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Nancy loves Steve, and thinks she probably always will – he was her first kiss, her first everything – but she’s never seemed to love him enough. Not the way he had loved her.
“If you’re free later, maybe we can grab lunch?" she asks. “For old times’ sake? Is one o’clock all right for you?”
Steve smiles. “It’s a date,” he says.
In which it's 1991 and Nancy runs into a familiar face but, as it turns out, things aren't always as they seem.
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12 Feb 2026
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Dustin tapped his hands on the bonnet for a moment before trailing behind him as he continued down the line of used cars. "Why don't you just get another Beamer? I think I saw one similar near the entrance. It was blue, I think."
"I don't want a replica, or something that's a constant reminder. She was one of a kind."
"I mean, not really."
"To me, she was."
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Steve and Dustin go car shopping.
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- Part 1 of See Through You (Stranger Things)
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07 Jan 2026
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Claudia makes up a bed for Steve on the living room couch. She’s kind—fussing over him, making sure he has enough pillows and blankets, insisting that he stay here as long as he wants. Steve watches her double-lock the front door and check on Dustin at least five times before she goes to bed. Steve doubts she’ll really sleep.
Steve’s grateful, and it’s comfortable, but he’s not going to sleep, either. Not while Dustin is alone in the other room.
He hopes Dustin doesn’t have any nightmares. He hopes his face doesn’t hurt too much, and that he doesn’t wake up with a splitting migraine. He hopes he isn’t crying himself to sleep. He knows he probably is.
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Steve & Dustin navigate their anxieties about each other, after everything.
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05 Jan 2026
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It's been a few months since the group has escaped the circus, and things are going well, for the most part. They've got jobs, hobbies, relationships, and they've all jumped back into life with more vigor than ever before. It's good. Almost. Jax thinks that's a sign, in a weird way, that perhaps all of this isn't as worthy as it seems. That he's not as worthy. Not that it matters.
And so, on one random Sunday night, Jax decides he's going to take his own life.
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Author wanted to write a character study about Jax coping in the real world while also learning to see himself as a person.Bookmarked by interlude
22 Oct 2025
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you're a jackrabbit underneath by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
01 Aug 2025
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“Hiding something? What, no! I wouldn’t – I’d never – ”
“You know what? ƒμ©* it.” With a huff, Zooble yanked at the tablet in Ragatha’s hands, hard. Pomni caught how the little seams fixing Ragatha’s arms to her shoulders flexed, threatening to give way. She had to let go before Zooble ripped her forearms clean off. Zooble swiped through the tablet almost angrily as they muttered, “I don’t even know what you’re so pressed about. It’s not like your derby rider was that pretentious about – ”
Zooble cut themself off and went very, very silent.
Pomni’s mouth went dry. Dryer than it’d been even after a stress of time without real water. She watched, scared for a reason she couldn’t place, as both of Zooble’s detachable eyes widened. She could have sworn that their hot pink face turned almost salmon for a quick second before returning to its original shade. They set down the tablet and turned.
“Ragatha,” they said slowly, “why does the catalogue of NPCs include a mock-up of Jax?”
or, the gang learns something new about Jax
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23 Sep 2025
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You can learn a lot about a person during a hunting trip. Their strengths, their fears, their weaknesses. Maybe even their deepest secrets. Like the fact that they like turtleducks.
... Wait, what?
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- Part 1 of The Thing About Fire
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17 Aug 2025
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Ursa adored the boy. Iroh doted on him. Azulon would coo at the child when he thought others weren’t watching. Even Lu Ten, who often declared the baby boring, would play with Zuko near the turtleduck pond. No, it seemed Ozai was the only one who saw what a disappointment his son was.
No matter. His problem would be dealt with by morning.
A Water Tribe Zuko AU.
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- Part 1 of The Blood of the Covenant
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19 Jul 2025
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Aang knows that he and the mysterious stranger who saved him are meant to be friends. Unfortunately, everyone, including the stranger, needs some convincing.
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- Part 4 of It Takes a Village verse
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06 Jul 2025
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He thought he was so much, Zuko thinks, his eyes never leaving the tapestry. He thought he would be remembered for something great.
“When Fire Lord Sozin started the war,” Zuko says, voice surprisingly firm, “he destroyed every piece of history that came before him. He rebuilt the Fire Nation under his image, and by doing that, he rebuilt what qualified as truth. He erased everything he considered weak, everything that could be interpreted as a wrongdoing or a failure. It didn’t fit with his narrative of our country. He thought that by destroying the shame of the past, he’d guarantee the glory of the future. And he was wrong.” Zuko takes a deep breath. “I don’t want to make the same mistake as him.”
Or, what it means to make history. Featuring Toph's enthusiasm for destroying property, Aang being allowed to have negative emotions, and Zuko figuring out life.
