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heading: home by nikomedes
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
24 Jun 2026
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cynosure, noun (cy·no·sure ˈsī-nə-ˌshu̇r)
- a fated partner, typically romantic
- the draw to one's fated partner
- [archaic] one that serves to direct or guide, from the northern constellation Ursa Minor
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03 Jul 2026
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“I’m not sitting in the front?” Eddie asks, a brow raised, twitching as Steve holds the trunk open, gesturing for him to climb inside.
“And have you try anything funny when I’m driving? Fat chance. Suspicious people that crawl back from their own grave don’t get front seat privileges, Munson.”
Eddie is going to die at the hands of Steve 'The Hair' Harrington. He'll take him somewhere in the dark, drag him out to the woods and brain him with that bat that he's clinging so tightly to. Maybe he'll be able to do the job that Eddie is too much of a coward to do himself; maybe it's easier that way—kinder.
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Eddie's back from the Upside Down after nearly two and a half years, hungry for something that isn't Mickey D's, and Steve's the only one with a house empty enough to hide him away.
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27 Jun 2026
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Steve is in a bit of a crisis. Everyone around him is moving forward with their lives, they have moved out, met new people, and he is still in Hawkins, going on date after date and looking for a connection that he just can't find. After one too many dreams about a dead boy he takes his truck and RV and hits the road, trying to run away from ghosts and expectations.
He never planned for his truck to break down in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania.
He never expected to go look for a mechanic and meet a ghost.Bookmarked by borledtodeath
25 Jun 2026
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The Final Boy's Guide to Romance After Catastrophe by miss_bitchcraft
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jun 2026
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It's been nearly three years since Vecna was defeated, and things went back to normal - well, as normal as it can be for former residents of Hawkins, Indiana. Living in a new town, with new jobs and new lives, Steve, Eddie, and Robin are three friends figuring out the real world just as they'd figured out alternate ones. Steve is starting to think there may be a reason his dating life hasn't worked out. Eddie is hoping his long term crush may not be as unrequited as he thinks. And Robin - she's just trying to get through the day as the world's best wingman.
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24 Jun 2026
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The Study of Cross-Species Astro Neurobiology (The Official Ryland Grace Guide to Alien Flirting) by powerxtrip
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
02 Jun 2026
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Grace and Rocky survived the trip to Erid. Now, all Grace has to do is live on a planet meant to kill him, charm his best friend's mate, and figure out why all these Eridians keep giving him rocks. Easy right? As long as he doesn't die of scurvy, first.
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21 Jun 2026
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how i look is how i touch by Sintamer (SpiritTamer)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 Jun 2026
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Ryland Grace never considered himself to be the best guy to ask about gender. Sure, he lived in San Francisco, and he was the cool teacher, always priding himself in being understanding and making his class safe space for all of his students, including the queer kids who needed it. He’s better versed on the topic than the average cisgender man, probably, but he’s not claiming to be an expert.
Even so, he was hoping that’d translate into being more knowledgeable about it than an alien with no concept of gender sixteen light years away from Earth was, but there were a lot of things Adrian one-upped him on.
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19 Jun 2026
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but feel a storm approaching by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2026
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“How long do you have?” he asks, staring intently into Eddie's big, dark eyes. Eddie looks at him for a long while.
“Got nothin’ but time,” he eventually says, and Steve notes that his voice has a sort of gentle lilt when he speaks softly, something sweet and southern running through it. “Rich in that at least.”
And so Steve sits down on the ground in the dirt. The air's hot and sticky, and by the time he stops talking, he isn't sure he's ever been that parched, not ever. He talks and talks. He doesn't stop for a long while.
Eddie Munson listens quietly.---
The battle at Starcourt might have culminated in the end of the upside down back in '85, but Steve is still plagued by nightmares. Years later, he's the last one left in Hawkins - content to stay there, safe and alone and fading into nothing as the summer heat peaks again.
A three am rendezvous at Sattler quarry changes that.- Language:
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16 Jun 2026
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a love that glitters by fangirlaholic
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
15 Jun 2026
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It wasn’t anything that Grace had never done before. Yet this time, Rocky felt all five of his hearts racing at its smile. Grace’s giggle was so similar to an Eridian’s. Rocky wanted to make it laugh again, to be the reason for its joy.
