ao3 • writing tag • time travel au tag (stories & snippets)
steddie drabbles & microfics
☕️ ko-fi
vibes only. mostly steddie, sometimes clarkson.
🌷 WIPs & multi-chaptered stories
➤ i’ll try. i’ll try. (but i couldn’t be better) WIP
M | 74k | 12/? | time travel au, angst, steve whump
Sent back to 1983, Steve tries to save his friends from everything that's coming and takes on the battle against the Upside Down alone with El by his side.
➤ nice to meet you, where you been?
T | 12k | 3/3 | tattoo shop au, pure fluff, trans eddie
Chrissy sends Eddie to check out a tattoo shop. Little does he know it belongs to Steve Harrington, or that they’ll both be falling for each other at lightning
➤ untitled knight!Steve / bard!Eddie WIP
T | 10k | 2/? | tumblr: part 1 | part 2 | ... regency au (freeform), enemies to lovers
Eddie is a bard of great renown who returns to Hawkins ready and willing to spite the people who cast him out all his life. He is in search of his muse: the knight Dustin has been writing to him about who has inspired his greatest ballads and poems. Dustin’s Sir Steve is nowhere to be found, but Lord Harrington seems to hold a grudge against Eddie and he wants to find out why.
➤ see the stars shining through the cracks of my broken heart | steddie week fic
T | 14.7k | 3/3 | tumblr: part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7
in which Eddie and Chrissy get engaged and Steve is heartbroken. yearning ensues. a story about love requited and unrequited, breaking and healing, and hope (steddie & buckingham)
➤ shattered on the cliff’s edge, trapped by the tides WIP
M | 5.8k | 2/7 | tumblr: part 1 | part 2 | ...
A steddie ghost story. Steve Harrington, disgraced and disowned by his father for moral insanity, has been haunted by eerie dreams of a mysterious lighthouse ever since he was a little boy. His lighthouse quickly turns from recurring night terror to gruesome reality when his superior delegates him to fix the broken light and be the new keeper. But he soon finds out that it is he who is being kept.
➤ tales of blue | who did this to you? WIP
M | 13k | 3/4 | tumblr: part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | Eddie POV, pre-s4, injured Steve, hurt/comfort
One summer's day in 1985, Eddie finds a very injured Steve in the boathouse, and even though he doesn't want the kind of trouble that this might bring, he can't just leave him there. So, scared though he is, he takes Steve to the one person he trusts to always make everything better.
➤ untitled kas!eddie / steve WIP
M | 5.3k | 1/? | tumblr: part 1 | post-canon, hurt/comfort, enemies steddie
The extent of his brain injuries and the intensity of his migraines is something Steve has been keeping secret from everyone. When he goes to Kas to let him feed, however, the sudden blood loss gives him a migraine. Kas decides to take care of him.
one shots & ficlets under the cut
(ao3) -> ao3 link in the tumblr fic post
🌷 fluff & floaty
floor time fic (ao3)
Eddie POV, falling in love, fluff, neurodivergent steddie
eddie likes Good Words (ao3)
Steve POV, stablished relationship, neurodivergent steddie, echolalia
rambly Steve in love
Eddie POV, established relationship, love confession
soft insomniacs (ao3)
Eddie POV, short trans Eddie, soft Steve, bickering, established relationship
3 am phone call (ao3)
Steve POV, soft, pre-relationship
car ride in love
Eddie POV, floaty, boys in love, Andante, Andante
stargazing
Steve POV, floaty & soft, boys in love
sick fic
Eddie POV, domestic fluff & silliness, steve is sick, eddie is in love
first kiss
Eddie POV, floaty, boys in love
loving eddie munson (is a full body experience) (ao3)
Steve POV, floaty, boys in love, introspection, love confessions
floaty steddie date hours
Eddie POV, established relationship, date night, marriage proposals, softness, dancing in the rain
sick fic 2 (woollen bat hat)
Eddie POV, sick!Steve, soft boyfriends in love, cuddling, Eddie reads Momo to Steve
🌷 yearning
✨yearning hours (a-side) (ao3)
Eddie POV, heart-wrenching yearning, light imagery, (mis)communication, vulnerability, first kiss
✨yearning hours (b-side) (ao3)
Steve POV, insecurity, trauma, darkness imagery, vulnerability, first kiss
✨yearning hours (bonus track) (ao3)
Eddie POV, light imagery, vulnerability, getting together
summer nights were made for steve (ao3)
Eddie POV, yearning, getting together, the stars are pretty but steve is prettier
✨yearning hours (hidden track) (ao3)
Steve POV, floaty music, getting together, sudden love confession, pining, A Flock of Seagulls
✨ high yearning make-out fic (smutty) (ao3)
Eddie POV, recreational drug use, dry humping, coming in pants, so much yearning, so much kissing, spicy six as friends
🌷 hurt/comfort
insomniac eddie & human weighted blanket steve
Eddie POV, developing relationship, comfort
Eddie being inexperienced at relationships
Eddie POV, established relationship, dramatic eddie, boys in love, cuddles
spiralling writer eddie
Eddie POV, established relationship, comfort, emotionally intelligent steve
‘You’d be a great dad’
Eddie POV, established relationship, insecure Eddie, comfort
steve has seizures (ao3)
Steve POV, angst, self-isolation, seizures, post-s3, found family, background steddie
nonverbal steve gets a hug (ao3)
Steve POV, established steddie, nonverbal steve, caring eddie, touch starved steve
sensory overload steddie
Steve POV, soft boys, building relationship, nonverbal steve, touch-averse eddie, floor time as the cure
