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After Steve's fiancé plays a joke on him, Steve starts admit that his life might not be as great as it should be.
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20 Jun 2026
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This is so cute and fluffy at the end that I truly was nauseous about it. Fantastic, I’ll take a dozen more.
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It’s the spinning that does it. Eddie couldn’t look away if someone paid him. Every single time it happens, he just stops what he’s doing and stares. Drooling.
Before, it was just kitchen utensils or the baseball bat. Now...now it’s at band practice every day.
As it turns out, Steve can actually keep rhythm really well and while he can’t read music to save his ass, he understands beats and notes like a natural. The problem is- the problem is, that he keeps spinning those fucking drumsticks and Eddie’s gonna jizz in his goddamn jeans one of these days.
OR - Steve becomes the drummer for Corroded Coffin and Eddie can't handle his thirst
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29 May 2026
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“Woah, hello.” Steve’s hands fly off Eddie’s body, raising them to the air like he’s been caught red handed. Ass handed? Brown handed? No, that’s gross.
“Don’t fucking pout at me.”
“I’m not pouting.”
“You look like I just ran over your dog!”
Steve’s disappointed expression smooths into feigned nonchalance, lips pursed as his eyes drift over Eddie’s shoulder, even though he looked awfully devastated over the concept of Eddie needing his hands off him for, like, two seconds.
His eyes make their way back to Eddie’s, their gazes locking once more, and– ugh. There’s something mischievous about Steve’s newfound attention. His hand closes around Eddie’s jaw, thumb rubbing circles near the corner of his mouth “Don’t you want to come?”
“I do,” Eddie groans, because his resolve is like ash falling from a cigarette butt. So easy to flick off. “I really fucking do.”
(or: eddie gets wined and dined, then loses his v-card in an incredibly confident and not-at-all nerve-wracking manner.)
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- Part 2 of Melodrama's So Much Fun
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Bookmarked by melread
10 Apr 2026
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Oooohhhhh the way chapter four had me GASPING. I love Eddie “don’t get your hopes up” Munson and Steve “marry me now” Harrington.
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I just want your extra time (and your kiss) by ChristinMKay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Aug 2022
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“And here I thought you were popular, Harrington,” Eddie puts on a fake, confident grin once he has put the bottle down. “I expected at least one of those hot dates you keep having to be here.” He manages to keep his leg from bouncing, but his thumb is already rubbing over the damp label on the beer bottle, peeling it off.
“Well none of us are that comfortable with crowds these days,” Steve shrugs. “And honestly, I’d rather just hang out with the people that matter.”
Five times Steve almost kissed Eddie and the one time Eddie beat him to it.
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Steve started sending his to-do lists to famous rockstar Eddie Munson as sort of an inside joke. It wasn't like Eddie would ever look at the DMs from a no-one called Steve Harrington. Right?
Or; Steve's been using Eddie Munson's DMs as his personal notes up until the day Eddie actually replies to him.
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05 Aug 2025
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A one night stand that leads to LOVE???? Yeah I’ll bite.
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It's wedding season, which means Steve is hooking up with Eddie in between the most popular wedding songs of 1996. Very cool, very casual. Nothing to get worked up about.
Or: Steve gets caught up in his feelings, and technicalities.
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Steve Harrington was never supposed to see the tattoo.
Let's just start there.
Give Eddie some credit, it's not like he had this whole thing planned out before he was seventeen and bare-assed in front of an old powder compact with a crack straight down the center of the ancient mirror.
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Or; Eddie Munson made a poor decision back in high school; now that he’s survived the Upside Down he must face the consequences.
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A year before Will Byers disappears, when Steve is 16 years old, he dreams of the Upside Down. The dream, a warning, means that high school plays out differently. Steve learns ahead of time who he actually wants to be, what to care about, and that he can be brave about a lot of things he wouldn’t expect--including Eddie Munson.
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This is my excuse to rewrite Steve Harrington at Hawkins High, who deserves to feel true friendship and to play Dungeons and Dragons. And, of course, a nice love story with Hawkins’ hottest.- Language:
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Bookmarked by melread
07 Jun 2025
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There might be crack in this I don’t know and frankly I don’t care. Whatever is in it I need as an IV drip to get me through my days bc DAMN.
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Steve makes a face at Eddie. “You've imagined doing stuff with a guy?”
“Yeah, man,” Eddie replies, spreading his hands wide. “Doesn't everyone?”
Steve tilts his head to the side as he thinks. Maybe not very often, but his freshman year when Davey Riggs had been swim team captain? Yeah, he had definitely imagined some stuff that had made trips to the locker room kinda awkward.
“Yeah, that's true,” Steve answers, nodding. “I wonder why everybody acts like it's so gross, though.”
In the summer of 1986, Steve and Eddie have some perfectly normal fun between a couple of perfectly normal dudes.
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Bookmarked by melread
06 Jun 2025
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This eats every time. Truly the best idiot4idiot I’ve ever seen in my entire life. How I yearn for what they haveeeeee. Anyway.
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“I’m buying him a hundred flowers because I have to win.”
“Win,” Robin repeats dubiously.
“He’s trying to out-boyfriend me! He can’t do that! That’s my thing!”
“I don’t think you have a monopoly on being a boyfriend–”
“–being the best boyfriend,” he corrects. “He wrote me a whole album, Robin. He wrote me a love album. It’s not even metal. It was sappy and cheesy and amazing and he gave it to me with flowers. So I have to try harder.”
“First of all, he’s written you songs before–”
“–and I love every single one of them–”
“Second of all,” she stresses, talking over him. “Does he know it’s a competition? Or did you decide it was? Is something in your little jock brain telling you it needs to be one?”
