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Barb was just trying to make some new friends at her college, not reconnect with a long lost best friend and her straight boy accessory. He's still annoyingly attractive and obnoxiously clueless, but Robin says he's changed. And much as it pains Barb to admit--she might be right.
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13 Oct 2025
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Good Advice (You're gonna ruin my life) by Stervrucht
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jan 2025
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And besides, don’t shit where you eat right?
Right?
Except Eddie thinks he’s kinda passed that station. Like, didn’t even attempt to stop there because Steve has him pulled close with his hands on Eddie’s hips and his leg is between Steve’s and they’re dancing dirty and Steve isn’t straight.
Steve isn’t fucking straight and his gaydar failed spectacularly, and they’re dancing dirty at the office party.
Oh god.
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12 Oct 2025
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“C’mon, let me introduce you.” She places a gentle hand on Wayne’s elbow, guiding him the last couple of steps to the bassinet. The first time Wayne sets eyes on his nephew, Eddie’s eye are wide open, almost like he’s scanning the room. There’s a patch of dark hair already sitting on Eddie’s head and he’s wrapped in a white blanket with blue trim.
“Wayne, this here is Eddie. Eddie, this is your Uncle Wayne.” Eddie’s eyes move to Elizabeth when she speaks and Wayne already knows this is the smartest kid he’s ever met.
“He’s a tiny thing.” Wayne reaches a hand out to Eddie and when his finger nudges against Eddie’s tiny palm he’s rewarded with the softest grip. More a reflex than anything. Elizabeth watches the two of them, smiling to herself before reaching down to rub her fingers across Eddie’s hair softly.
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Eddie's life, told through the eyes of his beloved Uncle Wayne.- Language:
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10 Oct 2025
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Forget-me-not: a small flower, with four petals, which are normally found in shades of blue with a pink or white centre. These are traditional flowers of intent in the Shire, used to express true love, and remembrance.
In which Bilbo plans to leave Erebor, and Thorin tries to understand why.
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04 Oct 2025
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In which the Company are entirely too nosy about matters that are supposed to be a secret, and Bilbo learns that being concerned about propriety is overrated when you could be making friends instead.
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04 Oct 2025
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28 Sep 2025
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In which Thorin pushes, and Bilbo doesn't know how to handle emotions and finds himself engaged without realizing it.
(A fluffy "everyone lives" marriage AU)
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23 Sep 2025
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“We should have sex,” Steve blurts, and it almost sounds like a question. Eddie feels himself freeze, and his entire body flushes hot with equal parts terror and intrigue, because did Steve just say they should have sex? As in, together?
“Um,” Eddie manages. His brain is entirely off line, buzzing with frantic static and he begs his mouth to say something, anything, before Steve rescinds the offer.
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Or, Eddie can't sleep without having nightmares, so Steve offers his assistance.
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07 Sep 2025
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“Is that Steve fucking Harrington?”
“What’s it to you?” Mike asks snottily. Max turns toward him, already snarling in protection, but Wheeler’s got Steve’s head cradled in his lap, and he’s got his arms raised like he can shield him from this nameless threat.
“What’d you do to his face?” Eddie demands, almost whining, like Steve Harrington having his face bashed in is an affront to him personally.
Or: on the way to the tunnels with Steve Harrington passed out in the back seat, Max crashes into Eddie's van.
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05 Sep 2025
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“It was you,” Eddie’s saying, accusing, before the hinges on the door even creak.
“The fuck?”
“It was you,” Eddie repeats and of course he points that time because he’s Eddie goddamn Munson.
“I’m not an idiot,” Eddie huffs, hands thrown toward the vaulted foyer ceiling, as far as he’s stepped across the threshold; “I know when a witch intervenes, when Craft is used, then a debt is owed,” and oh shit. That’s what Eddie knows—thinks he knows, probably knows, fucking fuck. “That’s like,” Eddie gestures broadly, presumptively, even though his eyes are still asking, is it true: “textbook.”
Steve’s quiet for a long beat, weighing his options. He could dodge it. Should dodge it.
What he should definitely not do is cop to it. Not even slightly. Keep it casual. Keep it vague.
Even if it…is true.
“You owe a debt when you ask for Magic.” Everyone knew that. He shifts his weight, crosses his arms, narrows his eyes expectantly at Eddie: “Did you ask?”
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In which there is a very reluctant witch, a very insatiable curiosity, a debt that’s even not a debt, and a payment that definitely benefits everyone.
