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the most dangerous thing (is to love you) by Brokebeatle
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 May 2024
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“I know you care about what those little twerps think of you, and I can assure you they think way too highly of you,” Eddie says with a wink, and Steve gives a half-hearted smirk for just a moment. “But look… I know I can’t ask you to stop worrying about those kids, so how about this? You worry about them, and you let me—actually let me—worry about you.”
Steve pushes his hair back, and yet again, gravity instantly pulls it back down, since he’s looking at his feet. “…I don’t need anyone to worry about me.”
“Too fucking bad. Someone’s gotta do it, and it’s gonna be me.”
“Why?” Steve replies with a raspy laugh, shaking his head slowly.
“Why? Why.” Eddie crosses his arms tightly across his chest, knocking his foot into Steve’s again with a bit more strength. “Because we’re friends, dipshit.”
--In which Eddie's got a reason he's been planning on leaving Hawkins since long before the world almost ended. The only thing keeping him in town at this point? His promise to be friends with Steve Harrington. And Eddie doesn't break promises.
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- Part 1 of '86, baby!
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17 Nov 2025
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No one: . . . Eddie Munson: I Can Fix Them by bunnypeony
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Oct 2025
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𓊆No word count because these are flash comics.𓊇
Eddie wants to fix Steve and Jonathan. His intentions prove more taxing than expected, but the pair have one thing in common - a type. Big eyes. Curly hair. A daring personality. . . Oh, shit. Eddie Munson is their newfound crush. Let the chaos ensue.Bookmarked by bootadoode
15 Nov 2025
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Steve made his choice, hiding behind his too-big Letterman jacket and later that overpriced Members Only while his friends went out of their way to make Jonathan’s life hell; or what he thought, in the ninth grade, was hell.
Hell actually came two years later, when they dragged Will’s body out of the quarry. When Lonnie came home. When his mother sat him down like he was three years old again and said, smiling tightly, I’m going to have a baby.
Benjamin, the magnificent life-fixing-grief-resolving-replacement-baby, was born nine months later.
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11 Sep 2025
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“Age of Consent” by New Order blares out, loud enough for Jonathan to hear across the room. He had been there when Steve chose it a few months ago during another war room: “‘Age of Consent’ is good, I guess.”
“It can’t be I guess, dingus! It has to be enough to save you from a brutal interdimensional death!” Robin snapped.
Steve had rolled his eyes. “What’s Vecna gonna want with me anyways, Rob? I’ll do ‘Age of Consent.’”
Jonathan had known, that night, that it might be the wrong choice. But he didn’t say anything because it had been years and he could be wrong and maybe some selfish, petty part of him didn’t want to give Steve the satisfaction of Jonathan still knowing.
Something lifts Steve off of the couch.
“It’s not working!” Robin screams.
And Jonathan knows why it isn’t working. He remembers. Whatever high school bullshit Steve has put him through doesn’t particularly matter in the face of watching him be destroyed and turned inside out. So Jonathan, calmer than he feels, says, “It’s Hank Williams. Do you have Hank Williams?”
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09 Sep 2025
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27 Aug 2025
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Everyone thinks Kurt Anderson has it all: successful career as a Tony-winning costume designer, gorgeous loft in Manhattan's trendy Astor Row neighborhood, loving husband with a booming practice in couple's counseling. In reality, Kurt’s life is barely held together with a web of lies, misery, and prescriptions. On the advice of a friend, Kurt rents a house in upstate New York to take a break and put things in perspective, only to find that his life only looks more miserable from a distance. Sinking deeper and deeper into depression, Kurt is considering ending it all when he gets a letter in the mail, postmarked one week ago. The return address says only ‘Finn Hudson’, which is impossible, since the man died a decade ago.
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20 Aug 2025
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Jonathan,
Checking to see if I got the right address for you guys. Just in case, you know?
And I thought you'd want to know that even though the kids miss Will and El a lot they're getting by OK so far. Everybody is a little quieter but Mike isn't showing any signs of deppression which I know was like a legitimate concern. But you probably already hear about him from Nancy so I'm sure you already knew.
Anyways you don't have to write back if you just put a big check mark over this paper and do the "return to sender" thing or whatever that works and I'll know you got it.
Thanks,
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29 Jul 2025
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There’s a bottle on his neck and a boy pressed against him.
Steve should be terrified. He’s shoved higher up the wall he’s pinned to, the boy’s eyes wild beneath his tangled mess of hair, his breath all rasp and spit and fear.
The bottle presses closer, harder, almost enough to break skin.
Steve knows it won’t, though, because this isn’t the first time he’s been here.
Or, Steve keeps finding himself back in the boathouse where everything started, wrapped up in the arms of a boy who can’t stop dying. Saving him means ending his torment, and it also means falling in love.
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- 11/11
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12 Jul 2025
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i never did believe in miracles (but i've a feeling it's time to try) by cuoredimuschio
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jul 2023
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Eddie is beginning to think that, somewhere in the helter-skelter of surviving the Upside Down, being swarmed by possibly rabid but definitely rancid demobats, and charbroiling Vecna’s slimy ass, he accidentally tripped through the wrong gate and landed in an alternate dimension. Well, a different alternate dimension than the one he was already in.
