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wild and fluorescent (come home to my heart) by cealesti
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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"Plant your feet!" Billy Hargrove roars and Steve feels the crunch of his fist on his cheekbone like lightning down his entire skull.
He crumbles to the floor, a haze of pain and flashing lights and punches that won't stop raining down on him.
Max, Dustin, Lucas, and Mike — they're running away.
Billy stands before him, eyes glowing blue.
This isn't how it happens, Steve thinks firmly, blood running down his throat, and tightens his grip on the syringe that materializes in his hand.
Tell me if you've heard this one before: a ragtag group of misfits is spat out on another world in a desperate bid to save their own and rescue a bunch of kids while they're at it. They run into the big bad known for slipping into your head, like a whisper, like a nightmare, and preying into your worst memories.
What happens next will shock and upset you.
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It's just — every time he walks in, a skip to his step like he's still surprised he's allowed to be here — all she can see is his new key-chain jiggling against his keys, a gift he'd shown to anyone willing to look; Tanner made it himself, Abby let him give it to me for my sobriety anniversary. No, he doesn't know that's why, he's five. Isn't it great?
And it is, she'd thought — said — absently. He fought so hard to keep his relationship to his children, to his now ex-wife, even as he went through the motions of rehab and recovery and constant HR meetings and random piss tests everyone conspicuously pretended weren't happening. He'd fought so hard, of course it's great.
Or it would be, Mel thinks, ducking away with lukewarm coffee in hand, if she didn't know the image of that key-chain like the palm of her hand.
Or, rather, like the soulmark on the back of her knee.
[or: soulmateism made literal]
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love's such an old-fashioned word by the_passionate_sun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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He scratches his eyebrow. “I mean— okay—“ he starts. “Okay, okay, there’s— there’s a plan here. Right, so what if, what if we do fewer weekends, but we do, like, longer trips? Like maybe we do every other month. But then we do one big trip in the summer or something?”
“International,” she proposes. “Maybe an international trip?” Different enough from The Dream, she hopes.
His eyebrows rise at this. “You know Robin doesn’t have the cash for that,” he tells her. “And, really, Byers?”
“He probably doesn’t either,” she allows, “so maybe we go without them.”
Steve’s eyes lock onto hers. “We go without them?” he repeats calmly.
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It's sort of like people we meet on vacation. if mike third-wheeled the whole time. Nancy worries about Steve, and Steve worries about Nancy, and maybe visiting places that have at least three waterfalls will bring some light back to Mike's eyes.Series
- Part 1 of under pressure
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28 Feb 2026
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Maybe Steve’s always been good at lying, or maybe this is what truth tastes like now. Maybe he does hate his old house, like he hates all his old selves, and maybe that is how he loves Hawkins: a place that tore him, like a bad tooth, out of the life he thought he knew.
Dropped him, free-falling, into a new one.
Good ache. It’s a good ache. You can see for miles if you know where to stand.
[Steve, after everything, doesn’t quite know where to start. And then there’s Nancy.]
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28 Feb 2026
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this boat may sink (but I'm not gonna rock it) by TolkienGirl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2026
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Steve doesn’t think he has a reputation for patience, but there is a kind of patience, surely, in the kind of silence he’s practicing now.
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28 Feb 2026
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if I'm kindling for a little while by alittleacatalepsy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Feb 2026
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A Crawl goes wrong before November 1987.
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27 Feb 2026
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The thing is—
There are two Nancys. There’s Daytime Nancy and there’s Nighttime Nancy and Steve's only ever seen the first. No—
He saw Nighttime Nancy once, at Tina’s Halloween party, and he bolted out the door in tears.
Nancy fell on her sword after that.
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- Part 3 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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27 Feb 2026