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- Part 1 of heirloom
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23 Jun 2025
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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19 Jun 2025
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Taking a Break (In) by Duckduck_Scribblerswan (Caellie_E_and_Vaye_R)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Nov 2024
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After a few agonizingly slow seconds of exhausted, confused pondering, Zuko decided there was only one logical conclusion.
“You’re right," he told the assassins, "I’m here to help you kill the Fire Lord.”
Like a genius.Caldera City is holding a festival to celebrate finally having enough funds to hold a festival! Although Zuko originally deemed himself too busy to go, Sokka managed to cajol him into attending his own party, in a knock-off Blue Spirit disguise for security purposes. Zuko sneaks back into the palace right in time to catch a group of assassins sneaking out. They failed to find the Fire Lord and assume he's reinforcements.
Zuko needs to find who ordered a strike on him before they do something stupid, like order a second one. Obviously, the most reasonable thing to do is join the assassins and hope they don’t figure out who he actually is. Obviously. There’s literally no other option.
Feat. Zuko's only two coping mechanisms (mortal peril and improv theater), the world's most incompetent hit team, and another knock-off Blue Spirit who's determined to prove this "Li" isn't who he says he is.
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15 Jun 2025
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Ford abruptly sat up, blinking in surprise at his own genius. That was it. Mabel had had the right idea all along, she was just being a bit too low-tech about it. But if Fiddleford could invent a gun that erased people’s memories, then surely Stanford could invent something that recovered lost memories. He could and he would, and then he would use it to get Stanley’s memories back, and then everything would be alright.
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15 Nov 2024
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For Whoever Has Shed His Blood With Me Shall Be My Brother by TheYoungThousand
Fandoms: Gravity Falls
28 Apr 2023
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In which there will always be a bond between broken little boys.
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In a dive bar in Central Oregon, many years from now, two old friends meet for a drink.
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29 Oct 2024
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It's 1982 and Ford Pines, at rock bottom, is trying to get a message to his brother any way he can. Including asking the magic mailbox in the woods for Stan's information.
Unfortunately, the mailbox is not giving the answers he wanted.
What is the quickest way to communicate with Stanley Pines?
The Mailbox shook again. He pulled the door open, then the envelope.
Then he stared at it, brain even foggier than it had been five seconds ago.
A seance, it said.
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- Part 1 of Unacceptable Losses
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26 Oct 2024
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Stan Pines has never been good with words, but somehow, he's accumulated four young people who, sometimes, need to have emotional conversations and like to talk to him. Or really, he makes them talk to him.
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26 Oct 2024
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In a world where the Pines family and Co. manage to defeat Bill with the zodiac, the problems between Stan and Ford are left unresolved. It probably doesn’t help the matter when Stan and his nine year old counterpart manage to swap places, leaving an ignorant Stanley in Gravity Falls and a disgruntled Stan stranded in Glass Shard Beach. What’s the worst that could happen?
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15 Oct 2024
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What if that phone call the Bill-possessed Ford made to Stan actually went through?
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- Part 1 of The Phone Call Went Through
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12 Oct 2024
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After a few months at sea, a painful reminder of his past prompts Stan to hide an injury. Confused about his sudden change in behavior, Stanford assumes the worst.
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ORStanford's health anxiety meets Stanleys fear of abandonment
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08 Oct 2024
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There’s something in her voice when she says it—maybe disappointment, but Taako can’t quite place it. She feels bad, probably. Thinking about their old crewmate alone in her office on Candlenights Eve—well, not alone. He overheard Magnus telling Lup about the dog he gave her a few weeks ago, how it would be good for her to have one she wasn’t alone so often. But mostly alone. Not a part of the family they’d built.
Except, that wasn’t really it, was it? Magnus brought her a puppy, he had seen Avi take a present from Lup and Barry back with him, probably for her. He’d gone shopping with Merle a few weeks ago and noticed him buying the stuff to make the tea she’d always liked back on the Starblaster. Hell, Avi, Carey, and Killian still worked for/with her. He knows he’s the problem, the one unwilling to mend the broken link between them. He knows. But he’s not willing to deal with that yet.
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02 Oct 2024
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Our Futures, Overlapping by premeditated
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
21 Dec 2021
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The Promised Day is in the past, Amestris is settling into its hard-earned peace, and Ed struggles to decide where he’s going to fit into it all. It’s a little bit nostalgic, but mostly it’s surprising, this new world of theirs. Amid the lethargic pace of everyday life, there is always, always that forward momentum inside of them, that resolve to take another step.
Ed is still growing. Al’s alchemy is evolving. Together, they set off.
(Five times Ed tries to use his alchemy after he gave it to Truth, plus one time he tries something new.)
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12 Aug 2024