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[runninriot]

2025 Masterlist

collection of steddie fics i posted last year, more on ao3

-> steddie song fics you're so new... | 5k | E first times, love confessions, friends to lovers

happier with you | T | 3k emotional hurt/comfort, angst with happy ending

disciple (you need to be owned) | E | 2k Demon!Steve, dream sex, dom/sub undertones, open ending

if you want it good... | E | 6k pre-relationship hook-up, Eddie Munson is a teasing little shit (and Steve falls for it)

devotion (pretty on my knees) | E | 5k confident Steve, older Eddie, exhibitionism, voyeurism, implied strangers to lovers

salty lips like candy | M | 2k altering pov, mutual pining, idiots in love

no remorse (so unholy, so untamed) | E | 5k teacher Steve/student Eddie, forbidden love, sexual tention (and acting on it)

all i want is everything | E | 4k deinal of feelings, feelings realisation, friends to lovers

bat guy | T | <1k Ozzy Osbourne Tribute, established steddie

whatever we deny or embrace... | E | 6k missed oppurtunities, second chances, friends to lovers to strangers to lovers

sweetest infection of body and mind | E | 2k Dom Steve/Sub Eddie, exhibitionism, humiliation kink, established relationship

haunt me... | M | 2k Vampire!Eddie, emotional hurt/comfort, second chances, angst with happy ending

how sweet, the taste of certainty | E | 4k established relationship, taking care of each other, slice of life

-> steddie bingo the end of maybe | T | 1k established relationship, self-doubts, marriage proposal

when it's love, it lasts forever | T | 2k established relationship, romatic fluff

your heart's safe with me | T | 1k pining, not actually unrequited love, love confessions

happier with you | T | 3k heartbreak, emotional hurt/comfort, angst with happy ending

real, if you want it to be | E | 8k past Tommy/Steve, Steve is an emotional mess, fake to real relationship, angst with happy ending

no universe... | E | 2k established relationship, fluff and smut

not like the movies | M | 3k actors au, past heartbreak, keeping secrets, love confessions

caramel | T | 2k alternate first meeting, pre-steddie, flirting, confident steve, best friends jeff & eddie

puzzle pieces | T | 5k Steve suffers from temporary amnesia after a car accident, angst with happy ending

blue straps on black lace | E | 3k Dom Steve/Sub Eddie, established relationship, lingerie

paths crossed | E | 4k Dom Eddie/Brat Steve, pre-steddie hook-up, open/ambiguous ending

-> steddie holiday drabbles if this is a rom-rom, kill the director | T | 1k (unintentional) meddling, pre-Steddie, forced proximity, implied friends to lovers

sleepless | T | 1k love confessions

taking chances | M | 1k good uncle Wayne, Eddie has a crush, Steve is a sweetheart, open/ambiguous ending

tell the truth G | 1k S5 references, post Vecna, everybody lives, recovery, confessions, friends to lovers

change of course | G | 1k alternate first meeting, flirting, open/ambiguous ending

curious | E | 1k Eddie has a crush, Steve is a tease, sexual tension, secrets, fantasizing

warm bodies and beating hearts | T | 1k trauma recovery, Steve takes care of Eddie

favourite flavour | G | 1k alternate first meeting, coffe shop au, strangers to friends to lovers

against the rules | M | 1k hurt Eddie, post Vecna (S4), angst with happy ending

keep him waiting | M | 1k established steddie, chaos gremlin Eddie, Steve is a tease, orgasm denial, open ending

cabin fever | T | 1k forced proximity, denial of feelings, feelings realisation

tough love | T | 1k best friend Robin Buckley, mutual pining, oblivious idiots to lovers

five minues to midnight | T | 1k Robin & Steve, Jeff & Eddie, pining, meddling, not actually unrequited love

