hello hi welcome, i like to draw and write about whatever Thing i'm currently fixated on!! currently: stranger things (mainly steddie). if you'd like anything in particular tagged please feel free to dm, i promise i am very friendly!!! also please note this blog is 18+ ONLY!! below is a fic masterlist for your perusal, they are all steddie unless otherwise stated :>
˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ completed works:
dying to meet you (but everybody says I'm wrong)
ᯓ★ E | 1/1 | 15k | post s3, idiots in love, steve falls first + eddie falls harder
wild, wild horses (couldn't drag me away)
ᯓ★ E | 3/3 | 27k | modern au, rockstar eddie + florist steve, mistaken identity, background buckingham
I'm damaged (bad at best)
ᯓ★ E | 2/2 | 17k | post s4, accidental subspace, soft dom eddie, praise kink
forwards beckon rebound
ᯓ★ E | 20/20 | 121.5k | post s4, slowburn, competitive D&D, mutual pining, background ronance
my kind of woman
ᯓ★ E | 1/1 | 15k | post s4 | bi4bi idiot4idiot steddie, friends to lovers, pool table sex
i'm gonna start a rumour
ᯓ★ E | 1/1 | 6.5k | s5 canon divergent, pwp, size kink, top steve
appletini, extra lime
ᯓ★ T | 1/1 | 10.5k | no upside down au, 90s bar setting, strangers to lovers, background buckingham
are you into me? (like i'm into you)
ᯓ★ E | 3/3 | 29k | modern au, college roommates, virgin eddie, snowed in/power outage
gross
ᯓ★ E | 1/1 | 20k | s3 canon-divergent, mean dom eddie, brat steve
a fool's way into jealousy
ᯓ★ E | 2/2 | 25k | modern au, roomates, oblivious + jealous steve, bisexual awakening, based on a reddit post
˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ ongoing works:
linchpin : CURRENTLY ON HIATUS
ᯓ★ M | 4/7 | 43k | no upside down, songwriter steve, rockstar eddie, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending
˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ series:
it's affection (always)
ᯓ★ 4 works | ongoing | post s4, sub eddie + soft dom steve, virginity kink, praise kink, love confessions
✴︎ it's leading me on, every time we touch: M | 3/3 | 18k
✴︎ there is no other love, it's only yours: M | 1/1 | 6k
✴︎ think I like you best (when you're dressed in black from head to toe): E | 1/1 | 8k
✴︎ if you're gonna break my heart, this is a good start: E | 1/1 | 9k
✴︎ give me just a little more : E | 1/1 | 11k
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it takes a few months, but our bones heal
ᯓ★ 2 works | ongoing | post s5, horror, slowburn, vampire eddie, mutual pining, background ronance + henderhop
✴︎ the tug that's between us, that long string: M | 4/10 | 61.5k
✴︎ show me where to tie the other end of this chain: T | 1/3 | 13k | HENDERHOP AS MAIN PAIRING, el-centric, background steddie (follows same timeline as main fic outlined above but can be read standalone)
I'm teaming up with @ro15in as an artist and @steddieasitgoes as a beta for this year's @steddiebbang. I'm so excited, you have no idea. I wish I could tell you everything right now, but I have to go. Eddie is late walking his neighbor's dog again and Jeff is hovering over my cubicle and telling me to stop reading fanfiction and emailing during working hours. Rude.
We should grab lunch with Robin any day, apparently Steve is up to new shenanigans.
Kisses!
Shell
P.S.: can you please let Heather use your printer? She already asked to use mine three times today, I can't get any work done. Not that I actually want to work, but you get it.
Summary, snippet and moodboard under the cut! 💌
Summary:
Steve Harrington should stop being so nice. Or maybe he should just change his contact info to protect himself from old college friends bringing up debts he made years ago. If he had done that, he wouldn't be in such a mess, but he also wouldn't have met the most charming, hilarious, hot (and perfect for him) resident of New York City, aka Eddie Munson. The worst (or maybe best?) part is that Eddie seems to be into him and they fit great together. It would be perfect if Steve hadn't met him while pretending he is Tommy Hagan. Or if he knew how to tell him the truth without making an ass of himself.
