Steddie Underdog Fics

With the explosion of the ship on Ao3 and another flood from various events, some fics have gotten lost in the shuffle. This is a way to celebrate those fics people might have missed!

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STEDDIE UNDERDOG AUGUST CALENDAR

Upcoming Challenge Mondays:

8/3 -- Fics that were just completed

8/10 -- Fics with background Byler

8/17 -- Fics with titles starting with 'M'

8/24 -- Fics with an odd number of bookmarks

Upcoming Writer’s Wednesdays:

8/5 -- @mojowitchcraft

8/19 -- @ursavorpalis

Upcoming Theme Weekends:

8/8 - 8/9 -- Forced Proximity

8/22 - 8/23 -- Phone Fics

The Last Friday of every month will have a new calendar release!

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You can see our previously recommended fics spreadsheet here!

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here be dragons by pukner

Rating: Explicit

59,399 words, 8/9 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Background Relationships, Mutual Pining, Misunderstandings, Protective Robin Buckley, Mike Wheeler is a Sweetheart, Eddie Munson Needs a Hug, Eleven | Jane Hopper is a Sweetheart, Internalized Homophobia, Eddie Munson Has a Gay Crisis, background byler and mileven, Genderqueer Steve Harrington, Wayne Munson is a Sweetheart, Wayne Munson is Dad of the Year, Steve Harrington is an actual cryptid to most people, background jargyle also, past almost-stommy, Steve Harrington's Yellow Sweater, Good Friend Tommy Hagan, oh my god the smut tags finally, Dom/sub Undertones, Dom/sub Play, Frottage, Coming in Pants, Spitting in Mouth, why is that not a tag, Blow Jobs, Steve Harrington's itty bitty shorts, Wet & Messy, general grossness, Eddie Munson Calls Steve Harrington Pet Names, Eddie Munson Calls Steve Harrington "Princess"

Summary:

"I think he misses you," El says, "I think he's sad because you haven't talked to him." Eddie's face crumples. He blinks back tears. "I don't know if I can," he says, quietly, "I know---I don't think I can." Eddie Munson has kissed a boy, and now he has to handle the fallout. He's got to grapple with the fact that he likes boys, likes a boy, and the harrowing fact that he may have inadvertently broken said boy's heart.

This is a MOD rec as a part of our Fic Fridays.

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take the wheel, crack the whip by jk_rockin

@jkrockin

Rating: Explicit

15,800 words, 3/? chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: BDSM, friends to idiots to lovers, Period-Typical Knowing Anything About Kink, i.e. none of these dopes know what they're doing, s4 part 2? not for me thank you, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Spanking, Phone Sex, Masturbation

Summary:

King Steve has given him a guide to gay S&M. Ten minutes ago, Eddie would have bet his guitar that Steve, of all people, had never had even a passing gay thought in his life, and apparently he would have lost. The centrefold is not, as he'd been bracing for, gay dudes doing gay sex stuff. It's a table, like in a textbook. The author has taken the time to lay it out in three neat columns, headed LEFT POCKET, HANKY COLOUR, and RIGHT POCKET. Black is on the list. It’s right at the top of the list. Eddie closes the zine. He puts his head between his knees, humming the opening riff from Creeping Death to calm himself down. It doesn’t really work. He has been advertising to the entire world that he’s a gay sadist.

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All Night, American Desire by IrisLanding

Rating: Explicit

4,041 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Making Out, Friends to Lovers, Hand Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, Kissing, Coitus Interruptus, Orgasm Delay/Denial, No Beta, Skull Rock, Pansexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, First Time, Coming Out, Dirty Talk, role play, Marijuana, Eddie Munson Lives, Jealousy, Vecna is Defeated (Stranger Things), Overuse of italics, Gay Eddie Munson, no one dies

Summary:

Sex can make you stupid. This isn’t new information to Steve, who has been stupid over girls and because of sex plenty of times. But it’s maybe a whole other level of stupid to be in the woods, in the dark, heading to Skull Rock at a quarter to midnight, after everything that’s happened in this town. -- Eddie and Steve have an unexpected run-in.

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Our next CHALLENGE MONDAY assignment is:

Fics that were just completed

When you submit your fic recommendations, make you sure you add a note saying the theme in some way!

Monday's recs will only be for the challenge! Any that are not used will be recommended as per usual.

