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My Grave is Mine to Dig by trashpocket for GibbousLunation
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Nov 2022
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The way Steve Harrington burrowed into his heart wasn’t ordinary nor simple. Nothing about the man—at least, beyond the surface—had ever been. He lived his life as if he was in constant danger, just ramped up to a frighteningly high degree. Maybe head trauma did that to you. Maybe whatever life Steve had with his family did that to you. If those scars and the lack of parents in the picture weren’t a sign, he didn’t know what else was.
Eddie still had to wonder about the things that haunted Steve every waking moment.
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Eddie Munson has heard all about that weird murder town, Hawkins, and its freak accidents. He's never really thought about it, though. It never came to mind.
Not until Steve Harrington moved into the abandoned house across the street, scarred and wary, like he was hiding. Running away. Like he'd been fighting monsters his whole life.
As if those monsters were even real.
(Which, they were, but Eddie didn't know that.)
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Or: Eddie Munson has a new neighbor. Steve Harrington is a retired monster hunter, just needing a break from his past. An AU where monsters from fairy tales and folk lore come to life.
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09 Apr 2023
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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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09 Apr 2023
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Since he was eighteen, Steven Harrington knew he would not marry: there were many factors, but chief among them were that he had, he knew, given up his chance for true happiness when he had allowed his mother to persuade him from accepting Edward Munson’s proposal.
Or: a Regency AU.
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- English
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- 102,211
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 3
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- 1,201
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02 Feb 2023
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“Sorry, little brother,” he says. His thumbs trace the muscles in his neck. “You know. It was a neat trick. But I’m afraid you just aren’t that special, in the end.”
Or: In a world where after Eight escapes, and before Eleven, another child makes it out of the lab.
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- English
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- 3/3
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- 10
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- 488
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02 Jan 2023
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Songs for Beginners (I Used to be a King) by its_steddie_time
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Sep 2022
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Steve Harrington knew a lot of things. He knew how to style his hair, how to move the strands into place.
He knew how to swing a bat.
He knew how to spit out words and make them hurt.
He knew how to love fiercely.
But for the life of him, he couldn’t figure out Eddie Munson.
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- Part 1 of The Joan Flicker Project
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- English
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- 10,026
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- 1/1
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- 12
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19 Dec 2022
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." Stories with, about, or for Stephanie Harrington, basketball star + babysitter.
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12 Dec 2022
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Eddie hates the library, he hates how quiet it is and how he’s always getting shushed by that librarian hag Muriel. But he hates his idiot roommate and his tendency to hog their dorm room to have loud sex with his girlfriend all night long, even more. And now he has to spend all night in the library cramming for an exam, which would be fine, if not for the fact that some polo-clad douchebag shows up and declares that Eddie’s study spot is actually his.
Or: Steve and Eddie fight over a study spot and accidentally fall in love over coffee, Vivaldi and the horror that is finals week.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 7/7
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10 Dec 2022
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Robin raised her brows.
“You know what, Harrington?” She nodded her head. “Yeah, you know what? I dare you to make a friend. I dare you.”
Read for Steve in Denial, excessive D&D gameplay, Robin as a mermaid, and Eddie's glinting rings.
As one reader said “the most frustratingly dense version of Steve I have ever read and I am HERE for it”
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- 46,803
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- 7/7
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09 Dec 2022
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“Hey newbie. Ever worked in a bar before?” the guy asks with an easy smile. Steve snaps his eyes up to meet his, and shit they’re pretty. The greeting would be charming from anyone else, perhaps even from the guy himself if he’d not overheard the exchange moments before, but Steve’s insides curl at the condescension.
“Yeah. For about five years. Thanks. And my name’s Steve,” he responds, voice clipped. He yanks at the ties of his apron, knotting the bow just a little tighter than is comfortable. He’ll have to adjust it later, but the man’s dark eyes are roaming over him like he’s something edible, and there’s no way Steve’s going to give any indication whatsoever that he’s prey.
“Nice to meet you, Steve. I’m Eddie.”
Steve can’t prevent the way his face scrunches in confusion, because surely not. There’s no way that this is the Eddie. Sure, he’s not exactly hard on the eyes, but from the little Steve’s experienced of him so far, he seems like a major ass. The way Bridget had hyped him up, anyone would think fucking Jon Bon Jovi worked here.
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when the upmarket cocktail bar Steve's working at goes out of business, he finds himself in desperate need of a job.
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- Part 1 of Soda Burn
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- English
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- 80,376
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 9
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- 682
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07 Dec 2022
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four puffs of farrah fawcett spray (and a mouthful of UD pollen) by oaseas for steveharringtoned
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Aug 2022
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Steve cops a faceful of Upside Down flower pollen in the tunnels, hours after Billy Hargrove tries to punch Steve's brain out the back of his head. Beyond the general hubbub of UD bullshit, Steve thinks he's made it out pretty much unscathed.