Eddie Munson thought his comatose neighbor's big ass dog was a huge problem, but that was onl until he met Mrs. Hagan's nephew Tommy (or Steve. Who has a fucking name for a nickname? Tommy Hagan apparently). Steve just moved next door to take care of the pets, which would be fine if he wasn't the nicest, hottest, most charming motherfucker who ever crossed Eddie's life. And if Eddie didn't have so many trust issues. Steve seems too good to be true, so there's gotta be something wrong there. But what is it?
Yes. To my absolute dismay, he did. Robin, I'm so fucked. I don't think I have ever met someone so charming.
Eddie, that's his name, "oh man, just call me Eddie", he said. That's how everybody calls him since childhood, apparently. His apartment looks insane, by the way. He has so many band posters and paintings and framed pictures, it's like he lives in one of those hip bars–in a single dude way, of course, but a lot more organized that my apartment would be if I had that much stuff. Seriously, he has stuff everywhere: books, shelves full of trinkets and action figures, guitars hung on the wall, boxes of vinyls and VHS tapes. Who still keeps their VHS tapes??? And so many mugs. I think I counted twenty. He lives by himself!
But well, he told me about Tommy's aunt Doris, showed me the way he found her, showed me the pets. I'm gonna kill Hagan for not telling me the woman has a fucking Great Dane. At this point I think I should just kill Hagan and get rid of this debt I have with him, to be honest.
What do I do, Robin? I'm standing there at this insane apartment, listening to this handsome guy talk about how he likes Doris, how she's such a kind person and how he hates to ask me to drop my humanitarian work in Ethiopia just to do this, but his job performance is getting compromised and he's very sorry. So okay, I nod, I pretend I'm Tommy (whos in Bali, not in Ethiopia by the way), I tell him I'm moving in because aunt Doris's pets need someone regularly. I can tell they do. I know what you're gonna say, Robin, but those pets need me. Angel, the dog, needs to go out three times a day! And Mr. Doodles and Muffin, the cats, seem so lonely. You'd do the same if you saw the looks on their faces, I know you would.
This week’s writer spotlight feature is: @ro15in! ro15in/m4zzyst4r has 18 fics posted to AO3 in the Stranger Things fandom and all of them are in the Steddie tag.
Our anonymous nominator recommends the following works by m4zzyst4r :
it's leading me on, every time we touch
forwards beckon rebound
linchpin
wild, wild horses (couldn't drag me away)
gross
"Ró writes excellent stuff - every fic of theirs is packed with yearning and the emotional tension is always delicious"
-- anoynymous
Below the cut, @ro15in answered some questions about their writing process and some of their recommended work!
Why do you write Steddie?
I think it’s a combination of the setting of stranger things in general and the fact that they’re very complimentary characters with good chemistry. I also just really enjoy getting into their headspaces - I find Eddie’s POV in particular very fun to write :)
What’s your favorite trope to READ?
Big fan of mutual pining, slow burn… I <3 yearning!! And tension!! I think regardless of the setting or other tropes at play, almost all of my favourite fics have an undercurrent of that throughout the work.
What’s your favorite trope to WRITE?
Probably accidental subspace, under-negotiated kink… things of that ilk :’) I enjoy the ‘characters are entirely uneducated in the realm of BDSM/any kind of dynamic like that but accidentally fall into those roles regardless + work it out together’ kind of trope.
What’s your favorite Steddie fic?
So so hard to narrow down but I think it’s a tie between ‘Exactly What It Looks Like’ by BilbosMom (bi4bi idiot4idiot steddie my beloved) and ‘In the Kitchen or the Tulips’ by teddywesworl - I honestly eat up anything they write with a spoon, unbelievable craft.
Is there a trope you’re excited to explore in a future work but haven’t yet?
Not so much a trope but I have been meaning to write some genderbent sapphic steddie for the longest time!! After reading all of Eddywow’s sapphic steddie works I felt really inspired to give it a stab… one day.
Are there any memorable Steddie collaborations (art, writing, podfic, etc.) you've done or would like to do?
I haven't had the chance yet to do any kind of collab! I'm always open to collaborating on steddie works though, I often end up drawing art for my own fics anyway.
What is your writing process like?
Mostly when inspiration strikes I’ll jot some initial ideas/headcanons down on my phone and then develop it further later on in gdocs. My longfics are normally pretty well outlined, scene by scene, but most of my oneshots/two-shots just get a very small paragraph of what I want to cover in the fic and then I just let my brain do the rest, inventing the scenes as I write.
