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[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[starstarstar-1]

RIP Eddie Munson you would’ve loved “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes

[wizardshark]

Listen I get it but you CANNOT use "sensory nightmare" as an excuse to avoid essential things. You HAVE to find a way to make it work, such as finding effective alternatives. But you can't just avoid it.

You need to eat some vegetables in your diet or you will become a lich.

You have to wear a life jacket or you will literally drown and die.

You need to be able to exist in public spaces with children.

You have to find a way.

[asofteredge]

hey everyone, just curious:

what is everyone's criteria for blocking people?

[nessa007]

[starstarstar-1]

thinking about Eddie’s number being one off from Robin’s, or two numbers are switched or something, and one night he gets a call from a drunk Steve Harrington.

Eddie might not know what a “Robs” is, but he sure as hell can play it for a night.

[steddieunderdogfics]

This week’s writer spotlight feature is: @Steviestits! @Steviestits/Louderswine has 25 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 Louderswine:

Be Kind, Rewind

The Heart of Loch Nora

System Hacked

A Guide to Family Planning

A Good Girl Actually

Alex is an amazing writer and storyteller with so many great fics! I think their fics deserve a lot more recognition!

-- Anonymous

Below the cut, @Steviestits answered some questions about their writing process and some of their recommended work!

Why do you write Steddie?

Because I like it! Next question! No, I’m joking. I write it because I like their dynamic. The jock and the nerd, the king and the freak, the popstar and the metalhead (You can take Steve loving ABBA out of my cold, dead hands.) Opposites attract with basically them only having the kids in common yet they get along and understand each other. Also, Eddie has been one of the only people on the show to tell Steve that he’s enough, that he’s a good guy and isn’t the person he was in high school any longer. And it helps that they look really good together, which helps with visualization since it’s hard for me not to spend every moment imagining stories about them.

What’s your favorite trope to READ?

My favorite to read has to be Omegaverse. I like how it explores gender and satirizes it by pointing out double standards or expectations that are placed upon different genders. Then there’s the packs and mates that appear. I like the closeness, how the society is built to be close instead of isolated like our current one. It’s not strange to find extended family living together or for multiple pups from the family to be put into the care of another omega. I know it varies from universe to universe, but it’s more common to see the world structured around being connected to one another. Some people won’t agree with me and will find it too unrealistic, and that’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but reading it has helped me explore my gender.

What’s your favorite trope to WRITE?

My favorite trope to write is brainwashing. It’s an interesting topic to explore since the human brain is so unreliable. It’ll make things up or erase things. Sometimes, it’ll twist events and remember them wrong like the Mandela Effect. We put so much trust in our memory and perception because those are the way we interface with the world. We believe that our brains are infallible, yet it’s the exact opposite. I think it’s fun to write about how if you just twist a bit of information then your entire outlook and even personality is different.

What’s your favorite Steddie fic?

It’s a tie actually! My two favorite fics that I re-read constantly are Fresh Whole Milk by Steves_Scoops and Fully Customizable by TheFourthMusketeer57. I know I’m probably biased since they were both written by friends of mine, but they’re still my favorites. I’m very lucky to have such talented friends.

Is there a trope you’re excited to explore in a future work but haven’t yet?

I don’t think I’ve ever currently written a monster fucking trope where Steve is the monster getting fucked. It always ends up being Eddie. I’ve been kicking ideas around. If I ever did write it, it’d probably unicorn Steve. I’m really obsessed with the NSFW art that OtterNil did. (https://archiveofourown.org/works/77532676/chapters/203047581) The picture lives in my mind rent free at all times.

Are there any memorable Steddie collaborations (art, writing, podfic, etc.) you've done or would like to do?

I’ve only done two collaborations through the Steddie Big Bang with Boybonebird and Goodnight-Mi. Both were such fun to work with, and we’re mutuals on tumblr! It’d be nice to do another collaboration with either. And now I get to work with OtterNil on my big bang fic, The Omega Engine. I feel seriously lucky to have worked with such talented artists in the fandom.

What is your writing process like?

