Stobin Month

Platonic Stobin month is an event that runs from March 1st to March 31st centred on the duo of Steve and Robin from Stranger Things. Now hosting: Stobin Month 2026 FAQs / AO3 Collection Past events: 2023 / 2024 / 2025

[stobinmonth]

The fourth year of platonic Stobin Month is almost upon us!

Platonic Stobin month is an event that runs from March 1st to March 31st centred on the duo of Steve and Robin from Stranger Things.

This blog will serve as the designated blog for the event, so posts will be reblogged to here!

FAQs / AO3 Collection / Past events: 2023 / 2024 / 2025

[lexilexipoowhereareyou]

Stobin month 2026 day 1: radio

GOOOOOOOOD morning ladies and gents! It’s Rockin’ Robin here, reporting for duty” Robin spins around on her desk chair making jazz hands only Steve can see from his spot in the back corner of the recording booth.

He shoots her a grin and a thumbs up before slipping the record out of its sleeve and handing it up to her. He’s practically bouncing on the soles of his feet.

“Today is a very special day-“ Steve cuts her off by pushing her chair to the side and screaming a bit too excitedly into the mic.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUSTIN!” Robin pushes him away with an exaggerated roll of her eyes.

“Anyways as I was saying it’s a very special day for the smartest kid in town, who’s turning 18 today!” She has to kick Steve in the shin several times before he finally remembers his cue and quickly grabs a kazoo hanging on a rope near a rubber chicken to blow a loud (and slightly aggressive) happy tune.

“So we have a bit of a surprise planned for the birthday boy. Dusty-Bun this is for you!” Robin swivels around and presses play of the record player next to her, the first tunes of the song playing sweetly. She takes the mic and Steve appears by her side as the first lyrics of “Never Ending Story” start and they take turn signing as loudly and obnoxiously into the mic as possible.

“NEVER ENDING STO-O-RY-“ as the chorus begins Steve can’t help but break into laughter knowing that at this very moment somewhere in Hawkins, Dustin is probably bashing his head into the nearest hard surface he can find.

[lexilexipoowhereareyou]

Stobin month 2026 day 6: 2000s

I was trying to do the weird claw thing people did but I genuinely can't draw hands 😞

[arcticbunny1987]

Finally finished my entry for Stobin Month 2026. I was too late finishing it for Day 11 Scoops Troop so I changed it up for Day 29 Ice Cream since they already looked vaguely ice-cream-like and turned it into an employees of the month flavour. Of course Steve's has unnecessary fanciness. Who's decision was that?

Steve has one of those printed icecream popsicle bases with peanut butter filling beneath chocolate ice cream, with a sprinkle face and chocolate drizzle topped with sprinkles and a small novelty hat. His cone is chocolate dipped with gold leaf and a novelty sleeve. Adjusted for inflation $10 in 1985 becomes $18.22 in 2026

Robin has the same base but with strawberry filling and slightly different printing beneath vanilla ice cream with a sprinkle face and strawberry vanilla drizzle topped with a novelty hat and a fresh cherry. Her cone is chocolate dipped with sprinkles and a novelty sleeve. Adjusted for inflation $4 in 1985 becomes $12.15 in 2026.

[sevenmerrymagpies]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Characters: Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington Additional Tags: Stobin Month 2026 (Stranger Things), Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Post-Season/Series 05, Robin Buckely is in College, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Lesbian Robin Buckley, Biphobia, Not from Robin, Steve Harrington Has PTSD, Robin Buckley Has PTSD, Slice of Life, POV Steve Harrington Series: Part 3 of Stobin Month 2026 Summary:

“I feel like, I don’t know, I went into the Upside Down that last time, and part of me never came back,” Robin said as she grabbed his pillow from the passenger seat of his truck. “Or I came back wrong.”

Steve had his duffel bag in one hand and the cooler of snacks and drinks he always brought in the other. “Like we’re fundamentally fucked up, and part of us will always be stuck in a different dimension?” Steve asked. He felt that way late at night, lying alone in his bed and trying to think about anything but being eaten by monsters.

[sevenmerrymagpies]

Becoming

It’s the beginning of Spring Break 1986. Steve and Robin notice something evil hanging over Chrissy Cunningham as the girl waits near Eddie Munson’s van. Using their magical bond, they try to defeat the evil they sense. In doing so, they grab the attention of the very people who abandoned Robin nearly eighteen years ago. Which might be worse than Vecna’s evil schemes.  Or the final installment of a Stobin AU where Vecna is defeated easily with magic, and that’s only the beginning of Robin’s problems. 

This is the third and final story in the Awakening series.

