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Melanie King, Ghost Vlogger, Vlogs Ghosts by cryptidstan
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
22 Jan 2025
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In which Melanie King saves the world via vlogging.
What made Melanie famous was that she fully believed in the ghosts, and still reflexively tried to punch them.
Melanie was just waiting for the day that she made contact. Then she’d have proof it was all real. She threw her weight into every punch so that it’d be clear to the cameras if she ever landed a hit. She knew that ghosts were real, and until Sarah Baldwin, the only other thing she knew about them was that they were hard to punch. After Sarah Baldwin, she had bigger questions than their tangibility.
The tragedy of Melanie King was that she had made herself into somebody without a flight reaction, and she’d done it for the vine.
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"Aromantic" has a red squiggly line under it so you know it's wrong by cryptidstan
Fandoms: Polygon/McElroy Vlogs & Podcasts RPF
03 Jun 2019
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Doubt creeps in. Affirmation from loved ones pushes it back out.
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a long cold war (with your kids at the front) by voidedfalling (Pterodactyl)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Oct 2025
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Four more people come stumbling through the doors - a short-haired girl in camouflage with a kid wearing what looks like the top half of a ghillie suit on her back, the kid hollering at the top of his lungs for a doctor like he’s on the brink of death. The reporter grabs the short-haired girl, stopping her from running directly into a frozen onlooker because she’s busy looking over her shoulder at a boy in a leather jacket right behind her, his face pulled tight with pain as he carries a limp, unmoving body, their head tipped back, pale face smeared with blood in the unforgiving halogen lights -
“Help him!” the kid is screaming, “Somebody, please -”
Oh, Wayne thinks, oh, oh, oh.or; wayne munson finds himself at hawkins memorial on march 27th.
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11 Jan 2026
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‘You can ask me questions, Jason. I like your questions.’
Jason acknowledges the warm curl of something in his middle, fascinated, mapping still. He replays what Eddie said a few times, knows he can replicate that charm pretty well.
‘OK, then.’ He opens his pad. ‘My first question—’
‘Say my name.'
He looks up. ‘Sorry?’
Mild as milk, Eddie repeats his words. ‘Say my name.’
Jason clears his throat, back of his neck hot. ‘Eddie Munson.’
‘Just the first part.’
‘Eddie.’
‘Again.’
‘No.’
Eddie smirks. ‘You say it how he says it. Your co-star.’
Jason can’t fathom how he knows that. ‘We are not discussing him.’
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- Part 20 of Gift Fics
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06 Jan 2026
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The people of Hawkins were still alive, folding donated t-shirts into neat piles in the middle school gym, and passing out boxes of canned food to families in need, and smiling to each other as they said, hanging in there? Good, me too!
But then the ground fell and the fires started.
And then the Hawkins citizenry abandoned ship like they were time travelers aboard the goddamn Titanic.
And then the Hellfire Club and associated extended party members commandeered Loch Nora and turned it into a safe zone for the miniscule remaining population of Hawkins.
And then the dead people started showing back up.
Or: Eddie’s in love with Steve, but it doesn’t really matter because the world ended a few months ago and he’s been living on borrowed time ever since. Steve’s in love with Eddie, but he’s been through this before with a wild-eyed, steady-handed survivor who was better off without him, and doing it again might be enough to kill him this time.
Or or: The Party are vampire hunters in post-apocalyptic Hawkins, in a world where soulmates can't harm each other.
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- Part 1 of no retreat, baby, no surrender
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31 Dec 2025
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Tuesday, November 8th, 1983: Steve un-dies in hell.
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28 Dec 2025
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you know what would have been great? if ron got sorted into slytherin.
imagine– we have this kid on the train, the first friend harry meets, with his corned beef sandwiches and smudged nose. ron is eleven years old and he wants gryffindor, because he’s a weasley and that’s what always happens. but it doesn’t happen.
what a way to redeem slytherin house– or, god, at least complicate it. because ron is petty. he is mean and sharp and ambitious and jealous– and he is loyal to the ends of the earth. he is all those things, and he is and always has been good.
potter becomes before weasley in the alphabet, so harry says not slytherin please and gets told might as well be gryffindor. percy and fred and george are all sitting there in red and gold, ruffling the already-ruffled hair of the boy who lived, smug, and then ron sits down and the hat spits out slytherin!
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- Part 17 of boy with a scar
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19 Dec 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Warm. also really good prose. more like the shape of a fic than a fully rendered fic. it’s all that’s needed.