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After a narrow escape from the Upside Down, it's hard to find your footing.
Or: Steve Harrington deals with his terrible parents, Robin Buckley refuses to leave her best friend to fend for himself, and Eddie Munson simply will not stop lending Steve his clothes for no reason Steve can see.
(Or: Steve cares too hard and too deeply to not have someone else care the same way about him. Everyone knows this except, apparently, for Steve.)
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17 Oct 2023
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Steve Harrington's Guide To Planning a Party (Without Blowing Up) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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In a way, Steve was kind of grateful for the swift intervention.
He knew now, after all, that most people in the world didn't have the ability to pick out people's emotions, and in a town like Hawkins he wouldn't have lasted long if he commented on every feeling he encountered. It was the reason why despite everything, he had turned out normal, despite all of life's attempts to turn him into something other than a popular somewhat dim-witted jock.And then one day he’d walked into the Byers household and been slapped in the face with the most godawful aura he'd ever experienced in his life, and he just knew he wasn’t going to be coming back from this.
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Steve has secret powers, which isn't really an issue except he's now dealing with his unexpected feelings(tm) for one Eddie Munson and suddenly things just got a lot more complicated. Also, he has the nasty habit of blowing shit up when he gets stressed which makes the whole 'secret' part of his powers hard.
The situation is totally and completely under his control, he just has to plan this stupid 'We saved the world (again)' party and he should be fine.
Totally fine.Series
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16 Oct 2023
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Under a much different circumstance, Eddie would have loved to have Steve’s eyes looking over him like that, would love to have that determination focused on him, but Eddie is very much dying, he knows it, so he smiles at Steve’s misplaced confidence instead, “High expectations, Stevie. Where’d you learn to swing like that anyway?”
“I’ll tell you,” Steve’s voice is a bit shaky, his tone wavering, even as he puts on a brave face, “but you have to stay alive, Munson.”
If he had more strength, he’d consider testing his luck one last time, tease Steve by asking if he swings for Eddie’s team, but- he’s tired.
Dying young. What a fucking nightmare.
Or, what if the Party defeats Vecna in time, and Eddie lives?
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- Part 1 of slowly learning that life is okay
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16 Oct 2023
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It had been two and a half months since the end of Spring Break.
Eddie had been cleared of all charges, The Byers were back in Hawkins like they’d never left, Vecna was dead and gone, and everything was back to normal; or rather as back to normal as Hawkins could get.
Unfortunately for one Steve Harrington, his new normal seemed to be not only his inability to get a date, but also his newfound proclivity towards staring at Eddie Munson’s mouth while he dramatically narrated during a five hour Hellfire session, or counting the freckles on the bridge of his nose, or memorizing the patterns in his honey coloured eyes.
What the fuck was wrong with him?
(Now with Eddie’s pov added!)
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15 Oct 2023
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Three shots ring out.
Steve hears them before he feels them; a warm, wet pain burning in his torso, intolerably excruciating.
There’s a bundle of squawks and screams, outbursts of panic and anger, and it’s only when Hopper falls forwards to take Steve up into a slightly rough, protective hold, does he realize that two of those shots have lodged themselves in his own flesh and bone. (Realizes that he’d moved, instinctively, to shield El, despite never having spoken to her, who’d the gun had been so precisely pointed at, aimed for.)
Steve Harrington watches his own blood pool and trickle over a series of hands pressed against him, small and large, soft and rugged, and for a moment, wants to stay like this. He can’t.
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14 Oct 2023
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The One in Which a Time Loop is Fucking Exhausting. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2022
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It’s the first time in a while that he doesn’t know what comes next. He’s dove into the water hundreds of times. Screamed as his flesh was torn apart, heard Master of Puppets in the distance and held back tears. Felt Max’s cold, small hand in his as she laid in the hospital bed. There are things that always happen, no matter how hard he tries: El doesn’t arrive in time. Eddie dies. Max is put in a coma.
Steve fails. They lose.
“Steve, how many loops have you been through?”
His head is nodding, and his eyes are watery, and Eddie has approached him like a spooked animal.
“I lost count.”
AKA: The one where Steve Harrington is stuck in a time loop, and Eddie Munson is really fucking hard to save, or: fuck Volume 2, these bitches are in love.
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14 Oct 2023
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The first time Soap wakes up on the cobblestone street it sucks. The second time he assumes that he had a really weird premonition dream. By the fourth time, he's already convinced that he's being punished for something.
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Time loops break everything Soap should know about reality, but it's hard to dispute what he's experiencing in real-time.
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- Part 1 of Time Loops Suck
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11 Oct 2023
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A mission goes wrong and both Soap and Ghost are left wounded. Back home, on his sick-leave, Soap's apartment gets broken into by the very men they were supposed to capture that day. Captain Price sends him a location for a place that should be safe. Soap didn't expect to see Ghost in the doorway when he gets there, bare-footed, in comfortable clothes and his worn-out balaclava.
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10 Oct 2023
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can't live long on starvation rations by ghostoftonantzin
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
14 Jul 2021
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The temperature goes up, the air conditioner goes out, and Nandor is reminded what it's like to be driven near mad with lust.
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06 Oct 2023
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hey little sister (what have you done?) by UnfortunatelyObsessed
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
21 Dec 2021
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Guillermo de la Cruz cares about a lot of things. He cares about his mother, he cares about public transportation. He cares about the fight for unions, the way Nadja taught him how to braid, the record Laszlo gave him, the office supplies Colin brings him, the soft curl that escapes Nandor’s updo when he’s had a harrowing day. He cares about the stupid glitter portrait, he cares about his mini fridge, his crucifix, his coffee mug, he just. Cares. Guillermo de la Cruz cares. It’s what has made him a good familiar, a great bodyguard, an unflinching friend.
So that’s what he does. He cares. He cares when Nandor lets blood flow into Gail’s mouth. He cares when he hits his knees and pulls out that stupid fucking ring. He cares when Gail says yes.
He cares. He cares. He cares.
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04 Oct 2023
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Two coffins for sleep, one for you, one for me by unsuspectingspecter
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
27 Nov 2021
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Laszlo doesn't often try his hand at comfort, and he isn't the only one who's waiting. He isn't the only one who wonders if they'll be celebrating a new death, or grieving one. But Nandor can make amends later.
It had been seven hours, forty-five minutes, and eight seconds since it happened.
Since Guillermo was killed.
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26 Sep 2023
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All the Ancient Wonders of the World by telm_393
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
14 May 2022
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(Are in ruins now.)
When Nandor was nineteen years old, something unpleasant happened to him, but he got over it very quickly. Except, hundreds and hundreds of years later, he finds he’s not as over it as he thought.
Also, Guillermo breaks the bathroom door.
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26 Sep 2023
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Sometimes, Guillermo imagines what he would tell his nineteen year old self, the boy barely out of adolescence who harbored a love for vampires that bordered on reverence. On good days, he likes to think he’d give out decent advice. This is how you remove dried blood stains from clothing. This is where you’ll find the best coupons for tarp, duct tape, rope. This is the part of the backyard with the softest ground, the easiest place to bury bodies during the winter. This house, underneath its floorboards, is where you’ll bury your heart. This is how you’ll learn to live as a monster without fangs.
On bad days, he thinks he wouldn’t give his younger self any advice at all. He would have met his own starry-eyed gaze with a sad, knowing smile and given him a stake.
A character study in three parts: entrances, exits, and heartbeats.
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One day, Guillermo would die. Perhaps they needed to discuss this a bit more intimately, Nandor thought.
Or: Nandor struggles to voice the reason as to why he refuses to turn Guillermo.
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26 Sep 2023
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Will You Bring Flowers to My Grave? by moss_goblins
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
19 Apr 2022
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After three months on the Vampiric High Council, Nadja decides that she and Guillermo should fake their deaths and return to Staten Island to properly murder her shitbag of a husband. Guillermo figures why not, he might as well since he can't reach Nandor. However, things turn out a bit differently than either of them expected.
Nadja and Guillermo need to be girlboss besties and Nandor and Laszlo need to suck it up and talk about their feelings. Everything takes place after the S3 finale.
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25 Sep 2023
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“It smells kind of like you,” Nandor says. Calmly, casually, practically a shrug, like that isn’t the most vulnerable and intimate thing Guillermo has heard in days--weeks--years.
And then, to his absolute horror, Guillermo feels the traitorous pricking of tears at the corners of his eyes. Nandor has leaned away, but he’s still closer than he was before, fanning the surface of Guillermo’s skin with his gentle breath.
Guillermo will not cry. He will not cry.
He can laugh about this. He’s not entirely human--he’s allowed to laugh at this.
So he does what his body knows best, and he bites down with an unprecedented savagery on the inside of his cheek. The familiar and comforting warmth of his own blood flows onto his tongue before he can realize his stupidity.
“Guillermo,” Nandor says. Low. Throaty. “Why do you do that?”
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Or: Guillermo's guilt grows with him from the moment he realizes he's different. Something between ordinary and inhuman. Then Nandor comes into his life, all danger and love, and Guillermo begins to think he can finally feel alive.Series
- Part 3 of Tender Is the Night
- Part 1 of Who We Smooch in the Shadows
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Nandor’s had a rough week of it.
First off, the paperwork - the sheer paperwork involved in being co-leader of the vampiric council - and then the bloody traffic these days, and then Guillermo getting attacked and badly injured by a feral vampire under Nandor’s watch… you know, the usual.
As Guillermo battles a fever and his own wounds, Nandor is left to battle feelings of overwhelming guilt and also the sneaking suspicion that he might not be as emotionally detached from the situation as perhaps he would like to be. Also, how the fuck do you cook pot noodles?
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24 Sep 2023
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Let's Pull The Curtains Down by singing_to_shipwreck
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
05 Jul 2020
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After the events of season 2, Guillermo has returned to the house, not as a familiar but as a protector.
The dynamic between him and the vampires has been shaken up. Guillermo wrestles with his own power. And the threat of other vampires is no less imminent.
Worst of all, Nandor will barely speak to him.
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23 Sep 2023
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Guillermo is exhausted, and confused, and why, exactly is Nandor trying to take him to bed all the sudden?
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23 Sep 2023
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When it comes to relationships, Nandor holds himself to a high standard. He expects things to be perfect the first time around, but that's easier said than done.
Fortunately for Nandor, he can just hypnotize Guillermo to forget whenever he fails to meet his own expectations. It's a totally foolproof plan.
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22 Sep 2023