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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Explicit Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Gay Eddie Munson, References to Drugs, Eddie Munson Lives, Hurt Eddie Munson, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Coming Out, Gay Will Byers, queer bonding, Period Typical Attitudes, Awkward Tension, Virgin Eddie Munson, First Kiss, Hand Jobs, Sexual Confusion, Gay Panic, Light Masochism, Sub Eddie Munson, Awkward Conversations, Jealousy, Literal Sleeping Together Series: Part 1 of The Rush of Thunder (That Brings You Under)

While Steve and Dustin are searching for survivors, they're surprised to find Eddie alive, hiding out in Rick's cabin. Steve takes up the task of caring for him while staying in his trailer.

Bookmarker's Notes:

The rare fic that's prepared to actually let the romance be messy and bittersweet and sometimes uncomfortable, that's prepared to have Steve actually wrestle with his sexuality rather than just being instantly fine with it.

There's absolutely a place for the picture perfect romances, and the amazing first time smut, but sometimes you want something that hits a little different, and this fic is that.

[owlsinathens]

Theon Appreciation Month - Ship Week

There is Love in Your Body (But You Can't Get it Out) by @callmejude

Robb says something he regrets, snapping at Theon. Jon is the one who finds him moping.

Another amazing fic I want NEED to recommend for @theon-appreciation. As anything by @callmejude, this fic is a marvel.

It's Greysnow, Jon POV, but it is as much about Theon as it is about Jon – or even more, I think.

Theon's hurt in this is so palpable, so real and raw, it'll break your heart. And yet, it's also very sweet, beautiful, managing to show the tenderness in both of them without overdoing it. One of my all time favourites.

[luninosity]

Saw you mention your birthday on that super cute Netflix edit so I just wanted to pop in and say happy birthday!! :D

Thank you!! And that Netflix edit is so fantastic - such a celebration of so many talented creators! So very very cool. *heart-eyes*

[lollki]

day 2 of crying over "the history books forgot about us (the bible didn't mention us)" i know i'm late but if anyone wanna start a self-help group that leads to a better, more fulfilled life, hmu

[florentium]

Game of Thrones > Theon Greyjoy/Jon Snow > Theon Greyjoy

Oh my god this reply is going to obnoxiously long, Kelty.

Fandom answers: Game of Thrones

1. Favourite character: this question is impossible but for brevity I will say Varys, my baddest bitch.2. Least favourite character: equally impossible but… Ellaria Sand, probably? Not because I dislike her, necessarily, just because she’s…. poorly written.3. 5 favourite ships: in no order, Jon/Theon, Ramsay/Theon, Sansa/Theon, Sansa/Brienne, Jon/Satin4. Character I find most attractive: In the show? Robb Stark, hands down. Sorry for being basic.5. Character I would marry: I would never marry anyone.6. Character I would be best friends with: I get a fucking kick out of hanging out with Varys, but he doesn’t really have friends, now, does he?7. A random thought: I have so many.8. An unpopular opinion: Dany is not a good person and the series would be best served both in the show and the novels with her becoming a villain.9. My canon OTP: Theon/Ramsay.10. My non-canon OTP: Actually, I really don’t limit myself to single pairings. I ship goddamned everything at maximum power at all times, but if I have to pick a single one, let’s say Jon/Theon.11. Most Badass Character: Probably Sansa.12. Most Epic Villain: Petyr Baelish. 13. Pairing I am not a fan of: Jon/Daenerys 14. Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): HA. Petyr Baelish. 15. Favourite Friendship: Bronn and Podrick, or Varys and Petyr (a very lose definition of the term).16. Character I most identify with: Varys.17. Character I wish I could be: Varys.

Pairing answers: Theon Greyjoy/Jon Snow

1. When I started shipping them: Like, genuinely, not until the end of season seven. I had read and enjoy a lot of threesome and/or love triangle stuff of them and Robb, but in that capacity it was always a rivalry or hate sex angle, less about their own discrete relationship. But I think their final scene together in the finale of season seven is the best thing from that season. They now have the longest history of any two still-living characters, aside from the Lannister siblings. Jon has known Theon longer than any of his surviving siblings, and Theon lived with Jon longer than any of his own family. And now there is such history between them. The two wayward step-children of Winterfell chose such different paths through the war, and I don’t think they’ll ever find another who understands them the way each other do. Even if they don’t always like each other, I think they have an understanding of one another that will never be surpassed.