Months later, he makes a discovery. Turns out, he's much more intact than he'd thought. As in, his skin is baby smooth. Even the scar on his knee from his ill-advised ‘77 summer of skateboarding has disappeared.
OR: Steve Harrington can take a hit. He can take many hits. In fact, thanks to the Upside Down, there isn't a hit Steve can't take.
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- Part 8 of masterlist of my stranger things works
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- English
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- 17,444
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- 1/1
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- 287
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03 Dec 2022
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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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- English
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- 44,129
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 21
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- 915
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02 Dec 2022
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All he'd ever known was the softness of laundered bedsheets, trimmed bikini lines, fruity perfumes doused onto the beating pulse of fragile-necked girls.
But this? It was unlike anything he'd ever experienced. It reeked of sweat and cheap pot, his back was aching from the stained linoleum floors, he was miserably aroused at the thought of the town freak making a mess of himself. It was dirty, perverted.
Why did he like it so much?
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- English
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- 3/3
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- 240
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30 Nov 2022
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All That You Ever Wanted From Me Was Sweet Nothing by t1red_gay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Nov 2022
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“'I’m in love with you,' Eddie says, so casual, like it isn’t 3PM on a Tuesday in the middle of a Family Video in Bumfuck, Indiana. Like they’re somewhere else, like he’s someone else. Like it’s nothing extraordinary."
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Five times Eddie tells Steve he loves him, and one time Steve lets himself say it back.
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- 1/1
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- 19
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- 631
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29 Nov 2022
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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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- English
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- 54,148
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 36
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- 1,883
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29 Nov 2022
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After Steve Harrington goes missing, Eddie Munson gets exposed to the secret dangers of Hawkins, Indiana in 1985 instead of 1986.
Will a different first meeting lead to a change in his fate?
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- English
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- 47,585
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 25
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- 1,207
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- 138,191
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21 Nov 2022
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A week later, their third room was emptied out, and Eddie Munson moved in.
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- Part 1 of goodnight chicago (die with a smile)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,058
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 11
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- 165
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- 3,468
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- 38,420
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20 Nov 2022
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When Eddie sees Steve in a gay bar, he decides to seduce him and break his heart as revenge for what an asshole Steve was in high school. Steve, who was only at the bar to support Robin, is taken aback by the attention but finds himself under Eddie’s spell. And Eddie, to his growing unease, discovers that Steve Harrington is actually everything he’s ever wanted.
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- English
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- 45,304
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- 11/11
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- 12
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- 1,887
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18 Nov 2022
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Eddie Munson is famous for giving his bodyguards the slip. Enter Steve Harrington. Has this bratty rock star finally met a babysitter that can keep up with him?
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- Part 1 of Flight Risk
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 81,324
- Chapters:
- 16/16
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- 13
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- 4,792
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- 7,918
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- 181,151
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10 Nov 2022
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In the grand scheme of things, it had almost become a little bit banal; the crazy, world ending situations that Steve had managed to get himself into and actually, watching Vecna getting torn to absolute shreds by what they presumed was El in his own mind was kind of par for the course with his life at that point. Strangely, what was lightyears more exhilarating was seeing the faces of Dustin and Eddie as they booked it like hell out of the Creel house and back towards the trailer.
That excitement drained like bath water down the plug as soon as they were close enough to realise that Dustin was heaving Eddie with all his might though. His face white and sticky with sweat as he hefted Eddie into his arms towards their combined destination.
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The Tower tarot card can represent powerful personal revelations, standing against chaos, radical transformation, and the fear of it.
Eddie may have survived the Upside Down, but he's still suspect numero uno. While Stinson wrangles his innocence with the US government, the Harrington home becomes a safe haven for him in hiding. As does Steve.
- Language:
- English
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- 56,831
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 4
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- 110
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- 1,463
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- 362
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- 21,865
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07 Nov 2022
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Where do we go from here? (quietly fading away) by allandmore
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Sep 2022
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"What’s scarier than saving the world? Figuring out what to do afterwards. I get it,” Eddie turns on his side, one shoulder on the wall, and grips the front of Steve’s shirt. His face is so close Steve can feel the warmth of his breath. “But we’ve got time now. Right, Steve? We bought us all time. Time to figure all our shit out. Isn’t that what matters?”
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Steve Harrington struggles to find purpose after the Upside Down.
(But maybe purpose doesn't have to be big. Maybe it's helping Dustin navigate Sophomore year. Maybe it's reminding Robin to send in college admission letters. Maybe it's Eddie Munson. Maybe).
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 60,117
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 9
- Comments:
- 463
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- 3,716
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- 1,332
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- 47,676
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02 Nov 2022