#AU August

[liss-art]

AU-august!

Day 5. Domestic

[strangersatellites]

AU where steve and eddie’s six year old daughter is threatening to run away because they make her come inside when the sun goes down.

to deter her from doing so, they make her favorite dinner and pretend to sit and eat it without her while she packs her bag full of toys and crayons.

she stands by the door sighing all melodramatic, waiting to get their attention when the doorbell rings and she swings it open with a flourish to reveal max.

the redhead squeezes around her and heads straight for the kitchen.

“hey red! glad you could make it!”

she scoffs and shoulder checks steve on her way past. “please. you made my favorite, i wouldn’t miss it!”

eddie fixes her a plate and they go on and on and on about how delicious it is.

“stevie, sweetheart! this might be your best mac and cheese yet!”

“thanks eds. i just wish ronnie were here to have some….”

max pipes up from her seat. “yeah that’s too bad she ran away. i guess it’s just the three of us then.”

ronnie drops her bag and kicks off her shoes and comes running into the kitchen and barrels into steve’s side.

“daddy! papa! i’ll stay!! please don’t have max and cheese without me!”

au august day 4: runaway

[punkshort]

It's my one year Tumblr anniversary on August 1st (the day I posted the first chapter for The Way We Were) and what better way to celebrate than to organize my very first challenge?

The Challenge: send me an ask between 7/28 and 8/2 and I will randomly assign you a Pedro Boy paired with an AU to write about, create a moodboard, draw... whatever you feel inspired to do!

Timeframe: Can be submitted any time in the month of August. I will reblog each entry and add it to a masterlist.

Requirements: Very few! I would suggest a minimum of 500 words for a fic entry but whatever you feel inspired to do is fine. The AUs will be rather flexible (think: pilot, chef, hotel guest, neighbor).

Please make sure to tag your entries under #shortieswritingchallenge and tag me as well so I can find you!

Thanks for considering your participation, I hope we get a good turnout!

Tagging some moots for a signal boost: @honeyedmiller @janaispunk @penvisions @proxima-writes @endlessthxxghts

@katiexpunk @morallyinept @beefrobeefcal @morning-star-joy

[szlez]

Not His First Rodeo

Damn! banned again. Hope the censored version will last. For fire free (or not really) check here.

An art entry for @klayr-de-gall's Auaugust 2024.

Day 6: Cowboy/Outlaws

[3minsover]

AUgust Day 30:

steve tries to employ his ‘act like you don’t care’ method when he realizes he has a crush on eddie.

it’s about a month or so after vecna, and the party are more inseparable than they’ve ever been, older teens included, and eddie’s settled in like he’s been one of the gang since day one.

the moment steve realizes that old familiar fluttering in his stomach, the telltale thrum of blood rushing to his cheeks as eddie plucks out nameless tunes on his acoustic or asks steve if he wants to come over to get high or watch a movie, steve knows exactly what’s happening. it doesn’t scare him as much as he thought it would, falling for one of his best friends, especially not one who’s a guy. he doesn’t really know the protocol for a situation such as this, but some habits die hard, and something in steve’s brain is still hardwired to receive that hit of endorphins and return to the routines of old.

thing is, steve’s never put on this show when there’s another guy involved. with girls, he can be cool and suave and just the right side of dismissive until he has them begging to be even offered a palm to eat out of.

but eddie’s different. both in that he’s a guy, and steve’s pretty sure this same move isn’t going to work on him, but also, eddie’s different. eddie’s something special. something that feels like the first splash of rainfall after a drought. eddie has him yearning in a way he’d never thought himself even capable. and as fiercely as he longs to just grab eddie by the face and kiss the mischievous grin from his lips in the hopes it makes his insides smile too, steve brushes eddie off just as much. he waves quick, flippant ‘hey’s (but he longs to furl eddie up in a hug, bury his face in the collar of his leather jacket), he blinks away eddie’s jokes with just the practiced hint of a smirk (though he wishes he’d just let himself laugh), he offers backhanded compliments (when he’s desperate to tell eddie he has the most beautiful eyes he’s ever seen, and that he wants them to be the first thing he sees in the morning until the day he dies).

eddie shrugs it all off for a couple weeks with only a twitching narrow of his eyes, a deliberate, searching stare.

steve thinks maybe, just maybe, this has worked.

until eddie confronts him about it.

“hey, did i do something?”

“what?”

