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Nancy begins kindergarten, but she is terrified of being separated from Karen and struggles to adjust to her new surroundings. She meets an unexpected friend who boosts her confidence and makes the next day a little easier.
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Nancy, Karen, and Joyce are all on their periods, and nobody can sleep. As they spend a miserable night together on the couch, Nancy reflects on the past and embraces the comfort of the two maternal figures in her life.
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Karen goes to check on Holly after she’s been skipping dinner and finds her and Nancy secretly running a small bracelet “business” from her bedroom.
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In the summer of 1947, Karen meets Joyce in the flower field beside her house. After scraping her knee and being cared for by her new friend, Karen wants to prove how brave she is and impress her.
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Karen is overwhelmed and barely holding herself together, but her late-night phone calls with Joyce, now living in California, become the one thing she genuinely looks forward to. After a brief miscommunication, it becomes clear Joyce relies on them just as much as she does.
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Mulder tells us about his greatest fear - Scully's death.
NOT a character death story. Honest.
Includes a blink-and-you'll miss it reference to Dreamland 2 in terms of Mulder's bedroom décor so set anytime after that.
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04 Apr 2026
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“Meow,” and there’s no way she heard that right, eyes snapping away from where she’d been distractedly watching the TV screen and over to her brother’s friend. She checks again, and yeah, Will is holding a stuffed bear, not a cat. The beloved Tiggy stays firmly attached to his bag, so they aren’t playing with tigers, either.
“So they go back down the mountain, and now all the village people are asking them about the crystal, and Rory is sad thinking they didn’t get it that whole time, but then–”
“Meow. Meow,” Will declares, removing the teddy from the dinosaur’s back and making it do some sort of interpretive dance.
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Or, Mike makes a new friend. Nancy learns how to speak cat.
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05 Jun 2026
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They’re all just children. Even the taller ones.
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- Part 4 of out of the cave
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02 Jun 2026
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Robin Buckley's Expert Field Guide to Catching Fireflies (and Other Childhood Favourties) by smileweakandwrong
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jul 2023
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“What do you mean you’ve never caught anything? Like…anything anything?” Nancy shook her head. “After the things I’ve seen in the last year and the way you’ve handled them there’s no way I’m believing that Nancy Wheeler was an inside girl afraid of getting dirt under her nails growing up.”
“Not by choice! But it was always ‘don’t get mud on your shoes’, or ‘you can’t climb trees in a dress’, or ‘don’t touch anything, you’ll get salmonella’ or ‘stay out of the woods, it’s not ladylike to get dirt on your clothes’,” Nancy said in a deep voice mocking her father. “Catching tadpoles and frogs was ‘boys’ play’ so I just stuck to riding bikes and the playgrounds.”
Robin shook her head sadly. “You poor thing. Well, that settles it then—” She patted Nancy’s legs and moved to finally stand up. “—I’m going to teach you how it’s done, expertly, starting tonight with fireflies.”
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Or, five times Nancy goes catching creepy crawlers with Robin and one time she catches something more.
Or, Or, five days of oblivious lesbians failing at flirting and dancing around each other like absolute ding dongs <3
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29 May 2026
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Hours together turned into days. A secret that stretched into weeks of meetings in private corners of the world, all of which came calmly and assured—never lacking in love.
It's October of 1959, and Karen Childress finds herself getting far too close to Joyce Maldonado.
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27 May 2026