What writing tools do you use, if any? For example, do you participate in community writing events like sprints or prompts, or have a favorite writing program aid like Scrivener?
I’m in a few steddie/stranger things centered discord servers so I very occasionally using writing sprint channels there but mostly I just daydream about whatever I want to write at my job (oops) and then go home and word-vomit in gdocs until it’s done.
Do you have any writing quirks?
I don’t know if this counts as a quirk, but I keep a list of fun words/phrases I enjoy from books, fics, whatever I see when I’m out and about. Then I try to feed them into my writing if they fit - latest additions are lissom, hellaciously, and capitulate :)
Do you prefer posting when you’ve finished writing or on a schedule?
I do prefer to have my shorter fics (1-3 chapters) fully written before I post, and for longer fics I try and keep 1 chapter ahead before posting the previous one so that my updates are mostly regular, but that doesn’t always work out :’) since my schedule is busier right now, I’m mostly sticking to updating my current longfic as I write it, just when I can…
Which fic are you most proud of?
By far and away it’s ‘dying to meet you (but everybody says I’m wrong)’. I think it’s maybe my most in-character fic (to me, maybe not to anyone else lol).
What's a funny or interesting or completely wild research topic you've dug into as a result of writing Steddie?
I’ve done a little reading recently about bats for my current ongoing fic and found that there’s a lot of crossover between the biological bat terms and omegaverse language… I found an article discussing how males develop scent glands during mating and courtship… female bats scentmark their pups… maybe that’s common knowledge but I found it kind of funny.
How did you get the idea for gross?
It started from the prompt ‘mean dom’ for dom eddie week - I wanted to try something I’d never written before!
When writing it's leading me on, every time we touch, what was something you didn’t expect?
Maybe the response to it? I think it was the first sub eddie work I wrote so I wasn’t sure how many people were in the market for that since dom eddie is so much more common. Very glad people like that series though <3
What inspired wild, wild horses (couldn't drag me away)?
It’s 100% a songfic!! I was listening to Wild Horses on repeat at the time and it just made me want to write something kind of centered around the song, the rest I sort of made up on the fly.
What was your favorite part to write forwards beckon rebound?
I really enjoyed writing all of the stobin moments. Steve coming out to Robin, seeking comfort in her company… also the scenes where they play DnD were very fun to work through! I play in two campaigns IRL anyway so it was fun coming up with little snippets of campaigns and storylines for them to play in scene.
How do/did you feel writing linchpin?
Linchpin is the fic I struggle with the most because it forces me out of my comfort zone in two ways: angst, and kind of funky pacing set over multiple years. I find it more rewarding when people enjoy it but it takes way more mental effort to write than any of my other fics… so it is currently on hiatus while I finish my post s5 works right now! I’ll come back to finish the last three outlined chapters later on…
What was the most difficult part of writing forwards beckon rebound?
Probably the angstier miscommunication scenes? It’s really not my strong suit so I did struggle a bit writing any kind of rejection/arguing into it.
Do you have a favorite scene and/or line from any of your fics?
I like this snippet I guess because it just feels kind of in character to me for Eddie’s POV. I really loved writing him in this one (dying to meet you).
He tells Dustin anyway, over lunch. That it’s fine. He’s free after school. At four.
It’s not fine. He’s not even free, not really - he has a gig tonight, should head back straight away to get ready for a final practice. But whatever.
It’s damp, and getting colder now, as he waits for the Note-Leaver to arrive. He sits on top of the table, watches the dead leaves fall down, down, down off the trees. Brown and slimy, cold. He sighs, watches the air puff out from him in a little white cloud. Dragon’s breath. Wonders if Steve is even coming. Wonders if he’ll bring the nailbat. Bring out the bat and beat Eddie to death with it, minutes away from the school, like a cheesy slasher flick. He giggles.
“Eddie?”
Steve is all bundled up. He’s got a thick wool sweater on over his polo, and a leather jacket on over that. And a little scarf tucked round him. Gross. Cute. Yuck. Gross.
Do you have any upcoming projects or fics you’d like to share/promote?
