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1. Stand There, Looking Backwards (Half Unconcious From The Pain) by Nicotine_phantom

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Wayne Munson
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Gay Eddie Munson
   • Bisexual Steve Harrington
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Eddie Munson Needs a Hug
   • Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • POV Eddie Munson
   • But to offset that Eddie navel-gazes and is as unreliable as it gets
   • Robin Buckley being the number one friend ever
   • Steve Harrington Has a Bisexual Awakening
   • One Night Stands
   • Eddie Munson Has Self-Esteem Issues
   • Which is very common for me to write
   • Prepare to be a bit frustrated with the boys in this one
   • But I assure you there is a happy ending included
   • Good Uncle Wayne Munson
   • Some men be fighting demons and the demons are bisexuality
   • Tisoy Eddie Munson
   • Not thematically relevant but its relevant to ME
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • None coming from any of the main characters but it is the 80s
   • Metalhead written by a metalhead
   • Bottom Eddie Munson
   • its implied!
   • POV Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
   • Light Dom/sub
   • The dynamics are VERY implied but its there
   • Soft Dom Steve Harrington
   • Sub Eddie Munson
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Funny but also deeply sad
   • Drag Queens
   • Family Video employees written by a film bro
   • No I have NOT watched season five and I DONT have plans to
   • Steve somehow being both deeply aware and incredibly oblivious

   Summary

   “I should go,” Eddie blurts out, standing up so quickly that the chair under him scrapes against the floor like nails on a chalkboard.

   Just like that, the spell breaks, and Steve’s smile drops. His brow furrows incredulously. Standing as well, he says, “What? Why?”

   If only Eddie could list the reasons.

    

    

   Sorry Steve, I really thought you making sweet and passionate love to me meant something to you as it did to me, even a fucking modicum. You positively ripped my heart out of its cavity and jump-roped on its remains. Please excuse me so I can stagger out your front door and throw up into your mother’s rose bush.

    

    

   (or: the morning after, and the days after that.)

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