🌷 angst & hurt/no comfort
spiralling steve
Steve POV, traumatised steve, nonverbal steve, established steddie, eventual comfort
breakup
Steve POV, steve is not okay, breaking up
My Boy
Steve POV, major character death, post-s4, inspired by My Girl funeral scene
memory wipe musings
Steve POV, post-canon, established relationship, breakup-ish
post-breakup steddie
Steve POV, a follow-up for @steddieas-shegoes prompt-fill | years after breaking up with steve eddie writes him a letter and they talk, mentions of drug abuse and rehab, starting over, 2nd chances (it's hopeful but it's kinda really sad)
knightmærs
Eddie POV, prince!steve, traitor!eddie, lovers to enemies who are still lovers but it's intrigue, brainwashing, torture, eddie whump, manipulation, open ending, violence & threats of death
🌷 smut(ish)
steve wants to hear eddie
Eddie POV, established relationship, anal sex
sexytimes in a tent
Steve POV, trying not to get caught, established relationship, hand jobs
sub!kas eddie (drabble) (tag for more)
Steve POV, good boy kas, soft dom steve
school reunion sex
Eddie POV, chubby!steve, dom-ish top steve, belly kink, light degradation kink, multiple orgasms, semi-public sex, reunion sex, good boy eddie
misc. & gen
steve and nancy finally have A Talk
Steve POV, apologies, communicating like adults, making up, platonic stancy
steve and mike coming out to each other (ao3)
Steve POV, bisexual lighting, established background steddie, mike & steve sibling relationship
why'd you jump? (ao3)
conversation at the quarry, coming out (kinda), working through trauma together, steve & mike sibling relationship, big brother Steve | cw: could read as suicidal tendencies or intrusive thoughts
a study in grief: steve and mike talking about barb (ao3)
Steve POV, Barb's death anniversary, Barb was Mike's friend, grief, mourning, big brother Steve, Mike character study
stobin arsonist tendencies (drabble)
Steve POV, robin wants to burn down steve's car and house, fucked up platonic besties, neurodivergent swag
🌷 i'll try-verse (time travel au) oneshots
steve takes el to see her first meteor shower
el calls steve magic
eddie finds nonverbal steve
tina's party steddie hug
steve meets wayne
clarkson fics
meet-sweet | kids duty (ao3)
clarkson origin post with @unclewaynemunson. Wayne POV, first meeting, slow burn, pre-relationship, soft
coursework, caffeine and cuddles (ao3)
teacher student!steve, domestic fluff, established clarkson & steddie, found family
if i fell in love with you (ao3)
Scott POV, soft, established relationship, domestic fluff, If I Fell
home. (ao3)
Scott POV, comfort, floaty, established relationship, after-school car ride, domesticity
quiet. (ao3)
Scott POV, hurt/comfort, domesticity, established relationship, wayne doesn’t like how quiet scott’s house gets
don’t let go (i won’t) (ao3)
Scott POV, hurt/comfort, found family, post-s4, shared trauma, steddie, established relationship, wayne gets a bad flashback and scott calls steddie for help
ronance fics
snow angels
for @thefreakandthehair's spicy six winter fic challenge, Nancy POV, pining, first kiss, getting together
characters who crave affection but at the same time have no idea how to respond to actually receiving it due to the fact theyve rarely ever experienced it are my absolute favourite
they should make it illegal to end your story with an epilogue where your main female character is suddenly randomly married and has children when she's never once expressed a desire for this previously
“Jack,” he says, and he puts a little too much emotion into that word. His voice is hoarse as he betrays himself and does spell it out again. “You don’t want me on your team anymore. You hate everything I am because it’s everything you’re not and somehow, somewhere, that has become a problem that eats away at you. It consumes you and tears into me, destabilising the whole team. Sam knows. Teal’c knows. Hell, General Hammond knows because it compromises missions.”
He swallows heavily, really doesn’t want to look at Jack. He does it anyway. He can’t see his face, his eyes refusing to focus. Detaching him from his words.
“I don’t think I can do this anymore, Jack. And I don’t know any more ways to tell you that something needs to change. I need it to change. Desperately.”
Daniel can’t really breathe once the words are out there. But it’s okay because neither can Jack.
What if I’m still a little lost?
I wouldn’t blame you if you were.
God, he doesn’t want to lose this. The friendship, the familiarity. The family. Sam. Teal’c. It makes his eyes sting with how fiercely he wants to just go back to the way things were. How can Jack not see this? Any of this.
“Well,” Jack says at last, pushing off the balcony door frame. He doesn’t reach out to close it, doesn’t shut out the fresh air or the sounds of some Fleetwood Mac song Daniel can’t focus on enough to identify. “Seems I have some thinking to do.”
Daniel only looks at him, follows him with his eyes, then his face, but not his body as Jack passes him, walks to the front door and shuts it behind himself with a quiet, gentle click. The words, “Goodnight, Daniel” remain. He doesn’t take them outside with him. Daniel almost wishes he had.
shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics
don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.
but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually
