Biromantic/Grey-romantic Asexual. White. She/They. Thirty(+), dirty, and dying. I am a Tumblr Old One. I'm here (august_justice) on AO3. Other corners of the internet you can find me include Twitter, Bluesky, and Pillowfort under this same username. If you want to be friends on discord, feel free to message me! Icon credit to userstonathan. Header credit to finalgalnancywheeler.
Hi there! I'm MJ (though you can also call me august)! Finally making a post to compile all my fic-related goings on. I'm primarily a Steddie writer, with some gen friendship fics and other Stranger Things pairings thrown in there.
Though I don't have a general tag list, I am always happy to add folks to ones for specific fics. Just let me know!
I always enjoy being tagged in writing games, and my asks are open. Feel free to drop me a line!
Artworks, podfics, and translations are welcome, but please be sure to tag me (mostly because I would love to see them)!
Writing tag: my writing
Tangled Together 'verse Rating: T to E | Word Count: 6.7 k | Tags: Pre-Relationship to Established Steddie, Platonic Stobin, Bodysharing, Consensual Possession, Crack Treated Seriously, Stranger Things 5 Canon Divergence, Angst, Cohabitation, Sharing Clothes, Smut
ongoing writing tag: steddie bodysharing 'verse
you wanna feel how it feels (let's exchange the experience) Rating: E | Word Count: 57k | Tags: Bodyswap, Friends to Lovers, Slowburn, Getting to Know Each Other, Steve Harrington Has Absent Parents, Good Parent Wayne Munson, Disabled Eddie Munson, Disabled Steve Harrington, Class Differences, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Bisexual Eddie Munson
ongoing writing tag: steddie bodyswap au
Crush Confessions Rating: G | Word Count: 2.5k | Tags: Friends to Lovers, Crushes, Confessions, Fluff and Angst, Unrequited Love...for now, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
ongoing writing tag: crush confessions
Second in Line Rating: G | Word Count: 909 | Tags: Future Fic, Established Relationship, Sibling Bonding, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, POV Outsider
Life's Funny Like That Rating: T | Word Count: 200 | Tags: High School, Future Fic, Double Drabble
Cast Adrift for a stranger summer | prompt: ‘pool’ | Pairing: pre-Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler (background) | Word Count: 4.5k | Rating: T | CW: allusions to parental neglect, Upside Down trauma, and drug use; mildly suggestive thoughts | Other tags: Summer of 1984, Lifeguard Steve, Pre-Slash, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Hail to the King Rating: G | Word Count: 2.5k | Tags: Billy Hargrove, High School, Stranger Things 2, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Sexism, Bullying (but only from Billy), Pre-Slash
Falling Fast Rating: T | Word Count: 1.4k | Tags: Falling In Love, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson, Stranger Things 4 Canon Divergence
That Healing Touch Rating: T | Word Count: 6.9k | Tags: Stranger Things 4 Missing Scene, Pre-Slash, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, the inherent homoeroticism of patching another man's wounds
Got You By My Side Rating: T | Word Count: 7k | Tags: Hospitals, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Pre-Slash, Getting Together, Post-Stranger Things 4, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington
Chemistry, History, and Shared Trauma Rating: T | Word Count: 4.2k | Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed, Scars, Fluff, Getting Together, Parallels, Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
Battle Scars Rating: T | Word Count: 1.1k | Fluff and Angst, Kissing, Making Out, Scars
Children Behave (That's What They Say When We're Together) Rating: T | Word Count: 3.2k | Tags: Established Relationship, Friendship, Bickering, Babysitter Steve Harrington, Babysitter Eddie Munson, Meddling Kids
Finding Home Rating: T | Word Count: 2.3k | Tags: Established Relationship, Future Fic, Mechanic Eddie Munson, Hairdresser Steve Harrington, Teacher Steve Harrington, Community College, Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson Acting as The Party's Parental Figures, Slice of Life, Domestic Fluff
Sharing Smokes Outside the Snow Ball Rating: T | Word Count: 1.5k | Tags: Future Fic, Kid Fic, Single Parent Steve Harrington, Single Parent Eddie Munson, Pre-Slash
Surviving the Storm Rating: G | Word Count: 520 | Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Period-Typical Homophobia, 1990s
Fun Fair Fortunes Gone Wrong! (And Then Right) Rating: E | Word Count: 9.3k | Tags: Gender or Sex Swap, Crack, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, First Kiss, First Time, Nipple Piercings, Nipple Play, Vaginal Fingering, Cunnilingus, Scissoring, Strap-Ons, Vaginal Sex, Feminization, Misunderstandings, Light Angst, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Idiots in Love, Love Confessions, Fluff, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington
Always Should Be Someone You Really Love Rating: E | Word Count: 991 | Tags: Changes to Gender or Sex, Future Fic, Teacher Steve Harrington, Mechanic Eddie Munson, Pregnancy, Parenthood, Body Dysphoria, Gender Non-Conforming Eddie Munson, Gender Non-Conforming Steve Harrington, Transmasculine Eddie Munson, Transmasculine Steve Harrington, by way of magical intervention, Queer Culture, Good Uncle Wayne Munson, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Minor Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne, Strap-Ons, Anal Sex, basically a post-Fun Fair AU thought experiment that asks 'what if Steve and Eddie didn't transform back?'
