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Kintsugi Hearts And The Art Of Becoming Whole by KizzyDoll_TheWitch1978
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2026
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Eddie Munson spent a long time believing he was nothing but a burden, a broken thing with no place to land. Steve Harrington spent just as long drowning in the chaos of a frantic household, trying to raise two sets of twins-a pair of five-year-old boys and a pair of seven-year-old girls completely on his own.
They found their saving grace in each other. Through the school runs, the childhood tantrums, and the quiet, late-night conversations in a dimly lit kitchen, they built a home. Now, with a proposal sealing their future, the question is no longer about surviving-it's about learning how to live.
But healing isn't a straight line. For Eddie, stepping into a permanent role as a partner and a mother to four energetic kids means confronting the deep-seated traumas he carried from his past. For Steve, it means finally letting go of the armour he wore to protect his family and trusting that he doesn't have to carry the weight alone anymore.
The cracks in their hearts are still there, but together, they are filling those spaces with gold.
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- Part 2 of The Architecture of Us Series
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In Hawkins, Indiana, they call Eddie Munson a freak because of his loud mouth, his heavy metal music, and his late-night Dungeon Master theater. It’s a perfect smoke screen. It gives the town a reason to hate him on his own terms.
In reality, the "freak" label is a vicious, intimate whisper that has followed him since Uncle Wayne pulled his five-year-old body out of a violent Kentucky cabin. Born at home in an Appalachian holler, Eddie completely escaped the non-consensual medical knives of the 1960s, growing up whole, willowy, and lean
Now it’s 1983. Eddie is a freshman just trying to navigate the sensory nightmare of high school, his monthly cycle, and the quiet, bittersweet knowledge that being himself is always going to make him the freak no matter where he is.
This is a heavy, gritty, hyper-detailed multi-generational pre-canon backstory and slow-burn Steddie romance. Holding nothing back on 1970s and 1980s real-world grit.
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Burn It Down: The Feral Awakening by KizzyDoll_TheWitch1978
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jul 2026
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Come with me on a journey as we see what happens next.
The catastrophic time-reset at the end of Book 1 does not just reset their physical age—it shatters the linear timeline entirely, dropping the pack members like tactical landmines across three decades of human history. Trapped inside human bodies that are fragile, bleeding, and small, they do not have the luxury of waiting for canon events to play out.They are haunted by the future, and their dormant vampire instincts are actively fighting to claw their way to the surface.Instead of a passive loop, Book 2 is a proactive, multi-generational espionage and supernatural thriller. The pack weaponizes their future knowledge to construct a massive, underground network before Hawkins Lab even realizes it has an enemy.
By the time the timeline approaches the traditional events of 1983, the pack has already inverted the board—turning the prey into the apex predators and launching an aggressive, preemptive war to completely flatten Hawkins National Laboratory from the inside out.
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- Part 2 of The Paradox Of The Pack Continuum
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Mending The Pieces For A Quiet Place To Land by KizzyDoll_TheWitch1978
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jun 2026
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- Part 1 of The Architecture of Us Series
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he knows that it's worthwhile by SteveHarrington_and_RobinBuckley, Wowee_so_much_yaoi (SteveHarrington_and_RobinBuckley)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jun 2026
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Just an omegaverse steddie-centered fic that i started writing on my kindle so yeah i shall update whenever i get motivation i also have school and a life so... yeah sorry.
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Steve knows that everyone is waiting for him to get back onto the ice, to brush it off and return.
But he can’t and it’s humiliating, because he was never weak, not when it came to skating.
On the ice, Steve was separate from all other things in the universe, he was weightless and completely untouchable. And now, he’s like a bird with clipped wings.
So yes, he knows he can be a little bit of a bitch nowadays.
Or: Steve starts skating again, and maybe falls in love.
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are you into me? (like i'm into you) by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli) for steviewashere
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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“Eddie,” Gareth says, solemnly.
Eddie nods.
“I’m telling you now, even though I know it’s pointless, because you never listen to anything I say. Ever.”
Eddie nods again.
“Please. I am begging you. Do not fuck our new roommate.”
“Why the fuck would you say that?” Eddie hisses, cheeks aflame again. “What is wrong with your-”
“That’s all I’m saying,” Gareth interrupts airily, hands up in mock surrender. “No further objections. You’re just a natural disaster, and I’d rather keep the apartment a conflict free zone, so.”---
Eddie and Gareth require two new roommates (must be okay with illegally housed cats, must be chill with late night band practices). Robin and Steve require a place to live, and have little to no other options.
Months down the line, Eddie still finds himself tongue tied and avoidant around his very hot-probably-straight-weirdly-intense new cohabitation buddy, which is all very well and good- until they end up snowed in together during a powercut, and are forced to get a little cozy together <3 -
Every Day I Knew and Didn't Say is Lost Time by steddieeddie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Oct 2025
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Hawkins, Indiana - March 27th, 1986
Love and loss.
Give and take.
An endless cycle, really; to love is to lose, and to lose means to have loved at one point.
