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The spray paint hasn't even dried yet and Eddie's already scrubbing it off the house.
He insisted it was a bad idea, but Frankie insisted it was karma. Karma for what, Eddie doesn't really know.
As far as he knows, Harrington's never done anything directly to any of their group. He didn't really stop his sheep from doing stuff, but that in itself isn't a crime deserving of this punishment.
It's not even his house. If his parents came home and saw this, Eddie's pretty sure Steve would be punished in ways that aren't fair at all for some light bullying in high school.
He doesn't even know if Steve's home. The lights haven't been on since he got here and it's not that late. He can't possibly be sleeping.
The paint isn't coming off.
Headlights reflect off the window to his left and he freezes. The lights get brighter and closer.
He turns.
The headlights are on him. He waves.
They shut off.
Steve steps out of his car, but doesn't come closer. Eddie can't really see more than the shadow of him; The porch light is dim and nearly a full 25 feet away.
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03 Dec 2025
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Steve wakes up in the hospital with a headache, a haircut, and a boyfriend.
He doesn’t remember how he got any of them.
Or, the amnesia trope—but with a twist.
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02 Dec 2025
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Upon learning Eddie hasn’t been sleeping well post-Vecna, Steve makes it his mission to take Eddie out on various, exhausting excursions in an attempt to tire him out. And Eddie, who’s consistently played hooky from every gym class he’s been enrolled in since middle school, begrudgingly accepts. Why? Because he’s got a big, fat, embarrassing crush on Harrington, that’s why. Also, he’s an idiot.
Or, when jocks date nerds and their worlds inevitably collide.
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02 Dec 2025
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Hot Dog to the Head by Arbeds Ghost (GhostDeb) for tullamoredoo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Mar 2025
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“Mm, yeah okay sure. You got it. You’re still so pretty, you know that, Eds? Are you sure you’re real?”
“Ah. So I see the meds are working already then,” Eddie says with a smile. “How’s your head?”
“Never had any complaints, if you know what I mean.”
“Yep, those meds are definitely working.”
“Are you sure I’m not dead?”
“Very sure. You are very much alive, Harrington.”
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01 Dec 2025
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Eddie imagines that Steve Harrington probably thinks that he is real hot shit. On top of being a rich prom king, he is also an eroptomancer. A love seer. A soulseer, some people call them – someone able to see the weird magic that connects people in a predestined shit storm of a craps game. He probably thinks he’s real goddamn special. One in a million special.
It’s actually closer to one in five million, but who’s counting?
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01 Dec 2025
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“We’re probably meeting him for the first time,” Robin tells Chrissy, as Chrissy fixes her hair for her, “we should make a good impression.”
“I don’t think they have opinions babe,” Chrissy tells her gently, licking her thumb and then using it to rub a scuff off Robin's cheek.
“You can’t know that for sure. I bet they judge us. Silently. Plus I’ve never met one before, I’ve seen them working loads, you know, on Earth, but I’ve never...spoken to one. Not properly.”
“My parents had a house model, when I was little,” Chrissy volunteers, “she was really nice. Mostly she did all the chores and meals and stuff. Ordered the groceries. She was so good at Mahjong.”
“Huh. Do you think this guy will play Rummy with us? It’s better with four.”
“You’re cute,” Chrissy tells her, before kissing the tip of her nose, “should we have a countdown?” She asks, turning her attention to Eddie.
“Only if you’re willing to do it more than once if this doesn’t work?”
Chrissy wrinkles her nose, “probably not?”
Eddie shrugs, flips his visor screen down, and hopes for the best.
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28 Nov 2025
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“I’m Eddie, by the way.”
“Oh, uh—” The boy takes the hand that Eddie holds out and shakes it, apparently raised too well to snub an offered handshake. He is slow to offer his name in return, however, a flash of uncertainty crossing his fine features. Finally, he says, “Tom.”
“Can I buy you a drink?” Eddie asks, prepared to innocently pretend he had no idea Tom was here with someone else.
Eddie is treated to a third variety of smile from Tom—not the shiny, attentive smile he had for his friend, and not the easy, dreamy smile he had in general—but one that is a little sly and a little bashful at the same time. There is beauty in contradiction, Eddie has always thought so.
“Club soda,” Tom tells the bartender, “with lime—on my date’s tab.” Tom hikes his thumb over his shoulder, gesturing toward that old fucker back at the booth.
Behind Eddie, Jeff cackles, long and loud and exactly like a giant prick. “Oh, man,” Jeff says, making a big show of holding his ribs. “You got shut down by a fucking octogenarian!”
Eddie is settling into his new boring life as a teacher. He meets a guy at a bar. The guy’s not boring.
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28 Nov 2025
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a cinematic vision ensued (like the holiest dream) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jul 2022
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Eddie and Steve have been spending a lot of time together since Vecna. They're co-parenting kids, getting high every night, and sleeping in the same bed. They basically share a wardrobe too.
He thinks this is dangerous, its like they’re married, the casual sharing of intimacy, this space between them which feels like something and nothing all at the same time. He thinks it’s dangerous for him to pretend Steve sees it the same way, that one day Steve’s droopy, kind eyes are going to see right through him and he’ll lose this. This being a side of Steve’s bed that is his, a nightstand where his rings always pile, a drawer of shirts in Steve’s bedroom that only Eddie uses. He can’t lose it, so he shuts his mouth, turns out the light, and watches the slow breathing of sleep fill Steve’s chest.
