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Romy and Shane had been together for nearly a decade. The farm was thriving and they had a beautiful child together. From the outside, it looked like they had it all. On the inside, Romy felt like she was slowly losing her mind.
One year, a sudden drought in the valley causes the farms income to drop drastically. Romy is forced to find a second job to keep them afloat. Working at the Joja Mart warehouse is the last thing she would have ever expected to find herself doing. It feels entirely against her morals after everything she’s done to get away from that awful corporation, but a certain coworker causes the lines of her morality to blur even further.
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Alex just needed a place to stay for a little while while he settled in Zuzu City for a job offer. Sam and Sebastian’s place seemed perfect—or at least convenient, when Haley asked Sam, considering they were down a roommate (and rent for the upcoming month). Sam can’t say no. Sebastian definitely can. What Sam didn’t expect was how complicated it would get, quickly beginning to blur the lines between acquaintances, roommates, friends with benefits and something Sebastian is scared to label. And then there's their roommate Lexi...
Introducing Alex to Zuzu's queer culture is either a positive or a negative, depending on who you ask. Old friends, new tensions, and chemistry that refuses to be ignored turn a simple favor into something far more messy.
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And then, Sebastian felt like a light bulb went off in his head.
Without warning, he turned, hooked his fingers in the beltloops of the blonde's jeans and kissed him.
Sam made a startled sound against his mouth, then laughed when Sebastian pulled back, brows furrowed in mock confusion. He glanced between Alex and Sebastian, confusion settling on his face.
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- Part 1 of Sam/Seb/Alex
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The Last Something That Meant Anything by MangoHabanero96
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
07 Oct 2025
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Best friends Shane and Sterling were doing their best to shake their addiction to substance abuse after their respective heart breaks. That’s all thrown out the window when Shane’s secret first love comes back into his life, and Sterling becomes obsessed with the weird new farmer, Morgan Francis. Turns out he’s not the only one who has his eye on him.
Maddie’s boss at the water research facility is determined to get rid of the farmer all together. By any means necessary.
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Do No Harm by Caelwynn for Angel_with_an_assbutt, velvetlilith777
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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The doors of Sanctuary remain open to any and all comers, regardless of who they are or what they do in the outside world. Within, a woman known only as Doc offers healing to the dregs of society, the ones the rest of the world deems unworthy, all for the sake of a vow: "First, do no harm." But when the men she heals time and again constantly rain death upon the world, can she truly say she's keeping her oath?
Set in the world of Hell Finds You Everywhere, Do No Harm covers Shane's and Sterling's first five years in Zuzu City, and how their lives intersect with Doc time and again.
Fic is already written in its entirety and updates on Mondays.
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Ripley had always considered herself a rather patient sort. Things take the time it takes, and ain’t no use gettin’ upset about it. She’d dealt with the most stubborn cows, most slow-to-bloom crops, most irritatingly inconvenient weather imaginable, and she never once lost her calm about it. But nothing and no one had prepared her for dealing with Sterling Cooper.
“You doing okay there, sugar plum? I think I saw your eye twitchin’,” he grinned, looking far too pleased with himself for a man currently sweating from thwarted desire. Of course, that might have something to with how she’d tied him up in her bed.
The first of my (K)Inktober Reader Requests.
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- Part 1 of (K)inktober 2025
- Part 11 of Reader Requests
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Scarlett is one of the top dancers at the Elysium Fields, the most notoriously upscale gentlemen's club in Zuzu City. She loves what she does, the only problem is that her troubled past is coming back to haunt her with a vengeance.
It's a good thing she's caught the eye of two very overprotective men, Sterling and Shane. Let's hope they know how to share.
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This is a Mafia/Crime Syndicate AU**this fic will contain heavy themes, explicit mentions/descriptions of violence, and explicit sexual content. Mind the triggers - I will try to update tags as needed and provide content warnings on chapters as best I can.
Update 7/1/25 - as the plot has developed I have found this has evolved into a 'dead dove: do not eat' type of situation. I have included as many tags as I can without completely spoiling the story line. Please be aware that not everything is tagged and some scenes may be disturbing.Our men are morally black and only care about keeping their woman safe.
