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Measure of Us by Marigold1718

Summary:

Steve counts the little stuff: Thursday Cokes, the buzz of the tape rewinder, that dumb postcard that won’t lie flat on Max’s fridge. One kiss, one really bad word, six weeks of radio silence—and a summer spent collecting receipts: Drummer magazine, a dance floor, Robin keeping him upright.

Non-linear Steve-POV; past and present call and response until they hit apologies, consent, found family, and the boy who keeps tilting the room. (Canon-divergent; ’87.)

Measure of Us by Marigold1718

Rating: Mature

39,993 words, 7/7 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Tags: Eddie Munson Lives, Non-Linear Narrative, Friends to Lovers, Internalized Homophobia, queer identity crisis, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Steve Harrington Has Internalized Homophobia, Slow Burn, Light Dom/sub, Praise Kink, Resolved Sexual Tension

Summary:

Steve counts the little stuff: Thursday Cokes, the buzz of the tape rewinder, that dumb postcard that won’t lie flat on Max’s fridge. One kiss, one really bad word, six weeks of radio silence—and a summer spent collecting receipts: Drummer magazine, a dance floor, Robin keeping him upright. Non-linear Steve-POV; past and present call and response until they hit apologies, consent, found family, and the boy who keeps tilting the room. (Canon-divergent; ’87.)

Thanks for the rec!

htdc reunion

thinkin about these guys again what the heck

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

AO3's posting form has two modes: Rich Text and HTML. the vast majority of people write in Rich Text editors, aka any normal word processing software (MS Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, what have you). but when you first open it, the posting form opens in HTML view. if you paste formatted text into HTML view, it erases every piece of formatting, including paragraph spacing.

this is an easy fix. when you go to post your fic, make sure the posting form looks like this:

not like this: