#bubblescoops and steddie!!

[queenie-ofthe-void]

post s2 Steve trying to get back to his normal life, turning up to a house party he was invited to but isn't really welcomed at. In an attempt to impress Billy, Tommy locks Steve in a closet and tosses a freshly bruised and beaten Eddie Munson in with him.

Carol, worried and pissed off, searches the whole place before she finds Steve and Munson wrapped up in each other in a heap of tongues and hands and sounds she can't unhear.

The day only gets worse when, instead of ratting them out to the bigots downstairs, Carol blackmails them.

"I promise I won't tell anyone-" Carol stares down Steve- "as long as you introduce me to the girl who sits behind you in Ms. Click's class."

"Aren't you still dating Tommy?" Steve scoffs.

She smirks. "Hopefully not for much longer."

[formosusiniquis]

twins of the heart

Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington; Robin Buckley/Carol Perkins wc: 2141 | T | tags & themes: Meeting the SO; No-longer Secret Relationships; Humor & the Tiniest Hint of Angst For @stobinmonth Day 11: matching | AO3

“I'm not changing.”

“We are not meeting my girlfriend for the first time matching, Steven.” Robin crosses her arms, ironically -- probably he's never really understood that -- matching his stance as she stands across from him.

Standing beside their selected arm chairs -- Robin's plaid with low arms and a springy cushion and Steve’s sunken and leather with the tall back -- he feels like Clint Eastwood. In a standoff with Robin, who's a second cowboy he doesn't know the name of even after weeks of watching spaghetti westerns with Wayne. She's got a smirk on her face. 

She thinks he's going to give in.

“We're in agreement then,” he says, “you've got a closet full of other shirts go find one.”

Robin looks seconds from ripping his button up off his shoulders, like it's his fault she's finally realized how much fun the bright colors are instead of the neutral pattern clashing she used to do.

“Your closet is bigger, she's my girlfriend you go change.”

“No, I've got my whole outfit planned.”

“I don't care that you matched your shoes to your shirt.”

It’s true that he has done that. It's also true that he has a backup outfit that he could use instead. But something about the frazzled way she’s looking at him, the way she’s tugging at the ends of her hair is tapping into his inner need to be a problem.

So instead of going back to his room. Instead of continuing what could, without a doubt, be an hours long argument until she either gave up and went to change or they went to the restaurant matching. He takes a step forward, settles down into the embrace of his chair and crosses his leg over his knee.

“Let’s talk about why it’s so important this ‘first’ meeting goes well.” He puts the air quotes around first because he knows how much it annoys her. Clasping his fingers on his knee when he’s done. “Are you worried that this sincerity of matching with your soulmate will scare her away?”

“You’ve taken one psych class, and it was developmental psych. For children.”

“Is this hostility real, or is it an easier emotion to express than fear?”

“I hate you. I hate you. I don’t know why we’re doing this.”

It wouldn’t be hard to keep this bit going, but Robin’s stress is quickly moving from funny joke to actually concerning. “It’s Carol, babe. I probably know your girlfriend better than you do.”

“Great,” Robin claps her hands, spins in a circle like she’s about to go back to her room but thinks better of it. “You can stay home then and I can make that table for three a table for two instead.”

“Robs.”

“You have to change.”

“We’re meeting,” he says slowly repeating her question from earlier in the same cadence he uses with his daycare students, “because you want your two favorite people to get along and because you feel bad that you were secretly dating my old best friend for a whole month.”

“She’s changed.” Robin says.

“I’m sure she has,” he agrees. It would be stranger if she hadn’t. Of the three of them Carol had always been the smartest, the quickest to point out what they had missed. Picking at a stray cat hair his lint roller had missed, he wonders how long after he’d left that Carol realized he’d been right about them being dicks. Wondered how long before she stopped being so stubborn and did something about it too.

“You’ve changed.” She says slowly like she’s repeating the answer to a question he’s asked three times already.

That doesn’t feel fair to either of them, and he’s ready to say that, when Robin’s hand flapping distracts him. “Except you haven’t, you’re just Steve and you’ve always been Steve but what if she has changed and you all can’t stand each other.”

“Well you’ll have to break up with her then.” He uncrosses his legs, braces his arms on his knees, a mockery of that ‘I mean business’ pose that Hopper would take at the end of a lecture,

Only Robin doesn’t laugh. Her eyes drop down to her clasped, nervous hands instead.

“No.”

“I mean,” she starts to say the expression on her face almost as guilty as it was when he answered the phone just to be shot back in time at the sound of Carol’s complaining the second she hears the line open.

The snap of her gum and the, “Babe, you are not going to believe this.” Had been so jarring he’d had to check that he was in the shitty, smoke-stained kitchen in their apartment and not the white walls of his parent’s house. When he’d caught Robin’s eyes hers had been wide enough he could see the pink in the corners. Panic like he hadn’t even seen in the Upside Down.

“I’m sure I wouldn’t,” he had said, hearing the soft sound of Carol’s surprise through what’s passing for a connection. “I’ll pass you over to Robin now, Babe.”

That night she’d done what passes for grovelling: take out from the place he likes but she can’t stand, Some Like it Hot already playing on the TV.

They didn't like arguing and like apologies even less. Robin was sorry he was sure, even if he was less sure why she hadn't told him about Carol in the first place. She hadn't had any problem complaining about her when she realized they were sharing the same campus.

And now they were wearing matching shirts in their living room, minutes from being late to a dinner with a girlfriend she’s thinking about breaking up with. Maybe that's why she hadn't said anything last month or last week or any time in between when her “study sessions” at “the library” went late enough that they missed getting to see each other before work and bed.