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24 Nov 2025
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It’d only been an hour, maybe two, since he’d slipped away upstairs. He’d assumed the others had found their own places to fall since their tadpoles had finally ceased their blurry reaching and, by extension, begun to afford him some amount of peace.
So a knock is quite unwelcome. Doubly-so when he already knows who it is on the other side of the door.
Gale fumbles, falls into bed next to him, still sweet with the smell of brandy and magic.
“Astarion, is that you?” He whispers, groping in the dark until his fingers catch in the ruffle of his shirt. “Are you awake at this late hour, my very….” His head lolls against Astarion’s shoulder, and he smothers a laugh in advance of his own joke. “Elven, vampiric friend?”
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20 Nov 2025
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Every time, the tadpole squirms its way inside his head. Every time he is ‘saved,’ ‘seduced,’ and sometimes even believes it. This time feels almost real, different, as he drives the blade between Cazador’s ribs.
Astarion watches for the hundredth time as the people he has come to know unravel. Wyll loses self or sire, Karlach’s heart always burns too bright. Gale fakes a smile before he goes, insists it’s for the best.
He would have thought that he would be numb to the hurt by now, but still, it’s hard to watch.
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19 Nov 2025
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Change of Address by hearmerory
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Nov 2024
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A collection of instances in a modern AU of Zuko's shitty childhood, featuring Ozai's dislike of his son's autism and sexuality.
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18 Nov 2025
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He remembers the blood running into Tav’s eyes. It was beautiful, even after he realized what he’d done. One drop trailed all the way to the corner of his mouth. It moved in soft, endless shapes: you still with me, Astarion?
“So you just knew to find me,” he says dully, not bothering to make it a question. “Like one of those drab little pigeons.”
Astarion's day leaves him a little raw, and needling at Tav—in more ways than one—turns the aftermath into more than he bargained for.
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18 Nov 2025
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Gale tried again. “I—yes,” he said, finally. “This might be my last night alive. You’re right.”
“I’m not right,” sniffed Astarion. “I don't approve of the idea. I’m onto you. There’s a difference.”
The night before they reach Moonrise Towers, Gale's simulacrum fetches Astarion from his tent. He doesn't come quietly.
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18 Nov 2025
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It's always one final battle, one more time they have to face the monsters, one last head injury. Eventually, there will be a last time for this, whether they make it through or not. It looks more likely by the second that Steve won't make it through this one.
Robin and Nancy are waiting for him, probably barely able to hold Dustin back from coming to get him. Jonathan's gone. Nothing to be done about it now, and he's pretty sure he won't have time to grieve or console anyone else before he's gone too. It's all closing in.
Vecna's weapons, the monsters that never left his nightmares, they're here. They're starving.
Steve's always ready for a fight, even when he knows he'll lose. He's pretty sure he's losing this one.
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08 Nov 2025
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Bragging Rights, Fancy Drinks, and the Bartender Conundrum by alligator_writes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Mar 2023
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"But, for some reason, this place doesn’t feel standard. Maybe it’s the fact that all the pictures on the walls look modern and aren’t filled with old white dudes holding cans of Bud Light. Maybe it’s the fact that the music, thank god, isn’t beer, truck, dog country or rock music that Republicans like.
Or maybe the charm has everything to do with the bartender.
Good god. Eddie thinks he might die right then and there."
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Eddie and the guys go to a new place in search of a trivia spot safe from frat bros. What Eddie doesn't expect is to become smitten with not one, but two of the bartenders who work there.
Or so he thinks.
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06 Nov 2025
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The building begins to fall around Robin at a violent pace. He’s gripping the silver bar tightly now. It won’t be long. The floor is shaking, the roof is falling, and he thinks of that happy place of his, that memory, and then he desperately whispers the words engraved on the bar—
Nothingness. For an instant, there is absolute nothingness.
And then—
Robin opens his eyes. For a moment, he wonders if he’s made it to the afterlife. He’s on that hill again, and next to him is the picnic basket. He could smell the cheese laid out next to the chocolate that he and Ramy had spent too much of their money on. His eyes begin to water at the sight.
“Birdie?”
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Before Robin dies in the collapse of Babel, he gets a second chance to do it all over again. He’s not going to waste it.
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05 Nov 2025
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Wayne wears it. The chain? The one with Eddie’s signature spidery guitar pick, he wears it. He wears it every single day.
Then one day, he doesn’t. The chain snaps.
Or
What happens when it breaks?
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05 Nov 2025
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It is like dancing by Comedia
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Desolation of Smaug
13 Dec 2013
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And so Bilbo moves closer, still shivering from the ice cold water and smelling of fish, he stands next to Thorin, keeping his distance yet always within reach, always close enough to touch, but never actually touching.
“You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” He tries to be respectful. To keep his voice mild. It is an intrusive question, and he knows as much. Had this happened at the beginning of their journey he would not have dared ask it at all.
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05 Nov 2025
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It's commonplace for anyone who wants to keep a vampire alive but remove the danger of being drained to defang them.
When Astarion’s late night attempt to get a taste of blood goes wrong, he assumes the worst.
(Or in which Cazador plants a seed and over a century later, Astarion has help weeding it out.)
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16 Oct 2025
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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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15 Oct 2025