wondering_why
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Dreamlike it was, and yet no dream, for there was no waking by wondering_why
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Nov 2025
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"Got any fucked up diseases from those bat bites? Got any metal scars?
And Eddie responded.
And each week Eddie waited for the letters back to stop.
And they never did.
Eddie looks up into the endless night. Can you believe I told D that this was going to be MY year.In the last one he’d sent, Eddie had expressed the genuine despair he felt when he thought of his plans for the future and who he had been in the really-not-so-long-ago past. He just needed someone to talk to. Eddie rubs his eyes. The letters are getting too personal. They are edging into dangerous territory in more ways than one."
In the aftermath of season 4, Eddie Munson has survived but fled Hawkins. Now, on the road and alone, he begins a penpal relationship with Steve. A vignette of Eddie, thinking in the dark wilderness.
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"It would be fine! They were all just friends! Robin could do this. She flung open the door.
Nancy Wheeler, in a pink dress and with permed hair piled high, smiled at her. 'Hi birthday girl!'
Maybe Robin could in fact not do this."It's Robin Buckley's birthday, and Steve has decided to throw her a party. Why not? After all, they should be celebrating every chance they get after surviving Vecna's attack on Hawkins. The evening should be a fun, easy get together between friends bonded by near death experiences - and yet, Robin is nervous. She's fallen head over heels in love with Nancy Wheeler, and she has no idea if she feels the same...
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Tomorrow will be just like today, only different by wondering_why
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Mar 2023
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"Tess found a certain amount of solace, in a fucked up, living through the fall of humanity sort of way, to wake up stiff and bruised and sad but at least there was a sleep bleary cowboy in the kitchen holding out a mug of warm coffee to her."
For Joel and Tess, it wasn't a fairytale. But maybe it was something a little like love. This fanfic is a vignette-like prequel that explores the beginning of whatever it was that connected the two of them.
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A Taste of Sweetness by wondering_why for paintedcow
Fandoms: Suicide Squad (Movies 2016 2021), The Suicide Squad (2021)
24 Dec 2022
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On the road and towards a heist, Abner and Digger pull off to wait out a snowstorm at a road side diner - the perfect place of pancakes in the middle of the night and conversation in the quiet booths.
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"There was a quiet, lonely busyness to it, people up and tired and preparing for the day ahead. Separate trains on tracks going similar directions, lives parallel like the shops lining the street. And Cleo, in the middle of it, a mad spinning top."
Moments of grief and healing in the aftermath of the death of Ratcatcher 1. This story follows Cleo Cazo through a morning in Porto, Portugal as she encounters memories, loss and hope now traversing the streets alone - save for the rats.
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after-school special by audries
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Mar 2023
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Two days from now she will tell him, out of nowhere: I don’t even believe in heaven. And I don’t believe in God either. Then she will grin unevenly with her crooked teeth and amend it. I guess I believe in Dairy Queen, though. He will say, Amen.
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post-ep 8. Joel takes Ellie the only place he can think to take her after a day that bad.
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07 Mar 2023
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It’s not until he’s falling asleep on the couch to the sound of a reindeer cartoon on his TV, with Donna–asleep–draped across him, his arm wrapped around her shoulders, her head on his chest, that he remembers–it’s been a year since he injured his hand, a year since Stanley, since the diagnosis.
It’s been a year since one of the darkest days of his life, and he hasn’t thought about it once since Donna walked into his office and announced that she was coming home with him.
Three Christmases with Josh and Donna, and a Holy Night AU.
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29 Dec 2022