A Gem Beyond Counting by teddywesworl

Rating: Explicit

13,728 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Warnings

Tags: Post-Canon, Eddie Munson Lives, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Bottom Eddie Munson, Top Steve Harrington, Service Top Steve Harrington, Fix-It, Mutual Pining, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Fuck Or Die, Sex Pollen, sex pollen as a metaphor for touch/intimacy starvation y’know?, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Dubious Consent, insofar as any sex pollen fic is dubcon by nature, The Upside Down (Stranger Things), Monster Eddie Munson, but I wouldn’t say this is a monsterfucking fic he’s just like a little off, Navel-Gazing

Summary:

The wrong feeling pitches and dives toward nausea again. Steve folds in half, eyes squeezed shut. The room spins, and his skin goes clammy. Behind the rush of white noise in his ears, he thinks he hears Eddie’s voice, calling to him, saying his name. There’s a soft pressure on his back that moves up to the back of his neck, and—
Gone.
Everything’s fine. He feels fine. He feels good, even. Eddie has a hand on the back of his neck and one clutching his forearm. Eddie looks frantic, eyes wide, a sheen of sweat on his face and stray damp curls stuck there. Steve’s gaze is drawn to his mouth, taut and worried and always in motion. He wants to lick into it.
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OR: Eddie falls first, Steve falls harder: sex pollen edition.

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This rec is a part of Theme Weekend. The theme this weekend is Love Confessions.

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Less than 10% of US anti-LGBTQ bills have become law

49 anti-LGBTQ state bills passed in the US in 2024. Despite this, advocates successfully defeated 91% of the proposed bills, showcasing effective strategies like community-level education, deep canvassing, and amplifying trans stories, Uncloseted Media reports.

Personal conversations and humanizing trans individuals have proven crucial in changing perspectives and influencing lawmakers.

Advocacy groups have also focused on delaying harmful legislation, with tactics like filibustering and packing legislative hearings with pro-trans constituents.

Even when bills pass, provisions and lawsuits have been used to mitigate their impact. This reflects the importance of allyship, training, and mental health support for those fighting these battles.

More here: Advocates Beat 91% of Last Year's Anti-LGBTQ Bills. How?

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WIP Weekend

Thanks for the tags @fkinkindagauche and @cloudsurfing42!

Rules: Send me an emoji in an ask, and I'll write 3-5 sentences and/or paragraphs from that WIP. No limits to the amount of emojis you can request, please feel free to send multiple!

Chipping away at these WIPs:

🐶 B.A.D. D.O.G. (sequel to the college AU puppy play Stomeddie/Stommie fic is coming along! Rewrote a few things and much happier for it haha.

🧜‍♂️ Participating in the STMonsterCalendar Mermay Bingo event! So far almost completed 1 out of 4 fics for this. (Feel free to request a SFW or NSFW fic snippet)

🏴‍☠️ Argh Me Matey (now called Eddierotica): "Eddie writes the world's worst erotica about characters who are just poorly disguised versions of himself and Steve. They're not dating." the fic has brought me so much joy while writing. Now planned to feature the following genres: pirates, vampires, prince/stable boy/also cowboys, and aliens

Tagging a few folks to join in (and the ST writing server)
@strangerthingswritersguild @runninriot @kikidoesfanfic @dreamwatch @helpimstuckposting @griefabyss69 @little-annie @queenie-ofthe-void @hbyrde36 @pearynice

Enjoy a SFW snippet from one of the 🧜‍♂️ fics below the cut!

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Rules: Send me an emoji in an ask, and I'll write & share 3 sentences for that WIP!

Playing a little different this weekend since my last two gift fics need finishing ASAP 🙏 Send me an ask for one of my secret fics AND your other WIP of choice for a snippet (and my undying gratitude). There is no limit to the number of asks you can send!

🍸 - S____ N__

😈 - N____ T______ & D________

🏕 Midsummer Nights (Ch 5)

👻 Fuggi Regal Fantasima (Ch4)

🌊 Caught in the Undertow (Ch 10 - final! 😱)

From Fuggi Regal Fantasima:

“I, um…” Eddie cleared his throat, slipping through the cracked open door and into the room, but still hovered an awkward distance away from Steve and the bed, eyeing it cautiously. “I don’t—uh—I didn’t really like the way we left things earlier.”

Steve snorted, giving him half an eye roll. “I wasn’t a big fan either.”

“I’m sorry, okay?” Eddie pleaded, taking a few slow steps closer. “But you know I'm right. I mean, this whole thing is ridiculous anyway. Don’t we have bigger, much more important things to worry about than having stupid crushes on each other?!”

By the end of his speech Eddie was practically shouting, and Steve had to stifle a grin. He could tell it was taking all of Eddie’s self control not to stamp his feet.

“I don't recall actually admitting—”Steve began, but was quickly cut off.

“Harrington—” Eddie growled, glaring with all the fierceness of an especially adorable house cat as he crossed his arms over his chest. 

Steve couldn't resist copying him, sitting up as he crossed his own arms and pitched his voice as low as possible. “Munson—”

Eddie let out an exasperated sigh, raking a hand roughly over his face before stumbling closer still, falling to his knees next to the bed. “Look, Eddie,” Steve said softly, scooching himself towards the edge of the bed. “If there's one thing I've learned in the last three years, it’s that there’s always going to be something else to worry about. But I’m done waiting to live my life, when I know full well It could end with a snap of Vecna’s disgusting fingers. None of us knows how much time we’ve got left, and if all I have are these stolen moments between world ending catastrophes, then so be it. We’ll deal with Vecna when the time comes, but until then…”

No pressure tags 💜

@steddiehands86 @hairstevington @stellarspecter @vthx @fkinkindagauche

@pearynice @penny00dreadful @sidekick-hero @hitlikehammers @steddiecameraroll

WIP weekend 🎉

Using this to try to force me to make a start on the four prompts on my Steddie bingo card that currently exist only in my brain (we’re not talking about the ones that don’t exist at all yet). The below are the prompts - which I do have intentions for but frankly who knows what's going to come out once I start trying to make words.

