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Hello there, writers and artists! Welcome to the Steddie Big Bang 2025!

The interest check is currently live and we'd like to encourage those who plan on signing up to complete it, particularly artists! Like last year, we will be using these numbers to help us determine the cap for this year's bang in order to keep things manageable for participants and mods.

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in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

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just placing this here bc im satisfied with it

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Portrait practice from photos (currently obsessed with all thing Joe Keery — it’s probably all the moles, guilty)

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customized this bad boy for my ST themed bathroom. IGNORE the fact that it didn't come with enough letters for the full quote, ill probably change it later but the ✨️vibes✨️ you guys get the vibes I'm going for right?

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The Hawkins Tinies (with apologies to Edward Gorey)

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I need the most brutal and tragic angst steddie fics to read like STAT pls im in a drought and struggling to find the angst

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DJOUR DJOUR DJOUR

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Im finally on summer break between quarters so im celebrating by drawing those stranger gays

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something a little different today and my first piece cementing my years of steddie worship.

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Wanted to do a little Gardner Steve Honeybun, not my best but I needed it lol, based on a pic from Pinterest.

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A parallel I haven't seen much is Steve Harrington and the Flashlights.

At the Creel House, everyone is holding flashlights and Steve asks 'Where'd everyone get those?' and Dustin's reply is 'Do you need to be told everything? You're not a child.' Before he hands him his backpack and tells him there's one in the pocket.

No one thought beforehand to check Steve had a flashlight or ask him, he's the one that has to ask, and even then he only asks where they got them (which is honestly a fair question because they were all at the wheeler house before this and apparently the wheelers had 4-6 flashlights sitting around?) and the response he gets is a sarcastic insult. He isn't even given a flashlight, just told where to get one himself.

Cut to the boat scene and Steve preparing to swim to the gate. Eddie immediately begins pulling out a plastic bag he can empty and wrap the flashlight for Steve to use. And just gives it to him.

Eddie doesn't ask if he needs one, he just sees what Steve is about to do and supports him, no questions asked. He knows he's going into a dark lake so he finds a way Steve can use a flashlight underwater and gives it to him. There's no sarcastic comments, no condescending explanation, no disagreeing with him, he just hands him the flashlight with a 'Good Luck'

It is such a big example of the difference in the way Steve gets treated by Eddie compared to the others. And Eddie continues to treat him that way. Supports him no questions asked. Sees he's vulnerable in a hostile environment, here's my vest, no questions asked. Steve doesn't ask about Dustin but Eddie tells him 'Kid worships you', Steve doesn't talk about Nancy but Eddie tells him she loves him. He never questions Steve's ability or treats him like a dumb jock, instead 'Harrington's got her' and 'Make him pay'. Just support and trust.

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don't expect hawkins's biggest loverboys to work on valentine's day 🙄

(another holiday pfp)

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I LOVE THIS STUPID LOSER SOMEONE HELP ME

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LESBIAN STEDDIE‼️ PUNK STEVE‼️ ALL THE GOOD THINGS WRAPPED IN ONE