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Steve started sending his to-do lists to famous rockstar Eddie Munson as sort of an inside joke. It wasn't like Eddie would ever look at the DMs from a no-one called Steve Harrington. Right?
Or; Steve's been using Eddie Munson's DMs as his personal notes up until the day Eddie actually replies to him.
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Bookmarked by melread
05 Aug 2025
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A one night stand that leads to LOVE???? Yeah I’ll bite.
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It's wedding season, which means Steve is hooking up with Eddie in between the most popular wedding songs of 1996. Very cool, very casual. Nothing to get worked up about.
Or: Steve gets caught up in his feelings, and technicalities.
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Steve Harrington was never supposed to see the tattoo.
Let's just start there.
Give Eddie some credit, it's not like he had this whole thing planned out before he was seventeen and bare-assed in front of an old powder compact with a crack straight down the center of the ancient mirror.
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Or; Eddie Munson made a poor decision back in high school; now that he’s survived the Upside Down he must face the consequences.
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A year before Will Byers disappears, when Steve is 16 years old, he dreams of the Upside Down. The dream, a warning, means that high school plays out differently. Steve learns ahead of time who he actually wants to be, what to care about, and that he can be brave about a lot of things he wouldn’t expect--including Eddie Munson.
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This is my excuse to rewrite Steve Harrington at Hawkins High, who deserves to feel true friendship and to play Dungeons and Dragons. And, of course, a nice love story with Hawkins’ hottest.- Language:
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Bookmarked by melread
07 Jun 2025
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There might be crack in this I don’t know and frankly I don’t care. Whatever is in it I need as an IV drip to get me through my days bc DAMN.
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Steve makes a face at Eddie. “You've imagined doing stuff with a guy?”
“Yeah, man,” Eddie replies, spreading his hands wide. “Doesn't everyone?”
Steve tilts his head to the side as he thinks. Maybe not very often, but his freshman year when Davey Riggs had been swim team captain? Yeah, he had definitely imagined some stuff that had made trips to the locker room kinda awkward.
“Yeah, that's true,” Steve answers, nodding. “I wonder why everybody acts like it's so gross, though.”
In the summer of 1986, Steve and Eddie have some perfectly normal fun between a couple of perfectly normal dudes.
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Bookmarked by melread
06 Jun 2025
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This eats every time. Truly the best idiot4idiot I’ve ever seen in my entire life. How I yearn for what they haveeeeee. Anyway.
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“I’m buying him a hundred flowers because I have to win.”
“Win,” Robin repeats dubiously.
“He’s trying to out-boyfriend me! He can’t do that! That’s my thing!”
“I don’t think you have a monopoly on being a boyfriend–”
“–being the best boyfriend,” he corrects. “He wrote me a whole album, Robin. He wrote me a love album. It’s not even metal. It was sappy and cheesy and amazing and he gave it to me with flowers. So I have to try harder.”
“First of all, he’s written you songs before–”
“–and I love every single one of them–”
“Second of all,” she stresses, talking over him. “Does he know it’s a competition? Or did you decide it was? Is something in your little jock brain telling you it needs to be one?”
“No!” He angrily throws another pretty pink bouquet in the cart. “He told me ‘your move, Harrington.’ Who does that??”
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- Part 13 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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Bookmarked by melread
14 May 2025
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I’m so alone they have NO RIGHT to be this in love. I’m going to need a few minutes to just cry in the corner don’t mind me.
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There’s this one ASMR channel that Eddie’s absolutely addicted to. There’s no discernible channel title, just two emojis: a baseball glove and the yellow sparkles. Eddie had stumbled across it a while ago in the recommended sidebar, and the channel is incredibly understated–-but wildly popular. Half a million subs with no captions under the videos, no text anywhere really; just a pair of beautiful, adorned hands, and incredible scrapbook work.
Then, Eddie starts to actually read the comments under the videos, and realizes the discourse that's been happening in regards to this scrapbooker: who are they?
And what seems to be most important to the viewers: what gender are they?
All Eddie knows is that the hands are just as beautiful as the art they make. When they strike up a penpalship, things get deeper and more complicated than Eddie could have guessed--and when he unexpectedly falls for the scrapbooker, he knows he's past the point of no return. There's only one thing left to do:
Go on the Hallmark romance movie journey of a lifetime.