“did i- you’ve been- you got a problem with me?”

“why would you- what? no!” steve tries to protest, but eddie barrels on, sounds just so demoralised it’s hard to listen to.

“look, if you don’t like me being around or whatever, just say it, man. i can’t take all this cold shoulder shit anymore.”

steve blinks hard, dumbfounded, with the sinking realization that his trademark move hadn’t worked - if anything, it’d done the exact opposite of what he hoped. steve had felt that electricity with every glance at eddie, but he now fears he’s crossed some wires somewhere, and it was the spark of faulty cables, rather than the fizz of something mutual. and if steve’s plan has backfired, the only thing left for him to do is come clean.

“i don’t have a problem with you. i mean, i guess i kinda do have a problem with you, but- but!” steve preempts eddie’s inevitable crestfallen sigh with the raise of his pointer fingers, both staying and apologetic all at once. “but it’s not a problem you caused. it kinda is but it’s also not. shit i used to be so good at this. i have a problem with you because i don’t know what to do with you. i don’t know how to be around you without- without- you’re always so- so alive and fun and sweet and just looking at you makes me want to scream into my pillow, but in like, a good way? and my heart gets all- and your eyes are just- so. i guess i got a problem with you, because i… want you to be my problem. i want you- uh. yeah.”

eddie is silent for a long moment, and steve can almost see each of his words slotting into place behind eddie’s eyes. “steve. i… i’m not gonna do us both the disservice of pretending i understood all of what you just said, but i think i got the highlights?”

steve rakes a minutely trembling hand through his hair, finding anything to break up the sudden stillness.

“you did? cause even i feel like I’ve talked myself round in circles here.”

“i think so. let me get this straight. you… think i’m fun?”

“yup.”

“looking at me makes you want to-”

“scream into my pillow, yeah.”

“oh- oh okay. noted. and um, you,” eddie starts slowly, seems to be feeding the words out carefully like it’ll spook steve to hear them from another mouth but his own. “you want me to be your problem.” steve swallows, inhales deep, and nods.

“yeah. cause, i guess to me it wouldn’t really be a problem. it would- that would be something i wanted. you’re- something i wanted- want. god, this is harder than i thought.” steve chuckles nervously and eddie just stares, mouth hanging just a little open.

“but you…” eddie starts, brows knitting in confusion, “you don’t like me. you barely talk to me even though i wanna talk to you whenever you’re around, even when i’m trying to make you laugh you hardly even smile, and i try to make you laugh like, all the time- oh.” something flashes in eddie’s eyes as he stops himself dead in the middle of his sentence. “oh my god. you- you were- shit, dustin talked my ear off about this; act like, uh, like you don’t care, huh?”

steve’s already burning cheeks threaten to start giving off smoke, and he’s about ready to hotfoot it out the door and disappear forever, but then eddie smiles, and it’s one of those devilish, smirky, sparkling smiles that steve loves.

“you got me, harrington,” eddie admits on an exhale. “you got me good with that. got me hooked.”

steve winces a little, tries to smile back.

“i did?”

“shit, yeah. you’re better than i thought.” eddie chuckles giddily; it makes steve smile for real.

“so, i can admit that i actually do like you now? that i’ve been crushing on you for like, months?”

taking a step closer and placing his palms flat against steve’s chest, eddie drops his voice low, “yeah, yeah you can. because then i can say i like you back.”

turns out steve’s plan had worked, just not in the way he expected. but nothing with eddie ends up how steve expected, and that’s just one addition to the list of things he loves about him. that list will grow longer as the years pass, a never-ending record of things to love.

steve’ll apologize for the whole mind game thing later, but for now, he simply rests his hands over eddie’s, and tips his head forward until their foreheads touch. he whispers, “hey, eddie. i really like you. let me take you on a date sometime?”

and eddie whispers back, “hey, stevie. i like you a hell of a lot too. and yeah, obviously - thanks for finally asking.”

[promptsbytaurie]

31 AU prompts for AUgust

One prompt for every day of AUgust! Use the tag #taurieAUgust if you participate!

Pirate

Demon

College/University

Modern

Zombie

Dragon

Mafia

Road Trip

Mythology

Time Travel

Single Parent

Medieval

Superpowers

Band

High School

Bounty Hunters

Soulmates

Athlete

Social Media

Assassin

Professors

Dystopia

Mermaid/Siren

Bakery

Magic

Sports

Cafe

Royalty

Actors

Flower Shop

Choose your own!

