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Eddie's No Good, Terrible, Kinda Perfect Summer Vacation by merry_magpie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2024
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He had messed up long and hard this year. He failed yet another senior year. He'd almost lost out on having a boyfriend because he was a dumbass. And, he'd almost alienated everyone in Hellfire, see previously, being a dumbass.
He had been introduced to the fact that magical powers exist, and his first reaction had been to blackmail the guy.
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After spending six months being an asshole, Eddie somehow still had a boyfriend. He might be a freak and a loser, but he had a second chance with the kindest and hottest guy he’d ever met. He wasn’t going to mess up again. Even if it meant he had to pretend and play the love interest NPC to Steve’s daring Paladin. He wasn’t good enough to be what Steve needed as himself, but he could play the role of the guy Steve deserved until Steve realized he could do better.That is until Steve’s adopted little sister comes to him in the middle of a rainy night asking for help, and Eddie gets sucked into the Big Mystery. Is Eddie actually an NPC in Steve’s life and the adventure against the forces of darkness, or is he the right guy for the job?
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Difficult Conversations (Your Adopted Father Pawns Off On You) by merry_magpie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Mar 2024
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“We’ll talk about it. Maybe after you graduate, if Munson gets his act together and actually treats you right. And it’s going well.” He gripped the railing in front of him. “But you get to explain the rules about gay dating to El.”
“Alright. I guess I can do that.” Steve saw a very confusing conversation ahead of him.
“Good man,” Hopper said.
Or Hopper forces his hand and Steve finally has to explain gay dating to El.
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The adrenaline wears off, the drugs wear off, but that heart taproot doesn’t disappear. If anything, it gets louder.
She knows Steve is in a lot of pain, and the ringing in his ears hasn’t stopped. She knows he keeps looking at her right ankle until he finally says to one of the paramedics, “She’s not going to say it, but I think she twisted her ankle.”
The paramedic kneels before Robin, palpating her foot and ankle before declaring it a mild sprain and wrapping it up. Over his head, Robin and Steve stare at each other.
What the hell is happening, he asks without saying a word.
I don’t know, how are we doing this? She replies.
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Robin is pretty sure she's going to die in the Russian Hell Basement under Starcourt. When they give her the truth serum it seems to unlock something inside her. Something that binds Steve and her together.
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- Part 1 of Stobin Month 2024
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Eddie’s graduating and ‘85 really is his year. The Lab is in the past and the Upside Down is locked away behind closed gates that will never open again. He’s got two jobs and rock star dreams. Nothing is going to come between him and living the life of freedom he never thought he could have.
Steve is graduating and nothing is what he thought his life would look like at this point. There are a lot of things he wouldn’t give up or change: his friends, the kids in the Party, and Eddie. But there’s a lot he would change, too. His dumb nightmares, the God awful uniform at his new job, and the migraines that have started to really cramp his style.
When it starts to look like things with the Upside Down aren’t as settled as they thought Steve, Eddie, and all their friend are going to find out that predicting the future doesn’t always guarantee a happy ending for everyone but working together just might.
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- Part 3 of Like Nostradamus with a Magic Eight Ball
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Robin suffers from the winter doldrums and Steve tries to cheer her up.
Part of an ongoing, mostly fluffy, series of short stories that focus on Robin and her dumbass werewolf bestie Steve.
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- Part 10 of Robin and Mr. Wolf
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Steve's No Good, Terrible, Kinda Perfect Boyfriend Eddie by merry_magpie
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2024
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Like Nostradamus with a Magic Eight Ball by merry_magpie
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Mar 2024
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A retelling of Stranger Things starting from season one and going through season four.
Ten was eleven years old when he ran away from the lab. He had been left for dead after a massacre. Found by Wayne Munson, he disguised himself as Wayne's nephew and grew up to be a loud and proud nerdy metalhead. All that changed when he ran into a sister he thought had died in the lab the same night he escaped. Even when he thought he had all that handled, his precognitive talents tell him that he and everyone he knows is in for a lot more trouble over the next few years.
Together with a handful of adults, a lunch table of the most unlikely teen friends, and more kids than anyone should have to babysit, Eddie's going to change the future for the better and fall in love along the way.