-> corroded coffin fest another love | M | 2k past fwb Jeff/Eddie, newly established steddie, jealousy, love/friendship

angel | M | 1k famous Corroded Coffin, rock star Eddie, Steddie meet cute/ugly (it's both)

made for each other | T | 1k friendship, jealousy, feelings realisation

hold on together | T | <1k art inspired, nightmares, emotional hurt/comfort

let them know that you're mine | E | 3k Rock Star Eddie/Manager Steve, famous Corroded Coffin, secret relationship; Backstage Romance part 2

found | E | 4k pre steddie hook-up, they're both bad at feelings, 0 to 100 strangers to lovers

i wanna stay where it's you and me | E | 5k secret affair, denial of feelings, emotional hurt/comfort, fuckbuddies to lovers

-> steddie microfic tumblr | ao3

[munsonmanor]

Steve did ballet seriously until he was fourteen , the kind with recitals and teachers who pushed his shoulders down until every muscle shook. He doesn’t talk about it now. It sits in his body instead, in the turnout of his feet when he’s barefoot, in the way his spine still remembers how to bend.

Eddie finds out on a Tuesday.

One minute Steve’s bitching about hauling amps, the next he’s on the rug in the middle of the living room, dropping into a backbend that looks exactly like something out of a black-and-white training photo. His ribs stand out, his hair brushes the air, one hand wrapped around the heel of his opposite foot like it’s nothing.

Eddie is quite literally in shock at this.

“What on earth are you doing, Harrington?” Eddie manages, voice strangled.

“My back hurts,” Steve says, like that explains anything. “I’m stretching.”

“I’ve never seen someone bend that way, man,” Eddie says, because holy shit. “That’s not stretching, that’s… something else”

Steve blinks up at him from upside down. “Huh? We used to do this in class all the time.”

“Class?” Eddie echoes.

“Yeah, ballet?” Steve says it so casually Eddie almost misses it. “Danced for like eight years. Stopped before high school.”

There’s a ringing in Eddie’s ears. “You did what?” he says, strangled, because Steve Harrington, secret ballerina apparently, is already more than his crush-riddled brain can handle, and now all he can think is: if he can bend like that, what else can he do?

He drags his gaze away before he gives himself away completely, shoves his hands in his pockets and tries, desperately, to sound normal. “Cool, yeah.”

Steve’s sitting up now, looking at him with this curious little squint. Eddie squirms. “What?”

Steve huffs, rolls his eyes, and pushes to his feet. “Don’t be weird about it, Munson.”

“No, yeah, I’m not, I’m just— y’know.” He shrugs, hears himself babbling. “Ballerina Steve. Whatever.” He can feel the heat in his cheeks and turns away so Steve can’t see his face hiding under his hair.

From behind him, Steve lets out this half-laugh. “Wanna see something else cool?”

Eddie’s mind trips over itself. What else could he *possibly* have up his sleeve? “Uh. Okay. Yeah. Sure.”

He turns back around—

and Steve’s already moving, spotting some invisible point on the wall and snapping into a clean fourth position before Eddie can even process it. Then he’s turning, fast, tight pirouettes one after another, the kind of spin that should belong on a stage, not in the middle of a dingy living room. His shoulders stay level, his chin locked, feet whispering against the rug in quick, sure steps until he snaps to a stop like someone hit pause.

He’s a little breathless, hair mussed, wearing this self-satisfied smirk that hits Eddie like a truck. “Still just ‘whatever,’ or did I earn an upgrade?”

Eddie’s jaw works uselessly. Words have apparently left the building. All he manages, wide-eyed and bright red, is a breathy, “…cool.”

Steve laughs like that’s the funniest thing he’s heard all week, shakes his head, and claps Eddie on the shoulder as he walks past. “Knew you’d be into that,” he says, halfway under his breath.

Eddie stays rooted to the spot, ears ringing, and realizes two things at once: one, Steve Harrington used to be a ballerina and from what he’s just seen today, he was *good* at it. Two, Steve Harrington is absolutely weaponizing that information against him.

[bluismie]

what i've been working on lately ✍️

[wichuizz]

Ehhh reviví

[szczurherbacany]

oh yeah another doodle

[babycowboy24]

Joe Keery veiny hands with rings really are my favorite thing ever

[novacorpsrecruit]

After becoming friends with Steve, Robin told Eddie two words: “good luck.”

He didn’t understand it at first until he watched Steve going on failed dates after failed dates, or watching a short relationship end in a terrible break-up and Steve moping around.