Well, when I get an idea, I first go to a friend and talk to death about the concept. It’s basically my outline phase with the chat serving as my outline and what I plan to do in the fic in question. Like I’ll ask which idea is better or what direction is better then expand from there until I finally feel like I have a good enough picture in my mind, which is when I begin writing. I’ll sometimes even copy and paste sections into Notepad so that I can have the discussion there while I type. Though, that’s because I typically ask about more than one fic at a time, so it keeps all together the notes for the fics more or less. I have several fics open at once. I find it hard to concentrate on just one, so I jump back and forth. It’s probably why I’m so slow to update since even if I do end up writing a thousand words, they’re spread between a few different fics.

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?

Steddie Bingo has been really good at giving me ideas for stories. I like looking at the sheet and seeing which ones I can combine. I have a load of prompts in my draft files that people have sent me, except I’ve been extremely slow writing the stories that go along with them. WIP Weekend has been helpful in forcing me to write. Though my biggest writing tool is medical tape. I have a trigger finger, which is where the tendon doesn’t glide smoothly though the sheath. Like mine bunches up, so I put tape on my finger to keep it straight while I type.

Do you have any writing quirks?

I can’t write in silence. I need background noise. Typically, I go onto YouTube and put on a horror Let’s Play of a game I’ve already played or a video that I’ve already seen then write while it plays. A few times I’ve used Buffy as my background noise or specifically the sixth season of Charmed and only the sixth season of Charmed. I know having a show on might seem counterintuitive, but I’ve tried writing with silence or just music and I can’t seem to get a flow going as well as if there isn’t some supernatural creature or serial killer tearing it up in the background while I’m trying to type.

Do you prefer posting when you’ve finished writing or on a schedule?

I’d prefer to post on a schedule but preference and reality are two very different things. My ADHD makes it extremely hard to keep a schedule. Truth is, I post whenever I feel like doing the tags since those are what usually make me put off from posting the most.

Which fic are you most proud of?

I feel my big bang fic, The Omega Engine, is my best work yet. While I wouldn’t go as far as to call it my magnum opus, the worldbuilding and lore are pretty damn peak. Maybe I went into a little too much depth with the background stuff, but I don’t care. It was fun to think of how the world worked in the context that I had built, reverse engineering on what I wanted, then brainstorming why that existed and its purpose.

What's a funny or interesting or completely wild research topic you've dug into as a result of writing Steddie?

For my fic, Hectocotylus, I wanted to do “tentacle” porn, but that’s not the right phrase for what an octopus has. They’re actually called “arms” and I wanted to continue to be at least somewhat accurate with my depiction of octopus sex despite all of it being the Fly except underwater, so I did a bunch of research. Found out that the female octopus has her vagina in her head. And thus the decision to make Steve a dolphin was made! I had already researched dolphin sex for a previous scrapped fic, too. It made the fic easier to write overall.

How did you get the idea for Be Kind, Rewind?

My Steddie Bingo Card! Sadako/Samara and me go way back, so when I saw the prompts “VCR” and “Family Video” on the sheet, the Ring just manifested in my mind. Then it just came down to brainstorming how that would tie into what I wanted the fic to be about, which was bimbofication, and went from there.

When writing The Heart of Loch Nora, what was something you didn’t expect?

I guess I didn’t expect the response. Almost everyone I talked to at the time told me not to go with a dead dove, that I wasn’t going to get an artist if I did nor was it going to get much attention since it was such a niche subject. My beta told me to go for it anyway since it was what was inspiring me, so I did. When I posted Loch Nora, I expected maybe five kudos, ten tops, but I loved the concept so much, I couldn’t stop writing it. Then I got such a great artist and so many kudos compared to what I expected! And I met some really great people from it, got some regulars that I enjoy seeing in the kudos and comments.

What inspired The Heart of Loch Nora?

So, when I first said to myself that I was going to write dead doves myself, I made a list of all the types of stories that popped into my head that I eventually wanted to do. It’s called the “Scrambling Steve’s Brain Anthology.” The idea for Loch Nora is written down as “Vampire Eddie takes over Steve's kingdom and turns him into his queen.” Though, honestly, this was probably subconsciously inspired by the Hugh Jackman film, Van Helsing. I think all of my vampire fics can be tied back directly to it in some way or another. It’s legitimately a good movie. No one @ me.

What was your favorite part to write from System Hacked?

It had to be the physical transformation. The body modding is always my favorite part to write as it’s partly horrifying, having your body changed without permission, partly tantalizing since it’s sexual in nature. I know I always go for some of the same mods like huge tits, but I think it’s more the act than the result that I try to vary. Also, this was the second transformation scene I wrote and the first one rooted in sci-fi, so it’s just special to me overall.

How do/did you feel writing A Guide to Family Planning?

Frustration, if I had to give a name to the feeling. Not with the fic. Writing this one actually went smoothly for once. I guess more frustrated with life and society, etc. Horror as a genre has always been a great way to vent those, with sexual body horror being basically my go to when I need to take a stick to something.

What was the most difficult part of writing A Good Girl Actually?

The beginning hypnotism scene was such a pain to write because it was through the walkie talkie. I had meant for it to be longer, more involved, but I gave up and decided to go with what’s in the fic now. Maybe it’s a good thing. I do think the hypnosis scene is a lot cleaner and straight-forward compared to what was originally in my head.

Do you have a favorite scene and/or line from any of your fics?

My favorite scene has to be in The Vanishing Cage where Steve’s memories are edited in the mirror maze, so that he’ll think that he’s always been cared for by Eddie and his brides. It was just such a fun scene to write and really gets into what I love best about brainwashing. Though my favorite line has to be from In The Family Way, which is “Steve had planned to electrocute him in the tub of their suite to make it seem like an accident, only the bastard survived.” Just love the frustration in it, which Debbie must have felt, too. She was just my favorite character in the movie.

Do you have any upcoming projects or fics you’d like to share/promote?

I’m attempting to do a Christmas in July currently where I’m hopefully going to post what I meant to post in December but couldn’t because of the medical issues I ran into at that time. Going to post my Steddie Winter Exchange fic and the rest of Undertaking Steve then maybe some other fics that I have lying around but haven’t posted yet. Or at least try to get it all up by the end of the month instead of forcing myself to post once a day. There’s also the bang fic, The Omega Engine, that will come out towards the end of the year in October or November. As I said above, I’m really excited about it!

Outside of these questions, Is there anything YOU would like to add?

I’m honestly really grateful for the Steddie community. I’ve met my two best friends through it and that people here enjoy the fics that I write. It’s such a good stress relief, too. Love how creative I can get with my dead doves since it seems a lot of people enjoy porn with plot, too. I really don’t plan to leave it, and one day, I’m going to finish my posted WIP. None have been abandoned, even if it’s been awhile since the last update. I promise!

[nandatjl63]

⭒˚.⋆ week recommendations⋆˚⟡

• In Bloom by Nevertheless_5 | What Eddie couldn’t have planned for is a little plant, then the city of New Orleans, and finally Steve Harrington to all worm their way into his heart.

important tags: Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates, Forced Proximity, Slow Burn

• You Shook Me All Night Long by mrsmunsonbarnes (Katnerys) | Eddie’s life in Hawkins was rough enough before he went and got pregnant in high school. Now he’s even more of a freak, which makes it really strange that King Steve Harrington has seemingly taken an interest in him.

important tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Teen Pregnancy, Alternate Universe - No Upside Down

• Inky Heels by purpleweekend | Eddie guessed that it was his own fault for waiting until the last second to get a new roommate. He should have chosen the smoker. But no, he had to go with the eye-candy. Despite the fact that he knew Steve would never look twice his way, even with the low odds that he even liked men.

important tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Roommates, Domestic Fluff

• How Will You Know If You Found Me At Last? by DiscoSuperFly | Who knew Dustin showing off his new tattoo could shake up Eddie's life. Chicago's a big city; until it really isn't.

important tags: Alternate Universe - 2000s, Slow Burn

• Chills Right to the Marrow by Morganski_19 | Wayne and Dustin are going through the same thing, loved ones healing from immense trauma while trapped within hospital walls. The prepared grief, the trying hope. How do two people of different circumstances deal with the same situation, and how to they grow to help each other through it?

important tags: Post Season 4, Family Dynamics, Found Family

^I can't put into words what I felt while reading this fanfic.

