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1. The Big Bang by Chaviva

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 May 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Robin Buckley/Original Female Character(s)
   • Will Byers/Original Male Character(s)
   • Steve Harrington/Original Female Character(s)
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Robin Buckley
   • Will Byers
   • Original Female Character(s) of Color
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Slow Burn
   • Adult Steve Harrington
   • Adult Eddie Munson
   • Character Study
   • Jewish Steve Harrington
   • Compulsory Heterosexuality
   • Artist Eddie Munson
   • Coach Steve Harrington
   • Chronic Illness
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • Gay Eddie Munson
   • Headaches & Migraines
   • Steve Harrington Has a Sexuality Crisis
   • Racism
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Loss of Parent(s)
   • Bar & Bat Mitzvah
   • Steve speaks Hebrew but lo kol kakh tov
   • Author is Jewish
   • author is queer
   • author is a POC
   • Straight sex as a coping mechanism
   • Anti-immigrant sentiment
   • Fist Fights
   • Chicago geography
   • Steve is a flawed human
   • Eddie is a flawed human
   • Anxiety Attacks
   • Panic Attacks
   • Gay Panic
   • Homophobic Language
   • Slurs
   • Shabbat Services
   • Hand Jobs
   • Teshuvah | Repentance (Judaism)
   • Top Eddie Munson
   • Bottom Steve Harrington
   • Vomiting (non-graphic)
   • Anal Fingering
   • Anal Sex
   • Sickfic

   Summary

   In the decade after Vecna, Steve Harrington had managed to build a fairly good life for himself in Chicago. Coaching women's college basketball and living just a short train ride from Robin, he'd found an easy, quiet rhythm. But it didn't take long for the universe to remind him that quiet is always temporary. When a cosmic joke is made, Steve makes for an easy punchline.

    

   Alternatively— everyone is older, Steve helps a kid with his bar mitzvah prep, and a run-in with a former friend forces Steve to reevaluate everything.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   82,831

   Chapters:

   15/18

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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