Because Steve Harrington is flirting with him.
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14 Jun 2025
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“It’s not your fault if those people weren’t prepared to grow with you." Steve's voice is slow and soft, like the first warm embrace of a summer breeze following a particularly cold winter. “And for those who don’t...well, fuck ‘em.”
Then, he feels it. Fingers, quiet and hesitant, pressing gently against his own. They linger only for a moment—
And then, they’re gone.
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- 16/16
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26 Apr 2025
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Sean did it. He reached Mexico. The journey is over... but no one is by his side. How can he begin to heal?
[An epilogue to the "Parting Ways" ending of Life Is Strange 2]Bookmarked by bootadoode
03 Apr 2025
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(I've Been Going Through) A Change by owlmug
Fandoms: Life is Strange 2 (Video Game), Life is Strange (Video Game)
08 Sep 2019
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Summer is almost over, and Esteban is excited to go on a camping trip with his sons. He should know by now, though, that nothing ever goes according to plan.
[High School AU]
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- Part 4 of I Took Both Roads
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02 Apr 2025
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I Took Both Roads by owlmug
Fandom: Life is Strange (Video Game), Life is Strange 2 (Video Game)
08 Sep 2019
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A "Life Is Strange 2" High School AU where Finn and Cassidy live in Seattle. [Sean/Finn]
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31 Mar 2025
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There's Something in the Woods, And We're No Longer Children. by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2023
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He wants to figure it out, Eddie realises. It’s been haunting him since it happened two years ago — that chittering, whispering that emanated from the woods. From that first time he heard it, when the crickets were deathly silent, predator-ready, to when he heard the thundering, soldiers of the earth screaming and howling into the trees.
Eddie doesn’t know what he thinks he’s gonna find, but whatever it is, he wants to know. Those whispers hadn’t been back since that rumble beneath the ground — the soldiers — but that steady beat, like a giant mass running closer on the 4th of July? It has to be the same. There’s no way it can’t be connected.
And nobody has mentioned it. Nobody has even hinted at knowing what he’s talking about.
AKA: Before the beginning and after the end, through Eddie Munson’s eyes.
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- 45,249
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- 12/12
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24 Mar 2025
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Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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“I had another one.”
It stops the playful atmosphere instantly.
Not everyone tells him when they have a Memento. Lucas had kept to himself, and Will had refused to tell Steve about his dream. Some of them just tell him, softly, I remembered number one-seventy-three, or I had a Memento, last night. Sometimes it’s easier to just mention that it happened, acknowledge it and move on.
And Robin, for the most part, had done this. She hadn’t mentioned the details, because she’s sure that Steve is tired of hearing them, doesn’t want to hear his death from another person’s eyes, another person who is left with his body for a day before the loop dissolves into nothingness.
AKA: In the aftermath of it all, when Steve is learning what happiness means for him, people start to remember his deaths.
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- 38,255
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- 12/12
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- 14
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23 Mar 2025
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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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- 12/12
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22 Mar 2025
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“Is he whining about Eddie being mean to him again?” Robin is leaning in the doorway, eating a leftover slice that’s probably cold by now. “You talk about him more than you talk about girls, Steve, it’s getting concerning. Anyone would think you had a crush.”
or, steve is pretty convinced eddie now hates him. turns out eddie has the opposite problem.
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- Part 1 of love vigilantes
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- English
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- 60,702
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 46
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12 Mar 2025
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Steve Harrington has turned out to be a lot like a stray cat―the particular genre of stray cat Lonnie insisted Frog was: The kind that’s not really a stray at all, but looks so cute and sweet and pitiful that you can’t help yourself.
Once Jonathan paid him a little attention, he wouldn’t go the hell away. It was impossible to just ignore him, since he seemed to like being ignored―it must’ve been the thrill of the chase. There was a solid six months where he was almost always on the phone or in Jonathan’s bedroom, flipping his fucking hair around and drawling translate this for me, Byers. What’s our friend Robert Smith saying?
Jonathan has tried throwing rocks at him, metaphorically speaking; he’s been mean and he’s been honest; he’s left the most pessimistic parts of himself in charge.
And somehow, despite it all, Steve is still here.
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- Part 4 of A Catalog of Non-Definitive Acts
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19 Feb 2025
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The most exciting thing that had happened to the Byerses since Lonnie was taken out of the picture and Will was rescued from that kidnapping had been Steve's introduction into their weird little witchy family. They all assumed that was the most excitement they'd get for a while.
But things are never easy for witches in a small, conservative town like Hawkins, and Mike had a jar of enchanted jam to try out.
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- Part 2 of Magic
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19 Jan 2025
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People in small towns like Hawkins tended not to like things that were weird. As far as Steve could tell, "weird" included metalheads, gays, and witches. After spending a little time with Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, and Joyce Byers, Steve decided the average Hawkins resident could take a hike. He liked metalheads, gays, and witches. Hell, he might just be a couple of those things.
He's never getting into metal, though. Sorry, Eddie.
And, uh, sorry about some of the witch stuff, too.
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- Part 1 of Magic
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,678
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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18 Jan 2025