Rules: send me an emoji in an ask and I’ll write some quantity of words/sentences (who knows honestly) from that wip.

🔥Hellfire (I know jack all about D&D so this is going to get interesting fast)

🏆 Prize (this is either going to be fluffy af or NOT AT ALL depending on which side my brain's turning over on when I get going)

📼 Family Video (this is … currently porn.)

📞 Phone Sex (this one's … not porn. Currently.)

And just for kicks:

👀 Ask me for something else. Go nuts. I’m feeling whimsical.

(( @strangerthingswritersguild @pearynice @vthx @sourw0lfs @hbyrde36 @devondespresso @goldenprophetwrites @fkinkindagauche @tinytalkingtina))

WIP Weekend

I still have ones from last weekend to attend to also, but we're working up to it, promise. Anyway, anyway, usual rules apply:

Send me any number of emojis associated with each fic/event and I’ll do 3 sentences per emoji in the ask*.

*The only except will be if a birthday prompt hits the required number of sentences before completing the emoji amount.

💀you’re on your own, kid (chapter 8)
😈 dance with the devil (chapter 1 rewrite)
🎲 steddie bingo (pick a prompt by clicking!)
💛 steddie birthday prompt (yellow heart)
💙 jayvik birthday prompt (blue heart)
🧡 buckingham birthday prompt (orange heart)
❤️ hellcheer birthday prompt (red heart)
🖤 buddie birthday prompt (black heart)

All I have snippet-wise this week is OC stuff and no one wants that so *fingerguns emoji*

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WIP Weekend

I don't think I've ever actually participated in one of these. I have a tendency to only work on one project at a time, which makes it kind of boring, only giving people one emoji to choose from. But I'm gonna give it a try this weekend and see how I feel about bouncing around between projects!

Rules: Send me one of the emojis below in an ask, and I'll write 3-5 sentences (or paragraphs if I'm feeling particularly inspired) from that WIP, and then I'll post it. You can request as many as you want!

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Current WIPs to choose from:

🍆Steddie smutpilogue to II Most Wanted

✂️Ronance smutpilogue to II Most Wanted

❓Steddie Big Bang (I won't be able to post the snippet I write for this since we're still under a gag order, but you're welcome to make me write some of it! I'll post a pic of one of my cats for you instead if you choose this.)

⛰️⛰️Twin Peaks Metalsandwich AU

🐙OFMD Izzy seamonster fic for the Fandom Trumps Hate auction, if you're feeling particularly adventurous and want to venture outside of ST

Tagging some people who may or may not want to do this and/or send me an ask: @stellarspecter, @tinytalkingtina, @pearynice, @vthx, @dame-zoom-a-lot, @hbyrde36, @alwaysurvalentine, @talanashta, @cxwzkeys, @jo-harrington, @sourw0lfs, @cloudsurfing42, and anyone else who wants to participate!

Here is a snippet from one of the unposted chapters of II Most Wanted to wet your whistle (CW for discussions of murder, but not very graphic):

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Polyam Ships

Semifinals

just a suggestion but if you're writing about "the ancient world" please don't include societies that existed from like 1300 to 1521

AZTECS AND INCAS WERE NOT ANCIENT I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

Part 3 to this

Eddie was completely willing to let bygones be what they were.

He did a shitty thing unintentionally. Steve has been doing shitty things for years with zero consequences. They’re even, right?

It’s not like he’s ever going to see Steve again anyways. He doesn’t throw parties anymore and Eddie doesn’t even have a VCR to warrant going into Family Videos.

So, bygones. As in, bye, gone to the stabbing feeling in his chest when he thinks about what happened for too long.

“Robin Buckley’s being weird.”

Eddie blinks back into the chaotic mess of the art room, “Isn’t she always weird?”

“I mean,” Jeff shrugs. “She been glaring at you the entire class. Did the same thing yesterday, too. I don’t even think she’s blinking.”

Eddie looked over his canvas and, yeah. She’s glaring at him. He turns his frown upside down and gives her a little wave which - “Oh. Oh no.”

“Dude,” Jeff hisses. “She’s coming over here.”

The nervous energy that typically hovers around a Robin is strangely absent when she stops next to his table. It’s a little intimidating. As is her cryptic ass greeting, “It’s been four days. You need to apologize.”

“For what?” He asks and then realizes what this is. “Did Steve Harrington really send his coworker to bully me?”

“I’m more than his coworker,” She scoffs. “And that’s not the point. You need to apologize to him. For-.”

“Apologize for what, not watering my club down to make him comfortable?”

Thats not what happened and Eddie knows it. He knows he crossed a line but he doesn’t understand it and it makes him defensive. He can’t make himself shut up, “You can tell him I’m sorry he can’t take a joke.”

Robin’s eyes narrow and then she turns around, calling across the room, “Mrs Keller, does this paint stain?”

“It’s washable.”

Robin nods once to the teacher and then immediately turns around and flips Eddie’s paint tray into his lap. She grabs the bottle of paint he was using and coats him in blue paint before dropping the bottle on the floor.

Her voice is low and unapologetic even as she grabs a handful of napkins for him, “He doesn’t even want an apology. Do it anyways.”

Eddie is left stunned, as is their deathly quiet class, but Robin just turns to the teacher and declares, “I will accept my detention now.”