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The car pooling, she thought, represented this blurring of boundaries: not quite work but not quite personal life, either. If somebody asked her if she ever saw Langdon outside of the hospital, what should she say?
Mel and Langdon car pool to work.
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30 Jun 2026
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"I think it’s not about other people’s trust in you. It’s more about if you trust yourself.”
Frank trusts himself with a lot of things—saving a patient’s life, taking care of his kids, calling someone when he’s craving benzos. But with Mel? She’s so rare, so precious. How could he ever trust himself with that?
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27 Jun 2026
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Abbot leans in at Robby's ear, voice gentle as Frank's ever heard it but still with the ex-military no-nonsense tone that suggests he’s giving an order he expects to be obeyed. “Robby?”
“Yeah?”
“Would you kindly stop teaching for a second so we can focus on saving your life?”
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26 Jun 2026
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Abbot hikes his camo backpack on his shoulder and, his back to Dennis, says, “You were homeless?” His tone is neutral, as if he’s asking what Dennis had for lunch, or how many scrub credits he has left on his shift.
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- Part 1 of Shorebirds
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23 Jun 2026
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“—and I know that there’s Becca and Tanner and Millie to consider, but I was wondering if you maybe wanted to move in? Together? With me?”
Mel blinks. He certainly doesn’t look like he’s having a stroke.
“Frank, why would we move in together?”
“I thought it might be nice,” he shrugs here, acting nonchalant even though Mel can see the tension in his jaw. “To take that next step in our relationship.”
“Frank, what are you talking about? We’re not in a relationship?”
At this, Frank’s frown deepens before widening into a frustrated half smile. “Uh, yes we are? We’ve been dating for nine months?”
What.
Or, Frank thinks Mel doesn’t do physical touch.
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19 Jun 2026
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"Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”
Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.
Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?
Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.
And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.
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19 Sep 2025
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
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24 Jul 2025
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feet on the ground, reaching for the stars by ProfessorSpork
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Oct 2020
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“So,” Mom says one weekend afternoon as she and Robin stare down the Sunday Times crossword, huddled together on the porch swing, “you and Steve Harrington sure have been living in each other’s pockets lately.” She puts down the pen and gives Robin a carefully-probing smile disguised as a teasing one. “Anything you wanna tell me?”
Yeah; I’m gay, Robin thinks. Her throat constricts painfully. “I—you’d know if I were dating someone,” she says instead.
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08 Jun 2025
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Jamie can’t find it in him to react. Like, at all. He’s sort of frozen, sat on the bench, taking shallow fucking breaths that don’t even get any air into his lungs.
"What was he talking about, bruv?" Isaac says. "What’s going on with HR?"
Jamie feels like he might need to run to the toilets and be sick. This is so fucking humiliating.
The team will start making up their own stories about it if he doesn’t say something, though.
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things escalate. jamie is fine. mostly.
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- Part 4 of all through the night
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01 May 2025
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"Don’t you fucking dare call your fucking teammate stupid," Roy snaps.
"I didn’t," Jamie snaps back, almost mockingly. "Get your fucking ears checked, old man."
Sam has a feeling Roy's been waiting for a reason to strike— he’s been watching them, biding his time until Jamie slips up the slightest bit, so that he can come in and reprimand him, just for having the nerve to try and change.
"He didn’t," Sam agrees. He hesitates for a second, then, in a sudden burst of courage, tacks on: "Grandad."
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or, shit hits the fan in more ways than one.
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- Part 3 of all through the night
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25 Apr 2025
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The Prancing Stag (ASOIAF SI) by Knight_Vigilant_Koren
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
05 Apr 2026
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A Renly Baratheon SI that tries to be truly realistic. As Lord Paramount of the Stormlands can I keep my head attached? Is going for the throne a good idea? And WTF am I going to do about the White Walkers?
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20 Apr 2025
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The booming movie voice has been droning on this whole time, but Will hasn’t been paying much attention—and as soon as he looks up at the screen, everything goes black.
A few people gasp, taken aback by the sudden darkness.
“Did the power go out?” Mike says lowly, and Will opens his mouth to respond when something like lightning hits him full force.
It's the summer of 1985, and more than anything, Will and El want to put the past behind them. El is studying hard, trying to join the Party at school in the coming year, and Will is slowly readjusting to post-Upside Down life. But when a blackout sweeps through Hawkins and both feel the darkness stir once again, normal might just have to wait.
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- Part 2 of Shatter
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20 Apr 2025
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Fractures (just a crack in the glass) by EmeraldTulip
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Aug 2019
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“Who’s there?” he calls, a chill running up his spine. “Where am I?”
“Will.” And then she’s there, right there, like he’s been seeing in his dreams so frequently all the way back since December. There’s relief in her voice. “You’re here.”
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That’s when El understands, even through the haze of pain: the monster was never chasing after her. It wanted Will the whole time. And she let it happen.
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- Part 1 of Shatter
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20 Apr 2025
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Blaine Anderson, the youngest member of a Supervillain family, is kinda-sorta-maybe-a little bit in love with Sam Evans, the boy he met at the comic book store.
Who ends up to be local superhero the Blonde Chameleon.
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03 Jul 2024
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“I think we should pretend to date,” Robin says.
“What?” Steve sputters.
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It's been months since the Gate under Starcourt closed, and now the only thing the Party has to deal with is growing pains. High school isn't easy, and Steve wants to help them through it.
But the Upside Down isn't done with them. And this time, the enemy might be a little closer to the former subjects of Hawkins Lab than anyone suspected.Series
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Summer has finally hit Hawkins, and it has brought about the beginnings of changes. While the kids navigate budding romances, Steve is enjoying a freedom from the lab.
But when he and Dustin find themselves in over their heads, he’ll realize that the past isn't as forgotten as he thought.Series
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It's 1984 and Steve Harrington has it all. An amazing girlfriend, popularity, money, security, and a brand new kid sister. The monsters are gone and everyone is safe. He’s doing a great job at hiding his supersecret powers from everyone. Life is good.
But it's 1984 and Steve Harrington is poised to lose everything.Series
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12 May 2024
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Steve returns home to find his house broken into by a psychic child. Had it been anyone else, they would have freaked out. But this wasn't Steve's first time with something like this. In fact, he had been the first escapee from the Hawkins Lab that had wound up at Harrington's home, almost ten years earlier. So, based on personal experience, he should be able to handle hiding both a superpowered girl in his home along with his own secrets.
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12 May 2024
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Steve’s never understood why adults always praise him for being a “people person” as if it’s some great accomplishment.
What, like it’s hard?
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Or: Steve Harrington is your average American teenager, he just had to work harder than most to learn how to ignore the emotions bumping into him.