Dani, 88' baby. She/her. Bisexual. I love the female character you hate. The Steddie brainrot is strong. Swiftie since 06. Steve Harrington appreciation blog.
no more lonely lights, never be another (in progress)
moving on (hiatus but in progress)
steve's mixtape (prequel)
moving on pt 1
moving on pt 2
*will add other fics i've written...gotta comb the tumblr and link em'
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while I primarily post and make content about steddie, i also enjoy lots of other pairings. ronance, buckingham, hellcheer, stedissy, jargyle, jancy, etc. i also have a weak spot for well written steve/reader and eddie/reader fic. there are very few things i refuse to engage with and i will filter those things out.
i do not get caught up in fandom toxicity because frankly i am too old for that shit. i am not interested in the policing of people's interests. this also goes for discourse over ship dynamics and headcanons. let people enjoy themselves because life's hard enough and everyone is just trying to enjoy themselves ya know?
while to an extent I enjoy things of a dark nature, i do not want to see any pedophilic content. it is my one hard line. please do not follow me if you consider yourself a map or enjoy that content. it might be fictional but it is triggering to me and many other people. if you follow me and i see that you do post or like that stuff, i will block. I also do not have an interest in following people who post stuff about incest. I do my best to filter that content out and check blogs before I follow back.
i only follow back when there is an age in someone's bio or I'm pretty sure they're 18+. Adults only, please, for christ's sake. i am 36 years old. Minors, please protect yourselves and others on the internet and listen to people when they say MDNI.
other things i post about: taylor swift, alot. i am a die hard swiftie. teen wolf, btvs, the x-files, pretty ladies and boys and everyone in between, new girl etc. random things that catch my interest.
i do my best to tag thoroughly so people can filter anything they don't like to see.
Surprise, not dead yet. But I do come with a new plot thot idea for a modern online influencer au Steddie…
Picture it.
Steve is one those super cringe and annoying influencers who do stupid stuff, like the Stay Wild guys. (Apologies to anyone who likes that stuff, but my godson is obsessed with those videos and I’m ready to gouge my eyes out after having them play on repeat all day.) His brand is called like KingSteve or something and he’s basically how season 1 Steve was in the first episodes but cranked up to 11 (pun not intended).
He gives off the whole jock thing to perfection.
Eddie is frontman of a metal band that boasts of a pretty decent online following but it’s nothing special. Certainly not the type of views that KingSteve gets, who is a household name for people in the online influencer world. He gets invited to red carpets events and everything. Eddie and the Corroded Coffin boys have done some shows, but always more of the indie type and nothing mainstream.
Eddie viscerally hates KingSteve.
He’s just like the kind of guys who would bully Eddie in high school, who used to “gay” to mean bad and gross, who had a silver spoon all their life and took every privilege for granted. (Even if he did pick up on some weird homoerotic subtext with one of KingSteve’s fellow influencers and friends, TomTomTiger, who made up the second person in the super popular trio, Stomrol, the “last being PerkyCarol.)
Eddie hates KingSteve, hates how he knows KingSteve is the same off camera and on, because that’s just how those sorts of influencers are—the ones who care about popularity.
And then Stomrol stops producing videos together. KingSteve still thrives, KingSteve is still the same as always, but suddenly he’s unfollowed both TomTomTiger and PerkyCarol, suddenly it’s just him. At least for a while.
Then RockinRobin makes an appearance. RockinRobin with her little violet flower pin on her lapel, with her entire aesthetic that looks so different from KingSteve, RockinRobin who throws herself over KingSteve all the time and yet there’s none of the tension between them that Eddie swears existed between KingSteve and TomTomTiger, at least on TomTomTiger’s part.
Also, Eddie is pretty sure he saw a pair of tits drawn on her shows when they were briefly seen on camera.
KingSteve is still the same tho. He still acts like a jock, still acts stupid and annoying and everything Eddie dislikes. Still makes those dumb fucking videos.
And then, during a live stream, some kids busts in demanding KingSteve hurry up so they can watch the new Corroded Coffin music video together.
Corroded Coffin’s views explode.
Corroded Coffin doesn’t know why at first, but eventually they read the comments and see the link to the now posted KingSteve stream. They don’t know what to think about it, but soon they’re too busy to think about anything because suddenly they have requests for shows, are invited to events, and eventually they’re even invited to those sorts of prestigious influencer parties they’ve always mocked—partly, admittedly, because they’d never been invited.
