Starinthegarden
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- Hadestown - Mitchell (3)
- Andor (TV) (3)
- Stranger Things (TV 2016) (3)
- Loki (TV 2021) (2)
- Star Wars - All Media Types (1)
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After that first day, Dustin doesn’t emerge from his room for a week.
He’d been fine- well that’s what he told everyone when he clearly wasn’t, but Hawkins had four big cracks in it, Max was in a coma and Vecna was still alive, so there were obviously more important things to worry about.
Now, curled up on his bed, tears long dried out, he just feels hollow.
Eddie is dead, and it’s all his fault.
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- Part 2 of not like the movies
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Dustin has grown used to the heroes ending, the ending where they all end up okay in some capacity.
Sure there’s the nightmares, the injuries and the scars, but nobody dies, nobody who really matters to The Party anyways.
Will comes back, El comes back, and eventually in the future, Hopper comes back.
After the Russians under Starcourt, there was always the niggling doubt in the back of his mind that they weren’t done, that the Upside Down would come back.
That’s what always happens in the movies.
This doesn’t, though.
Dustin in the immediate aftermath of Eddie’s death.
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- Part 1 of not like the movies
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"Steve! Steve-"
Dustin starts moving, hobbling as fast as he can towards Steve.
This cannot be happening again.
He told Steve- he told Steve to stop trying to get himself killed and now he’s dying trying to save Dustin.
Again.
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Kleya is a weapon. Made to be sharp, never dull. She slashes and shoots and plays her part with a wide, innocent smile.
Until the hand that wields her is gone.
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Feel the sun beat down on your face, find joy in its heat, continue moving for all those who stopped. Take strength from what they gave for this fight. Keep moving, because if you stop to think, it will all catch up to you. There is time for that after, not now, no, not whilst they’re still looking for you.
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Dustin in the aftermath of Eddie’s death, and then exploring the 18 month time skip and how he pushes everyone away.
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The world is barren, driven to the edge by Something, something that infects, claims and ruins.
Orpheus, the poet, working on a song that will drive the Something from this earth and heal the infected.
Hades, the leader, the mighty king on top of it all and the ruler of Hadestown.
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Stemming from a brief thought of “What if the Tree depended on Loki’s seidr to survive?”
Autonomenon is the result of that thought.
Go write your own paths, people.
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Recent bookmarks
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it's been three days, what happened to you? by Sapphic_terror
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Nov 2025
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My Party-centric time loop fic series that focuses only on the aftermath because what if everyone was weirdly trauma-bonded and codependent and semi-feral?? what then???
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it took so long to get back home by lesbian_from_next_door
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jan 2026
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The last thought Eddie has as everything fades to black, the feeling of blood filling his lungs, is that finally he feels like he’s done something truly good with his life. He’s a hero, even if the rest of the world will never know it.
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Eddie wakes up.
Now how the fuck is that happening.AKA Eddie dies every single time. And every single time, he wakes up in the same place again.
Bookmarked by Starinthegarden
22 Jan 2026
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Not a Good Person (But Trying to Be Better) by DashOfPeppers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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Steve Harrington was not a good person. At twelve years old, he spat in Richard Blakeson’s face and called him a pussy for crying so that Tommy would think he was cool. At fourteen, he planted cigarettes in Carl Marksley’s desk so that he would get detention and make his girlfriend Brenda available for the weekend, steaming up his dad’s car that he legally wasn’t allowed to drive. At sixteen, he called the Byers family a bunch of queers and pushed Jonathan Byers so hard that his knees scraped bloody against the asphalt.
It was right of Byers to beat his head in. It was right of Nancy to leave him for Byers a year later. It was right for Billy to break a plate over his head, right for the spittle-ridden demodogs to gnaw at his ankles, and right for the Russians to break his ribs. Paster Rodgers once said that a lack of peace was the culmination of sin made by man. The horrors in Hawkins were not due to chance but due to divine retribution.
So even when Dustin said, “I wish it was you,” and his mouth snapped shut, his face going so pale that he looked like he might pass out right there, Steve Harrington knew, despite all the regret painted on Dustin’s face, that he was right for saying it.
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Bookmarked by Starinthegarden
19 Jan 2026
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ACTUALLY INSANE ABOUT THIS I FEAR
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Then, when sobs turned to sniffs, and hammering hearts turned to steady beats, Steve tried to lighten the mood and put on his best teasing voice.
“You know, maybe you should practice your running? Get a little faster so you can outrun the monsters instead of tripping. You should join me on my next run.”
And it was nothing but a joke, yet for some reason, Dustin agreed to it, and he looked so eager to do so that Steve couldn’t find it in himself to admit that he wasn’t serious.
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Steve and Dustin have a heart to heart and then they go for a run? Fun times.
Bookmarked by Starinthegarden
19 Jan 2026
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healing after it all <3