Pretty in Pink Rating: T | Word Count: 2.2k | Tags: Transfeminine Steve Harrington, Studying, Fluff, Kissing, Getting Together, Bisexual Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington
Victoria's Got Nothing On Her Rating: E | Word Count: 6.8k | Tags: Transfeminine Steve Harrington, Trans Female Steve Harrington, Established Relationship, Lingerie, Kissing, Light Dom/sub, Switch Steve Harrington, Switch Eddie Munson
The Itty Bitty Titty Committee Rating: E | Word Count: 1.8k | Tags: Sapphic Steddie, Female Steve Harrington, Female Eddie Munson, Past-Harringrove, Past-Stommy, Past-Stancy, Insecure Eddie Munson, Established Relationship, Period-Typical Homophobia (Mentioned), Implied Sex, Nipple Licking
Living Dead Boy Rating: T | Word Count: 1.3k | CW: angst, fixation on death, survivor’s guilt, ambiguous ending | Tags: meta, prose poem, 2nd person, horror movie allusions, steve pov, steddie (technically)
All the fics I've co-written with my rp/writing partner and wonderful long-time friend @inkfowl!
Study Buddies series Rating: E | Word Count: 209k | Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Pre-Canon, Pre-Relationship, Crushes Temporarily Unrequited Love, Studying, Sleepovers, Dreams, Slow Burn, Childhood Friends, Friends to Lovers, Friends to Lovers to Enemies, Boys Kissing, Internalized Homophobia, Period-Typical Homophobia, Time Skips
Halloween Doesn't Have to be Scary (Anymore) Rating: E | Word Count: 20k | Tags: Halloween, Love Confessions, Fluff and Angst, Getting Together, First Kiss, First Time
After Valentine's Special Rating: G | Word Count: 8.4k | Tags: Valentine's Day, Post Valentine's Day, Teddy Bears, Heart Candy, Rose Petals, Steve is a hopeless romantic, Eddie is easily wooed, Kissing, Flirting, silly boys in love
Shop Til You Drop (to Your Knees) Rating: E | Word Count: 8.1k | Tags: Established Relationship, Shopping, Summer, Stockings, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs
Sweet as Spice Rating: E | Word Count: 29.9k | Tags: Alternate Universe - Sugar Daddy, Sugar Baby Steve, Middle Aged/Older Steddie, Angst, Mention of Past Relationships, Rockstar Eddie Munson, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Mer-May I Have This Kiss? Rating: T | Word Count: 5.6k | Tags: MerMay, Alternate Universe - Merpeople, Friends to Lovers, Practice Kissing, Lovers Lake (Stranger Things)
The Ole Harrington Charm prompt: charm | word count: 548 | rating: G | CW: none | tags: flirting, getting together
Just Like Red Cross prompt: suck | word count: 480 | rating: M | CW: drinking blood, suggestive | tags: Kas!Eddie, blood bag Steve, kissing
Still the One prompt: reunion (steddie week); gender euphoria (stevie week); one | Word Count: 111 words | rating: T | tags: transfem steve harrington, futurefic, dancing
You're the One I Want prompt: dizzy, drunken confessions (steddie week); girls night (stevie week); one | Word Count: 1111 words | rating: T | tags: transfem steve harrington, platonic stobin, sleepovers, phone calls, love confessions
Me, You, and a Malted Milkshake for Two prompt: diner (stranger things writers guild); experiment | word count: 398 words | rating: M (for brief mentions of sex) | tags: hooking up, first times, didn’t know they were dating
Apocalypse Training Now prompt: train | word count: 551 words | rating: T | tags: post-apocalypse, sparring, first kiss
Got Your Mother In A Whirl (She's Not Sure If You're A Boy or A Girl) rating: G | word count: 4.9k | tags: genderfluid steve harrington, steve harrington & dustin henderson, steve harrington & the party, implied unrequited stoncy, stranger things 2, steve harrington has bad parents, period-typical homophobia, period-typical transphobia, self-discovery, friendship, good babysitter steve harrington
After School Special rating: G | word count: 548 | tags: steve harrington & the party, (pre) steve harrington & robin buckley friendship, post-stranger things 2, pre-stranger things 3, good babysitter steve harrington
