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Steve learns from an early age that when your birthday happens to be on Christmas it's easy to be forgotten, overshadowed by the festive lights and holiday traditions. It's fine. Steve accepted it years ago. It's not like he's going to stomp his feet and throw a tantrum demanding people to pay attention to him. Instead, he lies, tells everyone he has plans, and let's them celebrate Christmas the way they really want to. And it works.
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14 Jun 2026
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Code Green
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Steve learns from an early age that when your birthday happens to be on Christmas it's easy to be forgotten, overshadowed by the festive lights and holiday traditions. It's fine. Steve accepted it years ago. It's not like he's going to stomp his feet and throw a tantrum demanding people to pay attention to him. Instead, he lies, tells everyone he has plans, and let's them celebrate Christmas the way they really want to. And it works.
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always an angel (never a god) by voidedfalling (Pterodactyl)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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Eddie can’t move. Can’t even think, because he’s staring into this stranger’s eyes and the stranger is staring back. He’s looking at Eddie with recognition, with surprise and then confusion and then joy, and he fucking smiles. Face smeared with dirt, eyes shining like he’s just seen something incredible, something impossible and -
A hand cups Eddie’s cheek. Trembling, warm and broad, soft skin against the scar tissue on his jaw. A thumb brushing over his cheekbone - gentle, reverent.
“It’s you,” the man whispers. His voice cracks, uneven but sweet. “Eddie.”
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a death, a resurrection, and falling in love. not necessarily in that order.
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01 Jun 2026
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always an angel (never a god)
voidedfalling (Pterodactyl)Summary:
Eddie can’t move. Can’t even think, because he’s staring into this stranger’s eyes and the stranger is staring back. He’s looking at Eddie with recognition, with surprise and then confusion and then joy, and he fucking smiles. Face smeared with dirt, eyes shining like he’s just seen something incredible, something impossible and -
A hand cups Eddie’s cheek. Trembling, warm and broad, soft skin against the scar tissue on his jaw. A thumb brushing over his cheekbone - gentle, reverent.
“It’s you,” the man whispers. His voice cracks, uneven but sweet. “Eddie.”
or,
a death, a resurrection, and falling in love. not necessarily in that order.
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Graduation is on the horizon, and Eddie is determined to go out with a bang: Gen Con here we come, baby!
Only, nerd shit cost *real* shit, and the Hellfire Club is forced to reckon with raising funds for their dreams in a more legal and balefully pedestrian way: a bake sale.
Eddie’s already put his blood, swear, and tears into the club, what’s a little dignity for the greater good?
(His dignity goes fully out the window when Steve Harrington shows up in a much too tight Hellfire shirt.)
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27 May 2026
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Sugar and Spice (and Everything Dicey)
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Graduation is on the horizon, and Eddie is determined to go out with a bang: Gen Con here we come, baby!
Only, nerd shit cost *real* shit, and the Hellfire Club is forced to reckon with raising funds for their dreams in a more legal and balefully pedestrian way: a bake sale.
Eddie’s already put his blood, swear, and tears into the club, what’s a little dignity for the greater good?
(His dignity goes fully out the window when Steve Harrington shows up in a much too tight Hellfire shirt.)
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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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11 May 2026
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a map of everyone who loves you
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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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Rumor has it that whenever any one of the seven or so gremlins that Steve has magnanimously decided to adopt sleep over at his ridiculously large and empty house, he’ll get up extra early in the morning and pack them all lunches in brown paper bags. He’ll make them breakfast, too, and drop them off at school with a ruffle of their hair, a slap on their shoulder, or a pep-talk, depending on the kid.
Not that Eddie Munson, of all people, would know anything about it.It's October and Steve starts packing Eddie lunches for work. Eddie doesn't know what to do about it.
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09 May 2026
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love letters in your lunch
mourningshowersSummary:
Rumor has it that whenever any one of the seven or so gremlins that Steve has magnanimously decided to adopt sleep over at his ridiculously large and empty house, he’ll get up extra early in the morning and pack them all lunches in brown paper bags. He’ll make them breakfast, too, and drop them off at school with a ruffle of their hair, a slap on their shoulder, or a pep-talk, depending on the kid.
Not that Eddie Munson, of all people, would know anything about it.
It's October and Steve starts packing Eddie lunches for work. Eddie doesn't know what to do about it.