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
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
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)
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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Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!
Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.
Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.
Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:
Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)
Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)
Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)
Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)
Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)
You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.
Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.
(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)
After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.
I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).
It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.
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you may have noticed that my blog is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my tag game is weaker by the day. this is commentary on the chaos of modern existence
They celebrated Christmas and New Years together, happily ensconced in the house secluded from everyone in their little winter bubble. Eddie worried a bit that he was smothering Steve with his constant checking in on him and urging him to eat and nap.
Eventually, however, Eddie had to gear back up to go on tour and put the finishing touches on their next album. Which meant leaving Steve there with Wayne.
"I am going to be fine," Steve said. "I promise."
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to distract me after the Longest Week Of My Life, I figured I'd tease some of what I'm working on very slowly...between crises~
Rules: send me an emoji and I’ll share a snippet from a project I’m working on!
At the moment, I’m brainstorming for Corroded Coffin Fest given this universe is nearly a year old (!!!) thanks to them, but not quite ready to share what I have cooking.
Other than that, I'm still really only bouncing between these two works;
Part 2 of Steve’s in the band; a s4 au 🎸
Part 3 of Steve’s in the band; coming soon! ❤️🩹
Snippet from the upcoming chapter of part 2 (🎸) below the cut!!
I promise I'm desperately close to finishing!!
Robin’s excited footsteps bounded up the stairs. “Can I help?” she asked, blowing between them in search of the knobs of Steve’s closet. “Eddie, how do you feel about pink?”
Steve winked at Eddie, falling back on the mattress with a sigh. “I think you should be rooting through Teresa’s closet.”
“Yeah,” Robin said. “You’re in your grimy band shirt phase.”
“They’re not grimy!”
“Excuse me,” she scoffed, turning back to him with her lip curled. “I’ve been in the room when you open that disgusting duffle of yours after a trip for one of your shows. Honestly, even one show. You're, like, actually gross.” Her nose wrinkled when she glanced back at Steve. When he laughed, she turned to Eddie. “Don’t laugh, Munson. Your van is like, noxious for a week after you guys go on the road.”
“Excuse me,” Eddie scoffed. “I’ve seen you clean that clarinet, Benny. You could fill a glass with that stuff.”
“Please stop,” Steve begged, features twisted sourly.
The Steve’s in the band AU!
Tagging (no pressure!): @clownifornian @eddywoww @novacorpsrecruit @thisapplepielife @toburnup @augustjustice and anyone else who wants to <3
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we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you
