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Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Mutual Pining, Minor Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson is Rich, Eddie Munson Has Nipple Piercings, Masturbation, Car Sex, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Cuddling & Snuggling, Blow Jobs, Morning Sexc, Recreational Drug Use, Shotgunning, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Romance, Rough Oral Sex, Porn With Plot, Light-Hearted, Domestic, Consent, Cute, Background Relationships, Drama, Protective Gareth (Stranger Things), Protective Dustin Henderson, Hair-pulling, Begging, Teasing, Mechanic Steve Harrington, Spanking, Frottage, Choking, Breathplay, BDSM, Shower Sex, Come Swallowing, Biphobia, Clothed Sex, Aftercare, Praise Kink, Crying, Impact Play, Prostate Milking, Multiple Orgasms, Overstimulation, Cock Rings, Vibrators, Biting, Light Angst, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Road Head, Minor Will Byers/Gareth
Summary:
Eddie gets the shock of his life when he sees Steve in cut-off shorts and nothing else to promote the repair shop he works at. As an excuse to see him as often as possible, Eddie starts going to the shop for things he could easily fix at home, and gets a second shock when he finds out that Steve is openly bi.
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Eddie had ‘Fuel’ by Metallica blasting loud enough to disturb a quiet neighborhood while he sped down a main street. Recklessly, yet skillfully, he swerved between cars, going well above the speed limit. He was drumming on the steering wheel of a black 1970s Pantera in tune with the music. The chorus of the song came in and Eddie shouted along with it. “Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desi—” he choked on the last word and nearly slammed on his breaks. For half a second, he saw the nicest ass he’d ever laid eyes on, scantily clad in torn denim. Without a second thought, he turned the car around and drove the wrong way down the road in order to pull into a gas station beside, what he now could see, was a repair shop.
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Prompt that crossed my mind this morning if you're still having them:
Eddie always asked before taking blood, that had been a deal both Steve and Eddie had agreed much time before they started dating, it was a rule, one that kept Steve relaxed even when his vision blurs.
That's why, when Steve crosses his door, a curse in his mouth because he should have come sooner, only to be met with a brute shove against the wall and a white-hot pain in his neck, he knows in an instant that something is very, very wrong"
Currently in its fledgling state, the general idea is for a playable story that evolves with the player's choices. Not all actions have consequences, but many do, and the player will have an abundance of actions to take.
There will be heavily explicit sex scenes that the player will control the actions of their character, much like a turn-based combat game. This will result in every encounter being unique, even if it's between the same characters.
The context and flavor around the game itself will be created once the base mechanics are functional and we know how the gameplay will work. The mechanics and gameplay are the main focus and will shape the world we create to fit it.
Currently in its fledgling state, the general idea is for a playable story that evolves with the player's choices. Not all actions have consequences, but many do, and the player will have an abundance of actions to take.
There will be heavily explicit sex scenes that the player will control the actions of their character, much like a turn-based combat game. This will result in every encounter being unique, even if it's between the same characters.
The context and flavor around the game itself will be created once the base mechanics are functional and we know how the gameplay will work. The mechanics and gameplay are the main focus and will shape the world we create to fit it.
Hey! I hope you don’t mind but I shared your link to the info about your game dev with my partner. I’m totally biased (haha) but they’re great with world building ans they’re interested in working on the writing team. Hope it’s cool they join the Discord to reach out!
Currently in its fledgling state, the general idea is for a playable story that evolves with the player's choices. Not all actions have consequences, but many do, and the player will have an abundance of actions to take.
There will be heavily explicit sex scenes that the player will control the actions of their character, much like a turn-based combat game. This will result in every encounter being unique, even if it's between the same characters.
The context and flavor around the game itself will be created once the base mechanics are functional and we know how the gameplay will work. The mechanics and gameplay are the main focus and will shape the world we create to fit it.
Currently in its fledgling state, the general idea is for a playable story that evolves with the player's choices. Not all actions have consequences, but many do, and the player will have an abundance of actions to take.
There will be heavily explicit sex scenes that the player will control the actions of their character, much like a turn-based combat game. This will result in every encounter being unique, even if it's between the same characters.
The context and flavor around the game itself will be created once the base mechanics are functional and we know how the gameplay will work. The mechanics and gameplay are the main focus and will shape the world we create to fit it.
Disclaimer: this video was intended as a fun look at the inconsistent logic of gender segregation in sports, but as a short-form video, it naturally does not go into much nuance. One thing I want to make clear is that I do believe we should be making sports more inclusive to trans and intersex athletes, and it seems to me that a great starting point would be to stop gender segregating sports that really don’t need it. Like archery!
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.
If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????
Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.
Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.
AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!
It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.
The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.
How does Steve figure out what the questions mean?
He doesn't. He chalks it up to a prank and forgets about it
He manages to figure it out on his own
The teens
Jonathan
Hopper
Nancy
Joyce
Robin
Eddie
Erica
Billy
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Voting ended onSep 4, 2024
I ended up combining the top two results because they were fairly close and worked well together. Thanks for following this silly little story 🤍
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After Eddie finished his ice cream and walked with the others to the front, he froze and looked back at the food court. He could just barely see Steve with his head on crossed arms by the register. Was he pouting?
