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    Rosemary Clarke never planned on finishing high school in Hawkins, Indiana. She definitely didn’t plan on living with her nerdy science-teacher uncle, getting adopted by a bunch of overexcited middle schoolers, or forming an uneasy co-babysitter alliance with Steve Harrington of all people.

    But Hawkins is stranger than it looks, and normal keeps slipping through Rose’s fingers. Between Dungeons & Dragons nights, suspicious happenings no one can explain, and one ex–golden boy trying very hard to be better than he was, Rose finds herself building a new life out of grief, bad jokes, and late-night car rides.

    There is too much hairspray, cryptic small-town mysteries no one quite wants to name out loud, and two reluctant babysitters who keep ending up on the same side of things. Rose and Steve are determined not to talk about the way they fit together in a crisis… or the quiet, inconvenient feelings that start growing in between monsters, math homework, and middle school dances.

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    25 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    To read. Also for future reference there's far too many possibilities in the stranger things realm now you've gotta check more than one day back at some point.

  2. Public Bookmark 32

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    After Vecna, Hawkins is supposed to be healing.

    But Jonathan is dead. Eleven is gone. Mike is falling apart. And Nancy is pregnant with Jonathan’s baby, conceived during one last night together after they had already let each other go.

    Now Nancy is carrying the only piece of him left, while Karen drinks too much, Mike slips further away, and Steve Harrington’s steady love becomes something Nancy wants more than she can admit without feeling guilty.

    Hawkins has always been good at burying things.

    And when a broken signal cuts through the static, one impossible question returns:

    What if Eleven is still alive?

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    25 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    To read.

  3. Public Bookmark 75

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    Eight years later, Mike Wheeler returns to Hawkins for Thanksgiving. Caught between what he has written and what he has yet been able to write, Mike has no choice but to find a way forward.

    Now, on a journey that takes him from Chicago to Hawkins—and onward to Iceland—Mike must move forward knowing that everything in his life is owed to the girlfriend he lost ten years ago

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    25 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    To try reading, post st plot but it makes up for it in being ludicrously long for a stranger things fic.

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    What if Will had rolled a Nat 20 on November 6th 1983?
    What if Terry Ives was never experimented on and had an ordinary daughter as they live next door to the Wheelers?
    What if Martin Brenner had been put into an asylum before he ever met Henry Creel?
    What if Hopper had never lost his daughter Sara?
    This AU story reimagines the characters and world of Stranger Things where Eleven never had powers, never got forced to open the Upside Down and never had to banish Henry to Dimension X. Mike Wheeler and Jane Ives have been the best of friends all their lives, but have recently started to drift apart. Mike's bitter and upset with Jane, Jane wishes Mike would just talk to her. Once, Jane and her best friend Sara Hopper had been part of the Party but ever since they became part of Jennifer Hayes' circle of friends they've since stopped hanging out with the boys.
    It's no longer the story you all know. Even if sometimes the events you know and love still transpire.

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    25 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Seems worth a read, but the excessive spacing between paragraphs might grow unbearable on mobile.

  5. Public Bookmark 90

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    “It’s just that—rabies are like my number one greatest fear, and I think we should probably get you to a doctor, like, really soon because once the symptoms set in, it’s too late, you’re already, like, dead.”

    Robin soon learns this is true of other things besides rabies. Apparently, bat bites and lake water make for a very dangerous combination.

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    25 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    To consider reading. Seems the plot is less stranger things shenanigans and more robin and Steve friendship.