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steve’s the caged leopard he saw at the zoo, but he knows the second he leaves hawkins he’d crumble into salt and fly into the wind, because there’s no way he wouldn’t look back to wonder if nancy had noticed he was gone.
or: a study of nancy wheeler in the apocalypse, and other ways to live with the choices you’ve made
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23 Dec 2025
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just enough to tell the forest from the fire by crackers4jenn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Dec 2025
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He doesn’t say it so directly, but he doesn’t see much of Nancy anymore without Jonathan by her side.
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20 Dec 2025
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'The huge oak at the end of the street is gone when she finally turns onto the cul de sac where she grew up. She knew it would be. It came down in a storm about a month ago and it had been the major topic of discussion when her mother had called.
It had been reassuring, in a way. She could relax in the knowledge that the most exciting thing happening in Hawkins was the tree at the end of the street managing to fall in the exact right direction so that it didn’t take down any houses with it and how long it was taking to pick up the pieces. That was until her mother had somehow managed to segue from ‘they’re still cleaning up down at Millers' into ‘your father isn’t doing well and I think you should come home.’
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Five years later, Nancy comes back.
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17 Dec 2025
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The Shire was not saved for everyone. Vignettes chronicling life in Hawkins in the aftermath (June 1986 - January 1987).
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11 Dec 2025
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“Steve? Do you copy?”
In any other timeline—and OK, maybe this one, too—it would be embarrassing for Nancy to be radioing her ex at 10:30 PM. But she’s tried his phone three times—a phone that was, as one among the lucky half of Hawkins—still working earlier today.
No answer, now. Not on the phone, not on the radio.
It’s the day after the end of the world, and Nancy can’t sleep.
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05 Dec 2025
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The kids always seem to forget he dated Nancy Wheeler for an entire year of his life before they fell apart and it broke his heart so bad he hasn’t been able to love anyone since. There was no overlap, just Nancy one day and a growing collection of middle schoolers that emotionally imprinted on him the next.
And then Robin, of course.
Love is a lot of things, he’s realized in the past two years. Though he's still figuring out how to put it all together.
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12 Nov 2025
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The Rise of the Wolves; or a True Account of the Stark Age in a New Westeros by quenchycactusjuice
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
26 May 2019
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Almost three hundred years after the ascension of Brandon the Broken, two maesters at the Citadel attempt to retell the history of the Starks in a New Westeros. But of course, these things don't always tell the full story.
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06 Aug 2025
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The Bells of St. Clements by CaramelMachete
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
25 Mar 2018
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Dick has shot Roy’s bow a few times. Roy’s current bow is a beast with a 105 pound draw weight. Dick allows himself a small smile, remembering how delighted Roy had been when he got it, deliberately two pounds heavier than Oliver’s. (“Suck it, old man!” Roy had crowed.) Dick had been able to use it, but at that weight his accuracy had been terrible.
Still, those 105 pounds now seem lighter than a feather pillow, compared to the pull of his trigger.
“Officer Grayson, please wait here. Your union rep will be here soon, and she has requested that we don’t start without her.”
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Police Officer Grayson kills the Joker while on duty.
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22 Jun 2025
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Fire on the Mountain by Cirth
Fandoms: DCU, Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
29 Mar 2020
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Dick doesn't want anyone to know about the debacle with Tarantula. It's too bad that's not how his life is deciding to go.
Or: Jason and Dick end up on the same case. It spirals from there.
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- Part 4 of Canary-Yellow Cape
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04 Jun 2025
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Come In From The Cold by WinterSky101
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
12 Feb 2022
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The first winter after Dick leaves Batman and Gotham behind, the heat breaks in his apartment.
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31 May 2025
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This story is about the aftermath of Nightwing #93, where Dick Grayson is assaulted by Tarantula during the Blockbuster arc.
When running doesn't work and working doesn't work, home is the place you go where they have to take you in. Dick's home has never been Gotham; it's always been the people.
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30 May 2025
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Second Generation by lowflyingfruit
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
14 Jun 2017
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Nine months after the 'Blockbuster Incident', a call from Lockhaven Penitentiary regarding Catalina Flores brings all Dick Grayson's plans for his future in Bludhaven crashing down. Thrust suddenly into parenthood and hiding what happened to make him a parent in the first place, Dick must decide, adjust, and accept - and no matter what, the family has to pull together to help him.
