More Stranger Things Crochet

Also, my cat.

My latest crochet project, Eddie Munson, is done.

He's going to hang out with Steve and Robin and sometimes steal Steve's hat. More pictures below the cut, including me bothering my cat, Spot.

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not to be watching SPN in 2025, but the only thing I am getting this show in season (checks calendar) 11 is a desire to eat hamburgers from greasy diners and also to be able to enjoy food to the degree Dean does every time he's eating on screen

u can see the exact moment he realises what he's doing im fucking crying

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I love how in Network Effect Murderbot's previous assertion that SecUnits don't care about or trust eachother gets contradicted when Three asks after the other Units on its team.

I'm dying for a scenario where Murderbot makes one of its "this thing is a universal truth for all SecUnits"-type statements out loud, or in the feed, and it catches Three off gaurd like:

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hat tricks and other scores.

written for week two of @steddiesportsau and @steddiemicrofic prompt: ‘score’ wc: 351 | rated: teen & up | tags: hockey player!steve harrington, hockey player!eddie munson, alternate universe- hockey, friends to (gonna be) lovers, minor sports injury, light hurt/comfort, cuddling

Steve Harrington is a terrible patient.

When he has a cold, he refuses to sit down. When he has a fever, he refuses medicine. And when he blocks a snipe of a slapshot with his thigh and ends up out for a few games to rest, well, he’s kind of a nightmare, honestly.

Eddie should have expected this, probably. He’s played with Steve for years so he knows how Steve gets when he can’t play. Even when it’s temporary and cautionary, he just can't help himself. He won’t rest if left to his own devices, so Eddie invites himself over unannounced to Steve’s condo with takeout that he knows Steve won’t say No to.

He knows a lot about Steve, and maybe that’s because he’s a little bit in love with him, sure, but it’s mostly because they’re the team’s dynamic duo… and no one can prove otherwise, as far as Eddie’s concerned.

As predicted, Steve lets him in, annoyance on his face melting away the second he smells the chicken parm in the little aluminum container. They sit on the couch, side by side just like they are out on the ice, or in the locker room, or on the plane.

They’re side by side a lot, Eddie realizes.

Eventually, Steve gets antsy again, complaining about how stupid it is that he has to sit out when it’s fine. It’s a muscle contusion, man and I've played through much worse.

“Yeah, well, I don’t make the rules. Forget Coach, if Robin hears that you’re not listening to her instructions, you’re not gonna see the ice again this season.”

Steve grumbles but eventually sighs, leaning… not back, like Eddie expects, but sideways, dropping his head onto Eddie’s shoulder.

“I hate this,” Steve mutters, defeated, and Eddie’s heart clenches.

“I know,” he agrees, experimentally draping his arm around Steve’s shoulder. “Just means when you’re back out there, you’re gonna have to like, score a hat trick or something.”

Eddie smiles quietly to himself when Steve scoots closer. It’s not his own hat trick, but it feels like he’s just scored something bigger.

God gives his hardest battles (taking decent pet pictures) to his bravest soldiers (people with black cats)

SecUnit 3 worrying about its first-ever retrieval mission done as a free agent like “I want to get a good grade in Rogue SecUnit retrieval, which might be normal to want but I don’t know because there’s no protocol for that”

Raktajinos. Klingon coffee.

I've been thinking about their name for a bit (the "coffee" part, not the "raktajino" part), and I think there are four possible explanations for why it's called "coffee".

1. It's a drink made by brewing a (roasted) bean, and all drinks from varying planets which are made in this way are given the title "coffee".
2. It's literally coffee (like the Earth plant), and Klingon's either have a special brewing/roasting method, or they've bred it to create a new variant. (However, thanks to Trials and Tribbleations, we do know that raktajinos existed during the time of TOS - which, since klingons and humans were on very bad terms, does imply - they stole it. They stole the coffee. They stole a little plant from earth and said, "we can improve upon this," and then did.)
3. It just tastes similar, and humans said, "eh, that's basically coffee," and the epitaph stuck.
4. It fills a similar cultural niche (ie. a non-alcoholic (typically) hot (typically) caffinated beverage often consumed in the morning.) while not having characteristics that would instead classify it as a different drink (so, not tea, even though tea is ALSO often hot and caffinated and drunk in the morning, because tea is brewed with leaves, and raktajinos are not.)

And, of course multiple of these could be true at once - it could both taste like coffee and fill the same cultural niche.

4 certainly appears to be the way the DS9 crew treat raktajinos - it just replaces coffee, but with a fancy alien name now - so I'm thinking that the cultural niche part might be true, but just because humans use it like that doesn't mean that klingons did, and I still wonder a bit about the rest of it. Does it taste like coffee? Is it related to human coffee? How's it made?

How much relation to human coffee does something need to earn the name "coffee"?