finnegans.bindery

Steve Harrington x Reader x Eddie Munson

Fandom: Stranger Things

AU: Soulmate

Summary: After crashlanding in the mystical magical world of the 1980s, you discover that you have not one, but two soulmates and they are determined to take the best care of you they possibly can.

Note: Takes place sometime after Season 4 I guess?? Everyone lives and is happy (even though we don’t have those answers yet lmao). Also, yes another Soulmate AU. So sorry, but I am trash. Consider this my apology for discontinuing Stranded lol.

Warnings: poly fluff, swearing

Word Count: 3.2k

Reader Is: Female

Holy fuck, did your head hurt. Your ears were ringing really loudly and everything was black. Add to the list your limbs felt like they were full of sand and you were not having a good time. After a long moment, the ringing began to subside enough to make out some (unfamiliar) voices, who seemed to be bickering above you somewhere.

“She needs to go to a hospital. Like, now.” One of the voices argued. “Look at her.”

“And tell them what, Steve, that she fell from the sky?” Another voice, this one younger, replied.

“I don’t know, man, I think Harrington’s right. She doesn’t look so good.” A third voice, this one a bit deeper than either of the others, said. “Add to that the fact that she fell from the fucking sky.”

You tried your best to lift your eyelids, but everything was so heavy. Too heavy to move.

I painted this Rapunzel notebook a little while ago! It was meant to be a “simple” design… but I can never do “simple.” I used paint markers, looked at a ton of Claire Keane and Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure reference, and did a looooot of sketching to bring this journal to life. And I couldn’t be happier with the result! Read below the cut for my process!

Specifically this is the one and only And like the cycle of the year we begin again by @katherynefromphilly .

THIS IS A BEAST.

Like when I tell you that me n my friends have a running joke of me not knowing how to read because I struggle to finish a 100 pages book, and this is my go-to length of ff, that I finish in like 3-5 days.

And while I was editing the pdf for the pages I was like "yeah, I'm probably gonna do something like a bundle book, encompassing all of the we begin again series, I mean the first work is only 200000 words, I want a chonky book".

This shit has 705 pages.

AND IT'S JUST THE FIRST WORK.

I WAS FOUND DEAD!!!! LOOK AT THIS AND TELL ME ITS NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING YOUVE EVER SEEN.

Did someone say bisexual disaster Steve Harrington??? Sign me up 😩🙌🖤

Hi. I’m a nerd and I tend to hyperfixate on things each month and I read way too much but mostly I’m *very* much an amateur learning fanbinding 📚 I binged this in one evening so it deserves to be held in my hands 😌🙌 I also got distracted typesetting and read it 3 more times in less than a week so…😬

If you haven’t read Are You Flagging? By Soidade on AO3 yet, what are you waiting for?? (Assuming you like 🌶🔥🥺🥵)

—So this jacket is actually a place holder, as I’m waiting to get permission from artists still. I am super grateful to shirmirart on IG for letting me use their amazingly cute piece for the back! I saw their art and didn’t even need a synopsis anymore bc it perfectly captures the wholesome and idiots falling in love vibe of the fic in such a cute and recognizable way.

I do plan to change the front cover tho to better fit the more adult content. In the meantime, I made this front cover on Canva bc it reminds me of Heartstopper (also wholesome af vibes), buuut it’s a bit misleading. I’ll def use it in the future again tho! I have a couple inquiries out, so hopefully I’ll be back in the print shop soon with an update!

Art on back is from shirmirart

Fic is written by @ao3soidade

This is my third fic so it’s still a hot mess and binding smaller fics was actually much harder. I do plan in 6 months to come back with better skills and redo all my first 10 binds.

The Compact by @astolat

Hermione frowned. “The real question is why the magic of Britain would be failing now, in fact.” “That is not the real question!” Ron said loudly; he’d woken up fully by now, and Harry had too; it was starting to sink in that they’d found the problem. “The real question is, how do we fix it?”

title: Goudy Trajan body text/headers/page numbers: Baskerville

64,099 words | 178 pages

hoo boy, astolat is an author that I am genuinely happy to read whatever she writes, as I feel she is someone that you can trust to tell a story and tell it well. this one is plotted very well, and it was enjoyable to spend an afternoon reading. if you enjoy stories about magic, romance and medieval castles, this one is for you!

as for some notes on the design, I really enjoyed using the swords for the page numbers for this one, that I was glad I had the idea to also have that on the front with the title - I feel like it really brings it together. also, after seeing @a-gay-old-time's multi-coloured speckled edges, I knew I had to give that a go!

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