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Second Chance At First Love (And Third Base) by sparkysparky
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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Five years after a messy divorce, Eddie has made a life for himself and his kids in a revitalized Hawkins. Corroded Coffin's record label is taking off. Professionally? He's got it together. Personally? He's struggling. Wayne's recovering from a stroke, his twins have hit the ferocious fours, and his oldest son won't talk to him. He needs help, but can't ask for it.
After a career ending injury and the loss of his wife, Steve is also back in Hawkins. The change will be good for 11-year-old Sami. They were adrift in Chicago, at odds with each other and the world, and unable to talk across the gulf of grief between them. At a crossroads, he lets Robin and Chrissy set him up with a job: looking after Eddie's house and kids and helping with Wayne's PT.
It's bound to be awkward, but it's been sixteen years since Steve and Eddie broke each other's hearts, and they're adults now. Surely they can make it work. Their lives collide, and old wounds come to the surface, but when Jason Carver comes back to town with a vendetta against Robin and Chrissy, and a plan to destroy what Hawkins has become, Steve and Eddie must band together to help their family, and their town, survive.
(The Who's The Boss/Hallmark AU)
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Carol Perkins is the last person Robin Buckley expects to see at a roller derby exhibition—right up until she's body-checked into the boards. But skates and unresolved aggression aren't Carol's only motives for being in town. She and Tommy Hagan have a wild proposition for Robin and Steve Harrington: revive Operation Hot Racks, the ridiculous plan Steve and Tommy cooked up at thirteen to steal all their dads' money and flee to an island paradise filled with bikini-clad babes. Carol can't promise the island paradise or babes in bikinis, but she can promise millions…and the truth about their dads' involvement in the destruction of Hawkins.
To pull it off, the four will have to deal with unresolved feelings, untangle a web familial lies, and weather the emotional chaos—plus whatever's going on between Robin and Carol.
Friendships will be tested. Sparks will fly. And Hawkins' darkest secrets will be uncovered.
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Eddie thought he knew Steve.
He didn't know this!
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The one where Steve is a centaur is Eddie is scared and horny about it.
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Steve finally has a chance to live out a fantasy. Eddie is happy to serve.
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Bluesky Thread Fics, Tumblr Drabbles/Ficlets, Other Bits & Bobs by sparkysparky
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Sep 2025
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Mostly unrelated Stranger Things stuff that I want to keep vaguely collected in one place.
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A series of (mostly) unconnected works that celebrates Steve Harrington committing to the bit, engaging in shenanigans, and just in general having a good time being a little shit to his friends (out of love).
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The One Where Erica is a Hot Mess but Doesn't Need Anyone To Fix Her, tyvm; A series of related drabbles at different points in Erica Reyes' life.
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last good thing about this part of town by skoosiepants
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Nov 2025
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Behind them, tires ease into the gravel on the edge of the road. Steve doesn’t bother looking. A car door slams, and then Munson says, “I don’t need you to stand up for me, Harrington.”
Steve still doesn’t look at him. He swears he sees shadows moving in the thick brush, and he shivers a little. He says, “What, with Byers? He’s just scared for his brother.”
“Yeah, I know that, dickweed.”
“Wow,” Robin says, voice low. “You were into that?”
Steve tilts his head, finally looks past where Robin is standing to see Munson, hair pulled back in a messy bun, denim vest shrugged on over the leather, ripped jeans baggy in all the wrong places, face flushed and scowling. “Unfortunately,” he says.
The package is a little different, but Steve knows deep down he’s the same protective, loyal, judgmental asshole he’s always been. It’s just, once upon a time, Steve was on the beneficial side of his personality disorder.
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A modern season one AU with Robin and Eddie.
Bookmarked by sparkysparky
07 Nov 2025
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Once upon a time, the king and queen of a faraway kingdom struck a bargain with a witch in order to gain the child and heir they coveted. But the bargain came with a price: their child would never truly be loved by another, unless they could be seen and accepted as they are. Prince Stephen, though gifted in ways other than book-smarts, was not the child his parents wanted. Unable to see past their own expectations for him, the prince grew up unloved. The kingdom considers him only an idiotic pleasure-seeker, one who cannot hold a candle to his brilliant parents. In order to find a worthy inheritor to their throne, the monarchs announce a contest for the prince’s hand. Three tasks shall be asked of those who enter: one of intelligence, one of strength, and one of bravery.
Eddie, a bard living with his day-laborer uncle, is blind to his magical heritage. He has little time for the comings and goings of the secretive nobility, who cloak their bodies in robes and hide their faces behind masks. A chance encounter with the prince causes Eddie to discover he is not at all the vapid fool everyone takes him for. The contest will provide a chance for both of them to change their futures.
2025 Steddie BB Project 028
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Bookmarked by sparkysparky
15 Oct 2025
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They’re down three members, because Doug and Ronnie graduated, and Frank’s been noncommittal since managing to drag himself out of bed, so it’s not like Eddie can tell Robin to get lost.
It’s not like he wants to, either, which is a thing, because Robin hates metal, but is apparently some kind of music savant. She moans about callouses and her fingers bleeding, but the fucking voice on her, Christ. It only takes her to mid-September to learn a good chunk of their set list. Jeff looks at her like she’s hung the moon. She keeps trying to convince them to learn “Our Lips Are Sealed.” She refuses to join Hellfire. She’s always late to practice because of marching band, and some time in the beginning of October Steve Harrington drops her off.
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In the fall of 1984, Robin joins Corroded Coffin, and Eddie gets more than he bargained for.
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A season 2 AU with Robin and Eddie.
Bookmarked by sparkysparky
30 Sep 2025
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Steve peels into the parking lot at Starcourt, already five minutes late. All the good spots near the entrance are gone and she has to park further out and jog and dodge around the crowds, shoving through them to rush down the escalator and across the food court.
There’s no line at Scoops Ahoy, but that doesn’t stop Robin saying: “Oh, nice of you to finally join us,” with a roll of her eyes as Steve disappears into the back to shove her stuff into the locker and arrange the stupid fucking hat on her head, viciously sliding the bobby pins into place
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- Part 1 of Helianthus
Bookmarked by sparkysparky
30 Sep 2025
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The image of that thing, that bullshit alien-looking monster, was branded into her mind. The way its face peeled back, all mangled and toothy, a dark, rotting maw flashing beneath flickering Christmas lights. The wild pounding of her heart, the smell of gunsmoke and gasoline, Jonathan’s hand encircling her wrist and dragging her urgently down the hall, Nathan’s wide eyes. Worse, the mildewy smell of its decaying skin and hot breath. The otherworldly roar of fury that tore out of it when she landed a hit. The grim-faced government agents at the hospital afterwards, with their guns and their threats and their fucking NDAs.
Now, her heart dropped into her stomach at every oddly shaped tree limb that loomed into view as she drove. Her pulse was still racing. She kept checking over her shoulder for somebody, or something, hiding in wait in the back seat even though she knew nobody was there.
Bookmarked by sparkysparky
29 Sep 2025