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The funeral is a family affair.
Family affair, as in: Will is surrounded by family and people who thought they knew El and really didn’t, and people who didn’t know El and tried to kill her multiple times, and he feels, albeit with little to no regard of anyone else, like he is five seconds away from killing all of them.
OR, ALTERNATIVELY— Will mourns.
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- Part 2 of forwards beckoned rebound
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She is standing in a vineyard in Italy with a glass of something citrusy and sweet, looking out at the various rolling green hills, when it suddenly struck her just what, exactly, she’s been doing.
OR, ALTERNATIVELY— El goes back home.
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- Part 1 of forwards beckoned rebound
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in every life, through every door by probably_ren
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
12 Jan 2026
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The year is 1987 and Mike Wheeler hasn’t been seeing a strange, tall, and pale man— but he has been getting nightmares involving the Upside Down. Pretty par for the course, lately.
Until the demogorgon breaks into his fucking house.
OR, ALTERNATIVELY— Mike Wheeler is taken and The Party begins to crumble.
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“The cargo is the kid?” Pandora is asking, incredulous.
“I’m not cargo,” Harry spits out back at her, defensive, chin held up high. Regulus watches as his small hands grab hold of a knife as long as his forearm, pointing it downward but still present, like if Regulus and Pandora give him a reason he’d slaughter them. Jesus, the kid is eleven.
“He’s the cargo, yeah.” James says, ignoring Harry’s spluttering protests.
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Harry Potter is immune, and James Potter cashes in old debts to get him across country.
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- Part 1 of from ashes, to ashes
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Son of Sea Foam by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle
Fandom Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
06 Oct 2025
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for even just a few minutes by emavee
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
03 May 2021
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Alfred is late coming home and Bruce tries very, very hard not to freak out.
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06 Jun 2024
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He hurts everything he touches, ungrateful and bratty until the moment it’s yanked from his grip, the tips of his fingers left torn and bloody, hands empty nonetheless. It would be easier, he thinks, to just stop. Stop caring. Stop holding on at all. Losing people has got to be so much easier if you don’t love them.
But he’s just so lonely, all the time, and he doesn’t know how to live with it. He barely knows how to think or breathe or exist sometimes. It’s all too much. Loving people is scary and being lonely is even scarier. He feels constantly bogged down, neither option a viable one in the long-run.
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Love is not a word either of them say easily anymore. Even now, Bruce can’t seem to force it out. It lodges in his throat or sticks to his tongue, a phantom weight that he can feel, choking and sour. He thinks it, though, thinks it every single day. It flows in his veins, as sure as the rush of air in and out of his lungs. He feels it, desperately, a physical sensation in his chest and his throat and even the very tips of his fingers and toes. Bruce breathes and squeezes tighter, wishing that for once he could say it.
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He wants to be a good son again, even if the person raising him is different now.
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take a little moment (find the right words) by astrobi for wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”
“Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”
“Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”
“Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”
Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.
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WANTED: Female, aged 20-30, to be my date for Christmas eve dinner with my Italian-American family. Must be willing to eat my mom’s cooking. No physical intimacy required. No strings attached—I will drive you home after. 4pm-10pm, 12/24. Salary negotiable. Call Carmen: (773) 555-0901.
OR: The one in which Sydney just needs a job, and Carmy will die before he proves Richie right.
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24 Nov 2025
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He froze over in New York. He knows he did. And this, Sydney in his lap, hand on his face. This feels dangerously close to thawing out.
It’s like there’s some feeling deep in his chest, that was long ago beaten badly enough to crawl out the light completely, but is now, somehow, emboldened, and emerging from its hiding place.
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“When I was twenty, and you used to come into that stupid diner, I burned so much food staring at you,” he says. “You, uh, you wore your hair natural back then, in those curls, I… I almost got fired, Syd. I was so fucking mesmerized. I could stare at you forever.”
“I was staring right back at you,” she says, with a small smile. “You knew that, didn’t you?”
“I thought you were annoyed the food was taking so long,” he says.
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Define normal by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
01 Nov 2025
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On a perfectly average Tuesday night – as far as any night can be called perfectly average anymore nowadays – the sky goes pitch black above Manhattan, a violent storm rattles the roofs, vivid blue and purple lightning bolts illuminate the clouds.
Once it is over, as suddenly as it began, news trickles in of difficult-to-explain phenomena occurring worldwide: The statue of liberty has changed color to a bright pink, an exact replica of the great wall of China has appeared across the Sahara desert, it rains feathers in Copenhagen for several hours, every single stapler on Sumba Island turns into a coat hanger, and Tony Stark wakes up from an impossible-to-wake-up-from coma.Bookmarked by probably_ren
02 Nov 2025
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Tony nods. “Meet Morgan’s pet sheep.”
“Goat!” Morgan says. She clambers over Pepper and presses her nose to the window, leaving a tiny foggy circle on the glass.
“It’s a llama,” Pepper corrects.
“That,” Peter says, “is an alpaca.”