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A reimagining of the Starcourt theater scene in season 3 where a drug-addled Steve leaves the theater on his own to find water and runs into an old friend with ill intentions. Dustin must come to his rescue.
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“Harrington?” The voice is quiet but familiar, tugging at some part of Steve’s brain that reminds him of early high school– of long slow days by the pool, nights out at the arcade, first time sneaking beers and cigarettes out into the woods, and laughing about dumb shit that didn’t matter while sitting on the hard linoleum floor of the school hallway. “What happened to you?”
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Dustin walks in on Steve in a compromising situation with an old friend.
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i can hear your dog whistle from my bedroom by pettypace
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2026
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Tommy Hagan used to be Steve's attack dog, but Steve doesn't need an attack dog anymore. He's become one himself.
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Tommy touches Steve first. He reaches across and runs a hand through his hair, tugging just enough to make it hurt. Steve sucks in a breath but doesn't say anything as Tommy leans in, just closes his eyes and lets it happen. Their lips meet and Steve tastes like beer and cigarette smoke and something else that's just Steve, sweet and familiar.
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Post Starcourt drabble set in a genderbent Stranger Things AU.
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"Wait, hold up— so you were serious back there? It wasn’t just the drugs?” Robbie gawked at her, squinting through his tiny black sunglasses. The bruise on his cheek was turning yellow and fading at last. “You were best friends with Tammy Hagan for crying out loud! I’ve lost count of the times she called me a queer!”
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Genderbent Stranger Things AU that takes place between seasons 3 and 4. Stevie and Dusty navigate the heartache of high school and growing up. Note that basically everyone is genderbent unless noted otherwise. Also, there's a lot of lesbian crushes and feelings, but nothing actually requited or romantic. The main focus is friendship.
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"What do you mean you aren't going to Homecoming? It's your first high school dance!"
Dusty rolled her eyes at Stevie in the same slow, dramatic way she'd seen Edie do earlier when Michelle had voiced the same complaint. "Puh-lease, Stevie, Homecoming is just an excuse to uphold old patriarchal value systems of violence and misogyny."
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kiss your knuckles (toxic stommy drabbles) by pettypace
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2026
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A series of disconnected drabbles that play with the (sometimes but not always one-sided) Stommy relationship. Basically where I take Steve Harrington, Tommy Hagan, and sometimes Dustin Henderson and rattle them around a bunch in my mind.
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true blue (genderbent stranger things drabbles) by pettypace
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2026
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A series of drabbles set in a genderbent version of Stranger Things-- featuring the sporty but feminine Stevie Harrington, baby lesbian nerd Dusty Henderson, gay disaster Robbie Buckley, butch lesbian Edie Munson, and others.
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Steve sighs before continuing: “It can’t happen in Hawkins, Dustin, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. You’re going to get out. You’re going to go to college because you are super smart and– and you’re going to find a guy who’s perfect for you.” Steve watches his own face in the mirror say these words, tracing the lines under his eyes, the bruise on his jaw, the cut on his temple. He imagines the man who will someday love Dustin and feels a sudden, intense jealousy. “You are going to find a guy who is smart, and understands you, and is brave for you. You are going to find someone who loves you. You are going to get your happy ending.” It sounds like a prayer or incantation. Dustin will be happy someday. He must.
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Love looks a certain way in Hawkins. It doesn't look like Dustin Henderson and Steve Harrington going steady, that's for sure.
(Canon divergent post s3. No Vecna.)- Words:
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Robin Buckley refuses to accept that the universe handed her front-row seats to the slow-burn, emotionally devastating phenomenon that is Steve Harrington and Dustin Henderson—and did not expect her to document it.
This is the annotated record of two survivors and their favorite band, assembled and weaponized by the only person in Hawkins with the musical literacy, emotional range, and sheer stubbornness to do it properly.
She’s unstoppable, she has Freddie Mercury on her side.
(Take that, Nancy Wheeler, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, terrifyingly competent shot, and woman who still corrects Robin's comma usage in Christmas cards.)
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Bookmarked by pettypace
06 Jul 2026
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Dustin sleeps, his sweet lips parted. His curls are on the pillow. Steve knows exactly how tangled but soft they are, and how nice it would be to run his hand through them. He exhales hoarsely and his hand finds itself on his dick. Steve allows himself to stroke himself once, slowly moving his palm from the base to the tip. He won't jerk off to Dustin while he is asleep, but fuck -
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A little lovely fantasy about one kink and two men in love.- Language:
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Bookmarked by pettypace
03 Jul 2026
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Who's Counting? by katya1828 for Pearlravenlapis, setzappersto_pew
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Oct 2023
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Steve leans over her, looking pale and freaked out. Her pulse and breathing are going apeshit and she’s pretty much as close to a panic attack as she’s been in months. She pictures him dead. Herself dead, too. Sometimes, in the darkness, it’s all she ever sees... “Robin?” He waves his hand in front of her nose, ripping her back to the present.
“I… uh, I’m fine.” Just reliving what happens in glorious technicolour most nights when I close my eyes. “Your lip… It’s bleeding.”
When Steve is hurt in a robbery at Family Video, Robin experiences horrible flashbacks to THAT night at Starcourt. It looks like her insomnia is back for good… until Steve comes up with a plan. Inspired by whumptober day 12 prompts “I haven’t slept in days, but who’s counting?”; insomnia; and “I’m up, I’m up.”
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- Part 16 of Hard to Hate (aka Steve whump fic thread!)
- Part 4 of Katya's stobin fic
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Bookmarked by pettypace
23 Jun 2026
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When Nancy shoots the exotic matter that hovers above Hawkins Lab, Steve and Dustin find themselves face to face with a Steve and Dustin from 25 years in the future. The four of them must figure out why they were all brought together and how to get back to their original timelines, all while trying to navigate their complicated relationships with one another. Because, as Steve and Dustin are startled to discover, apparently they're married in the future.
AKA: the dilf dusteve time travel drabbles from tumblr
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18 May 2026
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“Yeah,” Steve sighs. “I’m gonna miss you, too, Dustin. Hey, promise you won’t forget about good old Steve Harrington when you make a bunch of new, smart friends?”
Steve brings his hand to grip the base of Dustin’s neck. He knows he sounds pathetic, but it covers what he really wants to say, which is “don’t leave me behind.”
Dustin catches Steve’s gaze and holds it. “You’re my best friend. You know that nothing could ever change that.”
Steve can’t seem to tear his eyes away from Dustin’s. The weight of everything they went through in the last five years hangs in the air. There’s too much to say and nothing to say that they don’t already know.
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Set in the year after Dustin graduates high school and heads to college, Steve and Dustin struggle to navigate their relationship as it changes in ways that neither of them anticipated, especially now that the threat of the Upside Down is no longer an excuse to keep them together.
It’s a story told through phone calls, postcards, holidays at home, road trips, and Lord of the Rings references. It’s a story of learning what to let go of, what to hold onto and how to find a path forward. Mostly, it’s a story about love.
Bookmarked by pettypace
04 Feb 2026