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There’s a universe where Will Byers was never kidnapped by a monster on a cold November night, riding home safe to be with his mother and brother
There’s a universe where a girl named ‘Eleven’ was always called ‘Jane’, raised by her mother and her aunt in a house full of love and laughter.
There’s a universe where Eddie Munson was a girl.
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It’s long been thought that dreams are the subconscious way of processing things that have happened. Some people dream of their loved ones who have passed to get that one last moment, some people have abstract dreams of dropping from great heights while their teeth fall out.
Eddie Munson has five dreams; he’s a warrior fighting alongside a King he’d vow to ever pledge a sword to, he’s the right-hand man of his bootlegger Uncle who’s trying to cut a deal with Speakeasy owner Richard Harrington and his son, he’s the villain Hellfire who’s town hero makes him come face to face with the knowledge that he’s not as evil as he thinks he is, he’s a struggling musician who frequents the same coffee shop every day as he tries to pluck up the courage to give the cute barista the song he wrote about him, and finally he exists in a world where the Upside Down had never existed.
Five dreams with five lessons to be learned and only so much time to figure out what they mean.
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"The two people connected by the red thread are destined lovers, regardless of place, time, or circumstances. This magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break."
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The [figurative] invisible string fic, in which it only takes three months for Eddie to fall in love with Steve Harrington, but ten years for him to do something about it.Series
- Part 1 of always
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your hands look so much better wrapped in mine by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2024
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Eddie is laughing at something Robin had said; head tossed back, smiling wide enough to dimple his cheeks, eyes crinkling at the corners. He’s bracketed by sunlight, looking soft and inviting in the golden rays. His eyeliner is smudged messily at the corners of his eyes, hands clapped together at his sternum, bracelets and rings glittering.
Steve looks at him, and watches, and lets himself drown in Eddie’s radiance and vibrancy and beauty, and thinks-
Oh.
Oh.
I love him.
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Or, Eddie flirts. Steve pines. Neither one of them could be more obvious if they tried.
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- Part 3 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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show me where your whole heart stays by Eternal_Peace_is_Overrated for So_Runs_the_World_Away
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2024
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Steve’s found himself blushing and stuttering his way through more than one sentence when Eddie’s eyes land on him with that heavy, single-minded focus: all big and dark, fanned with long eyelashes, framed with smudged, smoky kohl. A touch of sparkly silver, sometimes, if he’s feeling bold; a pretty shade that matches all of his ridiculous, chunky jewelry and makes the depths of his eyes look endless and infinite and-
Okay, yeah, he’s fucking beautiful.
It’s a problem, because Steve has never thought men could be beautiful, and then Eddie crashed into his life.
Robin laughs so hard she cries, when he tells her. And then she just cries, hugging him tightly and telling him she’s proud of him, thanking him for trusting her with this, and then Steve maybe cries a little bit, too. All in all, it’s wildly undignified and a little embarrassing, and he’s never felt more loved.
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The boys fall, and then pine, and finally maybe figure out how to work their shit out.
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- Part 2 of Stranger Things Drabbles
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Eddie Munson lived. He lived.
So why does he still feel very, very dead?
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- Part 1 of Desperado
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Maybe You'll Start Slipping Slowly (and Find Me Again) by steddiecameraroll
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2024
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“Where are you?”
“I’m at home.” Steve’s voice shakes as he mentally prepares for the rest of this conversation.
“Home? What? Why are you at home? What the hell, Steve?”
Steve squeezes his phone against his ear, trying to find the courage. “Do you not remember? What you told me?”
“What? Told you what?”
“What’s the last thing you remember from last night, Eddie?”Being on the road as a guitarist of a famous rock band gets to Eddie’s head. He relishes in the temptations of the road and cheats on Steve. After he admits to that fact, Steve breaks up with him, and they spend the following 15 years crossing paths until they realize they’re no longer the naive, stupid young men they once were and try again.
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- Part 2 of Glimpse of Us
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Master Of My Heart- Between Dungeons & Dragons by holycmunson (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Apr 2024
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Modern Eddie x Fem!oc
In the sleepy town of Howling, Eddie, an introverted young man with a passion for heavy metal and rock, finds solace in the "outcast tribe" of the school. Haunted by past traumas, he prefers the company of friends on the fringes of mainstream, embracing band t-shirts instead of popularity.