He felt a little bad at possibly hurting Steve, but he shook it off and left with the others.
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Not getting Eddie's number left Steve feeling far heavier than he thought it should have. He caught a glimpse of Eddie's group leaving and he fully deflated, knowing that he blew it.
For the rest of his shift, he moved about as if he were a zombie, just going through the procedures without a thought. Robin tried to be supportive, but it fell on deaf ears.
His ego had never been lower. He couldn't even succeed at flirting with a guy. He'd officially lost his game entirely.
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When Steve put the keys in his car door, he froze at seeing something in the driver's seat. It was a folded piece of paper that must have been slipped through the window he usually kept cracked for airflow.
He opened the door and picked it up as he sat down. When he unfolded it, he saw that it was a torn out notebook page with a list of very random and confusing questions.
"How many rings of power are in Lord of the Rings? How many strings does an electric guitar have? What's the armor class of a mimic?" Steve squinted in confusion. "The what of what?" He chalked it up to some joke and tossed the paper in the passenger seat with a sigh as he made his way home.
He almost left the paper behind when he got home, but something about it nagged at him, so he took it with him to his room. He looked over the questions after he got changed and almost none of them made sense to him. The Dark Crystal sounded familiar, but he wasn't sure what a gelfling was.
He'd unfortunately been around Dustin and the others enough to know that a lot of these were nerd terms. He was tempted to ask them, but he'd likely never hear the end of it, and with Dustin still in his stupid summer camp, he'd have to rely on the others.
He sighed and crumpled the paper up, tossing it into the corner of his room. Why did he care? It was probably just some stupid joke, anyway. He shouldn't pay it any mind.
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That note stayed crumpled up in the corner of Steve's room for a few days. He wanted to say it was forgotten about, but he almost picked it up multiple times, but left it where it laid. Even picking it up and putting it back when he vacuumed his room.
It wasn't until he overheard Mike, Lucas, and Will talking while he got them ice cream that his interest was piqued again.
"Dude, my arrow blasted through that dire wolf's armor class," Lucas bragged.
Steve froze and chewed on his lip. "You wouldn't happen to know the armor class of a... what was it... mimic?" he asked awkwardly, handing Will his cone as Mike paid for them.
"Why?" Mike asked accusatorily.
"Uh, no reason. Forget it," Steve muttered.
As Mike and Lucas walked off, Will hung back with a look of deep thought. "Seven," he stated softly, with a sweet smile at Steve.
"Thanks, you're one of the good ones," Steve laughed.
"Will, you coming?" Mike called.
"Yeah!" Will perked and rushed up to meet them.
An excitement built in Steve at getting his first answer. He wrote a '7' on the back of his thumb in pen so he wouldn't forget when he got home.
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Steve rushed up to his room and smoothed the crumpled paper out on his desk. He'd looked at the seven on his thumb so many times throughout the day that he didn't need the reminder anymore and wrote it in after the corresponding question.
He beamed at himself, feeling a little proud, and he read over the other questions. Even if it was a joke, a scavenger hunt could be fun.
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To his surprise, Steve found himself at the library that weekend. He checked out the books referenced in the questions and stopped by Family Video on the way home to pick up a few movies.
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Eddie had been struggling with trying to focus at home, so he decided to hit the food court to work on his next campaign. The noisy bustling around him helped him focus for some strange reason. As he passed Scoops Ahoy, something caught his attention, and he backpedaled to see Steve on his break in one of the booths with his nose in 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight'.
The wide grin was unavoidable. Eddie wasn't even able to bite it away as he made his way to his preferred table. He chose it so he could keep half an eye on Steve in his little sailor uniform. Honestly, he felt a little silly for making that list and even more ridiculous for actually giving it to him, but when he saw the paper that he'd torn from the same notebook he was opening spread out in front of Steve, he felt a little bubble of hope.
He wasn't entirely sure what he was hopeful of, but never in his life did he expect to see Steve Harrington with his face buried in a fantasy novel. To top it off, it looked like he was actually invested in it.
When Steve lowered the book, Eddie saw that Steve was chewing on a pen. Not only was it adorable, but Eddie bit his tight smile when he saw Steve jot something down on the paper.
He had no idea what would come of Steve answering all of those, or if he'd even make the connection of what it all meant, but just the fact that Steve was putting effort towards it made Eddie beyond happy.
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It took him almost the full week, but come Friday, Steve had every question answered. Even though the books interested him more than he'd anticipated, he generally stopped reading after he got his answer. He planned to pick them up again sometime, but for now, they'd served their purpose.
Steve placed the paper on the table in the back room of Scoops Ahoy and stared at it proudly, The partially read 'Lord of the Rings' book sat on the table beside him as he wrote a '20' after the last remaining question. "Done," he sighed happily to the empty room. "Now what?"
He furrowed his brows, looking over the paper. He'd answered everything, but he still had no idea what it was for. Who had given it to him? Why did they give it to him? Was it meant for someone else? He'd hoped that once he'd answered all of the questions, he'd get some answers of his own, but all he had was a paper filled with nerd trivia.