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    In the spring of 1983, Steve Harrington starts seeing and hearing things he shouldn’t.

    A nail-studded bat and flashing lights. Children’s high, bickering voices. Lapping blue water, chlorine, and guilt. Moments from a life he hasn’t lived crash into him without warning, vivid enough to leave him shaking.

    Steve might be losing his mind, but he's certain of one thing: Barbara Holland is going to die. Before the year is out, someone – or something – is going to murder her. So he does the only logical thing – he attempts to befriend her. It's easier to save someone if you're standing next to them, right?

    Setting out to save Barb is supposed to make things make sense.

    Instead, it causes Steve to question everything he thought he knew. The visions keep coming. And the more Steve tries to fix things, the more uncertain the world around him becomes. Especially when it comes to Eddie Munson – someone Steve can’t quite explain. Someone who feels different than he should, heavier somehow, as if the future itself is pulling Steve toward him. A gravity Steve is certain wasn't there before.

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    07 Mar 2026

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    Our lovely protagonist finds herself unwillingly transported far from home. Struggling amidst the chaos, Alexandrea must learn to navigate her new surroundings and come to terms with her ill-fated predicament. As she races to stay alive, she discovers an unexpected yet familiar face.

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    Attention! Major spoilers for later seasons and spin-offs early on

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    08 Feb 2026

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    Holy Guacamole 30//10

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    Steve had a bad feeling, and this wasn't the first time it had happened.

    For as long as he could remember, he had always had hunches. Hunches about events that hadn't even happened yet but warned him before the shoe could drop. He was used to them. To the bad omens. To the anxiety they brought.

    Maybe, that's why he was as tense as a coiled spring when they entered Hawkins Lab, as gray as decayed as the rest of the Upside Down. But not even a hunch could have prepared him for what happened that day. He couldn't have braced himself for the party splitting up. He couldn't have braced himself for an argument with Dustin, much less the boy's violent reaction at him bringing Eddie into the conversation.

    He couldn't have expected to crack his head open into the ground, nor the world that waited for him when he opened his eyes once again. Neither the spider that bit him, or the powers that would later bring him.

    And when this peculiar world welcomed him, he couldn't help but wonder.

    Was that Munson? In a big sign? Wearing a hero-like costume?

    And why on Earth was he blond?

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    03 Feb 2026

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    “I’m not sitting in the front?” Eddie asks, a brow raised, twitching as Steve holds the trunk open, gesturing for him to climb inside.

    “And have you try anything funny when I’m driving? Fat chance. Suspicious people that crawl back from their own grave don’t get front seat privileges, Munson.”

    Eddie is going to die at the hands of Steve 'The Hair' Harrington. He'll take him somewhere in the dark, drag him out to the woods and brain him with that bat that he's clinging so tightly to. Maybe he'll be able to do the job that Eddie is too much of a coward to do himself; maybe it's easier that way—kinder.

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    Eddie's back from the Upside Down after nearly two and a half years, hungry for something that isn't Mickey D's, and Steve's the only one with a house empty enough to hide him away.

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    20 Jan 2026

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    In another universe, they don't win.
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    Or: Eddie Munson wakes up on September 8th, 1979. Thirteen years old, screaming, and hungry for blood.

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    16 Jan 2026