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The Harrington Parents

What if Steve is not actually an only child. He is actually the youngest. The reason his parents are never around and we never get any mention of older siblings is that there is a very large age gap. Is sibling closest to him is more than 10 years older than him. His sibling or siblings are in were in college or close to it when he was born.

His parents never wanted another child. They had done their WASPy due diligence and had the appropriate number of children and raised them to adulthood. Then Mrs. Harrington got pregnant. They thought is was menopause at first, but, no, it was another child. They were looking forward to being empty nesters, and they did not want another child.

Steve grew up knowing his parents didn’t want him. He was a mistake that got in the way of their perfect retirement plan. He would hear his parents talk to his siblings on the phone and seem so proud of his lawyer brother or his senator’s wife sister. 

His parents went to his sister’s wedding anniversary, it was the same day as an important swim meet. They were there for when his brother made partner, it was Steve’s 10th birthday. 

He tried to be more like his brother. His brother in high school was on the basketball team. He was swim captain. It didn’t work. His parents still were never home.

He is not close to his siblings. They did know what to do with a toddler begging for their parents attention. Then they had their careers and their own kids to focus on. Steve was left at home, alone, watching his parents be good ones to the children they actually wanted. 

It wasn’t them. They were good parents. They never forgot an important date. They were attentive. They called on birthday’s and visited on holiday’s. So the problem wasn’t them. He watched them be great parents, ones that any kid love to call their own. He was just watching it happen to other people.

His parents were good parents. They just didn’t want him. 

So, he must be the problem.

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El being wholesome with Steve. El being wholesome with Steve. The weird sibling duo we didn’t know we needed. I need more of it. I might do it….no I’ve done enough of them…

Okay, okay. But just picture this:

The kids trying to embarrass Steve all the time with photos and stories to Eddie, but El ruins it every.single.time. because she is so unbelievably wholesome when it comes to Steve.

Here is everyone pulling out scoops photos (which Eddie actually loves thank you very much) and sharing stories about his failed dates. Dustin tells Eddie specifically about the time he was teaching Lucas basketball and Lucas threw the ball too hard at the backboard and hit Steve in the face.

So they are all poking fun at Steve in his and Robin’s apartment (because in every universe these platonic soulmates live together) and there is just El who randomly chimes in:

“Steve took me to this thing called a ren faire once. It was very fun. We both looked really pretty.”

Eddie absolutely melts at the story and gushes over the photos she has.

And everyone gets quiet every time, because no one wants to criticize El, but one time Max gently goes, “You know that’s like….nice right? We’re making fun of him.”

Everyone one expects her to being embarrassed or confused but instead she simple says.

“I know. I don’t like it. Steve’s nice.”

And she embarrasses everyone, except Robin and Eddie who are the only ones Steve never gets upset with when they make fun of him. They all mumble out apologies, and Steve turns to Dustin and goes:

“This is why she gets a special section in the freezer. All different flavors of eggos.”

El’s eyes get wide. “Even the blueberry ones?”

Steve gives her hair a tousle, “Especially the blueberry ones.”

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If you wanna unlock the doors, you have to completely reboot the computer system. And then override the security systems with a manual input. Fine. How do I do that?

#I miss you bob #I need to read more bob fic #I also need to keep writing my florenceville Bristol fic so I can put bob in it

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cw: discussions of body image

After everything, Steve gets softer.

Eddie spends so much time around him that he doesn't even realize it's happening, not until he's looking through his version of the photo album Jonathan put together toward the end of summer '86 so he could give it to Nancy and Robin and everyone else before the graduating class headed their separate ways.

He looks at it on an August day in 1987, about a year or so after Jonathan shyly handed them out. It's hot as balls outside, and while the AC in the trailer makes a lot of noise, it doesn't make a lot of cold, so it's hot as balls inside, too. Eddie ties his hair up with a purple scrunchie he stole from Nancy last week, and as he's looking at a page in the photo album, he stops.

It's a picture of Steve lounging by the pool, sunglasses on, blissfully unaware of Max and Erica in matching blue bathing suits standing behind him, poised to dump a bucket of water on him. Eddie remembers how Steve chased them down after, soaking wet, and threw them both into the pool without a single shred of hesitation.

He remembers Nancy's knowing look as he flushed from his face all the way down to his chest, thinking very not-PG thoughts about Steve being so strong, and he remembers shaking his soaking wet hair at her to make her shriek.

But, obviously, he didn't remember how Steve looked then. He's been superimposing the version of Steve he knows now onto the one that existed then. Casualty of spending nearly every day with him after the Spring Break from Hell.