A snippet below the cut

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By the time she made her way out to the parking lot, most people were gone. All the spectators, the basketball team, and the cheerleaders were already on their way to their celebration. 

She'd heard rumors it was at the old diner that shut down a few years ago - Benny's. That seemed gross to her, in really poor taste, but that was the theme for the basketball team parties. 

Why are you thinking about Benny's?

"It's kinda gross they're having a party there tonight," Robin responded out loud to Steve's psychic question as she walked up to him.

"Yeah, but that's probably the thrill of it." Steve leaned against his car. 

"Gross," she reiterated.

"Absolutely," He laughed. "RIP Lucas' virgin liver in that dump. His hangover is gonna be laced with asbestos."

Robin could feel the "back in my day" speech gearing up. "Yeah, yeah, we get it. Back when you were king of the dung hill, they had all the ragers at your place. A castle with distinction."

"Do you see me laughing?" Steve asked, his hands on his hips like he did when he was exasperated with the kids. "Hey, I know I was a bit clingy earlier, and I wanna apologize, but you seemed a bit dow-"

"Steve!" Dustin's voice cut across the parking lot, severing their conversation in two.

Steve turned to the group approaching the BMW. "Dustin! My man, how did the championship go?"

Robin bit her lip, wondering if Dustin would get that Steve used the wrong word on purpose, or just get annoyed at not "understanding" D&D. 

"It's not a championship," Dustin whined instead of greeting Robin or asking how the game went, or how well the band played, or any other polite questions. It made Robin wonder if she was an asshole at that age. Then she remembered prom of her sophomore year, the car wreck, and her desperation to leave Hawkins, which bordered on a diagnosable obsession, and thought that maybe she wasn't old enough to ask that question yet.

"What else do you call a game that comes at the end of a long series of games, where you face your biggest rival to win or lose everything?" Steve asked.

Dustin's mouth gaped before he honed in on the one thing he could. "That sounds like basketball talk. Are you talking about basketball? Are you talking about Lucas' choosing basketball over Hellfire? Are you mad we chose Hellfire over conformity?" Seemed like Dustin was feeling a bit more guilty about missing Lucas' game and about calling in Erica as the backup than she or Steve originally thought. 

Good. She could feel Steve's exasperation, especially, building up between them. Robin and Steve narrowed their eyes at Dustin in sync.

Erica and Mike finally arrived, walking sedately up to the group. "Now you've done it, asshole," Mike griped. "They're about to psychically blast your ass into the dark ages."

Robin began, "We actually didn't care that you didn't go to the game," a bit of a lie, but true enough for this conversation. There were plenty of people at the game to support Lucas tonight, and what mattered was seeing their faces in the crowd when he looked. Which he did, turning his megawatt smile on all of them. 

"You had other obligations and other friends to support, we understand that," Steve continued.

"But to come over here," Robin said.

"Give us a hard time about the name of your last D&D session for the quarter," Steve loomed a bit, and Robin swore the shadows around them grew with his anger.

"And then when we joke around with you, you accuse us of conformity?" Robin finished. "Think before you speak, little man."

"Yes, Dustin," Came another voice, applauding Steve and Robin's tirade. "Think before you speak. You might have gotten out of that trap in the first hour of the game if you had." Eddie and the rest of Hellfire made their way over to the little hangout by Steve's car.

It was a tenuous thing, but not exactly new, that Eddie, Jeff, Gareth, and even Grant might say "hey" when they were there to pick up the players after Hellfire. 

Although ribbing Dustin together was new.

"It's a bad habit of his," Steve agreed.

Gareth draped his arm over Dustin's shoulder, "Don't listen to Eddie, man, he's just mad that the trap didn't take at least one of us out of the running for the final battle."

Eddie muttered something that sounded like, "I didn't plan the encounters for a rogue; it would have been better with a ranger."

The group politely ignored him.

The conversation continued as Steve and Eddie gave Dustin a hard time together. It seemed like they really, finally hit it off. Robin should have been paying more attention. There was something fluttering in Steve that she couldn't name, but she heard something nearby that caught her attention. It sounded like sneakers on rough pavement. 

She looked around. A person was in the shadows near Eddie's van. A girl, a cheerleader from the ponytail, skirt, and letterman's jacket. At first, Robin thought she was the lookout for someone harassing Eddie: graffiti or slashing his tires. It wasn't unknown to do anonymous violence to his stuff, since assholes couldn't get away with doing anything directly to him without losing their source. 

The unease Robin felt pulled Steve's attention from the conversation to the girl. Isn't that Chrissy Cunningham?

I think so. She's very dedicated to the ponytail. Robin hummed in her mind. 

