#steddissy

So I finished one of my many WIPs and will now have an open space for another one! So ... I'm gonna give some brief summaries below and if y'all wanna help my pick my next one ...

Modern-is au with Steve as a burlesque performer and Eddie sees him performing Nasty Naughty Boy by Christina Aguilera 🪭

Potential steddissy fic with popstars Chrissy and Steve, a dash of egg!Steve, a makeover and some fun with rockstar!metalhead!Eddie 🫧

Steve doing construction/design for homes - taking old homes and giving them new life. Steve having his hands in both the construction side and design side - Robin helping in the demo/construction, Nancy with her fingers in the design … Eddie's looking for a home and Steve falls in love 🚧

Modern #steddie AU where Steve is a YT-er who does baking tutorials, but with a GoPro strapped to his chest so all the viewer hears is Steve's voice and all they see is Steve's hands as he works. He's got MILLIONS of followers. Eddie Munson, lead singer of Corroded Coffin is one of them. Eddie creates an anonymous account to follow/subscribe. 🧁

How it's going:

Honestly, it's a personal preference thing more than anything? If you have your dedicated faves and you don't really wanna pair those characters with anyone else, that's really fine. You don't have to force yourself to like ships you don't actually like. When I complain about people in the fandom taking shipping too seriously, I'm specifically talking about the people who spend so much of their time in this community fighting with and caring about what other people are shipping. Like the ones that make it their entire blog, instead of just enjoying their own ship. It's such a miserable way to be.

Honestly, I'm not even really like this with other fandoms. I do multiship in other fandoms, but not nearly to the same magnitude as I do Stranger Things.

It really started with the Steddie vs Hellcheer arguments that happened after S4, because I didn't understand the absolute vitriol people had for each other over something as simple as a ship difference. It was two different interpretations of the same media, and both are valid.

So I started shipping both Cheerscoops (Chrissy/Steve) and Steddissy (them in a triad) out of spite. Then I found I actually really liked them for their own merit. Then I found out Stali was a thing (Steve/Kali), which is probably my top ship in the entire fandom. That kind of sent me down a rarepair spiral and I started toying with basically every pairing possible to see what all I liked and didn't like, what worked and what didn't. Just as a little experiment for myself? Turns out, a lot of the dynamics in Stranger Things work! Under the right circumstances, anyway.

Shipping for me is just a fun way to explore relationship dynamics between two or more people. It's not always healthy, or something you'd root for IRL. Many of my ships, I don't think would work in canon, but I still like them. But I think I'm always going to be inclined to stay neutral or just slightly left of neutral when it comes to shipping wars and arguments because just... It's fun? And it's kind of freeing to see a bunch of people fighting going 'no this ship!' 'no this ship!!' and dropping in to put them in a polycule lmao. But really my only critique with this fandom is how much people waste their energy being upset at things that really aren't problems. Ship what you want, believe what you want, but I can't imagine it's healthy to be constantly annoyed when you go online. It definitely wasn't for me when I used to care a lot more about this stuff. I think I've evolved with this as I've gotten older.

I dunno. Again, you're absolutely not obligated to think like me or interact with shipping the way I do. This is really a personal thing with me that I enjoy because I enjoy shipping. I'm free of the fighting (most of the time, unless people get upset that I'm neutral which has happened), and I get to have mountains of fanwork no matter what. Just do what you want and ignore what you don't like, that's the best I can tell you. If you're genuinely interested in multishipping just start... throwing characters at walls and see what sticks together. If nothing comes of it, at least you explored it in good faith!

Some dancing under the cut!

Enjoy a little dancing:

Me: this is gonna be a slow, slow burn.

Also me: huh, the three of them are in one place for the first time. 🔥🔥🔥

This is well ahead (I apparently forgot where I was posting from), but have a little jitterbugging Chrissy and Steve getting interrupted by Eddie: