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  1. Rec 39

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    Steve never minded living in Eddie’s shadow. He liked the chaos, the noise, the way Eddie looked like he might catch fire on stage at any second. What he minded, though he’d never admit it out loud, were the songs. Every crowd screamed Eddie’s words back at him, but none of them were for Steve. Not the angry anthems, not the messy love songs, not even the ballads that left reporters breathless.

    Steve told himself it didn’t matter. He didn’t need the spotlight, didn’t need Eddie to spell his name in lyrics. He just needed Eddie to come back to him when the lights went down.

    But five songs in, after years of motel rooms, arenas, fights, and backstage kisses that tasted like smoke and blood, Eddie finally wrote the one that was.

    And Steve wasn’t sure his heart could take it.

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    Five songs Eddie swore weren’t about Steve, and one that absolutely is.

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    04 Oct 2025

  2. Rec *

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    Steve Harrington now spent most of his nights sitting in his room, unable to maintain the basic presentation of being “fine” any longer. He held onto whatever bottle of alcohol that would be his companion for that evening and would tip it back with a desperation that he felt grateful no one could see. It was once he was numb enough to not feel anything at all, that he would finally close his eyes and sleep.

    “You think this is a dream?”

    Steve blinked.

    “It is. I’m asleep.”

    Eddie shook Steve, as if he was trying to rattle some loose cog in the machine that is Steve’s brain.

    Steve Harrington is somehow caught up in the world of Upside Down, and Eddie Munson is there and alive. He’s changed, Eddie has been turned into a monster, and Steve is determined to save him. No matter what price.

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    29 Sep 2025

  3. Rec *

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    - DURING AND POST SEASON 4 VOLUME 2 -

    That was when he saw them.
    The two figures were folded over each other on the ground, a ring of dark shapes crumpled and curled around them. Webbed, membranous wings fluttered lifelessly in the wind, lifting at odd angles like plastic bags on the interstate.
    But Steve could barely see them.
    His ears rang, his vision reduced to a greyish tunnel as he recognised the wooly texture of Dustin’s ghillie suit.
    No.
    Steve’s feet tripped beneath him as he staggered down the hill, moving towards them.
    No hero moves, his thoughts washed through his mind in a seasick, rolling fashion. He could already see the dark wash of blood, soaking the ground like ink around them, as he bolted forward.
    I said no hero moves.


    Steve Harrington, ex-lifeguard and babysitter extraordinaire, happens to be blessed with knowledge of first aid. Eddie is the recipient of this aid, and as he recovers he must learn to live with the fact that he owes his life to a prom-king with a 12 step haircare routine. This would be easier if he didn’t find said prom king so uncomfortably attractive.
    And if the world would stop ending for five minutes.
    Geez.

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    27 Sep 2025

  4. Rec 3

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    While Aeryn is still refusing to admit she has permanent remnants of Pilot DNA, Moya’s crew takes shore leave on a commerce station. After John’s drunken experiment with an entirely different way to combine human and alien DNA, Aeryn has to give him a very awkward talk about the birds and the bees. [Post-They've Got a Secret]


    “I know humans have terrible memories, but less than three monens ago we all almost died because an interstellar parasite got on board without detection.”

    “Fair point,” John half-shivered, half-shrugged, crossing his arms and rubbing himself as if he were cold. “Just thinking about those giant sentient space kahk-roechiz makes my skin crawl. So let’s avoid that.”

    That was one of the more evocative of his mysterious English metaphors. Aeryn had heard him use it before, but his gesture finally made it clear that he was referring to an actual physical phenomenon.

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    20 Sep 2025

  5. Rec 5

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    John and Aeryn harvest propulsors for the module, then toast the possibility of his going home with a little too much vigor. An awkward game of Truth or Dare ensues. [Post-DNA Mad Scientist]


    “Right. Got it. Sexually aroused adolescents must be one of those universal constants. Giving them deadly weapons is that added Peacekeeper twist. Spin the bottle is a lot safer.”

    Not just adolescents. It had been an occasional pastime on every ship she’d joined. While most of Aeryn's encounters had been unimpressive, a few of those frell-or-fight bouts were quite memorable. What if this really was John’s awkward way of making an offer? Should she accept, now that any concept of contamination was meaningless? How intoxicated was he?

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    20 Sep 2025