STRANGER THINGS KINKTOBER

For all the optimism he felt when they set out from the fae realm to deliver the treaty, a dark, heavy sense of gloom has now settled over him. 

Because Nancy is right, isn't she?

What good can the treaty do, even if the fae will feel obliged to honor it and not attack them outright? What exactly will it accomplish as long as people like Jason or Creel exist in the world - people who are convinced that everyone born on the wrong side of the border doesn't even deserve to live? How are they ever going to defeat whoever is responsible for the fading magic?

How are they ever going to create a world where Eddie does not feel like an outcast and a mistake?

Rounding the final bend in the corridor, he tries to shake himself out of it. Maybe he shouldn't think about these things at all. Maybe it's not his place to concern himself with the complexities of politics. He has his own problems to worry about, such as breaking the invisible bond that ties them together.

Then again, if he breaks it and nothing about this world ever changes, what future can there be for them? 

01 - Fabrics / Sharps

Sharps

Nancy x TransMasc!Chrissy

Chris turns punk but still keeps his soft colour scheme (pastel leather jacket, pink patches that kind of thing), makes himself a spiked jacket. It makes Nancy a little crazy to see him all punked up, fucks Chris on top of his jacket, the spikes digging into Chris. Soft and sharp. Indents, marking up. Maybe Nancy pushes Chris’ face into the spikes, his cheeks maybe. Maybe it starts with Nancy helping Chris with his t-shots. Nancy likes the way the skin bends and bends till it breaks.

02 - Pet-Play / Docking

Pet-Play

Eddie x Steve

The feral eddie WIP in my drafts, ‘Now I Wanna Be Your Dog’. Eddie wants to be wild and loose. Steve wants to have control in a safe way. Eddie isn't a good dog. Maybe a bit of piss play too, Eddie pisses on the floor on purpose to get in trouble?

03 - Emetophilia (aroused by the act of vomiting) / Bimbofication

Bimbofication

Argyle x Gender Queer Jonathan

Argyle gets Johnathan mind meltingly high, dresses him up and makes him cum so many times he cries. Jon who wants to be soft and relax. He knows women are hard working, has nothing but respect for the women in his life, for the ‘aggressive’ women like Joyce and Nancy, but he craves the fantasy of being a soft airhead and Argyle will do anything to help Jon relax and unwind. They don't have the language for it but Jon is gender queer/ambivalent/non-binary and bisexual. Argyle is an equal opportunist and likes Jon no matter what.

04 - Watersports / Public Sex

Watersports

Eddie solo

Masturbation in bed, playing with needing to piss. Maybe he can autofellate, pisses and cums in his own mouth? Really messy. Loooong cock Munson. He's a hydrated king, no stinky piss here folks. Bisexual Eddie. Find era appropriate crushes for Eddie to have and fantasise about.

05 - Fluffers (Usually in porn, maintaining arousal while waiting for the next act) / Threesomes/Moresomes

Moresome

Steve x Chrissy x Corroded Coffin

Steve is the pre and post show toy. Orgy, kinky style. Left tied up during the show. Not safe but consensual. Order of Dominance from Top to bottom; Chrissy, Jeff, Eddie, Freak, Gareth and then Steve.

06 - Hair Removal / Lactation

Lactation

Robin x Chrissy & Nancy & Barbara & Carol

Hucow play. Milking, nipple play, fucked and milked. Robin is a farmer in a world where this is normal. She rescues cows from mistreatment, they live on her farm happily. Robin does her rounds, milking her girls and pleasuring them. A mix of hand and machine milking. Some of the cows like to be touched, some like to be set up with fuck machines and automatic milkers and left alone.

07 - Monsters / Sensory Deprivation

Monsters

Steve x Trans!Eddie

Werewolf Steve, knot fucking Eddie. Eddie is absolutely wild for it. It gets very rough, Eddie is bruised and bleeding and Steve's wolf cock is far too big for him. Steve really punching that knot in and out of Eddie. Hot sweaty fur pressed along Eddie's back. Nails and claws, sharp and blunt teeth. Maybe some comparisons between werewolves and being trans, transformations, betrayal of flesh, second puberties.