Steve is fine being the voice of reason, even if hes not sure why he has to be. “You’re not going to break up with your girlfriend if we don’t get along.”

“I will break up with whoever I want to.”

“Robin.”

“Steve.” Her arms are crossed, pulled tight against her chest. 

He thinks they’re going to have to actually talk about this. Not just bicker and tease and ignore the places where the hurt feelings come from. Because hurt feelings aren’t them, they aren’t something they do. They’re Steve and Robin. They don’t fight, disagree, or really argue -- because not wanting to get pizza from the place twenty minutes away that doesn’t deliver for the second time that week is none of those things.

“Were you ever going to tell me you were even seeing someone? Or should I just be glad I didn’t walk in on you eating out in the kitchen.”

“There wasn’t anything to tell.” Robin snaps like a rubber band pulled too far: sudden and it’s break more surprising than painful.

“At some point there was, and since we aren’t actually attached at the brain I really don’t know what you’re thinking.” He keeps his voice level but now that the words are leaving his mouth it’s like the slow peel of a scab coming up. Fresh blood following the sting of an unhappy, unhealed wound.

He wishes he were, wishes he could know everything about her, and she him, instantly. Wishes thoughts and extensions and meaning could just be there immediately and obvious. 

But it isn't, they aren’t. Steve just has to deal with knowing there are things that will always be secret, meaning he may never even be aware he missed.

“You liked her and I didn't,” Robin says carefully, the first stuttering chugs of a train starting forward. It has to start before it can barrel on. “That’s how it started.”

Steve is still sitting, legs spread, and Robin’s hands are flicking back and forth, swaying in a miserable vogue as thoughts arrange themselves in her mind, she steps forward.  Stepping and putting herself in that open space, ending the argument they still weren't really having through her proximity.

���Then we both hated her and that was good,” Robin continues. “What if now that I like her, you still don’t?

“If you never meet again it’s never a problem,” she continues. “I won’t have to end things. Cause that’s what I’ll do, Steve, there isn’t a choice between you and someone else. It’s always gonna be you. You’re my person.”

“It’s always gonna be you too, Rob.” He settles his hands on her waist in an almost hug, contact so he can keep looking her in the face when he asks. “But why are all you nerds so black and white?”

She scoffs, a total not-answer he knows means she doesn’t know what to say because he’s right.

“I didn’t hate Care, I still don’t. I was mad at her and Tommy. Mostly Tommy. But it wasn’t like she was dead to me. We talked in class and at games. She moved here for school, we were busy with fighting evil. We lost touch.”

“You don’t hate her?”

“I hate like three people and two of them are dead already. Everyone else is just annoying.”

“So you’ll change?”

She asks it gently, like it should be accompanied by an upset child’s sniffle. He almost feels bad about the way he knows he’s going to answer. Turning the hold on her waist into an actual hug, Steve rests his chin on the soft muscle of her stomach, looking up into her chin, and says, “No. We’re already late.”

He’s laughing too hard to keep his feet under him as Robin pulls him out of the chair. When he stumbles up to standing, she squeezes his hand, hard, a punishment for being mean to her.

“I hate you. I hate you. I hate you,” she chants.

She’s still muttering it down their apartment hall, in the car, and up to the restaurant where her mildly pissy face melts into something soft and gooey.

Carol is already waiting looking polished and pressed as she always has. The mid-length skirt and the chin length hair suit her. If the fashion is any indication, the 90’s seem like they’ll be kinder than the last few years have been.

Steve drops Robin’s hand as Carol walks up, gives them the space to greet one another. A warm hug: hands drifting. A kiss to the cheek: lip gloss sticky and possessive. Kind doesn’t mean they don’t still need to be careful, their greeting never slips beyond what could be friends meeting up. 

And when they let go Carrie’s eyes, still soft, take on that sly pinch at the corner. She hugs him too: one arm, from the side, hands firmly in the zone of public decency. “This twin thing is cute.”

Robin groans so they can both hear all the ways that Steve has victimized her.

“I mean it, Birdie, “ she says. And Steve can hear the way age has sanded down some of her sharper edges. “Makes me hungry.”

Robin flushes, a deep red Steve can feel the heat of in his own face. “Really?

Some of her edges, not all. The look in her eyes revealing that sharp gleam he knows meant, at one point, that she and Tommy were going to disappear into a spare bedroom and leave him to fend for himself.

“I had meant literally.” If they disappear to fuck in the bathroom he’s leaving them with the bill.

But Carol shakes her head and puts the obviously dirty thoughts behind her. “I haven’t seen you two look this cute since the summer we graduated.”

Wait. 

“You didn’t ever come into Scoops.” Steve accuses. 

Carol’s complexion betrays her. “No, but Orange Julius was right across the food court.”

Robin is looking back and forth between them. And she was worried they wouldn’t get along. He’s about to give Rob the food to get Care riled up for weeks.

“You spend a lot of time in the food court that summer?”

“Freshman fifteen doesn’t count if it happens before the school year starts.”

“And the seats across from Scoops were the best in the room?”

“It had the best view, and I can remember more than a few freaks and geeks who would say the exact same thing.”

“Wait,” Robin says, “you were looking at…”

“Blue looks good on you,” Carol sways into Robin’s space, a leer on her face that suggests that Steve will have the apartment to himself tonight. Carol’s eyes cut up to him, a reminder that she hasn’t forgotten him or the purpose of tonight, “It looks alright on you, Stevie.”

“Yeah, big surprise who you think wore it better. You’ve always been easy.”

“We have that in common, looks like you match with both of us.”

