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Max’s world is a lot darker.
But her friends won’t let her get lost in it.
(Collections of moments of Max and her supportive group of loved ones).
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mea lux by handydandynotebook, hellisasapphicslasher (handydandynotebook)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2024
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"Please tell me there isn’t a frogogorgon in there.”
“No. She’s almost as ugly as one, but Lenore is actually a cat.” The kitty lets out a meow that Max swears sounds scandalized, almost as if she could understand.
“Whoa. Are you sure?”
“Yeah, pretty sure. Say hi, Lenore.”
Grinning, Max gently places her on the blanket. Lenore’s large ears twitch as she swivels her head, taking in the room. She blinks and lowers her muzzle, sniffing at Lucas’s hand.
“Hello, Lenore. You look like a bug-eyed baby alien crossed with a raw chicken.” Lucas blinks back at her, brightening.
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Max befriends a cantankerous neighbor's hairless cat during a summer full of upheavals. Her relationship with the nude feline becomes a dependable source of comfort as relationships with humans in her life face great change and she struggles to hold everything together under the roof of a tumultuous household.
(ENTIRE BEGINNING INCITING INCIDENT CHANGED AND REWRITTEN AS OF 02-24-24)
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I’ll show you the ropes by Bagelbeaver
Fandoms: Stranger Things - Fandom, Spider-Man - Fandom
27 Oct 2023
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Jonathan Byers has been Spider-Man for over a year, and when his brother, Will, makes a new friend… things get weird.
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"You disobeyed me, and you know what happens when you disobey me."
When Billy gets mad, he breaks things. And now he breaks Max. Set immediately after season 2 as Max tries to navigate an increasingly worse home life with the fresh trauma of recent events. But she also made friends. Does she dare to open up to them?
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Max Mayfield wrote twelve letters to the people she loved before she died, they're opened the day after the funeral.
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- Part 4 of Based on a Taylor Swift song
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Billy survived the Mind Flayer but has no idea how. He is captured with Hopper by the Russians and is in the prison of Kamchatka. Dmitri Antanov send a message to Max too, and she joins Joyce and Murray of rescuing the two.
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- Part 2 of Billy and Max
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And If I Only Could, I'd Make a Deal With God Because I Don't Wanna Swim Forever by 3gab
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Mar 2023
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Max Mayfield died on March 27th, 1986, in the arms of her boyfriend and bestfriend, so why was she waking up in her bed on October 29th, 1984? And what might this mean for the future- or rather the past?
Eleven could not take it. She could not take another lost, so she decided to fix it... and what a choice that would be.
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The party talk to Max while she is in her coma
Based on the song Moments by One Direction ♡
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- Part 4 of Stranger Things Songfics
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What if Joyce became the loving mother figure Max and El deserved?
Based on the song In My Daughter's Eyes by Martina Mcbride ♡
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- Part 3 of Stranger Things Songfics
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Max barges into Billy's room and sees something she isn't supposed to see. She pays the price for this, and then has to figure out what comes next. Will she be able to make it before she succumbs to her injuries? TW for child abuse
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After almost dying in the tunnels Max and the others return to the Byers' Place, ready to wake up Billy and go home but that's not going to be as easy as they had hoped.
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How season two could have ended.
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After a disaster of a year, Max decides that there's comfort in rock bottom. Still, with her view from the hill of the New Year's fireworks, she swore she could live forever. It's too bad that moments never last as long as you need them to.
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Respect and responsibility by Atenea_Black, Valeriiia_RG
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Dec 2022
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Respect and responsibility... One of Neil's favourite phrases. Max could hear it every time Billy was berated or beaten up, always something to cover up the fact that he really did this because he enjoyed inflicting pain on people.
She hated that phrase, she hated him.
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Or the one where Neil goes too far and Max passes out in front of The Party because of it.
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- Part 4 of A&V’s Whumptober 2022
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A collection of Christmas/holiday-themed prompts centering mostly around Joyce/Hopper and the Hopper-Byers fam.
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but home was a dream (one that I'd never seen until you came along) by tessaservopoulos
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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In the wake of a massive population decline, the United States government passes a marriage and procreation law, maintaining that anyone of childbearing age that is unmarried must be put into a pool of other eligible citizens, and married off. They have eighteen months to produce a child following their marriage.
Warned by Owens days before the law passes, Joyce and Hopper take themselves out of the pool...by marrying each other.
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- Part 1 of is this the end of all the endings?
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Give Life To A World (That’s Our Own) by Angie_AshF3rn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Oct 2022
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Max felt her eyes flutter open.
A bright, white ceiling met her gaze.
Her abdomen felt awful. It burned with a scorching pain.
She whimpered, trailing her hands over her eyes. Her extremely shaky hands.
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Prompt 8: Dazed and Confused
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- Part 7 of Whumptober 2022
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When did she become responsible for eleven children? When had she made room in her heart to love eleven children? (Joyce lives and dies by her head count.)
Or: a series of vignettes of Joyce and her kids throughout the years.
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It’s the hottest day of the summer by far, and the kids had dragged her to the pool, claiming even the house was too hot to sit around in; with only some protest Joyce finally stuffs herself into the only swimsuit that fit, slathers herself in sunscreen, and lets Jonathan drive. They all refuse to let her carry anything once they’ve parked, and she rolls her eyes as she follows them; the Party is already waiting, having staked out the best spot as soon as the pool opened.
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An eye for an eye, a leg for a leg (a shot in the heart doesn't make it unbreak) by FirstLoveYourself
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Aug 2022
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The truth is that, after being on the verge of death so many times, facing evil creatures taken out straight from your worst nightmares, you tend not to care so much about the same kind of evil in people; not about the all-consuming darkness of their soul trying to dig its claws into your heart, nor the freezing cold atmosphere surrounding them, your instinct telling you to bolt, to just get out, or you’ll maybe never get the chance to ever again. You tend to look the other way as they keep roaming the earth, the venom of their heart proliferating and poisoning your body, your mind, slowly, viciously spreading to everything that ever mattered to you; because you know you survived other kinds of monsters that openly tried to kill you. Because staying alive was the priority, still is, and you know there’s always something worse, something bigger, lurking out in the darkness and ready to swoop down on you and the ones you love.
When facing such horrors, you tend to forget that other kinds of monsters exist.
Max never got the luxury to forget.
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my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand by blvewcters
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Aug 2022
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'The rest is up to you. I can’t get you out of here, I can only help. You have to do this bit yourself. You have to get up, Max. You have to get up. You can’t stay hiding forever.'
Recovery isn't an easy process, especially in a world that is rotting from the inside out. Max Mayfield loves a challenge.