CuriousInsane
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
"Most spirits lack the self-awareness to understand why they cling to this realm. Still, most have at least some inkling of what they want. What they need. We provide a home to many wandering souls and extraordinary creatures. The only real rule is to coexist peacefully with them, and if you’ve completed what you stayed behind to accomplish, you move on without any fuss."
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 54,425
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 72
- Kudos:
- 51
- Bookmarks:
- 19
- Hits:
- 722
Bookmarked by CuriousInsane
13 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Sorry, little brother,” he says. His thumbs trace the muscles in his neck. “You know. It was a neat trick. But I’m afraid you just aren’t that special, in the end.”
Or: In a world where after Eight escapes, and before Eleven, another child makes it out of the lab.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,047
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 10
- Comments:
- 510
- Kudos:
- 3,426
- Bookmarks:
- 1,081
- Hits:
- 29,160
Bookmarked by CuriousInsane
13 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
He’s upright, at least. Leaned up against something, head tipped back and sort of sitting, with his hands bound, and he almost wants to laugh, on account of how much it reminds him of that first November, handcuffed in the bowels of Hawkins National Lab and that white haired son of a bitch framed in the doorway. Jim squeezes his eyes shut, shakes his head a bit, and opens them again, looking straight ahead then, and would you look at that, he thinks. This is the worst day.
Across from him, Steve Harrington sits flanked by two Soviet soldiers, beefy mother fuckers too, and he looks exactly as terrible as when they went beneath Starcourt and Jim only had time to think, Kid, what the fuck, I’m putting your ass in a bubble after this, so not that much time has passed, he thinks, he hopes. He’s handcuffed too, hands in his lap, and he smirks at Jim, all teenaged boy bravado that he can see through in a heartbeat.
“Hey, Chief,” says Harrington.
Hopper, Steve, and the art of survival.
Series
- Part 4 of eating in the underworld
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,169
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 428
- Kudos:
- 2,178
- Bookmarks:
- 217
- Hits:
- 26,003
Bookmarked by CuriousInsane
09 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
She catches sight of Hop first, of course. He’s who she’s looking for after all; or, perhaps more accurately, she will think later, he’s the only one she thinks she’s supposed to be looking for in this moment. The way Robin Buckley had talked about what had happened beneath Starcourt that night — well, it had all just seemed so final, she’d thought, and truly she’s never been so happy to be wrong in her life.
Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Joyce finds not one ghost but two.
Series
- Part 1 of eating in the underworld
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,255
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 337
- Kudos:
- 3,168
- Bookmarks:
- 386
- Hits:
- 25,711
Bookmarked by CuriousInsane
09 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Steve’s never understood why adults always praise him for being a “people person” as if it’s some great accomplishment.
What, like it’s hard?
-------------------
Or: Steve Harrington is your average American teenager, he just had to work harder than most to learn how to ignore the emotions bumping into him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 218,146
- Chapters:
- 32/?
- Collections:
- 22
- Comments:
- 2,313
- Kudos:
- 7,242
- Bookmarks:
- 2,320
- Hits:
- 226,907
Bookmarked by CuriousInsane
09 Jan 2026