2. My thoughts: I mean, how much time do you have? They start out in Winterfell has two disdained outsiders, children made to bare punishment for their parents’ misdeeds. One is highborn, one is baseborn, and so they react to that ostracism very differently. I imagine that much of their rivalry and dislike of one another stems from feeling threatened by the other’s position. And each has what the other longs for. Jon is baseborn, disliked by Lady Stark, but clearly Ned’s favourite and afforded privileges, closeness, and affection that Theon would only dream of. Theon has his highborn heir status, wealth, a title, but no familial affection. The jealousy hate sex must be incredible. And post-war, when they’re both so altered by the events of their lives apart, I can’t imagine the hatred and fondness and pity they bear one another, seeing what the other has become. Both, to some extent, I think, want to go back to Winterfell in the long summer, and they are all each other has left of that time.

3. What makes me happy about them: Their potential to understand one another, their potential to be kind to one another in a world that’s done it’s level best to destroy them both.

4. What makes me sad about them: Literally everything fucking else about their history and future together.

5. Things done in fanfic that annoys me: The pairing has such a small audience, I don’t even think there is enough trope material for me to be annoyed with. I suppose the underselling of the damage they’ve experienced, or their initial dislike of one another.

6. Things I look for in fanfic: Pre-war/series, interesting and realistic unhealthy sexual coping mechanisms, varying degrees of complication from the presence or involvement of Robb or Theon’s many mindless sex partners, driving another away only to fall back into old habits. Post-war/series, trauma-bonding, pathetic comfort sex, varying levels of violence, tenderness, frustration, defensiveness, and forgiveness. And maybe, if I’m feeling particularly sappy, healing and happiness in some far off spring.

7. Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Well for Theon, basically anyone. Anyone that would be gentle and guiding and respectful of him. Sansa would be my ideal, I think they would make a fantastic endgame pairing, but I know it won’t happen. As for Jon, really, I will be satisfied with anyone that is not Daenerys or Sansa. I know those are the major camps in terms of who Jon should end up with, and I vehemently oppose them both, so just anyone else, please, thank you. Surprise me, show, write Satin into the last season out of nowhere and have him whisk Jon away to a cottage in the Reach.

8. My happily ever after for them: I mean, c’mon, even the happiest, most romanticized outcome of them still has a crater of emotional trauma in their past. Basically, I will be satisfied with both of them surviving the war for the dawn.

Character answers:

1. How I feel about this character: I feel so much about this character. I could fill a book. The thing that draws me to Theon’s storyline (like Sansa’s, like Cersei’s, like Brienne’s) is that the drama is the result of just ordinary human cruelty. There are no dragons, no stable time loops, no spooky prophecies, just the banality of human evil. And Theon has had so much evil done to him, by his father, by his sister, by the King, by the Starks, by war, by Ramsay, by his own people. He was obliterated, truly, by it. And everyone who ever tried to help him, he scorned. He’s goddamn Shakespearean in the scope of his character arc, and more than anything I want him to find peace.

2. Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Once more, Robb/Theon, Jon/Theon, Sansa/Theon, Ramsay/Theon, and I’m sure others. I could be talked into shipping Theon with anyone.

3. My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: I find the relationship between him and his sister rich and interesting. Maybe not healthy or kind or what either of them need right now, but both have been so limited and fucked over by familial and cultural expectations of them, I think they could forge a real reliance on one another if they’re given the chance.

4. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: He gets to take a fucking goddamn nap. Specifically, he, Jon, and Sansa climb into bed and sleep for fourteen straight hours while Ghost lounges on top of the quilts.

5. Favorite friendship for this character: Potentially Varys, though they never got to interact onscreen. Varys empathizes so much with the powerless.

6. My crossover ship: I don’t fuckin’ know. Crossovers are weird. 

[luninosity]

I'm kinda new to the sub!Seb scene and got pointed to your blog. Can you recommend a story where I could do my toes?

OH YES INDEED

…let’s see…

(also, if anyone else wants to make suggestions, feel free!)

I’ll start with a couple of my own fics, and then a couple of my favorites from my AO3 bookmarks, I think? for options? obviously not an exhaustive list; we’d be here for ages!

