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[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

How's it coming with the stranger things season 4 planning if you don't mind me asking.

Not at all!! I'm always excited to give you guys progress updates!

I've worked my way through a big chunk of the dive (the one I've been stuck on forever) but lately I've actually been working on writing little blurbs for some scenes from the first episode. Sometimes writing ahead, even if for a scene or two, kinda oils the gears a bit. Here's a small sample I just wrote for the opening

A new day, the same morning.

The sun was steadily climbing the sky, peeking out at the sleepy town through its hiding spot in the trees. The birds that usually nested within the branches were gone. Somewhere warmer they wouldn't be bothered by the nip in the air blowing carefully through. The leaves had already fallen, where they withered and waited to be crunched. Some chased each other down the streets as they rode the autumn wind.

It was quiet, even for a Saturday morning. Almost impossibly so. Something about today was special. The very air was charged with possibility.

And it all began with a single newspaper.

I'm so glad you asked! I love sharing these kinds of things with you guys, I hope any one of you feel encouraged to do so! Asking questions about any WIP or for hints and what not. It's only messages that say something like "update please" and then not much else are things I don't love responding to as you can imagine 😅

Anyways, thanks again and I hope you enjoyed!

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[madmars]

Girls And Interdimensional Slugs

Steve Harrington X Fem!reader

ʎɹɐɯɯns: Steve and Dustin break the news to Y/N about a missing Dart

A/N: a longerrr oneeee I get random motivation at like midnight so I mostly would post at like 2am and I always dont plan to make them short like I have so much to say to the point where I ramble on paper so I just decide to cut it short but anyways...enjoy! X

wc: 1,008

“She’s going to be mad”

“obviously dipshit, maybe if you did not bring that thing out of the trash we wouldn't be here”

“First off, don't call him a thing he is a respective individual, secondly, how was I supposed to know he was going to be a Demogorgon, you know I’m just as much as a victim as you, he ate my cat”.

Currently Steve and Dustin stood outside of Y/N’s front door contemplating on how to tell her they had to hunt another interdimensional monster yet again, they’ve second guessed everything ever since they stepped out of the Henderson household, if they did not tell her they would never her the end of it and an ass kicking, if they did tell her, well, they would never her the end of it and an ass kicking. so either way, they were in deep shit. 

Steve rolled his eyes and hesitantly knocked on the door, a few seconds later they heard a sweet ‘coming’ on the other side of the door, Dustin sent Steve a worried glance knowing the sweet demeanor was soon to be gone.

That's when the door opened to reveal Y/N and her sickly sweet smile “Hey guys, come in” she waved the two in, they both nervously chuckled and shuffled into the house, Y/N plopped on the couch and made herself comfortable, Steve awkwardly took a seat next to her and Dustin in armchair to the right of the couch.

It wasn’t unusual that the party would come over to Y/N’s, she was used to it by now, it was her average Saturday night, Y/N rested her head on Steve's shoulder and continued to watch whatever was on the TV, Dustin gestured at Steve, something along ‘TELL HER’, Steve groaned and looked down at Y/N, she laughed at the TV making her smile illuminate her face.

Steve shot Dustin a glare just before tapping Y/N’s thigh, she looked up at him with the same smile, making Steve melt, he was brought back to reality by Dustin’s excessive ‘throat clearing’  

Y/N furrowed her eyebrows at the boys strange behavior “ What did you two do now?”. It was Steve's turn to clear his throat, shifting uncomfortably on the couch “You know I love you right,” 

“We both do” Dustin added, raising his hand slightly, Y/N hummed switching her gaze between the boys, Steve the decided to continue “and we would never do anything to purposely upset you” 

“nope, never” Dustin shook his head gulping a bit under the girls glare, she hummed squinting at her boyfriend “okayyyy” Steve nervously ran a hand through his hair “okayy, and before you get mad-”

Dustin cut him off, once again, “I found some pet in my trash, took him in fed him nougat he then molted that's when I did research thought he was an unknown species, took him to school to show the party, lost him, found him took him back home, came back home he broke yurtles terrarium, molted again and ate mews, shoved him the cellar,  ran in to Steve at the grocery store while finding supplies to...clean my dead cats remains, checked on him in the cellar, he molted again and tore through the walls, turns out he’s a Demogorgon and now he’s roaming around Hawkins and we don't know where he is.” Dustin instantly slapped his hand to his mouth stopping his ramble, all three pairs of eyes went wide, Steve suddenly rushed behind the armchair Dustin was frozen in.

