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Forced Conformity That's What's Killing The Kids by Currenthyperfixation
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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04 Aug 2026
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Things were weird in Hawkins. The fields were rotting, there was something in the woods, and Steve Harrington's Beemer had a new problem every week.
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- Part 9 of masterlist of my stranger things works
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 154,035
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 2,412
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14 Jul 2026
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We Should Just Kiss (Like Real People Do) by Oonionchiver
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jul 2022
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‘Please?’
Eddie stops him again, this time by holding his face. Steve feels Eddie’s thumb moving over his cheek, he feels the cool metal of his rings. He feels everything except what he needs.
‘I’ve never loved anything the way I love you, Steve Harrington,’ Eddie says, dark brown eyes moving between Steve’s own. ‘This isn’t the moment, sweetheart.’
It’s not a rejection, but it’s not a kiss. Steve quietly cries, insides cut up on the broken shards of his stupid little heart and Eddie holds him, he holds him all night until they fall asleep together.
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- English
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- 88,428
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 26
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- 1,850
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- 178,123
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16 Jun 2026
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Eddie Munson was practically raised by the concept of harsh realities, and he’s learned not to want things that he’ll never have, which isn’t as much as a bummer as it could be, because making the most out of what you’ve got is just as good.
Steve Harrington, despite his reputation as a casual flirt and a serial dater, has a bad habit of falling hard and fast and never really recovering. Steve Harrington, despite his reputation as a bit oblivious, and a ladies man, figured some stuff out about himself four years ago and promptly squashed all those feelings into a box he never intended to see the light of day.
In which Will coming out forces Steve to be open about some things (because Steve’s issues will always take a backseat to making sure the kids feel safe). And Steve doesn’t mean for Eddie to find out, but he does, and it turns into a bonding experience. (And it’s the best and the worst, because having him as a friend is more than Steve ever could’ve hoped for, but it also feels a little like dying.)
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- Part 1 of Don't Settle for That
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 122,401
- Chapters:
- 51/51
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20 Apr 2026
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“Eddie. Listen to me. We are going to make it out of here. I am going to get you out of here alive if I have to find the Mindflayer and fight it myself. Okay? Tell me you believe me.”
Eddie’s glassy eyes widen. His breathing is steadier, and he seems fully focused on Steve. “I believe you.”
Trapped in a hell dimension with monsters and few provisions, Steve and Eddie bond through survival and soon find themselves adjusting to their new home—and each other—in unexpected ways.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,469
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 249
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- 961
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- 344
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- 18,208
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31 Mar 2026
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Bumped to the lowest step on the social ladder after his fight with Billy, Steve gets roped in with the cheer team. What starts as a favor to help them out when one member breaks her leg in turn for protection from the brunt of the bullying, sets the universe on a different path.
He befriends Chrissy and grows as thick as thieves with her. Over the summer he adds Robin to his friends as well. Meanwhile Eddie seems to have taken an interest in the fallen king, but Steve can’t figure out quite yet why Eddie is talking with him. Flirting with him?
AKA a rewrite from after season 2 till after season 4 where Chrissy survives and Steve and Eddie get together that explores Steve's fall to the bottom of the social ladder and the what if he was gay and knew.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 174,377
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Comments:
- 1,266
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- 3,925
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- 1,188
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- 100,111
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12 Mar 2026
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Months before Will Byers disappears, Steve Harrington is outed, bullied, and shunned. Eddie would be overjoyed to find another gay kid in Hawkins if it wasn't THAT gay kid.
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- Part 1 of Sing
- Part 6 of V's ST Fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 120,520
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Collections:
- 1
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- 1,110
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- 836
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- 238
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- 22,366
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08 Feb 2026
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A year before Will Byers disappears, when Steve is 16 years old, he dreams of the Upside Down. The dream, a warning, means that high school plays out differently. Steve learns ahead of time who he actually wants to be, what to care about, and that he can be brave about a lot of things he wouldn’t expect--including Eddie Munson.