08 - Feet / Multiple Penetration

Multiple Penetration

Nancy x Robin

Robin is subbing for Nancy. Robin has a plug in her ass, mouth gag with the little cock on, and a dildo in pussy. Nancy is working her up to taking a second in her pussy. She's slow, precise but unwavering. Robin loves being full, she's not as keen on the actual motion of fucking but just being full makes her floaty and calm. Nancy is extremely into seeing Robin all stuffed full. Robin is restrained, maybe rope?

09 - Objectophilia (aroused by an object) / Feeders

Objectophilia

Robin

I want her to be obsessed with filling herself up with something odd. Bed post? Microphone?

Or maybe into grinding on something 🤔

She has an Atari 2600 that she uses as a sex toy but has grown attached to it. She has a stolen copy of ‘Beat em and eat em’ that she feels guilty about but the little pixel women always get her hot.

10 - Gential Torture / Sex Pollen

Sex Pollen

Nancy x Eddie

A side of non-con, Eddie gay, Nancy isn't into him but they need to fuck nasty or die. Eddie is so hard but struggles to cum. Nancy cums really easily but hates it. Overstimulation for Nancy, maybe she pisses? They're sort of lucid, they know they don't want it but they can't stop themselves. Once they start it's near impossible to stop. Steve and Robin are nearby and aware but are unable to help, which adds to the humilation.

11 - Bets/Dares / Incest

Incest

Wayne x Eddie

Maybe they're playing poker and it ‘accidentally’ turns into strip poker, they get horny about it. They don’t do it often. They started recently when Eddie was 19, only when it’s hot out and the trailer park is quiet and they don’t have to talk about it. It just kind of happens. They both like it but both know they shouldn’t. Dash of feminising talk.

A dark-ish side to Wayne. He was molested as a kid. Wayne hasn't touched anyone other than Eddie. Wayne has killed a few men over the years known to be child abusers. Wayne struggles with the fact he abuses Eddie. Eddie knows its not the healthiest thing but he figures they aren't hurting anyone and he's an adult so it's okay.

12 - Age Gap / Hyperspermia (unusually large amounts of ejaculate)

Age Gap

Steve x Hopper

Steve has all his wires crossed and Hopper is like his dad but Steve really wants Hop to fuck him. Keeps getting himself really sloppy and drunk until he catches Hopper also drunk and takes advantage. It's rapey, Hopper says no a lot but doesn't push Steve off. Steve calls Hopper Daddy a lot but near the end just calls him Dad which freaks Hopper out a little bit. Steve cries a little, just really wants a daddy to hold him. Steve is definitely not okay and Hopper is kind of afraid of him/conflicted because he came. Hopper wants to comfort Steve and also never ever see him again.

13 - Belly Bulge / Dry Humping

Dry Humping

Eddie x Trans Masc!Jeff

Sometimes they rut together, Eddie is gay, Jeff is ambivalent. Jeff internally compares Eddie to girls but its more curiosity about a body different to his own. It’s sexual but not romantic, very much just friends getting off together. They're both 15/16, underage. They're high, listening to music, Wayne is out. Exploratory touching, soft panting, warm air.

14 - Gooning (Masturbation, usually excessive) / Accidental Arousal

Gooning

Robin x Chrissy

Apparently I'm here for freak Robin. Marathon jerk off session. Maybe modern au so she can have all sorts of toys. Chrissy is away for work, Robin sends her regular updates via text. Robin is a sticky, sweaty mess, there isn't a single room in her home that she hasn't gotten off in. She's single mindedly obsessed with fucking herself.

15 - Femdom / Coprophilia (Scat)

Femdom

Nancy doms Steve x Jonathan

Nancy and Jon are together and Nancy doms Jon occasionally. She has a plan for something specific that requires strength she doesn't have or a dick maybe so she recruits Steve to be her stand-in. She is completely in charge. Jon is very much at the bottom of the food chain. Steve is just barely above Jon in seniority. Nancy essentially uses Steve as a stand-in for a strap on.

16 - Circle Jerk / Body Modification

Body Modification

Slightly older Robin, late 30s x 19 year old Chrissy

Gential piercings maybe, rings that close up the labia. Robin keeps everything well hidden under her clothes. She has her nips pierced and tattoos all over. She does faceless modelling for dyke fetish mags. Chrissy is an assistant on set who is a bit obsessed with Robin. Robin tries not to encourage the crush but is smitten with this cute young thing. Older dyke x baby dyke fantasy.