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Just a Boy with a Nail Bat by That_Silly_Fox

Rating: Explicit

103,126 words, 15/15 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Hawkins (Stranger Things), The Upside Down (Stranger Things), The Party Friendship (Stranger Things), The Party as Family (Stranger Things), Canon Compliant, Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Vecna's Curse (Stranger Things), Vecna Won, Steve Harrington Loves The Party, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Period Typical Attitudes, Steve Harrington-centric, POV Steve Harrington, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Canon Temporary Character Death, Temporary Character Death, Slow Burn, eventual spicy tags for later chapters, so you know what you're in for, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Dom/sub, Under-negotiated Kink, (which is then discussed), Praise Kink, Soft Dom Eddie Munson, Switch Eddie Munson, Bottom Steve Harrington, Top Eddie Munson, Switch Steve Harrington, (Back to Regular Tags), Platonic Soulmates Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Steve missing Robin, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson Have a Sibling Relationship, Dustin Henderson & Eddie Munson Friendship, Steve Harrington Character Study, The Party is extremely present in this fic

Summary:

1987 went to shit. Vecna brought on what may well be the apocalypse, and Steve fought it to the end. Literally. Death was supposed to be a one-way street. But knowing a girl with super powers had a tendency to change the game. So when Steve opens his eyes to a beer-soaked bathroom on Halloween in 1984, Nancy calling him 'bullshit' all over again, the universe might forgive Steve for thinking he was either a) in Hell or b) going cracked. But Steve didn't have time to freakout. Not when El finds him and asks that he help her change the events of the future. Not when he's the only other person she managed to drag with her for chance number two. OR: A time travel fix-it, where 1987 Steve is dropped back into his 1984 self. And now he has to deal with that plus the impending apocalypse on the horizon. But he'll be fine, right? Because, as El informs whoever asks, Steve's 'The Babysitter'. So he gets to work. He can cry later, when he's done.

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Welcome to Fic Friday!

Every other Friday, the mods compile a list of their personal recs to share with you all!

These will happen alternating with Theme Weekends.

All recs you see today are from the mods!

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consult a cup of coffee. by througheden

@thefreakandthehair

Rating: Mature

7,410 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - No Monsters, Alternate Universe - 1990s, Pining, Fluff, Humor, Radio Show Host Eddie Munson, Barista Steve Harrington, Getting Together, First Kiss, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Background Chrissy/Robin

Summary:

“Does your new special drink menu include an IV directly into my bloodstream by any chance?” Eddie asks as Steve turns the corner. “If it did, we’d both be hooked up to drips by now,” Steve says, loading the coffee pot onto the warming stand and loading the small fridge beneath the counter with cartons of milk and cream. “I see you before I see the sun most days.” “Is that a bad thing?” Eddie bends over the counter and Steve looks up, nearly colliding with Eddie’s chin. Wild curls, warm eyes, toothy grin, minty toothpaste, woodsy cologne. It’s enough to catch his breath, to weaken his knees, and he really can’t keep being stunned like this unless he plans on doing something very, very stupid. Or, Steve's favorite customer at the coffee shop hosts a local early morning radio show. Between coffee and some of their favorite music, they might just fall in love.

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slipped between these ribs of mine. by througheden

@thefreakandthehair

Rating: Explicit

23,298 words, 5/5 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things), Friends to Lovers, Fluff and Smut, Getting Together, Coming Out, student athlete!Steve Harrington, student/dealer!Eddie Munson, Making Out, Dry Humping, Coming In Pants, Sex Toys, Soft Dom Steve Harrington, Dom Bottom Steve Harrington, Sub Top Eddie Munson, POV Alternating, (they're both vers lets be honest), Cock Rings, Prostate Massage, Orgasm Edging, Aftercare, Semi-Public Sex, Blow Jobs, Sharing Clothes, Top/Bottom Versatile Steve Harrington, Top/Bottom Versatile Eddie Munson, Vibrators, Spit As Lube, (sort of but there's also actual lube involved), Anal Sex, Couch Sex, Baseball Player Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Deepthroating, Alternate Universe - Baseball, Marriage Proposal, Finger Sucking, Facials

Summary:

Right where he’d left it all, Eddie makes it to the living room and sees his little metal lunchbox open on the coffee table. Rolling papers, his heavy silver grinder, several baggies and a small scale spill out the top as Steve plops down onto the black pleather futon. “You named your dildo?” Eddie can’t believe the question, even as it falls out of his mouth. Steve snorts, his nose crinkling as he shakes his head. “I do name some of my uh… things, yeah, but that one wasn’t me. Blame the internet.” Some of my things. Things. Plural. Eddie feels like he might pass out.

-- Or, Part-time student, part-time weed dealer Eddie Munson befriends star student-athlete Steve Harrington and learns a lot more than he'd wanted about sports and more than he'd expected about sex toys.

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Getting High in fics.

