18 Works by Stringsofstars
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They Always Shoot The Birds That Cannot Sing by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jul 2026
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When Nancy tries to get around her Mom's worrying to go to Steve's party, she instead sparks a family trip to Will's vigil. Left alone, Steve Harrington is the second person in Hawkins to mysteriously disappear - witnessed only by Jonathan Byers.
There's something wrong about Hawkins, something hovering just under the surface, and all anyone can say for sure is that it must somehow be connected to the strange, secretive lab on the outskirts of town...
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- Part 1 of What About Us
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Oh Fuck; Or The One Where Apparently Everyone Thinks Jonathan Is In Love With Steve Harrington, And Unfortunately, They Might Be Right by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jun 2026
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Jonathan is excited to have his first student film anonymously critiqued by his classmates. Unfortunately, all they can focus on is about how it looks like the director is in love with one of the actors - who habits to be Jonathan's rival turned friend, Steve Harrington. There's no way they could be right... is there?
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“Yeah, sure.” Or, The One Where Steve Harrington Accidentally Tells Haw-kins He’s Gay Even Though He’s Not, Actually, He Just Can’t Tell People He’s Limping Because Monsters Live Under Hawkins by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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Steve Harrington isn't gay. But apparently he does have shit hearing and no common sense.
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Episode One: The Case of the Hobgoblin Haunting by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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Back in London, the Dead Boy Detective Agency tidy up their affairs and help Jenny out with the pest problem in her new shop.
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- Part 1 of Season Two: We're Gonna Be Legendary
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The night Edwin disappears, his mother wakes up screaming.
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I Want To Touch You (If You'll Let Me) by Stringsofstars for erebus06
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
05 Dec 2024
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'The thing is, in hindsight it should have been obvious that Charles is madly in love with Edwin, and has been probably since that first night. The slightest brush of their hands makes Charles feel more than he’s ever felt with Crystal or any other girl, as much as he’d thought he’d loved them. For years he’d written it off as simply a normal reaction to the one thing he could feel in a world of non-sensation, more intense than anything he’d known in life because of the contrast with the bland sameness of every other touch. He’d thought his assessment of Edwin as probably the most gorgeous person to ever exist the objective evaluation of another guy, just as he’d always justified his noticing of other boys in the changing rooms at school as simply standard male competitiveness.
Then Edwin had told him he was in love with him, his eyes wide and wet, his hair disarrayed, stripped down and vulnerable in a way Charles had never seen him before. And, well. Denial and repression can only take you so far.'
In which Charles realises some things and confesses to Edwin. Written for erebus06 for the DBDA Secret Pumpkin 2024.
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There was no escape from it. The school newspaper talked of nothing else; the real newspapers talked of nothing else. In every class the Masters had something to say about it, some comparison to make or analogy to draw. The boys talked about it in hushed whispers and boisterous tones; most of the upper years had already joined up; every boy had a father or brother or uncle or cousin who was fighting in the trenches; almost every day a new mourning band appeared.
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If Eternity is Finite, I Would Spend it All With You by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
03 Oct 2024
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'The world exists as a series of moments. This moment, and then this moment, and then this moment. Now, and then now, and then now.'
Charles had told Edwin they had forever to figure out what the rest means. But what is eternity, when you really think about it?
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'It rains. The wind blows. Lessons continue. The world goes on.'
Edwin Payne's brother is dead. It feels like all the world should stand still in sympathy; but of course it doesn't. Death has no ability to stop the world from turning.
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Edwin's brother is dead. Home for the holidays, trapped with a family who cannot even seem to afford him the dignity of hatred, Edwin wanders the empty corridors of his family's mansion. Featuring: a confrontation; and teenage folly.
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I Would Know Him In Death, At The End Of The World by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Aug 2024
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Edwin gets a new book, and listens to some music. Charles is finally unable to continue being oblivious.
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The Dead Boy Detective Agency have a new case, one that may bring up a little too much of Edwin's past.
Or; the Dead Boy Detective Agency meet Gregory Payne. It had never occurred to Edwin that his brother might still be on this plane.
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After Port Townsend, Edwin has something he thinks Crystal should know. Crystal is trying very hard to become a better, more emotionally intelligent person. Fortunately, the bar for emotional intelligence is pretty low.
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The last letter Edwin Payne received from his older brother.
Companion piece to Brothers In Arms.
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These Photographs Are All The Memories I Have Of You by Stringsofstars
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jul 2024
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Edwin's sister gives him a photo album for his birthday. It has been so long since he last saw his parents that he realises he can't even remember what they looked like.
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Sometimes, especially after mentally taxing cases, Edwin just needs to read in silence for a little while. When it was just him and Charles, that was fine. Now that Crystal is also part of the Agency, it's a little harder.
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When Harry visits Albus after the events of Cursed Child, James thinks that his father may never care for him the way he does Al. Fortunately, his best friend Abby always knows what to do when he's upset.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 800
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 169
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Albus Potter is slowly getting used to the idea that his family doesn't hate him for being in Slytherin. Unfortunately, his older brother is still not talking to him. Or, apparently, anyone in the family. This isn't because he's gay, but it's definitely why no one knows he's gay. Except for his friends. Some of which are very unexpected, at least to Albus. But, you know. They're the Potters, they're hardly going to be normal, are they? And at least James doesn't hate him.