4 Bookmarks by ricja
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A few months after Hawkins’s ‘earthquake’, an experiment goes wrong, leaving Joyce and her children stuck in a shelter for months… in their time. When they are able to get out, they realized what happened time traveled them into the year 2026. Joyce tries desperately to get her life together while grieving Hopper, and the first step is working for a winery owned by a kind hearted, wealthy, business savvy woman named Karen Wheeler.
Karen is devoted to her job, a little too devoted which causes issues with her relationships. Once she meets Joyce, a mysterious woman who acts as if she’s from another world, her focus changes. Her entire world changes because she’s never cared for any woman like that before.
This is a story about two women from different times who are different in so many ways, but find love in each other after all the awful things they’ve been through.
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23 May 2026
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Set in the time skip between season four and season five. Karen admits to Joyce that she’s never been kissed by anyone who loves her. Joyce tells Karen that she loves her “as a friend” and jokingly suggests kissing her.
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- Part 1 of joyce and karen ㅤ♡
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23 Mar 2026
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Joyce is living the best life she can in an apocalypse. Her relationship with Karen is the best thing to come out of the scary times they’re living in. Everything is great between them until Hopper shows up from Russia.
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Hopper never sent her the note and doll. He finally shows up in ‘87, confusing her and having her question her feelings about her relationship with Karen.
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23 Mar 2026
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Set in the 18 month time period between the finale and the epilogue. Ted says something cruel about Karen’s scars, which makes her self conscious. Joyce comforts her and kisses her scars.
(Karen’s been secretly in love with Joyce for years now and Joyce is still telling herself that the soft spot she has for Karen is “platonic”)
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- Part 3 of joyce and karen ㅤ♡