KeepingTheStarsApart
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Max surprises herself, and probably everybody else in the vicinity, when the thing that makes her cry for the second time since waking up literally five minutes ago, is Mike fucking Wheeler.
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There's Nothing In This World I Wouldn't Do by KeepingTheStarsApart
Fandoms: On My Block (TV)
06 Oct 2021
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It’s pretty much been the worst 25 and a half days of his life, but he’s too exhausted to even care about that. All that matters is that Oscar doesn’t die on him.
In which Oscar pulls a Ruby and Cesar is still a mess, but they’ll figure it out.
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If anyone would bother to ask Billy how he’s currently doing at life, he would say: Moving from one low point to the next with as much dignity as possible, thanks.
Today’s new low happens like this: After school, Billy has an hour to kill before it’s time to pick up his little sister (who has not spoken a single word to him since last night) from detention. That alone is sad enough, but Billy doesn’t spend said hour smoking behind the gym or buying booze in that one shop that doesn’t check ID or getting off with his boyfriend. No, instead he goes grocery shopping with his boyfriend, because they’re out of Froot Loops.
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In which Max is still taking no one’s shit; Billy is doing much better but also much worse, depending on who you ask; and Steve is gonna start charging for all this free counseling he's doing any day now, thanks very much.
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- Part 2 of The Landslide Series
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Oh, how I've known the battle scars by KeepingTheStarsApart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2019
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July 5th, 1985
When the sun first rises over the smoldering remains of Starcourt Mall, they're still in the hospital.
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Harrington's face does exactly what it does every time they cross paths in the hallways, in the locker rooms, on the basketball court, in the showers... Billy has come to find it quite entertaining: Harrington's eyes widen for a split-second with residual fear, before his eyebrows furrow determinedly (and hilariously), he squares his shoulders and meets Billy's eyes head-on, like a challenge.
It's endlessly laughable.Lucky for him, Billy doesn't feel like picking another fight just now. If Max comes out and finds precious Steve Harrington at his feet, beaten to a pulp (again), she'll lose her shit.
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In which Max is tired of Billy, Billy is tired of being ignored, and Steve might be a damn good babysitter, but he sure as hell didn't ask to be Billy Hargrove's family therapist.
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- Part 1 of The Landslide Series
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A Billy Hargrove redemption story, starting after Season 2 and focusing on his relationships with Max and Steve.
Featuring: found families, lots of fighting and cursing, Max Mayfield being an absolute badass, Billy Hargrove trying to be a better person, Steve Harrington being Emotionally Intelligent, and as much fluff as I can possibly get away.- Words:
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She's got lions in her heart (A fire in her soul) by KeepingTheStarsApart
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Jan 2018
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Ginny Weasley is an amazing and very much under-appreciated Harry Potter character that I love a lot. These are just random oneshots that feature her (and other great HP characters) in various scenarios both during and post Hogwarts, all of which will be mostly canon-compliant.
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“You okay?” Mike asks him.
Will turns to look at Mike. The light of the TV is projected on the side of his face, bathing his skin in greens and oranges. Sometimes Will feels like the secret to digging himself out of the wreckage of his childhood is hidden in Mike. There are days when the only thing that can dull the sharp pressure of grief in his ribs is Mike’s presence at his side; steady, thrumming. Will knows the day when he will have to detach himself is coming fast, but here in this basement, where nothing has changed in over a decade, time seems to have come to a screeching halt. It’s just the two of them, sat in the last place they were innocent together.
“Yeah,” Will whispers, “I’m okay.”
or; The Party's senior year of high school, in ebbs and flows.
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14 Nov 2025
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notes on laundry detergent by peculiarblue
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
06 Feb 2024
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It’s like a math problem, really, if she thinks about it. a + b = c, and all she has to do is fill in the variables. She’ll get an answer. Easy. She’s good at math. Its a problem to solve. One answer. Reasonable.
a (Percy washed her favorite sweatshirt) + b (it smelled like him when she put it on) = c (she’s in love with him)
(or, one night before she and percy head to camp for winter break, annabeth realizes there's three words she wants to say to him for the first time. and she's totally normal about it, of course.)
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06 Feb 2024
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do you have to let it linger by peculiarblue
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
02 Jan 2024
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It’s the end of the summer now, and her schedule’s free, so she can think about the fact that her new friend Percy Jackson has been to the Underworld and back, yet still doesn’t know how to get his armor to sit quite right.
(annabeth fixes percy's armor for him, among other things, over the course of five impossible years)
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04 Feb 2024
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‘I’m sorry’ will never be in Billy’s vocabulary. They are just two dirty words that liars and cowards use. But he knows what it means to be sorry.
Billy picks up a butterfly bandage, holds it between his fingers for Steve to see. Waits for Steve to drop his chin in a nod, and then presses it into place against Steve’s busted eyebrow. It’s the best Billy has to give.
This probably isn’t going to work out. This thing Billy’s been trying to have with Steve since he got to Hawkins. Steve’s got these soft edges where Billy’s all blunt and sharp.
Billy drags his fingertips down the side of Steve’s face, presses his thumb against the scar he didn’t leave, and lifts a brow. “How many fights do you lose, Harrington?”
Steve grins, a half-formed thing that is sharp and sad at the same time. “All of them.”
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10 Nov 2022
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you were warm when everything was cold by lesbianrobin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jun 2022
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There’s something about watching Steve and Eddie that makes his chest ache, just a little bit. Something that feels like it’s just out of reach, like if he could just jump an inch higher he could grasp it and know what it is, have a name for it, figure out what feels like it’s missing with Max. He never felt like something was missing with Max before. She was perfect. She is perfect! Like, sure, not actually perfect, because nobody’s actually perfect, but she’s perfect for him just like he hopes he’s perfect for her, and they’re perfect together.
Maybe Lucas is overcompensating.
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