I Wanna Be the One to Walk in the Sun for stevie week day 1: stobin | prompts: sapphic, the party | rating: T | word count: 2.5k | cw: homophobia and transphobia mentioned but with no real bearing on the story | tags: sapphic stobin, background elmax, transfem steve harrington, get together, established relationship, futurefic, tooth-rotting fluff
Girls Like Girls Like Boys Do (Nothing New) rating: M | word count: 4k | cw: allusions to underage sex, though fade to black and no more explicit than the show itself; period-typical homophobia, misogyny, and ableism | tags: sapphic stancy, past stomarol, female steve harrington, dyslexic steve harrington, s1 rewrite, getting together, angst, happy ending
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one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.
We all agree that both Steve and Eddie cross-dress, right? Like for Steve, it's just a thing he does with Eddie to spice things up. The classics, he's wearing panties while they're out together, he's putting on a full lingerie set when he's feeling extra pretty, and he might don a cheerleading uniform or a sexy nurse costume on special occasions. But it's always a thing for just him and Eddie to enjoy together.
When Eddie decides to try Drag, he gives it his all. Steve might be the King in their relationship but he's more than happy to be the Queen. He's making his own costumes, he's coming up with elaborate lip sync numbers, and he's perfecting his unique makeup style. Even though they're in a dark, small town gay bar on the outskirts of Hawkins, the place is always packed when Eddie performs. But Eddie keeps his eyes on Steve the whole time, embarrassing him any chance he gets by dragging him on stage or sending him a wink and blowing him a kiss. Steve blushes so hard every time. And when Eddie is done, all hot and sweaty, his costume overflowing with dollar bills, Steve drags him to the bathroom and barricades the door.
FREDDY: Now, you die.
NANCY: It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You're not alive. This whole thing is just a dream. I want my mother and friends again. I take back every bit of energy I gave you. You're nothing. You're shit.
Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.
The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.
And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.
I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.
Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.
Seaside, FL
Seahaven
And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.
Every single house is pastel with white trim and a white picket fence with the family's name on it in a handwritten font. The streets are paved with red bricks and lined with palmettos, and families bicycle past. The streets are clean, the lawns manicured, the sidewalks pristine.
Soon after we arrive my friend says as we walk, "God I wish I could live in a place like this. Imagine having the money to live in a place like this." I reply, "I don't actually know for me...it's gorgeous don't get me wrong, but there's no grime, you know? Where's the grime? I'd feel uncomfortable. It feels like there's not a dive bar for a hundred miles."
We reach the town center, which is a wide square lined with shops on one side, food trucks on the other. We have a lovely time looking through the shops, though I start feeling kinda weird, and I'm not sure why. Probably the extreme cleanliness of the area is making me feel off-kilter. And the surreal feeling of walking through areas I recognize from The Truman Show only adds to the weirdness.
We go into a clothing store, and it's crowded with people who appear to have stepped out of a Land's End catalog. It sells boring tshirts, shorts, and sundresses in whites and blues, all needlessly expensive. Employees walk through, refolding already-pristine shirts. So perfect. "Anyone buying from here is so rich they can probably smell the poor on us," my friend jokes, "that's why they have so many employees refolding things, it's to fix anything we brush against." "Or even breathe on!" I add.
