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    Lodestar by

    Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)  

    23 Dec 2025

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    Lodestar, n. A star used as a navigation reference, a guiding star.

    What use did Julien Davinos have for a soul-mark? He already had a path to walk.

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    philly is for lovers by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    01 Jan 2026

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    “Robin thinks I’m going to break your heart,” Jonathan says.
    Steve doesn’t seem surprised. “Well,” he drawls. This close, Jonathan can smell the beer on his breath. It might have ticked him off a couple years ago. “Are you?”

    Three months in to their monthly Philadelphia meetup. Two illuminating conversations.

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    28 Jan 2026

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    There Is A Season by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    14 Oct 2022

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    After Vecna's curse is unleashed onto Hawkins, the town has been placed under government lockdown as the contagion continues to spread. Everyone’s been forced to the margins as they try to pick up the pieces. Maybe it's the swirling spores in the atmosphere or the grief that seems to linger everywhere, but it feels like everyone's haunted by something.

    Everyone except Mike, that is. He's the heart, right? He's keeping it together.

    He's the only one acting normal.

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  4. Public Bookmark 22

    When A Moth Gets Crushed by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    04 Jan 2026

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    Everyone was always supposed to go their separate ways. Mike knows that. But he's been in college for three years and he hasn't put down roots, and he's starting to give up on the fantasy of finding himself.

    Depressed, alone, self-hating, Mike Wheeler books a flight to Boston.
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    “Hey.” Mike sets his paper cup of coffee down on the workbench.

    Will blinks.

    “I’m sorry,” Mike says. “I should’ve called.”

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  5. Public Bookmark 54

    resolution / pursuance by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    28 Nov 2025

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    When Steve heads back from The Squawk, he determinedly ignores the shadow of Jonathan Byers that slips out of the kitchen exactly when he walks in.

    or, Steve and Jonathan learn how to live together after Vecna's defeat.

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    09 Dec 2025