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If she’d been asked, she’d be driving home from Hawkins General right now, crammed into the backseat with everyone who shared her house but hardly seemed to remember Holly existed.
Would it be nice? Probably not really. But it would be something.
Maybe like something else during those first few weeks of quarantine, before Robin had gotten the Squawk back on the air, and she and Nancy and Jonathan and Nancy’s old boyfriend, Steve, had started working at the station. For a while Holly had assumed Steve and Robin were boyfriend-and-girlfriend now, like Jonathan and Nancy were boyfriend-and-girlfriend, everybody fitting into pairs as they grew older, but she wasn’t sure about perfectly-fitted pairs anymore, and she was pretty sure Steve and Robin weren’t together like that. For one thing, Steve kept looking at Nancy…mostly when he seemed to think nobody else was looking.
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- Part 2 of last christmas
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a crowded room, friends with tired eyes by maplemood for TolkienGirl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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“Devotion,” she elaborates. “I find that a really admirable quality, yeah. But, you know—it can be less than—I mean, it is an ideal, guess it can’t be less than ideal, that’s probably, what, some kind of lesser form of oxymoron—"
“Rob.”
“It could get dangerous.”
“U-huh.”
“Of course that depends on how you play it. But if you, do you see what I’m saying, if you take it too far…or, on the other hand, you don’t take it far enough—”
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December 1986. The Christmas party nobody really planned.
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- Part 1 of last christmas
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take me to the pilot (i am but a stranger) by maplemood
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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It occurs to Kali that they’ve hardly met, she and this man she knows.
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“You know I have come across it before, right? Assigned reading.”
Right. Sure. Back when Steve last graced an English class, the Hawkins High PTA hadn’t moved on to witch-hunting just yet. Book-burning’s, what? One step down?
“So did you read it?”
“No comment.”
Also, during crawl prep last week Dustin heard Nancy and Robin chattering about The Catcher in the Rye and heard Steve hearing, too—an impossibility possible with Steve, who’s a far easier read than the book itself.
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His eyes were clear. In pain and weariness, beneath a haze of growing infection, they were clear yet. Wide and perceptive, and Cee felt, momentarily, that she could hardly bear to meet them.
“Your father,” Ezra said, “died the moment he set foot to the Green. You knew this.”
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The road home: Cee and Ezra more or less immediately post-canon.
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end of a decade (start of an age): 1987-1997 by maplemood, TolkienGirl
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jan 2026
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Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, and a story that isn't even close to over.
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Hawkins, Indiana. Christmas 1986.
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To the Fremen she is the False Wife, a minor deity beside her offspring and other relations. She is two-faced, a prowler of city streets and Pyon wastes, ever-veiled. Her true nature is hidden beyond human sight. Irulan is both the virginal bride and the duplicitous whore; she represents indulgence of the flesh and the pull towards water-fatness, laxness in the face of the old desert ways. She is foolish longing and loyalty bestowed too late. It is she, rather than her husband, stepson, or daughter, who has come to represent the ultimate Imperial invasion of Dune.
Another path, another possibility.
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girl!Peter by maplemood
Fandom Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Guardians of the Galaxy - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
25 May 2018
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Yeah, yeah, it says "Petra" on her birth certificate. That doesn't make it her name.
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There are only so many excuses a person can make.
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Bookmarked by maplemood
27 Jan 2026
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and find a pleasure in all their simple joy by TolkienGirl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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Hawkins, under snowfall, looks almost entirely like itself. Blink, and you’ll miss it—the way things have changed, the life you used to have.
[Nancy pays a New Year's Eve visit to the WSQK station.]
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- Part 3 of Quarantine Christmas '86
Bookmarked by maplemood
27 Jan 2026
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She can never predict her own moods and phases, only that she’ll look back in bleak disgust at the stubbornness of the past. Sometimes every day seems too long; no matter how early the evening, it’s like night can’t come soon enough, time ticking away until Christmas, then the new year, then the months until spring, and…
And then?
Is it Jonathan she wants, or another life?
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Bookmarked by maplemood
26 Jan 2026
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After all, the only option, when the love of your life has turned you down once, twice, and in absentia, is to let her go.
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09 Jan 2026
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"You miss all the shots you don't take," says Nancy, still good-natured, no right to pick at Jonathan when she hasn't seen him in so many months, when Steve put an arm around him. Is there anything that Steve has not forgiven? Is there anything he won't let them mock about him, so they can feel better about themselves?
The light, golden or not, is fading. Nancy takes a breath, examines no mirror of memory.
We've changed. We've all changed.
It's like none of it ever happened.
Bookmarked by maplemood
04 Jan 2026