What's wrong with her? Something feels off looking at her, Steve thought. He was, theoretically, better at the whole weirdness thing than she was; it came with being a Paladin. 

She knew she could do everything he did and more, but it felt like his domain between the two of them. How should I know? I wasn't one of the geeks who made you a real-life D&D character. Hell, you were the one who said the vow and sealed the magic.

No, you weren't. He mentally tapped his chin in thought before he turned away from Chrissy to Hellfire. But they were.

Robin kept her eye on the girl, and the way she curled up against the van made it look like she was having a very bad evening. Robin really hoped Steve was wrong. That this was a normal kind of bad evening, not a weird one. 

"Hey, Henderson?" Steve interrupted.

Dustin continued talking with Gareth and Grant.

Steve snapped his fingers in Dustin's face. "Hey, Henderson?"

"Jesus, Steve. Have some patience."

The childlike hypocrisy of that made even Robin look back towards the drama and caught Steve and Eddie giving each other a look like, "No, you take him."

Steve pinched the bridge of his nose like Dustin was one wrong sentence from giving him a headache and asked, "If a Paladin wanted to cast detect evil, how would they?"

"What is this? Do my ears betray me? Is Steve Harrington asking about D&D?" Eddie clutched his hands in front of his chest like a frightened old lady clutching at her pearls.

"Why do you need to-" Dustin began, still focused more on his friends than the tone and subtext of what Steve was asking.

Mike, on the other hand, was quicker to figure it out. Erica was not far behind him. "Oh fuck!" Mike said. "Uh."

"Verbal and somatic spell components," Erica added quickly.

"What the hell does that mean?" Steve asked, his impatience toppling over into his own brand of frantic panic. His hand gestures turned into arm gestures, and his voice was loud enough that they would have gathered a crowd if there was one still around here to gather.

Robin turned back to Chrissy, who was now looking over at the group with a curious head tilt.

Eddie opened his mouth to explain, but Mike interrupted him. "It means you have to say something and do something."

"Yeah," Jeff said, with a chill aplomb that could mean he was good in a tight spot or probably just meant he was confused and stoned like a normal Friday night. "Like a Paladin would connect to their patron and sense of duty through what they say and do. They might say a prayer and perform a specific movement. Coming up with them, when the guide doesn't have one already, is a lot of fun."

Steve blinked and grinned as an idea started to form between them. Steve asked, "Could I just say, 'I cast detect evil?'"

"YES!" Mike, Dustin, and Erica all screamed at once. 

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Continue reading on AO3

[sevenmerrymagpies]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson, Steve Harrington & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, Dustin Henderson Additional Tags: POV Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Robin Buckley Needs a Hug, they all need hugs tbh, Post-Season/Series 04, Eddie Munson Lives, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Platonic Relationships Series: Part 1 of Stobin Month 2026 Summary:

After escaping the Upside Down at the end of season 4, Eddie is whisked away by the agents waiting outside the trailer while Steve, Robin, Nancy, and Dustin are taken into quarantine

[wutheringhestia]

the body remembers

It hits her all over again that she's leaving. These aren't Massachussets, summer-roadtrip, can-board-a-three-hour-flight-if-she-gets-the-oh-shit-call-from-Hawkins distances. If anything happens, she'll be too far away to do anything about it.

Isn't that what you wanted? The voice is soft, but accusational. She digs fingernails into her palm to shut it up. "What the fuck am I doing?"

"This is, like, entirely voluntary. You know that right? Not everyone flees the country when a girl breaks their heart." He says it warm and teasing, and god she's going to miss him.

my very late contribution to @stobinmonth day 17: secret. in which robin makes it to paris, and the answer to “is this shit safe to breathe?” turns out to be a definitive no. hyperlink in the title to read on ao3 <3

[alicetallula]

Here's my little contribution to @stobinmonth 😊💟💜

Day 1 : Radio / Day 2 : Quarantine / Day 3 : Fireworks / Day 4 : Class / Day 5 : Role Reversal / Day 6 : 2000s / Day 7 : Laugh / Day 8 : Coworkers / Day 9 : Fresh Start / Day 11 : Scoops Troop / Day 12 : Forgotten / Day 13 : Wound Tending / Day 14 : Demogorgon / Day 15 : Vecna's Curse / Day 16 : Hair / Day 17 : Secret / Day 18 : Favorite Show / Day 19 : Bruise / Day 20 : Childhood Friends / Day 21 : Prank / Day 22 : Came Back Wrong / Day 22 : Mirror / Day 24 : Cold / Day 25 : Stars / Day 26 : Patrol / Day 27 : Middle Aged / Day 28 : Bad News / Day 29 : Ice Cream / Day 30 : Flashback / Day 31 : Happy Ending

