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“Why?”
And that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? Why is this different? What makes Eddie different?
“Is it because I’m a lesbian?” Eddie asks, blunt as always, and Stevie’s heart stops. She hasn’t told Eddie about herself yet, is the thing. Shit, Eddie doesn’t even know Robin’s a lesbian too. Jesus, the three of them could form a club. Lesbians With So Much Trauma and Also Great Hair. Based in Hawkins, Indiana. Join today and regret it for the rest of your life!
Or: it’s crazy where a pair of well-manicured hands can get you.
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- Part 4 of sapphic steddie
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19 Feb 2026
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How I Swallowed the Sun (the Moment I Kissed You) by Aesthetic_Pigeon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jan 2026
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“I didn’t come up with the name,” Robin says, voice half muffled by the thick fabric of her khaki cargo shorts, “It’s kind of dumb, I know.”
Vickie’s hand settles on her nape, runs a path down the slope of Robin’s shoulder before she tugs, pulling her upright, “I like it,” she says, “It suits you.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.” Vickie says. Her fingers curl around the baby hairs at the base of Robin’s skull, drawing mindless letters against her neck, patterns undeterminable. Robin doesn’t know how to breathe through the biting, sharp-toothed sensation that closes around her chest - the jaws of a strange beast pressing its canines into her heart, holding it steady. A small part of her wants to scream, to run and run and run - away from Vickie, from her smile, from her honest words and sun-warm touches; from the terrifying desire to kiss her. She thinks she understands, now, why Mr. Hauser left all those years ago. “And, well, I like listening to you talk. It’s silly, but it feels like you’re next to me, sometimes - like it’s just us.”
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Or, Robin, Vickie, and time in-between.
(Post-season 4, episode 9 “The Piggyback”)
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19 Feb 2026
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“I called your mom, by the way,” he says. “Told her I was picking you up.”
“Are you taking me back?” Dustin asks, nervously. He didn’t really consider that calling Steve to pick him up might involve Steve dropping him off back to Hawkins. He really doesn’t want to be there right now, he feels too much, everything is too much, too big, the future looming over him feels too intimidating.
“Not yet,” Steve says, and Dustin lets out a relieved breath. “I told her we can put you up for the night and then tomorrow we can figure out what to do, yeah?”
Dustin looks at him, the kind slope of his mouth, the worried lines on his forehead. He suddenly feels bad for upending Steve’s life like this. Surely he had plans for the day, maybe work or school, something he had to do that now has been interrupted by needing to save Dustin, again, but from himself rather than from alternate dimension monsters.
“Sorry, Steve.”
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It's senior year, and Dustin is having a hard time coping with everything. He runs away to Indianapolis in search of the comfort only his two best friends can give him, not knowing what he'll find when he gets to the other side.
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19 Feb 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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18 Feb 2026
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Let Me Just Hold You Now by towardthesun for MacksDramaticShenanigans
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Dec 2022
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Steve has a routine for nights like this. A routine for the times when his world gets flipped on its axis. Just four simple steps to keep his body alive while his mind tries to sort through whatever fucked up thing he just went through.
Steve has a Routine.
Robin breaks that Routine.
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18 Feb 2026
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Robin’s never been regular. Her period, that is.
(Not that she’s particularly ordinary herself either, but… well, that’s a subject for another day.)
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18 Feb 2026
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“Steve… I think I’m both a jock and a nerd.”
Nodding, Steve ate another huge mouthful. “Yeah? Cool, man.”
Okay, baby steps. “That’s okay, you know? Someone can like sports and also like… DnD. They don’t have to choose. They can like both and it’s okay.”
AKA Lucas clocks Steve as bi and they have meaningful, metaphor-filled conversation over pasta. That's it; that's the fic
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17 Feb 2026
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When Lucas Sinclair starts to apologise for missing The Cult of Vecna, Eddie initially thinks that he’s hearing things.
Well, actually, the first thing he thinks is something along the lines of ‘what the fuck are you talking about?’
It takes him almost a solid thirty seconds to even vaguely remember his campaign; the last day of school before Spring Break feels dreamlike, as if it happened to someone else, as if he just watched everything through a fogged-up window.
“Jesus, Sinclair. I’ve got an ongoing list of folks who owe me an apology since, like, sixth grade, and trust me, your name’s not on there. Can pretty confidently say it never will, okay?”
Eddie sees Steve tilt his head ever so slightly from where he’s walking just ahead of them, like he’s listening in. Spots his faint nod of approval.
Eddie can’t decide if he resents it or finds it endearing—kind of gets the ridiculous feeling that Steve’s vetting him on behalf of the kids.
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17 Feb 2026
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oh, I got plenty of time by idontshaveforsher_yesyoudo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Aug 2022
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Lucas has been having confusing feelings whenever he’s around Steve. It’s not a big deal. (It is.)
or, five times Lucas has confusing feelings around Steve and the one time he figures something out about himself
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- Part 2 of this must be the place
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17 Feb 2026
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“D’you remember what you said that one time. About me visiting Eddie a lot. Like, weirdly a lot.”
It’s hard to forget that day, but Lucas still isn’t sure why Steve looks so distressed. “Sure?”
“I,” Steve stops. He seems to recalibrate, remember where he is, who he’s with, why he’s sitting there in the first place.
“Listen, I don’t… just forget I asked that, actually. Don’t worry about it, Sinclair.”
or, Lucas and Steve help eachother out in the aftermath.
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17 Feb 2026
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and miles of sharp blue water (coming in where she lies) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jul 2022
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Lucas and his crush on Steve Harrington and his love for Max Mayfield.