I’m halfway through my current longfic which is a post-s5 vampire!eddie work with some horror elements in there if that’s your thing! It also has a little henderhop spinoff work in the series, so feel free to check that out if any of those tropes appeal to you :)
Outside of these questions, Is there anything YOU would like to add?
I just want to say thank you to anyone + everyone who has left me a kind comment or a message after reading my writing :’) It truly makes my day, I’m always bowled over by the fact people enjoy reading my stuff!!!
Thank you to our author, @ro15in, and our anonymous nominator! See more of m4zzyst4r's works featured on our page throughout the day!
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Hi!! Just wanted to let you know I absolutely ADORE Forwards, Beckon, Rebound!!! I downloaded it for a vacation and it genuinely is the only thing that held over my fanfiction-craving mind while I was out at sea. It's definitely now tied for my favorite fic! (Being held against Chasing Fireflies/Crawling (Through the dark) by MissBatty)
thank you so much!!!! so glad it was a good vacation read, and I'm honoured it's up there in the ranks with MissBatty's work <333
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He hadn’t. He hadn’t expected Robin to interpret this that way. She’s gone off script. What does he say now? What does he say?
As Steve panics, silently, Robin turns to face him, frowning again.
And then she gasps.
“No,” she chokes. “No, you’re shitting me. Steve -”
She leans across the table, grabbing him by the front of his shirt.
“Steve,” she says incredulously, shaking him, “Steven. Steve-o. You’re not serious. That’s - did you write that? Is that - is that you?!”
“Um,” Steve responds dumbly, “uh…”
“Oh my god,” she says faintly, “you complete, fucking… you oblivious walnut.”
“I didn’t!” Steve says frantically, “I didn’t know?”
“You didn’t know?” she breathes, very high pitched, sliding her hands into her hair. “Steve, answer me honestly: have you or have you not been having an aneurysm every time you see Eddie with another guy?”
“I… guess?”
“And have you or have you not ever thought about him in any context other than friendly, especially given your previous old-married-couple shtick?”
The image he’d had last night - Eddie on his knees, Eddie pushing him down over a table, Eddie’s tongue sliding up his -
“Yes,” he squeaks, as Robin grabs him by the shoulder again, knocking her elbow into his mercifully empty coffee cup.
“You are in love with that man,” Robin groans. “Oh my god, how did I not see this coming? The way you looked at him, in the bar sometimes? Your weird… thing, about that guy he’s been fucking? Your willingness to play Baldur’s Gate with him? Oh my god. Jesus fucking - oh this is incredible, Steve, even for you. Dustin’s going to have a field day.”
“Well don’t tell him,” Steve hisses, “I haven’t even - I haven’t even told Eddie yet!”
“Why,” Robin says, half strangled again, “the fuck not, Harrington? He’s probably at home right now trying to convince himself you aren’t some homophobic meathead! You know he mentioned you were acting weird, but never in my life could I have predicted this.”
“I didn’t know! I thought I was… I thought I had developed, like, a personal brand of homophobia!”
“Steve, your best friend is a lesbian!” Robin despairs, her hand back in her hair. “You dressed as Rocky for halloween two years ago!”
“You wanted to go as Frank-N-Furter!”
“You were one of the first people I admitted my first crush to! You’ve been to pride five years in a row! You made out with a guy in the parade the year before you started dating Nancy!”
“I did?” Steve frowns. “Huh.”
Robin shakes her head, speechless.
“I was so plastered that year,” Steve hums, leaning back thoughtfully. “Wait so what are you saying - you think I’m… not straight?”
“I can’t do this today,” Robin laughs deliriously. “Do I think you’re - Steve, what I am saying, is there is more chance of me growing a third arm right now out of my fucking forehead and reaching over the table to throttle you with it than there there is of you being homophobic. What I am also saying is you clearly want to screw Eddie, and maybe marry him and spawn some gross little Harrington rugrats with him. So yes, correct, you are not straight.”
Steve feels a rock lodge in his throat. He sucks his eyes, fidgeting with his phone.
“Yeah,” he says quietly. “I guess I just… how can it only be him, Rob? I’ve never… he’s the only guy that I think I’ve ever… thought about this way.”
Robin softens, and leans across the table to take his hand. Her fingers are small, he notes, and her chunky mixed-metal rings are cold against his palm.
