sound like a piece of jerky, that's nice.
And yeah, I told you, didn't I? Feels like that happened a lifetime ago.
( and it's barely been a year. wow. time is fucked up, isn't it? staring at that picture, he can almost remember the guy he was then. almost. before the Russians, striking out with every girl that came in for the scoop of the day, a dead end guy at a dead end job. he's at least slightly better off than the Steve in that picture. if only because he's got a better job, and isn't quite as string-bean-y. though, looking at that picture, and the goddamn uniform...
well that's more thigh than he remembered flashing, is all. )
Oh, and, the shorts were... Uh.
Longer. Longer than that.
Usually. It was worse when I sat down.
( DO STRAIGHT GUYS ALSO INSIST ABOUT THE APPROPRIATE LENGTH OF THEIR SHORTS??? FUCK. at least Eddie being a (charming, unfortunately funny) asshole is a distraction from his own upper thigh. )
You're the goddamn worst, you know that? Just for that, now it's only two days to convince me I need to learn guitar.
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Date: 2022-08-04 04:00 am (UTC)now that i think about it
you're... the ghostbusters
"when there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call"
you, probably. i mean, no one calls you because everyone in this town is clueless but
it's been you guys like the last four times shit's gotten weird in hawkins
[ apparently eddie does not include himself in the little ghostbusters crew. one attempt at saving the world is not enough to qualify, apparently! ]
at least jerky's good?
people wouldn't pay so much for it if they didn't like it
[ god, he needs to shut the hell up. what does that even mean? ]
you don't have to justify your little shorts to me, harrington
i'm not gonna judge you for showing a little skin
gotta make those tips somehow :)
[ this is the worst. ]
hold on, is that supposed to be a threat?
two days is plenty of time
hell, all i need is two hours
[ maybe not to teach steve anything impressive, but two hours is enough time to get him hooked on it. eddie's convinced he could pull it off. somehow. ]
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Date: 2022-08-04 04:29 am (UTC)( is it Dustin? oh, god. he'd be so insufferable, if he got to be Bill Murray. and yep, Steve did not even know the half of how worst Eddie could be. first he's dried out meat, and now he chose barely-there shorts for financial compensation?? )
I didn't pick the goddamn shorts, man!
And we never even got many tips.
We had three dollars to split, tops, and it blew up too.
God, that job sucked. Thanks a lot, Dad. Learned so much from that one.
( probably hitting on every girl that walked into the place actively worked against the tip jar, but, shh )
Two hours isn't enough time to learn anything, are you crazy?
Not enough time for me, anyway.
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Date: 2022-08-04 04:37 am (UTC)henderson. duh.
come on.
[ eddie almost says that steve can be stay puft, but he's teased him about the scoops uniform enough as it is. definitely still changing steve's contact pic in his phone though, that's non-negotiable. ]
two hours is enough time to convince you that you want more
[ time. more time to learn. how to play guitar. ]
how's the swimming going
wrap here or on yours, maybe?? 🎀
Date: 2022-08-04 05:27 am (UTC)How about we don't tell him that, his ego is bad enough.
( Steve isn't Stay Puft, he's the slightly stupid useless hot guy from the all ladies reboot, and we love that for him )
We'll see. Considering how well I played drums, pretty sure the temporary tattoos are as close to metal as I'm gonna get.
Oh yeah. Guess I should get back to it, huh? ( swimming isn't gonna reclaim itself, now is it? so, back to the grind, if he wants to make good on that summer job idea. )
Let me know when you want to do this guitar thing, I'll show up.