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It Only Takes a Spark by Annetastic for bitt3rsweet_lemon
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
23 Sep 2025
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Sebastian offers Sterling a light for his cigarette and one thing leads to another.
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"I'm heading home, too," Sebastian said, giving Sterling a once over again. He pulled out an umbrella and opened it over his head. He took a couple of steps before looking back over his shoulder. "You coming?"
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Sterling Cooper moved back home from Zuzu City as a final chance to try to stay clean, keep his head down and not make waves in Pelican Town. He wasn't expecting to meet someone like Eli--a rooftop-climbing, cryptid-hunting, ridiculously charming cryptozoologist who decided to drag him into a mystery of magical creatures and midnight stakeouts.
But when a chance encounter under the stars turns into nights of stargazing, half-truths, and maybe-sightings of maybe-real creatures, Sterling finds himself pulled into Eli’s world.
He’s not sure what he believes in anymore and somehow, the quiet between them feels like the safest place on Earth.
A slow-burn romance about starlight, secrets, and learning to believe in things you thought you’d lost the ability to, including yourself.
ART (Ch 18) by GREY: www.tumblr.com/egggargler
Sterling, Eli, Dylan, Sig, Teren & Gunnar's Mods
Always Raining in the Valley (Sunberry Village NPCs)
Eli & Dylan (East Scarp NPCs)
Bear Family (East Scarp NPCs)Series
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Started as a short writing exercise/drabble, turned into a short story off to the side of Mostly Mythical, and now further expanded into a full oneshot that extends the short story (Mostly Mythical B-Sides Ch. 4) and let's things become more intimate and passionate where the other version ended without showing the extended night together. This isn't in alignment with the plot of Mostly Mythical but it was too cute to NOT make an extended NSFW version.
Can be read as a standalone Sterling/Eli oneshot. Enjoy!
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- 5,700
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- 1/1
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Mostly Mythical B-Sides | Art, Cut Content, Drabbles, etc. by spookyteal
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
09 Sep 2025
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Mostly Mythical has become my big passion project for me, and my favorite work to talk about on Discord, in group chats, etc. I share A LOT of pieces on Discord, including random snippets, self satisfying smut, jokes, ideas and headcannons, among other things, but due to how absolutely massive this fic has become, I have LOADS of unused, cut and extra content related to it. To help me clear out my MM folder of pieces I don't need or wrote in fugue states, I decided that I'd make a home for everything that isn't being used for the main fic. This is all barely organized chaos, a lot of side writing and smut, rough drafts from before the outline changed, etc.
Sterling, Eli, Dylan, Teren, Gunnar and Sig's SDV mods
Always Raining in the Valley (Sunberry Village)
Eli and Dylan (East Scarp)
Bear Family (East Scarp)Series
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Flirting over a game of pool, Sterling asks Sam and Sebastian if they're interested in a third with a wicked smirk. Sam and Sebastian glance at each other and the trio slip out to the community center with impure intentions.
There will be a follow up to this one that is more Sam focused ;)
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Always Raining in the Valley (Sunberry Village NPC)Series
- Part 3 of Modded SDV | Sterling/Sebastian/Sam
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Magic has been restored to the valley, as it was before it had been locked away, and Lysander has fully recovered from the injuries that he suffered during the conflict. He and his friends have earned their Happily Ever After, and continue to find musical success as the Elements of Sound. So when an old lover of his shows up unexpectedly, who has just moved back to the home where he grew up there in town, everyone is surprised but excited to see their old friend, and to learn of the shared history between the two men. Rekindling their old friendship, and then the physical connection, Lysander couldn't be more grateful for everything and everyone in his life
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Even if the pasts from which both he and Sterling are still trying to run are catching up to them both, and it will take all of the love and companionship that they have made with their friends and partners for them to survive what it was that set them on their respective paths, both recently and so long ago(Tags will change as the story updates)
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- Part 8 of Stardew Valley- Rose & Sunflower
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- 17,467
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Tend the Orchard (SVWG Drabble Weekend 2025) by aheshke
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
02 Sep 2025
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Six Labor Day weekend drabbles on the themes of: Artist, Manager, Merchant, and Farmer
(Title borrowed from "Labour" by Paris Paloma)
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Sterling and Sam sneak into the community center late one night with entirely pure intentions.
