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    Immediately following the the defeat of Vecna and the subsequent healing within the aftermath:

    Steve doesn’t think he’s worth anything unless he’s drowning - whether it be in his own blood for the sake of someone else, or if he’s collapsing under the weight of the world on his shoulders. He only knows how to exist when he feels useful.

    Eddie is at a loss. He doesn’t know how to show Steve how impossibly, ridiculously important he really is. But God, he would do anything just for the chance to try.

    (title from Accident Prone by Jawbreaker)

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    10 Sep 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    Steve Harrington went missing in 1972, the only sign of him an abandoned toy fire truck. A mother of two herself, Joyce Byers was horrified by Steve’s story.

    Now living in Harper Woods, Michigan and struggling with her ever-tumultuous marriage, Joyce is in need of a change. When she comes across Michael, a homeless boy scrounging for scraps in the dumpster behind her work, Joyce is inspired to do anything she can to help him get on his feet.

    How a homeless boy with a traumatic and mysterious past threads back to a life - and love - Joyce left behind.

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    12 Aug 2024

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    Days after Jim turns down vice admiralty and commits to staying with the Enterprise, a new wave of unexplainable health issues begin to hit him that are uncomfortably similar to what he had experienced in recovery from the warp core. With another long stretch of Enterprise reconstruction lying ahead of the crew, Jim attempts to make the most of his time ashore by burying himself in work, but with his body steadily deteriorating and his mind dragged back into old wounds in tow, he hurtles towards burnout long before he can set sail again.

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    17 Jul 2024

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    28 May 2024

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    “Birdie…” Dabi said again, and suddenly hands were gripping his shoulders, holding him up because he was beginning to be sure he would have collapsed otherwise. “Shit, little bird, no no no, don’t close your eyes, c’mon—Toga, get the medkit right now!”
    “My wings.” Hawks tried to tell him again, tried to push him away so he could move his feathers closer. “I want you to burn—”
    “I’m not doing that!” Dabi shouted, the composure that he’d never lost before collapsing. “You idiot—fuck, little bird it’s okay, it’s alright. I’m not going to give you back to them, okay? You don’t have to—don’t talk like that, I’m not going to hurt you. It’s okay…” but Dabi sounded like he was talking to himself now, and Hawks could barely hear him anyway.

    Or: Hawks is used to being treated as though giving himself to everyone else until there’s nothing left is something that’s expected of him. So he doesn’t understand why the first people to act like he’s not a weapon are his sworn enemies. He doesn’t know why Dabi doesn’t care when Hawks is late, or when he chirps, or why he’s interested rather than repulsed by his talons.
    But he does understand perfectly clear when his Handler tells him he’s to kill the League’s fire user.

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    11 Apr 2024

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