Compulsory Heteronormativity
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It is a completely heterosexual and totally normal response to take notice when an objectively attractive person is gardening outside without their shirt on.
Even when aforementioned objectively attractive person is one’s girlfriend’s half-brother.
Especially when aforementioned objectively attractive person is one’s girlfriend’s half-brother.
Warnings: mention of pre-fic infidelity, mention of pre-fic offscreen death, mention of offscreen asshole father figures
Written for the 2021 Same-Prompt Fic Challenge.
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till it hits you in the head by ilipbutstranger (ilip13)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Apr 2025
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"Ugh, Harrington, you’re really… You’re so horribly straight, aren’t you."
"What’s that supposed to mean?!"
"It means…" Eddie drops his hands and takes a deep breath and when he looks at Steve his face looks… different. None of that usual Eddie attitude. In a voice much softer, eyes cast low, he says, "It means, when a guy tells another guy that they’re gay, it’s often because… Jesus fucking Christ." He sighs, rubs his hand over his jeans, swallows. "I’m into you. That’s all."
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It's the summer after Vecna, everyone is figuring their shit out, and Steve learns that Eddie Munson is apparently into him.
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- Part 4 of ilip writes steddie
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I Think My Destiny Just Changed (And It Has Your Lip Gloss On It) by Kael_Haalom
Fandoms: Ever After High
16 Apr 2025
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Apple White has spent her whole life preparing for one moment: her True Love’s Kiss. A perfect slumber. A perfect prince. A perfect ending.
Except when the curse finally comes and she wakes up…
…it’s Darling Charming standing over her.
Not Daring.
Not her “fated” match.
Her best friend.And she kissed her.
And Apple liked it.
Now Apple is awake, confused, and spiraling into a royal gay crisis while the entire school watches. Because no one told her the fairest of them all might not want a prince at all.
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Ed has a serious case of cold feet (literally and figuratively) when Stede asks him to marry him.
A little fic about trying to break free from the expectations we grow up under, and finding ways to make things work when everything feels stacked against us.
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Podfic of "Cold Feet" by 1happydaiz by happydaiz_pod (1happydaiz)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Dec 2025
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Ed has a serious case of cold feet (literally and figuratively) when Stede asks him to marry him.
A little fic about trying to break free from the expectations we grow up under, and finding ways to make things work when everything feels stacked against us.
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Sylus realizes it on his wedding day with Mikayla. You, his secretary and long-time friend, are in love with him… or are you?
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Welton Academy, 1959.
At an elite boarding school where futures are assigned almost as quickly as uniforms, Michael Robinavitch and Jack Abbot seem destined for very different lives: medicine and military command. But between expectation and departure, friendship becomes love, love becomes fear, and both boys are forced to confront a question neither achievement nor discipline can answer.
Across one final year of school — through poetry, performance, expectation, and loss—they find themselves standing in the uncomfortable space between who they were raised to become and who they are when someone finally looks too closely.