“No!” He angrily throws another pretty pink bouquet in the cart. “He told me ‘your move, Harrington.’ Who does that??”
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- Part 13 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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Bookmarked by melread
14 May 2025
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I’m so alone they have NO RIGHT to be this in love. I’m going to need a few minutes to just cry in the corner don’t mind me.
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There’s this one ASMR channel that Eddie’s absolutely addicted to. There’s no discernible channel title, just two emojis: a baseball glove and the yellow sparkles. Eddie had stumbled across it a while ago in the recommended sidebar, and the channel is incredibly understated–-but wildly popular. Half a million subs with no captions under the videos, no text anywhere really; just a pair of beautiful, adorned hands, and incredible scrapbook work.
Then, Eddie starts to actually read the comments under the videos, and realizes the discourse that's been happening in regards to this scrapbooker: who are they?
And what seems to be most important to the viewers: what gender are they?
All Eddie knows is that the hands are just as beautiful as the art they make. When they strike up a penpalship, things get deeper and more complicated than Eddie could have guessed--and when he unexpectedly falls for the scrapbooker, he knows he's past the point of no return. There's only one thing left to do:
Go on the Hallmark romance movie journey of a lifetime.
Bookmarked by melread
07 May 2025
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I need this injected directly into my veins. Immediately. This was so good and had me in a chokehold the whole time while reading it, will be rereading when sad.
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Soul flowers aren’t a ticket to true love, he knows that well enough, but they do mean importance, significance, permanence. And so far no one has ever loved Steve significantly or permanently enough to leave some. Maybe that means he’s broken. Maybe that’s why he can’t leave any for her.
So Steve lets Jonathan take Nancy home that night, and tries not to feel too bitter about the matching bracelet of roses on Jonathan’s hand.
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Bookmarked by melread
06 May 2025
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Ohhhh now this kinda stuff is my bread and butter of fanfiction. It’s giving soulmate!au without being fully a soulmate!au and I deserve any form of a soulmate!au. Also flower meanings are so fun and it’s just so inherently gay as far as I’m concerned.
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Eddie wakes from a nightmare about the bats. Again.
About a week ago, Steve Harrington gave him his number with instructions to call if he needed anything. Said number is tacked on Eddie's wall under his Anthrax poster.
555-9878
-Steve H.But it's 3:17 a.m. and Eddie probably shouldn't call. Definitely shouldn't call.
(Eddie calls.)
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05 May 2025
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Cute, funny, arguable zero angst, and they are so oblivious to one another I live for it.
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the harder the rain, honey (the sweeter the sun) by ghosttotheparty for jewishrat420
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Oct 2023
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His hair is overgrown. He doesn’t really have bangs anymore; they’re long enough now to tuck behind his ears, so Steve does, reaching up and doing so as gently as he can before he holds Eddie’s face tenderly. He’s so cold.
Steve looks at him, scanning his face, searching desperately for what to say. Eddie’s tears slip between his fingers again.
“…You are so fucking loved, Eddie Munson.”
Bookmarked by melread
01 May 2025
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I’m not crying right now writing this and you can’t see me to argue that fact!!!!! To be Steve Harrington’s baby is to live the dream (am I jealous of a fictional character being loved by another fictional character??? Probably. It’s fine.)
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30 Apr 2025
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The way I forgot this existed and ATE IT UP just now???? Steve my beloved I just wanna give him a hug always. Also background Nancy/Gareth??? Into it.
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And it’s kind of insane. That he’s flirting with a cute boy at a fucking church-hosted event, that he’s flirting with a cute boy wearing a crucifix.
But it’s kind of even more insane that it’s working.
Bookmarked by melread
10 Apr 2025
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Not me reading this for the fourth time and crying for the fourth time nope couldn’t be me.
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“I think you’d be a great dad,” Eddie finds himself saying.
Imagines Steve running around chasing a honey-haired toddler. Throwing them around with strong arms. Walking under trees with them on his shoulders.
Steve looks grateful for this comment. A little close-mouthed, half-smile creeps up on him.
“I think you would be too, for what it’s worth.”
It’s worth a lot. Little does Steve know.
“Based on my sandwich making skills?”
Steve laughs. This gorgeous, weak laugh. He rests his head against the cupboard next to him.
“Yes. You were right. The meanest pb&j I’ve ever had.”
Eddie’s stomach is aching and it isn’t because he’s hungry.
The butterflies are starting to hurt, they’re that excessive.
“Told ya,” Eddie says. Wants to reach out and touch Steve’s face for some reason.
He looks sleepy. Gives a little yawn.
Eddie would quite like to carry him to bed.or
In a world where being beta is preferred, alpha Eddie endures ruts alone in his dorm room and accepts his life for what it’s inevitably going to be: lonely. Until his roommate Steve lets him in on a secret of his own, and his life changes in ways he always dreamed of.
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Bookmarked by melread
28 Mar 2025
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyway. Light angst, egregious fluff, and really great smut? Say less.
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“Steve,” Eddie repeats softly. Steve’s eyes look into his, shining like he’s already there, like he’s already floating. “If you want something, you gotta ask for it.”
Steve’s eyes flutter, and he looks like he wants to let out a whine, glancing across Eddie’s face again like he’s forgotten where they are.
“Fuck me,” he says weakly, and the words crawl under Eddie’s skin like they belong there. “Please. Will you please fuck me?”
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or; Steve and Eddie start hooking up and it makes them both happier than it should.
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Bookmarked by melread
25 Mar 2025
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They’re so soft and in love, your honor!!!!! Sometimes I really love when we just get to focus on Steve and Eddie without having everyone else, and this works out so well. Plus I love me a modern AU, the texting bits will always get me, im a sucker for them.