cloudyskiiies



Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.

    OR:

    Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    141,785
    Chapters:
    35/35
    Collections:
    7
    Comments:
    3,468
    Kudos:
    10,170
    Bookmarks:
    3,000
    Hits:
    262,087

    07 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    SO SO GOOD

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    When Buck, a Paralympic sprinter, agrees to go on Dancing With the Stars, he wonders if he's just made the worst decision of his life. But his love life is dead, his social life even more dead, and he doesn't know what to do with his life in the aftermath of the Paralympics, so why not jump headfirst into this opportunity?

    Eddie has been a professional dancer on the show for years, but after a recent divorce and a disappointing showmance, he's fallen out of love with his job, with dancing, with himself. He has no hope for the next season, until he meets one Buck Buckley.

    The pair feel an instant connection, but will it be enough to see them through the trials and tribulations of the next eleven weeks?

    ***

    A Buddie Dancing With the Stars AU

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    226,140
    Chapters:
    13/13
    Comments:
    599
    Kudos:
    934
    Bookmarks:
    346
    Hits:
    29,946

    17 Nov 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    SO GOOD

  3. Public Bookmark 69

    Tags
    Summary

    It's cold, where they buried them. It's something Hen's always silently complained about. Whether it's night or day, summer or fall; when Hen visits Green Hill Cemetery, she pulls a jacket tightly around herself, and she still always feels—cold.

    On the hottest day of the summer, Hen stands at the space between Eddie and Buck's graves, and she is freezing. The jacket does nothing to help, but if she's being honest with herself, she didn't expect it to.

    It didn't help when it was only Buck's grave that she was visiting, and it doesn't help now that she has to buy two bouquets and clean two headstones and grieve two brothers.

     

     

    (Or, eventually, everyone has to move on.)

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,681
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    111
    Kudos:
    993
    Bookmarks:
    69
    Hits:
    10,086

    22 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    very painful 10/10, already read

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Sequel to "With a Friend in the Dark.”

    It's been weeks since Buck's cancer diagnosis, and in most ways, things are looking up. The idea of resuming chemo still frightens him, but not nearly as much as it did last time. This time, he has people on his side. But Buck is about to learn that treatment is just the first challenge. Money troubles, identity crises, learning what real love means for the first time at twenty-seven... who knew cancer would be so complicated?

    Eddie, meanwhile, is still wrestling with his guilt and anger over how he handled things the first time. Being there for Buck? That's a given. Figuring out what it means to be Buck's friend through his cancer treatments, in the wake of all that's happened between them? That seems a lot trickier. Even more so when Eddie starts to realize that anger and guilt might not be the only feelings he's having.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    44,297
    Chapters:
    11/?
    Comments:
    643
    Kudos:
    3,148
    Bookmarks:
    879
    Hits:
    97,500

    15 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    waiting to update, read up to ch 11

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    He knows he could have called Maddie and she would have been there, though the memory of her disappointment last time stopped him. As for everyone else—even if he weren’t prohibited from talking to them by his lawyer, Buck doubts anyone would have come. The last time they talked was when they ran into each other in the grocery store a week back, and, since Buck is not eager for a repeat of that interaction, he doesn’t even consider calling anyone in to hold his hand for what is, he tells himself, probably just another little blip on his road back to the 118.

    He is able to convince himself of this up until the moment Dr. Gutierrez walks into his room and says, “Well, Evan, you just can’t seem to do anything the easy way, can you?”

    Because, as it turns out, there is a circumstance under which a tiny clot that doesn’t cause you to vomit blood in front of all of your friends and family is worse than three big ones that do: that circumstance is called ‘being on blood thinners.’
    ***
    In the midst of the lawsuit, Buck is diagnosed with cancer. Dropping the lawsuit is easy. Finding forgiveness, less so.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    50,636
    Chapters:
    12/12
    Comments:
    825
    Kudos:
    8,899
    Bookmarks:
    2,237
    Hits:
    200,306

    14 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    SO GOOD I SOBBED