[queenofshenanigans]

WIP Week(end) 6/06

I'm still working through some asks from the past couple weeks, but we're getting there! Making good progress on some things as well! And trying really hard not to add MORE things to the queue until at least a couple are in posting form. So! Make me write!

I was tagged by @queenie-ofthe-void, @sourw0lfs, @turinspeachjam, @felixir-of-moths and @tinytalkingtina this week. <3

⚾ Second Chance at First Love (and Third Base) - Steddie Big Bang! No longer a secret!!

🛼 - Sapphic Mini Bang (90s Bubblescoops, Stommy) I'll share 👩‍👩‍👦 or 🤸‍♂️- if you have a preference, drop an emoji

👩‍👩‍👦 - the Stranger Moms fic - S5 AU ft. the Stranger Moms

🐉 - Steve finds a dragon in his closet - Dustigan, developing Steddie

🏰 - Shenanigans in Steve's attic - Steve has good parents actually, Steddie, Scoops Troop

⚔️ - A Knight's Tale (with magic) - Ronance, Steddie, lots of Wheeler siblings, platonic Stobin, platonic Edancy

🤸‍♂️- The Yeet Aerobics Fic - S3 AU Stedissy, platonic Stobin, matchmaker Wayne, Buckingway

Snippet from A Knight's Tale (continued from here) and tags under the cut

These were the thoughts running through Lady Robin of House Buckley's mind, as she stared out her bedroom window at the forest. It was well past midnight but not yet dawn, and she was—as had been typical for her in childhood—Watching. When she was younger, she'd spent these Watching hours staring out her window at the Blooming Forest, just visible in the moonlight at the edge of the family estate. If she squinted, and stayed still enough, she could see the faintest shimmers of the forest magic, the flutters of wings, as the forest faeries went about their midnight business. Sometimes she would see shadows of larger creatures, hear the howls and growls as they hunted and killed. Her midnight Watchings always left her with a sense of unease, but there was always the sense that she had to keep vigil; that some day it would be important that she be ready.

It had been years, however, since she'd felt the call for a Watching, but tonight she'd awoken just after midnight, skin crawling with an anxious knowing feeling, an itch that she couldn't scratch just out of reach. Wrapped in a quilt, though the summer solstice was just weeks away, she sat at the window and Watched. The forest, dormant for a decade now, was alive again. Flashes of light, flutters of wings. Shadows of larger creatures. The howls and growls of things hunting reached her, though she should be too far to hear--the walls of her family's estate too thick for the noises to penetrate--and yet she heard them, deep in her mind.

The magic was returning to this part of the forest, she realized, and swallowed against the fear, against the sense that this was what she'd been preparing for as a child. Something was coming back—and there were those rumors about the North. The ones no one was supposed to know about.

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[lavenderstobins]

sapphirerays' fic masterlist

AO3 | Twitter | divider from here | Last updated: 22nd May 2025

🩵 Series

Hummingbird / Robin Hammond AU

hummingbird | Robin is Benny Hammond’s daughter.

radiant people in splintering light | A companion fic to 'Hummingbird' from El's perspective.

Spider-Man Steve

in the web that is my own, i begin again | Steve struggles to balance his superhero identity with his regular life. (WIP)

Josieverse

somebody that you used to know | A look at Robin, before.

birds don't sing | Robin finds out she's pregnant.

here's to my future (here's to my yesterday) | The Party find out.

sharing beds like little kids | A small moment during Robin's pregnancy.

tomorrow's coming at the speed of light | Robin finally has Josie.

smile at the chance just to see you again | Jonathan and Argyle meet baby Josie.

mama's boy | A study of Claudia and Dustin’s relationship over the years.

bright as the morning sun | Josie likes to pretend to be asleep so she’ll be carried to bed. Robin finds a way to test whether she’s actually asleep.

what you fear the most | Steve comes home to find Robin and Josie seemingly trapped.

all for freedom and for pleasure | Eddie discovers that Josie has learnt how to blackmail people.

when you touch the stars, hold my hand | Josie is confused about why she doesn’t have a dad.

Out of Touch

you're out of touch, i'm out of time | Steve and Nancy travel back in time to 1983 and try to fix things.

you got light in your eyes | Steve can't stop thinking about what Mr. Hauser had told him about Robin.

🌿 WIPs

one more or one less | After Starcourt, Steve realises that Robin's missing.

chasing visions of our futures | Stevie's dead set on nudging Robin and Nancy together. She's not expecting to realise her feelings for Eddie along the way.

you’re someone (who knows someone i once knew) | Steve Harrington dies. Decades later, Dustin Henderson resurrects him. This is not that story. That story’s already been told. No, this is about what comes after.

holding my last breath | There's a masked killer targeting teenagers in Hawkins. (Scream AU)

neck full of mockingbirds | Carol and Robin, from start to end.

🪻Finished Fics

love will tear us apart | Robin gets Vecna’d

separation brings us awfully close | Chrissy learns the hard way that Spider-Woman can’t save everyone.

the pleasure, the privilege is mine| Robin won’t let Steve go alone. Not even at the end of the world.

share the same space for a minute or two | Nancy isn’t yet sure what to do with herself now that the world isn’t ending. Robin helps.

the future's unwritten, the past is a corridor | Robin and Nancy have just moved into their new house with their son, next door to Steve, Eddie and their daughter.

through the years we all will be together (if the fates allow) | Steve and Robin work on Christmas. Everyone brings a little bit of Christmas to them.

leave the speaker on and stay | Steve and Robin meet in 1984 instead.

guess i'm a coward (i just want to feel alright) | When the bats attack, Eddie sticks to the plan, and he runs, and he lives. He thinks, maybe, that he’ll hate himself forever for it.

cracks in your ceiling | Nancy has a movie night with friends, invents a new disease, and quite possibly has her life ruined by Sigourney Weaver.

in war, in peace, in death | Steve realises Robin's alive, trapped in the Fade. (A Dragon Age AU)

now i've found a real love  | After closing up the Upside Down for good, everyone deserves a nice Christmas.

used to be you but now it's you and me | It's only natural to cry on your birthday.

