Hi, I'm Misha. Thank you for diving into my stories and supporting my writing :)
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My fanfics [+this blog] are dedicated to Steve Harrington, along with Gator Tillman. All fanfic series, one-shots, blurbs, etc. listed below are written by me. Do not repost or share anywhere without proper credit. Thank you muchly. ♡🕊️
Xx, misha
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📁 / 🗂️ = author archives + story infodump file
🎧 / 📼 = soundtrack & visual themes
📚 = library shelf find
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📚 SERIES MASTERLIST
-> 🗂️ (+infodump fic file above)
-> TAGLIST FULL. See disclaimer here.
Steve Harrington x Bauman!fem!reader
enemies to lovers, heavy angst, hurt/comfort, upside down mayhem, S2-S4 -> post S4 universe hot-take, end-of-the-world / dystopian setting, ugly fights turned smut (...but with hella plot). 18+
🖤 A Multipart Fanfic, based on Stranger Things.
🎧 Song Inspo: "Infinite Baths" by Sleep Token
📚 SERIES MASTERLIST
-> 🗂️ (+infodump fic file above)
Gator Tillman x OC!fem!reader
A slow burn childhood friends to lovers romance — fueled by angst, dark comedy, unhinged thrill-packed action and heavy smut with even heavier plot. Inspired by and based on Fargo, gone total teenage dirtbags into trauma strong icons. 18+
🩸 A Multipart Fanfic, loosely based on FX's Fargo.
🎧 Song Inspo: "American Teenager" by Ethel Cain
📚 SERIES MASTERLIST
-> 🗂️ (+infodump fic file above)
Steve Harrington x Hopper!fem!reader
strangers to friends with benefits to lovers, heavy angst, hurt/comfort, upside down mayhem, S2-S4 (into post S4), suspense and morbid humor, heavy plot-driven smut (...but with hella plot). 18+
❤️🩹 An Extended One-Shot Fic, from Misha’s Masterlist Library.
🎧 Song Inspo: "Hide" by myah & “Savior Complex” by Phoebe Bridgers
📚 SERIES MASTERLIST
-> 🗂️ (+infodump fic file above)
Steve Harrington x OC!fem!reader
hometown strangers to friends to lovers. ultra dark heavy angst and hurt/comfort. alternate universe -> upside down apocalypse. suspense, dystopian game-of-survival plot with morbid humor sprinkled along the way. eventual plot-driven angsty smut (...but with hella plot). 18+
-> cynical!mean!Steve falls for angelic!fem!reader.
A fever dream multi-crossover au inspired by Hunger Games and The Purge universes, merged with Stranger Things. 🏹
Summary: Volunteering for the kids isn't something Steve Harrington is anything but fully prepared to do, no matter what the cost. He just hadn't factored in Dustin's name being the one Effie Trinket draws on the day of the Reaping, then fighting to the death in his place alongside the Hawkins baker's daughter... who's been secretly in love with him since the fourth grade.
🕊️ A Stranger Things AU Fanfic Series from Misha’s Masterlist Library.
🎧 Song Inspo: "Comforting Sounds" by Mew
Steve Harrington x Nicole!fem!reader
Childhood friends to lovers. Sloooowburn. Angst. Romance. Smut with plot. Action. Told from second-person view, reader is Nicole (character from S1), different POV, hurt/comfort, upside down mayhem, pre-S1-S4, eventual post-S4 universe. 18+
📚 [PART I] | [PART II]
Summary: Steve Harrington was six years old when he met you: Nicole St. James, the girl who carries the other half of him. Since 1972, the two of you have been inseparably tethered by the soul. You give Steve a home in his big house with no parents, and he gives your introverted heart a longing for someone. The King of Hawkins High and princess of this small town, you tell each other absolutely everything...except that you are in love with each other.
Everything changes that one afternoon at school, when you catch the school's social outcast -- Jonathan Buyers -- has been stalking Steve, his posse and his girl, Nancy. Little do you both know, the monsters in your favorite fairytales are real. And you're both going to have to fight them together.
You both share the best days and worst days, through childhood and teen years, until you both find yourselves roped into the perils that exist beneath your feet in Hawkins.
But through it all, despite all the doubt, Steve knows one thing: you're there. You've always been there.
-> INCOMPLETE [not abandoned - to be continued...]
Steve Harrington x Jonathan Byers x fem!reader
Strangers to best friends to lovers. Summertime sadness slow burn. Angst, romance, smut-driven-plot and polyamory themes and schemes. Hella emo (no upside down, tho, so hurray for no end-of-the-world). 18+
A crossover au inspired by Saltburn and Call Me by Your Name.
+inspo from Joe's theater performance as Melchior in Spring Awakening
🗝️ A Multipart Fanfic, loosely based on Stranger Things.
🎧 Song Inspo: "Chateau" by Djo
Nanny!Steve Harrington x baby girl
Prior King Steve turned unpaid babysitter turned full-time nanny to a newborn baby girl. Playboy turned protector, and eventual love story when Steve meets someone who finally helps him move on from Nancy. But the real love story is the paternal love he shares with little Mia Browne. 18+
eventual nurse!Steve and Mamma Mia 2!crossover love story
🍼 SUMMARY: Turns out, the best babysitter in town isn’t the girl next door. It’s none other than Steve Harrington: former king of Hawkins High, newly certified child expert. It doesn’t hurt that he’s insanely pretty to look at. Which doesn’t go unnoticed by Mrs. Browne, who hire him on as their nanny for their newborn baby girl, per Karen Wheeler’s referral.
Steve Harrington had no clue that taking a beating from Billy Hargrove and protecting those kids in the tunnels full of demodogs… would make him go from pretty playboy to protector.
Translation? Hawkins hottest babysitter grows up by rocking six pounds of innocent little magic to sleep — and ends up completely whipped for it.
my blurbs + one-shots, collab fics and limited series
📼 “BE KIND, REWIND.” • blurb
Steve and Robin like the same girl — who just so happens to be their coworker at Family Video. Oh, and Keith’s unexpectedly super hot cousin.
requested by @mi171100
💌 LET’S SHOW THEM WE ARE BETTER • collab series
You and Steve met in the summer of '09. The two of you have been pen pals ever since. He writes you from private school back in Hawkins, while you write him from your all-girls boarding school in Massachusetts. He doesn't allow himself to know you've had a crush on him forever until he's denying his own... and then begging you to let him have you when it's already too late.
Because while you were both away at school, both your parents divorced their spouses... and confessed to an ongoing affair, now sealed with a kiss and a marriage certificate that officlally makes you both step siblings.
collab fanfic series with @keer-y
featured on -> tbr lists, reader reviews, etc.
anon librarian’s review of OSWDLS
🤍 sent anonymously
Margaux's Nightstand
♡ @margauxafterdark
Alone in the Hellfire's Fic Recs
♡ @aloneinthehellfire
Syl Says...
♡ @thecreelhouse
DOCUFICS Reviews & Fic Recs
@djocufics
Steve Writers to Read
Gwenyth’s Steve Harrington Fic Recs
Maya’s Faves: Steve Harrington Fic Recs
Writers loving Writing 💘
The Crux Hotel pamphlet reads 📖
Broke & Fab’s Review
Maya Recommends…
StrangerGirl26’s Must-Reads
🌙✨ @moonstoneandmoonlight’s Steve & Gator recs
thank you all so much for featuring my work :''')
a little glimpse into my world -> anon asks
💌 love letter #1
💌 the love letter that made me weep
💌 anon letter letter that pulled my heartstrings
💌 misha's couples (&& how she wrote their love...)
💌 hard launch with online wife -> @graywrenhart
💌 marie’s playlist for I SEE FIRE -> @marie-the-muse
gifted fan art -> from you, based on my fics
📖 Steve & Ro in the Games -> by @raspberry-sunshinee
📖 [more coming soon]
📖 [more coming soon]
my list of favorite writers -> saved to my library
some psa’s -> for anyone new and/or seeking answers:
When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.
actually im doing really well except for the fact that everything makes me sad and the things that dont make me sad make me angry. but other than that im fine
[here is said "tiny rant." again, i could say a whole lot more but it's absolute so not worth any effort beyond this more humorous approach. so here is all my bandwidth has to offer on this subject:]
-> read here first for context
not me being chronically offline, getting ready to move && spending time with all my friends && prepping for an all new era of my life… and all the while, not having a single clue that someone i’ve never met or spoken to {minus one random, petty DM exchange initiated by them — which i’m very happy to post/share… stay tuned, it *will* get its moment... proofs are gr8} lumped me into their alleged self-proclaimed group of “these girls are mean girls.”
…
…….
……………
brb
lemme just...
...add to my list of unexpected goals reached:
☑️ being labeled a “mean girl” by a tumblr blogger who {according to their bio} is old enough to be my mum && doesn’t know me at all && apparently has nothing to do better to do than bully ppl online && have parasocial interactions w/ strangers who don’t even know them && start petty nonsense on the internet bc they’re miserable.
{meanwhile, i go into a full blown panic attack if i ever miscommunicated??? or if i am ever so much as looked at wrong??!?!?!?! or sent a nasty inbox from an anon trying to start shit???? or feel like i have let somebody down?????}
ANYWAYS...
here is how me && my two Tumblr besties now identify to any h8ers && random blokes who have no earthly clue who we are irl bc they'd rather just assume:
dear mishaland: YOU ARE SAFE HERE!!!!!!! ♡ here, we thrive on fandom && fangirling over Steve Harrington, Gator Tillman, and all of Joe Kerry's beloved characters [+ DJO's music & Joe himself].
you can read more on my main pinned post [scroll to the bottom] about how I run my lil online realm of Tumblr, but ⋆⁺₊⋆ tl;dr ⋆⁺₊⋆ we operate on creativity, kindness, dark humor, love, acceptance && pure fucking vibes. if you're gonna ruin it, then pls seek somewhere else bc I'll be damned if my happy place that I share with others gets plagued by any further ignorance and/or bullies on here!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes i’m tagging the fandom related tags for this because it needs to reach the community. if you’re mad about it, too bad. WICKED HAS SEEN ITSELF OUT AND IT’S TIME THAT WE ALL CELEBRATE + ACKNOWLEDGE THIS.
misha! super curious how you’ll adapt the quarter quell reaping as it’s the first games in ISF and assuming every other game only has a singular winner compared to our two victors in indiana 😙
ohhhhhhh now you got me antsy to start dropping my catching fire au...
aggghhhhhhh the way the victors all win && get pooled together has been the most fun thing to write... I shan't spoil anything, but suffice it to say? Steve && Ren becoming the 48th state's winners together, making the final count 51 and not 50... is a wild thing that stirs up controversy amongst everyone.
I am so happy to have our little shadow for a few more chapters… or uploads at least. I know it’s going to add to the devastation but I love him so much 🥺💔
omg im finally catching up with some *kind anon messages* that i received before turning them off 🥺🥺
ilysm thankyou, angel anon. sweet little ro stole my heart, i just had to keep him alive for longer than rue did in thg. just one extra day/night spent with Steve before *that awful canon event* happens... 😭😭 it just had to be done ugh
why is it so difficult for people to be normal online, personally I HATE the 'x reader' a lot I just discovered that it existed this year, I don't even understand why it exists but I'm not complaining to people or demanding anything because… hello? it’s not made for me, we are not the center of the universe and nobody is forcing you to read anything, people need to know that they can ignore what they don't like, is that simple, if I read something it's because it fulfills what FOR ME is the most important thing, the plot, and if it's not your case, then you look for something that aligns with what's most important to you and that's it
is it so difficult to understand omg, also, how the fuck are you going to label a fanfic that is written 'you do this' 'this happens to you' 'x looks at you' if it's not "x reader" because a common character or book is NOT written like that
the way i wanna hug/kiss/squeeze you thru the laptop rn
🥹🫂🖤🥹🫂🖤🥹🫂🖤🥹🫂🖤🥹🫂🖤
thankyou for this mega. i resonate with all of this, like im sorry but... what do you mean you don't wanna imagine yourself as any character you like?? what do you mean you need me to leave it bland && without any remote description because it will "ruin the experience" for you?? what do you meannnnn you want absolutely no details because your mind refuses to play pretend, even in FICTION/FANFICTION????
what do you meannnnnnn "i run this place and make the rules" when literally none of us do?????????
that meme is 10000000000000000000% right
it's not that serious
once I'm all moved && settled, @keer-y will not be able to get rid of me and this fic shall be brought back toile (bless jess, rly... bless her. patient angel.)
[here is said "tiny rant." again, i could say a whole lot more but it's absolute so not worth any effort beyond this more humorous approach. so here is all my bandwidth has to offer on this subject:]
-> read here first for context
not me being chronically offline, getting ready to move && spending time with all my friends && prepping for an all new era of my life… and all the while, not having a single clue that someone i’ve never met or spoken to {minus one random, petty DM exchange initiated by them — which i’m very happy to post/share… stay tuned, it *will* get its moment... proofs are gr8} lumped me into their alleged self-proclaimed group of “these girls are mean girls.”
…
…….
……………
brb
lemme just...
...add to my list of unexpected goals reached:
☑️ being labeled a “mean girl” by a tumblr blogger who {according to their bio} is old enough to be my mum && doesn’t know me at all && apparently has nothing to do better to do than bully ppl online && have parasocial interactions w/ strangers who don’t even know them && start petty nonsense on the internet bc they’re miserable.
{meanwhile, i go into a full blown panic attack if i ever miscommunicated??? or if i am ever so much as looked at wrong??!?!?!?! or sent a nasty inbox from an anon trying to start shit???? or feel like i have let somebody down?????}
ANYWAYS...
here is how me && my two Tumblr besties now identify to any h8ers && random blokes who have no earthly clue who we are irl bc they'd rather just assume:
dear mishaland: YOU ARE SAFE HERE!!!!!!! ♡ here, we thrive on fandom && fangirling over Steve Harrington, Gator Tillman, and all of Joe Kerry's beloved characters [+ DJO's music & Joe himself].
you can read more on my main pinned post [scroll to the bottom] about how I run my lil online realm of Tumblr, but ⋆⁺₊⋆ tl;dr ⋆⁺₊⋆ we operate on creativity, kindness, dark humor, love, acceptance && pure fucking vibes. if you're gonna ruin it, then pls seek somewhere else bc I'll be damned if my happy place that I share with others gets plagued by any further ignorance and/or bullies on here!!!!!!!!!!!!
when i say “syl is my Bible,” i don’t think you all understand that i mean that with every fiber of my cursed being. {@thecreelhouse}
this post says it all.
but truly: i love this human && being in their realm. they keep fandom, my world outside of it && the unity of those two realms so beyond safe, warm, loving + sheltering. i strive for making “mishaland” (my blog within the fandom) a sanctuary.
🖤 syl makes that possible in more ways than they realize.
i have my own ✨tiny rant✨ coming later that addresses my own unhinged thoughts on this whole ordeal that went down ~~ but for now? i’m simply saying: thank fuck we all got on the same page, mutually realized where the toxic source was, and watched it unplug itself after whatever happened to make the plague see itself out.
as a self acclaimed Mercy og lover, you cannot understand how excited i am that it's july i've been in Mercy withdrawals when i tell you
🤭🤭 the way this made me SCREECH with excitement, tho
our baddies are in the pressure cooker rn ready to burst bc truly ~ Gator x Baby M are about to be our hot girl summer from mid/late July till autumn onward !!
oh also not to be dramatic but like… just took a trip down memory lane by listening to TSwizzle’s first album and uhmmm… i have thoughts… 🐊🩰 and one of them was: “jo is going to flip / wanna unpack this w me…”
they almost all 100% apply, but I’ll just name a few for now:
Mary’s Song = 🐊🩰 childhood memories to future
i was seven and you were ninei looked at you like the stars that shine
in the sky, the pretty lights…
and our daddies used to joke about the two of us
growing up and falling in love
…and our mamas smiled
…and rolled their eyes
…and said, “oh, my my my”
the way that Roy and Jonathan have always known/suspected, in their own ways, that their kids would fall for each other — even though it has never been in that sweet “aww, watch them end up together” type of way, because it’s what they both fear for very different reasons.
&& the way both their mamas are dead, but are shining down on them both… knowing they will be each other’s happily ever after in the end, no matter what happens.
2. I’m only Me When I’m With You = 🐊🩰 pre-teen into teen years
just a small town boy and girl
living in a crazy world
tryna figure out what is and isn’t true…
and i don’t try to hide my fears
the secrets, or my deepest fears
through it all, nobody gets me like you do
…and you know everything about me
…you say that you can’t live without me
well, you drive me crazy half the time
the other half? i’m only tryna let ya know
that what i feel is true…
yeah, i’m only me when i’m with you
3. Picture to Burn = Babygirl Mercer in her bitter era, as she keeps on watching Gator sleep with / have flings with other girls but never make a move on her.
4. Invisible = Babygirl Mercer’s heartache as a song, watching girls hit on Gator — knowing they’ll never understand him (or love him) better than she understands him.
5. Cold As You = Babygirl Mercer’s song to her dad {make the words have non-breakup/romantic meaning… and it’s worse like fukkkkk 😭} No matter how much she represses her feelings like he does, she realizes that no matter what… she’s never been as cold as him. Jonathan Mercer is the epitome of stone cold bastard.
6. A Place in this World = Baby M, still figuring out what she wants in this world without feeling pressured to answer for it. 💔
7. Tied Together with a Smile = Baby M’s perspective of Gator, finding him beautiful in all the ways he doesn’t see himself. 💔🐊
8. Should’ve Said No = Baby M and Gator, bitter at each other for dating anyone who isn’t each other, because they are both toxic lil fuckheads who take forever to become endgame. <33
