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birds of a feather (we should stick together) by justcuzz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Apr 2026
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In January, she finds Jonathan alone on the couch, body held too-tight and head drooped low between his knees. She drops her bag on the coffee table, a loud and clear announcement, and he doesn’t react. Concern mounts. Hand on his shoulder, she leans close and asks him what happened.
He lifts his head and looks at her, bleary, red-rimmed eyes, the attempt at pulling himself together aborted before it ever truly gets going. And he shakes his head—no—and she squeezes his hand—please—and only then does he say it. In half desperation, half resignation, cracked all the way through.
“He hates me, Mom.”
In which Joyce has a conversation with Jonathan about Will, and a conversation with Will about Jonathan.
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There’s things about Will that haven’t changed since he first learned how to form words. Like this, this push-and-pull between blurting something out and then walking it back. Bursting at the seams with a story or a thought, a confession or a question, but never indulging himself outright. You have to coax it out of him, you have to play along and pretend you’re forcing his hand.
“Hey, don’t be like that,” he says, turning around to face him. Will turns away. Always making him work for it, this one. “I’m sorry. What were you saying?"
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Jonathan and Will talk about not-talking.
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Caught in a storm of various too big feelings with no direct access to his preferred targets, he accuses Jonathan of not caring anymore. Jonathan looks down at the glass he’s holding, water swishing and swirling inside, and says quietly, “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
“Like, you feel stuck in Hawkins because of me? If that’s the case, then you—”
“No, Will.” His eyes dart up. “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
In which Will and Jonathan find that some things never change.
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The second time, she rifles methodically through his stuff to extract her stuff, everything he snatched from her over the years. This includes certain objects he might have had a genuine interest in (her old comic books, her new Walkman) but consists much more overwhelmingly of things he took just because he was tall enough to dangle them over her head (her multicolored hair ties, her favorite pen).
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In the aftermath of the Battle of Starcourt, Max deals with moving houses, losing friends, and the Billy of it all.
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It’s disorienting in a way, like being startled awake in the middle of an ill-advised nap at the kitchen table. For days, the house has been its own contained ecosystem, pristine laboratory conditions. A protective bubble encasing the three of them, preserving the sanctuary built up inside. Figures that of all the people to lift that curtain, Nancy Wheeler would be the first.
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Jonathan and Nancy become each other's soft place to land.
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"I want to find Bigfoot," Nancy said.
"I thought you didn't believe in Bigfoot?" Robin asked.
"I'm trying to become more open-minded," Nancy said.
Robin raised her eyebrows.
"I'm bored," Nancy admitted.
"There it is," Robin drawled, a smile taking over her face. "So when do we leave?"
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12 Mar 2026
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The downside of working by numbers is that you sometimes find yourself working out things like Eddie was my friend for exactly 227 days, and then, later, if you’ve got a desk calendar and nobody knows to stop you working it out, the far worse Eddie died exactly 227 days ago.
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- Part 7 of out of the cave
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12 Mar 2026
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Perceptive isn’t a word Jonathan Byers would use to describe himself. Watchful could work, but only to a certain degree. A careless, languid watchful. Too relaxed to be considered sharp, but he notices enough not to lose the title altogether.
Will and Mike, from Jonathan’s perspective.
OR: Jonathan Byers tries to convince you he’s unobservant for 40k words
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- Part 1 of Omnispective
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07 Dec 2025
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jonathan supervised her as she ate, halfheartedly reminding her to chew slowly. all the while, his hand smoothed down the wrecked french braid she’d now had her hair in for 51 hours.
having a baby is hell.
or; jonathan, nancy, marriage, adulthood, pregnancy, adoption, wins, losses, and daughters
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25 Aug 2025
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Steve made his choice, hiding behind his too-big Letterman jacket and later that overpriced Members Only while his friends went out of their way to make Jonathan’s life hell; or what he thought, in the ninth grade, was hell.
Hell actually came two years later, when they dragged Will’s body out of the quarry. When Lonnie came home. When his mother sat him down like he was three years old again and said, smiling tightly, I’m going to have a baby.
Benjamin, the magnificent life-fixing-grief-resolving-replacement-baby, was born nine months later.
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13 Jun 2025