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I am beyond excited to finally start posting my @eddiemunsonbigbang! I had so much fun working on this with my team, which included the inestimable @dame-zoom-a-lot as beta (please check out their EMBB as well), and @waldos-art and Tea42 as artists. @waldos-art made the Tumblr banner and has a delightful piece in the first chapter, additional art from Tea42 will be forthcoming!
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 55K
Summary:
Steve and Dustin return to the Upside Down after Vecna has been defeated to retrieve Eddie's body. It's been over a month since Eddie was taken down by the demobats. They find him half-buried in the ground, being kept alive by a connection to a strange organism, one of the only things still alive in the Upside Down following the defeat of Vecna.
Eddie has been undeniably changed by his connection to the organism in the Upside Down, and the Party all need to chip in to help figure out what's happening to him, and how to fix it. At the same time, a noxious substance is leaking into Hawkins from the Upside Down, spreading at an alarming rate. Is Eddie’s condition the cause, or could it be the solution they need?
Full Tag List: Body Horror, Getting Together, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Breaking Up & Making Up, Starvation, Vomiting, Medical Conditions, Medical Procedures, Medical Examination, Medical Jargon, Fungal Penetration, Fungal Erotic Electrostimulation, Erotic Electrostimulation, Sounding, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Eddie Munson Lives, Comes Back Wrong, Recreational Drug Use, Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Body Dysphoria, Friends to Lovers, Top/Bottom Versatile Steve Harrington, Top/Bottom Versatile Eddie Munson, Come Marking, Come Eating, Prostate Milking, Rimming
I have a few things to mention as authorial influences here. My biggest influence was Björk's most recent album, which was inspired by fungus, Fossora. I listened to it almost non-stop while writing, and recommend listening to it while you read. The videos and album art are also highly worth checking out. I was also influenced by two novels, We Spread by Iain Reid and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon, both great reads. Lastly, the non-fiction book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake was super helpful for generating ideas.
Chapter One is up today! I will be posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday for three weeks until it's complete on March 10th.
Content warnings specific to Chapter 1 - vomiting, body horror, fungus.
Read it on AO3: Chapter 1 - I Spread. Excerpt below.
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