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Eddie gets to have Steve in his bed. Steve gets to meet Eddie’s neighbors.
(Or, Eddie grew up as an ‘it takes a village’ kind of kid. Steve very obviously did not.)
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- Part 6 of Don't Settle for That
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27 Aug 2026
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Eddie Munson was practically raised by the concept of harsh realities, and he’s learned not to want things that he’ll never have, which isn’t as much as a bummer as it could be, because making the most out of what you’ve got is just as good.
Steve Harrington, despite his reputation as a casual flirt and a serial dater, has a bad habit of falling hard and fast and never really recovering. Steve Harrington, despite his reputation as a bit oblivious, and a ladies man, figured some stuff out about himself four years ago and promptly squashed all those feelings into a box he never intended to see the light of day.
In which Will coming out forces Steve to be open about some things (because Steve’s issues will always take a backseat to making sure the kids feel safe). And Steve doesn’t mean for Eddie to find out, but he does, and it turns into a bonding experience. (And it’s the best and the worst, because having him as a friend is more than Steve ever could’ve hoped for, but it also feels a little like dying.)
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- Part 1 of Don't Settle for That
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Bookmarked by whimsicalloser
27 Aug 2026
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this is MY slice of life anime that healed me on my depressing holiday.
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Ink-Stained and Love-Filled by writersagainstwritersblock
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2024
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A sort of sequel to A Tattoo Is Worth A Thousand Words with various outsider perspectives on Steve and Eddie's relationship as they take on their new lives in Chicago and make 1986-1987 their year.
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- Part 2 of Ink-Stained and Love-Filled
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- English
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Bookmarked by whimsicalloser
25 Aug 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
oh my godddddd 😭😭😭😭😭😭 theyre so 😭😭😭😭 theyre so 😭😭😭😭😭 inject this fic/series into my brain 😭😭😭😭😭 PLEASE
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“Greetings and salutations to you, Harrington!”
And there he was. Just as in your face and over the top as ever.
Only he looked… different. He looked like fucking Bon Jovi. Jeans so ripped they may as well just be shorts and a crop top and hair pulled back into a bun with loose bits falling around his face. In some weird way, the jeans almost seemed more revealing than shorts. They weren’t, of course, Steve couldn’t see the backs of Eddie’s legs or his left knee or either calf, but there was so much open ripping around his thighs that almost seemed more… teasing.
“Holy shit, I can see your whole face.” Steve mumbled out, lips parted in genuine surprise, instantly reaching out to try to touch the bun at the crown of his head.
Eddie batted him away.
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Steve agrees to help Eddie paint his trailer, but isn't prepared for the bisexual crisis it sends him spiralling into.
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24 Aug 2026
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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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- 8/8
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22 Aug 2026
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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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- 54,148
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- 7/7
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21 Aug 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
absolute PEAK. i wish i coulf experience a renfair but holy PEAK and FLUFF and YES
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20 Aug 2026
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Steve Harrington nursed Eddie back to health, kept him warm and well-fed, and quite literally led a quest into Hell to give him his real body back. Which is great. It’s fucking fantastic. Definitely did not make Eddie fall a little bit head-over-heels in love with the guy.
At least, that’s what he kept telling himself at first, because Steve is just a really good guy with a tendency to act like an overbearing mother and it absolutely, undoubtedly, one-thousand-percent did not mean anything.
But then the dust settled, and Steve had still looked Eddie in the eye and asked him to stay.
And then—!
Then Steve had kissed him.
Eddie desperately wants to know what it all means.
Eddie Munson is alive and human again, and it's time to deal with the consequences. Unfortunately, that means figuring out how to defeat Vecna for good, discovering that he hasn't quite managed to get rid of the bat in him, and dealing with whatever the fuck it is that he's feeling for Steve Harrington. None of it is going to be easy.
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- Part 2 of ascending
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Later, he’ll wonder why he even bothers to talk to the bat. It’s not as if it can understand him. But it’s comforting, he thinks, to hear someone assuring you that everything will be okay even when you’re moments away from death. Sometimes, hope is the only difference between holding on and letting go.
