Defiance Will Shake The Stars

✧ S ✧ in love with semi-irredeemable assholes ✧ 26 ✧ she/her ✧ “You’re human, you keep hope against the worst of odds”

[mrsmountebank]

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[tricksyjester]

[keer-y]

Carriage House

You know you don’t belong on the Tillman Ranch. The sheriff thinks you do. READ ON AO3

Tags/TW/CW: Darkfic, kidnapping, forced proximity, forced marriage, violence, discussions of abuse; each chapter has its own specific warnings. There will be no animal abuse in this story.

MASTERPOST••• Chapter 1: Business Hours Chapter 2: Dropout Chapter 3: Leads Chapter 4: Structure Chapter 5: Carriage House Chapter 6: Eights Chapter 7: Broken Chapter 8: Truth Will Out Chapter 9: Vindication Chapter 10: House to Home Chapter 11: Egress Chapter 12: Plans in Motion Chapter 13: Next Steps Chapter 14: The Man or the Monster Chapter 15: Second Chances Chapter 16: Same Page Chapter 17: Good Behavior Chapter 18: Status Quo Chapter 19: What’s Coming and What’s Owed Chapter 20: Strike Two Chapter 21: The Shed Chapter 22: Three Minutes

More to come…

[ongoing]

[sheisjoeschateau]

Oh, So We Do Love Steve...

🖤 An Ongoing Series, from Misha’s Masterlist Library. 📚+ 📁 Infodump file & all volumes and chapters (+more) below.

TAG LIST FULL. -> See disclaimer here.

☾⋆⁺₊ Welcome to the full series masterlist. ⋆⁺₊☾

Steve Harrington x Bauman!fem!reader 🖤 enemies to lovers, heavy angst, hurt/comfort, upside down mayhem, S2-S4, post S4 universe hot-take, end-of-the-world / dystopian setting, ugly fights turned smut (...but with hella plot). 18+

🏹 AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the hill I die on. This pairing? My OTP. They'll never not be my favorite, no matter how many other fics that I write. Steve & Babe Bauman Supremacy 5ever.

SUMMARY & ALL CHAPTERS BELOW + more fun things

Xx misha

🗝️ p.s. spoilers here

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SUMMARY: Murray Bauman’s niece shows up, and Steve Harrington’s last nerve packs its bags and flees the country.

That's you.

The adults think you’re a godsend. The kids practically build a shrine. You’re helpful, charming, funny (of freaking course you are) and you fit into the group like a missing piece of the puzzle to help solve the end of the world.

But not for Steve.

Because as far as Steve’s concerned? He thinks you’re the end of the world in a cool jacket. You’re the reason he lost the girl. The reason his maybe-life, his maybe-happy ending, blew up in his face. If you had just stayed out of it, if you hadn’t left that bunker with Nancy and Jonathan, he wouldn’t be stuck watching a future he almost had walk around like it never belonged to him in the first place. If you had just stayed out of it, if you’d kept your too-smart, too-sarcastic ass inside that ridiculous bunker? You wouldn’t be haunting him like a ghost with better hair.

Now you’re everywhere. With your mouth, your attitude, your impossible face. The female version of Murray Bauman, if Murray had cheekbones and a death glare that could peel paint. Witty. Sharp. Always one step ahead. Less beard, more bite. You’re like if Murray Bauman were somehow hot and terrifying. You’re clever, lethal, infuriating… And Steve can’t stand you.

He hates how your laugh gets under his skin. He hates the way you look at him like you already know what he’s thinking, and you’re bored by it. He hates that you always end up being right about most things and don’t even brag about, just sitting there all satisfied and subtly smug. He hates how you talk, how you think, how you smirk like the universe is in on your joke.

He hates you. HE WILL FOREVER HATE YOU.

…but will he?

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CHAPTERS: All chapters listed chronologically, in sequence with the way it's meant to flow and be read. I highly suggest not skipping, or reading out of order, so that you truly can read this and experience it fully plus comprehend the plot.

New chapters uploaded every weekend.

VOLUME I • The Beginning

[PART I] | [PART II] [PART III] | [PART IV] | [PART V] [PART VI] | [PART VII] | [PART VIII] [Part IX - blurb] | [Part IX - full] [Part X] 📖 baby bauman begins 📁 Marjorie Bauman

SUMMARY: Steve Harrington’s life was going just fine (no it wasn’t) before you came into the picture and made him lose the girl (even though she’d already mentally clocked out of their relationship). He’s already in the search for a cat-eating monster lizard (thanks, Dustin) and a newly dethroned king turned babysitter (thanks, Billy). But then you waltz in, with your bad-to-the-bone combat boots and obnoxiously witty snark (and stupidly full lips) as if you’ve decided to mock his ancestors just for kicks and make his life a total joke.

Little does he know you’re the love of his life and you’ve only ruined it by giving him no chance at a life without you in it.

