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Sometimes Steve remembers that living in a town with a pretty obvious cult just outside it isn’t actually normal. But everyone in Hawkins has sort of gotten used to it.
Steve doesn’t think about it all that much. It’s a part of life in Hawkins, and high school’s a bitch, and Steve’s busy juggling his relationship with Nancy Wheeler (and the nagging suspicion it’s all falling apart), and the tightness in his chest when spending time with her these days almost always means spending time with her fellow Hawkins Post intern Jonathan, and keeping his grades up enough to graduate this year and keep his father placated, and the weird tension with Tommy and Carol lately, and also how he’s somehow babysitting almost a half dozen kids nowadays, whose newest obsession is ghost hunting and have been bullying Steve into taking them to every abandoned house in Hawkins.
A prequel to Warm These Bones, but can be read as a standalone
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- Part 2 of The Reason is Yours (Ghost-hunting AU)
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You Know I Wouldn't Hurt You (Unless You Wanted Me To) by help_me_no
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Feb 2025
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Black bandanas and knockoff snack cakes.
Or, discussion about kink as it relates to trauma, internalized kink-shaming, and untangling BDSM from violence.
Steve finally learns about what Eddie's bandana means.
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- Part 5 of Don't Settle for That
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Eddie gets to have Steve in his bed. Steve gets to meet Eddie’s neighbors.
(Or, Eddie grew up as an ‘it takes a village’ kind of kid. Steve very obviously did not.)
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- Part 6 of Don't Settle for That
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Dates and basketball and concerts. Daily life. Figuring out the rhythm of a new relationship, and everything around it.
Assorted scenes post- Aftermath.
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- Part 3 of Don't Settle for That
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Eddie Munson was practically raised by the concept of harsh realities, and he’s learned not to want things that he’ll never have, which isn’t as much as a bummer as it could be, because making the most out of what you’ve got is just as good.
Steve Harrington, despite his reputation as a casual flirt and a serial dater, has a bad habit of falling hard and fast and never really recovering. Steve Harrington, despite his reputation as a bit oblivious, and a ladies man, figured some stuff out about himself four years ago and promptly squashed all those feelings into a box he never intended to see the light of day.
In which Will coming out forces Steve to be open about some things (because Steve’s issues will always take a backseat to making sure the kids feel safe). And Steve doesn’t mean for Eddie to find out, but he does, and it turns into a bonding experience. (And it’s the best and the worst, because having him as a friend is more than Steve ever could’ve hoped for, but it also feels a little like dying.)
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- Part 1 of Don't Settle for That
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A ghost-hunting AU, with a lot of complications.
Now a series!
Warm these Bones: contemporary ghost-hunting AU
Echo From Your Lungs (prequel)
To Come: 'Cause the Lines Were Drawn (prequel 2) date TBD- Words:
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Spooky Steddie AUs
October 2022:
Vampire & Concubi - Oct 1
Demon & Necromancer
Monster & Hunter
Ghost-hunting/Paranormal Investigators
Manor House
Came Back Wrong (Canon-divergent) - Oct 31 (+3 bonus chapters)October* 2025:
Demon (Reversed ver.)
Frankenstein
* not quite October, but coming soon:
Big Bad Wolf
Came Back Wrong (feral ver.)- Words:
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Steve falls first. (Steve falls hard.) A slow journey through it.
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Kings and Monsters and Men by help_me_no
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Hades (Video Game 2018)
26 Mar 2021
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The ways in which Theseus's relationship with the minotaur changes over the course of time, from the labyrinth to death to Elysium. An examination of the complicated motivations of Theseus—prince, hero, and king of Athens—and of the meanings behind the concepts of 'kings' and 'monsters'.
Pre-game, pre-relationship.
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Theseus's discovery of a strength kink forces him to acknowledge more intimate feelings towards Asterius. One multi-chapter work and subsequent smutty oneshots.
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blood on my pillow (Tinnitus) by rajumat for help_me_no
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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After losing to Vecna, the streets of Hawkins flood with both military and demogorgons. Steve’s doing the best he can to keep his people alive, but it’s hard to pretend that everything is normal. Sometimes, he dreams of claws and fangs and wakes with his heart racing.
Sometimes he dreams of music and wakes with his ears bleeding.
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Bookmarked by help_me_no
28 Feb 2026
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truly the most perfect gift. just the right dash of AU flavor from another fantastic piece of media, but still completely accessible and fun if you don't know the Magnus Archives. tense and bloody and gory and hot and compelling and sooooo sooo perfect. gonna be thinking about steddie and the hunt and the flesh forever.
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Sparkle Like Bowie In The Mornin’ Sun by beetlesandstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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Eddie’s eyes snap to Steve’s neck. It’s only when Steve gives him a small, confused frown, that he realises he’s pinned Steve Harrington to his bed and he wants to bite him.
Or, the one where Eddie returns from the Upside Down unscathed, except, maybe, for the blood lust. And the teeth.
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It’s 10:15 on a Sunday morning, and Steve is on Eddie Munson’s couch.
More specifically: Steve is on Eddie Munson’s couch, in his boxer shorts and a shirt that's clearly been slept in, eating dry cereal out of the box and blinking slowly at the TV, which is currently playing WWF. His hair is more of a mess than Dustin has ever seen it outside of literal fights to the death. Eddie himself is nowhere to be seen.
“What the hell are you doing here?” Dustin demands, dropping his backpack just inside the door.
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“You are such a fucking asshole.” Steve says, but again there’s no venom behind his words. It comes out like an observational statement, like they’re back in Freshman year biology marking down the anatomy of the frog they dissected. Looks like spaghetti, Steve had said while they stared down at the guts in front of them, and even now Tommy can’t eat spaghetti without thinking of it. “You know, believe it or not, Eddie doesn’t treat people the way you do. He wouldn’t even think to.”
Tommy scoffs, does an eye roll of his own. “Yeah, I’m sure he’s real sweet to people before he gouges their eyes out."
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a long cold war (with your kids at the front) by voidedfalling (Pterodactyl)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Oct 2025
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Four more people come stumbling through the doors - a short-haired girl in camouflage with a kid wearing what looks like the top half of a ghillie suit on her back, the kid hollering at the top of his lungs for a doctor like he’s on the brink of death. The reporter grabs the short-haired girl, stopping her from running directly into a frozen onlooker because she’s busy looking over her shoulder at a boy in a leather jacket right behind her, his face pulled tight with pain as he carries a limp, unmoving body, their head tipped back, pale face smeared with blood in the unforgiving halogen lights -
“Help him!” the kid is screaming, “Somebody, please -”
Oh, Wayne thinks, oh, oh, oh.or; wayne munson finds himself at hawkins memorial on march 27th.