Imposter Syndrome

Rules: Post the first sentence of your latest 10 fanfics, then tag 10 people.

I was tagged by @salamandergoo (Thanks!!!!)

They're all Steddie fics and I'm not including any WIPs lol

Pride

Edie took a swallow of water as she jogged on the treadmill - the owners of the gym had assured Edie's people they were discreet, didn't allow photography of any kind and she wouldn't be hounded for questions or autographs.

Rebuilt

"Pride goeth before the fall."

Steve Harrington Doesn't Back Down from a Dare

Steve Harrington never backed down from a dare.

Capsized

"Uncle Wayne, I still can't believe you arranged for all this!" Eddie sat in the small fishing boat with his uncle in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans.

Steve the Slayer

The morning of December 1, 1987 dawned bright and clear, the ground covered in a light dusting of snow.

The Greatest Gift

"Baby, it's a door, it won't bite."

Movement Therapy

The morning after Corroded Coffin's final show of their 2024 World Tour, Eddie Munson woke to find his right shoulder completely frozen.

Delicious Surprise

"Package for Wheeler, Sinclair and Harrington?" Eddie parked his bike in the loading zone and jogged into the building where he met a surly looking security guard.

Temporarily Yours

"Thank you for calling Temporarily Yours where we guarantee a good time, but not a long time, this is Serena how may I help you?"

Drunken Words to Lovebirds

"… and in local news, here is video of Hawkins' very own Corroded Coffin led by Eddie Munson, leaving to go out on their very first world tour! The tour is set to start in Australia and the band says they plan to tour for at least a year with the potential for adding more dates …"

@penny00dreadful

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

11,444 words, 3/3 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Victorian, Presumed Dead, Pining, Except is it really?, maybe more longing, Intense longing, Vampire Steve Harrington, Vampire Robin Buckley, Found Family, Shameless murder, steve and robin do not feel bad for the people they're draining, Morally Ambiguous Character, the people they're draining are pretty shitty anyway, vigilante vampires, Steve has been suffering intense heartbreak for just over 200 years, fake siblings steve and robin, who then become fake married steve and robin, Temporary Character Death, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Steve Harrington Loves Eddie Munson, Lesbian Robin Buckley, Angst with a Happy Ending, i swear there's a happy ending here, just hold on folks, i would say i'm sorry for hurting you, or these characters, but I'm not, this is what sustains me

Summary:

“Have you… ever been in love?” Robin would have been holding her breath with anxiety, if she had breath left in her lungs to hold. They did not speak of Steve’s past. In the nearly sixty-five years they had been together, he had never told her outright that the subject was forbidden. He had never needed to.

This is a MOD rec as a part of our Fic Fridays.

A story about a reluctant hero, a cursed king, and a love that transcends space, time, and maybe even death itself.

[ Access the fic on @just-my-latest-hyperfixation 's AO3 !!!!!!]

You can start reading from the beginning using this link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/75595066/chapters/197680161

Tag list:

@steddieas-shegoes @thefreakandthehair @thisapplepielife @runninriot @sidekick-hero

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Louis sees Lestat as this primal force of nature who looks like a romance novel hero, can effortlessly control any room, is "preternaturally charming," impeccably turned out, no one can say no to him for long.

but we get in LESTAT'S head, and suddenly he has scars and a tangled mane of hair, people are constantly talking over him, he sweats, he's getting beat up and his clothes are getting destroyed in a non-sexy way, he's flailing around wildly with NO idea what he's doing, people (lestat included) think he's untalented and annoying.

And LOUIS, well. Louis clearly sees himself as uncanny, reserved, compelling but a little off-putting. He is other: cut-off from humanity, holding his emotions and relationships at arm's length.

control it peepaw!!

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.02: Toledo TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.