the problem with stranger things is not queerbaiting or character death the problem with stranger things is that winona ryder is no longer covering her home with things only a person having a category five woman moment could think of in an effort to communicate with her paranormally afflicted son

steve robin and eddie should live in ny together after robin and eddie graduate just saying

really specific steve harrington hc. he has a wildly good sense of smell and he doesn't even know it. picture this: it's the middle of winter and robin, steve, and dustin are inside of family video. steve is putting back returned movies, while robin is leaning over the counter and bickering with dustin. this all somehow leads to robin telling dustin he smells all sweaty and needs to take a shower, and dustin saying "no you smell!!" like the clever mature guy he is. steve from the other side or the room confirms dustin does in fact smell sweaty, and that dustin is wrong, robin smells like lavender deodorant. and robin is just like "?? you freak how did you know that you're on the other side of the room" and steve's like "...uh do you not know what i smell like?? ouch!" robin is confused but wildly intrigued, you see, so she asks what dustin usually smells like. steve says he smells like farrah fawcett shampoo which a) was not the shampoo he recommended and b) he didn't even choose the right kind he smells like the neucleic acid and panthenol one when, if he was going to get that brand of shampoo, he should have gotten the jojoba based one. at this point robin is going bat shit insane. she tells steve she's taking her break and will be back soon and basically runs out the door, leaving dustin and steve very confused. she returns 15 mins with a plastic grocery bag filled with random stuff (like condiments and spices). she takes out one of the paper plates she got and makes steve wear his scarf as a blindfold, then she and dustin take turns just combining a bunch of random shit and making steve guess what he is smelling. he is always correct. slow days at family video, man.

personally i think that steve's parents are the kind of people to saddle their kid with a jr. so steve is actually his middle name which he goes by because he hates his dad and his mom got tired of specifying who she was talking to all the time. he honestly forgets steve isn't his first name sometimes like most people have no clue so it's not a big deal. he just feels kinda weird when he knows people with that name. did i mention that according to a cute little yearbook page that david harbour posted steve's dad is named jonathan