Eddie is off having a drink, feeling super out of place but refusing to show it, when the most attractive guy he’s ever seen walks up to introduce himself. This guy with the sweetest smile on his face and the softest expression and such a gentle way of speaking and who is, undoubtedly, KingSteve.
Except he’s nothing like the KingSteve he is on camera. He’s sweet and funny and kind of a dork, actually, and he’s jocky, sure, but he’s also so much more. And when Eddie mentions the kids who name dropped his band on KingSteve’s live stream, KingSteve gets such an affectionate and indulgent look on his face that can’t be an act.
And Eddie realizes with growing horror, worsened when RockinRobin glomps on to Steve squealing that she got the ChrissyCuntingham’s number (a former golden child influencer who now speaks out against eating disorders and the pressure put on the youth and toxic purity culture) and his affectionate expression only grew as he enthusiastically congratulated and supported her, that Eddie was very much already halfway in love with this contradictory man who was absolutely nothing like his online public persona but everything like the man of Eddie’s dreams.
Later, though not too much later, after Eddie and Steve become friends and grow closer, Eddie will finally meet these strange children in Steve’s life and become instantly fond of all of them and even more deeply enamored with Steve’s mother hen tendencies towards them and takes to the kids as if they were his own…that Steve will decide that Eddie is everything like the man of his dreams too.
Of course they collab and first star on each other’s channels, and though Steve keeps up his online persona, he softens too, especially when Eddie guest stars on his channel, or he guest stars on Corroded Coffin’s (or their connected DnD account, Hellfire Club, sometimes with the kids and sometimes not). And really, it’s inevitable that the internet starts shipping them.
Maybe it takes years for them to confirm anything, because of course they start dating not long after meeting each other that very first night. Or maybe Steve is done playing it safe, and maybe he wears a “Steddie” shirt with a picture of him and Eddie on it and the words “my ship is real” during one of his videos, and maybe Eddie writes a love song about brown eyes and some certain famous moles.
Idk. Idk how any of it goes. All I know is that I started wondering how those annoying influencers act in real life off camera, which ones are their public personas and which ones are completely different, and couldn’t help but drunkenly Steddiefy that thought.
And now I shall disappear into the ethers again for the foreseeable future while the ao3 curse continues to wreak havoc in my life.
I will forever be bitter we never got to see him and Eddie actually interact. Thank the fucking universe for top tier fanfiction! I personally live in a world where he was more central to season 4. He knew the information about Creel and the murders. There was so much potential for him to be the trusted adult for the party especially considering there were no adults left in Hawkins that had any idea about the upside down. I have a lovely vision of Wayne with a shotgun, fighting off monsters and it sustains me. He has a sexy Bobby Singer vibe going on tbh.🤷🏻
Steve showering in the locker room, plastered in hickeys, bruises and bite marks. His teammates point them out and make jokes, "Harrington's getting lucky, huh?", "Damn whatever girl you're seeing must be freaky, dude.", "Yeah, you're covered!" etc.
Shrugging them off, he says, "Yeah, yeah, best sex I've ever had guys, now focus on something else, please."
Cut to Eddie on stage at a gig, in a loose homemade sleeveless vest, his arms, chest and neck similarly littered with marks. It adds to his appeal, the girls swoon thinking of all the rockstar action he must be getting.
Neither crowd would interact, and neither would ever guess that Steve's bruises are from not "a freak" but "the freak", and that Eddie's are from "the king".
Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson do not get along. They’ve been sniping at each other since saving the world from Vecna and everyone is tired of it They would fight at the bar. They fight in Family Video. They fight over music, over movies, over whether Eddie’s van is “a death trap”.
But what nobody knows is Steve started it. And Steve keeps starting it. Because the first time Eddie got really mad like red faced, voice cracking, gesturing with those rings and hair all wild from running his hands through it Steve’s brain just short circuited. God, he’s so hot when he’s pissed. He would think to him self.
So now Steve has a system. He says something dumb about his music choice and Eddie explodes. Steve wins. Not the argument. But just to see him.
Eddie doesn’t get it at first. He just thinks Steve’s an asshole who peaked in high school and never learned to shut up. Until one night Steve’s baiting him about “real music” and Eddie shoves him hard against the brick wall outside the Hideout, and Steve smiles.
Oh.
“You absolute freak,” Eddie says realization dawning and devastating. “You like this. You like when I—”
Steve cuts him off by kissing him, because since he’s been caught he might as well give in.
