Stobin month 2025 - day 31: Victory
seen from United States

seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from China

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from Singapore

seen from Australia

seen from Malaysia

seen from Belgium

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Canada

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Syria

seen from United Kingdom

seen from Brazil
seen from United States
Stobin month 2025 - day 31: Victory
stobin month: joy
Written for @stobinmonth and @corrodedcoffinfest.
It's Tradition
Stobin Month Prompt: Tradition & CCF Spring Break Prompt: Beach | Word Count: 1000 | Rating: T | POV: Robin | Pairing: Platonic Stobin, Steddie | CW: Mentions of Recreation Drug/Alcohol Use, Steve's Neglectful Parents | Tags: Childhood Friends AU, Reuniting
It's tradition. The annual week-long Buckley family trip to the beach. A highlight of the year, until her parents made it clear they didn't want to go anymore.
All good things must come to an end.
They just couldn't understand Robin didn't want to go somewhere new. That Robin didn't want it to end. That she needed to go to the same house, on the same beach, where she spent a week each year of her childhood.
That she wanted to go where she last saw Steve. At least one more time.
Even though Steve hasn't been there the last six years her family visited, and she heard the Harrington house sold when his parents divorced. That's the gossip around this small coastal town, anyway.
Either way, the Harringtons are long gone, taking Steve with them.
But he was the best friend she's ever had, and turning up for a week every spring and getting to see him was a staple of her childhood.
So, with her summer job savings she rented the same house her family always did, and sits on the screened-in porch.
Harrington's old house definitely doesn't have Steve in it, instead a family with a bunch of little kids that are loving their time on the water. On the other side, there's a rowdy group, loud at all hours, but closer to her age. She watches them, trying to not be sad that this last attempt was a bust.
One of the guys is currently swinging his girlfriend around in circles as she screams, delighted. Two others are making s'mores. And the long-haired one is running around in circles like a maniac. Harassing his friends on a loop. At least they're having fun. She's seen them drink, smoke weed, and poke at a bonfire.
The third year of platonic Stobin Month is almost upon us!
Here are this year's prompts well ahead of time. I've included a bonus prompt for each week* based on this tweet:
(*ish. Every 8 days or so.)
As always, use the tags #stobinmonth and #stobinmonth2025 when posting your pieces. There will also be an ao3 collection that writers can add their works to. The previous collections can be found here.
All kinds of fanwork all welcome! Have fun, and I hope to see you all in March! <3
red fish, blue fish
tags: post s4, stobin, Hopper POV, prom, not!fic
word count: 586
@stobinmonth prompt: prom
So Steve leaves home after the earthquakes to be closer to everyone. He ends up living with the Hopper-Byers so they can all drive together wherever help is most needed. Eventually, Hopper kind of forgets Steve isn't one of theirs. He just fits, in a way that is both improbable and surprising to no one.
That is to say, Robin is around the Hopper-Byers a lot. Like, nearly as around them as Steve, who has moved into the spare room.
When the Beemer pulls up and he hears Robin's voice through the front door before she even gets out of the car, he pours himself another cup of coffee out of the gone-cold carafe.
Stobin Month 2025 - Prompt "What If?"
wc: 528 | cw: Implied Brain Trauma/Injury, Catastrophizing, Implied PTSD | rating: T
Robin sometimes thought about what would have happened if she had not gotten involved.
Steve would have just been an annoying coworker up until the mall fire. And then he probably would have been dead. Not that Robin believed she was the reason he survived the Russians, but every time she tried to picture a version where she was not there, Steve died. By torture, getting caught in the crossfire, or sometimes her brain superimposed Steve over Billy Hargrove and it was the Mindflayer that killed him.
She hated it. Which was how she held onto the belief that Steve was better off with her in his life, and him in hers.
He reminded her as often as he could remember that he loved her and did not know where he would be without her. Robin listened, but there was still a nagging voice in the back of her head who told her no one wanted her.
So Steve started leaving her little notes telling her exactly how he felt about her.
You’re the smartest person I know—and we know literal geniuses.
That one always made her laugh because Dustin had caught a glimpse of it one time when he came to visit and got so incensed over the fact that Steve considered Robin the smartest person he knew and not himself. Dustin almost went to visit Steve and give him a piece of his mind before Robin quietly reminded him that visiting hours were over, which took the wind right out of Dustin’s sails. Robin tried to cheer him up, but she could see that his mind was centered around Steve, so they spent the rest of the evening in heavy silence.
You make me laugh more than anyone else.
Whenever she looked at that note, she smiled, remembering his first confession to her in that dirty mall bathroom. The declaration that she was the reason he had laughed that summer more than he could remember doing so before. How it was Steve “The Hair” Harrington of all people who made her feel normal for the first time in her entire life. How he took her rejection and never held it against her. How he held her hand and declared her his best friend. Platonic with a capital P.
You are the reason I keep trying.
The first time she saw that note, she cried. She knew how hard it was for him to move forward after everything, how he suddenly felt like the world upended and nothing made any sense. He cried on her shoulder many times, unable to cope with how the world had changed and left him behind. She knew all too well how he felt.
So, when he got admitted, Robin started leaving him secret notes all over his room, in plain sight and obscured from view. She wanted to surround him in as much love as she could.
You are the strongest person I know—and we know Nancy Wheeler and Jane Hopper.
You make me feel braver.
You are the reason I wake up in the morning and the reason that I can sleep at night.
You are my soulmate.
• F I S H L E G S•
Okay I was gonna wait to post the idiots together but I got too excited and thus I cast my light upon the fish legs universe
Stobin Month 2025
The third year of platonic Stobin Month starts March 1st!
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