Biromantic/Grey-romantic Asexual. White. She/They. Thirty(+), dirty, and dying. I am a Tumblr Old One. I'm here (august_justice) on AO3. Other corners of the internet you can find me include Twitter, Bluesky, and Pillowfort under this same username. If you want to be friends on discord, feel free to message me! Icon credit to userstonathan. Header credit to finalgalnancywheeler.
Hi there! I'm MJ (though you can also call me august)! Finally making a post to compile all my fic-related goings on. I'm primarily a Steddie writer, with some gen friendship fics and other Stranger Things pairings thrown in there.
Though I don't have a general tag list, I am always happy to add folks to ones for specific fics. Just let me know!
I always enjoy being tagged in writing games, and my asks are open. Feel free to drop me a line!
Artworks, podfics, and translations are welcome, but please be sure to tag me (mostly because I would love to see them)!
Writing tag: my writing
Tangled Together 'verse Rating: T to E | Word Count: 6.7 k | Tags: Pre-Relationship to Established Steddie, Platonic Stobin, Bodysharing, Consensual Possession, Crack Treated Seriously, Stranger Things 5 Canon Divergence, Angst, Cohabitation, Sharing Clothes, Smut
ongoing writing tag: steddie bodysharing 'verse
you wanna feel how it feels (let's exchange the experience) Rating: E | Word Count: 57k | Tags: Bodyswap, Friends to Lovers, Slowburn, Getting to Know Each Other, Steve Harrington Has Absent Parents, Good Parent Wayne Munson, Disabled Eddie Munson, Disabled Steve Harrington, Class Differences, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Bisexual Eddie Munson
ongoing writing tag: steddie bodyswap au
Crush Confessions Rating: G | Word Count: 2.5k | Tags: Friends to Lovers, Crushes, Confessions, Fluff and Angst, Unrequited Love...for now, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
ongoing writing tag: crush confessions
Second in Line Rating: G | Word Count: 909 | Tags: Future Fic, Established Relationship, Sibling Bonding, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, POV Outsider
Life's Funny Like That Rating: T | Word Count: 200 | Tags: High School, Future Fic, Double Drabble
Cast Adrift for a stranger summer | prompt: ‘pool’ | Pairing: pre-Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler (background) | Word Count: 4.5k | Rating: T | CW: allusions to parental neglect, Upside Down trauma, and drug use; mildly suggestive thoughts | Other tags: Summer of 1984, Lifeguard Steve, Pre-Slash, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Hail to the King Rating: G | Word Count: 2.5k | Tags: Billy Hargrove, High School, Stranger Things 2, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Sexism, Bullying (but only from Billy), Pre-Slash
Falling Fast Rating: T | Word Count: 1.4k | Tags: Falling In Love, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson, Stranger Things 4 Canon Divergence
That Healing Touch Rating: T | Word Count: 6.9k | Tags: Stranger Things 4 Missing Scene, Pre-Slash, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, the inherent homoeroticism of patching another man's wounds
Got You By My Side Rating: T | Word Count: 7k | Tags: Hospitals, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Pre-Slash, Getting Together, Post-Stranger Things 4, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington
Chemistry, History, and Shared Trauma Rating: T | Word Count: 4.2k | Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed, Scars, Fluff, Getting Together, Parallels, Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
Battle Scars Rating: T | Word Count: 1.1k | Fluff and Angst, Kissing, Making Out, Scars
Children Behave (That's What They Say When We're Together) Rating: T | Word Count: 3.2k | Tags: Established Relationship, Friendship, Bickering, Babysitter Steve Harrington, Babysitter Eddie Munson, Meddling Kids
Finding Home Rating: T | Word Count: 2.3k | Tags: Established Relationship, Future Fic, Mechanic Eddie Munson, Hairdresser Steve Harrington, Teacher Steve Harrington, Community College, Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson Acting as The Party's Parental Figures, Slice of Life, Domestic Fluff
Sharing Smokes Outside the Snow Ball Rating: T | Word Count: 1.5k | Tags: Future Fic, Kid Fic, Single Parent Steve Harrington, Single Parent Eddie Munson, Pre-Slash
Surviving the Storm Rating: G | Word Count: 520 | Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Period-Typical Homophobia, 1990s
Fun Fair Fortunes Gone Wrong! (And Then Right) Rating: E | Word Count: 9.3k | Tags: Gender or Sex Swap, Crack, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, First Kiss, First Time, Nipple Piercings, Nipple Play, Vaginal Fingering, Cunnilingus, Scissoring, Strap-Ons, Vaginal Sex, Feminization, Misunderstandings, Light Angst, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Idiots in Love, Love Confessions, Fluff, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington
Always Should Be Someone You Really Love Rating: E | Word Count: 991 | Tags: Changes to Gender or Sex, Future Fic, Teacher Steve Harrington, Mechanic Eddie Munson, Pregnancy, Parenthood, Body Dysphoria, Gender Non-Conforming Eddie Munson, Gender Non-Conforming Steve Harrington, Transmasculine Eddie Munson, Transmasculine Steve Harrington, by way of magical intervention, Queer Culture, Good Uncle Wayne Munson, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Minor Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne, Strap-Ons, Anal Sex, basically a post-Fun Fair AU thought experiment that asks 'what if Steve and Eddie didn't transform back?'