Bookmarked by melread
07 May 2025
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I need this injected directly into my veins. Immediately. This was so good and had me in a chokehold the whole time while reading it, will be rereading when sad.
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Soul flowers aren’t a ticket to true love, he knows that well enough, but they do mean importance, significance, permanence. And so far no one has ever loved Steve significantly or permanently enough to leave some. Maybe that means he’s broken. Maybe that’s why he can’t leave any for her.
So Steve lets Jonathan take Nancy home that night, and tries not to feel too bitter about the matching bracelet of roses on Jonathan’s hand.
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Bookmarked by melread
06 May 2025
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Ohhhh now this kinda stuff is my bread and butter of fanfiction. It’s giving soulmate!au without being fully a soulmate!au and I deserve any form of a soulmate!au. Also flower meanings are so fun and it’s just so inherently gay as far as I’m concerned.
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Eddie wakes from a nightmare about the bats. Again.
About a week ago, Steve Harrington gave him his number with instructions to call if he needed anything. Said number is tacked on Eddie's wall under his Anthrax poster.
555-9878
-Steve H.But it's 3:17 a.m. and Eddie probably shouldn't call. Definitely shouldn't call.
(Eddie calls.)
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Bookmarked by melread
05 May 2025
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Cute, funny, arguable zero angst, and they are so oblivious to one another I live for it.
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the harder the rain, honey (the sweeter the sun) by ghosttotheparty for jewishrat420
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Oct 2023
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His hair is overgrown. He doesn’t really have bangs anymore; they’re long enough now to tuck behind his ears, so Steve does, reaching up and doing so as gently as he can before he holds Eddie’s face tenderly. He’s so cold.
Steve looks at him, scanning his face, searching desperately for what to say. Eddie’s tears slip between his fingers again.
“…You are so fucking loved, Eddie Munson.”
Bookmarked by melread
01 May 2025
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I’m not crying right now writing this and you can’t see me to argue that fact!!!!! To be Steve Harrington’s baby is to live the dream (am I jealous of a fictional character being loved by another fictional character??? Probably. It’s fine.)
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30 Apr 2025
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The way I forgot this existed and ATE IT UP just now???? Steve my beloved I just wanna give him a hug always. Also background Nancy/Gareth??? Into it.
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And it’s kind of insane. That he’s flirting with a cute boy at a fucking church-hosted event, that he’s flirting with a cute boy wearing a crucifix.
But it’s kind of even more insane that it’s working.
Bookmarked by melread
10 Apr 2025
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Not me reading this for the fourth time and crying for the fourth time nope couldn’t be me.
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“I think you’d be a great dad,” Eddie finds himself saying.
Imagines Steve running around chasing a honey-haired toddler. Throwing them around with strong arms. Walking under trees with them on his shoulders.
Steve looks grateful for this comment. A little close-mouthed, half-smile creeps up on him.
“I think you would be too, for what it’s worth.”
It’s worth a lot. Little does Steve know.
“Based on my sandwich making skills?”
Steve laughs. This gorgeous, weak laugh. He rests his head against the cupboard next to him.
“Yes. You were right. The meanest pb&j I’ve ever had.”
Eddie’s stomach is aching and it isn’t because he’s hungry.
The butterflies are starting to hurt, they’re that excessive.
“Told ya,” Eddie says. Wants to reach out and touch Steve’s face for some reason.
He looks sleepy. Gives a little yawn.
Eddie would quite like to carry him to bed.or
In a world where being beta is preferred, alpha Eddie endures ruts alone in his dorm room and accepts his life for what it’s inevitably going to be: lonely. Until his roommate Steve lets him in on a secret of his own, and his life changes in ways he always dreamed of.
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Bookmarked by melread
28 Mar 2025
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyway. Light angst, egregious fluff, and really great smut? Say less.
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“Steve,” Eddie repeats softly. Steve’s eyes look into his, shining like he’s already there, like he’s already floating. “If you want something, you gotta ask for it.”
Steve’s eyes flutter, and he looks like he wants to let out a whine, glancing across Eddie’s face again like he’s forgotten where they are.
“Fuck me,” he says weakly, and the words crawl under Eddie’s skin like they belong there. “Please. Will you please fuck me?”
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or; Steve and Eddie start hooking up and it makes them both happier than it should.