Y/N sat still, wide eyed, jaw slacked she pushed her self off her couch, fuming, “you did what?!?!”  Steve flinched, searching for an explanation “It was an accident.. for me at least he’s the one that kidnapped me”

“Dude!” Dustin huffed, Steve shrugged in response, not really caring about saving someone's ass at this moment, except his own. 

Y/N ran her hands down her face attempting to calm herself down, “you did not think to tell me sooner, when any of this shit happened?!” The two began spitting out excuses Y/N shook her head and waved her hand at hem “y-you know what, whatever” she sighed and came closer to Dustin and Steve pointing a finger at them and giving a stern look “ You two are gonna go to bed, think about the consequences you've caused, and we’re going to figure this shit out tomorrow, got it?” 

Both of them nodded vigorously, shrinking a bit under Y/N’s point.

The next day the three walked along the train tracks planning to lure dart to the junkyard, Y/N walked in front of Steve and Dustin ignoring them and whatever they were conversating about.

“ All right, so let me get this straight. You kept something you knew was probably dangerous in order to impress a girl who... who you just met?”

“All right, that's grossly oversimp-”

Y/N quickly turned around facing the two, making them stop in there tracks, literally, she huffed and harshly threw a piece of meat on the track “seriously! were in all this shit just because you wanted to get some!” she scoffed and continued to walk, muttering something like ‘I’m going to kill them before this Demogorgon does’

Steve hurried to her side silently walking before starting “Baby, you know were really sorry and,” Y/N rolled her eyes “yeah you’re gonna be real sorry when it eats your ass” Steve awkwardly cleared his throat “Yeah so, um, how about when we get out of all this.... interdimensional  crap, I’ll buy you like the whole..7/11 snack isle, and we can watch cartoons and get fat.”  

Y/N looked up at Steve's somewhat pouty face and cracked a tiny grin, Steve let out a sound the resembled a squeal “There it is” Y/N giggled and rolled her eyes “Yeah whatever, I guess its alright because I have an excuse to see swing that bat”. They both busted into a fit of giggles not noticing Dustin appear next to them

 “Y/N? you would like if Steve gave you a  interdimensional slug, right?”

...

✩

-m

[serendipitous-magic]

Pay no attention to the sneak-peek behind the read-more line...

-_-_-_-

Dustin’s duffel bag thwumps onto the mattress, bouncing slightly.

Home sweet home.

He punches a button on his radio and flops down onto the edge of his bed, rubbing at his eyes as the local radio personality announces Small Town Boy by Age of Consent. He takes a big breath - in and out. It is eight hundred and nineteen miles from Camp Know Where to Hawkins, Indiana, and Dustin just spent the last two days travelling them in a small car with his mother. Which was fun at first. Impromptu sing-alongs with his mom have been a staple of driving to and from summer camp for years. They got Frosties in the drive through, they talked about camp, they played the alphabet game while they made their way across three states... Good times. He didn’t even mind being stuck in a confined space with a parent for their mini-road-trip - much. That part wasn’t so bad. It’s just the last leg of the drive that got a little bit less than awesome. Mainly because it would seem that his friends have forgotten about him. 

Eight hundred and nineteen miles, and the Party should have been in range of his supercomm for at least two or three of them. 

You know, he always kind of forgets what his home town smells like until he’s been gone for a while. It’s like the way you don’t realize what your own house smells like until you get back after vacation. Granted, it’s no bed of roses. Hawkins tends to have a sort of... aroma. Like the farms on the outer edge, and like the forest that grows thick and green during the summer, and dusty, cracked asphalt in need of repairs, and humidity, and hay, and old brick buildings. It’s not exactly a scent you’d find in a candle. But it’s not bad, per se, and moreover: it’s home.

“This is Gold...” he starts to say, but halfway through the hail, his voice stalls. 

This new hat isn’t quite molded to the shape of his head yet, like his old one is, and he keeps reaching up to adjust it. Tugging it down over his forehead, then pushing it back. This time, when he reaches up, he snags his headset and tosses it onto the bed. What’s the point?

He drove his mom up the wall during the last fifteen minutes of their journey, trying to get in contact with the Party.