• Let's Search The Skies (For A While) by TEDewitt | A simple miscommunication about a trailer leads Eddie to the omega of his dreams when he literally crashes into Steve before they hit the stage. Will their 16 year age gap be too much for their whirlwind romance? Will real life rear its ugly head and ruin everything? Is this forever or will he just fall for the idea of you?

important tags: Alternate Universe - No Upside Down, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

• More Than A Feeling by FR123 | When Eddie finds omega Steve in the parking lot of the Hideout with alpha’s Billy Hargrove and Tommy Hagen, he didn’t realise just how much his world would change. Or that it would be the start of the rest of his life.

important tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

• Nothing Else Matters (I've Got You) by authenticanna | All the times Steve and Eddie crossed the boundaries of friendship, and the one time they actually admitted it.

important tags: Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together

• here i have found some peace of mind by GerryStAmour | Steve Harrington works at a hotel in Chicago, responsible for making and managing reservations for groups. When some famous metal band signs a contract for rooms three months ahead of their concert date, Steve is swept into a flirtatious back-and-forth with someone he as been led to believe is the tour manager, Chris Cunningham, and quickly finds himself falling for the man...

important tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Transmasculine Steve Harrington, Miscommunication

• Such are the Treasures of a Quiet Life by Sammiches | A Steddie Stardew Valley AU

important tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Upside Down, Alternate Universe - Stardew Valley Fusion

[starstarstar-1]

I’m Terminally Online, but I’m Wretched Hellsite Terminally Online, which means I only vaguely remember the whole [compliment] “please don’t go bald” thing that was going around a few years back.

…and now I’m imagining teacher!Steve. He teaches middle schoolers, because of course he does, and one of his students says that one say and he nearly has a breakdown later that night telling his husband.

“Don’t go bald?” He nearly shouts.

Eddie does his best to suppress his laughter. It doesn’t work. “At least they’re not asking you to go bald. They’re hoping you don’t.”

“That’s worse!” Steve yells, because he spends way too much time with Robin. “My nickname in high school was the hair, Eds!”

“I’m well aware, darling.”

“And now they pull this! This!”

“Babe,” Eddie says cautiously, because he’s a shit-stirrer, “have you considered the fact that stress can lead to balding?”

“Shut your goddamn mouth, Munson.”

[nandatjl63]

⭒˚.⋆ week recommendations⋆˚⟡

• Torque by lightfish | Steve Harrington moves to Hawkins, trading his parents' empty mansion for a rental and a job at the local repair shop. He's looking for peace and quiet. Instead, he hires Eddie Munson as a mover, steals his rings, and learns that sometimes, finding balance requires embracing a little chaos.

important tags: Alternate Universe - No Upside Down, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort

• the scent of honey by StarsAndDiamond | ! Eddie can hardly believe it. And what better way to celebrate the end of their World Tour than with having Chrissy, his Alpha, propose to him? There was no better way. At least that is, until the press leaks the engagement, and now Eddie has to make a long-overdue trip back to Hawkins. The last place on earth he wants to go. But he still needs his stubborn ex-alpha and husband to give him a divorce before old feelings flare up.

important tags: Inspired by Sweet Home Alabama (2002), romcom, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

• Take The Long Road Down by Dreamsteddie | When Steve finds himself as the last of his friends left in Hawkins with no suitors on the horizon, he agrees to let his parents set him up with one of their chosen alphas. Adam is nice. Normal. But a year in, Adam is still dragging his feet about having kids, the one thing Steve asked for in their arrangement, and the fighting begins. When things get violent, Steve finds himself on the run, unknowingly putting himself on the path toward the Munson Rehabilitation Ranch and the small family that owns it.

important tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

• To Keep a Man Awake at Night by LovelyLittleGrim | Weird things keep happening in Wayne and Eddie’s new place. Fortunately Dustin knows someone that can help. Unfortunately that someone is Steve Harrington. Eddie doesn’t know who the bigger skeptic is: Steve, the guy who doesn’t believe in ghosts. Or, Eddie, who doesn’t believe in Steve.