Steve, in the summer of 1986, was so skinny.

Not rail thin like Eddie was. Not even close. He's always been broad, always muscular, but in that picture of him lounging on the chair with his arms above his head, shirtless and wearing a pair of swim trunks with the periodic table on them - a gag gift from Dustin that he actually ended up using - Eddie can see the definition of his stomach, his arms, his chest.

He looks good in the photo, but, then again, Steve could wear a potato sack and roll around in a pig sty, and Eddie would still think he looks good.

"What are you looking at?" a voice says from the doorway.

Eddie looks up to see Steve, 1987 Steve, the Steve he knows now.

He's got his arms crossed around his chest, looking at Eddie with a fond sort of smile. His glasses - which he refused to get until Robin dragged him to the optometrist - are perched on his nose, and he's barefoot and shirtless, having just thrown on a pair of shorts after getting out of the shower.

And Eddie realizes that Steve now, in the year since, has gotten softer.

He remembers reading, once, that really strong people don't have super defined muscles. Whatever book he found that in acknowledged that it was counterintuitive, but that fat supports muscle. The two have to exist, side by side, and a muscular body without fat is a body under stress.

Steve in 1986 was under stress. Eddie realizes, and a sort of warm relief floods his chest when he does, that Steve in 1987 isn't under stress anymore.

He's still strong and broad. Always has been, probably always will be. But where there was definition in his stomach last year, there's a little bit of squish now. His biceps have gotten bigger, too, as have his thighs.

Eddie is torn between wanting to bite him and wanting to squeeze him and never let him go.

"Jon's photo album," he says instead, and Steve traverses the general clutter of clothes, music sheets, and cables on the floor of Eddie's room to get to his bed.

He sits down next to Eddie, and Eddie can't resist wrapping an arm around his waist and squeezing, pulling him into his side.

Steve, as always, complies.

Eddie doesn't flip the page in the book. He lets Steve look at the page of pictures from Max's birthday, then watches as his eyes land on the picture of him.

Eddie watches him frown and decides that, nope, they're not doing that today.

Steve has told him, vaguely, about some of the stuff he was pressured into doing for sports. About cutting calories and vigorous exercise, about how soreness and hunger were viewed as prizes instead of pain.

He mentioned, once, how he was glad he never did wrestling because he was pretty sure it would have made it all a hell of a lot worse.

And to think Eddie used to hate jocks before dating Steve.

"You're hotter now," he says without any preamble, and while he probably should have started this conversation differently, it's worth the surprised laugh Steve lets out.

"You're just saying that," he says, and Eddie can't let that stand.

He puts the photo album on the bed and climbs into Steve's lap, holding his face in his hands.

"I'm not," he says seriously. "You're hot all the time. Probably always have been, definitely always will be."

It's true. Eddie's miserable crush on Steve during his first senior year, when Steve had that awful haircut was the subject of much good-natured bullying from Gareth, Jeff, and Archie, as well as bonafide proof that, unfortunately, he could not choose who to have a crush on.

"But I love whatever version of you I have in front of me the most," Eddie continues. "So, you're hotter now."

Steve smiles. it's a timid smile, one that Eddie thinks doesn't suit his face. Steve is a confident guy at his core. Timid smiles look like he's trying on a too-small Halloween costume.

"You mean it?" he asks.

"Of course I do," Eddie says, kissing him once on the forehead. "You're always warm, you're strong as hell, you give amazing hugs, and you make me feel safe."

"Safe?"

"Yeah. You feel safe. Like home."

Steve's face breaks out into a grin, one that's more confident, one that suits his face better, and he kisses Eddie once, slow and sweet.

And if Eddie loves holding and being held by Steve, well, that's no one's business but theirs.

And if Eddie's favorite place to be is laying with his head in Steve's lap, cheek pressed to his stomach as he falls asleep, well, they don't need to say anything about it.

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I saw that reverse writing tropes prompts go around and the 'instead of fake dating everyone's convinced you're not actually dating' is a 10/10 prompt for Steddie lol.

Between Eddie's dramatics and Steve's two year "thing" with/over/about Nancy, the fact they're instantly comfortable with each other, and the fact their relationship is very jokey, and you have not a singular soul believing either of them.

Well except Robin, but that's only because she shares a braincell with Steve and has more than once had to coax him out of the bathroom in grounds that Eddie "Won't break up with you over a bad hair day dingus God."