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01 Sep 2025
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“What else?” Eddie goads, once he’s done rolling his eyes all over Steve. “Who else is mean to poor baby rich boy, Steve Harrington?”
“You,” Steve points out, voice high, teetering on the edge of something he doesn’t fully understand. “All the other counselors, for that matter. I see how you guys look at me.”
And I see how you're looking at me right now, he wants to add.
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OR: Camp Counselors Steve and Eddie have their differences... and something in common, too.
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28 Aug 2025
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Eddie is in a slump, and his friends are all but forcing him to find a solution.
A blind date isn't how Eddie thought he'd find love, but if it gets him Steve Harrington, he'll go on as many blind dates as it takes
Now if only his friends would stop acting so strange...
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23 Aug 2025
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22 Aug 2025
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To Fix What Was Broken by hobbitoutoftime
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Aug 2025
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When Mahal himself offers to send Thorin back to the start of the quest to save the line of Durin, he is determined to make amends for all of the mistakes he made the first time around.
When Bilbo wakes up in Bag End eighty years in the past, all he knows is that he has somehow been given the chance to see his beloved dwarves again and he'll be damned if he doesn't take it.
Both dwarf and hobbit are desperate to prevent the quest from ending in tragedy, but neither will be able to do it on their own. They'll need to work together if they want to keep the entire Company alive and whole --but first they need to realize that they are not alone in their efforts, and they have to stop getting in each other's way at every turn they make.
Hopefully, they'll learn some things this time that they failed to learn before. And maybe, just maybe, they'll find their happy ending that both have been yearning for.
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- 32/32
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21 Aug 2025
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Nov 2025
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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13 Aug 2025
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Steve and Eddie hookup and it's not what Steve wants.
He finally tells Eddie he can't anymore, but immediately regrets sending the text.
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08 Aug 2025
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“I’m coming, man. Jeez. This isn’t life or death.”
Steve opens the driver’s side door roughly. “Alcohol thins your blood. Lose too much and it will be life or death.”
“It’s just a flesh wound,” Eddie insists in a bad British accent as he plops down in the passenger seat. When Steve only gives him a blank look, his grin falls. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail? No? Come on, dude, how do you work at a video store?”
(Or: The aftermath begins to set in. Sometimes, comfort can be found in the oddest of places.)
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30 Jul 2025
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“I could help with that.”
It takes him a minute to realize that he said anything at all as Steve gives him a bizarre look.
They blink at each other for a long, long time while Eddie's brain catches up with his ears, which are catching up with his mouth.
“Now… what do you mean by that?” Steve asks, crossing his arms over his chest.
Eddie doesn't have an answer, because even though he knows exactly what he meant by that, he does not know what possessed him to actually fucking say it. So he stays silent, choosing instead to stare owlishly at Steve, trying to communicate with him via telepathy.
I'm offering to take the edge off. I'm offering to beat your meat. To crank your hog. Be normal about it because I can't be.
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Steve and Eddie strike up a mutually beneficial, casual relationship, but Eddie is incapable about being casual about anything.
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26 Jul 2025
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“Valentine’s Day is fucking stupid, dude. It’s a capitalist goldmine designed to sell flowers and shitty cards with no real meaning or personality behind them,” Eddie says, waving a sauce-covered wooden spoon around as he speaks. Little drops of red marinara splatter the pale, unfinished wood cabinets as he moves about. “I mean, you can go on a date literally any day of the year. You can buy your girlfriend candy and flowers any day of the year. People all over the world put up with their shitty partners for three hundred sixty-four days just to get that one day of affection, and sometimes, they don’t even get that!”
“So…I take it, you're free on Saturday?”
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Steve and Eddie spend three Valentine's Days together.
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26 Jul 2025
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Eddie Munson marches on stage that night, glammed up and dizzy, and squawks. Right at the audience! Gone is the suave, confident frontman who wears his body like he designed it, who winks at interviewers who poke and prod at the queer subtext in his lyricism. In his stead is an extremely (unwillingly) drunk man, who cannot for the life of him remember how to be a rockstar.
It was a disaster, to say the least.
But it was also really, really funny.
(Or: Eddie Munson steps away from the spotlight and takes up hosting a radio show. He quickly strikes up a strange friendship with a frequent caller. Oh, and his neighbor just so happens to be the most beautiful man Eddie's cynical eyes have ever seen.)
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25 Jul 2025