StallingforGreatness
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The thing is, he truly can’t keep it straight in his head. Because, sometimes, it feels so real he wants to set himself on fire. Burn himself up until nothing is left but a pile of ash so that he doesn’t have to feel it anymore. So he doesn’t have to remember.
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Steve Harrington's life long battle with processing his trauma.
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06 May 2026
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Live For Today, Gone Tomorrow by Star_M
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Black Phone (2022)
12 Apr 2026
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The phone rang.
Steve shot up, walking toward it, his nerves lit up in memory-old anticipation and dread.
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Steve Harrington has tried to push the past down, away, to lock it up.
But he knows better than anyone that you can't keep anything hidden in the dark for long, and skeletons never remain buried.
When a kid in town goes missing, it awakens his old ghosts, and Steve finds himself trying to balance his past and present selves as he joins in on the search effort.
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05 Mar 2026
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Death is just a word by justsofiaaaaa
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
14 Feb 2026
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It started when the phone rang...
Steve (aka Finney) Harrington's life is once again turned *upside down* (wink wink, nudge nudge) as his dark past begins to finally catch up to him! Will he be able to ignore his trauma and continue living his perfectly normal (read: very unusual) life in Hawkins, or will his new friends discover that their resident babysitter is actually involved with the supernatural more deeply then they could have ever imagined? Tune in to find out!
(this fic takes place during the events of TBP2 and after the ST S5 finale)
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03 Mar 2026
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Eddie reached a hand out and gently tucked his fingers under Steve’s chin, tilting it upwards and turning Steve’s face just a little to the side as he observed something on Steve’s face with a look of intense speculation. Steve couldn’t say for certain, but there was almost a tiny bit of anger there just along the edges, like he was stifling away anger at whatever it was that he was looking at.
Surely he wasn’t looking at the-
“Somebody put their hands on you, sugar?”
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Steve is a Bartender working with his best friend Robin at 'The Upside Down' a music venue where a popular up and coming band called "Corroded Coffin" is set to play. Steve is struggling, he's had a rough life and after having just gotten out of a highly toxic and abusive relationship he finds himself needing to catch his breath out back where a kind stranger comforts him.
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- Part 1 of Help I'm Alive
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28 Feb 2026
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Steve's whole life story, told through multiple snapshots of the events that made him into the person that he is today.
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A rewriting of Stranger Things from Steve's POV- Language:
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08 Feb 2026