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the tug that's between us, that long string by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 2026
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Despite all of the insanity around him, Steve can feel only one thing.
The sensation of something - someone - behind him, on the ground, where they’re huddled together.
There’s something under the truck, he thinks. Oh god, there’s something here. I was right, and I didn’t check.
Something followed us out.—
Life after Vecna's death is everything that Steve expected it would be: new job, new house, new beginnings.
He’s fine, honestly.
Everything is fine - other than the fact that his new home in Forest Hills feels under constant watch from something in the shadows, he keeps finding animal corpses drained of blood around town, he can’t hold a relationship down to save himself, Dustin keeps leaving him increasingly concerning cryptic phone messages… and there’s some sort of sinister entity occupying the woods near the Creel House.
So, fine. Totally.Series
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15 May 2026
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The Harringtons were gone. Their son disappeared during the fall of '84, and after that, they packed up everything and left. Then the rumors started.
Eddie just wanted to play DND in an actual haunted house. He didn't think it would ACTUALLY be haunted.Or: Steve ate shit in the tunnels and now he's stuck in his house with the girl who died in his swimming pool. Also this little rat man keeps visiting.
Set somewhere after season 2 and before season 3March 1st, 2025: All old chapters (chapters 1-11) editing complete
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- Part 2 of Moose’s Other Stranger Things Fics
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16 Apr 2026
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"I have Ms. Kelly today," Max says, almost bitterly. "You'll be okay at lunch without me?" she says it sarcastically, like a joke, but there's an undercurrent of something else in her voice; for a moment, she almost sounds scared.
Will releases her hand, even as they walk out of the gym doors together. "Works out for me," he tells her, "I have that project for art I have to finish up anyways." He pauses, hesitates. "Will you be okay without me?"
Max takes a breath, and then gives him a shaky smile, one that doesn't quite reach her eyes. "I'll have your tape," she says, wiggling the wires of her headphones. "See you after school."
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or: a shared tragedy brings max and will together for their first year of high school in hawkins. they stay together, even as their demons rise again. a s4 rewrite, in which joyce is the one who dies at the end of s3 and thus the byers + el never move.
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- Part 1 of breaking out
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22 Feb 2026
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Immediately upon recognising Will, Mike drops to one knee with a tremendous force and bows his head down, low. After a few seconds he lifts his head slowly, eyes looking directly into Will’s.
“William,” he says. “The Wise.”
Will’s eyes dart from Mike to Nancy and back to Mike again, his bleary-eyed tiredness completely gone.
“Wha…,” is all he can manage to muster up in response.
Nancy nods sagely.
“Sorry to do this to you, Will, but I needed to leave for work, like, thirty minutes ago, so please,” she clasps her hands together, her tone pleading, “deal with this?”Due to a 'clerical' error, Mike's DnD alter shows up at Will's doorstep, while the real Mike is nowhere to be found...
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20 Feb 2026
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Since moving in with Steve after the latest horrors befell Hawkins, Robin has developed a problem. A Steve's face being too pretty shaped problem.
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19 Feb 2026