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Since he was eighteen, Steven Harrington knew he would not marry: there were many factors, but chief among them were that he had, he knew, given up his chance for true happiness when he had allowed his mother to persuade him from accepting Edward Munson’s proposal.
Or: a Regency AU.
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cause in the back of my mind, i'm in the back of your car by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Nov 2022
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"It was overcast at Silverstone, that afternoon. It was cooler than last year, the wind from Friday had died down significantly, and the likelihood of seeing rain was slim to none. Conditions were favorable, and Steve had had good runs in practice and snagged P2 to start. Max had officially made her test debut for the team Saturday too, and Erica, despite her age, had gotten to be her race engineer; Max was going to get elevated out of testing and dev within the next two years and make motorsport history, and Erica was going to be the youngest race engineer in F1 history shortly there after, mark his words."
In which Steve started racing go-karts at ten, and never looked back.
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this world is a cold one (it takes one to know one) by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Dec 2022
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When the suits came round and forced a thick stack of papers under Wayne’s hands to sign his silence away, along with his trailer for “study,” promising that they were lining up a new place for him as they spoke (and didn’t that raise more questions than it answered, he thought), it was a tall woman in a severe suit who had told him that Eddie was in the hospital. She led, of course, with how they had cleared his name of any wrong doing — the Carver boy, a psychotic break, details Wayne didn’t care to remember in the least — and that he was a hero, and it would be a hard road ahead of him but he would live —
“Live?” Wayne had asked hoarsely.
The woman had grimaced. “Yes. I’m sorry. He and a few other children were injured saving the — Carver’s last victim. Your nephew was the worst of them. But the doctors are optimistic about his recovery, said Harrington and the others got him to the hospital just in time.”
Or, a snapshot from a universe where Eddie Munson lives, Stephanie “Stevie” Harrington has always been the babysitter, and Wayne Munson is Hawinks High’s Women’s Basketball’s number one supporter.Series
- Part 2 of wishbone
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25 Dec 2025
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It starts like this: Steve, waiting in his car to pick up Dustin and friends from a session of their Chutes and Ladders club or whatever. Waiting kind of impatiently, to be honest, even though it’s not like he has anywhere else to be because Robin’s busy tonight and, as he well knows by this point, saving the world doesn’t get you a girlfriend or glory or even a second age-appropriate friend, it just gets you another evening shift at Family Video and a long personal to-do list.
In the spring and summer of 1986, Steve Harrington contends with the biases of the day, hatches several plans, and finally really gets to know Eddie Munson.
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16 Dec 2025
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All That You Ever Wanted From Me Was Sweet Nothing by t1red_gay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Nov 2022
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“'I’m in love with you,' Eddie says, so casual, like it isn’t 3PM on a Tuesday in the middle of a Family Video in Bumfuck, Indiana. Like they’re somewhere else, like he’s someone else. Like it’s nothing extraordinary."
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Five times Eddie tells Steve he loves him, and one time Steve lets himself say it back.
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