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blood is thick but water is forever

lonnie byers is a bad father. jonathan byers has known this since he was six. let down yet again by his father, jonathan retreats to comfort himself in quiet, pained solitude. steve and nancy know him well enough to come over anyway.

written for @stoncyweek2026 !

🩸 read on ao3 🩸

MY STOBIN (not so) MINI BANG FIC IS HERE!!!!!

major character death, hurt/no comfort, you know how you get fix-it fics? this is a ruin-it fic ❤️

please see the fic at the link below for the beautiful artwork by my WONDERFUL artist @lyphyshard. official art posts coming soon! you can also find them here:

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i am so grateful to my beta, pluto, for bringing this work to the standard you are now seeing! you can find them on ao3.

and thank you so much to the mods for running the @stobinminibang event! 💙

Recently, the Mod Team has noticed that Work In Progress fics haven't been getting the celebration they deserve. Readers are refusing to read unfinished works and saving their kudos until the work is completed, rather than sharing the love as the work is updated.

Fandom is built on WIPs.

An active fandom is filled with works being updated at varying frequencies. You might luck out at the right time to find a fic that updates every day like clockwork. You may find a fic that posted it's last chapter right as you went searching for a fic. You may scrounge around and find an incredible gem that hasn't been updated in two years, but gosh is it worth the read.

This is fandom. This is fanfic.

Here at Steddie Underdog Fics, our page was meant to highlight fics that were getting lost in the boom of activity in the early Steddie days. At the time, the inaugural Steddie Big Bang was posting and we were still seeing high frequencies of fic being posted daily. So many AMAZING works were getting buried by other AMAZING works! We wanted to take a pause and celebrate the fics, as they were, in the moment.

This has worked for us these last two years and we're not changing anything. The information on our fic recs reflects the time of our mods creating the post. If it's a complete or incomplete fic, we make that clear with the chapter count on the post AND it's also a column on our spreadsheet of rec'd fics.

We’ve gotten negative comments from potential readers about incomplete status on fics or whether something is worth reading for one reason or another. While we encourage positive conversation here, there is never a time to publicly criticize fanfic. Don’t like, don’t read. This is not the space for you to share negative opinions about our authors and fics. We only uplift on our page and in our community.

Any asks or comments that request the team to make these changes to indicate a fic is incomplete beyond the Ao3 standard chapter count will be ignored and deleted.

Any negative comments about the fics, whether it’s about completion status or not, you will be blocked automatically.

Everyone has reading preferences. We're not saying you have to read WIPs, just like we wouldn't say you have to read a Major Character Death fic. We as a team give you the information we have about the fic to make an informed decision on whether you'd like to read it. The rest is up to you. We do ask, if you've never been a fanfic writer or if it's been some time, that you take a moment to put yourself in the authors shoes. Writing is a very vulnerable craft and hobby, and fanfic authors pour themselves into free works for the joy of it.

Sometimes it gets to be too much, though. Life gets in the way, health issues come up, or they just lose the drive to complete the fic. Any reason is valid. NO reason is valid. So yes, fics can be left ongoing for some time, but not necessarily by choice. You never know when a random kudos or comment on a WIP could inspire or drive an author to write ten more chapters.

In the age of AI, we implore you to remember that these are HUMANS creating these works. They are not machines creating content for you to consume.

For the month of July, we're celebrating Works In Progresses.

All of our Challenges this month will be ONLY WIP stories and we ask that you consider sharing WIPs for our theme weekends as well. Giving an ongoing fic a little love can go a long way, for both the reader and the author. Please consider reading a WIP this month. Leave a kudos or comment. Share it with a friend. Spread the love of fic.

@thesecynicaldoeeyes

Rating: Explicit

71,021 words, 10/13 chapters

Archive Warning: Major Character Death

Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Angst, Priest Steve Harrington, Demon Eddie Munson, religious trauma, so much religious trauma, Inaccurate Catholicism, Religious Guilt, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Internalized Homophobia, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Blood and Gore, Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Penis In Vagina Sex, Steve Harrington Has a Big Dick, Dom/sub Undertones, Height Differences, Magic, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Demons, POV Steve Harrington, Trans Eddie Munson, Transmasculine Eddie Munson, Masturbation, Dry Humping, Butt Plugs, Anal Sex, Tail Sex, Monsterfucker Steve Harrington, Priests, Priest Character Who Is a Slut, Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Major Character Death is NOT Steve or Eddie, Slow Burn, Supernatural Elements, Trauma, Happy Ending, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Unrealistic Sex

Summary:

"It's a sin," Steve whispered, almost begging Eddie to understand, to realize… they couldn't do this. They shouldn't. Something seemed to click in Eddie's expression. He reached out again, gently taking Steve's face between his hands. Steve wanted to melt into the touch. "Then sin with me," Eddie urged before pressing his lips to Steve's. ~ As a priest, Steve Harrington has been trained from a young age to hunt and exorcise demons. It's his God-given mission to protect the innocent. He thinks he knows right from wrong and good from evil until a demon saves his life. The demon insists that everything Steve's been told is a lie, but how can Steve believe him? Demons are incapable of telling the truth, after all.