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VOLUME II • The Aftermath (time jump — 1991)

[CHAPTERS 1-2-3-4] [CHAPTERS 5 & 6] [CHAPTERS 7-8-9] [CHAPTERS 10 & 11] [CHAPTERS 12-13] [CHAPTERS 13.5, 14 & 15] [CHAPTERS 16-17-18-19] [CHAPTERS 20-21-22-23-24] [CHAPTERS 25-26-27-28] [CHAPTERS 29-30-31] [CHAPTERS 32-33-34-35-36-37] [CHAPTERS 38 & 39] STILL ONGOING -> keep checking in! simultaneously posting V2 & V3

SUMMARY: The upside down is gone. Welcome to the right-side up universe — also known as normal life. No more Soviets plaguing the city of Hawkins. No more hellish quarantine. No more monsters, or Vecna, or supernatural curses and comatose kids, or death scares. Now? Now you all live together, under one roof. Steve’s roof. “Casa Harrington.”

…but while you all made it back in one piece, Steve’s sanity didn’t.

He’s gone nonverbal and catatonic, his mind lost in the void of his own head. He can’t unsee everything. Your second flatline. Dustin being taken. The kids screaming for him. Murray looking petrified, Hopper being frantic to save you all, Joyce taking a bullet for her sons. Mentally? He’s still back there — even though physically, he’s right here. In your arms, safe and sound, his ear to your heartbeat as it now beats in regular time. And you’ll spend the rest of your life loving him, devoted and determined to bring him back to you.

So will the kids. So will Joyce and Hopper. So will Robin. Nancy, Jonathan, Eddie and Argyle. Dr. Owens and Eleven are guiding him through it daily. And your uncle? He never leaves Steve’s side for one second.

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VOLUME III • The Downfall (1987 -> 2 weeks after Volume I)

[CHAPTERS 1-2-3-4-5] [CHAPTERS 6-7-8-9] [CHAPTERS 10-11-12] [CHAPTERS 13 & 14] [CHAPTERS 15-16-17-18-19] [CHAPTERS 20-21-22] [CHAPTERS 23-24-25] [CHAPTERS 26-27-28] [CHAPTERS 29-30-31] [CHAPTERS 32-33-34-35-36] [CHAPTERS 37-38-39-40-41] [CHAPTERS 42-43-44-45-46-47] [CHAPTERS 48-49-50] [CHAPTERS 51-52-53-54-55] [CHAPTERS 56 & 57] [CHAPTERS 58 & 59] [CHAPTERS 60 & 61] [CHAPTERS 62-63-64] [CHAPTERS 65-66-67-68] [CHAPTERS 69-70-72-72-73]

[CHAPTERS 74 & 75] [CHAPTERS 76 & 77] [CHAPTERS 78-79-80] [CHAPTERS 81-82-83] [CHAPTERS 84-85-86] STILL ONGOING -> keep checking in! simultaneously posting V2 & V3

SUMMARY: The world’s ending quietly in Hawkins, and somehow, Steve Harrington is still trying to save what’s left of it. After all the gunfire, after the blood, after the smoke clears, it’s just the two of you in a Winnebago that smells like your miserable arrhythmia safe decaf coffee, gasoline, and ghosts. The roads are dead. The sky’s the wrong color. Every radio channel is static. It’s the end of the world, but Steve Harrington now looks at you like you’re the most important human worth saving instead of the worst person he’s ever met.

And he’s going to do anything to save you, even if it costs him his own life along the way. 

🗄️ -> THE BAUMAN FILES

📁 baby bauman begins 📁 Marjorie Bauman 📁 [TBD]

💌 MY FAVE OSWDLS ASKS -> from you

babe bauman face cards

anon write-in (new reader)

anon librarian’s love letter to OSWDLS

Murray Bauman is a softie, period.

Murray 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Regina George (@thecreelhouse gets me)

Steve & Bauman’s song (all thanks to @silkholland)

Jonathan Byers is a riot

petition to prohibit bauman from ever climbing anything ever

❤️‍🩹 my inspiration for catatonic Steve

💥 bauman + buckley = Steve’s dream team soulmates

🍒 cherry baby, checking in

🥵 kinky/freaky/emo smutty steve x babe bauman

👀 UMMM HELLO BAUMAN’S EX CAMEO???

🖤 more babe bauman gushing

✨ Joseph’s review / reading breakdown (<- go here if you’re confused please, i beg of thee…)

thank you all x999999 for the OSWDLS taglist requests !! unfortunately Tumblr has now made it known to me that i've reached my limit :( so i'll still be taking any tag requests and writing it down into my list of library cardholders. apparently, the limit is 30?!?!?!?!??! diabolical. that being said, please follow me and turn on your notifications. that way, you don't miss the updates for this x

[thewintergreyjedi]

I’m still going through all my pictures and videos from 5sos Buffalo last night… but I had to share this godly photo from Ghost of You because I cannot be the only person witnessing this. Everyone say thank you and we love you Cal

[wearewatcher]

periodic reminder to grab a camera & your best pal and go create your own drag path <3

[wearewatcher]

the universe putting Ryan and Shane’s desks next to each other exactly 10 years ago

[sodapopwhlr]

𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍! | 𝐒.𝐇.

𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

౨ৎ 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑥 𝑓𝑒𝑚!𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛!𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟

౨ৎ 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: before Hawkins High crowned him “King Steve,” Steve Harrington was your best friend. the boy you biked home with after school, the boy who knew all your secrets, the boy who swore he’d never change. then freshman year happened. his new friends didn’t like that he hung around someone so “pathetic”, and Steve didn’t defend you when they cornered you. one stupid moment of betrayal was all it took to end years of friendship. You hardened yourself, dropped the girl he once knew, and built a life where Steve Harrington no longer existed. but when Will Byers goes missing and your little brother Dustin starts acting suspicious, Hawkins becomes anything but normal. you start noticing strange lights, weird noises in the woods, and a mysterious girl hiding in the Wheeler's basement, and suddenly, Steve is everywhere again. you don’t want anything to do with him, but the world is falling apart, Dustin is in danger, and Steve keeps proving he isn’t the same coward who let you down years ago. as monsters crawl out of the dark and secrets unravel, old wounds reopen and so does the possibility that maybe Steve Harrington was never meant to stay out of your life.

౨ৎ 𝐓𝐖: bullying, verbal harassment, language, violence, past betrayal, alcohol, parties, drugs, toxic relationships, abuse, manipulation, aggression, trauma, jealousy, possessive behavior, angst, canon character death, smut scenes (18+/skippable), normal stranger things stuff, (lmk if I missed anything!)

౨ৎ 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 (𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧)

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐋

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟎}

• Fresh Start (coming soon)

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟏

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟏 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏}

• The Vanishing of Will Byers

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟐 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐}

• The Weirdo on Maple Street

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟑 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑}

• Holly, Jolly

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟒 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒}

• The Body

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟓 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟓}

• The Flea and the Acrobat

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟔 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟔}

• The Monster

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟕 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟕}

• The Bathtub

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟏 𝐄𝟖 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖}

• The Upside Down

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟐

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟏 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟗}

• Madmax

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟐 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎}

• Trick or Treat, Freak

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟑 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏}

• The Pollywog

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟒 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟐}

• Will the Wise

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟓 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟑}

• Dig Dug

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟔 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒}

• The Spy

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟕 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓}

• The Lost Sister

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟖 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟔}

• The Mind Flayer

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟐 𝐄𝟗 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕}

• The Gate

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟑

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟏 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟖}

• Suzie, Do You Copy?

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟐 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗}

• The Mall Rats

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟑 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎}

• The Case of the Missing Lifeguard

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟒 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟏}

• The Sauna Test

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟓 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐}

• The Flayed

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟔 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟑}

• E Pluribus Unum

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟕 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟒}

• The Bite

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟑 𝐄𝟖 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓}

• The Battle of Starcourt

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟒

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟏 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟔}

• The Hellfire Club

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟐 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟕}

• Vecna's Curse

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟑 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟖}

• The Monster and the Superhero

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟒 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟗}

• Dear Billy

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟓 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎}

• The Nina Project

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟔 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟏}

• The Dive

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟕 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟐}

• The Massacre at Hawkins Lab

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟖 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟑}

• Papa

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟒 𝐄𝟗 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟒}

• The Piggyback

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟓

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟏 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟓}

• The Crawl

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟐 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟔}

• The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟑 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟕}

• The Turnbow Trap

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟒 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟖}

• Sorcerer

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟓 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟗}

• Shock Jock

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟔 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟎}

• Escape from Camazotz

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟕 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟏}

• The Bridge

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ 𝐒𝟓 𝐄𝟖 {𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟐}

• The Rightside Up

© sodapopwhlr 2025. all rights reserved.

[sunshinewriterx]

Sighhhhh pinterest got me this morning ✨

[madjoringmusic]

i have so much to say.

[covered-in-you-now]

MASTERLIST

I wanna be yours - Gator Tillman.

Summary : Gator Tillman has your heart. You'd do anything for him, but he treats you like you're nothing. Will he ever change his mind and his beliefs ?

Part 1

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Part 12

Part 13

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Part 16

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Part 18

Part 19

Part 20

Part 21

Part 22 - coming soon

[thewintergreyjedi]

Not me fucking DEVOURING this series

[em1i2a3]

Hollywood authentic….thank you 😭😭😭😭

[thewintergreyjedi]

😶😶

[babycowboy24]

exactly

[djospurnell]

he's so stupid i love him

[sugaryewscythe]

just a reminder that this blog is run by someone who:

— is anti ICE & fascism — is pro-choice & feminist — supports trans & queer people — hates generative AI & capitalism — supports immigrants & people of color — is pro-environmentalism & social justice — supports palestine & all other territories unjustly suffering

[finnwaller]

Yeah, alright.

[whimsynerd7]

the other Bennet sister fills me with so much hope. for the girls who were never chosen. for the girls who have never fit in. for the girls who’s sisters naturally seem to flourish socially but couldn’t understand why it wasn’t the same for them. for the girls who are overlooked. for the girls who dream of a gentle and stable love. for the girls who tell everyone they’re okay with being alone. this one was for us, love is possible.

[thewintergreyjedi]

The fact that Mary never had a “glow up” … she just was in an environment where she was allowed to be authentic and realize how many people can truly love the real her.

[alisarchives2]

my most toxic trait is actually thinking i could forgive every crime and fix him