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Doom comes to Hawkins, Indiana. Population est. 30,000.
It’s cold, that’s all, and the breeze is kicking up. That’s why Steve feels the chill go up his spine like someone dropped an ice-cube down his back.
“Why wouldn’t I be real, El?”
“The Aboleth got you.”
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15 Jan 2026
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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
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Warm. also really good prose. more like the shape of a fic than a fully rendered fic. it’s all that’s needed.
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Things were weird in Hawkins. The fields were rotting, there was something in the woods, and Steve Harrington's Beemer had a new problem every week.
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- Part 9 of masterlist of my stranger things works
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12 Dec 2025
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Sanji becomes Doflamingo's private chef and learns what it means to be part of his world.
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06 Dec 2025
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Obsolete Rituals of the Mind and Heart by Oonionchiver
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2025
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‘Don’t be sad,’ Eddie says, tone dropping into something sweet and kind. ‘You’ve done ‘em proud staying to wait. Not leaving town like all the other cowards.’
‘Do you think…?’ Steve’s voice cracks, his eyes are watery when he looks up at Eddie. ‘Do you think it’s the end of the world?’
Billy carefully pulls free the lace ties of Steve’s sneakers.
Steve doesn’t notice.
‘How can the world end,’ Eddie intones, gaze focused, ‘when you’re still in it?’
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- Part 23 of Gift Fics
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09 Oct 2025
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Steve Harrington can talk to ghosts. Sometimes. More accurately, ghosts can talk to Steve Harrington, and this fact has already saved his life once. He's really hoping they feel up to helping him a second time around, because it seems like the Upside Down isn't done with Hawkins yet.
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07 Oct 2025
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count to thirty. breathe twice. repeat. by WingedQuill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Dec 2025
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Billy Hargrove doesn't keep his promise to Max. He doesn't keep it in a pretty spectacular fashion, actually. Instead of staying away from her friends, he murders one of them.
Unfortunately for Billy, Hellfire meets right after basketball practice. And fortunately for Steve, Eddie knows CPR.
(Or: There is a clearly defined set of steps to keep someone's heart beating. There's no guide for the aftermath. Steve, Eddie, and everyone they love write one together.)
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- Part 1 of count to thirty
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07 Oct 2025
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writing a book on how to stay conscious (when you drown) by WingedQuill for sourw0lfs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Oct 2023
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Vecna engineers the perfect retribution for an immortal traitor.
Two years later, Steve finds a coffin at the bottom of Lover's Lake. This is the aftermath.
(Or: Eddie learns the downsides of immortality the hard way)
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07 Oct 2025
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That's when Tommy realized he was, like, the worst fucking friend ever. Because Steve was an omega and they had learned in health class that omegas craved physical contact. And Steve, a secret male omega with shitty absentee parents, wasn’t getting any love at home and he couldn't exactly reach out and ask his buddies for some cuddles. No one but Tommy knew about him and Tommy sure as shit hadn't been offering to hold his hand.
So now here Steve was, getting a goddamn contact high because he was squished in between Davey Bower, who smelled like ball sweat and Cheetos, and Andrew Floyd, who looked like a fucking toe. But Steve was too blissed out on, like, happy omega hormones to care about that, and Tommy was the shittiest best friend in Hawkins.
Goddammit. Tommy was going to have to start giving Steve hugs. He was going to have to give him so many goddamn fucking hugs.
When Steve presents as a rare male omega he is forced to hide his status and question his worldview; he learns to be less shallow, more caring, and more open-minded. Tommy Hagan stays loyal to his best friend and is dragged kicking and screaming into being a better person too.
Just a little bit, though. Like, maybe 10% better.
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04 Oct 2025
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The first time Bruce hears the city speak, he thinks he's losing his mind.
By the time Gotham's killed Dick's parents and forced a nine year old into the Robin suit, he only wishes that were true.
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03 Sep 2025
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There is a fruit, hidden away in Mariejois, that is said to be able to grant any wish, as long as it's something the user really wants.
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Gol D. Roger blinks awake, roughly 20 years after his execution, along with other dead people all over the world. He only knows one thing: this is his second chance, given to him because he missed out on precious time with his loved ones. And he's going to use that chance.
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19 Aug 2025
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The Grand Line is abuzz with rumors of a powerful new swordsman. The Marine Hunter, Dracule Mihawk, they call him, though nobody knows anything else about the man. Even the Emperors have become curious to see if this faceless swordsman is as strong as the World Government says.
How fortunate that Shanks is about to meet him.
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31 Jul 2025
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Doflamingo makes an acquisition.
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24 Jul 2025
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Law's plan to kill his Sire is as follows:
1) Break into his house
2)Stake DoflamingoArgue with Cora
3) Kidnap Doflamingo's latest Thrall, mostly for shits and giggles
4) Hire a pair of hunters Law found on a Craigstlist ad
5) ????
6) ProfitSeries
- Part 1 of savage garden 'verse
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24 Jul 2025
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Human children raised in Faerie will eventually become fae. Fae children raised in the human world will likely become outcasts.
Sanji may be a human raised in his own world, but he's spent every day of the last nine years with one of the fair folk, soaking up the magic Zeff left behind in everything he touched. He's not sure what he became at Baratie.
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- Part 2 of salt and honey
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18 Jul 2025
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What were you like as a kid?” Eames asks him.
“Quiet,” Arthur says. “I lived in my head a lot. You?”
“I did too,” Eames replies. “Only I was never quiet about it.”A story about growing up, sort of.
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- Part 1 of Incurable Weirdness
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18 Jun 2025