Such thoughts had barely begun when there was suddenly a strange physical feeling inside Rocky. It felt like something was moving, a strange buzz reverberating throughout his body. It was deeply uncomfortable and continued to increase in intensity until Rocky suddenly felt like he had to open his ventral seal right now and get something out out out. It was all so quick that Rocky could barely think about how absolutely wrong it felt.
In which Rocky gets the Eridian equivalent of Hanahaki
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15 Jun 2026
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Distantly, he hears the Wolf snarling and grappling with the demogorgan.
And then his blurry eyes pick up a third figure joining the fray.
A familiar figure, armed with a crude spear, jabbing furiously at the demogorgan’s head.
Steve’s head swims and he loses sight of anything after that, the sound of his rapidly-slowing heartbeat thudding in his ears.
“Steve, you with me, big boy?”
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In the aftermath of Eddie’s death, of the gates opening, Steve is struggling. His bat bites refuse to heal, he can’t let go of Eddie’s bloodied vest, and his dreams are plagued by visions of Eddie, by the Upside Down, by a creature that stalks him through the night.
Until one night, at the end of his tether, Steve returns to the Upside Down to search for the man he’d left behind.
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08 Jun 2026
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“You can be my trusted adult,” Dustin cuts in.
Steve blinks several times. “Huh?”
“You’re an adult,” Dustin says, like he’s talking to a three-year-old.
“…yes, Dustin.”
“And my mom trusts you.”
“Yeah, but…wait.” Steve sits back up, ramrod straight in his chair. “You’re not suggesting…”
“Come with me to New Zealand,” Dustin finishes, then adds a quieter: “Please?”
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When Dustin Henderson parent-traps Steve and Eddie into taking him to New Zealand for a holiday and some Lord of the Rings sight-seeing, Steve's forced to confront the reality of what he really wants out of life. Is it working for his father in a job he despises to afford his sky-rise apartment in Chicago and the status that comes with it, or is it something else, something simpler, something truer to himself? On the windy back roads of New Zealand, amongst the most stunning scenery he's ever seen and with old flame Eddie Munson in his passenger seat, he figures it out.
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07 Jun 2026
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and i'm gonna keep on loving you by Atalia_Gold for starthecozy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Static garbles over the radio.
Then, a voice.
“…Eddie?”
It’s quiet. Brief. Almost imperceptible, and probably would’ve been to anyone else listening.
But Eddie would know Steve’s voice at the ends of the earth.
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In the Upside Down WSQK building, Eddie takes refuge and tries to get a message back to his friends.
At Christmas, they set out to rescue him.
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07 Jun 2026
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i wrote my heart in a sheet of paper (and i gifted it to you) by Atalia_Gold, starthecozy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Mar 2026
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Eddie shuffles closer to him. Knows he shouldn’t, knows he should steer this somewhere neutral, somewhere more distant, something more akin to just checking in on a friend but he can’t, he can’t. Not when Steve’s looking bashful, not when he’s awkwardly picking up a bit of paper again and folding it anxiously, not when he smells like the sea on a summer’s day and honey-sweet all at once.
“Seriously Steve, this is cool. Maybe you could make something for a campaign? Figurines are expensive, and honestly some of these are better. We could paint them, too.”
Steve looks up at him then. Really looks, and Eddie’s heart gallops in his chest at the sight of those warm brown eyes.
“I made them all for you,” Steve murmurs.
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In the wake of Vecna's defeat, with his friends busy with the aftermath, Steve takes up origami, tries to heal his scars in his big empty house , and falls in love with the alpha that comes to visit him daily.
Eddie.
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07 Jun 2026
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07 Jun 2026
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The merman doesn't make a sound, but as Eddie cuts away more and more of the net, he seems to relax a tiny bit. Those sharp eyes never leave Eddie's though.
"My name's Eddie. Do you have a name?"
No reply.
"Your scales are…really pretty," Eddie continues. "I bet they shine in the sun."
At that, a small noise escapes the merman, a quiet trill.
"Oh? You like compliments, huh?" Eddie smiles. "So you can understand me."
