15 Bookmarks by readymess

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  1. Public Bookmark 75

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    John Brady should have been a fighter pilot. Or a music teacher. Or anything apart from this.

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    03 Jun 2024

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    it's late and i'll have something more to say about this later probably so for now
    just a little bit in love with them <3

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    A moment is all it takes for everything to change. That’s how it always is.

    When you’re pinned against the horizon, sun beating uselessly against your metal skin, the leather of your green apple turning your air funny, all you have is interminable moments of possibility. Life and death, made into string, stretches out in front of you: Tangible. For just a second, you can reach out and touch it, hold it against your gloved palm and feel your soul catch alight in understanding.

    All it takes is a moment for John to slip his fingers further past Buck’s waistband.

    (or: Bucky's wanting gets the better of him.)

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    21 Apr 2024

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    pretty mf words 🫶🏼

  3. Public Bookmark 68

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    Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of the story.

    Not to John Egan. Not after the war.

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    17 Apr 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ouch :(

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    Some things in life you just take as they are. Gravity. Oxygen. The sun coming up every day. Buck-and-Bucky.

    Things change at the camp.

    Or, actually, that's not quite it.

    At the camp, things expand.

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    13 Apr 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ugh <3

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    11 Apr 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    analogy?? i hardly know her (but damn is she good)

  6. Public Bookmark 17

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    Gale can see it now. That phantom thread. The one that helped them bridge the unspeakable devastation and horror of war, that helped them fall back into each other’s orbit when they feared themselves untethered and lost to the cosmic vacuum of Europe. Not just once, but three times.

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    17 Mar 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    and we do
    what we love comes back to us; maybe not quite as it was, but with all the possibilities of what it can be and become

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    So, these days when John baits him, it’s mostly knowing that Buck would never give in. It’s fascinating to watch each time it happens though and John can’t get enough of it. The way his tempting words slide right off Buck where with everyone else, they would have sunk their hooks in. The immediate, careless, tempered, “No,” that crawls out of Buck’s throat in that raspy drawl.

    Perhaps, John hadn’t been told ‘no’ enough in his life and he’s catching up with it now, collecting each one from Buck’s lips to make up for the hundred times that no one was there to tell him as much in his youth. It drives him crazy that no matter how outrageous or how tame the suggestion is, the answer from Buck would always be no. So he keeps asking.

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    17 Mar 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    "could you sin with me instead of striving to be my savior?"
    inevitably, irrevocably

    gay yearning!!!!

  8. Public Bookmark 23

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    “We’ll get out. And this you will be the one worth knowing,” Gale says gently. He runs his hand reverently over John’s face, like the beaten and broken shell of him is still something to marvel at. Gale reaches within him and finds that one sparkling piece of his soul. Then, he holds it up for John to see. And it’s almost enough to make him believe in his own goodness.

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    02 Mar 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    hold me like water, or christ hold me like a knife

    (bc this fic stabbed me in the heart repeatedly with angst but it's so pretty i'm okay with it)

  9. Rec *

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    It was only once. They were teenagers. It didn’t mean anything.
    The last one was a lie.

    One summer changed everything—and then Eddie was arrested. When he gets out of prison, Steve takes him in, prepared to suffer through unrequited love. Eddie has other, filthier, ideas. Angst, BDSM, and domesticity.

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    24 Sep 2022

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    inspo'd by the two best steddie fics to ever exist
    they are both so dumb and horny and in love

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    Eddie and Steve have been spending a lot of time together since Vecna. They're co-parenting kids, getting high every night, and sleeping in the same bed. They basically share a wardrobe too.

    He thinks this is dangerous, its like they’re married, the casual sharing of intimacy, this space between them which feels like something and nothing all at the same time. He thinks it’s dangerous for him to pretend Steve sees it the same way, that one day Steve’s droopy, kind eyes are going to see right through him and he’ll lose this. This being a side of Steve’s bed that is his, a nightstand where his rings always pile, a drawer of shirts in Steve’s bedroom that only Eddie uses. He can’t lose it, so he shuts his mouth, turns out the light, and watches the slow breathing of sleep fill Steve’s chest.

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    12 Sep 2022

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    fluffy very cute boys being sweet and absolutely fucking clueless
    a natural progression

  11. Rec *

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    Will returns from Lenora. He hears about Eddie's guitar solo to save the world. He learns that he is not alone and that it's okay to love yourself.

    Aka Will sees Eddie flirting with Steve, has a crisis over it, and they have a conversation where Will is told things he should have heard years ago.

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    08 Sep 2022

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    gay mf rights !!!
    the heartstopper of stranger things, if you will (pun intended)
    will the wise meets eddie the banished and they realize that the world is just a bit smaller and more kind than they thought before

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    Eddie, Steve, Robin, and Nancy are “the weird neighbors.”

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    31 Aug 2022

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    short sweet and so so fun lmao
    these fuckers look batshit crazy from an outside pov but sometimes you just gotta sit back and hold ur besties' coffees ;)

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    Stories set in a world where Vecna is defeated, Steve gets his degree in counseling, Eddie becomes a grunge pioneer, and everyone gets a slightly softer ending.

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    22 Aug 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    this is just the best thing to ever exist and i will not be taking criticism on this point ever :)

  14. Rec *

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    Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth.

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    02 Aug 2022

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    found family at it's finest
    life after the cameras stop rolling
    we get happy mf endings with sweetness and angst and real life
    this is ~The Fic~ end of story pack it up goodbye absolute perfection
    tattoo this on my mf soul

  15. Rec *

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    ‘Please?’

    Eddie stops him again, this time by holding his face. Steve feels Eddie’s thumb moving over his cheek, he feels the cool metal of his rings. He feels everything except what he needs.

    ‘I’ve never loved anything the way I love you, Steve Harrington,’ Eddie says, dark brown eyes moving between Steve’s own. ‘This isn’t the moment, sweetheart.’

    It’s not a rejection, but it’s not a kiss. Steve quietly cries, insides cut up on the broken shards of his stupid little heart and Eddie holds him, he holds him all night until they fall asleep together.

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    01 Aug 2022

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    steve harrington character exploration with BDSM and headass eddie munson
    perfection
    everything sweet and good and found family
    the gay agenda in all its glory

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