perhaps i am soft launching my return to fic writing..?😳😳😳 i’ve been thinking about this since i made this post. And i have a LOT of thoughts ok 🥺👉👈

oh, and there’s also a light smattering of eddie x reader somewhere in there🤠

Warnings: 18+ for mild sexual references and drug references

Originally posted by cookiemookie-deactivated2023031

• Ok so just for starters: 2022 Eds would ID as bisexual and use he/they pronouns, got it? Good.
• He isn’t necessarily all the way out at school, but he’s not exactly hiding it either. His friends know about it, and Eddie can think of a certain couple of basketball jocks who definitely know about it (case in point, the captain of the basketball team who drunkenly tried to give him a handjob round the back of the house at a party once, who’d DIE if anyone ever found out about it (and Eds won’t tell cause he’s cool like that).
• Eddie’s struggled with honestly pretty debilitating ADHD since childhood, but thankfully it eventually got picked up on by the school after one-too-many trips to the behavioural unit. He got referred to the educational specialist and managed to get on meds in time for starting high school, so he managed to graduate in one try, even if it was by the skin of his teeth.
• He’d enjoy history, physics and english lit, especially once he got more of a handle on his adhd and with good teachers who knew how to help.
• I could write a whole separate post about Eddie’s opinions of the books on the A Level curriculum, but I will say I feel like he’d get quite into some of the more gothic stuff like macbeth and wuthering heights
• Sadly I think in regards to his popularity in school, not much would’ve changed since the 80s. Although I don’t think people would be scared of him exactly (the whole satanic panic thing would’ve died down at this point and people would be more familiar with the metalhead subculture), he’d still get made fun of for being alt and for living in a trailer :/
• But he’d still have a core group of good friends and I feel like he’d be a little more popular with girls, too, as it’s so much more acceptable now for guys not to be a hyper-masculine stereotype.
• I could also write a whole separate post based on eddie’s music taste!! I think in 2022 he’d totally branch out from just metal. He’d be into people like bowie and maybe even the smiths (actually i think 80s!eddie would also be into these on the quiet). This might be my most controversial take but i also feel like he’d appreciate people like lana del rey, regina spektor, GRIMES, etc. He’d be into horror rap and maybe even some old school hip hop. He’d be into new wave and glam rock and space rock. Also anyone who’s just a genuinely really skilled musician/artist, anyone who does like high concept stuff etc. Could also see him getting into really dark, atmospheric country music
• I think he’d just be really knowledgeable about music in general, like a special interest
• He’d definitely still be a metalhead first, though
• HE’D MAKE IT TO COLLEGE
• college is the only place i see eddie after high school. He’d definitely thrive there. Sadly the scholarship options aren’t great as he doesn’t play sports or anything, but hopefully he’d manage to get to a community college or get a low income scholarship or something similar
• He’d BLOSSOM at college. He’d come out of his shell so much more with his style - he’d paint his nails and experiment with make up and get his ear pierced and all that kind of thing
• Imagine you meet him in college and have so much fun spending your Saturdays thrifting, going to antiques stores and second hand book stores and record stores and comic book stores and board game cafes and arcades and exploring the local small music scene and swapping clothes and doing each others makeup and getting drunk and getting high and generally being public nuisances I- 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
• Matching tattoos. MATCHING TATTOOS
• Imagine floating about in his band t-shirts and not much else
• If you became a couple it’d be a given that you’d share a wardrobe. No matter what gender/size you are as his partner it’s all good cuz like one of your shirts being huge and baggy on the other? Or tiny and cropped? No matter - you’d just be constantly exploring and experimenting and rebranding yourselves
• to be honest you’d probably be the quintessential insufferable, pretentious hipstery douchbaggy college kids lol but like it’s such a special time!!!!!! all can be forgiven cause what college kid isn’t like that
• Pulling all-nighters abusing his adhd meds and coke, probably to get essays finished.
• Him and his group of friends probably wouldn’t be the partying kind. More like staying up all night in someones dorm room smoking, drinking, etc, a baseball sock over the fire alarm so they don’t set it off. They’d go on such douchey, existential, substance-fuelled RANTS thinking they were such philosophers and beat poets and the like
• Speaking of philosophy, Eddie would probably minor in it. I think he’d probably choose something he felt was “practical” to major in in his first year of study, but end up switching his major with encouragement from his friends and teachers to like, music production or english lit or classics
• Dark academia vibes for days🤪🤪🤪
• I somehow feel like he’d be all over social media. He’d definitely have twitter and instagram and tiktok. He’d probably have like an instagram spam account where he just shit-posts all day
• Would literally send you the. most. CURSED memes on the planet
• He’d have the most elite taste in film - lots of classic horror and arthouse stuff
• You’d have so much fun watching really low budget badly-acted slasher flicks, too, laughing your asses off the whole time
• Of COURSE there’d be a D&D club at college, which Eddie would be all over, obviously. IMAGINE college D&D, it would be so fun with added alcohol. And don’t get me started on the meme references. And he’d be in the campus library for hours making the most high-tech character sheets
• And the best part? No-one would make fun of him for liking it cause hello it’s 2022!!!!! And its college!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
• Eddie may have been the underdog in school, but when it comes to college? That boy is DROWNING in e-girl pussy, let me tell you. And he would get so much dick too. I think if single, college Eddie would be the biggest, happiest slut on the planet. In fact, he’d probably have people queuing up to be part of his D&D group
• big BNOC energy
• I feel like he’d amass a bit of a following on tiktok
• Final thing: I actually think he’d get into sports in college. After he shakes off high school and the chip on his shoulder about his masculinity, he explores different sports clubs that he could potentially join and i can really see him doing something like hockey and getting all of his aggression out??? My other hypothesis is that he’d enjoy racket sports like maybe badminton or raquetball or something

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