"Some," the merman croaks. Weakly, he holds up a hand, brings his thumb and forefinger less than an inch apart, indicating small.
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To most people, merfolk are dangerous beasts, evil, hunted down and their scales sold for high prices. To Eddie, they're kind and fascinating creatures from his uncle's old stories, and something he's longed to see for years.
When Captain Creel drags a captured merman on board Eddie's ship, he gets his wish.
Steve is the most beautiful thing he's ever seen, and Eddie's going to free him or die trying.
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06 Jun 2026
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Eddie had left Hawkins and its ghosts far behind. After literally crawling back from Hell, he'd swore he would never look back. But on the verge of the winter of 1990, Robin begs him to come with her to help a severely depressed old friend. If "friend" is the right word to describe what Steve Harrington once meant to Eddie.
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06 Jun 2026
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They say that, when you meet your match, you feel it.
Sure, a true Lux Animae is a hard-earned thing - a bond that must be forged and shaped and toughened in the fires of battle over and over again, and, if done right, will last a lifetime and longer. Still, many people claim that they sensed it, even long before the ceremony.
It is, after all, the magic that does the choosing, and the magic knows. Knows who is destined to complete you, who will fight and cry and bleed for you and draw out your full potential like no other can. So, when you meet them, you’re supposed to feel it. You just need to know what to look out for.
A tingle, some say. A warm, heavy buzz that fills your veins the moment you lay eyes on each other. An electric spark, zapping through your body like a current upon that first careless touch, letting you know that this is the start of something bigger, something stronger, something more profound than both of you could possibly imagine.
The only thing that Eddie feels when Steve Harrington steps on his foot is pain.
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Project 20 of the Stranger Things Reverse Big Bang 2025/2026
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05 Jun 2026
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"Can I help you?" Eddie hollers. No matter how good looking this guy is, Eddie doesn't have time for anything else. He can't add anything to his plate. He's got maybe an hour before he'll be unfit to be around the public.
Not that Eddie's ever really fit to be around the public. But that's how he likes it. Eddie would prefer it if he never had to actually interact with the customers at all.
This dude included. Maybe especially this dude, because he looks like another alpha. A preppy motherfucker. That's just asking for trouble today. And Eddie? Eddie's been in enough trouble to last a lifetime. He's on the straight and narrow now.
Or: Two loners find unexpected comfort in the company of one another.- Language:
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04 Jun 2026
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"I'm…" Steve starts, like he's actually about to tell him.
Oh God. He's about to tell him.
Eddie's staring, and Steve sees how his hand is searching the seat behind himself for the remote, probably to kill the movie, because Steve's being so weird it's making him worried.
He sighs again, breath trembling from stress and he buries his face in his hands. Leg still bouncing in place.
The TV gets turned off and the room fills with silence, and he hears Eddie shuffling around next to him.
"Steve—"
"I have a pussy now."
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- Part 1 of the Something Lost chronicles
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27 May 2026
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sweet satisfaction (to soothe my soul) by svalinnside (swishyclang) for MysteriousMidnight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Mar 2026
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"Eddie Munson you are so full of shit!" Ronnie shrieks, and he can't tell if she's mad or just, y'know, insane. "No fucking way did you finally run into your scentmate in Hawkins of all places!"
in which it's 1996, and retired rockstar Eddie Munson buys the Creel House
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26 May 2026
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“It’s okay, you know,” Gareth says, propped up against the brick alley of the Hawk.
Eddie’s crouched like a gremlin, shoveling popcorn into his mouth and trying to coax what he thinks is a cat out from under the dumpster. “What’s okay?” he says.
“To like. Like him. Harrington,” Gareth says, shoving his hands in his pockets. “I’ve seen him at Melvald’s and he’s, like, weirdly charming to everyone. He even looks like he means it.”
He does, Eddie thinks, which is what makes it so sinister. Whatever. This stretch of insanity will all be over with after the holidays, and he can go back to New York, live out his wildest dreams, and forget Steve Harrington ever took up any space in his brain at all.
Or,
Five years after the defeat of Vecna, Steve Harrington runs an animal sanctuary.
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26 May 2026