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and what about the band geeks adopting Steve bc of Robin?

what about how all of them collectively deciding to adopt him bc Robin sort of announced him as her best friend like she was showing off a new puppy and he looked excited to just be there with her?

what if he's the one who can get anything done in seconds bc he has this new lil network of people who see him as their lil guy? and Steve never taking any of their offers bc he'd rather use it as an excuse to hang out more with Robin?

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— lemony snicket

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a snippet of the hadestown au i'll never be confident enough to fully write

“Robin,” Eddie begged (probably a bit too desperately given the circumstances), “Robin-Robin-Robin, you’ve betrayed me.”

Robin sighed as she turned to face him.

“How have I betrayed you, Eddie?” she asked, “Honestly.”

Eddie didn’t respond, just gestured wordlessly at the man currently sitting in a booth on the other side of the bar that Robin had just led him into.

The most gorgeous (handsome, beautiful, sexy, attractive, hot, whatever) man Eddie had ever laid his humble eyes upon.

“I’ve told you loads about him, Eddie,” Robin replied, wrapping a hand around her wrist and trying to tug him away from the door.

“Yeah. You’ve told me all about how nice and funny and sweet he is, and how he’s a kindergarten teacher and how he puts most of his paycheck right back into his classroom and how he volunteers at that learning center downtown and he likes to cook and he gardens. He gardens, Rob. You didn’t tell me he’s also the hottest person I’ve ever seen in real life.”

Robin, the bastard that she is, only muttered, "Gross," and rolled her eyes as she finally succeeded in dislodging Eddie from where he’s feet had been planted on the somewhat sticky floor and getting him moving towards the booth.

“Robin,” he hissed.

“Just be cool,” she hissed back, “If you’re even capable of that.”

“I’m cool,” Eddie insisted, “I’m so cool.”

And then Robin is shoving him into the booth (across from Steve, thankfully) and sliding in next to him.

“Steve, this is Eddie,” she said, “Eddie – Steve.”

“Hey man,” Steve says, “Nice to meet you finally. Robin’s told me loads.”

Steve is grinning and it’s reaching all the way to his eyes, and they’re big and bright and brown and meeting his own eyes in full and it’s making Eddie’s heart thrum in a way he hasn’t really ever felt before, and someone should really revoke his allowed to speak freely card at least for a minute or two so he can't say something stupid, but nobody does so he says —

“Dude, I’m gonna marry you someday.”

Steve’s eyebrows fly up, but, if anything, his grin only gets wider as he looks at Robin.

“Rob – when you said this guy was crazy, I didn’t think you meant this crazy.”

Robin only gives him a resigned shrug.

“Not one of you listens to me.”

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timeloop that works like an infection. if you tell one person enough times that "help! im stuck in a timeloop" they too become conscious in it

#read a fic that worked kind of like this! #where more and more people started remembering past loops #cyclical by @cuips-not-cute #so good #possibly my favourite timeloop fic #highly recommend

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i know there are people who are hating on lucas for joining the basketball team to get in w the popular kids but this child spent his whole life being the target of racist bullying then for two years some freak was actually legitimately trying to murder him in a hate crime. yeah i think it’s fair if, given the opportunity, he tried to get a little protection through social acceptance. and he didn’t even ditch his friends, like the championship-hellfire stuff nods to the classic trope where someone gets too cool for his lifelong nerd friends, but he actually still badly wants to be engaging with his friends and their standard hobbies, he just also has an extremely significant, time-sensitive obligation. and then his very reasonable choices land him in an unpredictably horrifying situation which he extricates himself from to the best of his ability!! he’s a good egg

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Spreading my El is autistic agenda

#gah I need to write that fic

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Fancied drawing a cute soft pic where they are all tired out. Did they mean to crash out like that? What will Steve think of his leg hugging tendencies? Or will Eddie blush and mumble to find Steve sleeping practically between his legs?

Almost didn't share this as I wasn't very happy with the faces. But in the end I thought it's not so bad.

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Dustin invites the rest of the Scoops Troop to the Bingham family events, sometimes. It's a running inside joke: he brings his family to meet Suzie's. It's nice. It's fun.

Then Robin starts dating Eden. Only half a surprise, really, and Dustin feels like he should've seen it coming. Nothing about the family events change; if anything, Robin, Steve and Erica attend more than they used to.

Then Erica starts dating Tabitha. From what Suzie's told him, Tabitha is the menace of the family, which... makes sense as to her dating Erica.

3/4s of the Scoops Troop dating members of the Bingham family is just uncanny. At least it can't be the full group; there's nobody else around Steve's age that he could date.

Well. There's one person.

