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She came into this knowing opening a restaurant was a total nightmare and how Carmy-like Carmy was. She had also thought they were doing this together. It was all I don’t even want to do this without you until he ignored all of her ideas and you’re not alone, Syd but she felt pretty fucking alone.
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After the end of season three: Sydney and Carmy talk, for real.
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with my eyes closed (this feels like home) by effulgently
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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If you asked her approximately thirty six hours ago, she would have said her and Steve Harrington were co-workers. Co-workers, in the light-hearted bickering yet stay-on-your-side-of-the-freezer-while-stocking sort of way, even if Robin had grown to not mind his presence so much as the summer progressed. At the very least, his attempt to pick up chicks while slinging ice cream was pretty entertaining. So, yeah, they were co-workers, which was a step above the apparently one-sided acquaintanceship they had before, given Steve introduced himself on their first day like they didn’t share a row in Mrs. Click’s class for a whole year.
Maybe, if you held her at gunpoint, she might even admit they were friends.
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It's the night after the almost-end of Hawkins, Indiana - Robin doesn't think she will ever get used to this. (Weirdly, she does. Even weirder? She does it along side Steve Harrington.)
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“I’m not telling you to upset you.” They’ve only been on the phone for six minutes and thirty seven seconds, and Maddie was already pacing the length of her apartment. “I am calling you because Evan is sick and he’s upset.”
This was well-treaded territory: anytime she even remotely suggested they could do more parenting, Maddie was apparently throwing the their greatest tragedy in their face. Instead of any effort on their part, she only ever received we tried or it’s always an accident or he needs to grow up. Which meant it was always up to Maddie, and Maddie had to figure out how to deal with her own problems and emotions on her own.
“No, I didn’t tell him,” she snapped, the accusation rolling over her in a wave of anger. Her parents certainly trusted her to handle herself and Evan in nearly all capacities growing up, but never with this situation, “but maybe we should.”
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Following his pulmonary embolism, Maddie tells Buck about Daniel. It goes about as well as you would expect.
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“Yeah, sorry about that, I was just tired, you know. But I’m good, yeah,” Maddie said, trying to shake herself out of that doomed one-way train of thought. Athena’s tone may have been casual, but they were edging towards things Maddie would rather avoid. Suddenly feeling like she might as well have been in an interrogation room with all of the impending scrutiny, Maddie began looking for a way out. “Do you want some coffee, or something else to drink?“
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A conversation between Maddie and Athena between seasons four and five.
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If Buck was capable of forming coherent thoughts at the moment, he thinks he would have said something along the lines of a very mature you’re not my boss anymore. As it was, though, making any amount of eye contact with Eddie and later calling Maddie back to convince her to stay at dispatch managed to use any remaining cognitive capacity he had for the day. And that was with Chim doing most of the talking. So he said nothing, and sat.
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Buck and Bobby, in the aftermath of the tsunami.
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Two wins away.
That’s all it was supposed to be.
Instead, Game 5 leaves Ilya Rozanov without a spleen, stitched down the center of his abdomen, and watching Game 6 from a hospital bed. But Ilya has never let pain keep him out of the room, and Game 7 is no exception.
A story about fire and precision, about husbands who share leadership and weight, about chosen family, and about the night the Stanley Cup waited while a team said thank you to their captain.
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18 Feb 2026
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Bruce Wayne was never meant to be part of Selina’s clean slate. Then again, neither were a circus boy, a street rat or a rich kid.
For a girl who didn’t like strings, Selina found herself getting attached.
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02 Feb 2026
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Jack banged his melon on a locker a week later at the gym and the jolt make him realize that he was in love with Grace.
He cracked his head a second time with everyone watching him in a mix of pity, exhaustion, and indulgence and then scurried off to the bathroom to hyperventilate over a urinal.
“Someone go keep Baby M from drowning in a sink,” Horace Whalin, a professional beast at the start of his career, had sighed.
(There were two generations of devils at Fogwell’s Gym.)
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- Part 9 of Lighter Fluid Verse
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18 Oct 2025
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“I think Matty has superpowers,” he blurted out.
(Jack notices Matt's weird behavior after the accident and comes to the most logical conclusion.)
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13 Oct 2025
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In which Carmy is haunted by the ghosts of addictions past, present and future.
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20 Oct 2024