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“Feels weird being here after hours,” Sam murmured with a quiet grin, voice low. Sterling slipped his hand into his jacket pocket, shoulders loose but gaze keen as he wrapped an arm around Sam’s neck, leading him into the main room.
The couch stood ready in the middle of the space, cushions and throw pillows already arranged into a makeshift nest on the floor. A couple of blankets were draped over the backrest of the couch, clearly prepared ahead of time. Sam felt himself blush, warmth flooding his cheeks. “You planned this?”
Sterling’s chuckle was low and pleased as he stepped past him, the soles of his boots whispering over the polished floor and rugs. “Wanted to surprise you. I'm a hopeless romantic, Sammy.” He kicked off his shoes lazily, toes curling against the cool ground, and dropped his jacket onto the arm of the couch before settling in. His hand stretched out toward Sam, fingers curling in an inviting gesture. “Come here, sweet boy.”
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- Part 2 of Modded SDV | Sterling/Sebastian/Sam
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While Sam is at work and Sebastian's family is out, Sebastian and Sterling realize they have the house to themselves.
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“You like pretending you’re in control, huh?” Sterling chuckled, and Sebastian’s legs fell open more involuntarily, his breath hitching and dark eyes narrowing.
Sebastian’s laugh was sharp and breathless. “You like thinking you can take it from me.” His hands gripped the front of Sterling’s shirt, yanking him down into a rough kiss, all tongue and teeth. “I’d like to see you try, hot stuff.”
That was all the invitation Sterling needed from his pretty boy.
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- Part 1 of Modded SDV | Sterling/Sebastian/Sam
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On a stormy evening, Sterling Cooper seeks Plumbeard’s hand in marriage to stop him before he causes another Pelican Town villager to disappear without a trace. Things escalate rather rapidly.
(A Stardew Valley retelling of the French “Bluebeard” fairy tale, featuring Sterling from the Always Raining in the Valley mod. Originally a rarepair ask game challenge on tumblr.)
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Set four years prior to the beginning of Hell Finds You Everywhere, take a peek at the moment Sebastian was brought into the fold.
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- Part 2 of Pieces of Hell - deleted scenes & more!
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When Sterling looks at Eli under the meteor shower, it feels like gravity. Like something inevitable. Like falling.
Digging through my folders of writing, I found this and cleaned it up to post. Just a smut writing exercise for my strange little rarepair of a cryptozoologist and a sad, cute alt guy figuring himself out.
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Eli and Dylan (East Scarp NPCs)
Always Raining in the ValleySeries
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Sterling runs into a conundrum one night when a fight breaks out and he's forced to haul an injured Shane home.
Help comes from an unexpected source!
--- --- --- --- --- ---Inspired by a line from Caelwynn's wonderful work titled: Do No Harm - this little one shot dives into the lives of Sterling and Shane and is set roughly ten years prior to the start of 'Hell Finds You Everywhere'
Happy Birthday, Cae! <3Series
- Part 1 of Pieces of Hell - deleted scenes & more!
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Sterling has crossed paths with Teren plenty of times—at parties, the saloon, festivals and campfires with their overlapping friend groups—but never one-on-one. That changes when a delivery run for his roommate Mia lands him at the Bear Family lodge when only Teren is there to answer the knock at the door.
A shared love of bad puns, cute dogs and emo music turns a quick favor into an afternoon of easy conversation and shared attraction--and between Teren's killer smile, velvety voice and charming personality, Sterling finds himself drawn to the attractive young veteran a lot more, a lot faster, than he ever expected.
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“Safe word?” Sterling asks, voice husky. The implication settles over Teren, a whole body shudder rocking through him.
“Muffin.”
Sterling snorts in surprise and a laugh bubbles out of Teren before he can swallow it down, head thrown back. “Who says 'muffin' during sex? It's a fine safe word.”
“Touché, hot stuff.”
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- Part 1 of Modded SDV | Sterling/Teren