Pretty in Pink Rating: T | Word Count: 2.2k | Tags: Transfeminine Steve Harrington, Studying, Fluff, Kissing, Getting Together, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington
Victoria's Got Nothing On Her Rating: E | Word Count: 6.8k | Tags: Transfeminine Steve Harrington, Trans Female Steve Harrington, Established Relationship, Lingerie, Kissing, Light Dom/sub, Switch Steve Harrington, Switch Eddie Munson
The Itty Bitty Titty Committee Rating: E | Word Count: 1.8k | Tags: Sapphic Steddie, Female Steve Harrington, Female Eddie Munson, Past-Harringrove, Past-Stommy, Past-Stancy, Insecure Eddie Munson, Established Relationship, Period-Typical Homophobia (Mentioned), Implied Sex, Nipple Licking
Living Dead Boy Rating: T | Word Count: 1.3k | CW: angst, fixation on death, survivor’s guilt, ambiguous ending | Tags: meta, prose poem, 2nd person, horror movie allusions, steve pov, steddie (technically)
All the fics I've co-written with my rp/writing partner and wonderful long-time friend @inkfowl!
Study Buddies series Rating: E | Word Count: 209k | Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Pre-Canon, Pre-Relationship, Crushes Temporarily Unrequited Love, Studying, Sleepovers, Dreams, Slow Burn, Childhood Friends, Friends to Lovers, Friends to Lovers to Enemies, Boys Kissing, Internalized Homophobia, Period-Typical Homophobia, Time Skips
Halloween Doesn't Have to be Scary (Anymore) Rating: E | Word Count: 20k | Tags: Halloween, Love Confessions, Fluff and Angst, Getting Together, First Kiss, First Time
After Valentine's Special Rating: G | Word Count: 8.4k | Tags: Valentine's Day, Post Valentine's Day, Teddy Bears, Heart Candy, Rose Petals, Steve is a hopeless romantic, Eddie is easily wooed, Kissing, Flirting, silly boys in love
Shop Til You Drop (to Your Knees) Rating: E | Word Count: 8.1k | Tags: Established Relationship, Shopping, Summer, Stockings, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs
Sweet as Spice Rating: E | Word Count: 29.9k | Tags: Alternate Universe - Sugar Daddy, Sugar Baby Steve, Middle Aged/Older Steddie, Angst, Mention of Past Relationships, Rockstar Eddie Munson, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Mer-May I Have This Kiss? Rating: T | Word Count: 5.6k | Tags: MerMay, Alternate Universe - Merpeople, Friends to Lovers, Practice Kissing, Lovers Lake (Stranger Things)
The Ole Harrington Charm prompt: charm | word count: 548 | rating: G | CW: none | tags: flirting, getting together
Just Like Red Cross prompt: suck | word count: 480 | rating: M | CW: drinking blood, suggestive | tags: Kas!Eddie, blood bag Steve, kissing
Still the One prompt: reunion (steddie week); gender euphoria (stevie week); one | Word Count: 111 words | rating: T | tags: transfem steve harrington, futurefic, dancing
You're the One I Want prompt: dizzy, drunken confessions (steddie week); girls night (stevie week); one | Word Count: 1111 words | rating: T | tags: transfem steve harrington, platonic stobin, sleepovers, phone calls, love confessions
Me, You, and a Malted Milkshake for Two prompt: diner (stranger things writers guild); experiment | word count: 398 words | rating: M (for brief mentions of sex) | tags: hooking up, first times, didn’t know they were dating
Apocalypse Training Now prompt: train | word count: 551 words | rating: T | tags: post-apocalypse, sparring, first kiss
Got Your Mother In A Whirl (She's Not Sure If You're A Boy or A Girl) rating: G | word count: 4.9k | tags: genderfluid steve harrington, steve harrington & dustin henderson, steve harrington & the party, implied unrequited stoncy, stranger things 2, steve harrington has bad parents, period-typical homophobia, period-typical transphobia, self-discovery, friendship, good babysitter steve harrington
After School Special rating: G | word count: 548 | tags: steve harrington & the party, (pre) steve harrington & robin buckley friendship, post-stranger things 2, pre-stranger things 3, good babysitter steve harrington
I Wanna Be the One to Walk in the Sun for stevie week day 1: stobin | prompts: sapphic, the party | rating: T | word count: 2.5k | cw: homophobia and transphobia mentioned but with no real bearing on the story | tags: sapphic stobin, background elmax, transfem steve harrington, get together, established relationship, futurefic, tooth-rotting fluff
Girls Like Girls Like Boys Do (Nothing New) rating: M | word count: 4k | cw: allusions to underage sex, though fade to black and no more explicit than the show itself; period-typical homophobia, misogyny, and ableism | tags: sapphic stancy, past stomarol, female steve harrington, dyslexic steve harrington, s1 rewrite, getting together, angst, happy ending
I watched the live action version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on Youtube and I was not ready for the utter lack of emotions from the CGI animals.
Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:
Also, in CGI this song called "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" does not take place at night.
I mean, I never would have had the guts to talk to Vic back then. I was finally cool with myself, but sharing that part of myself with someone else, that was a whole other thing. But eventually, I… I did it. You know, I told someone.
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
my specialty is liking the same movies that 50-year-old dads like but in a way that would instantly send those dads into cardiac arrest if they heard me talk about them