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This is my excuse to rewrite Steve Harrington at Hawkins High, who deserves to feel true friendship and to play Dungeons and Dragons. And, of course, a nice love story with Hawkins’ hottest.- Language:
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- 75,094
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 6
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- 798
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07 Feb 2026
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With a Bit of a Mind Flip by DeerstalkerDeathFrisbee
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Doctor Who (2005)
22 Jan 2026
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“Are your parents spies?”
“What? No.” No, they’re just a space alien and a woman from the future who briefly was all of time and space, no big deal.
“Are they…no, sorry, can’t think of any better reasons for there to be a weird vault of futuristic technology in your house, Steve.” Dustin says his name with a strange sort of emphasis, like he wants to impress upon Steve that he knows exactly who his is and what he’s about and he’s not going to get away with any of his shenanigans while Dustin is about. Steve wishes Dustin would clue him in on who Steve is and what he’s about because he’s beginning to wonder who and what that is exactly, if he ever knew in the first place.AU where Steve Harrington's parents are the Doctor and Rose Tyler and somehow he's still fighting monsters with a baseball bat.
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- English
- Words:
- 38,921
- Chapters:
- 10/?
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- 1
- Comments:
- 802
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- 3,654
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- 50,932
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03 Feb 2026
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After Steve Harrington goes missing, Eddie Munson gets exposed to the secret dangers of Hawkins, Indiana in 1985 instead of 1986.
Will a different first meeting lead to a change in his fate?
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- English
- Words:
- 47,585
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 25
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- 1,275
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- 12,972
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- 170,032
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23 Jan 2026
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Steve’s never understood why adults always praise him for being a “people person” as if it’s some great accomplishment.
What, like it’s hard?
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Or: Steve Harrington is your average American teenager, he just had to work harder than most to learn how to ignore the emotions bumping into him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 218,146
- Chapters:
- 32/?
- Collections:
- 23
- Comments:
- 2,334
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- 7,421
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- 235,137
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13 Jan 2026
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1987 went to shit. Vecna brought on what may well be the apocalypse, and Steve fought it to the end. Literally.
Death was supposed to be a one-way street. But knowing a girl with super powers had a tendency to change the game. So when Steve opens his eyes to a beer-soaked bathroom on Halloween in 1984, Nancy calling him 'bullshit' all over again, the universe might forgive Steve for thinking he was either a) in Hell or b) going cracked. But Steve didn't have time to freakout. Not when El finds him and asks that he help her change the events of the future. Not when he's the only other person she managed to drag with her for chance number two.
OR: A time travel fix-it, where 1987 Steve is dropped back into his 1984 self. And now he has to deal with that plus the impending apocalypse on the horizon. But he'll be fine, right? Because, as El informs whoever asks, Steve's 'The Babysitter'. So he gets to work. He can cry later, when he's done.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 103,126
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 459
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- 3,902
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- 1,205
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- 75,445
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06 Jan 2026
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Mistakes Were Made; We're Ending Retrograde by SalamanderGoo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2023
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In November of 1983, Steve is forced to confront a few realities. One being that monsters are real. They steal people from their homes and from pools and come out of ceilings. The other reality being that he’s an asshole. And well, he can only change one of those, so it’s time to ditch the friends that make him the worst version of himself and find some new ones.
After a mishap at school, freshman Gareth Emerson ushers Steve into a world he'd only been partially aware of, full of fantasy and laughter. He's unsure about senior Eddie Munson, who doesn't seem to believe he's changed. He hopes to change his mind and avoid more monsters, and maybe along the way he'll learn to love himself too.
Steddie Big Bang Fic #101; Updates Daily; Title from Roddy by DJO
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- Part 1 of Ending Retrograde
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 107,712
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 354
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- 1,983
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- 541
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- 55,721
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04 Jan 2026
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Steve was still adjusting. Definitely not quite back to normal – probably wouldn’t ever be normal again, if he were honest with himself – but he was on his way to something normal adjacent, and that had to count for something.
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As Steve navigates the complicated twists and turns and backslides of recovery, he slowly learns what it's like to have people he can rely on. It's a novel concept.
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- Part 3 of Nowhere to look but inside
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 50,571
- Chapters:
- 11/?