Eddie didn’t want to count how many times he’s seen Steve’s heart break.

So now he’s on a mission: keep Steve from dating.

He’s ruining every opportunity Steve gets for dates, making plans with him almost every weekend and after a while, Steve stops asking girls out and Eddie feels accomplished.

At least, he did until Steve kissed him goodbye after movie night and now Eddie’s so fucking confused.

And maybe gay???

[runninriot]

lucky

written for @steddiemicrofic

june prompt: pride | wc: 481 | rated: G | tags: eddie reflects on past mistakes and lessons learned, post vecna - everybody lives, established relationship | also on ao3

If Eddie had to name his own most toxic trait, it would have to be the false sense of pride he's worn like an armour for years. This performative act of freakish superiority that carried him over the table tops of the high school cafeteria, presenting his personal agenda as the only valuable truth in condemnation of society's conformity doctrine.

The pride of being a herder to his flock of lost sheep, a leader to all those young, susceptible minds that would've followed him blindly because they believed in him to have it all figured out. Believed that he'd always look out for them, watching over them from high up the pedestal he'd built on the lies he kept telling himself.

A pride that nearly cost him everything. First his freedom when he ran instead of asking for help, then again when he didn't run and almost paid with his life for it, overconfidently ignoring his limits and fears when he should've accepted his weakness.

He's learned his lessons, most of them unwillingly, has the physical and emotional scars to remind him whenever he threatens to slip back into old patterns.

He still finds it hard sometimes not to let his pride get in the way of his happiness, is still learning to accept these new truths life taught him.

You can be a cog in a machine and still fight for what's right; you don’t have to do it alone.

People can enjoy stupid ball games and be a nerd at the same time.

Heroism isn't defined by strength or status or age, it's what you do when push comes to shove.

Friendship comes in all shapes and colours and sizes. From the bossy little girl that has more courage in her little finger than any soldier wielding a gun. Over the curly haired teen whose heart is even bigger than his brains. Right to the guy Eddie always wanted to hate on principle but fell hard and fast for once he allowed himself to really get to know him.

   "What are you thinking about?" Steve's voice filters through Eddie's thoughts, pulling him back from wherever he drifted off to.

   "Hm? Oh, um, just- how lucky I am."

It's not the whole truth but it’s part of it. Because Eddie is lucky to have been found by this group of mismatched characters he couldn't imagine his life without now. Especially the man in his arms, who keeps him grounded while simultaneously lifting him up to the greatest heights.

   "Because you have me?" Steve teases, smiling against Eddie's lips when he kisses him.

   "Because you make me a better person," Eddie agrees and pulls Steve back against his chest, letting his fingers glide over bed-warm skin.

   "You make me a better person, too," Steve whispers back, sleepy and content, and it makes Eddie's chest swell.

Not with pride but with love.

[toktopus-art]

happy pride month be who you areeee

[kassy-djomunson]

starting off pride month with one of the best coming out scenes in television history 💕

[sparkle-fiend]

“Stargazing” ⭐️🌌

(Another one for @thefreakandthehair and the Spicy Six Spring Fanworks Challenge)

[starthecozy]

For this WIP Wednesday: steddie having a cuddle session ❤️

[steddieas-shegoes]

your heart or your pride

for @steddiemicrofic prompt 'pride'

rated t | 481 words | no cw | tags: enemies-ish to friends to use your imagination lovers, steve has a crush on eddie he just doesn't realize it, ambiguous ending

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Every time he thinks he's figured out how to be a good person, something comes up that makes him realize he still has some work to do. Robin insists that everyone has things about them that they could change, but for him...well. He just wishes that he didn't have to have something so shitty happen for him to realize what he needs to work on.

This time, it's his stupid pride.

He likes being right. Who doesn't?

He really likes being right when he's arguing with Eddie.

There's just something about Eddie that makes him grit his teeth and stamp his foot in the ground. His father used to call him stubborn, his mother called him stuck in his ways. Eddie won't call him anything anymore, probably.

He went too far. He sees it now. At the time, he was frustrated and kept forgetting the words he needed to explain himself and then he couldn't just admit he was struggling so...now they aren't talking.

