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Steve Harrington has spent years hiding the parts of himself that don’t fit the world’s expectations—most of all, his love of musicals. But with Eddie Munson, he begins to see that being seen, flaws and all, might be the bravest act of all.
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Between Dance Moms and takeout, Steve discovers the best part of Thursday night tradition might not be the shows at all.
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Robin's demand for a weekly reality TV night brings unexpected love and crushes that even she couldn't see coming.
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Steve Harrington had never been an “academic success,” and his grades proved it. But with Eddie, learning stopped being about tests and vocab lists. Eddie made it different. He made it feel like a discovery instead of a failure. Through him, Steve was learning things school had never managed to teach: how to understand, how to trust, how to love, and how to be loved in return.
or, Steve Harrington is a total nerd, and Eddie Munson loves it.
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It starts as a therapeutic technique. Write down a bad thought, any bad thought, and then scribble through it. Steve didn't believe it would work, but he'd spent so much money at this point that he was willing to try anything to stop his therapist from giving him some more Freudian crap to explain the torture and trauma he'd experienced since everything happened with the Upside Down.
It turned into something more. Something freeing and exciting that Steve had never experienced before. A way to interact with the people he loves in a deeper, more connected way.
or Steve Harrington carries a journal everywhere he goes and writes everything down.
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“You can be my trusted adult,” Dustin cuts in.
Steve blinks several times. “Huh?”
“You’re an adult,” Dustin says, like he’s talking to a three-year-old.
“…yes, Dustin.”
“And my mom trusts you.”
“Yeah, but…wait.” Steve sits back up, ramrod straight in his chair. “You’re not suggesting…”
“Come with me to New Zealand,” Dustin finishes, then adds a quieter: “Please?”
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When Dustin Henderson parent-traps Steve and Eddie into taking him to New Zealand for a holiday and some Lord of the Rings sight-seeing, Steve's forced to confront the reality of what he really wants out of life. Is it working for his father in a job he despises to afford his sky-rise apartment in Chicago and the status that comes with it, or is it something else, something simpler, something truer to himself? On the windy back roads of New Zealand, amongst the most stunning scenery he's ever seen and with old flame Eddie Munson in his passenger seat, he figures it out.
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26 Sep 2025
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She has an incredibly detailed list, in her head, of what she has noticed about Steve. Most of all, Steve Harrington does not want to admit to having shitty eyesight.
--Robin, Steve, and Steve's glasses throughout the years.
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- Part 1 of this is the first day of my life
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23 Sep 2025
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Living here, he hardly has to introduce himself. There isn’t a thing about him that can’t be explained, for better or worse, in just three words: I’m from Hawkins.
(Or: Steve and Eddie meet again)Bookmarked by moonlitmemory
16 Sep 2025
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(You got me) in the palm of your hand by Just_my_latest_hyperfixation
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Sep 2023
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“Fortunes told, futures unfold.”
The sign at the local ren faire looks tempting. After all, Steve is one year out of high school and has no idea where his life is going. Sometimes he wishes someone could just gaze into the future and figure it out for him.
In the fortune teller’s tent, Steve has a run-in with his past. And if he doesn’t turn on his heel and leave, it has absolutely nothing to do with how pretty Eddie Munson looks in his costume, all gleaming jewelry and dark tendrils of hair spilling out from under a patterned headscarf. He lets Eddie read his palm, because why the hell not? It’s all bogus anyway!
Except, as the summer goes on, Steve finds that Eddie’s cryptic predictions somehow, inexplicably keep coming true. As they keep running into each other, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible force, Steve can’t help but be intrigued with the other boy. He also can’t seem to forget how pretty Eddie’s eyes look in black liner, or the way his fingers feel on his skin, but that is an entirely different problem.
Project #005 of the Steddie Big Bang 2023
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- Part 1 of (You got me) in the palm of your hand
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14 Sep 2025
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“Rules. Like, there’ll be no eating in my car. You’re not driving my car. No heavy metal,” Steve keeps listing, “you’re not picking up women and fucking them in m-”
“I'll try to control myself,” Eddie interrupts with a quip, a smirk. Fucking girls in Steve’s car, or anywhere else for that matter, isn’t going to be an issue, unless something pretty fundamental shifts in him.
Steve continues, completely ignoring Eddie, “You’ll wipe your feet. You’re not dragging dirt all over my car. No hitchhikers. No cutesy road games. No smoking in the car. I’m not paying for all the gas.”
“Ass, gas or grass, got it,” Eddie says, like he's taking this very seriously. He is not taking this seriously.
Or: Road trip!
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10 Aug 2025