And the bat? It holds on.
After the ground opens up and Vecna disappears, the last thing that Steve Harrington needs is an injured bat on his doorstep. Apparently, that won't stop him from doing everything in his power to keep it alive. And if the bat reminds him of a certain someone, then that's just his mind playing tricks on him... right?
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- Part 1 of ascending
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- English
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- 36,156
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by whimsicalloser
20 Aug 2026
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the most remarkable thing, and other b-sides and rarities by greatunironic
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2024
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Stories set in a world where Vecna is defeated, Steve gets his degree in counseling, Eddie becomes a grunge pioneer, and everyone gets a slightly softer ending.
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19 Aug 2026
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“Never So Young As That”: 20 Years of the Boy with a Bat by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jul 2023
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It’s 2023, and The Shotguns’ Boy with a Bat has recently marked its 20th anniversary; Pitchfork looks back on an album about grief, growth, and never learning how to fall out of love. (a most remarkable thing article)
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19 Aug 2026
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the world throws its light underneath your hair by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2022
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It’s 2012, and Eddie has a question for Steve. (a most remarkable thing timestamp)
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Bookmarked by whimsicalloser
19 Aug 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
i love seeing fics where gay marriage becomes legal
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the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2022
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Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth.
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Steve is incapable of not taking care of the people he cares about. And against all odds, he cares about Eddie.
Eddie has never been taken care of. Not like that.
Or: Eddie & Steve fall in love, before Christmas but not too fast.
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- 3/3
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17 Aug 2026
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Eddie leans in, his face drawing closer to Steve’s. His eye catches the faint silver glint of Eddie’s rings where they rest against his skin. And for a split second, Steve’s mind short-circuits. He thinks Eddie is going to kiss him.
So why does he lean in, too?
Steve barely registers what he’s doing until his nose brushes the side of Eddie’s cheek, warm and slightly tacky from sweat. His skin tingles with the contact, the tension between them tightening like a drawn bowstring.
Then Eddie’s lips part—not to kiss, but to speak.
“Hey.” Eddie’s voice is temptingly husky as he tilts his head to whisper directly into Steve’s ear. The vibrations of his words send a shiver down Steve’s spine, and it takes everything in him not to react visibly. “After the set, what do you say we head back to our room?”
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Eddie shows Steve how to loosen up on an underground rock club's dancefloor. There are better places to be stiff, after all.
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16 Aug 2026
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you are going to die in your best friend’s arms. (but he won’t let you leave like that) by oaseas
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2022
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Dustin sucks in a sharp breath, claps his hands together in his lap, and says as straightforwardly as possible, “I’m going back in time.”
Steve doesn’t say anything. His mouth opens and closes like a goldfish. Then, he says, “What, like, right now?”
Dustin wakes up in Max’s trailer the day of Eddie’s death. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times? Three times is a pattern.
Or: Dustin Henderson is unstuck in time.
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- Part 4 of masterlist of my stranger things works
- Language:
- English
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- 22,505
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- 1/1
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16 Aug 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
oh how i love time travel fics where dustin and steve just believe each other immediately
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Eddie’s got a bad habit of running away from things when they get too complicated. But when it comes to Steve, he always finds his way back.
(Or, an Eddie-centric AU/rewrite of season 4)
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- Part 2 of Deaf Steve AU
- Part 17 of Steddie
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15 Aug 2026
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Everything's felt a little off since the Fourth of July, and no one's talking about it. Of course, one part of Steve's summer is a bit hard to ignore - he's losing his hearing. As luck would have it, a friend of Dustin's ends up playing a key role in Steve's adjustment to his new normal.
(Title taken from the song "Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel)
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- Part 14 of Steddie
- Part 1 of Deaf Steve AU
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- English
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- 70,286
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- 21/22
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14 Aug 2026
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by Gorgeousgreymatter
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2023
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Bookmarked by whimsicalloser
13 Aug 2026