[lemonausea]

AU August Day 4 | Zombie Apocalypse

In which there is a zombie quirk, or something, going around, Dabi gets bit, but nobody (not even himself tbh) notices because he’s always just kind of… like that

[castleaudios]

hiiii! i absolutely adored evie’s au august storyline and was sooo happy when we got two whole videos for her sooo… would you ever consider giving us more of the queen and her knight (or even some princess evie and knight background story)????? i still think about them a lot 😭

Now that we're back in for AU August, we will be going back to our Royalty AU!! Queen Evie and Knight will be returning, though they won't be the prime focus of the audio. I'd love to have an ongoing series for them on Patreon if possible, but they'll definitely be returning for every AU August going forward as well

[trickytripp1]

Day 2 of Au August:

Mer Au: Moon

Farm Au: Sun

Music 🎶

[legofanguy1999]

Danny Phantom eldritch AU

A Danny Phantom eldritch AU fanfiction for @klayr-de-gall event AU-gust 2024 day 19 Eldritch/cryptid and inspired by @chickenlover-19 Eldritch Danny AU.

After the horrible accident that cause ghost hunters Jack and Maddie Fenton the life of their son Danny Fenton, there has been reports of a ghost boy across Amity Park, and Jack has hope that it is the ghost of his son, affected by the ghost portal he was working on. When Jack did managed to catch the ghost boy, he find that it is the ghost of his son Danny, but his ghost has mutanted into a skeleton like being. Danny doesn't even recognized his family while he calmed that he is a herald for the ruler of the ghost world on Jack's opening a rift between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead.

[poedays]

Okay, I only ever got the whole Celine is hot thing because obviously she is like Mommy Vampire Queen and all that.

But after listening to the first AU August Pirate audio. Ohmygod.

Celine is hot.

[liss-art]

AU-august!

Day 10. In space (crossover with Prey)

[strangersatellites]

au august day 1: sightless

AU where one of the repercussions of steve’s many head injuries is losing his sight.

corroded coffin is playing a show one night and eddie’s had enough of the man playing “mr. cool guy” in the front row with sunglasses on.

“hey man! everybody can tell you’re cool already dude, are the sunglasses inside really necessary?”

the girl standing beside sunglasses nearly collapses she starts laughing so hard and sunglasses, to eddie’s absolute horror, picks up and waves with a cane, a crooked but confident smile on his face.

eddie is going to die of embarrassment.

[punkshort]

Thank you to everyone who participated in my writing challenge and reblogged/liked/commented on any of the works listed below!

➤ I will keep updating this list as more entries post

Joel Miller:

• Vacay Lover - Yacht Captain AU - @josephquinnswhore

• Come Fly with Me - Pilot AU - @punkshort

• Physical Therapy - Lifeguard AU - @eff4freddie

• Mr. Bakery Man - Baker AU - @honeyedmiller

Javier Peña:

• Orange Peel - Uber Driver AU - @captainredspade

Frankie Morales:

• Love in Hawaii - Tour Guide AU - @natasharomanoffsmotorcycle

• Water Cooler Courting - coworker AU - @crowandmousewritingco

• Hiding Place - best friend AU - @libraryofneith

• Neighborhood Watch - Neighbor AU - @joelalorian

• Poolside - Poolboy AU - @ghotifishreads

• Walking on Sunshine - Dog Walker AU - @sunshinehaze1

Dave York:

• The Prenup - Divorce Lawyer AU - @yxtkiwiyxt

• Lies, Excuses and Bullshit - Ex Boyfriend AU - @bitchesuntitled

• Doctor's Pet - Doctor AU - @evolnoomym

• Don't Move - Bodyguard AU - @almostfoxglove

• Every Breath You Take - Detective AU - @guiltyasdave

Dieter Bravo:

• Dieter's Sky High Brownie Delights - Chef AU - @pedges-world

• Bittersweet Love - Childhood Friend AU - @ozarkthedog

• Golden Girl - husband's best friend AU - @whocaresstillthelouvre

Jack 'Whiskey' Daniels:

• Sing for you Forever - Musician AU - @yopossum

• Forever - Groomsman AU - @morallyinept

• My Kink is Karma - Hitchhiker AU - @clawdeewritesfanfic

dividers by @saradika-graphics

[lily-alphonse]

The Longest Leap of Faith by Lily Alphonse

Fandom: Legend of Zelda

Content: M/M

Rating: Mature (See AO3 for additional tags)

Words: 20,534 (COMPLETE)

“This is no game!” “No game, I assure you. I simply thought you’d rather hear this story in the shade. But if you insist on standing in my melon patch you are welcome to it.” “Speak!” I spit. I do not lower my weapon. “I am no longer host to the evil you know as Demise.”

