maplemood
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a crowded room, friends with tired eyes by maplemood for TolkienGirl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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“Devotion,” she elaborates. “I find that a really admirable quality, yeah. But, you know—it can be less than—I mean, it is an ideal, guess it can’t be less than ideal, that’s probably, what, some kind of lesser form of oxymoron—"
“Rob.”
“It could get dangerous.”
“U-huh.”
“Of course that depends on how you play it. But if you, do you see what I’m saying, if you take it too far…or, on the other hand, you don’t take it far enough—”
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December 1986. The Christmas party nobody really planned.
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- Part 1 of last christmas
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take me to the pilot (i am but a stranger) by maplemood
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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It occurs to Kali that they’ve hardly met, she and this man she knows.
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“You know I have come across it before, right? Assigned reading.”
Right. Sure. Back when Steve last graced an English class, the Hawkins High PTA hadn’t moved on to witch-hunting just yet. Book-burning’s, what? One step down?
“So did you read it?”
“No comment.”
Also, during crawl prep last week Dustin heard Nancy and Robin chattering about The Catcher in the Rye and heard Steve hearing, too—an impossibility possible with Steve, who’s a far easier read than the book itself.
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His eyes were clear. In pain and weariness, beneath a haze of growing infection, they were clear yet. Wide and perceptive, and Cee felt, momentarily, that she could hardly bear to meet them.
“Your father,” Ezra said, “died the moment he set foot to the Green. You knew this.”
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The road home: Cee and Ezra more or less immediately post-canon.
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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
21 Jul 2025
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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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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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I'm Not Your Hero by maplemood
Fandom: Daredevil (TV), Wolverine (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
12 May 2017
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Lisa Castle survived the massacre at Central Park; Laura Kinney is still running from Transigen. Together they fight crime.
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“Hey.” Nancy nudges his shoulder playfully. “What’s one more near-death experience between friends?”
“That’s what I’m trying to say,” Dustin huffs, still serious. “You know, right? You know how he feels?”
Bookmarked by maplemood
27 Dec 2025
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Careful what you wish for. Careful who you are becoming.
[The search for Holly leads back to the beginning.]
Bookmarked by maplemood
14 Dec 2025
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Everything’s wrong, but you live in Mike’s basement now.
You live in Mike’s basement, but it isn’t enough.
Bookmarked by maplemood
14 Dec 2025
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we were shotgun lovers (I'm a shotgun running away) by TolkienGirl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Dec 2025
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“You do realize that like, we don’t need to solve every problem of the world this week.” Robin speaks around a pencap that she has pinched between her teeth.
“Was I trying to?” Nancy says. She has the capless pen in her hand, and ink on her hands too, from marking every xerox-printed map of Hawkins she can get her hands on. The model needs to be perfect. That’s not Nancy being a Type-A neat-freak, that’s Nancy being practical.
(She has a feeling that’s not what Robin’s talking about.)
Bookmarked by maplemood
14 Dec 2025
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Holly knows what it is to be not here. It’s not the same as dying. It’s something kids dream about, something that monsters know.
Bookmarked by maplemood
08 Dec 2025