Maybe Chrissy asks Robin to accompany her to a nip piercing, it turns Chrissy on and they fuck about it.

Or maybe Robin gets pierced on set and Chrissy wants to check in afterwards and they fuck.

17 - Somnophilia (aroused by the act of sex during sleep) / Virginity

Somnophilia

Nancy x Robin

Nancy slips into bed with a sleeping Robin. Nancy rubs herself on Robin's thigh, sucks her tit's, touches her pussy. She gets her fingers wet with her own slick and smears it on Robin like a perfume to mark her territory until Robin's morning shower. Pre-agreed upon.

18 - Cuckholding / Kleptolagina (aroused by the act of theft)

Cuckholding

Eddie x Chrissy Chrissy x Nancy

Chrissy and Eddie are together. Chrissy ties up Eddie, he's in a chastity cage. Nancy takes Chrissy apart, heavy on the humiliation towards Eddie. Eddie loves it. Chrissy is wild for it.

19 - Humiliation/Degradation / Painal (painful anal sex)

Painal

Steve x Trans!Eddie

Steve loves it when it hurts, Eddie loves to hold him down and make him take it. Not rape role play, very loving and tender despite the pain. Maybe it's a rare treat because of the damage it does. Birthday fuck maybe? Eddie first bought a strap on explicitly so he can do this to Steve.

20 - Sounding / Glory Holes

Glory Holes

Trans Fem Eddie

She goes to glory holes because men can't see her and she loves the things they say while she sucks them off. The anonymity and the correct gendering she gets is what gets her through the week. She wears panties she stole from someone else, too ashamed to buy her own. Cums in her underwear.

21 - Impact Play / Sex Tape

Sex Tape

Jonathan x ???

It's ambiguous if it's non-con. Filmed in stops and starts, arty shots. Heavy bdsm. Jon behind the camera. The person he's fucking is ambiguous, it could be Nancy, could be Eddie, could be a stranger.

22 - Overstimulation / Armpits

Armpits.

Robin x Nancy

I just want Robin to be the gross one. I want her drooling over the idea of licking Nancy's pits. Maybe Nancy does workouts or yoga or something, gets a sheen going. She exercises to a tape in the living room while Robin is staying over and it drives Robin mad. She licks Nancy's armpits while grinding on Nancy's thigh. Maybe Nancy pretends to be uninterested, a little degradation maybe.

23 - Temperatures / Chastity

Chastity

Steve x Eddie

Small dick Steve.

Maybe Steve locks Eddie up, ridicules Ed for having a useless locked up big fat cock. Very pro small dick. Steve fucks Eddie and Eddie loves it.

24 - Free Use / Non-Con

Both

Steve x Eddie

Steve agrees to free use with Eddie but Al and Wayne come home and end up joining in, despite the protests from Steve. Eddie has been fucking Wayne and Al for years, he's deffo not okay but its what he knows. Steve is thoroughly used. Mind break/eventual submission from Steve. Eddie is very afraid of Al, who is mean to Eddie. Wayne is manipulative with his kindness. Maybe it's ambiguous if Steve will be allowed to leave after.

25 - Sexting/E-Sex / Dacryphilia (Aroused by crying)

E-Sex

Jonathan x Anons

Modern AU. Jon gets into message boards, gets really into being degraded and humiliated. He sells himself as a creepy little pervert.

Fic is written as a series of chat messages.

26 - Robots/Machines / Virginity

Virginity

Robin x Nancy

Robin accidentally stays a virgin until she's 30. She reconnects with Nancy, they catch up over wine and Robin let's slip she's been single and chaste. Nancy goes absolutely nuts and fucks Robin crazy style. Absolutely incredible head and strap game. Nancy takes every virginity Robin has; vaginal, anal, oral, giving, receiving, strap, fingering, scissoring. It's a weekend long fuck fest, neither can move afterwards. Robin asks Nancy out afterwards but Nancy isn't interested in relationships, just fucking around.

27 - Mutual Masturbation / Blood

Mutual Masturbation

Steve & Robin Robin x Nancy previous Steve x Nancy

Steve and Robin get drunk together, Robin asks what Nancy was like in bed with him. Steve asks what Nancy is like in bed with her. They jerk off, separately, together. Gross overly close Stobin. They showed together after, make food and go to bed. Strictly platonic. Its implied that they've done this before. They absolutely don't think it's weird. Robin is currently in a relationship with Nancy.