AU August Day 10: Enemies to Allies. When Zelda begins acting strangely, Link is forced to turn to the last person he would ever want help from.

>> Read on AO3<<

Big warning: this is a tragedy.

[3minsover]

AUgust Day 16:

eddie’s complaining about how much his lip hurts (he accidentally bit it while eating his sandwich too enthusiastically). steve huffs and says “here, let me kiss it better,” before grabbing eddie’s face and pressing a sudden kiss to his half-open mouth. it takes all of three seconds of eddie frozen beneath his hands for steve to realize what he’s just done.

they are not dating.

steve doesn’t know if eddie likes him like that.

he’s just kissed him out of nowhere. steve pulls back, dropping his hands to his lap and blinking frantically at eddie, who raises his hand to brush fingertips dreamily over his bottom lip. his eyes are a little misty, a little glazed over and so so wide.

“i uh- thanks. my… lip’s still a little sore though. you think you could- uh. try that again?” steve can barely hear eddie’s voice over the rushing of blood in his ears, but he thinks eddie’s just asked steve to kiss him again.

“you- i didn’t mean to- that was…” steve doesn’t know where he’s going with any of the sentences he hopelessly starts, too caught up in the echo of eddie’s lips on his.

“kiss me again?” eddie implores gently, batting his lashes like he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it. like he doesn’t know it’s sending steve’s heart careering out of his body and into eddie’s cross-legged lap. “if you want to, that is,” eddie adds quietly, dropping his gaze to steve’s anxiously twisting hands.

“i- i want to-” steve starts, suddenly wracked with nerves. kissing eddie that first time had been so easy, thoughtless, but now he’s going to Kiss Eddie, and it feels so very much more important. more of a Thing. there’s weight to it now, there’s meaning. steve wets his lips with a cursory swipe of his tongue and heaves in a shaking breath. he can do this. he’s already done this. slowly, steve cups eddie’s jaw with his palm and pulls him gently closer, until the side of eddie’s nose brushes the tip of steve’s. eddie’s hands find their way to the front of steve’s shirt and grasp tight. steve lets his eyes fall closed and inhales the sweet, spicy scent of eddie’s skin.

“you sure this is okay?” steve whispers, the peak of his upper lip nudging against eddie’s as he speaks.

“my lip does really hurt,” eddie whispers back, and though steve can’t see it, he can hear the smile on eddie’s soft, kind mouth. steve huffs out a breathless laugh, and then eddie’s chuckling too, and it’s so simple to just tip his chin and bring their mouths together.

their second kiss is intentional, sweet and giddy. it starts with laughter, as all good things should. it’s hesitant and delicate, and deepens quickly. eddie’s chuckling melts into a soft whimper as steve traces the seam of eddie’s lips with the tip of his tongue, carefully encouraging them open. eddie obliges more than willingly, tugging at steve’s tee to bring his body closer. steve thinks he must have forgotten how to breathe, because he pulls back after a moment with a certain lightheadedness. eddie’s cheeks are flushed bright pink, and his huge doe eyes are wide and fathomless and so, so pretty. steve watches the rise and fall of eddie’s chest in time with his own, and can’t help the smile that tickles the corners of his mouth.

“better?” steve asks gently, ghosting featherlight kisses over eddie’s lips.

“yeah. yeah- better. y’know i… i think i got a couple other places that could do with some attention from that magic mouth of yours, harrington,” eddie quips breathlessly, his evidently affected state undermining the attempt at a slick line. steve slides his fingers back to curl idly in the little curls at the back of eddie’s neck, and his smile splits into a grin.

“i guess i better get started, then,” steve agrees, leaning back forward to nose against the side of eddie’s face. he feels eddie’s breath hitch under him, and it only spurs steve on urther. he brushes his lips over the shell of eddie’s ear, revelling in the shudder it elicits, the sharp intake of breath, and whispers low and sultry against it. “just tell me where, gorgeous.” over the course of the night, steve discovers that eddie has a lot of places that need to be kissed better, and, as luck would have it, so does steve.