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[butterfly-dimensions]

California is my Dmitri Antonov romance/drama longfic – set after season 4 volume 2.

As April 1986 begins, the Byers boys and an exhausted El return to Joyce's home in Lenora Hills, having defeated Vecna. Meanwhile, Joyce comes back from Kamchatka – joined by Hopper and a certain Soviet traitor and former prison guard... The two men went through hell and back together, and they know too much. As a deserter at risk of being found and killed by the KGB, and as a father and almost-divorced husband whose number one priority is safely getting his family into the United States, Dmitri Antonov isn't exactly in a great position to be meeting someone new. Even so, he and the Byers' neighbor and good friend, an aspiring journalist who knows nothing about the Upside Down yet, are drawn to each other from day one.

Chapters 1-29 of the fic's translation into English are uploaded on AO3. 

And the playlist is here on Spotify. :)

Additional AO3 tags:

Romance | Drama | Vecna is Defeated (Stranger Things) | Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 | Eventual Smut | Period Typical Attitudes | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD | POV Original Female Character | Light Dom/sub | POV First Person | Romance with explicit sex | Sexual Tension | Family Dynamics | Lenora Hills (Stranger Things) | Falling In Love | Age Difference

[bopbyers]

will was so scared he was so scared will was so so scared i’m sick i’m so sick he didn’t know what would happen he wasn’t sure they’d accept him he was being so brave. so insanely brave.

like what the fuck

[butterfly-dimensions]

He was so loved and accepted by his peers and family and it was beautiful and then loud parts of this fandom paid him and the writers dirt because he didn't end up with his straight best friend 🥲

[wiccanlytalented]

El & Jim Hopper + Miami Vice

[wiccanlytalented]

El & Jim Hopper + Miami Vice

[butterfly-dimensions]

And then the show didn't end until 1989 so he had to suffer all the way through that. 🙃🔫

[cinematicnomad]

STRANGER THINGS ▸ 1.03 chapter three: holly, jolly

[butterfly-dimensions]

The weird discrepancy between loud subgroups in the online fandom insisting that Stranger Things will have no legacy, or will be "forgotten" because season 5 wasn't perfect, or that "nobody cares" about it anymore,

while IRL Stranger Things conventions are happening all summer in multiple European countries, they are largely sold out despite high ticket prices, and tons of people are trying hard to still get tickets. Hmm

[sals-sonic]

I love you ao3, I love you dead dove, I love you dark and fucked up ships, I love you weird and unusual kinks, I love you porn without plot, I love you unapologetic violent fiction, I love you horror, I love you splatterpunk, I love you unreliable narrators, I love you morally gray characters, I love you characters with no morals whatsoever, I love you authors that write whatever you want, I love you authors who don't stop others from writing whatever they want, I love you readers with critical thinking skills, I love you media literacy

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[cinematicnomad]

STRANGER THINGS ▸ 2.01 chapter one: MADMAX

[emziess]

If you die, I die. Stranger Things, S05E06

[butterfly-dimensions]

Happy 55th birthday to one of my favorite fictional characters ever, truly the girl of all time, El Hopper. 🎈 I'm positive I'll still think of you when I'm 55.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Is adding donation links in fics okay? Like fic ends, writer says that if readers want to they can donate money, and then they donate if they wish?

no. that is against ao3’s terms of service.

anything that involves money is against their site’s terms of service. doesn’t matter if it’s commission or donation or anything. on ao3, you cannot mention or link anything that involves money.

ao3 is a nonprofit site known for hosting millions of works of others’ copyrighted characters. it has to stay nonprofit and forbid any mention of money on its platform to avoid getting sued left and right. I’ve said this before, but the only reason ao3 can exist as it is today is because its main rule is “nobody can use their site to ask people for money in any way, shape or form”.

I’ve explained more here.

[butterfly-dimensions]

Enough time has passed – I'm not the only one seeing the obvious and cool parallels between Stranger Things and Backrooms, right?

[stydixa]

STRANGER THINGS (2016-) Chapter Nine: The Piggyback

[emziess]

If you die, I die. Stranger Things, S05E06

[lucascsinclairs]

“What if she gets brain damage or something?” “Oh shit! Is that like a real thing?” “No, it’s not, he made it up. Mike doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about.”

[milliebobbybrownsource]

Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven First and last shot of each season! STRANGER THINGS (2016 - 2025)