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Consider my timbers shivered!

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fic & fandom blog. she/they. 30s. @notquitecogent on Ao3

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

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This desk used to have four seats. Our friend Irving is gone, and they want our whole department gone. If he gets out, we're dead. They're gonna turn us off like fucking machines. You've seen them do it. I know you've lost friends too. And you could be next. You could be next.

Happy belated Hellcheer Day to all who celebrate!!! Have a surprise new chapter (after TWO YEARS 😱) of my post-1986 fic If/Then, which takes place on Hellcheer Day!

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“So, the gang’s all here,” he says quietly, tipping his head sideways towards her until the shaggy ends of his hair tickle her ear. “Or at least, uh, all the ones I could round up.”

Around a large study table in the back, she spies the curly head of Dustin Henderson, gangly Mike Wheeler sitting backwards over a chair like a stick insect, Robin Buckley popping gum, and…

“...Nancy!”

It hits her in a rush how good it feels to see Nancy Wheeler’s face, how badly she’d needed to find a friend — someone from her life before when everything was just ordinary and safe and boring, not cursed or whatever this was.

Chrissy sucks in a breath, bites her lip, and exhales in a single unhinged stream, “Eddie and I are from the future and we’re stuck in a time thing and we can’t stop dying and we don’t know why.”

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