28 - Unrealistic Sex / Ruined Orgasm

Unrealistic Sex

Wayne x Transfem!Steve

Wayne just keeps going and going and going. Incredibly unrealistic refractory period, stamina and amount of cum. Unrealistic in lots of ways. Steve stays hard for a long time, eventually Wayne ice's Steve's dick and puts her in a chastity cage. Extreme bimbofication of Steve. Wayne and Steve both like that Steve enjoys sports and cars and stuff, the bimbofication is just for play, it's fun and affirming. Lots of talk of Steve's jiggly tits, maybe she got a slightly ridiculous breast augmentation.

29 - Necrophilia (aroused by dead bodies) / Creampies

Necrophilia

Steve x Eddie

Steve finds Eddie in the upside down, brings him home, fucks his corpse.

OR

Eddie survives but just barely. He and Steve get together and sometimes they play a weird game. Eddie pretends to be dead and Steve fucks him. They cry a lot. Lots of flashes to Eddie's body, gory. It's all weird, gross and deliciously creepy.

30 - Anonymous Hook-ups / Spit

Anonymous Hook Up

Steve x anonF X anonM

The momma daddy fic WIP I'm working on. Steve set up an anon meet up at a motel or something, organised it online perhaps, wanted to live out a fantasy of loving parents who love him so so so much they can’t keep their hands off him. He wants to be loved and touched. Small-ish dick Steve. Needy, vulnerable Steve. It's his first time fucking a man.

31 - Free Choice

Steve x Eddie

High kink high risk free use Eddie?

Why do you write Steddie?

The ship hit me like a brick when the duo blasted onto screen in 2022. I really, really love their dynamic. Grumpy and Sunshine, but the Sunshine character isn't who you'd expect. Or should I say Bitchy and Sunshine? Actually, they can both be bitchy mean girls. But there's something about the former popular jock turned monster fighter/babysitter and the nerdy little metalhead that's just so perfect. This is a long answer, but a more direct answer would be I write them because I think they have a lot of chemistry and their scenes in S4 are honestly my favorite (but I'm biased). And despite not having a lot of screentime, there's so much to explore with the characters. Putting them in new and different situations or keeping it as close to canon as possible, just… there's so much potential for them!

What’s your favorite trope to READ?

I think, based on my ao3 history at least, it must be Alternate Universes. There's so much to explore with an alternate universe! And I particularly like ones that are almost exactly the same, just a little to the left. Just one thing that's different, but it can change so much!

What’s your favorite trope to WRITE?

Wow, that's a tough one! I think my answer is probably the same, Alternate Universes. I love a good AU. I love picking up my Barbie dolls (the characters) and putting them in an entirely different dollhouse and then just setting them loose, see what they'll do. Will they freak out? Will they break? Will they love it? Guess we'll find out.

What’s your favorite Steddie fic?

God, another hard one! If I have to choose just one, it has to be the lathe by palmviolet. It was the first Steddie fic I ever read, shared with me by a friend. It's angsty AF, it's a slowburn, there's wibbly wobbly timey wimey… stuff. There's parts of it that just… live in my brain, seared there for eternity, and I think it really affected the way I view Steddie. Altered my brain chemistry in the best way. It's beautifully written and the character exploration is so good; I really admire palmviolet's writing style.

Is there a trope you’re excited to explore in a future work but haven’t yet?

Ooooo! That's a fun question. Hmmm. Writing something in a Medieval/Fantasy setting is something I'd really like to explore. I'm actually surprised I haven't yet considering that's all I read growing up; YA fantasy novels. Time Travel is another… they have so much potential for angst! You could fix everything… or make everything horribly worse. Do werewolves count as a trope? Because that's another one. Who doesn't love werewolf Steve?

Are there any memorable Steddie collaborations (art, writing, podfic, etc.) you've done or would like to do?

During the 2025 Steddie Big Bang, @monologichno collaborated with me to design art for my bang project, We Hear the Engines Cry! We talked about a specific scene in the fic and honestly, the final piece blew me away!!! It's so perfect, captures the atmosphere so beautifully and is just a stunning piece. I would love to co-write a Steddie fic someday, with the right person, where we each write for one side of the ship (dibs on Eddie). And it'd be super cool to do a podfic! I wouldn't know where to start with the making/producing side, but I think it'd be fun to lend my voice to one.

