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    He’s upright, at least. Leaned up against something, head tipped back and sort of sitting, with his hands bound, and he almost wants to laugh, on account of how much it reminds him of that first November, handcuffed in the bowels of Hawkins National Lab and that white haired son of a bitch framed in the doorway. Jim squeezes his eyes shut, shakes his head a bit, and opens them again, looking straight ahead then, and would you look at that, he thinks. This is the worst day.

    Across from him, Steve Harrington sits flanked by two Soviet soldiers, beefy mother fuckers too, and he looks exactly as terrible as when they went beneath Starcourt and Jim only had time to think, Kid, what the fuck, I’m putting your ass in a bubble after this, so not that much time has passed, he thinks, he hopes. He’s handcuffed too, hands in his lap, and he smirks at Jim, all teenaged boy bravado that he can see through in a heartbeat.

    “Hey, Chief,” says Harrington.

    Hopper, Steve, and the art of survival.

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    17 Dec 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 27

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    Joyce Byers and the moments that matter, through the years.

    (Loosely inspired by five songs from the album of the same name.)

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    02 Dec 2023

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    He instructs her on how to take the car out of park, get it in first, then second as they build up speed, and takes her down the main drag in town. She goes a solid fifteen under the speed limit but he doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t say a lot, as they go, just makes a correction here or there, a word or hum of encouragement too. He tells her to relax, once, and she breathes in deep and pretends to be someone else for a minute. It’s easy; she’s wearing a boy’s polo and Byers clocks that too, she thinks, the way his eyes flickered to the collar of it when he saw her on her stoop. She knows he knows. But he doesn’t mention it, so neither does she.

    In the aftermath of Starcourt, Robin goes on.

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    26 Sep 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    The figure steps out of the shadows, and by the way everyone is reacting, the hush that settles onto the room, I expect this to finally be it. The monster for me to defeat.
    But as the light from the windows shines down on him, illuminating his dark hair and tidy clothes, I decide I must be wrong.
    Because there’s no way this man is a monster.

     

    Simon Snow was born to be a hero.
    At least, that's what he thinks, and what he's been trying to convince his mentor of for the past thirteen years.
    When he's sent to kill the beast in the Wavering Woods, he expects it to be his chance to finally prove his worth.
    What he doesn't expect, is to get magickally sealed inside a castle with a bunch of talking birds, a broody stranger, and a curse that desperately needs solving.

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    14 Jul 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 56

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    Aziraphale is being disquietingly surreptitious. Crowley, being a demon, defaults to seething jealousy. Not surprisingly, they’ve both got hold of the wrong end of the stick.

     
    He wakes up for the third time when the sun is well past the zenith and rinses out a mouth that tastes like the bottom of a birdcage. Somehow, not sobering up and letting what he’d drunk between one club and another (and another) work its villainy on him seemed like the punishment he deserved for ever being enough of an idiot to think that an angel would be content with him. His pit-blasted eyes, his volatile heart, his half-serpent nature.

    On the other hand, Aziraphale isn’t being honest with him.

    They’re going to have this out.

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    13 Jul 2023