Unfortunately, the Red Hood, a newcomer to the Gotham crime scene with a grudge, has his own ideas about Bat-family togetherness. Giving them time and space to work things out peacefully isn't one of them.
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19 May 2025
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boston > boston/camb/brook > housing > apts by owner
$2-300 Roxbury small room in 3-br 1-bath house, spouse preferred
(Roxbury)Pair of siblings looking for housemate. Due to extenuating circumstances I will share with interested parties, I would prefer a roommate who is willing to get married for legitimate personal reasons that do not include sex or anything sketchy. If not interested in marriage, room still available for $300/month plus utilities. Pets okay, no smokers, NO DRUG USE.
Please don't just email me to tell me this is fucked up, I know it is, you really don't have to tell me.
If you are interested in the marriage part, a female spouse is preferred, but male would be okay too. I promise I will explain this if you really want details, but I'm not putting it online.
Serious inquiries only.
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- Part 1 of In Rocking Chairs of Gold
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24 Apr 2025
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The Other Side of Freedom (That Little Death) by RandomReader13 for OliOcelot
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
02 Feb 2023
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The BAU gets called in to apprehend Jonathan Crane, a psychopathic mass murderer from Gotham. Between the fear toxin and entering the Red Hood's home city, the team is more than a little concerned. But help might be coming from an unexpected quarter.
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“Batman, BAU. BAU, Batman.” Gordon squinted at Batman. “They’ve agreed to work with you and your team as consultants. Try to avoid incriminating yourselves.”
Batman grunted.CM/DC Week Day 1: "Wheels Up In 30"
CM/DC Week Day 2: Gasses and Toxins
CM/DC Week Day 3: BAU vs DC VillainsSeries
- Part 2 of The BAU Goes Batty
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31 Dec 2024
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After his ex-wife's death, McCoy is forced to leave the Enterprise to look after his teenage daughter. Under normal circumstances, this would be the end of…whatever it is he has with Kirk that's more than friendship, but less than what he wants. But the universe has other intentions.
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- Part 3 of The Forever 'verse
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09 Aug 2024
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It didn’t matter that Harry wasn’t enrolled as a student anymore. It was the end of the school year and he was at Hogwarts, so of course something had to go wrong. It was a truth of the universe: Harry Potter must mess up the end of each school year.
Ah, well, at least he had Ginny with him.
Or: Harry gets sucked into an alternate universe where he died and James and Lily lived. Shenanigans ensue.
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29 May 2024
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Harry goes back in time after years of careful study identifying the right moment: the moment when he can become Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and change the minds of the young Slytherins who became Voldemort's most loyal followers. Everything goes right. Except one little thing.
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28 May 2024
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Once More unto the Breach by AnEscapeFromReality
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
24 Nov 2016
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James Kirk was the rudest student Professor Heleine ever taught. He stomped out of the middle of the professor's lecture like he wasn't a mere cadet. Well, the professor was done putting up with him. If he couldn't sit through an expert lecture, then he should give the lecture about Tarsus. That would teach him some respect.
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- Part 1 of Teaching Tarsus
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20 May 2024
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It's the smoke that wakes him, seeping into his apartment not ten minutes after he finally knocks off.
He's off the couch in half a second, heart pounding with adrenaline, at the kitchen counter before he even realizes that the familiar smell in his nose is burning insulation.
There isn't any alarm going, no sprinklers on, no neighbors screaming or doors banging open, but Buck knows.
"9-1-1," says a vaguely familiar voice on the other end of the phone once he punches in the numbers. "What's your emergency?"
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17 May 2024
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“It’s just that—I died,” Buck continues, voice unsteady enough that Eddie wonders if this is the first time he’s acknowledged that out loud. “I died, and there’s so much more. There’s so much more I want to do, things I don’t even know I want to do yet, and I almost had the chance to have and live them taken away. I don’t want to die and regret missing out on everything else, Eddie.”
“So let’s make a list,” Eddie says. “Let’s do them.”
or, a bucket list that’s really about buck needing to make a change and an eddie who’s ready to do anything to see him fall in love with life again. it takes some crossing off for eddie to realise—the thing at the top of the list in his own heart? it’s been right here all along
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- Part 1 of bucket list fic
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17 May 2024