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It’s a slow Monday morning in early September when Robin makes her proposal at the Family Video Store.
“I’m not marrying you, Rob,” Steve says, nonplussed. “No offense or anything.”
“No– I never said that– I said we could totally do something LIKE a lavender marriage.”
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Robin suggests a fake dating scheme that she believes will provide cover for both her and Steve as they both navigate their respective secret queer relationships. Nothing goes according to plan.
--Note that this work is already complete, with a new chapter to be added each day.
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- Part 2 of it can't happen in hawkins
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Ten years after the Battle of Starcourt Mall, Steve and Dustin have still never spoken about all that transpired down in the Russian bunker. When the truth of how Dustin saved Robin and Steve finally comes to light, Steve comes to some rapid realizations about how feels about Dustin and the lengths his friends will go to for him.
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“Most of them,” Robin pushes. “But that freaky doctor was in the room with us. Wait, did you get him with the cattle prod? Oh my God, wait, did you kill that doctor, Dustin?”
Dustin is staring everywhere but at Steve. “So? Haven’t most of us killed someone at this point?”
Steve’s heart has leapt into his throat. Had Dustin really killed a man when he was fourteen to save them? To save him?
“Uh, no Dustin, most of us have not!” someone says. Steve isn’t sure who because his focus has narrowed to watching every reaction that plays across Dustin’s face. A fully-body shudder courses through Steve.
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AKA: the dilf dusteve time travel drabbles from tumblr
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description from my original tumblr post: there's been some great concepts for wacky exotic matter shenanigans including time travel wackiness but ive got a really fun one:nancy shoots the exotic matter and dusteve from 25 years into the future show up. crucially, dusteve are in an established longterm committed relationship and EVERYONE is super normal and not at all weird about it.
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A shockwave sent Dustin sprawling to the ground, knocking his head hard and making it spin. When his vision clarified, he saw someone else also struggling to his knees. He was short, about Dustin's height, with close cropped curly brown hair, shot through here and there with grey. He looked oddly familiar but Dustin couldn't place where he knew him."Son of a bitch!" The man exclaimed, shaking his head. He looked up, staring Dustin right in the face with the exact same blue-grey eyes Dustin saw in the mirror every morning.
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“Yeah,” Steve sighs. “I’m gonna miss you, too, Dustin. Hey, promise you won’t forget about good old Steve Harrington when you make a bunch of new, smart friends?”
Steve brings his hand to grip the base of Dustin’s neck. He knows he sounds pathetic, but it covers what he really wants to say, which is “don’t leave me behind.”
Dustin catches Steve’s gaze and holds it. “You’re my best friend. You know that nothing could ever change that.”
Steve can’t seem to tear his eyes away from Dustin’s. The weight of everything they went through in the last five years hangs in the air. There’s too much to say and nothing to say that they don’t already know.
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Set in the year after Dustin graduates high school and heads to college, Steve and Dustin struggle to navigate their relationship as it changes in ways that neither of them anticipated, especially now that the threat of the Upside Down is no longer an excuse to keep them together.
It’s a story told through phone calls, postcards, holidays at home, road trips, and Lord of the Rings references. It’s a story of learning what to let go of, what to hold onto and how to find a path forward. Mostly, it’s a story about love.
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Steve teaches Dustin how to smoke weed.
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Steve took another drag and leaned forward, an invitation this time, finding that he really wanted another opportunity to feel Dustin’s lips on his, if only because each sensation on his skin felt so intense. The music continued to play, thrumming through his chest comfortably. Dustin looked at him for a second before leaning in and opening his mouth, eyes fluttering shut.Steve supposed he should feel more awkward about pressing his lips to his best friend’s like this, but it just seemed like the most practical thing to do to help Dustin get high in a way that didn’t totally obliterate his lungs. Besides, Dustin had always been different. Special. He could do things with Dustin that he couldn’t do with his other friends
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Steve sighs before continuing: “It can’t happen in Hawkins, Dustin, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. You’re going to get out. You’re going to go to college because you are super smart and– and you’re going to find a guy who’s perfect for you.” Steve watches his own face in the mirror say these words, tracing the lines under his eyes, the bruise on his jaw, the cut on his temple. He imagines the man who will someday love Dustin and feels a sudden, intense jealousy. “You are going to find a guy who is smart, and understands you, and is brave for you. You are going to find someone who loves you. You are going to get your happy ending.” It sounds like a prayer or incantation. Dustin will be happy someday. He must.