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Steve Harrington is good at a lot of things and ends up in as many sticky situations. Somehow he finds himself caring more than he should- just enough to wind up in a new home.
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The Gifts We Give Best (come from the heart) by jimjamthefool
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Gift (2000)
17 Aug 2024
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Steve's been caring for his little brother Dustin for nearly seven years, doing odd jobs for folks and running Claudia's old business as the town's root-worker. Making salves for aches for the older holler residents, helping birth the children of those who couldn't afford the fancy new hospital a county over. Doing a reading of the cards.
He's treated well enough, though the folks farther into the heart of the town mutter about witches and some don't let their kids play with Dustin.
His saving grace is Robin, his best friend who keeps him entertained with the latest gossip from town, and Wayne Munson, a neighbor with a troubled nephew who helps out when he can.Steve was getting by just fine, until the night Chrissy Cunningham went missing.
Now, threatened by Chrissy's violent fiancé; trying to guide his own wayward friends- all while keeping Dustin fed and safe, Steve has to rely on a Gift that could be turned against him, or get him killed. His only lead is Eddie.
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AU based on the 2000 movie The Gift, because I always thought Buddy deserved a happy ending and Annie needed more support. I've been listening to OGOA a LOT, too. -
Ain't what you got, it's what you give by ceruleanandconvalescence
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 May 2024
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Wayne missed out on a lot of things, growing up. It was just the way things were. He couldn’t do football, after-school clubs, or be valedictorian. He had to work, keep his head down, and be the man of the house.
His younger brother had been going off the rails since he was born and their Ma was doing what she could to rein him in since their dad died last summer.
Everything with his brother, lately, had been bad and was just getting worse. Ma was trying to be tough with Al, but it wasn’t really enough, wasn’t ever enough, so the job fell on Wayne to look after him.
“Make sure your brother don’t get himself killed,” she’d say. “Be a blessin’, Wayne, not a burden.”
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Heavily indulgent Wayne POV character study. Steddie makes a brief appearance, of course. Mostly fluff, slight bit of angst. Warnings in notes :) -
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Men like him didn’t deserve grief. He didn’t even know the word until he was older, and he knew less what it meant. But it made sense when the word found his ears as he lingered in the doorway of the shitty dilapidated house that he had grown to accept. He only ever found it within himself to fight back when Eddie was gone. He only yelled when it mattered to Eddie, only cried when he anticipated the breakage of Eddie’s heart. He’d never had the energy to fight until he was this disaster of a human, and that fight in him was rage, and that rage was grief.
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“Since when?! Does Wayne know? Why didn’t I know? Did I miss him asking me out?” his eyes widened in horror. “Did I ask him out and then forget?”
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Steve and Eddie have been dating for months, but neither of them have noticed until Robin and Nancy confront them about it. -
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In the little town of Carbon Creek, the locals knew three things. The pie is best at Delilah’s but the coffee would strip paint. Mayor Perkins skipped town back in ‘51 because he got caught counting cards one too many times. And no other fiddle player could hold a candle to young Wayne Munson.
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There’s a Hole Beneath My Ribcage (and I’m Learning How to Fill it Again) by Mission2Mordor
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2024
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Nestled in the hills in Appalachia lies Walland, TN, Eddie's hometown, and the place where he loses his childhood best friend. it drives him insane, and he struggles to come to grips with it all.
he makes friends with Steve. Steve pulls him out of his funk, makes Eddie feel more like himself again. They quickly became inseparable. Steve is Eddie's Hawkins version of Sam.
So, when Eddie and Wayne go back to Walland for their yearly visit in October, Steve goes too. Somewhere along the way, he realizes he loves Steve.
Eddie is terrified he'll lose him too if he gets too close.
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It’s a quiet morning, early enough that Eddie had just grunted and curled further around his pillow when Steve slipped out of bed and stumbled around the room looking for clothes.
But Wayne’s awake, feet propped on the coffee table and paging through the local paper with a cup of coffee at his elbow.
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- Part 23 of future fic – rockstar eddie + middle school teacher steve
- Part 27 of steddie holiday drabbles
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“It started out as Eddie tapping restless rhythms on his own knee. Basslines, drum beats, guitar solos. But soon after, he started tapping Steve.
Steve loves it. He’s just a little confused because Eddie taps out the same rhythm every time. And it’s not from any song he knows.
So what does it mean?”
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Eddie keeps tapping Steve. Steve doesn’t know what it means, until he does.
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- Part 4 of steddie shenanigans
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"'I quit dealing illegal shit,' Eddie says. 'Now I just get alcohol and backer for high school kids who want to party a bit.'
'Backer?'
Eddie looks at Steve like he’s stupid. 'The shit that goes in cigarettes? I know you’ve been clocked in the head a lot, but you’re not that dumb, sweetheart.'
Rude, Steve thinks to himself, then says, 'Do you mean tobacco?'
'Yeah. Backer.' Eddie has the beginnings of a shit-eating grin on his face."
AKA an incredibly niche fic in which Steve and Eddie compare their accents. (you don't need to read the first work in the series to read this one)
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- Part 3 of steddie shenanigans