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Could you do a Teenage Groot x Teen Reader?(No smut). If so, thank you❤️❤️!

sorry, but i’m not comfortable writing fics for characters that are minors... or trees either, i guess x

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Hey I absolutely love your writing. Any way you could do an eleven x fem!sick! Reader

hi, thank you!! unfortunately though, i'm not comfortable writing fics for characters that are minors considering i'm in my 20s <3

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i swear i’m working on some things (and i’ve gotten a few requests recently), i just haven’t been able to write anything because i’ve had a migraine. i’ll persevere very sooooon

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google docs is trying to make this a very different fic huh??

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people who make those character mixtapes on youtube are the backbone of our society

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@parker-natasha​ yes, it is! 👀

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take my hand, now and forever.

pairing. steve harrington x reader.

summary. the battle for hawkins is over and the damage has been done. still reeling from the loss, your heart feels much more bruised than your skin.

warnings. reader uses she/her pronouns, soft steve, hurt/comfort, crying. spoilers for stranger things volume 2.

“Head up, sweetheart. Let me take a look at you.”

The words are spoken so softly in the quiet of the dark bathroom that for a brief moment, you wonder if you simply imagined them. After all, it’s been less than twenty-four hours since the so-called ‘earthquake’ occurred and to say your mind has been scattered would be an understatement. 

It’s almost laughable how Hawkins can be violently split into four, leaving the town covered in dark smoke and disarray, and the general masses still manage to find a rational explanation for it. 

In reality, there’s nothing rational about what happened. Nothing rational about Eddie’s heroic sacrifice for a town that hated his guts or what happened to poor Max, now resting in a hospital bed with little signs of life remaining. Shit, just the mere thought of them causes the back of your eyes to sting painfully with unshed tears.

You used to have so much faith. Maybe not in deities or some omniscient presence way up in the sky, but in the world. In people. You believed there was a purpose to it all, that you and your friends could tackle just about anything when you came together. 

Today, you lost that faith in one fell swoop.

“Come on… Don’t go quiet on me now.” The pads of Steve’s fingers reach to graze the length of your jaw and you’re suddenly grounded back to reality, blinking rapidly to stave off the obvious upset. 

You’re both exhausted right down to the bone, still covered in the disgusting dirt and grime of the Upside Down. The ligature marks on Steve’s neck from his previous demobat attack have only been made more prominent by the vines that had wrapped tight around him back at the Creel house — and now, you have your own battle wounds to match.

That’s what he’s so damn insistent on checking over as you both sit on the edge of the bathtub; the bruising that’s beginning to darken harshly along your skin. You swear you can still feel the effects of the choking, like your lungs haven’t yet returned to their regular capacity and are struggling to gain a full breath. Then again, that could also be attributed to the overwhelming guilt and panic that continues to rest upon your shoulders. 

“I’ll be fine,” you say feebly. The last thing he needs to do right now is dote over you. “You have it a lot worse than I do.” 

“What, you mean this old thing?” He gestures towards his neck before swiping a hand dismissively through the air. “Please, I’ve gotten worse injuries in the past just from play-fighting with you.”

“Are you saying I’m deadlier than a demobat?”

“Oh, absolutely.”

The familiar teasing brings a whisper of a smile to your face and though it’s barely visible in the grand scheme of things, Steve’s heart lifts with hope. 

“There she is.” The hand that had been hovering near your neck shifts slightly to cup your cheek, thumb sweeping delicately over the skin, even as a hot tear finally falls from your eye. It’s a miracle he hasn’t broken down yet, too. “It’s okay, I’m here. You don’t have to hide from me.”

“We lost, Steve.” Just three words — three measly goddamn syllables — yet they have the power to open the floodgates before his name has finished leaving your lips. His arms are wrapping around you within seconds, pulling you into the comfort of his lap to hold you close to his chest. You’d done what you could to put on a brave face in front of the kids, but now that they aren’t around, there’s nothing holding you back from breaking down. 

You weep for them. For Max and Eddie, a grieving Dustin and a sick to his stomach with worry Lucas. For a devastated Nancy and Robin. For Eleven, wherever she is, and the rest of the Byers family who are blissfully unaware of the night’s events. For Hopper. So much pain and death, and what was it all for? 

Hawkins has fallen. You can’t see a way to bounce back from this.

As you cry — the horrible type of crying that has you shaking like a wet dog in his arms — Steve remains quiet and guides your head to rest into the comfortable crook of his neck, the wetness from your lashes dripping onto his skin. He swallows thickly past the growing lump in his own throat. Tonight has taken its toll on everyone and he is no exception, the adrenaline that had been pumping through his veins and keeping him moving slowly waning until he’s finally nothing but a dull husk of stress and panic. 

“I’m not very good with words,” he begins softly, voice thick with emotion while he shakily tucks a loose lock of hair behind your ear. “I never have been. I mean, let’s face it, I’m not the most poetic or even that smart, so… all I really know how to tell you is that I’m here. I’m here. Things are at an all time low and I’m terrified, too — believe me, I am. But we don’t have to be terrified alone. You hear me? No matter the time of day, no matter what I’m doing, all you have to do is call and I will drop everything to be there.”

Now that, you know, is true. Steve has never lied to you before and he would never start now, especially not when he’s never seen you so utterly broken. For the last few years, through each fight that came your way, he’s been your one constant. The one thing you can always rely on.

“We’re going to get through this,” he continues. “We’ll regroup and figure this out. Max will get better in time and be back to rolling her eyes at us before we know it. But for now… For now, just take my hand and we can pretend like we’re anywhere else but here.”

A beat passes before your hand slips safely into his.

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hypothetically if anybody wanted to send in some stranger things prompts (mainly steve harrington x reader but i’m open to others!!!), that would be nice <3

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remember when i used to write for spencer reid..... 

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how would we feel.......... about an mcu rewrite to ft. the reader....... 

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no powers pls omg i see too many of those and i just want a mc whos normal LMAO

SHJSHD see that’s what i was thinking too??

like yeah powers are obviously cool as fuck but at the same time i’ve seen so many retelling of that type of story that i’m leaning towards making our girl a normie

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Powers!

thank you for answering!!! i’ll take it into account

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writing fanfic like “am i getting the dynamics of this friendship right?” “would this character actually say this?” “what is the proper ratio of kindness to sass?” “am i falling prey to overused fanfic personality shortcuts or is this a canon trait?” “am i overthinking this so much that i will grind to a standstill out of sheer terror?”

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when will people learn that just commenting “update” under a fic isn’t the most motivational thing ever

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is there going to be a part 2 to things that are deadly??

nope, i have no plans for one!

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hiii sorry but the link to the walls are thin pt 2 doesnt work?? and im kinda in love with your writing lol

whoops! it should be fixed now but you can also find it here. and thank you so much!!!