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This was so good I have to recommend this if you haven’t already 🖤

The Monotony of Everyday Violence

By Eddywow

Link

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63487216/chapters/162681304

The Monotony of Everyday Violence by Eddywow

@eddywoww

Rating: Explicit

221,665 words, 29/29 chapters

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Tags: Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things), Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Bikers, Gangs, Gang Violence, Prison, Alternate Universe - Prison, Pen Pals, Age Difference, Large age gap, Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse, Eating Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mental Instability, Mental Health Issues, Past Sexual Abuse, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicidal Ideation, Self Hatred, Self-Harm, Self-Esteem Issues, Dom/sub, Unhealthy Relationships, Praise Kink, Size Kink, Size Difference, Disassociation, Implied Suicide Attempt, Explicit Sexual Content, Domestic Violence, Homophobia, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, True Crime, Feminization, Murder, Minor Character Death, Blood and Injury, theyre toxic, They will never not be toxic, Eventual Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Consensual Non-Consent, primal play, Predator/Prey

Summary:

Steve felt pathetic and trapped. Stuck here in his father’s office, the floors a haunting reminder of his childhood. The people in this office didn’t like Steve, he knew they didn’t. Why should they? His father had gotten him this job. (gang/inmate au)

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Honeysuckle and Wine by youcallherhephanie

Rating: Explicit

8,326 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Co-workers, wedding as a plot device, Friends With Benefits, Friends to Lovers, Didn't Know They Were Dating, Pining, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Hair-pulling, Oral Sex, Overstimulation, Praise Kink, Teasing, Getting Together, Light Angst

Summary:

“Do you wanna be my plus one? To their wedding?” Steve’s voice is earnest. Soft. Gentle. Caressing Eddie’s hickey riddled heart. Eddie doesn’t need much thought to answer, doesn’t have to pause and think and process because he already knows what he would’ve said no matter the question. “Yeah. I’d love to.” Or, Steve and Eddie are friends with benefits, and it takes many shifts together and a wedding for them realise they don't have to be just that.

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Titles that use the name of a flower.

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Crushing with Coffee by boiledgargoyle

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

3,666 words, 2/6 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Slow Burn, Fluff, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley Has ADHD, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Shotgunning, Flirting, Getting Together, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mutual Pining, Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things), Deadendia (netflix) referances, Stranger Things Book: Rebel Robin, Rebel Robin Referances

Summary:

When Steve picks Dustin up from a DnD campaign at a nearby cafe, a certain metal head draws him in enough to get Steve to go back. When they start talking and make a plan for Steve to draw the Cafe a logo, it spirals and the two get closer leading to something unexpected... or maybe everyone expected it, who knows!

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Getting High in fics.

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Baking For Love by misfitsbabe

@evilfrank

Rating: Not Rated

19,537 words, 5/5 chapters

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Tags: so much, Smut, Muti-ships, Vampire Bites, Human/Vampire Relationship, kraken - Freeform, monster fucking, Blood, vampire attack, Werewolf

Summary:

This is my exchange gift for cheshiredog! Monster fucking, Happy ending, Bakery AU. I hope you like it, sorry its late! “I’ll come back when I’m 18, things will be different, I’ll be able to do whatever I want. I’ll tell the old man to shove it and I’ll come back… and we can… we can get jobs and find a place where we fit in.” Eddie smiled over at Steve. “And we can be together.” Steve looked back at Eddie and smiled sweetly. “And we can be together.”

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Fics featuring Eleven / Jane Hopper.

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id like to rec Just a Boy with a Nail Bat by That_Silly_Fox! it's got time travel, which is a personal fave of mine, and it's a super well-paced canon rewrite with a dash of smut that is the perfect spice to everything else :))

Just a Boy with a Nail Bat by That_Silly_Fox

Rating: Explicit

103,126 words, 15/15 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Hawkins (Stranger Things), The Upside Down (Stranger Things), The Party Friendship (Stranger Things), The Party as Family (Stranger Things), Canon Compliant, Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Vecna's Curse (Stranger Things), Vecna Won, Steve Harrington Loves The Party, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Period Typical Attitudes, Steve Harrington-centric, POV Steve Harrington, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Canon Temporary Character Death, Temporary Character Death, Slow Burn, eventual spicy tags for later chapters, so you know what you're in for, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Dom/sub, Under-negotiated Kink, (which is then discussed), Praise Kink, Soft Dom Eddie Munson, Switch Eddie Munson, Bottom Steve Harrington, Top Eddie Munson, Switch Steve Harrington, (Back to Regular Tags), Platonic Soulmates Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Steve missing Robin, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson Have a Sibling Relationship, Dustin Henderson & Eddie Munson Friendship, Steve Harrington Character Study, The Party is extremely present in this fic