What is your writing process like?

When starting a new fic, the first thing I do is make an outline. I used to be more of a "write by the seat of my pants" type of writer, but I ended up not finishing many stories that way, so having the structure of an outline really helps me stay on track. After I have my outline and I know how I want to take the story, I'll start writing. I've got more energy in the mornings, so my writing days usually look like: get up, take a walk, have breakfast, grab coffee (the coffee is important), sit down and start writing as early as possible. I write in the order of my outline; no jumping around from scene to scene for me.. My brain's not built like that! I have to write it out chronologically, that's the only way that makes sense.

What writing tools do you use, if any? For example, do you participate in community writing events like sprints or prompts, or have a favorite writing program aid like Scrivener?

My favorite writing program is Ellipsus. I was using Google Docs until I discovered how evil they are. Shouldn't have surprised me, to be honest. Ellipsus is so easy to use and I love the different themes they have which makes everything look prettier (currently using Orchid Noir). Other writing tools, let's see, my trusty wrist brace for those long typing days! And I do participate in community sprints. Shoutout to Moth's Madness! We're sprinting in there all the time. I find it motivating to write while others are writing at the same time, so we can cheer each other on and ask each other things like "what's a good word to describe XYZ"? or “what color are a coyote’s eyes”? (A legitimate question I asked recently.)

Do you have any writing quirks?

Writing quirks… hmmm… my use of… ellipses… maybe, hahaha. Or parentheses. I think I tend to over-describe things, usually in the same sentence. Like "his tone was hushed and quiet" and those kind of mean the same thing. I also tend to use one line sentences to punctuate a moment or a thought in a scene, break them away from the rest of the paragraph for emphasis. (See, I just did the over-describing thing. And the parenthesis thing.) And there I go ending this answer on an ellipsis…

Do you prefer posting when you’ve finished writing or on a schedule?

I prefer posting on a schedule after the fic is completely finished. I think I'd feel too much pressure on myself otherwise. With chaptered fics, I really enjoy drawing it out, ya know like how TV used to be? One episode airing a week instead of binging it all in one go. With single chapter stories, they get posted as soon as they're complete and have been edited.

Which fic are you most proud of?

Aww, jeez, asking me to choose between my children. I'm proud of them all for different reasons! To give a concrete answer, I think I am most proud of We Hear the Engines Cry. To date, it is the longest thing I have ever written (which was after my completely incorrect assumption that it would somehow only be 50k). It is the first fic I ever posted publicly, so it's very special to me for that reason. I wrote it for the 2025 Steddie Big Bang, which I joined on a whim because I'd always wanted to participate ever since its inception. I'd also always wanted to post a fic publicly, but never had largely due to fear that nobody would like it. We Hear the Engines Cry really got me motivated to not only participate in a big event, but to also take a leap and share something I made with the rest of the world. I am very proud of everything I put into that fic (the blood, the sweat, the motor oil). I've never written anything at all like that before; it's my baby.

What's a funny or interesting or completely wild research topic you've dug into as a result of writing Steddie?

So, I wrote a car fic. I just mentioned it. It's called We Hear the Engines Cry. It's uh, got some human on car action going on there. I researched how sex with a car could possibly work in real life and my findings opened up a whole new world for me that I didn't even know existed. Modified beer koozies in tailpipes… that's all I'm going to say! But I didn’t know that much about cars to begin with and I wrote a whole fic starring a car character, so some interesting things did crop up for me. Like, just… noticing cars more. How they look, how they sound. How they work! Now, I still don’t really know anything about how cars work, but I did get a hands-on lesson on how to change a headlight from all this.

How did you get the idea for Restless and Wild?

Oh, good question! I was trying to come up with an idea for the @strangerthingskinktober event I co-mod and I was like, "what if I just make Eddie have the most terribly frustrating day ever?" You know it's so fun to torture him. So, the whole idea was based around Eddie's desperate attempts to get off, but something always interrupting him before he could. I picked some prompts from our list, stuff that I hadn't written about, but prompts I thought would be fun to write! And then I just set the boys loose.

