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i want to have serious conversation about how infantilized steve, and sometimes eddie, are made in fic. i don’t want to make sweeping generalizations.

most often i have personally seen it done to steve (and please, correct me if you think it might work out differently on average!) but god, there are MANY instances of it happening to eddie too.

i saw a fic linked on twt recently and i genuinely just had to close the tab. at some point you have to reconcile that you’re not writing steve anymore, right? like he can be obviously different from canon (because that’s inevitable! we write fix-its and aus and that’s normal and fine!) but i have seen iterations of him where literally the only traits he shares is that his name is steve harrington and he looks like steve harrington… mostly.

and i am terrified to have this conversation on twitter if i am completely honest, but i just want to seriously talk about it. there is a difference between calling him babygirl, writing kink, letting him be feminine and infantilizing him to the point he is unrecognizable as a character.

and what sucks the most i think is that i personally see it done largely through explicit fic. this isn’t anything new in fandom and i have seen it happen time and time again in other fandom spaces. i’m not some expert and i’m not big in st spaces, but i just think more people should maybe discuss this!

so spoiler for six of crows for those who have only watched or read the shadow and bone show or trilogy :)

about wylan, and the introduction of his character, I really really do hope that they don't tell us just yet that he can't read, like kudos if it's hinted, kudos if there's several instances where he avoids reading while making up excuses that also hint to there being another problem, but i don't want them to directly tell us that he can't read, not like it's done by van eck at the end of six of crows, because it is something so important to his character imo that he tries to keep it hidden for such a long time it genuinely comes off as a surprise when you find out, when you're explicitly told one of the smartest characters in the series can't read, and also it's part of the things wylan hides about himself that isolates him from the rest of the crows at first but when it's out in the open it's like yeah no they don't care about that, they care about YOU

idk if I'm making sense, but it's things like this, or things like his name being van eck rather than hendriks, or jesper being grisha, or kaz's aversion to touch, or inej's past, things that i like that are not explicitly told but rather shown in the little details right until they come to light for x or y reason

like i wouldn't mind if some things are told explicitly, but it would be nice if they were kept a "secret" for a little while longer, just until we get to six of crows

Saw this and knew what I had to do

I had an idea at work that was literally just Grunge mom Joyce and Metalhead Eddie sitting and watching Hawaiian Shirt Hopper and Colorful Sweater Steve.

Maybe they're at a bbq or something. And these grungy metalheads are just sitting and talking and watching their colorful babes grill stuff for all the kids.

Hopper and Steve both yelling at them to calm the fuck down when they almost tumble into the grill, same dad tone and everything.

Hopper's brandishing his spatula, Steve's hands are on his hips. Eddie and Joyce just watching their tropical bird colored boys with the biggest gooeyest heart eyes.

five bucks says they smooch,...