8 Bookmarks by MegOttery
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give me your heart and I’ll give you my hand by nimblewordplay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2022
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Joyce and Hopper shield each other from the rest of the world; for just a moment or two. (a two part fic)
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08 Apr 2026
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The night after Joyce files for divorce, she shows up in Hopper’s headlights with a bottle of champagne and a head full of bad ideas. He’s got better ones — until the mushrooms kick in and grief threatens to ruin the night.
They drink, fool around, and spin records she thought she'd lost long ago. For one long, hot summer evening, they remember who they were before and dance around everything they could be, if they tried.
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05 Mar 2026
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"He knew how to do this once. He knew the ins and outs of the dance, knew what to say and how to act. But years of relentless pain had taken that away from him, scrubbed him down until he was hollow. Now he just feels wrong-footed, and alien, a human being who doesn’t quite think he deserves happiness."
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17 Feb 2026
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"Her body language speaks of someone on guard, and some of the satiation ebbs away, replaced with attentiveness, caution. She hadn’t shown any signs of hesitation during, hadn’t told him to stop, had encouraged him, in fact, to keep going. Harder. Deeper."
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23 Jan 2026
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Post season 4, Joyce and Hopper make it to a motel and finally finish what they started at the church.
I'm obsessed with Jopper having sex for the first time and how profound it is, basically.
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18 Jan 2026
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There’s something about Joyce, the way she smiles at him that makes him forget all the shit in his life for just a moment, the way she laughs at his jokes even when they’re awful that makes him want to keep making her laugh forever. Hopper can’t tear his eyes away from her when she’s in the same room as him, can’t bear to look at anything else even for a second, because that’s a second less he gets to look at her.
It’s soppy, and sort of pathetic, and it’s a miracle that she hasn’t caught on yet, with the amount of time they’ve been spending together lately. He tries so hard not to be obvious, but he really is obvious, always has been when he’s got a thing for a woman. He probably should have learned the art of subtlety by now, but hey, they call it an art for a reason: it takes a long fucking time to master, and it really isn’t for everyone. Especially not for Jim Hopper when he opens the door to Joyce Byers, flushed from the cold, beaming up at him from beneath her scarf and hat.
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18 Jan 2026
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What if Hopper had made it out of Starcourt and he and Joyce got to go on their first date to Enzo's Friday night?
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27 Dec 2025
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at the end of it all (I just hope that your scars heal) by manushroom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2025
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"What did he do to you?" Hopper repeats, struggling to keep his anger at bay. He needs to know; why can't she see that?
"Will you stop cutting me off? This is not what I'm trying to achieve here. This isn't about me, or Lonnie, or any of the shitty things that have happened to me. It's about you, okay? About what they did to you and how I can help you feel comfortable with how you look now. Because I know you don't, and it's killing me."
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A few weeks after they reunite, Joyce desperately tries to get Hopper to open up about his time in Russia. Over some late-night conversations, each of them grapples with their own demons.
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- Part 6 of Jopper one-shots
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22 Dec 2025