'cause i'm gonna be free and i'm gonna be fine | Two decades after the Upside Down closes for good, Steve's daughter goes viral on TikTok, and things quickly escalate from there.

this dream isn't feeling sweet | Lucas finds himself struggling at the post-championship game party.

there’s joy not far from here (i know there is) | Steve, Robin and the party have an important discussion about homophobia.

HOW TO SURVIVE THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: A GUIDE BY DUSTIN HENDERSON | Dustin's guide to the apocalypse.

this is how we'll dance | Prom night 1985 from Robin, Eddie and Steve's perspectives.

hold onto hope if you got it | When the trailer park is destroyed, Wayne loses his mug collection of twenty years. Eddie decides this is unacceptable and must be rectified.

you will surely be the death of me | When Eddie plans to go out of town, Robin and Steve finally agree to play a D&D campaign, on the following conditions: 1) it’s one session, and 2) Robin’s the DM.

life among the dead | A Pushing Daisies AU in which Nancy can resurrect the dead.

tonight i'll dream while i’m in bed | Steve and Robin met, once, long before Scoops Ahoy and Starcourt Mall.

sing me to sleep | Nancy goes searching for Robin in the Upside Down after Steve dies.

caught up in the motion | Robin accidentally wears Nancy's Emerson t-shirt to work. Problem is, nobody apart from Steve knows that they're dating.

if this feeling flows both ways | Nancy accidentally receives a sext from Robin and can’t stop thinking about it. (smut)

i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me | It’s been a while since Nancy’s had time alone with Robin. She intends to make the most of it. (smut)

every time it rains | Kali wouldn't class herself as someone fond of walks, but she is fond of Steve.

i wanna be adored | Nancy's lonely. Eden's there.

wear me like a locket around your throat | Patrick McKinney's thoughts on Steve Harrington.

liquorice kiss | Nancy can't stop thinking about Eden's lipstick.

kiss and (don't) tell | Eddie has a hickey. The party try to figure out who gave it to him.

what could you say to moving on | Robin dies before Scoops, before Steve, before she was ever part of any of their lives. It just so happens that Nancy's there when she claws her way back out of her grave.

i've been waiting my whole life (to know i wanted you) | Steve thinks about how easy things are with Jonathan.

honey on the tongue  | Steve has an embarrassing suntan, Nancy and Jonathan struggle with jealousy, and Robin’s just dragged along for the ride.

there's nothing but time that's wasted | Stuck in the woods, all Steve and Robin can do is wait for rescue... and hope it comes in time.

into dust together | Robin, dying, through Dustin's eyes.

Other Fandoms

Fallout

can’t help remembering you | Butch mulls over the events of the past few days after leaving Vault 101. 

linger in my arms a little longer | A couple of bottles of whiskey lead to some confessions. If only they could remember them...

you're getting to be a habit with me | After being kicked out of the vault for good, the lone wanderer struggles to cope with her feelings. 

couldn't hide from the thunder in a sky full of song | The lone wanderer makes one final sacrifice to complete her father's life's work.

got you under my skin | When you turn eighteen, you get the first nickname your soulmate calls you by on your wrist. This is Vault 101's best kept secret. (WIP)

Dragon Age

absolutely loved, absolutely free | After the dark ritual, Alistair gets in his head about things. He wants to remind the Warden that she's his, and his alone.

[absurddino]

Drabble requests! (CLOSED)

Send an ask with a number from this list and a ship and I'll write you a drabble!

*I use the term drabble very loosely

- Steve x Eddie

- Steve x Eddie x Billy

- Steve x Billy

- Steve x Billy x Tommy

- Steve x Tommy

- Steve x Tommy x Carol

- Eddie x Billy

- Robin x Chrissy

- Robin x Heather

- Robin x Nancy

- Robin x Carol

- open request!

If you want a specific genre, or have any other requests for the drabble, do not hesitate to ask!

[the-effect-of-chaos]

Poll time steddie nation!

I am tossing up minor background pairings for Robin, Chrissy, Gareth, and Will. Now I have several options here and at least two fics currently in the works to choose the pairings for so I'll list the options for each character in the poll and hopefully you all can give me some idea of what you'd really like to see.

Will be reblogging to add the next character poll since you can only add one per post...

[mugloversonly]

WIP WEEKEND

Thanks for tagging me @losingmygrasponreality

Rules: Send me an emoji from the list below, and I'll write 2 or 3 sentences for that work and share!

💔 Next Time Tell Me: Steve sabatoges Eddie's love life. (Might start posting this one in July!)

🌈 Pride Bingo! Give me a number and I'll do that one! If you don't care, just the emoji and I'll roll a d6!