“This is Gold Leader returning to base, do you copy? Over.” 

He must have said that at least two dozen times. He could feel his mom glancing at him as she drove, but he just ran his tongue over the rough string of braces on his lower teeth and leaned forward anxiously, as if tilting forward in his seat would help him see around the curve. The bobblehead cat on the dashboard headbanged along to the oldie on the radio as he tried again. 

“I repeat. This is Gold Leader returning to base. Do you copy? Over.” 

Silence. Silence, and static, and the car radio bopping along to the beat. Come on. Come on. He jammed the talk button hard enough that the plastic edge dug into his thumb. 

“This is goddamn Gold Leader -” 

“Dusty!” his mom chided, and he slapped the supercomm into his lap. 

“What?” 

“Relax. For goodness sake.” 

“I’m in range, they should be answering.” 

“You’ve been away a whole month, honeybun, maybe they just...” She wiggled her shoulders with a tilt of her head. “Forgot.” 

She didn’t mean him. Of course she didn’t mean that they forgot him. She meant the radios; she meant they forgot what channel they’re supposed to be on. Or that they forgot what day he was coming home. She didn’t mean that they forgot about Dustin himself. 

It’s just, it’s not exactly reassuring, you know? It’s the middle of summer already. All the roads are lined with tall, dark weeds. In a few days, everything will smell like sparkler smoke and kettle corn from the annual 4th of July fair. When he left it was barely June, and the weeds along the roadside were barely sprouts. What else has happened since he left? What else has changed?

A muffled little tink draws his attention to the vivarium on his left, where Yurtle is bumping against the side, stumpy little legs flailing as he fails to comprehend glass. Dustin grins at him.

“At least someone’s happy to see me.”

Yurtle continues his mission to pass through the solid glass wall, unperturbed by his complete lack of success. Determined little guy. Never gets very far, but he tries.

Dustin isn’t worried about it - the Party, that is. Honestly, he’s not. It’s not like they’ve all been acting weird for the past few months anyway. It’s not like ever since El reappeared Mike has been MIA more often than not, visiting her at the cabin for as long as Hopper would allow. It’s not like Max and Lucas have developed their own little language and routine together - not just boyfriend and girlfriend, but best friends. It’s not like Will has been a slightly different person since... well, since everything. It’s not like he misses how the Party used to be.

But Dustin doesn’t like to mope. He slaps his thighs and stands up, reaching into the vivarium to turn Yurtle around. Yurtle lumbers off towards his pool, apparently assured that his ability to move is due to his own success, and Dustin hums along with the radio as he unzips his duffel bag with a flourish. Who is he to complain? He just got back from possibly the most amazing summer camp ever. He’s got the whole rest of the summer ahead of him. He’s got things to do. Places to go. Popsicles to eat. (You know what they don’t have at Camp Know Where? Otter pops. Unbelievable, right? Three hundred acres, over five hundred campers and dozens of counselors, and not a single person could produce even one pack of sugary, brightly colored frozen goodness.) 

He’s got plans. Specifically, an invention to get up and running - and he has the perfect place in mind. He bets he can get the gang to help him set it up - if they’d just answer.

Okay, maybe he’s a little unsettled. The Party doesn’t just go radio silent on each other, okay? Because when a Party member goes radio-silent, it usually means that something is wrong. Really wrong.

His eyes slide over the stain in his carpet. It’s a barely-perceptible rusty brown, now, blending in with the striped carpet unless you know just where to look. He had to tell his mom it was spaghetti sauce.

His toy robot starts marching out of the corner just as Dustin turns away, chattering unintelligibly in its perpetual-low-battery fizzle, red eyes glowing.

Wait.

What.

Dustin turns back, slowly, and this time the robot is joined by a toy tank and R2D2. 

Now, he’s no expert, but in Dustin’s fourteen years of experience on earth, toys don’t come alive. So he’s understandably befuddled when he closes his eyes, counts to five, opens them again, and is met with a small crowd of miniature robots, vehicles, and one small mechanical dinosaur all moving with apparent purpose towards his bedroom door.

Okay. Cool. So either he’s dreaming, or he has to burn the house down and salt the earth. He’s seen Poltergeist. He knows how this ends.

