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Would you rather go to Canada with the guys in their beer run (and share their experience), or would you rather go to Kelso's uncle's Ice Shack with everyone (but Hyde since he wasn't invited)?

A good question that really made me think. In the end I gotta go with Ice Shack, never been ice fishing but also never been to Canada lol BUT I don’t think I would’ve been much help to the guys when they got in trouble with the Mounties. Wouldn’t be much help to Kelso either in Ice Shack situation but that’s okay lol

Thanks for the ask!

This WIP is a canon-divergent S8 fic.

The Sankofa is a symbol from the Akan people of Ghana. It's depicted as a bird facing with its feet forward and its head turned backwards, sometimes with an egg in its mouth.

It symbolizes using the knowledge from your past to build a better future.

Eric learns about the Sankofa bird during his time teaching in Africa, and it immediately resonates with him - and reminds him of his relationship with the girl next door.

"God, that's crazy." I point at Steven. "You so came on to me first." (Liminal Space, 2024)

"Hey, Roy. Is Steven in the kitchen?" (Christmas Cheer, 2022)

Jackie did what she could to conceal her smile as Steven silently made his way over to the passenger side door to open it for her. (Words Left Unsaid, 2018)

Two weeks and three days, but I wasn't counting...I swear. (Let's Grow Up Together, 2018)

Erythema had blossomed angrily over Jackie' s skin located just above her radial pulse on her left wrist. (It Takes Time to Fall in Love, 2017)

The moon dimly illuminates my room enough so that I can just barely make out Steven's silhouette as he closes my bedroom door. (Starlight, 2016)

Angie was out for blood. Steven's blood. (The Fine Print, 2016)

"You're going to see 'Star Wars'?" I snap my head up, not sure that I heard Steven correctly. (Here We Go Again, 2015)

"Jackie Beulah Burkhart." (The Speech, 2015)

Most people would leave a bucket of dead, offensive, and foul-smelling fish they found in an empty parking lot right where it was. I, on the other hand, never missed an opportunity to capitalize on ruining someone's day. (The Renewal: Through the Eyes of Steven Hyde, 2014)

Comments: Fun fact, with the exception of my one-shot/drabble series and my very first T7S fic, this actually covers all of my T7S fics. I also included the dates these were published because these ten fics cover ten years of fic-writing for me (I'm a steady, but not prolific writer). I don't really detect any patterns, and I think that is partially due to how I've changed as a writer these last ten years and also because I love to experiment with different hook styles (dialogue, character building, action, etc.).

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I'd like your fic recs! :D 

Omg you’ve been in the fandom so much longer than me you’ve probably read most of them! (I mean, I was born the year T7S came out lmao so uh).

The most recent fics I’ve loved are:

Heads up, I will be gushing

Baby We’re On Fire. THIS IS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES EVER. It’s a series, the first called Endless Midnights. A canon divergence from Vanstock where Jackie and Hyde ran away together at the end of season 2 and the story deals with their return to Point Place 10 years later. Each chapter has flashbacks that tell the story of what happened to make them leave and it is phenomenal. I love it for how Jackie and Hyde are already a deeply established couple, very in sync with each other without the issues that the show gave them. The author is working on a sequel but she posted a oneshot in the series showing a missing moment from when they ran away and lived together and it is ADORABLE. 

Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet. Post Season 8, Jackie & Hyde witness a murder and have to go into witness protection..as a married couple. I read this in one sitting it’s FABULOUS with just the right amount of angst and pining

Jekyll and Hyde. A long one shot told mostly from the perspective of Point Place High School as they observe what changed over that summer. This was really cute, I loved seeing these characters from an outsider perspective because I don’t think there’s enough of them

Dirty Urges. How Hyde convinced Jackie to stay over with him. This shows one of the scenes that we’ve all imagined, I’m sure and it’s honestly absolutely adorable. 

Merry Christmas Darling. Post s8, if you say you don’t like Christmas stories, you’re lying. 

Country Music. Jackie comforts Hyde after he first meets WB. This made me cry it’s so cute

with the furies breathing down your neck. Zombie apocalypse au. Do with this what you will

I’ll Call You When I Come down. Years after she last saw him, Hyde shows up at Jackie’s studio asking a favour. Their road trip forces her to confront some truths about their relationship and what she really wants. LOVE THIS

( unchained melody ) Jackie/Hyde 50s au. Nuff’ said

The One Where They’re Happy. The Basement Gang’s perspective on this new ‘creepy unnatural relationship’. This was super refreshing to read, especially considering the reactions of the characters in canon. 

Repeat After Me. In which Hyde realises that Jackie is picking up his speech patterns and has a little too much fun with it. Ok this was adorable. Very little happens but at the same time it’s a perfect insight into their relationship. 

I’ve got like 3 different fic ideas that i’ll probably be posting in the near future so you can look out for those too if you want!

I don’t think he would be any different as we saw with Jackie, mostly because we did saw him learning better in the first episodes of season 5, so his characterization as a boyfriend wouldn’t had been so different. 

Except, maybe, he wouldn’t had a girlfriend that actually makes him question his own bullshit and makes him taste his shit, like Jackie often does when he pulls something crappy at her and she turns it back.

But if Hyde had his season 1 characterization, that would had been awful. Look at how he was with both, Donna and Chrissy: needy and obssessive, idealizing the poor girl and calling them weird names (easy? oh my God), being pretty stalkish and just, overall, going into extremes. 

Boy, that would be a very abusive and unhealthy relationship, probably a short one.

Season 2 and 3 is way better, I think it would had gone like in season 5, like I said at the beginning of this answer. Now, season 4? Horrible. 

We see him act like an idiot in one of the most ooc episodes of the show when the gang throws a party to get Hyde a girlfriend. He gets manipulated and acts like a cave man in front of a girl he supposedly likes for more than a fling. If that Hyde would had been the one in a relationship, I wouldn’t expect it to become an actually healthy and good one.

No relationship that has that kind of agressive manipulation will EVER be good.

The other episode we see him holding it with a girl for more than three days is when Eric gets #nohomo jealous of this Jill girl he gets for everything, included the circle, just because she wouldn’t open her legs to him when he wanted. Disgusting. 

That’s no boyfriend material, that’s jail material.

So honestly, season 1 and 4 Hyde wouldn’t be ready for a relationship, and could easily become abusers or be abused in a any relationship they could start in those points. While season 2-3 Hyde, I think would had a better chance to get into something good.

He’s caring and sweet when he loves someone, he would do a good boyfriend to any girl he would actually feel something real for.