Which is how Steve finds himself entirely confused when Dustin barges into his room and gasps out, "PLEASE DON'T FUCK SUZIE'S DAD."

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Ohhhhh very curious to know more about 'ain't he gonna come out and say hello?' 👀

teehee i just answered one abt this fic, so here's the few sentences i have for this lil fic:

"Have a good time last night?"

His boy turns scarlet. Wayne would laugh if he wasn't scared it might send Eddie running for the hills.

"Maybe," Eddie clutches the prep's blue polo to his chest, bowing to retrieve the rest of the scattered clothing.

"Here."

Wayne holds out two mugs of coffee. Offers them handle-first to Eddie, who shoves the clothes under his armpit to take them both.

"He like cream and sugar?" Wayne asks.

"Um," And when Wayne turns, Eddie looks for all the world like a startled kitten.

Hackles raise, fit for hissin'. His boy's always been a defensive one.

Wayne holds up the cream carton, raises his eyebrow in question. "Cream and sugar?"

The tension on Eddie's face slowly drains. "He takes cream. Just cream, though."

"Great," Wayne tips the carton into the second mug. "'Cause I used the last of the sugar for your cup anyways."

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no, because aro nancy in the context of hawkins. she needs to get the fuck out because she'll gladly have sex with people she likes, she enjoys it, and she wants nothing more than that. she doesn't want a relationship, she wants friends and she wants family and she wants to be surrounded by people who understand, she doesn't want a romantic partner. who's there every day and who kisses her just because and who's going to claim a monopoly on her.

but in hawkins, a girl, a woman, can't just do that. she can't just sleep with boys and not want more. because that's a loose girl. to be pitied because she wasn't raised right, to be scorned by the other girls and to be disappointed in by their mothers. to be called a slut at the entrance of the movie theatre so everyone knows what kind of girl she really is.

and nancy can't worry about that every time she has an itch to scratch. she can't worry about that if her unwillingness to enter a relationship, to get married, is who she is at her core, not a hang-up and not something subject to change.

aro nancy who the inhabitants of hawkins don't have a word for like they would if she were fooling around with other girls. but who feels it, who feels a similar kind of alienation. who's different not just because she's a woman but because it's something more, too.

#aro Nancy my beloved #no opinions on the likelihood of this headcannon for I have not finished watching the show #but my beloved nonetheless

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Am I the Asshole? by formosus_iniquis

@formosusiniquis

Rating: Teen and Up

6,052 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: Chose Not to Use

Tags: Stobin Month (Stranger Things), Stobin Month 2024 (Stranger Things), Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Reddit AU, Some AITA typical terrible people, All relationships outside of Stobin are minor, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Platonic Soulmates Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Queerplatonic Robin Buckley/Steve Harrington, Nonbinary Steve Harrington, Nonbinary Robin Buckley

Summary:

r/AmITheAssshole u/HufflepuffHero94 9yrs ago AITA for being concerned about my girlfriends living situation? Even if nothing is going on I'm just worried that living in this kind of environment isn't safe for her. I mean this guy is probably just pretending to be her friend to get in her pants, I think the fact that they're from the same small town means she can't see that. I really think she would be better off if she moved into the dorms with me aita? --- aka the stobin AITA au

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

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#ty for reminding me to reread this!

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by varsavia

Steve thinks he might have a crush on Eddie Munson.

The problem is that he’s never had a crush on a guy before, therefore he doesn’t really know how it’s supposed to feel.

So Steve decides to do a bit of research.

Or: Steve calls a phone sex line. Eddie answers. All sorts of happy endings ensue.

Words: 11047, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson

Relationships: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Phone Calls & Telephones, Phone Sex, Sex Work, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Top Eddie Munson, Bottom Steve Harrington, Gay Mentor Eddie Munson, Bisexual Disaster Steve Harrington (affectionate), The author is also a bisexual disaster (derogatory), Sexuality Crisis, but Steve gets over it pretty quick, or should we say UNDER it ehe hehe, Smut, Smut and Humour, Fluff and Smut, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Rimming, Anal Fingering, Masturbation, Mutual Masturbation, guided masturbation, Fantasizing, Light Dom/sub, Orgasm Delay, Buckets of cum, Praise Kink, Dirty Talk, First Time, Semi-Public Sex, but not really bc it’s all just phone sex hihihi, the babygirl agenda™, Getting Together, Happy Ending, Idiots in Love, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Flustered Steve Harrington, Flustered Eddie Munson, Eddie Munson Wears Glasses, Kind of texting fic vibes but it’s just phone conversations so… no texting fic vibes at all