1: bubblescoops

2: Buckingham Wedding

3: Edgyle

4: platonic Edancy

5: steddiessy

6: gender queer hellcheer

No pressure tags:

@katyawriteswhump @fuctacles @runninriot @the-unforgivenn @littlexdeaths @vivalski

[maraschinobomb]

WIP Word Search!! 💗

RULES: use this generator to generate three random words (or however many you’d like to do!) and share the lines where they show up in your wips!

i wasn't tagged but i saw @itcanbepalped do it!

tear: "She's crying, she realizes; silent tears trailing down her face to run rivers through the mess." - petals part four

sound: "Their new walls aren't any thicker, sturdy and pristine but still so conducive of sound, he can hear the yelling from the driveway." - petalsverse steddie oneshot

friendly: "It's her warm and friendly voice, which only comes out on special occasions; it makes Chrissy smile." - modern au buckingham oneshot

keep: "Has to keep her shit together if she's going to make it good, and she always makes it good." - creep!robin bubblescoops oneshot

the lack of context for only one line is killing me 😭😭

[eddiethebrave]

secret admirer part twenty-five

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That morning…

Eddie, it really sucks that you’re the only you. other than the fact that two eddies would be amazing on it’s own, i realized that you don’t know how it feels to have your attention. it’s so intense dude. you’re so intense. in the best way, of course. i can only hope that i get to experience that feeling more in the future. maybe in the present, too. p.s. i got your book again yesterday, here’s hoping second time’s the charm -H

Yesterday, Eddie thinks, he should have been more present and paid attention to what H’s note said. He’d sort of gone into tunnel vision when he’d been - however jokingly - accused of not understanding one of his books. It kind of made him wish for the first time that he could talk back. He’d contemplated just walking up to Hagan during lunch, but decided not to. He wouldn’t want to make anyone suspicious of the guy, no matter how much of an asshole he tends to be to everyone else. Eddie just isn’t that kind of person. 

The audacity of a jock who’s admitted to only reading books for school - and for Eddie - to allege that Eddie needs to read a book more than once in order to understand it. 

Has he read all of his favorite books more than once? Yes, but that’s only because they’re his favorites!

And does he notice something new nearly every reread? Also yes, but he chooses to believe that’s what Tolkien intended. It’s like a scavenger hunt of foreshadowing and little things to get excited about even when you know the ending. 

Anyway, Eddie is decidedly less preoccupied today and he’s been wondering what book H is reading.

His curiosity leads him to venture into the school’s library before he heads to the lunchroom. 

He tries to recall which books he’d checked out the last couple of months. Once he’s compiled his mental list, he tracks them down one by one. Eddie checks the card that’s in a pocket inside the front cover of each book on the off chance that Hagan’s name is logged on any of them - it’s not. 

Eddie does find it interesting, though, to see a pattern in a few of the names he does see. Those that pop up multiple times are mostly people he recognizes from Hellfire.

He slowly eliminates each book until he’s left with one that’s not on the shelf. The Return of The King. The last book in the The Lord of the Rings series. 

Most staff - like the students - at Hawkins High aren’t very happy when they see Eddie ‘The Freak’ Munson approaching them. The school librarian isn’t one of them, though. Eddie’s been traipsing through this library for the better part of four years. 

Before he’d procured his prickly personality and style as a defense mechanism to the hostile environment of high school in rural Indiana, Eddie found shelter among the creaky furniture, shelves lined with books, and Ms. Hewitt.

She’s seen his sorry face more times than you can count and has always greeted him with a smile. Today is no different. 

He asks her about The Return of the King.

“Someone beat ya’ to it. Nice young man, he was.”

And while Eddie wouldn’t necessarily refer to Tommy Hagan as nice, he would for H. 

Eddie thanks and bids her farewell and then he’s off to lunch. 

He’s still having trouble conflating Hagan and his better half as the same person. 

So, H read the last book of an already complicated series without any backstory. No wonder he was so fucking confused. Eddie laughs to himself just imagining it. Against his better judgment, he’s hopelessly endeared. 

He’s late to lunch, but it’s not as if he was planning on paying for what the school thinks passes for food, anyway. 

When he takes his seat at the head of the table, Jeff places an apple from his homemade meal in front of him without even looking his way or pausing his debate with Gareth (the freshman who’d flipped Eddie’s world upside down by unknowingly revealing H’s identity as the one and only Tommy fucking Hagan).

Eddie absentmindedly munches on the fruit as he takes up his usual lunchtime hobby of gazing at a certain jock’s table. He finds it sort of odd when Harrington - Steve - forces Hagan to play musical chairs or some shit, but Eddie’s not intrigued enough to care, really. He does catch sight of Hagan’s red face and clenched jaw, though. If he didn’t know any better, he’d think the guy was pissed. 

The change of seats provides Eddie with something more worthwhile to look at, so he’s not complaining. Steve seems in high spirits, and Eddie feels his own mood brighten in return.

When their shared elective comes along, Eddie finds himself jittery as he awaits the boy’s arrival. It makes him feel sort of silly, but not enough to lessen the excitement when Steve finally arrives.

The jock takes his seat between Eddie and Carol and turns to greet the latter.

“Carol, Robin.”

“Steve,” the girls say simultaneously without looking in his direction at all. Eddie doesn’t pretend to know what’s going on there, and he honestly doesn’t want to.

Steve then turns to his left to face Eddie, and the last thing he needs is to be limited to the same dry conversation - if you could even call it that - so he cuts him off once he starts.

“Ed-”

“Steven Harold Harrington III. How now?” Eddie has never been the best at English accents, but he figures it gets the point across just fine.

Steve’s face splits into a grin before he forces his expression into a stoic one. He continues to adopt the most heinous English accent Eddie has ever heard - including his own. “That’s His Majesty Steven Harold Harrington III to you, Edwin,” he says snottily.

Eddie can’t help but break into his own grin. Never mind the fact that Eddie’s name isn’t fucking Edwin, but Edward. Few people embrace his antics, let alone engage in them. 

Eddie is so gone on this boy. He was kidding himself thinking he could stay away. 

Steve Harrington might just be the end of him.

twenty-six

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[azrielgreen]

do you have any new fic ideas that you're looking forward to working on?!

