![]() The quiet sense of peace Robin had been cultivating evaporates in an instant. The sound of the needle gently bumping up against the edge of the vinyl is weirdly soothing. They’ve needed to turn over the record ( Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Steve knows Robin likes it when he plays Elton John) for a good five minutes now, but they’re too comfortable to get up. The air is thick with smoke Steve had said brownies were too much work and Robin hadn’t cared enough to protest, seeing as it was his weed in the first place. Supine on the floor, ear to ear, their feet sprawled out in separate directions. ![]() They’re in Steve’s basement when he says it. (See the end of the work for more notes and other works inspired by this one.) Unbeta’d, because I barely met my artificial deadline in time. So those milestones have been moved further up. One note about canon compliance: I messed with the season 3 epilogue timing a tad, because the idea of a) Steve and Robin waiting until October to get new jobs and b) Joyce moving the kids after the school year has started made no sense to me. On that last part, I may have gone a bit overboard… aside from the things I blatantly made up, everything is date-accurate-down to the crossword puzzle clues, what’s on TV when, and what was charting on the Hot 100. And third, I wanted to be meticulously specific about using the precise time period as a vehicle for storytelling. Second, I felt passionately that any story that addresses queerness in the 1980s is incomplete if it doesn’t meaningfully tackle AIDS. First, I wanted to write a fic celebrating everything I love about Robin-chief among them, that she’s a lesbian character who experiences happiness, fulfillment and validation in a way that has nothing to do with shipping. I had a few different, sometimes-competing goals going into writing this. ![]() But Halloween seemed the perfect publication date for a Stranger Things fic-even one as stubbornly not-spooky as this one is-and so here we are! I started this fic literally weeks after season three aired, which means I’ve been fighting it tooth and nail for over a year now. Pre-Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler.
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