This rec is a part of Theme Weekend. The theme this weekend is Sexuality Crisis AU.

thanks for the tag, @mission2mordor!

last song: Imitation of Life, Anthrax

favorite colour: sunshine yellow

watching: youtube counts, right? in which case, Why Queer Characters Die, by @jameswoodall

reading: I'm on a non-fiction kick atm so I'm flipping back and forth between Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone's Metal Bent: Queerness in Heavy Metal Music and Nadya Ali's The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders, and the Conditions of Citizenship

last google search: how to pick a pin-cylinder lock. no I don't think any context is necessary

currently working on: professionally, I'm doing some refresher training on delivering sex ed in schools. the rest of the time I am, of course, desperately trying to write vaguely coherent fanfiction - my From The Grave Minibang fic is chugging along ready for posting in late july, and I'm anxiously awaiting news on my Steddie Big Bang 2026 team while I peck away at that one, too!

tea or coffee: tea, always. a nice strong assam with oat milk :)

current phone wallpaper: the Bad Year blimp from last year's Green Day show at Download

@thesecynicaldoeeyes

Rating: Explicit

24,423 words, 5/13 chapters

Archive Warning: Major Character Death

Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Angst, Priest Steve Harrington, Demon Eddie Munson, religious trauma, so much religious trauma, Inaccurate Catholicism, Religious Guilt, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Internalized Homophobia, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Blood and Gore, Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Penis In Vagina Sex, Steve Harrington Has a Big Dick, Dom/sub Undertones, Height Differences, Magic, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Demons, POV Steve Harrington, Trans Eddie Munson, Transmasculine Eddie Munson, Masturbation, Dry Humping, Butt Plugs, Anal Sex, Tail Sex, Monsterfucker Steve Harrington, Priests, Priest Character Who Is a Slut, Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Major Character Death is NOT Steve or Eddie, Slow Burn, Supernatural Elements, Trauma, Happy Ending, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary:

"It's a sin," Steve whispered, almost begging Eddie to understand, to realize… they couldn't do this. They shouldn't. Something seemed to click in Eddie's expression. He reached out again, gently taking Steve's face between his hands. Steve wanted to melt into the touch. "Then sin with me," Eddie urged before pressing his lips to Steve's. ~ As a priest, Steve Harrington has been trained from a young age to hunt and exorcise demons. It's his God-given mission to protect the innocent. He thinks he knows right from wrong and good from evil until a demon saves his life. The demon insists that everything Steve's been told is a lie, but how can Steve believe him? Demons are incapable of telling the truth, after all.

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Fics featuring Eleven / Jane Hopper.

I've read and reread hotluncheddie's 🍞 (affectionate) an alarming number of times (feedism, objectification. Go check it out. It's short and so so sweet (also Tumblr let me tag feedism properly you coward)) And the moment I read Eddie's description, I thought of @otternil's 40-year-old Eddie (which, coincidentally, also inspired another fic I'm obsessed with - Set Me Free (Remotivate Me) by @angelbbywannabe)

Anyway, thank you so much Nil for taking my commission. He worked SO HARD on this piece, like did a ton of research, did pose studies, the whole shebang. It was so cool to see his process. Art under the cut because it's a tiny bit suggestive

Look at you, you made it out

Despite being terrible at self-promotion and forgetting for a week, I am VERY excited to announce my Steddie Big Bang project for @steddiebbang '26.

Team: 015 Artist: @miserablekingsteve Beta: @lilac--sugar Rating: E Words: 30,000~ Summary:

When Eddie Munson wakes up, Hawkins is being dismantled, its people being scattered by a government desperate to bury the truth. Eddie is forced into a new life in a strange city far from everything he’s ever known. He tells himself it’s enough to survive. It has to be.

But Steve Harrington refuses to accept distance as an ending.

Haunted by guilt, grief, and a love he waited too long to name, Steve sets out across a fractured continent with Robin at his side, determined to find the people they’ve lost. A journey of reckoning. Of who they were, who they’ve become, and what it means to choose each other in a world designed to keep them apart. Love deferred, identity reclaimed, and the fragile, stubborn hope that even after everything, you can still find your way back to the people who matter most. Tags and teaser below the cut :)