I have several insanely exciting ones on the horizon including a VERY Dead Dove Metalsandwich Dark!Fic, Steddie Soulmates/Childhood bestfriends, a Eddie Came Back Wrong fic im feral for, Zombie!Eddie muzzle fic, CULT LEADER STEVE fic, Penny Dreadful Metalsandwich fic, metalsandwich competitive wooing, SIREN BUBBLESCOOPS, the AZVERSE CRACK FIC WHERE EVERY EDDIE IS ACCIDENTALLY DRAWN TO CANON STEVE and a few more surprise ones!

[mothellie]

Tierlisting ST Ships

As a multi-shipper, I was thinking recently that it's funny how nonplussed I am about shipping in general. I either love/like/enjoy a ship or feel entirely neutrally about it. It's hard for me to genuinely dislike a ship. A ship may not be my thing, but I very rarely dislike them.

Stranger Things is the fandom I have the MOST ships in so I thought I would tierlist them. I don't know, I was bored. Sue me.

Also for some of these characters, they don't have canon ages, so I just tried to go based off of context clues and what people have put online as far as assumptions. That's why you may see characters like Gareth being shipped with both Party members and the older teens.

If any ships are missing, I probably either 1) don't know it exists or 2) have no strong opinions about it.

❤️ Absolute OTPs

Kargyle (Argyle/Kali)

Fredrick (Fred/Patrick)

Buckingham (Robin/Chrissy)

Ronance (Robin/Nancy)

Byergrove (Jonathan/Billy)

Cheerscoops (Chrissy/Steve)

Hellcheer (Chrissy/Eddie)

Steddie (Steve/Eddie)

Stali (Steve/Kali)

Edancy (Eddie/Nancy)

Punkpistol (Kali/Nancy)

Steddissy (Chrissy/Steve/Eddie)

🧡 Love Them Abnormally

Surfcheer (Argyle/Chrissy)

Greatwise (Will/Gareth)

Tigerfreak (Jason/Eddie)

Cunningrove (Chrissy/Billy)

Sleuthcheer (Chrissy/Nancy)

Mungrove (Billy/Eddie)

Wheelgrove (Billy/Nancy)

Stancy (Steve/Nancy)

Henclair (Dustin/Lucas)

Hopclair (Eleven/Lucas)

Lumax (Max/Lucas)

Chronance (Robin/Chrissy/Nancy)

Greatwiseknight (Will/Gareth/Mike)

Royalgrove (Chrissy/Billy/Steve)

Stedancy (Steve/Eddie/Nancy)

Elumax (Eleven/Max/Lucas)

Stonerdolls (Argyle/Chrissy/Steve/Eddie)

Metalhamsandwich (Chrissy/Billy/Steve/Eddie)

Royalcourt (Chrissy/Steve/Eddie/Nancy)

💛 Love Them Normally

Jargyle (Argyle/Jonathan)

Edgyle (Argyle/Eddie)

Caligoth (Eden/Billy)

Buckleway (Robin/Heather)

Photocheer (Jonathan/Chrissy)

Stonathan (Jonathan/Steve)

Byclair (Will/Lucas)

Byler (Will/Mike)

Cargrove (Jason/Billy)

Kinver (Jason/Patrick)

Cunningway (Chrissy/Heather)

Greatmage (Gareth/Eleven)

Stommy (Tommy/Steve)

Harringrove (Billy/Steve)

Kalilly (Billy/Kali)

Henfield (Dustin/Max)

Bancy (Barb/Nancy)

Wheelway (Heather/Nancy)

Elmax (Eleven/Max)

Trickriff (Jeff/Patrick)

Bubblesleuth (Carol/Nancy)

Stoncy (Jonathan/Steve/Nancy)

Steddilly (Billy/Steve/Eddie)

Basketmetal (Jason/Billy/Steve/Eddie)

💚 Like Them Passively

Calisurf (Argyle/Billy)

Stargyle (Argyle/Steve)

Bubblescoops (Robin/Carol)

Rockie (Robin/Vickie)

Byerway (Jonathan/Heather)

Photofreak (Jonathan/Eddie)

Jancy (Jonathan/Nancy)

Stason (Jason/Steve)

Drumcheer (Chrissy/Gareth)

Kinningham (Chrissy/Patrick)

Jareth (Gareth/Jeff)

Teddie (Tommy/Eddie)

Hollowgrove (Billy/Heather)

Steff (Steve/Jeff)

Henderhop (Dustin/Eleven)

Barbie (Barb/Eddie)

Jeddie (Jeff/Eddie)

Bubblemetal (Eddie/Carol)

Deathmetal (Eddie/Kali)

Jedgyle (Argyle/Jonathan/Eddie)

Kongyle (Argyle/Jonathan/Kali)

Bunningrove (Jonathan/Chrissy/Billy)

Stongrove (Jonathan/Billy/Steve)

Jancegrove (Jonathan/Billy/Nancy)

Kinningver (Jason/Chrissy/Patrick)

Kegboys (Tommy/Billy/Steve)

Stomarol (Tommy/Steve/Carol)

Stancegrove (Billy/Steve/Nancy)

Henclairfield (Dustin/Max/Lucas)

Stonedgyle (Argyle/Jonathan/Steve/Eddie)

Stonerkings (Jonathan/Billy/Steve/Eddie)

Stoncegrove (Jonathan/Billy/Steve/Nancy)

🩵 Like Them In Specific Conditions

Stonergarden (Argyle/Eden)

Tigercheer (Jason/Chrissy)

Hagangrove (Tommy/Billy)

Cammy (Tommy/Carol)

