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wild and fluorescent (come home to my heart) by cealesti
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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"Plant your feet!" Billy Hargrove roars and Steve feels the crunch of his fist on his cheekbone like lightning down his entire skull.
He crumbles to the floor, a haze of pain and flashing lights and punches that won't stop raining down on him.
Max, Dustin, Lucas, and Mike — they're running away.
Billy stands before him, eyes glowing blue.
This isn't how it happens, Steve thinks firmly, blood running down his throat, and tightens his grip on the syringe that materializes in his hand.
Tell me if you've heard this one before: a ragtag group of misfits is spat out on another world in a desperate bid to save their own and rescue a bunch of kids while they're at it. They run into the big bad known for slipping into your head, like a whisper, like a nightmare, and preying into your worst memories.
What happens next will shock and upset you.
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It's just — every time he walks in, a skip to his step like he's still surprised he's allowed to be here — all she can see is his new key-chain jiggling against his keys, a gift he'd shown to anyone willing to look; Tanner made it himself, Abby let him give it to me for my sobriety anniversary. No, he doesn't know that's why, he's five. Isn't it great?
And it is, she'd thought — said — absently. He fought so hard to keep his relationship to his children, to his now ex-wife, even as he went through the motions of rehab and recovery and constant HR meetings and random piss tests everyone conspicuously pretended weren't happening. He'd fought so hard, of course it's great.
Or it would be, Mel thinks, ducking away with lukewarm coffee in hand, if she didn't know the image of that key-chain like the palm of her hand.
Or, rather, like the soulmark on the back of her knee.
[or: soulmateism made literal]
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touch my body tender by the_passionate_sun for Blacecam
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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In which Nancy thinks: what if he’s written ‘mine’ on her upper thigh— only in her mind?
For Blacecam for Stancy Secret Santa 2025!
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14 Mar 2026
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After all, the only option, when the love of your life has turned you down once, twice, and in absentia, is to let her go.
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10 Mar 2026
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"Jenn’s mom was telling me the other day about her braces and how expensive they were.”
“Well, maybe the girls will get your perfect teeth.”
“I don’t have perfect teeth.”
“You do.” He did. Straight, even, white enough to see in the dark. He does have a great smile, Barb had conceded, stood by her locker messing with the dial.
He coughed. “That’s- alright.”
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Nancy lives in Boston, Steve lives in Indiana, Mike's gone looking. They're spending a lot time on the phone.
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08 Mar 2026
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Nancy is a very serious investigative journalist. Steve is a laid back sports writer. She's pretty sure he's her nemesis, and he's harboring an unreciprocated crush. When they're assigned to work together on a project, there's a little more underneath the surface than Nancy expects to find.
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08 Mar 2026
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The year is 1993. Nancy finds herself back in the hometown she swore never to return to after layoffs at her paper in Boston. Steve never left.
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07 Mar 2026