Tactical_Error
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in this blue (where everything is good) by cedarbranch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jan 2026
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"How'd it start for you?" Eddie asks.
Steve sighs and gestures to the pool with his cigarette. "Right here," he says. Eddie tilts his head, uncomprehending. Such a tiny gesture, yet it makes something in Steve cringe, knowing what it means.
"Has anybody told you about Barb?" he asks. Eddie shakes his head.
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Steve teaches Eddie how to swim, and confronts a few things about himself in the process.
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31 Jan 2026
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Steve wakes up the morning of their two-month We-Finally-Got-Our-Shit-Together anniversary to find Eddie staring at him, crouched over at the foot of the bed with his round unblinking eyes like a fucking gargoyle. It should be creepy. Steve is used to this, though, so now it’s just kind of a thing that Eddie does.
“What,” Steve says groggily, wiping the drool from his mouth.
“Nothing, angel, go back to sleep,” Eddie trills.
Or, two months after Steve and Eddie officially get together, Steve finds himself thinking about home, his heart, and how to let go.
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- Part 2 of love letters verse
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23 Jan 2026
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forgive me if I jump by hitlikehammers for Peachesandpears
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Mar 2025
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He shoots up at the sound of the flatline; the screaming follows him as he wakes.
By the time Steve’s hand shoots out to the other side of the bed, his pulse is already in his throat—it doesn’t get any calmer for finding it empty, sheets cold under his clammy palm but at the same time: it doesn’t get any worse.
But he does need to go and find his boyfriend, because the nightmares that drive Eddie out of bed, rather than straight into Steve’s arms?
Those are always the worst of them. Those are always the ones that scream loudest with pure loss.
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Or: Nightmares. Trauma. The Terrifying Reality of Being In This Deep.
And the way that the Love is bigger than all of it, always, in the end.
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19 Jan 2026
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“I’m dead weight.”
Eddie’s voice is so tiny, it almost undercuts his resolve. Almost.
But it’s a fucking fact, so his useless resolve doesn’t really matter either way, which is kind of a comfort.
Until Eddie blinks, and between lashes fluttering: Steve’s in his face. Leaning over him, caging him in not with his arms so much as the heat of him, the weight of his presence more than any part of them touching.
And those fucking eyes; stars could be born inside them.
Eddie just wishes he deserved a future where he’d get to watch a whole new one burst into life, where he’d deserve that kind of privilege—
But he wasn’t exaggerating. He is dead fucking weig—
“I know what it feels like when you’re the closest you’re ever gonna fucking get to dead weight,” Steve somehow bites out so sharp while sounding so level, just stating facts like his eyes aren’t on fucking fire:
“This is nothing like that.”
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Or: Eddie can’t quite understand how Steve can love him, when he can’t see how he brings anything to the table—but you know what they say:
One man’s flaws just might fill another’s empty spaces fucking perfectly.
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18 Jan 2026
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Steve never minded living in Eddie’s shadow. He liked the chaos, the noise, the way Eddie looked like he might catch fire on stage at any second. What he minded, though he’d never admit it out loud, were the songs. Every crowd screamed Eddie’s words back at him, but none of them were for Steve. Not the angry anthems, not the messy love songs, not even the ballads that left reporters breathless.
Steve told himself it didn’t matter. He didn’t need the spotlight, didn’t need Eddie to spell his name in lyrics. He just needed Eddie to come back to him when the lights went down.
But five songs in, after years of motel rooms, arenas, fights, and backstage kisses that tasted like smoke and blood, Eddie finally wrote the one that was.
And Steve wasn’t sure his heart could take it.
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Five songs Eddie swore weren’t about Steve, and one that absolutely is.
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- Part 3 of The Steddie 5+1 Starter Pack
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18 Jan 2026