His monotonous life takes a 180-degree turn when he meets Linda Hansol in the secret clearing near the school. Linda, a mysterious and radiant girl, opens her heart to Eddie, revealing dark secrets and confessing hidden pain.
Becoming Linda's confidante, Eddie finds himself drawn into a captivating enigma. Together, they embark on an emotional journey to unravel the secrets of the clearing and, in the process, discover the truth about themselves and their feelings.
Prepare yourself for a dive into mystery, friendship, and the redemption that emerges when loneliness gives way to hope. The light of truth illuminates even the darkest hearts.
Or "Where Eddie encounters the Dungeons and Dragons of Love."
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It’s nice to be compared to his mom for once. Most of his life, he’s been likened to dear old dad. Al Munson and his gambling addiction, drugs, and alcohol. Al Munson and his penchant for grand theft auto. Al Munson who never graduated high school, who gave Eddie his last name and his first pocket knife only under the condition that he learn how to pick locks with it. Other than Wayne, no one ever says You’re just like your mom.
Well, until Steve Harrington, apparently. What a fucking turn of events.
Or, Eddie Munson smokes and thinks beneath the light of the chilly moon, the heat of Steve's thigh pressed comfortably against his own.
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“I can’t— I’m— not safe, not safe—”
“You are safe,” Nancy says. She’s so certain, right there on the other side of the door with god knows who else listening to his breakdown— she’s so certain and she doesn’t understand—
“You aren’t,” he implores, and he’s not crying but he is and he’s also not breathing, but that wouldn’t make sense because he’s definitely still alive.
Eddie knows what it is to be dead now and he knows it doesn’t hurt damn near this much. In fact, being dead doesn’t hurt at all when it’s put up against the fucking torment of waking back up in a body that doesn’t belong to you anymore.
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Vecna asks Eddie to share his body with a being called Kas, but Eddie never gets much of a say in the matter. In the aftermath, it's hard to remember what having a say in the matter means.
Podfic of METAMORPHOSES by fastcardotmp3.
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Eddie gets bullied and finds his own way through it - with a bit of help from Wayne and Steve. 🖤
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when i was a child, i heard voices (some would sing and some would scream) by jewishrat420
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jan 2024
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Eddie has always had a vivid imagination.
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come on, baby (make it hurt so good) by jewishrat420 for hawkinsleather
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2023
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Immediately, Eddie realizes two things.
First, he won’t be able to jerk off normally until the tattoo heals. He doesn’t know why it took him literally starting it to come to this conclusion, but it hits him like a baseball bat to the head regardless. Knocks the wind out of him a little.
Oh well. His prostate massager came in the mail yesterday, he’ll be fine.
Second, and simultaneously more startling and more obvious, because why the fuck did he not think of this before— it feels good.
Like, really good.
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Or, Eddie gets the best idea he's ever had.
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Or, the goddamn dick tattoo fic.
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One day Eddie Munson met the Devil at a crossroads - a magical, liminal space where deals can be struck. More than anything else Eddie wanted to be a rockstar, for his music to be heard, for fame to be his. He wanted to leave his little town behind in the dust.
In exchange, Henry Creel wanted to be Eddie’s occasional puppet master. They shook on it, and Eddie had one year to finalize or break his deal.
As Eddie’s band grew in popularity and then he got a record deal, he thought he’d found everything he ever wanted, his dream life manifested.
Then he met Steve Harrington, his arrogant, beautiful, difficult guitar tech, and slowly realized he wanted something else entirely. But if he broke the deal, would he get to keep Steve?
Also he didn’t read the fine print of his deal with the Devil.
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🎵 love be the devil, but it won’t get me
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It's a Tuesday when it happens. He's sitting anxiously at lunch, eating his hot pockets and silently dreading the math quiz coming next period. Trying really extra hard to keep the slipping shards of his sanity in his grasping fingers, when Dustin says Harrington's name just one too many times and he snaps.