“It’s not a… fifty fifty thing, Steve,” she reminds him. “Maybe it really is only Eddie… maybe Eddie Munson is the only guy in the whole weird you wanna bone down with -”
“Don’t say bone down with -”
“- make love to, ew, whatever,” Robin rolls her eyes. “But… that still makes you not straight, Steve.”
She smiles, then, squeezing his hand.
“Does it really matter much? It’s okay if it does matter, but it’s not like you really… does the label matter, as long as you feel the way you do about Eddie?”
Steve thinks about it for a moment, and then shakes his head.
Does it matter? Does it really matter, as long as Eddie knows how he feels?
As long as Eddie knows how badly Steve wants to be the guy he brings home from the bar?
sat down to continue ch5 of post S5 fic and found that my brain is entirely mush. its literally melted bubblegum. there's 0 coherent thoughts in there so I'm writing a dumb bingo prompt oneshot instead to try and wake it up (this to say, next update will b slightly delayed again until my brain comes back online)
tried to reign in ch4 of my post S5 longfic because every chapter seems to grow in length and in turn it has, of course, grown into a near 17k wc beast. why
im rarely on tumblr anymore but i had to track you down because holy shit you've gotta be my favorite steddie author.. holy shit thank you for existing
whaaaat thank you so much you're too sweet!!! I'm so happy you like my writing :') <3333
recognized your username and was going through your fics to figure out where from. everything is going normal and fine. and then I see it.
Olive Oil as Lube.
WHAT ??? anyways in other words I downloaded it immediately. i have to know 😭😭 the rest of the summary was compelling too, don't get me wrong!!! but now i really really gotta read it
it took me a minute to remember what fic I have tagged with this lmao I'm glad it caught your attention :'') hope you enjoy it if you do give it a read!!!!
i absolutely have to rec this fic 'wild, wild horses (couldn't drag me away)' by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli), it's so fun and funny and a total delight of a story, the character voices are so good and the plot is so satisfying!
wild, wild horses (couldn't drag me away) by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)
@ro15in
Rating: Explicit
27,425 words, 3/3 chapters
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Tags: Title from a Rolling Stones Song, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things), Alternate Universe - Flower Shop, Alternate Universe - Rock Band, good lord so many au tags, Flower Shop Owner Steve Harrington, Gardener Steve Harrington, Rock Star Eddie Munson, Famous Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, chronically online eddie x very offline steve, Manager Chrissy Cunningham, eddie thirst tweets about steve and then loses his mind, Dungeons & Dragons References, Love Confessions, Getting Together, Fluff and Smut, Frottage, Dirty Talk, Blow Jobs, spit kink if u squint, Sexual Tension, Flirting, Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, gareth is suuuuch a bitch in this i love him, now with art, Fanart
Summary:
“Which of you morons,” she hisses, “let Eddie log into twitter today?”
Eddie blinks.
“How do you-”
“Because, Eddie- you commented using the band account. You logged in on our official socials.”
Eddie stares at her dumbly. Then-
“Oh fuck.”
“Yes,” she agrees. “Oh fuck.”
“I’ll- delete that, then,” he laughs nervously. “Before-”
“Before someone picks up on it, screenshots it, begins distributing it across the internet at a frankly alarming pace and starts a series of hashtags up in an effort to find the ‘pretty boy’ gardener you were lusting over?”
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Eddie is a burnt-out-overworked-crash-and-burn-rockstar with a crippling twitter addiction. Steve is a chronically-offline-homegrown-indiana-boy-flowershop-owner with a green thumb and a penchant for taking in strays.
So naturally when Eddie first sees him, he's head over heels. And Steve has no clue what his day job is.
He'll tell Steve about his 'real' identity before things go too far- right?
Thanks for the rec!
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FYI to my fic writer friends on Ao3, particularly in the Steddie fandom. Eddywow was made aware that someone was straight-up ganking their Steddie fics and rewriting them (badly, lazily, sloppily) as Ronance. Now, imitation is a form of flattery, but this is just lazy theft.
Just gonna call them out - if your pseudonym is The_Tingle_In_The_Cooch, this is shitty of you to do. It's fine to be inspired by a fic and give credit where due if you choose to write something based off of it, but straight-up stealing and changing names is lazy, shitty, and I cannot wait until karma kicks you in the taint.
