This Was Hanging On Zoro's Walls In Gloomy Island.

okay but a like post-series fic i want that's like: steve harrington being the only man left in hawkins fighting monsters

and not like a 'everyone died, last man standing' way but just. they beat it back, the story ends, nice little tie-up and neatly concluded, eleven loses her powers because their world is completely cut from the other. and life goes on. eddie (yes, eddie lives au don't fight me) goes off with his band, robin-nancy-jargyle off to separate cities for college. the kids go to high school, graduate high school, and scatter across the country. joyce and hop buy a beach house far-far-far away from goddamn hawkins indiana.

steve though. steve stays. he does it too without comment, takes all their calls telling him all these amazing things. the years pass. the calls are fewer and far between. he's mostly in contact with only dustin and robin. except robin's out of country doing some crazy temp job in some remote country, she never catches him at home right now so just leaves him messages. and it takes a couple of weeks for dustin to realize he hasn't gotten steve on the phone.

frantically he calls around "have you heard from steve???" except the most people talk to steve anymore is like phone calls during holidays and holy shit what could have happened??

and what if it's back?

cue everyone who can in that moment, rushing back. eddie hopping on a flight from fucking london direct to indianapolis somehow, heart in his throat. he manages to meet hopper in the airport and they pick up max and dustin at the bus station.

they get to hawkins that is even more different that what they left. a smaller town, a town that shuts down completely when the sun sets. it's creepy and deserted.

except for the fucking upside down monsters of course.

and they're in their stupid little rental in front of this demogorgon and they're screaming but then the thing just goes splat on the concrete and steve fucking harrington is blinking owlishly at them.

"Oh, hey guys!" he calls jogging up to the driver's side window. "Wow, what brought you back down this way? You should have told me, I would have told you about the curfew!"

turns out steve just forgot to pay his phone bill that month, didn't even realize he was missing calls and he's been fighting monsters the entire time because actually they WEREN'T cut off from the upside down at all and he's just been casually fighting monsters for the remaining hawkins residence—the whole town knows now and steve's the guy you call when you have a monster problem

sidebar: WAYNE still lives in hawkins, and he and steve are best friends, eddie munson you are gonna LOSE YOUR MIND

sorry i can't come out tonight. yeah i have to boop my friends. yeah, i need to spread joy and whimsy to my beloved tumblrinas and make my pumpkin change colors. no yeah... no it's definitely an all day thing. sorry. you get it.

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get booped lol

it’s either that or nothing

women's thighs. you agree. reblog.

also to make this about zolu (cause its consuming my entire being), luffy would 100% be the only person zoro lets mess with his tail because it's so sensitive and such an important part of his balance when hunting/fighting. tigers are also super solitary and territorial, but luffy just looks at zoro's personal space and says "that's mine now", and zoro just goes with it cause his pets are kind of soothing and he's never had someone treat him gentle like this. he say's he'll put a stop to it early on but that was a lie. sometimes he'll let other crew members join them in a cuddle pile, but usually only after a rough battle so he knows his "territory" (i.e. family) is safe. of course chopper is always welcome though. just thinkin thoughts.

also important to me, comparing zoro to a cat, especially a tiger. it's just so cute and accurate and I love it dearly. naps in the sun? hundred percent. very picky about who he let's touch him? obviously. ferociously protects his own? duh. there's probably a bunch more comparisons but I can't think of them rn, but all I know is zoro is so tiger coded it pains me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ONE AND ONLY KING OF SNIPERS!!!

had to physically separate myself from my phone to do my homework, but i'm back now so the boop continues