He watches while Steve swings a bat and throws himself in front of Demodogs and saves Mad Max (who is definitely like, maybe, really uhh, more good looking than Steve Harrington). Most of what he remembers about that night are Max’s fingers cold and clammy in his, and the wild glint in Steve’s eye, the way he moved with the bat in the fog, his low whistle echoing out across the car wrecks in the moonlight, and Max’s scream.
After that night Max mercilessly needles him about his crush on Steve Harrington.
It’s whatever.
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17 Feb 2026
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you were warm when everything was cold by lesbianrobin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jun 2022
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There’s something about watching Steve and Eddie that makes his chest ache, just a little bit. Something that feels like it’s just out of reach, like if he could just jump an inch higher he could grasp it and know what it is, have a name for it, figure out what feels like it’s missing with Max. He never felt like something was missing with Max before. She was perfect. She is perfect! Like, sure, not actually perfect, because nobody’s actually perfect, but she’s perfect for him just like he hopes he’s perfect for her, and they’re perfect together.
Maybe Lucas is overcompensating.
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17 Feb 2026
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i wanna make a supersonic man (out of you) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jul 2022
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Lucas is the man of the group, he knows this. He's got to be the man, like Steve, and wear polos and khakis and come between evil and the weak and be a lady killer and a charming, funny, sweet guy. Like Steve who has started hanging out with Eddie Munson and getting piercings and wearing eyeliner and not being the man Lucas thought he was.
“Steve is that an earring?” says Dustin, at one of his highest pitches, slap bang in the middle of one of Eddie’s tirades.
Everyone pauses. Number one, you never interrupt Eddie, especially not during D&D. Number two, what? (Lucas has strong suspicions he can’t let Max ever find out about this, or she’s going to break-up with him and become a full-time Steve admirer.)
They all lean forwards.
Steve shifts slightly uncomfortably, but he looks amused. “Yeah.” He shrugs. And there it is, a single tiny silver hoop in his left ear. Lucas stares, amazed.
“You’re a guy,” says Lucas, without thinking about it.
Steve only laughs. “I am aware, Lucas, thank you.”
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17 Feb 2026
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“Alright, well if you want to pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend, I’m in.” Robin sighed in relief at Eddie’s words after he had straightened up from where he had been bent over the countertop in hysteria. He held a finger up, stopping her sigh in its tracks. “On one condition!”
Robin looked at him questioningly, cocking her head to one side. Eddie smirked sharply, licking his tongue over his teeth in a way that definitely didn’t make Steve’s stomach swoop.
“I get to be the girlfriend.”
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16 Feb 2026
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Steve Harrington never planned for Eddie Munson.
Steve was supposed to marry his high school sweetheart, have 2.5 children, and take over the family business. He was supposed to live a blissful life on a nondescript cul-de-sac, complete with a white picket fence and a closet full of tasteful polo shirts. He was supposed to make a graceful transition between being the golden boy and being the American Dream.
Mediocrity was what destiny had designed for Steve. Reality had other plans.
(Or, Steve and Eddie, against all odds, fall in love)
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16 Feb 2026
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Down in a Dead Man's Town by holyfudgemonkeys (erraticallyinspired)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jan 2023
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When Steve nearly runs over Will Byers on that fateful night in 1983, he doesn’t expect offering him a ride home would result in both of them being hunted into another dimension. Surviving there is hard. Adapting to normal life again is even harder. His old self settles like an ill-fitting suit, and there’s no room for nightmares and fear and his new bond with Will in it. As he struggles to find a new normal he can live with, Steve finds himself befriending a bunch of kids and maybe (definitely) falling in love with a local weed dealer.
A Stranger Things Big Bang fic
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13 Feb 2026
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Wayne watches as Eddie falls hopelessly in love, with of all people, goddamn Steve Harrington.
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12 Feb 2026
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A Tattoo Is Worth A Thousand Words by writersagainstwritersblock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Aug 2023
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“Ambidextrous, princess, it’s what makes me so good with my hands.” Eddie wiggled his fingers.
“You mean for guitar?” Steve asked, completely missing the innuendo, and also nearly knocking Eddie flat at the thought that Steve Harrington knew he played guitar.
“You stalking me or something?” Eddie asked.
Steve frowned. “Uh, no, but your band played in the middle school talent show, it’s pretty hard to forget a thirteen year old screaming death metal before his voice dropped.”
Eddie almost laughed at that. Almost. “You saying I’m unforgettable, princess?”
“If that’s how you want to take it, Munson."
Eddie realized this was turning towards something far more dangerous than taunting a boy known for getting into fights, like flirting with a very, very straight boy known for getting into fights.
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After the events of season three Steve shows up on Eddie's doorstep asking for a tattoo... and then keeps showing up much to the dismay of Eddie's traitorous heart.Series
- Part 1 of Ink-Stained and Love-Filled
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12 Feb 2026
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"No, I think I'm okay," she shakes her head. "I just, uh... Nevermind, it's stupid."
"Hey, no," Steve frowns. "None of that. What's up?"
Max pokes her tongue out at him, and he has this weird, almost brotherly urge to screw with her and grab it to annoy her into taking the gesture back. He doesn't, obviously, but the temptation is there.
or, 5 times steve outwardly shows how much he cares for max, and the 1 time max shows steve the same in letter form
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09 Feb 2026
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Her fist curled into the fabric of his uniform before she shoved her head against his chest and eased into cries of a maimed child instead of a teenager ignited like a match of rage. She smoldered like the fire inside the mall; dwindling embers of red hair and wet cheeks.
Steve and Max in the aftermath of Starcourt.
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09 Feb 2026