Harringway (Steve/Heather)

Harringkins (Steve/Carol)

Madwheeler (Max/Mike)

💙 Curious About Them

Rollermage (Angela/Eleven)

Cargyle (Argyle/Jason)

Tomgyle (Argyle/Tommy)

Surfguard (Argyle/Heather)

Birdgarden (Eden/Robin)

Gardencheer (Eden/Chrissy)

Drumgarden (Eden/Gareth)

Gothscoops (Eden/Steve)

Bingway (Eden/Heather)

Metalgarden (Eden/Eddie)

Bubblegarden (Eden/Carol)

Buckland (Robin/Barb)

Robali (Robin/Kali)

Byergan (Jonathan/Tommy)

Byerland (Jonathan/Barb)

Byerson (Will/Dustin)

Carwheel (Jason/Nancy)

Bubblecheer (Chrissy/Carol)

Deathcheer (Chrissy/Kali)

Kingrove (Billy/Patrick)

Harkins (Billy/Carol)

Harringland (Steve/Barb)

Munway (Heather/Eddie)

💜 Not My Thing

Muppetbird (Robin/Tammy)

Eddeth (Gareth/Eddie)

[thatgirlwithasquid]

Squid's Fanfiction Masterlist

I just wanted to put a list of all my fic in one place on tumblr for the hell of it. I may perhaps also be procrastinating rn but that hardly matters! So, here are all my posted works:

Stranger Things:

Cunningway

She Tastes of Bubblegum : 326 words [✓]

Existence Herself : 602 words [✓]

Blondies, Brownies, and Kitchen Catastrophes : 4,595 words [✓]

Your Number in the Pocket of My Jeans : 1,077 words [✓]

Ceramic Hearts : 63,582 words [✓]

Knowing is Touching Hands : 1,432 words [✓]

Hold Me Like You're Scared To Lose Me : 842 words [✓]

From the Shallows : 1,292 words [✓]

Pink Cheeks, Aching Wrist : 1,926 words [✓]

A Colour So Divine : 1,095 words [✓]

Red Strings Tether Secret Hearts : 851 words [✓]

Pumpkin Guts : 1,495 words [✓]

Can We Skip The Shovel Talk? : 2,205 words [✓]

dear daffodil, my daffodil : 712 words [✓]

Porcelain. Gold. : 583 words [✓]

Even On Bad Days : 758 words [✓]

To Cherish and be Cherished : 427 words [✓]

Princess : 426 words [✓]

Meet Me After Work : 2,176 words [✓]

The Courage to Stop and Stare : 646 words [✓]

In a Patch of Sunlight : 434 words [✓]

The Cat Curse : 612 words [✓]

Harringrove

I've Been There For A While : 1,004 words [✓]

Sometimes Werewolves Need Baths Too : 4,374 words [✓]

Dear Moor Monster of Mine : 15,746 words [✗]

Not Quite Less Than Romantic : 2,624 words [✓]

2:46 AM : 4,901 words [✓]

Love me in the night : 3,277 words [✓]

The Curse of the Byers' House : 2,906 words [✓]

A Rainy Date : 2,089 words [✓]

Like Fireworks Across A Dark Sky : 1,922 words [✓]

Sleeping In Cars : 4,164 words [✗]

Cheerparty

letters that i can never send : 25,571 words [✓]

Bubblescoops

Love is Just Another Leap of Faith : 18,774 words [✓]

Byergrove

to taste, as you would a galaxy : 9,498 words [✗]

Byver

show yourself, i’ll capture the moment : 2,229 words [✓]

Steddie

More Dead Than Alive : 7,636 words [✓]

Crimson Gloves : 3,203 words [✓]

Gen

Waffles Fix Everything : 925 words [✓]

Sharpie on Stone : 1,730 words [✓]

Maybe this is family : 902 words [✓]

Bone and Black Vein : 304 words [✓]

Not How Magic Works : 1,195 words [✓]

Harry Potter:

Harry/George

Communication and Cuddles : 1,173 words [✓]

Anxiety and Acceptance : 1,146 words [✓]

Christmas and Candles : 5,700 words [✓]

Severus/Sirius

Lions and Snakes and Phoenixes, oh my! : 21,089 words [✓]

Wolfstar

The Tale Our Stars Tell is of Beauty and Tragedy : 2,117 words [✓]

Gen

Severus Snape and the Burden of Responsibility : 16,491 words [✓]

Harry Prince and the Philosopher's Stone : 27,455 words [✗]

Broken Boys With Loaded Shoulders : 2,180 words[✓]

Thank Me When I Deserve It : 2,571 words [✓]

Andi Mack:

Wonah

Best Day : 2,015 words [✓]

Rester

Really : 1,403 words [✓]

Tyrus

A Couple's Costume : 1,478 words [✓]

Suffocated : 1,193 words [✓]

❤️Tyrus❤️ : 4,816 words [✗]

Ambi

🧡Ambi🧡 : 4,849 words [✗]

Muffy

💛Muffy💛 : 2,122 words [✗]

Jibby

💚Jibby💚 : 287 words [✗]

Gen

💙Landi💙 : 1,326 words [✗]

Thunderbolts:

Gen

burn so fast, it scares me : 1,172 words [✓]

The Suicide Squad:

Quinnflag

Someone I Just Want Around : 3,228 words [✗]

Teen Wolf:

Sterek

What He's Good At : 5,197 words [✓]

Detroit: Become Human:

Gen

Thirium Pooling in His Chest (Bleeding Different, Feeling the Same) : 4,145 words [✓]

Arcane:

Jayvik

Our Legacy Forged in Destiny : 8,724 words [✗]

Encanto:

Camilo/Reader

Playing Pretend : 50,283 words [✗]

Little Nightmares:

Gen

The Ache : 1,254 words [✓]

The Host:

Wanderer/Ian

Between Sleeping and Waking : 1,809 words [✓]

[teantoxin]

🫧🍦 Thoughts

I need our bubblescoops ship to survive over here after twitter. I need my toxic Carol x Robin ship. The Elon man baby can't take away my toxic lesbians so even though we are hellbent on getting the steddie threads imported over here, don't forget our two girlies who are young in the grand scheme of ship creation 🥹😭🏳️‍🌈

[queenofshenanigans]

I'm still working through some asks from the past couple weeks (lots of Sapphic Mini Bang, Stranger Mom, Aerobics & A Knight's Tale to come), but we're getting there! Making good progress on some things as well! And trying really hard not to add MORE things to the queue until at least a couple are in posting form. So! Make me write!

I was tagged by @turinspeachjam, @madaboutmunson, @cloudsurfing42, @hbyrde36, @tinytalkingtina, @maxfandoms, @vthx <3

⚾ Second Chance at First Love (and Third Base) - Steddie Big Bang! No longer a secret!! Making some progress!

🛼 - Sapphic Mini Bang (90s Bubblescoops, Stommy) I'll share 👩‍👩‍👦 or 🤸‍♂️- if you have a preference, drop an emoji - the first check-in is coming soon so trying to make more progress by then!

👩‍👩‍👦 - the Stranger Moms fic - S5 AU ft. the Stranger Moms

🐉 - Steve finds a dragon in his closet - Dustigan, developing Steddie, magical canon AU, post S4

🏰 - Shenanigans in Steve's attic - Steve has good parents actually, Steddie, Scoops Troop, post S4 Honey I Shrunk The Kids inspired AU

⚔️ - A Knight's Tale (with magic) - Ronance, Steddie, lots of Wheeler siblings, platonic Stobin, platonic Edancy

🤸‍♂️- The Yeet Aerobics Fic - S3 AU Stedissy, platonic Stobin, matchmaker Wayne, Buckingway, Carol & Tommy are lurking around...S3 bout to get *interesting*

More Attic Shenanigans and tags beneath the Read More

Eddie bowed mockingly, then continued. "Dustin tripped over part of a vacuum cleaner, knocked Erica into the ray—"

"Actually, it's probably a laser, specifically, because of the way it—"

"Nerd Jr, would you stop interrupting and let Nerd Sr finish telling Steve what happened?" Erica sounded pissy again, the way she got whenever Dustin and the others went into scientific rambles. "Laser, ray, it. Doesn't. Matter. We're tiny, and we don't know how to fix it."

Dustin grumbled, and pulled his hat down lower over his eyes. He moved so he was on the other side of Steve, away from Erica. Steve put an arm around his shoulder; yeah Dustin had messed up, but he was still a kid and Steve knew despite the attitude that he was scared. Erica was too, so he held out his other arm to her. She hesitated, glared at Dustin, but then burrowed under as they all waited for Eddie to finish the story.

No Pressure Tagging: @strangerthingswritersguild, @bellandora, @dreamwatch, @yesdangerpls, @pearynice, @helpimstuckposting, @sevenmerrymagpies, @eriquin, @shares-a-vest, @sourw0lfs, @little-annie, @sidekick-hero, @hitlikehammers, @penny00dreadful, @onirislanding and anyone else who would like to!

[lavenderstobins]

told myself that today i would finish the next bubblescoops chapter and post it. instead i almost fully outlined my steddie & stobin & ronance ghost au.

adhd is a curse 😭

[queenofshenanigans]

WIP WEEKEND

I wasn't going to do a new one, but I decided I might as well, as it does keep me motivated throughout the week! I'm decreasing the # of WIPs though, to the two Bangs, and a couple of others, as the rest have quite a few asks already.

I was tagged by: @pearynice, @mission2mordor, @cloudsurfing42, @pentapoctopus, @hbyrde36, @tinytalkingtina, and @felixir-of-moths <3

⚾ Second Chance at First Love (and Third Base) - Steddie Big Bang! No longer a secret!! Making some progress!

🛼 - Sapphic Mini Bang (90s Bubblescoops, Stommy) I'll share 👩‍👩‍👦 or 🤸‍♂️- if you have a preference, drop an emoji - the first check-in is coming soon so trying to make more progress by then!

🐉 - Steve finds a dragon in his closet - Dustigan, developing Steddie, magical canon AU, post S4

🏰 - Shenanigans in Steve's attic - Steve has good parents actually, Steddie, Scoops Troop, post S4 Honey I Shrunk The Kids inspired AU

(Don't worry: Attic Shenanigans, Stranger Moms, A Knight's Tale, and the Aerobics S3 AU will all be in rotation!)

Read on for more of Second Chance at First Love (And Third Base). A little NSFW, and slight mention of a/b/o biology.

Steve was thicker around the middle, in a way that made Eddie want to bite—a thought so strongly sexual he almost slammed the door in Steve's face on instinct. He hadn't had such an intense flash of lust since before the twins were born, and it left him unsettled and very aware he was wearing only a pair of flimsy black boxer briefs. He was just grateful they weren't white; at least the dark color hid the sudden dampness between his legs. Fucking biology.

“I’m going to kill her,” Eddie muttered, already thinking of various ways he was going to get revenge on Chrissy Cunningham. “I take it you're the new houseboy Chrissy hired?”

“Good to see you too, Eddie, but I think the term she used was home health aide and housekeeper.”

I'll no pressure tag any members of the @strangerthingswritersguild that would like to play!