Summary:

1987 went to shit. Vecna brought on what may well be the apocalypse, and Steve fought it to the end. Literally. Death was supposed to be a one-way street. But knowing a girl with super powers had a tendency to change the game. So when Steve opens his eyes to a beer-soaked bathroom on Halloween in 1984, Nancy calling him 'bullshit' all over again, the universe might forgive Steve for thinking he was either a) in Hell or b) going cracked. But Steve didn't have time to freakout. Not when El finds him and asks that he help her change the events of the future. Not when he's the only other person she managed to drag with her for chance number two. OR: A time travel fix-it, where 1987 Steve is dropped back into his 1984 self. And now he has to deal with that plus the impending apocalypse on the horizon. But he'll be fine, right? Because, as El informs whoever asks, Steve's 'The Babysitter'. So he gets to work. He can cry later, when he's done.

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Not (A) Cinderella (Story) by Hbyrde

@hbyrde36

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

35,222 words, 6/6 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Fairy Tale Elements, High School, Mistaken Identity, Love at First Sight, Happy Ending, accidental misgendering, Inspired by Cinderella - Rodgers/Hammerstein/Beane, Mutual Pining, Implied/Referenced Homophobia

Summary:

After his split from Tommy and Carol, and his very public fall from grace, Steve reluctantly agreed to go to his senior prom fully expecting humiliation. And he couldn't have been more right. Between misunderstanding what the prom committee meant by “costume ball” and playing third wheel to Nancy and Jonathan—a familiar role these days—Steve was ready to go home early and spend the remaining weeks of his high school career with his head down and what little dignity he had left intact. But everything changed when he spotted someone else who had taken the word costume a little too literally. He couldn't tell who his mystery date was beneath the wrappings of her mask, but her big brown eyes and wild curly hair were enough to pull him in, and one touch of her hand was all it took for him to fall hard. They danced. They kissed. Then she was gone, and the only hope he had of finding her again was the chunky silver ring she'd left behind.

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get over me (get under me) by svalinnside (swishyclang)

@swishyclang

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

30,581 words, 5/6 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Post-Vecna (Stranger Things), Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington Has a Bisexual Awakening, It's Eddie, shocking and revolutionary

Summary:

"So let me get this straight," Robin says slowly. Eddie doesn't even go for the obvious pun, which should be a sign of how little he wants to be having this conversation. "You're getting advice on how to get over Steve… from Steve?" Eddie confesses to Steve. Unfortunately, Steve is straight. Fortunately, Steve knows exactly what to do to help Eddie out.

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was WIP update email you're most excited for.

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wip i’m excited for~~ dear sir! yours truly, preppy boy bottom by offbeatrinkydink <3 i need to see how these disasters get togetherrr it’s so good so sweet!!!

Dear Sir! Yours Truly, Preppy Boy Bottom by offbeatrinkydink

@offbeatrinkydink

Rating: Explicit

18,807 words, 4/13 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eddie Munson Lives, Dom/sub, BDSM, Dom Eddie Munson, Sub Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Lesbian Robin Buckley, Period-Typical Kink, Fluff and Smut, Steve Harrington Has a Big Dick, Brat Steve Harrington, Blow Jobs, Steve Harrington Has a Praise Kink, Nipple Clamps, Butt Slapping, Cock Slapping, Gags, Cock Rings, Knifeplay, Rope Bondage, Belts, Spanking, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Eddie Munson's Handcuffs, Handcuffs, Restraints, Daddy Kink, Leather, First Time Bottoming, Masturbation, Orgasm Delay, Orgasm Control, Bad Dirty Talk, but it's more like chekhov's daddy kink, Boys Being Boys, Bad BDSM Etiquette, POV Third Person Limited, POV Eddie Munson, POV Steve Harrington

Summary:

PREPPY BOY BOTTOM Submissive “All-American” boy-next-door type, 5’10½”, 158 lbs., brwn/brwn, clean-shaven, hairy, muscular. Seeks training by sincere and experienced Master. Northern Indiana locals only. Uncut a plus. Box 6011 Dear Preppy Boy Bottom, Well-endowed and uncut (see enclosed), knowledgeable Master ready and willing to show you the joys of obedience and subservience. Call me at [phone] if you know what’s good for you, boy. Sincerely, E.M. (Or, the one where Eddie answered the personal ad of a submissive looking for an experienced dominant. One problem, well, two problems, the submissive turned out to be Steve and Eddie doesn’t have any experience in BDSM, outside of what he’s read.)

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