It's not like they've been super close since everything with Vecna. They all hang out together sometimes, but never one on one. They didn't even get gifts for each other for Christmas.

They're just so different. The bonding he did with all the kids and Robin over everything is totally different with Eddie.

He makes Steve's chest hurt.

He feels a little like a divorced parent waiting outside his car for Dustin and Max to come out of Eddie's trailer. He's got his arms crossed over his chest, his legs crossed in front of him, and sunglasses pushed on top of his hair. He doesn't want to be here and he's been waiting for too long. He's biting his tongue until it bleeds because it'll make him a better person.

Just as he's about to go knock on the door for the third time, it opens.

Eddie comes out, humming, as if he doesn't have a care in the world.

Steve waits a second to see if Dustin and Max are going to follow. When they don't, he throws his hands up.

"Where are they?"

Eddie nearly trips coming down the steps. "Where are who? What are you doing here?"

"Max and Dustin told me to be here to pick them up," Steve is sure he didn't mix up the days. He wrote it on his calendar the second they called. "Are they not here?"

"No..." Eddie is only about a foot away from him now, looking him up and down. "Surprised you even offered to get them since you can't stand the way I-"

"I didn't mean that." Steve interrupts. "You annoy the shit out of me sometimes, but. I didn't mean that I hate anything you do."

"Oh."

"Can I come in?" Steve asks.

Eddie nods.

Hours later, when he leaves Eddie's house with a smile, he's glad he sucked up his pride.

[ghostengarden]

Eddie losing aura points

[runninriot]

lucky

written for @steddiemicrofic

june prompt: pride | wc: 481 | rated: G | tags: eddie reflects on past mistakes and lessons learned, post vecna - everybody lives, established relationship | also on ao3

If Eddie had to name his own most toxic trait, it would have to be the false sense of pride he's worn like an armour for years. This performative act of freakish superiority that carried him over the table tops of the high school cafeteria, presenting his personal agenda as the only valuable truth in condemnation of society's conformity doctrine.

The pride of being a herder to his flock of lost sheep, a leader to all those young, susceptible minds that would've followed him blindly because they believed in him to have it all figured out. Believed that he'd always look out for them, watching over them from high up the pedestal he'd built on the lies he kept telling himself.

A pride that nearly cost him everything. First his freedom when he ran instead of asking for help, then again when he didn't run and almost paid with his life for it, overconfidently ignoring his limits and fears when he should've accepted his weakness.

He's learned his lessons, most of them unwillingly, has the physical and emotional scars to remind him whenever he threatens to slip back into old patterns.

He still finds it hard sometimes not to let his pride get in the way of his happiness, is still learning to accept these new truths life taught him.

You can be a cog in a machine and still fight for what's right; you don’t have to do it alone.

People can enjoy stupid ball games and be a nerd at the same time.

Heroism isn't defined by strength or status or age, it's what you do when push comes to shove.

Friendship comes in all shapes and colours and sizes. From the bossy little girl that has more courage in her little finger than any soldier wielding a gun. Over the curly haired teen whose heart is even bigger than his brains. Right to the guy Eddie always wanted to hate on principle but fell hard and fast for once he allowed himself to really get to know him.

   "What are you thinking about?" Steve's voice filters through Eddie's thoughts, pulling him back from wherever he drifted off to.

   "Hm? Oh, um, just- how lucky I am."

It's not the whole truth but it’s part of it. Because Eddie is lucky to have been found by this group of mismatched characters he couldn't imagine his life without now. Especially the man in his arms, who keeps him grounded while simultaneously lifting him up to the greatest heights.

   "Because you have me?" Steve teases, smiling against Eddie's lips when he kisses him.

   "Because you make me a better person," Eddie agrees and pulls Steve back against his chest, letting his fingers glide over bed-warm skin.

   "You make me a better person, too," Steve whispers back, sleepy and content, and it makes Eddie's chest swell.

Not with pride but with love.

[mugenmoon]

there's a lot of little-spooning going on with these two cuties on ao3

[eternal-sunflowers]

literally fuck OFF