Day 10 : Invitation - Stobin Lavender Marriage - 10.03.2026

I think I'm really smart in implying the lavender marriage with this wedding invitation /lh /jk

It can be read as pining Nancy with implied ronance down the line. And also I'd like to think Jonathan is in the same boat regarding Steve. So implied stonathan too in my head :3

Done using ink pens, colored pencils, alcohol markers and Photoshop for the background and its elements, Nancy's nails and jewelry, the wax seal and the decoration and text on the invitation

AO3 post / Bluesky post / DeviantArt post / Instagram post / Pillowfort post / Twitter post

[stobinmonth]

If I'm not able to write something in time, would it still be okay to put it in the collection? 👀

of course! if you’re writing for one of the prompts it fits the collection, no worry about getting it written on time!

[missmariannecherie]

Stobin month - day 7: laught

[missmariannecherie]

Stobin month 2026 - day 3: Fireworks

[missmariannecherie]

Stobin month 2026 - day 1: Radio

Every time "Total Eclipse of the Heart" came on the radio, they sang along, just like they did in the bathroom at Starcourt. I just know it!

[lavenderstobins]

if i only could

“Please don’t take her,” Steve begs, even as it falls on deaf ears. They keep walking, unrelenting. “Steve!” Robin’s voice cracks, fear breaking through it as she scuffles with her captors. He can’t stop them. There’s nothing he can do. “I’ll find you!” Steve yells, hoping she knows he means it. Hoping that she knows he’ll do everything he can to get her home safe. “I promise I’ll come find you!” The door slams shut. Robin is gone.

Steve isn't the only one who gets tortured by the Russians.

Or: a slight role reversal AU.

Steve & Robin // Rated T // Multichapter // 4.1k words // WIP

read on ao3 | written for @stobinmonth

(based on this art by @inky-the-artist)

[roguespeedster]

for @stobinmonth day two prompt 'quarantine'

read on ao3

“Is this really necessary?” Steve asks, voice muffled by the clear plastic tarp separating his room from the rest of the apartment.

“Yes!” Robin insists. “I am not missing this date on Saturday just because I caught your germs.”

Steve rolls his eyes. “Robin, I sneezed, like, one time. It doesn’t mean I’m sick.”

As if the universe has a sense of humor, it was at that moment that a sneeze overtook him. Robin sears him with a smug, I told you so look.

Steve forges on regardless. “Besides, Nance would understand if you had to reschedule.”

“Of course she would, she’s amazing! The point is, I’ve been dreaming about this date for years, and I will not have you ruining it!”

“Well, how the hell am I supposed to eat in here?” He’s lucky enough that his room has its own en suite; he has no doubt Robin would make him shit in a bucket to ensure her date with Nancy.

Robin shrugs. “I’ll just bring meals to you.”

“With your cooking? Yeah, no thanks.”

Robin scrunches up her face but nods in agreement. Harsh, but fair.

“Chinese?” She offers.

“Yes, please.”

Robin begins walking down the hallway.

“And don’t let them skimp on the fortune cookies!”

[lexilexipoowhereareyou]

Stobin month 2026 day 1: radio

GOOOOOOOOD morning ladies and gents! It’s Rockin’ Robin here, reporting for duty” Robin spins around on her desk chair making jazz hands only Steve can see from his spot in the back corner of the recording booth.

He shoots her a grin and a thumbs up before slipping the record out of its sleeve and handing it up to her. He’s practically bouncing on the soles of his feet.

“Today is a very special day-“ Steve cuts her off by pushing her chair to the side and screaming a bit too excitedly into the mic.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUSTIN!” Robin pushes him away with an exaggerated roll of her eyes.

“Anyways as I was saying it’s a very special day for the smartest kid in town, who’s turning 18 today!” She has to kick Steve in the shin several times before he finally remembers his cue and quickly grabs a kazoo hanging on a rope near a rubber chicken to blow a loud (and slightly aggressive) happy tune.

“So we have a bit of a surprise planned for the birthday boy. Dusty-Bun this is for you!” Robin swivels around and presses play of the record player next to her, the first tunes of the song playing sweetly. She takes the mic and Steve appears by her side as the first lyrics of “Never Ending Story” start and they take turn signing as loudly and obnoxiously into the mic as possible.

“NEVER ENDING STO-O-RY-“ as the chorus begins Steve can’t help but break into laughter knowing that at this very moment somewhere in Hawkins, Dustin is probably bashing his head into the nearest hard surface he can find.

[kindfrog]

the twins