We continue on to the grocery store where, in the movie, Truman finds Marlon stocking the vending machine and first tells him he suspects his world is wrong. I buy some pasta salad there to eat for lunch (all the cafes are quite expensive), and we find a place to sit and eat. As my friend finishes up her food, I write a postcard to my sister, telling her about my trip overall and my day in Seaside, describing the town as 'vomit-inducingly picturesque.' (It has been weeks since my visit and she still has not received that postcard)
Lunch done, we decide to walk down to the beach and have a swim. And I realize something about the surreal feeling. "Weird question," I say to my friend, "have you seen any non-white people here? Am I imagining that?"
She pauses. "The lady cleaning the bathrooms?" she asks.
"No I mean vacationers. Guests, customers. Other than you, I haven't seen a single one who wasn't white."
"...No. I haven't either."
And now that we see it, we can't unsee it. It's a wealthy area, so I had been expecting it to be pretty white, but the fact that there is not a single nonwhite person who isn't working a service job feels so gross. It's as though the place is somehow still segregated, like we have stepped back in time, but not to the fun, fake, rock-n-roll-and-soda-parlor-nostalgia version of the fifties, but to the real racism-and-repression fifties.
It is so fucking weird and sinister. I feel I have stumbled into another realm. All these people giving us sideeye, riding around on their golf carts in their pristine $45 seaside-branded tshirts, taking pictures of the perfect houses all lined up in perfect rows. A whole town of Meryls wearing lulu lemon.
We walk on. It's hot, and a swim is exactly what we need. Surely they can't ruin the ocean. I myself am extremely excited to swim, because now that we've spent a few hours among the pompous populace, I want to piss in their perfect ocean more than anything in the world.
We walk along behind the beachfront bar patios that line the beach toward the access point, and the ocean looks so blue and inviting. Although the hedge growing between us and the dunes is strangely tall. "Huh," I think. "It's weird that they'd grow it like this, it blocks the view for everyone sitting on the patios."
We arrive at the boardwalk, and there is a man standing there. He says "Hold on! Do you two have a beach access pass?" I look at him in disbelief. It's a public beach, but the sign behind the man says you have to rent a beach chair to use the beach, and it's $35 per person. We glance at each other, turn wordlessly, and head back to town.
I seriously consider trying to sneak onto the beach somehow, because at this point I am very invested in the idea of pissing in their ocean, but I realize that with the tall hedge it would be nigh-impossible.
We went home after that.
So many reviews for Seaside on travel websites mention how they love to visit Seaside because they feel transported, they feel it reflects a "simpler time" or a "peaceful life." It's been weeks and I can't stop thinking about my experience. It really drove home how...complicit people can be in their own ignorance. A lot of people want to live in that perfect bubble, and especially if they have the money, they can maintain that barrier. It reminds me that part of the reason I often have trouble persuading these types of people is because they simply do not want to be persuaded. They're so proud to be the place where The Truman Show was filmed, but I rather doubt they really think about what it means that they live on a movie set, in a surreal dream.
Honestly visiting Seaside was a 10/10 unique experience. I would highly recommend it as a place to go for a couple hours if you're gonna be nearby and want to feel like you've been kidnapped into The Truman Show and/or your brain has been put in an easy bake oven. It's like a zoo for superrich WASPS. We had a really good time loudly making fun of how insane it all was, invading their little paradise with our riffraff energy. Treat it like an excursion into the jungle; you're gonna have to park a half mile away minimum, and bring all your food and water with you so you don't have to buy anything. You don't want to give them any money. They have enough.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, next time I go to the panhandle, I will be going to the nearest free public beach access to Seaside, and I will walk to the Seaside area of the beach, and I will piss in their ocean.
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have we considered. Steve believing all the rumors about Eddie throughout high school but having a crush on him anyway. his fantasies are basically “he’s evil but what if i were his favorite”
and then he gets to know him after S4 and he’s just a gooey marshmallow
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If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s
yaoi between two beautiful knights who keep ending up fighting each other but it turns out both of them are pretending to be men in order to be knights so its actually secret beautiful butch yuri. picture this
one is the handsome gentlemanly princely type with long hair riding on a white horse that all the ladies fawn over, the other is the badass grim bulky type with scars and a scowl and a big ass broadsword who always aura farms in the corner of the tavern alone
