maplemood
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“What do you mean, you’re gonna tell me you don’t know what I mean?”
“I have my guesses,” she said.
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“Don’t question yourself. You’ve got good instincts. And—”
“What?” She sounded sharper than she’d meant, if not as sharp as she felt—sharp to the point of brittleness, frozen. A cracked and jagged plate of ice he was treading on.
Soft-footed, like that made any difference. Unless it made all the difference: his smile had dropped, but his eyes met hers. “And you know about it,” he told her. “You always have.”
[Nancy and Steve, after everything. But everything, of course, is never over.]
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crooked love (in a straight line down) by maplemood, TolkienGirl
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
27 Apr 2026
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“It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to rest in
ever. I turn against you,
I break from you, I turn to you.
We hurt, and are hurt,
and have each other for healing.
It is healing. It is never whole.”― Wendell Berry, The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
Broken promises, distant memories... Taylor Jewel and Jeremiah Fisher should have nothing in common but mutual resentment. Why do they share a growing understanding instead?
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She said the front office said Sarah had already thrown up twice.
“Yeesh.” Teacake winced, clicked his tongue. “Poor kid. Noted, okay. I’ll put down a towel.”
“You’re a lifesaver, thank you,” said Naomi. Then she said, “I hate to say this, but Sarah has range. You should probably put down a tarp.”
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If she’d been asked, she’d be driving home from Hawkins General right now, crammed into the backseat with everyone who shared her house but hardly seemed to remember Holly existed.
Would it be nice? Probably not really. But it would be something.
Maybe like something else during those first few weeks of quarantine, before Robin had gotten the Squawk back on the air, and she and Nancy and Jonathan and Nancy’s old boyfriend, Steve, had started working at the station. For a while Holly had assumed Steve and Robin were boyfriend-and-girlfriend now, like Jonathan and Nancy were boyfriend-and-girlfriend, everybody fitting into pairs as they grew older, but she wasn’t sure about perfectly-fitted pairs anymore, and she was pretty sure Steve and Robin weren’t together like that. For one thing, Steve kept looking at Nancy…mostly when he seemed to think nobody else was looking.
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- Part 2 of last christmas
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end of a decade (start of an age): 1987-1997 by maplemood, TolkienGirl
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Apr 2026
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Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, and a story that isn't even close to over.
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Hawkins, Indiana. Christmas 1986.
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To the Fremen she is the False Wife, a minor deity beside her offspring and other relations. She is two-faced, a prowler of city streets and Pyon wastes, ever-veiled. Her true nature is hidden beyond human sight. Irulan is both the virginal bride and the duplicitous whore; she represents indulgence of the flesh and the pull towards water-fatness, laxness in the face of the old desert ways. She is foolish longing and loyalty bestowed too late. It is she, rather than her husband, stepson, or daughter, who has come to represent the ultimate Imperial invasion of Dune.
Another path, another possibility.
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girl!Peter by maplemood
Fandom Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Guardians of the Galaxy - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
25 May 2018
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Yeah, yeah, it says "Petra" on her birth certificate. That doesn't make it her name.
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It occurs to him, to Brian (layered under Smash, even when he’s most inclined to forget it), that there is more to Coach Taylor than firm resolution, drive, irritable good will. The man (and there is a man, Eric, layered under the rest of him, too) has his burdens.
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Bookmarked by maplemood
09 Jun 2026
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“How’s your arm?” he says.
“How’s your pill addiction?”
Langdon’s eyes narrow. “Really?”
“Oh, you walked right into that one, buddy.”
Maybe someone laced the coffee and that’s why she’s even more snippy than usual. Langdon is still her senior resident. Not that she can bring herself to care much.
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Trinity wants to move on, but she doesn't know how to.
Bookmarked by maplemood
10 Mar 2026
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Where are the shades of gray in a relationship that ran as hot and cold as theirs did?
(Nancy, a spectrum.)
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Bookmarked by maplemood
28 Jan 2026
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There are only so many excuses a person can make.
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27 Jan 2026
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and find a pleasure in all their simple joy by TolkienGirl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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Hawkins, under snowfall, looks almost entirely like itself. Blink, and you’ll miss it—the way things have changed, the life you used to have.
[Nancy pays a New Year's Eve visit to the WSQK station.]
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- Part 3 of Quarantine Christmas '86
Bookmarked by maplemood
27 Jan 2026