- Comments:
- 1,319
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- 5,131
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- 102,498
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04 Jan 2026
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He finds her on Friday, the 18th of November, 1983. She's a small kid, out in the woods and the freezing cold, the first time he's ever seen a girl with hair that short. His parents are leaving for some business trip in the morning. He is going to be alone.
She's alone.
Steve hates the idea of another kid growing up alone.(In which Steve finds Eleven in the winter of ‘83, before Hopper could, and the sudden changes that pull apart his life. Some are far deeper in the bones than he ever could've imagined.)
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- Part 1 of Anyway, Don't be a Stranger
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 694,153
- Chapters:
- 77/132
- Collections:
- 12
- Comments:
- 3,480
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- 3,397
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02 Jan 2026
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When Nancy tells Steve about Eleven, he starts searching the woods every single day to find her. He doesn’t know if she’ll recognize him- it’s been years since he escaped the lab- but the thought that his little sister could still be out there, cold and alone and starving, hurts more than he can say.
He finds the cabin by accident.
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How Hopper ends up adopting two super-powered kids who wind up saving the world at least once every year.
[WRITTEN BY A HUMAN]
- Language:
- English
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- 174,836
- Chapters:
- 15/22
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- 3
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- 2,013
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- 11,620
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- 3,519
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- 355,850
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30 Dec 2025
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The Fallen King and the King of the Freaks by Knight_of_Tartarus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jul 2025
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"Never shoved anyone in janitor closets before," Steve said instead.
"Ahh, lockers then."
Steve shook his head, "You could really hurt someone doing that. What if no one found them? Or if they passed out or something?" He pointed out and finally looked up at the other boy. Eddie was just staring at him like he's never seen Steve before. "I never wanted to hurt anyone," Steve breathed out, but it came out more snappish than he meant it to.OR~~~
Steve has to deal with the fallout of Season 2. New nightmares, losing Nancy, kids who he's willing to die for, and Billy's new hatred towards him. He went from the top to the bottom in the school and he didn't know how bad it was until Eddie Munson is the one that steps in to help him. And maybe he wants the help and maybe even some friends.Series
- Part 1 of The Kings
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 419,883
- Chapters:
- 108/108
- Comments:
- 4,048
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- 4,146
- Bookmarks:
- 1,023
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- 194,182
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30 Dec 2025
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“I’m sure we can occupy you enough to forget Nancy Wheeler.”
Steve crashes into Eddie as he leaves Tina’s party with his heart aching in his chest. The exchange can’t last more than a few moments – but Eddie makes an offer that changes everything.
This is how Steve and Eddie fall in love.
Steve and Eddie alternating POV
Spanning from Halloween 1984 to late May 1985
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- Part 1 of Screaming All The Way Down - Complete Works
- Part 1 of Screaming All The Way Down - Main Works
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 95,311
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Comments:
- 143
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- 771
- Bookmarks:
- 171
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- 17,839
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26 Dec 2025
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When the Ministry informs Harry that they are coming to destroy his wand for defending himself from the dementors that attack him in Little Whinging, Harry knows there's only one path left available to him. He can survive on his own. He knows how. It won't even be that hard. And being on the run in his animagus form makes him a feel a little closer to Sirius, anyway.
At least, he thinks so, until he's picked up by a pet store, sold to a classmate, and brought right back to Hogwarts where the state of things is so bad that he's actually glad he's expelled.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 91,411
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 485
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- 4,654
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- 1,455
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- 55,743
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15 Oct 2025
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It takes a week for the quiet to start eating at all of them.
The quiet finally starts to itch.
It’s not just Bucky anymore—Sam’s jumpier than usual, and even Steve’s starting to notice that every mission briefing lately has been… short. Too short. Tony calls it the calm before the crapstorm, which would be a funny line if no one in the room was nodding in grim agreement.
They’re not used to nothing happening. No alien invasions, no global threats, no late-night calls about mutant politics or rogue robots. Just this steady, suffocating absence of trouble that doesn’t feel like safety—it feels like they’re being given time to breathe before someone shoves their heads underwater.
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- Part 8 of American Nights
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,496
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 92
- Kudos:
- 127
- Bookmarks:
- 6
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- 1,482
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28 Sep 2025