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Love looks a certain way in Hawkins. It doesn't look like Dustin Henderson and Steve Harrington going steady, that's for sure.
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not everybody does it but everybody should by pettypace for sablesea
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jan 2026
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“Let’s just play it cool, yeah?” Dustin asks, voice sounding nonchalant but his eyes are tender as they sweep across Steve’s face.
“The coolest,” Steve agrees easily. He starts to move forward, but Dustin grabs his wrist and stops him again.
“Here,” Dustin whispers, pressing something soft into Steve’s hand. He looks down at the red bandana and feels a flush of heat return to his cheeks when he remembers how it had come off. Dustin darts another look back at Steve’s face and mimes a wiping motion with his hand. “You may want to… uh…”
“Oh shit, thanks” Steve laughs, scraping the bandana across his cheeks and mouth. He follows Dustin up the stairs, taking them two at a time in his giddiness.---
Smutty little rewrite of the end of the end of Season 5 episode 7. Dustin and Steve have their "You die, I die" moment in the armory, but then things escalate from there... And then they both need to somehow act casual during Will's coming out scene.
AKA This is just porn with feelings and heavy dose of humor, written from Steve's POV. Don't take this too seriously.
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18 Jan 2026
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After the final battle leaves Hawkins fractured and changed, Steve and Dustin retreat into the quiet of Steve’s house to heal—physically and emotionally. As grief, fear, and relief intertwine, their bond deepens into something neither of them expected.
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28 Dec 2025
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here at the end of all things (with you) by grasslandgirl for MisPronounce_and_MisAccent
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
05 May 2023
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“Rosie Cotton dancing,” Sam said, “and Pippin and Merry stealing the fireworks early. And you-” his voice died in his throat. He could feel Frodo’s eyes on him, but Sam kept his gaze steady on the far-off horizon. Somewhere, he hoped, the armies of Rohan and Gondor and all the kingdoms of men were gathered. He hoped that he and Frodo hadn’t been too late. Sam hoped a lot of useless things.
“Your laughter, Mister Frodo.” Sam’s voice was rough from smoke and the building tears in the back of his throat. He closed his eyes, and tried to remember the sound of Frodo’s laugh. The shape of his smile- how it formed dimples in his cheeks and made his eyes crinkle up into little crescents. It had been so long, the memories felt faint and dreamy, like something Sam had imagined long ago. Once, a lifetime past, Frodo’s smile was Sam’s favorite thing in the widest world. More beautiful than any flower he could grow in the garden, brighter than any of Gandalf’s fireworks cracking open in the sky. “I loved to hear you laugh, sir,” Sam whispered, and he felt a tear trace down his filthy cheek.
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05 May 2025
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out in the garden, there's things you hid away by saltyfeathers
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Dec 2020
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There is a man with empty eye sockets and tears of fire in Wei Wuxian’s dreams. Tendrils of smoke curl around him in sleep, pressing at his most vulnerable spots, seeking entrance, slipping between his ribs.
When he ignores Lan Zhan's offers of help, he declines rapidly. He will die. Or, he should. Anyone else would.
Instead, he flees. And transforms.
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Boy Trouble, We've Got Double by saltyfeathers
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
13 Mar 2021
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Lan Zhan stands there in his immaculate, cloud-patterned Lan robes, watching him calmly, one fist tucked up against his back. “I am betrothed.”
Wei Wuxian blinks. “Are you…” He tries to laugh. Again, it sounds inhuman. “Is this about last night? Are you mad at me? I only remember some of it, Lan Zhan. I’m sorry if I made you uncomfortable. I’m sure whatever I did I was just—” He gestures uselessly. He remembers being warm in Lan Zhan’s lap. He remembers fitting snugly in Lan Zhan’s lap. Wrapping his arms around Lan Zhan’s neck. Nosing at his jaw. “…playing around.”
“This has nothing to do with you, Wei Wuxian.”
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