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A series of short stories started for #stobinmonth on Tumblr. The original four stories were posted for the corresponding day of Platonic Stobin Month, but are ordered chronologically in the series. Additional stories have been added since then.
This AU is about Robin meeting Steve as Steve at Scoops Ahoy and as Mr. Wolf in the woods during the summer of 1985, as she slowly becomes friends with both of them. The werewolf situation isn’t really discussed in any detail. All you need to know is that it’s genetic, was triggered by trauma from the Upside Down, and he can shift at any time but must shift for the night of the Full Moon.
Update: I love this series too much to end it. As of November 2023, I have 7 more one shots planned.
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Everything I'll Ever Do I'll Do With You by merry_magpie
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Sep 2023
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What if Steve figured out Robin was gay back in 1983? What if he decided to befriend her? What if that changed everything for both of them?
Stobin is the focus, with Steddie and Buckingham romances for our main duo because they deserve good things.
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When he is seventeen Steve Harrington sees Eddie ‘The Freak’ Munson pushed up against the side of the late night convenience store with his hands down another guy’s pants.
Unable to stop thinking about it afterwards, it takes him ten years to work out what that means.
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After his friends come out one by one, Steve settles comfortably into his new role as an ally. He moves to the city, joins groups, attends protests, even signs up to a gender studies class.
Then in 1991 Eddie comes crashing back into his life.
Bookmarked by merry_magpie
18 Mar 2024
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“I will not be another greedy man's damsel in distress,” the fairy snarls, his eyes glowing yellow with rage. “I should gut you right here, right now. Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t.”
Eddie stares up at him in awe, his jaw dropped as his gaze quickly darts across the fairy’s face. Even full of rage and hatred, the man above him looks ethereal. Now that he’s grown in size Eddie can make out the fine lace-like veins throughout his wings. They’re iridescent and shine like sunlight on the late evening tide. Moles dot across his skin like long-lost constellations, painting him like the night sky itself. He’s seething with rage above him and Eddie’s never been more in love.
“You’re beautiful,” Eddie’s mouth moves before he can stop it and when his brain finally catches up with him he slaps a hand over his mouth with wide eyes.
Bookmarked by merry_magpie
17 Mar 2024
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“Hi,” Eddie greets the man, “My— uh, my wife and I want to look at some rings. We, uh, just eloped.”
The guy nods wordlessly and pulls out a shoebox from under the counter, sliding it across the surface for Eddie to dig through. It doesn’t take too long to narrow down the options— he finds one that fits him, a plain silver band, almost immediately, then turns to call Chrissy over. His breath catches in his throat.
She’s a vision, an angel in light-wash denim and white Reeboks, illuminated by the late-afternoon sun streaming through the windows, the golden rays flashing through the dusty air. She turns a Polaroid camera over in her hands, expression almost longing as she inspects it.
“Chrissy,” he finally manages to say. She looks up, big pretty eyes on him. “Wanna come try on rings?”
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on indefinite hiatus
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Steve knows that things in his life need to change- that he needs to change. Little does he know that change will come swinging into his life with the introduction of the Upside Down. Suddenly, his world isn't as small and meaningless as it had felt all his life. Nights alone at home or hosting jam-packed parties turn into hangouts with Jon and Nancy. His circle grows wider with the Party constantly asking for his company. He feels happy for the first time in his life. However, this all comes smacking to a halt as Halloween 1984 nears. Not only are Nancy and Jonathan now distant, but it seems that the Upside Down isn't behind them after all.
Steve doesn't know what to do with the gap in his life where Jon and Nancy used to be. They had been the ones to show him how to move on from the Popular persona he had put on for so long. In comes Eddie Munson- the boy Steve had been avoiding for so long. He was so different than anyone he had ever met. His eyes were naturally drawn to Eddie in a way that scared him. However, with an offered ride and some much-needed kindness, Eddie becomes a fixture of Steve's life in a way he never thought possible.
Bookmarked by merry_magpie
16 Mar 2024
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No more than a few weeks. That's what Owens had told him.
Steve turns the words over in his head as he lowers himself onto his back, sideways across the bed. It's sort of like a vacation, he reasons weakly. A vacation in the middle of the woods, with a guy he barely knows.
Steve swallows, staring up at the ceiling. He can handle this.
What could happen in the space of a few weeks?
Bookmarked by merry_magpie
15 Mar 2024