When writing Restless and Wild, what was something you didn’t expect?

I thought it would be a lot shorter, if I'm being totally honest. It went on quite a bit longer than intended, but I'm not mad about it. Even though I was trying to write something a lot shorter. But no, I cannot help being wordsy, apparently. Even during a Q&A.

What inspired To Summon the Divine?

Ohhhhhhhh, this is something I think only one person other than me knows. This reveal is so funny, OMG. The short answer is: KPop Demon Hunters. It's a fantastic movie, we all agree, yes? Catchy tunes. Badass ladies. Demon boy band. 10/10, no notes. I was listening to the soundtrack a lot after I first watched it (as one does). And during the song Takedown, I started envisioning this fight between a demon and a priest and those characters turned into Eddie and Steve. The whole fic idea manifested from there. But in the movie itself, I thought it was interesting that they touched on the fact that demons aren't solely evil (Jinu proves that) but they didn't really explore it more than just the one single demon that isn't entirely "bad". So, I thought it would be interesting to explore that concept in a fic. Steve is raised to believe that all demons are evil; it's their nature. But what if things aren't as black and white as he believes?

What was your favorite part to write from We Hear the Engines Cry?

I think my favorite part to write was the final fight scene. I can see it in my mind so clearly and I did my best to get it on the page exactly as I imagined it. I wanted it to feel like a scene from a movie, if that makes sense. Everything is heightened, the stakes are so high, will everyone make it out alive? Writing those really tension filled scenes is a lot of fun for me. But also… the car wash scene. That was really fun to write too. I remember messaging a friend "I think I found a way to include a gratuitous car wash scene!" and damn, I did. Quite pleased with how that scene turned out.

How do/did you feel writing To Summon the Divine?

Excited! I think overall excited. It's also the first fic I've written that wasn't for an event. I just wrote it because I wanted to, so it was nice not to have a deadline or anything. It's also been really cathartic for me too, coming from a former religious upbringing. So, it's really personal to me as well. A lot of stuff that comes up for Steve is stuff that I felt/thought/experienced once upon a time. He gets to confront his demons (literally and figuratively) in a way I never got to, so it feels very gratifying to be able to tell a story like this and see that people are enjoying it.

What was the most difficult part of writing We Hear the Engines Cry?

I think the most difficult part for me was writing from Steve's POV. I am far more used to writing from Eddie's POV. He lives in my brain rent free. So, I really struggled with finding Steve's voice, constantly asking myself "Does this sound like Steve?" "Would Steve say/do that?" etc. I think I managed, even if I'm still not as confident writing Steve's POV as I am Eddie's. Eddie's voice comes pretty naturally to me, but Steve's I have to think about.

Do you have a favorite scene and/or line from any of your fics?

Aaaahhhhhhhh another tough one! There is a moment in To Summon the Divine (in an as of right now unreleased chapter) where Steve and Eddie kiss for the first time. There's a lot of thoughts going through Steve's head, a lot of conflicting emotions. He stops Eddie from kissing him, says that it's a sin. Eddie tells him "Then sin with me" and honestly, I love that line. There's also a line in Restless and Wild that just makes me chuckle. Claudia Henderson invites the boys to come over and Eddie says "I'd love to come. Nothing would please me more than coming right now." And yes, it's a double entendre.

Do you have any upcoming projects or fics you’d like to share/promote?

I've begun posting my latest fic, To Summon the Divine, on a weekly schedule. Chapter One is out now with Chapter Two dropping on April 14th! There will be some amazing beautiful art by @thelovelyleviathan in a later chapter too, so look out for that. I can't share anything about my Steddie Big Bang or Upside Down Mega Bang projects, but I'm participating in both events this year. That's where all my attention is focused right now, so I don’t have any other projects going at the moment. But I just published a 5k Nancy Wheeler monsterfucker fic that I never planned on writing, so you never know! 

Outside of these questions, Is there anything YOU would like to add?

I'd like to say thank you to the people that run this blog! I think it's a lovely thing y'all do, to promote Steddie works that don't get as much attention as they deserve! And thank you for the nomination! Other than that, I love the Steddie community. I love our two boys. I love this ship. I am nowhere near done writing for them and if you made it this far (because gods, I yapped a lot), thanks for reading!

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