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Bookmarked by melread
25 Mar 2025
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They’re so soft and in love, your honor!!!!! Sometimes I really love when we just get to focus on Steve and Eddie without having everyone else, and this works out so well. Plus I love me a modern AU, the texting bits will always get me, im a sucker for them.
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The kids convince Steve to take them all to a Renaissance Faire and LARP event.
Steve has more fun than he admits.
And then Steve has a LOT more fun than he admits.
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Bookmarked by melread
24 Mar 2025
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This is the very first steddie fic I originally added to my first bookmark list on my phone!!! The way I’ve read this probably 6 times is crazy. It hits every single time and fills me with unimaginable joy. I will continue to return for dopamine hits!
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they're gonna make a fuss about the two of us by damn_good_marmalade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Oct 2023
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The green haired lad drains his beer and pushes off the wall, putting his cigarette between his lips and moving closer, “What do you want?”
“You going to Samhain?” The long-haired guy seems unphased, all smiles and sparkling eyes, “do you know how to get there?”
God, he’s sexy. Eyes big enough to swim in, soft curly hair. Shit, he looks kind of like Nancy but even more irresistible; leather-clad, full of masculine energy and smelling like smoke and earth.
Steve moves closer to him, draping an arm around his shoulder, pulling him close and pointing at the blur of coloured hair streaming down the street, “Follow the crowd,” Steve says directly into his ear, “Maybe see you there.”
The metalhead gulps and then offers Steve a bright smile, “Um, yeah, thanks.”
Steve watches him walk away, lighting another cigarette and lingering on the edge of the sidewalk until the metalhead is just a smudge.
Robin appears at his elbow, “Steve,” she hands him a box of fries, opening it and eating a handful hungrily, “Why were you flirting with Eddie Munson?”
Steve turns to look at her with wide, panicked eyes, “With who?”or
Punk Steve tries his best to seduce the elusive metalhead Eddie Munson
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Bookmarked by melread
09 Mar 2025
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I’m actually gagged I loved this so much. I love the aesthetic of punk!Steve so much. Did I have to google liberty spikes to make sure I knew what they were? Yes absolutely. But, this is such a creative fun take. The angst had be stressed but it was worth it!!! Also Claudia Henderson??? The woman you are, you’ll always have a fan in me.
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Eddie guessed that it was his own fault for waiting until the last second to get a new roommate. He should have chosen the smoker. But no, he had to go with the eye-candy. Despite the fact that he knew Steve would never look twice his way, even with the low odds that he even liked men.
But he couldn’t help it.
Eddie had been a failure when it came to romance ever since he moved out of his uncle’s place. Twenty-four years of conservative small town bullshit, all culminating into a complete lack of ability when it came to getting laid. Three more completely dedicated to making something of himself out in the city. He hadn’t been prepared to ward-off the model with the puppy dog eyes and the sob story of his last place flooding.
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Bookmarked by melread
21 Feb 2025
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Truly had me chomping at my cage bars because WOW Eddie just is the perfect oblivious man and I stand by Steve is one of the few people who find Eddie just drop dead gorgeous and doesn’t understand how people don’t see it. But it’s really just Steve is biased bc gremlin raccoon man Eddie is exactly his type and boy is it niche. ANYWAY.
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Love is Blind by Thisusernameisunavailable
Fandom: Fargo (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2025
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GatorxEddie, metaldeputy. Whatever ✌️❤️🔥
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Bookmarked by melread
20 Feb 2025
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Why do I like this so much??????? Idk but I want it injected into my veins.
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(i'll keep) my tongue behind my teeth by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Mar 2024
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“It’s some young guy,” she said. “Or, like, not super young. Our age, I think. Maybe a little older? From out of town. Or he is now, but used to be from here.”
“What? Who is?”
“That bought the Radioshack. Turning it into a bookstore? Some guy,” Robin continued. “That’s why Vickie even knows. They were trying to keep it all hush-hush because he didn’t want to buy it without, like, zoning permissions so he could do a full scale remodel to turn it into a bookstore. Otherwise he didn’t see a point, or so Vickie said Mrs Wheeler said.”
Or: Steve owns a movie theater, and a bookstore moves in across the street.
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Bookmarked by melread
18 Feb 2025
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I just stay emotional when I read this. I’ve read it like four times and I will continue to do so.