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Sleep On The Floor, Dream About Me by FoolishlyZephyrus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Mar 2026
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Something about Robin Buckley has always felt broken. Deep within, something has felt wrong. She believed she could ignore it or suppress it, but it always finds its way back to her. She had nearly come to accept she would always be miserable, that she could exist no other way. After almost dying to some otherworldly monster, however, Robin decides that things must change and confronts the fact that there is a truer version of herself she hasn’t yet come to terms with.
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Or, Robin Buckley realizes he’s a trans man.
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“That's how it starts, with everything ending.”
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Or, How Robin has grown up before/during the Epilogue.
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"You seem...distracted?" It hadn’t been meant as a question but Harry was unable to come up with a solution that made the assertion seem less prying.
Hermione lifted her head, seemingly roused from whatever daze had captured her. She gave a heaving sigh, almost melancholic in a way.
"It's nothing, really. I expect the Christmas holiday will do me some good,” she responded in an unconvincing tone of voice, her eyes not meeting Harry’s.
“I’m sure that’s the case,” Harry conceded in a similar reluctance. “But I expect something is the matter if you’ve been stuck on the same page for the past twenty minutes.”
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Or, ‘Twas the night before the Winter Holidays and Harry and Hermione find each other still awake in the Gryffindor Common Room
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Cold Linoleum Icing My Growing Pains by FoolishlyZephyrus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2024
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Robin was more terrified than she had ever been in her entire life, Russian torture withstanding. She scrambled to find the words, trying and failing at first to say anything. All she could muster was a poor joke.
"Steve... did you OD over there?" Robin echoed his words for some semblance of comfort before the inevitable.
"No, I just, uh... just thinking."
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Luz begs Eda for even a snippet of detail about her love life. Eda reluctantly obliges and quickly realizes how unobservant she is.
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love is a battle i can win by palmviolet for beetlesandstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2022
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"She’s taking a sip, dry and sharp on her tongue, when the doorbell rings a floor above, and she hears distantly Steve’s open delight, Robin, Dustin, back from the shit I won’t understand?
I’m a lesbian, Nancy thinks, taking another sip of wine. Eddie clinks his glass against hers and sneaks a slice of chorizo from Steve’s chopping board, tapping a finger against the side of his nose, shh, don’t tell, the way normal couples keep their secrets, the way honesty is earned and not borne on the back of a lie.
Love is a battle I can win. Nancy turns to face the door."
// Christmas 1994. Nancy faces her fears.
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Bookmarked by FoolishlyZephyrus
29 Dec 2022
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one shot — well-written, i love the little silmarillion subplot. this is a christmas classic for me
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Robin Buckley’s life has never been particularly exciting, but she does find that lately, it’s full of surprises.
She’s surprised at how easy it is to excel in all of her senior-level classes. She’s surprised at how much fun she’s having with her best friend at their grating yet tolerable job. Hell, she’s surprised that Steve Harrington’s her best friend in the first place.
And she’s never liked surprises, but these are the good kind of surprises.
The good kind, that is, until she finds herself in a place she never imagined she’d be: head-over-heels for her best friend’s ex-girlfriend, Nancy Wheeler.
But the biggest surprise of all may be how far Robin is willing to go to protect all three of them from the havoc that her two-faced affection would wreak if anyone was able to see it.
(Or: in an Upside-Down free AU, Robin Buckley and Eddie Munson run the gamut on the human emotional spectrum during their senior year at Hawkins High in a little over a hundred thousand words)
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Bookmarked by FoolishlyZephyrus
12 Apr 2023
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fic — very good, sweet and well-written. a total sucker for fake dating, especially when it’s queer. i love how real all the characters feel.
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Nancy Wheeler was lying down on the railroad tracks.
That was weird for a lot of reasons, besides the obvious one. It was weird for Robin to see anybody out here at all. It was weird to see Nancy Wheeler anywhere but school. She was born for school, Robin thought. Their school didn't have a uniform but Nancy practically wore one anyway, every day a different pastel cardigan and a skirt landing appropriately below her un-skinned knees. White socks and mary janes. She was wearing jeans and a red corduroy jacket now, though. Sneakers. Her hair was pulled back off her face and she was lying down on the train tracks with her eyes closed.
It was weird.
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4 times the train didn't come, and 1 time it did.
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Bookmarked by FoolishlyZephyrus
13 May 2024
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4 + 1 — nice details and such a great dynamic between robin and nancy
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Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
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- Part 1 of Running on Air
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Bookmarked by FoolishlyZephyrus
25 Jun 2024
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fic — extremely well-written, all the details make it feel homey and nostalgic. the relationship between harry and draco is quite compelling
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like coarse-cut salt on the tongue — by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Mar 2023
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He instructs her on how to take the car out of park, get it in first, then second as they build up speed, and takes her down the main drag in town. She goes a solid fifteen under the speed limit but he doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t say a lot, as they go, just makes a correction here or there, a word or hum of encouragement too. He tells her to relax, once, and she breathes in deep and pretends to be someone else for a minute. It’s easy; she’s wearing a boy’s polo and Byers clocks that too, she thinks, the way his eyes flickered to the collar of it when he saw her on her stoop. She knows he knows. But he doesn’t mention it, so neither does she.
In the aftermath of Starcourt, Robin goes on.
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- Part 2 of eating in the underworld
Bookmarked by FoolishlyZephyrus
04 Jul 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
one shot — an interesting look at an alternate timeline where robin takes up the adult role, hits a lot of points i liked seeing explored