"What the fuck," he says vehemently and suddenly, slapping his palms on the tabletop, "Is up with you and Steve Harrington?"
"What do you mean?" Dustin asks, his head tilted to the side like a little kid.
"You're always fucking talking about him!"
"Yeah," says Dustin, his face carefully blank, but still a little bitchy, "Because he's my friend. You know about those? About friends?."
And the thing is, Eddie can tell that he's said something wrong here, somewhere, but he's too busy wrestling down his bitterness to properly understand what it is.
"But Harrington's a judgmental Douchbag!"
"That's funny," replies Dustin snippily, "Cause it looks a lot like only one of you is talking shit, and it's not Steve."
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Eddie is really tired of hearing about Steve Harrington. Right up until he isn't.
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- Part 1 of Isn't It funny, the way things change?
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The boy to his left was pretty, almost annoyingly so. He was perfect, from the artful coif of his chestnut hair to the neat pleats in his khaki slacks. Pretty had freckles that dotted his tanned skin in little patterns like constellations and Eddie started connecting them with his eyes. He was turned a little, talking to some girl in the chair next to him, and even his voice was pretty.
When Pretty laughed a little too loud, Mrs. Boyd corrected him, telling him that he and Miss Heather should leave their conversation at the door, lest they wish to share it with the class. And that’s when Eddie learned that Pretty had a name.
Steve Harrington.
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your history of silence won’t do you any good (did you think it would?) by jewishrat420
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Sep 2023
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Somewhere along the line, though, between right hooks and cigarette burns and the smell of white lightning that never seems to fade, Eddie discovered that the word “no” didn’t feel good in his mouth. Twisted his tongue up all weird, stung like acid when he swallowed it, burned a hole in his stomach that ate away at every cell and atom in his body.
He never got to try it out much, and the few times he did proved fruitless in the end. What’s the point, he figured, of mustering up all that courage to grit out a word that stings like poison if it’s only going to be spat back in his face anyway?
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Eddie doesn't know how to say no, but he knows how to safeword.
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(you don't even know) about wild mountain honey by emurph_24
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Sep 2023
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It wasn’t easy being gay in Indiana, but he didn’t care. Society told him that he should be ashamed, that it was pure sin, and that he would burn for eternity in the fires of hell. But Eddie just allowed them to have their beliefs. He knew he wasn’t a mistake, despite the gossiping grandmothers of Hawkins. He simply kept to himself, his preferences only showing in the bandana dangling from his back pocket, and in his lonely bedroom. It was the one place he felt safe. The one place where he let himself dream— the one place he allowed himself to feel.
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“Fuck, I missed you.” Eddie leans forward and captures Steve’s mouth to kiss him sloppily before releasing him with a snarl.
“I hate you,” Steve whispers against Eddie’s mouth.
“No, you don’t.” Eddie snaps and moves his hand from Steve’s shirt to the waistband of his jeans. “You fucking missed me.”
“Shut up.”
“Say it.” Eddie’s pulling the denim tighter as they chase their release.
“Fucking shut up.” Steve’s so close.
“Say it, baby. Fucking tell me how much you missed me. Cause I missed you.” Eddie’s voice cracks as he whispers the end.
“Shut up,” Steve’s voice wavers, losing the confidence he was desperately clutching onto.-or-
Eddie stupidly breaks up with Steve and this is the angsty story of how they get back together. Punches will be thrown, "hate-sex" will be had, and Steve will cope by sleeping with anyone and everyone he can. Slow burning idiots finally getting their shit together.Series
- Part 1 of Glimpse of Us
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tell me that i'm alright (that i ain't gonna die) by jewishrat420
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Aug 2023
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There’s so much Eddie wants to say. "Nothing’s bothering me. I’m just thinking about how I’ll never understand the way you get me. How I’ve never met someone like you in my life, how you’re willing to just listen and how you put everyone on this planet before yourself. How you give and you give and expect nothing in return. How I think you’re it for me, Steve, and how that doesn’t scare me like I thought it would."
Instead, he says, “I don’t think so. Just have this…feeling. Like something’s gonna go wrong.”
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Or, the one where Eddie learns how to face his fears. And maybe a few other things, too.
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