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Episode One: The Case of the Hobgoblin Haunting by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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Back in London, the Dead Boy Detective Agency tidy up their affairs and help Jenny out with the pest problem in her new shop.
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- Part 1 of Season Two: We're Gonna Be Legendary
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The night Edwin disappears, his mother wakes up screaming.
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I Want To Touch You (If You'll Let Me) by Stringsofstars for erebus06
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Dec 2024
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'The thing is, in hindsight it should have been obvious that Charles is madly in love with Edwin, and has been probably since that first night. The slightest brush of their hands makes Charles feel more than he’s ever felt with Crystal or any other girl, as much as he’d thought he’d loved them. For years he’d written it off as simply a normal reaction to the one thing he could feel in a world of non-sensation, more intense than anything he’d known in life because of the contrast with the bland sameness of every other touch. He’d thought his assessment of Edwin as probably the most gorgeous person to ever exist the objective evaluation of another guy, just as he’d always justified his noticing of other boys in the changing rooms at school as simply standard male competitiveness.
Then Edwin had told him he was in love with him, his eyes wide and wet, his hair disarrayed, stripped down and vulnerable in a way Charles had never seen him before. And, well. Denial and repression can only take you so far.'
In which Charles realises some things and confesses to Edwin. Written for erebus06 for the DBDA Secret Pumpkin 2024.
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There was no escape from it. The school newspaper talked of nothing else; the real newspapers talked of nothing else. In every class the Masters had something to say about it, some comparison to make or analogy to draw. The boys talked about it in hushed whispers and boisterous tones; most of the upper years had already joined up; every boy had a father or brother or uncle or cousin who was fighting in the trenches; almost every day a new mourning band appeared.
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If Eternity is Finite, I Would Spend it All With You by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Oct 2024
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'The world exists as a series of moments. This moment, and then this moment, and then this moment. Now, and then now, and then now.'
Charles had told Edwin they had forever to figure out what the rest means. But what is eternity, when you really think about it?
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Edwin Payne's complicated relationship with his family by Stringsofstars
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
29 Dec 2024
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Edwin Payne hasn't had more than the occasional isolated thought of his family for a long time. They are all long dead, after all.
Unfortunately, as Edwin should have known, the dead never stay quiet for long.
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Crystal Palace's Attempts To Balance Her Old And New Lives by Stringsofstars
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
18 Jul 2024
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It’s Steve and Eddie’s first anniversary and Steve is excited, really he is, it’s just…This is the first relationship to last long enough for an anniversary since Nancy; it feels big. He’s done his best to keep his anxiety under control—Robin keeps reminding him that Eddie is not Nancy—but he still feels like he has to get this right, has to make it the perfect anniversary or Eddie will leave him too.
So when a migraine attack hits him on their special day, Steve tells himself he just needs to nap some of it off and keep to their plans—after all, Eddie did get them “sports game tickets” as he so eloquently put it, and Steve doesn’t want to waste this opportunity of a partner actually showing an interest in the things he likes. Eddie shows him that the only thing that makes an anniversary perfect is them spending time together, even if it’s just a spontaneous romantic spa night at home.
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22 Nov 2025
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Watching Steve sit alone that first day- even with his ex and her new squeeze crowding his table- former King of Hawkins High with his bruised up face and puppy dog eyes, and apparently, knight in shining armor tendencies, Eddie never stood a chance.
It's Jeff, in the end, that finally badgers Eddie enough to let Steve be dragged over to their table- into Hellfire, and Dungeons & Dragons, and hopefully right into Eddie's arms- after Steve intervenes to stop Jeff being harrassed in the halls.
Now Eddie just needs to figure out what he's going to do with all of it.
Aka a hellfire adopts Steve fic, because give the boy some friends (and a boyfriend).
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22 Nov 2025
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5 times people confidently assumed Steve had no knowledge of Lord of the Rings and 1 time they were proven wrong
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20 Nov 2025
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Long night with your hands up in my hair (Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs) by CricketCat
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2025
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At some point, Eddie’s hand had made its way to Steve’s bad knee, massaging it gently in soothing circles. It was like magic, the way the deep ached subsided just enough for Steve’s posture to slump. He felt like putty under Eddie’s fingertips. Tension melted away from him as Eddie continued his work over his kneecap to the beginning of his thigh. He couldn’t help but close his eyes and let out a contented sigh.
“Do you want me to stop?” Eddie asked quietly.
“Huh?”
“Steve,” Eddie whispered. “Do you want me to stop?”
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OR Steve Harrington comes to terms with his migraines, chronic pain, bisexuality, and his relationship with Eddie Munson.Bookmarked by Stringsofstars
12 Nov 2025
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Steve falls sick on the Fourth of July, and is shocked someone(s) is actually nursing him back to health.
Metalsandwich Bingo 2025 - Prompt C2: Broken (and mended) Bonds
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- Part 5 of Metalsandwich Bingo 2025
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11 Nov 2025