important tags: Paranormal Investigators, Haunted Houses, Slow Burn

• Last First Impressions by LexiRoseWrites | Two people who hate each other decide to coparent a baby bump until they inevitably fall in love.

important tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

• I Can Wait For You At The Bottom by Atalia_Gold | Steve drives to an isolated cabin intending to end it all. He wasn't counting on a desperate boy breaking into the cabin on the same night.

important tags: Alternate Universe - No Upside Down, Depression, Fluff and Angst

• Better By You, Better Than Me by TheLaughingDew | Back then, they were just two kids in the woods. Now, they’re two men in a hospital bed, wrapped in white sheets and quiet beeping. The world still tries to break them apart. But somehow, they keep finding each other.

important tags: secret friendship

• 2nd Chances (Hellfire Hounds) by Batty_The_Jester | It's been thirteen years since Vecna; Steve has found himself back in Hawkins with his adopted 'daughter', Max running a dog rescue after years of living in Indianapolis with Robin and attending college. Meanwhile, miles away, Eddie prepares to move himself and his twin daughters back to Hawkins after his removal order has ended at the behest of his uncle's health; stumbling back into Steve's life almost as if he never left

important tags: Slow Burn, Single Parent Eddie Munson, Slice of Life

[ashstfu]

the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you were a pleasure to have in class

[things-strange]

Also yeah ig i can’t stop you from creating situations for angst, you can have whatever head cannons you like but you also can’t stop me from disagreeing w you. imagine if i wrote eddie as some everyman shy jock or something, i can do it but it doesn’t stop if from being wrong . at the end of the day have your headcanon but be aware that they aren’t a reflection of actual canon and also know people r not gonna like you mischaracterising a character, esp vindictively

Oh Everyman shy jock Eddie would be fun actually you should do that!

I’m serious btw, in the end all these characters are just dolls you can do whatever you want with. So there is no ‘wrong’ about it in my opinion.

And again, I have nothing actually against Nancy. I actually ship her with Robin sometimes and enjoy a good fic where everyone clears the air and her and Steve can be comfortable as friends! I also ship Steve/Nancy/Jonathan and enjoy a good fic of that as well if you catch my drift lol.

And I know the difference between headcanon and canon, I’m in my 30s lol. But saying Nancy is a good person and that she really messed up Steve don’t have to be contradicting statements. Teenagers fuck up all the time. No vindictiveness here!

[morganbritton132]

Thinking about this AU of mine where Henry - in an attempt to torture the kid in the nearest house to Hawkins lab - accidentally becomes an imaginary friend of sorts for Steve.

Granted, he's a bad imaginary friend.

Henry tries to gain a foothold in Steve's mind at too young an age. It doesn’t have the infrastructure needed for him to do real damage so he's basically relegated to bad thoughts and nightmares.

Steve kinda takes it in stride.

He likes the company even if it's imaginary.

Through Steve, Henry knows the exact age where he can be his most destructive. He also finds out that if he spends enough time in one's mind, the mind will build a defense against him so he still can't hurt Steve.

And then suddenly.

He's gone.

Little Eleven banished him to another world and locked the door behind him, and suddenly. It's quiet in Steve's head.

He's thirteen and for the first time, there is no bad voice in the back of his head.

It's so sudden and so quiet that it's almost devastating.

He can't even tell anyone why.

[damndarrenineedacigarettenow]

[morganbritton132]

@damndarrenineedacigarettenow compiling it all together like that is just Steve Harrington and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad formative years. The kid is going through it.

Steve: *falls off roof, world goes black*

Henry: *yeeted so violent back into himself that he nearly falls over*

El: ?????

[ghostengarden]

If bothering your boyfriend at work was a competition, Eddie would take the crown

[mialoveseddie]

Eddie drunk dials Robin to ask for “Steve seduction tips” while Steve is literally right there.

[morganbritton132]

Steve gets high and turns into the human embodiment of a big dog that thinks it's small.