My fics that might be good sub!Seb starting-points

~(baby won’t you please) run your fingers through my hair, which is ~20k of Chris accepting a role that involves kinky sex, needing to do research, agreeing to let Sebastian take him to a certain…club…that Seb knows about…and discovering that he’s pretty good at being exactly what Seb needs

~tempt me, tease me (leave me breathless), in which Sebastian’s not-great kinky sex date (not bad in a way that’d require warnings, it’s just not going well) gets interrupted by a tipsy Chris Evans phone call asking for a ride home from a bar; Sebastian says yes, of course, being in love with Chris, the way he always has been; and he ends up taking Chris back to his own apartment, and then Chris notices Seb’s odd mood and wants to help, and there are love confessions and of course the kinky sex (this story also contains what’s still one of my favorite little passages I’ve ever written, when they’re in the car)

~if you feel up to wading into an AU (contemporary, BDSM-accepted society - and some people find AUs easier to get into when it’s RPF), the Like Sugar series is one of the things I’m most proud of, with the world-building and the marriage-of-convenience that of course turns into True Love! (It technically says not complete but that’s just because there’ll be two more short bonus story snippets - the main stories are all complete)

~just a couple lovebirds (we got a good thing), which is sort of semi-AU: famous actor/director Chris Evans comes into the escort service run by Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie; they provide more companionship in general, though sex is also an option, but initially Chris literally just needs a date for a big event, and this agency comes highly recommended for that…of course, Seb’s sworn off handling clients himself, and he’s too busy anyway…so there’s a whole lot of pining, a whole lot of implied or not-entirely-sexual Dom/sub caretaking dynamics happening whenever Chris and Seb interact, a lot of cameos, a lot of food, and, yes, finally getting together and splendid kinky sub!Seb sex.

Fic recs - fics written by other awesome people!

~the beautiful and gentle and, yes, sweet (you’ll get why that’s a fitting adjective when you read it!) Don’t Say It Softly by @paper-storm

~for utterly adorable pet-related meet-cute and also scorching hot sexytimes (and a really gorgeous use of the line, “say ‘thank you, Chris’ ”), there is bundles of love wrapped in fur by @thebestpersonherelovesbucky

~the Big One that everybody’s going to rec to you, for good reason, and I love it so (in the category of: I wish I could write like that… fair warning, though, they get pretty kinky, so if you’re looking for dip-the-toes-in, it may not be a starting-point, though then again it’s so well written that it may just hook you anyway): You Once Said If We Were Careful by @callmejude

~technically still a WIP but you can read it as done, it’s not a cliffhanger or anything, and the scene where it currently ends gives some resolution to some of Seb’s worries, so that’s fine: Ceramic by @bearceptionus, which is very soft and tender and full of caretaking and learning together and love via food and gentle!Dom!Chris

Okay! That’s like eight things, so I’ll pause there! You can always check my Evanstan AO3 bookmarks too!

And if anyone else has good suggestions for dipping one’s toes into reading sub!Seb, please share! <3

[owlsinathens]

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic. / 2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to? / 8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it. / 19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse? || 0u0

Heh, hi sweetie ❤️

Thanks for the ask I looooove these things

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Hm... after all I've written I'd say a mystery modern au. Ya know, dramatic backstories and things that go bump in the night. Lots of sap and crack too, cause I can't seem to go without 🙈

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

Ouf, good question. I haven't written an amnesia fic yet, but I'm planning one... it's a topic I'd want to get right so it takes some research!

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

You know what's coming now 😂

***

“Drowned fuck, Snow.” Greyjoy rolls his eyes. “You can’t go comparing yourself to us of all people. You’re perfectly average, right, Stark?”

“Perfectly average,” Robb echoes dutifully.

“We are just very much above average,” Greyjoy continues. “Real beasts.” He grins. “Do you want to know who’s really tiny?”

“No,” Jon says, making a face.

“Jory Cassel,” Greyjoy continues, unabashed.

“I said I don’t want to know!”

“Tiny, I tell you, and I’m talking hard.”

“Would you shut up?”

“Like a pinkie, the poor man.”

***

I just have the feeling that this is pretty much the epitome of Theon/Jon dialogue - if only they had more in canon 😅

19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?

Theon. Jon. Theon and Jon. Their respective actors. One pic sometimes is enough to start the writing flow like a bloody fountain. Beautiful, talented beans ❤️