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Steve Harrington has turned out to be a lot like a stray cat―the particular genre of stray cat Lonnie insisted Frog was: The kind that’s not really a stray at all, but looks so cute and sweet and pitiful that you can’t help yourself.
Once Jonathan paid him a little attention, he wouldn’t go the hell away. It was impossible to just ignore him, since he seemed to like being ignored―it must’ve been the thrill of the chase. There was a solid six months where he was almost always on the phone or in Jonathan’s bedroom, flipping his fucking hair around and drawling translate this for me, Byers. What’s our friend Robert Smith saying?
Jonathan has tried throwing rocks at him, metaphorically speaking; he’s been mean and he’s been honest; he’s left the most pessimistic parts of himself in charge.
And somehow, despite it all, Steve is still here.
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- Part 4 of A Catalog of Non-Definitive Acts
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30 May 2026
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“If you could see one person one more time before the big bad Ruskies obliterate us,” Robin giggles, “who would it be?”
Steve has been feeling so wonderfully unabashedly honest for these last few minutes or months or however long they’ve been here, tied together in their Scoops uniforms and possibly dying from beating-induced brain hemorrhages or Russian poison that he says, without hesitating, “Jonathan Byers. And I’d give him a big ole kiss.”
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- Part 1 of A Catalog of Non-Definitive Acts
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28 May 2026
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As The World Falls Down (And It Took You With It) by wisteria_withering
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Apr 2026
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Casey Byers is helping to clean out their Uncle Jonathan's house for his move, at the insistence of their Dad and Aunt Jane. Uncle Jonathan's face of utter distress had been comical when 5 families had shown up on his porch step at 8 AM on a Tuesday. They had been assigned to the attic with their 7-year-old cousin Julie of House Henderson as their personal assistant, which was exactly how they would like to spend the Tuesday of Christmas Break. Thankfully, life doesn't prove so boring when they open up a cassette box containing mix tapes made for a mysterious "Harrington" and then a shoe box containing the words "Harrington + Byers" etched onto the surface in blue sharpie.
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Jonathan Byers has spent the last 30 years recovering from Vecna, and he's doing a good job of it. He finished college, scored a good job as a journalistic photographer, and his little group of kids and friends from Hawkins, Indiana are never too far away. It's all good, except he has spent the last 29 years never quite confronting and never quite letting go of a boy who had a snarky smile and a mean streak and too good of a heart, a boy stuck in 1988.
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12 May 2026