that text meme the kids go wild for

[sockslayer]

why am i linking the tfln website when it's currently down?
post just feels incomplete without it, i guess

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Nancy Wheeler | Stranger Things | ota

[kindofbadass]

01. What the hell happened to not letting each other do stupid things?

02. This is your "are you still alive" text. Any response will do.

03. Sometimes I have to make sure these messages are going to you and I'm not about to give someone else a heart attack.

04.I'm just... utterly amazed that we're still alive at this point.

05. [Text her.]

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[gygaxed]

that's on you for trusting me to not let stupid things happen. rookie mistake

[kindofbadass]

I'm pretty sure I remember you saying you could handle it but sure

how stupid are we talking, exactly?

[gygaxed]

nothing that would end in jail time. at least i think so. it's all a bit blurry

[kindofbadass]

and nothing that's resulted in injury, hopefully?

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[thefreak]

[ no words, just an image of eddie giving a thumbs up face down on a couch. nobody knows how he managed to take a selfie face down. ]

[kindofbadass]

okay I know I said any response will do but that could be a picture someone else took of you suffocated in a couch cushion so I'm going to need something else

[thefreak]

Okay, okay, I'm alive. For now. Think I'm going to roll back over and pass the fuck out though, so, like, maybe send someone to check for a pulse later?

[kindofbadass]

I don't know if you're joking but I probably will do that

also thank you for answering me

[thefreak]

I mean, I'll *probably* survive, but, like also. Kind of feel like being put out of my misery.

Hey, um. Thanks for lookin out for me.

[kindofbadass]

I don't really like leaving people surviving to chance, when I have the option. And I can understand that but I'm not going to send someone for that.

You're part of the team now. It's kinda permanent. You don't need to thank me for that.

[thefreak]

You know, outside of D&D night, I've never really been part of a team? So this is taking some getting used to, but it's kind of nice.

...Don't tell Harrington I said that.

[kindofbadass]

Honestly you're taking all of this pretty well. Considering.

Alright, I won't.

[thefreak]

Yeah, well, maybe it hasn't fully sunk in yet. There are stages, right?

Appreciate it.

[kindofbadass]

oh, yeah, there are definitely stages

and, uh. well, the stages can get messy, so if that happens, don't feel like you need to keep it to yourself

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[stevieboy]

This is probably one of those times where it's better not to ask questions and just accept we're ridiculously lucky

[kindofbadass]

Right.

I think I'm flattered there was even a second you thought I knew how to do that but I do not know how to just... accept that

[stevieboy]

You're NOT going to accept the fact that we're alive? It's dumb luck Nance we're not that good

[kindofbadass]

No, of course I accept that we're alive!

I mean I guess - no, never mind

I can't accept that it's just luck. It's been years now, it can't just be luck.

[stevieboy]

Okay maybe by now we have a bit of experience to go off of but none of our plans ever go right and we always get through by the skin of our teeth
Sometimes some of us DON'T get through
It's mostly luck

[kindofbadass]

...

I really hate that.

No, if I let myself think about it as mostly luck I'm going to lose my mind.

[stevieboy]

Ok, look
You're amazing at coming up with plans and switching gears and you just run into everything without fear but you never panic
And that's probably a little bit why we're alive too

[kindofbadass]

[brb taking a moment before replying because it is very sweet and very Steve to react to "I'm going to lose my mind" with a bunch of compliments]

Thank you.

I think you're actually better at the running into everything without fear thing than I am

[stevieboy]

Yeah but I do it stupidly
You do it with a plan

[kindofbadass]

No, I think "protect everybody" is definitely a plan