juneblooom
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breathing clean air (i still miss the smoke) by juneblooom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jun 2026
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he figured out how to climb back up to his feet and what a black eye felt like, how to be hired for something you don’t care about, how to survive the end of the world and what to do when a kid comes crying to you. he knows that smoking cigarettes is bad for you, worse when the love of your life offers you one. he knows how to hot-wire a government-issued van and how to light a monster on fire.
never quite learned how not to be left.
or: steve and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad christmas
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- Part 3 of tug of war
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cut off dead weight. cut off things holding you back. cut off, remove, excise. be faster, be smarter, be better. always be better than the day before, than the person who bites first, walks away second. don’t be that person. don’t not be that person, because the world doesn’t particularly care. there’s only ever been one person that cares—only one person who’s planted their feet in stubborn insistence that deleting the parts of yourself by burying your fist in the mirror when the glimpse turns into a gaze is no way to live—but even that one person can become stretched too thin if you pull enough.
or: how many losses does it take to get to the center of nancy wheeler?
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- Part 2 of tug of war
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it’s only when she leans down at his window, waiting a second before those mood-ring eyes are back and searching her, that she says, “thanks for the ride, steve.”
“see you at school, nance,” he says, like he knows he’s earned the right to it.
or: steve and nancy. and a car. and a song. and a dream.
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there’s only so many directions her mind can be heading at once—saving the world, saving her sister, praying her mother and father won’t die, asking that mike’s okay wherever he is, rationalizing her own future, hoping that she won’t die before she has the chance to figure it out, carving the score over and over and over and over again, the tally marks she’s considered pressing into the sensitive skin near her elbow, one, two, three…
or: s5ep6 if it was stancy haha u know the drill
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steve’s the caged leopard he saw at the zoo, but he knows the second he leaves hawkins he’d crumble into salt and fly into the wind, because there’s no way he wouldn’t look back to wonder if nancy had noticed he was gone.
or: a study of nancy wheeler in the apocalypse, and other ways to live with the choices you’ve made
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- Part 1 of tug of war