Famous pop/rock band The Strands go on a tour through the US. They invite a up-and-coming metal band from their lead singer's home town to be their opening act.

Eddie thinks there's no way Steve Harrington remembers him from Hawkins High.

Steve mostly invited them because Eddie Munson got even hotter since they graduated and he's a freaking sex machine on stage. He tells their manager Robin that he digs their music and just wants to support a band from back home. Robin sees right through it immediately but sends out the invitation to Corroded Coffin's management anyways because she's starving for some rom-com entertainment.

its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

AU where Steve hears that his girlfriend is cheating on him with the town freak but never suspects it’s with his good friend Jonathan.

So now, Eddie had a sad jock at his door threatening to beat him up but like, through tears. A lot of tears. He’s crying pretty hard and it’s getting really awkward.

Steddie I 2.1k I different first meeting I modern au I one sided enemies to lovers I rated T

“I mean, if looking like a dyke is the goal, you're nailing it,” Steve tells Robin as she holds the phone back to showcase her date outfit. “Change the belt, I think-”

He hears a throat clear behind him and spins around to find Eddie the bar manager standing behind him, a blank face and closed off body language.

“Shit,” he mumbles. “Rob, I have to go. I'll text you after work.” He hangs up on her and stuffs his phone into his back pocket. “Sorry about that. Hi, you must be Eddie.” He holds out his hand to shake but Eddie just looks at it. He lowers it, the sting of rejection biting low in his stomach. “Um. Harvey said you just got back from a tour? That's cool.”

“Mmhmm.” He sniffs. “You're on garnish duty,” he says, cold and succinct, before turning away.

It's only Steve's third day behind the bar but he'd been slinging drinks with Rachel the night before. Barback duties are beneath him, he's got six years bartending experience. He doesn't want to complain though, not to Eddie who hated him on sight, and not during his first week.

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Steve’s parents running into Steve and Eddie with a gaggle of children.

They’re hanging off of both adults, calling them mom and dad.

“Steve, what’s going on here?” Richard Harrington asks.

“Co-parenting.” Steve replies in a deadpan tone. Max is actively pickpocketing him and Dustin is tugging on his jacket trying to get Steve’s attention, a never ending chorus of ‘Mom, come look’ leaving his mouth.

“Nah, at this point we’re just parenting.” Eddie corrects, fending off a grabby El trying to play with his wallet chain.

Eddie scoops up Steve’s wallet when Max tries to make her escape. She groans out a frustrated ‘Dad’ before retreating back to Lucas and Mike, who are hiding around the corner, poorly.

“Richard, I think this is the reason we only had one.” Martha Harrington stated blankly, wide eyed taking in the scene in front of her.

Robin nods from where she sits at an adjacent table, trying and mildly failing to braid Will’s short hair. Will sits perfectly still and disciplined as Robin works. A complete contrast to the wild children that Steve and Eddie are actively managing.

“I picked the best one.” Robin smiles condescendingly at Steve and Eddie, patting Will’s head.

Joe and Charlie recording Charlie’s little voice mail cameo in the song (from the visualizer)

Robin accidentally puts a letter (meant to ask a girl out on a date) in the wrong locker. She waits, watching totally inconspicuously, except her crush walks up to the locker NEXT to the one she put it in. And dear old Eddie Munson strolls up to the same locker.

Robin watches as he unfolds the letter and blushes. She's immediately groaning and feels bad, because now this guy thinks someone likes him. And thats just mean but to confess and break his heart? She's missing lunch lamenting on the pay phone about the situation to Steve who is at Family Video.

Steve who has thought about Eddie for years. Captivated by the guy who will get up and yell on top of tables but also stopped and helped a freshman pick up all their papers when they dropped them. Steve who once got winked at by Eddie and felt his entire worldview shift.

"Well I'll go- yea, I can go in your place. Don't even worry about it." Steve offers. And Robin is so thankful she feels she would have combust spontaneously if she had to break Eddie's heart. Robin thinks Steve is gonna let him down gently. Meanwhile Steve is putting on his date jeans and adding a bit of lip gloss and winking in the mirror ready to charm the pants off eddie

The funniest and closest to my heart headcanon about Dustin is that he is a famously bad matchmaker. He is completely delusional and will try to push the strangest combinations of people together. He makes convoluted plots and creates whole fantasy scenarios about the people in Hawkins.

This is only exacerbated after he meets and starts dating Suzie because he thinks he is the master of love now. He's like, "trust me guys. I know true love when I see it. Watch this!" and then proceeds to harass two complete strangers while his friends pretend they don't know him

At a certain point, everyone stops taking him seriously and just ignores him when he stops in the store to watch two people in the grocery store chat about the quality of the onions insisting that they are witnessing the beginnings of love or when he latches on to a couple of background characters in the movie they're watching and insist that they are deeply in love.

When he finds out that Eddie is gay after the events of season four, he immediately latches on to that fact and says perfect, I know just the man for you! He doesn't actually say that out loud, but he does suddenly start insisting that Eddie and Steve start sitting next to each other on movie nights, and that he needs two chaperones for this or that event, or asking Eddie and Steve to meet him somewhere without letting the other know and then not showing up.

Everyone thinks Steve is straight and are trying desperately to get Dustin to Please Stop.

Eddie and Steve have been dating in secret for four months and are enjoying seeing Dustin's plans seemingly backfire and their other friends' second-hand embarrassment grow the more oblivious they act and the more desperate Dustin becomes