Hype

Latest update (3rd July): The King's Gift - chapter 14

Greetings! Welcome to my corner of tumblr!

I'm Hype and I fear the Steddie brainrot is permanent. These two idiots have kicked me out of a 15yr writer's block and it sure doesn't look like I'll be stopping any time soon. So here's an overview of my stuff.

🚫 My fics are for mature audiences, so minors please DNI. Everyone else, please heed the tags. 📂 Google drive folder with PDFs of most of my longer fics this way.

The King's Gift A story about a cursed king, a reluctant hero, and a love that transcends time, space, and maybe even death itself. Words by me, art by @house-of-the-moving-image rated E | approx. 100,000 words, completely finished | updates every other Friday

My completed multi-chapter fics

👑 See you in a crown rated E | 8,560 words

🎀 Let me be good to you rated E | 9,534 words

🦈 I'm just gonna swim (until you love me) rated G | 6,227 words

☀️ Sol Invictus rated E | 14,183 words 🏴‍☠️ Baptism of Fire rated E | 5,577 words 🩸 Laughing at the Storm rated M | 3,505 words

Hype's filthy fluffy forty Thank you for celebrating my birthday with me!

Mini series Phantom Thief AU || Kiss that ring || Upside Diner || The rock star and the royal || Like fine whiskey || Dream a little dream Microfics AO3 | Tumblr

Holiday drabbles 2023 | 2024 | 2025 1k follower ficlets AO3 | Tumblr Smutty September AO3 | Tumblr Steddie Bingo 2025/2026 AO3 | Tumblr Stranger Things Monster Calendar AO3 | Tumblr

Hype's 666 AO3 | Tumblr Brainworms

Amazing art made by my amazing moots

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Written for week 2 of the @steddiemicrofic three-year anniversary challenge

Prompt: years, 444 words

Rated: T

Tags: No UD AU; Rockstar Eddie; Hairstylist Steve; Eddie is a horny shit; Confident Steve

The salon is called The Hair.

Eddie rolls his eyes at the pink sign.

“Didn't you say he was a genius? Doesn't extend to naming stuff, obviously.”

Honestly, no! I'm very lucky to have very many dedicated readers, so lack of attention is really not a thing I feel like I can complain about! That being said: Piece of advice that I had to learn the hard way when I was posting Updraft (my Steddie Big Bang 2024 fic)! When you have a multi-chapter fic and add all the chapters to AO3 but wanna publish them one by one on different dates, then you gotta make sure to edit each individual chapter before posting and set the current date as the posting date, kids! Otherwise AO3 will set the date you originally created the draft as the posting date and your fic won't show up in the most recent works when you update. I only realized this like four chapters in. Don't be like me! 😂

(Same goes if you add a new chapter to your WIP, say, today, but only post it on Friday. Always adjust that posting date!)

🫓 What is your most popular fic?

How do you define popular? 😅

My most read one (and probably still the one I'm best known for) is Hic sunt dracones. I've been gifted an insane amount of fanart for it, and even a bound copy. (I know of two ppl besides myself who have a physical copy of this fic on their bookshelves and the thought is WILD).

My most kudos'ed one is actually a different one now - Whatever you want it to be. Which always makes me smile when I think about it bc it was the most self-indulgent spite write. I truly never expected it to get this popular. 😳

🍲 When did you start writing and why?

When: As soon as I knew enough letters to put together meaningful words.

Why: Because the damn voices won't shut up!!

All joking aside, I've been making up and telling stories for as long as I can remember. Original stuff as well as stories about my favorite characters, long before I knew what fanfiction was. It's an urge. I get antsy when I can't live it out. 🍝Have any comments, tags or reactions to one of your fics ever made you laugh or cry or both?

I cry a little every time someone creates something based off my fics - whether it's fanart or a podfic or a fic of their own. In my opinion, there's nothing that better embodies what fandom is all about: coming together about a thing we all love and inspiring each other to be creative and have fun. That being said, every comment warms my heart, no matter if it's a multi-paragraph analysis or a string of emoji. Recently, I've been so very happy about the latest comments on The King's Gift, and how the conclusion resonated with so many people. The last one that made me laugh out loud was the one on my Halloween drabble, where Eddie picks up a hitchiking ghost!Steve and stops on the roadside for sexy shenanigans, only to evade a car crash because of it. It said Steve saved Eddie's life with his ass. That's how good that ass is, ppl! 👻🍑

The option WAS there, and it's absolutely okay to ask! 😅❤️

Out of the longer ones, it was Possession - it's a emotionally heavy fic with lots of darker themes centering on grief and death and regret, so that in itself made it emotionally heavy to write. Also my grandad died while I was writing it, which hit me surprisingly hard considering we weren't close.

A shorter one that was emotionally difficult but also very cathartic was We made these memories for ourselves, in which sixty-year-old Steve learns that his father died. I'm not sixty yet, and my relationship with my parents is very different from Steve’s, but there's still a lot of me in there. I've been dealing a lot with grief in its different forms, transitioning between different phases in life, parents aging and getting sick and all that fun stuff over the past two years, and sometimes it sneaks in.