Hopping carefully over a hotwheels car, Dustin grabs the first weapon he lays eyes on: a heavy, solid can of Farrah Fawcett hair spray from his dresser. R2D2 whistles cheerfully, as if beckoning - and, like the idiot that dies first in a horror movie, Dustin follows.

His hat slips down a little too far over his forehead, and he shoves it back as he creeps along in his socks. He has got to adjust the band on this thing.

“It’s just a dream,” he mutters to himself. The shiny plastic robot at the head of the small army bumps into a wall, adjusts its trajectory with an affronted little grumble, and leads its followers across the hallway. Through the house. Into the living room. “You’re dreaming.”

The feeling of being watched makes his skin crawl. He swears, in about five seconds he’s gonna punt one of the little - 

They stopped.

Dustin freezes, eyes flicking over the now-inert toys. Then he darts forward to scoop up their leader, turning the robot over in his hands, inspecting it. An electrical disturbance, maybe...? He picks at the battery panel. That still wouldn’t explain the -

Fweep!

The shrill blast pierces the air directly behind him and he screams, spins, and deploys his weapon - directly into the eyes of his best friend.

Lucas screams. Dustin screams. Lucas screams louder. Dustin realizes he’s still spraying the hairspray and abruptly lets go, dropping the heavy can on Lucas’s toe. Lucas screams again, hopping sideways, one hand over his eyes and one still clutching the Welcome home Dustin! sign that Dustin has just taken note of. Lucas then trips and hits the floor with a thump. The rest of the Party, who Dustin now sees behind him, gawks - and then explodes into guffaws.

Mike and El are holding hands, El hiding behind Mike’s shoulder from the spray of Farrah Fawcett, laughing around the noisemaker in her mouth. Max’s hair blazes down around her shoulders, the burnished-copper-red slightly frizzy with the humidity, her face screwed up in helpless bouts of belly laughter as she holds her stomach and watches her boyfriend roll around on the floor. Will’s hair has grown out maybe half an inch since Dustin last saw him, the straight line of his bangs creeping towards his eyebrows and the fringe of his hair warped slightly where it gets caught on his ears. For a split second it gives Dustin a sinking feeling - like that’s just one more thing that’s changed since he left. But then Will laughs, that exact same chortling laugh he’s had since they met in the fourth grade, and Dustin’s face splits into a grin.

“Guys!” he yells, throwing out his arms, and they dogpile him.

From the floor, Lucas groans, “Welcome home, asshole.”

[fogsrollingin]

SPN S15 Mini-Review (brimming with praise tho)

I've decided not to live-chat this year & instead watch every episode alone with a glass of wine & this expression on my face

(replace the little chick with the glass of wine)

I loved everything about this premiere and it's an understatement to say I'm sad we only have 19 episodes left to go.

The Kansas Watch Party was amazing. This is me freaking out over The Darkness the Impala & Yurtle, Charlie's yellow Gremlin:

And here was the VIP bag o goodies (they killed it!)

Episode Highlights

Dean's stupid knock knock jokes while tending to Sam's wounds makes me wanna cry. Not because it's sad but just, I have b r o t h e r e m o t i o n s. I also kinda like the knock knock joke canon over counting from last year's ep (the "you always put me first all your life" scene) because counting is a bit remedial.... although maybe it's just as great if I consider it a thing they only did if there was risk of a concussion/head trauma. That would make sense so nevermind!

Castiel's exasperated disappointment over Sam shooting him was hilarious. Also "well I wouldn't starve." 😂 Also the cold open with Castiel picking Jack up and running with him 😭

For more Jack feels, Dean saying he was their kid. Fuuuck 😭😭😭

Moving on, Calvert's wiseguy-esque demon is absurd, mesmerizing, and just plain fun! I'm embracing this role because we already know from last year's finale that Jack's rolling around in the empty and we'll see him again. In the meantime we can totally enjoy Balfagar (if I heard that correctly). Edit correction: Belphegor, oof I was so close

I love the conclusion Sam spelled out to Dean about how Chuck losing interest in them means they could finally be free of his influence/plans. There's so many layers of meta that I'm not gonna occupy myself with right now because what matters most to me: this is a fantastic goal with a lot of potential plots. They don't wish to defeat their antagonist, or win something, but to escape.

...well okay, maybe I will entertain one meta thought.

The Quickest Meta: it's established Chuck represents the show and canon, and that if Sam and Dean manage to get Chuck to move on from them, they can finally be free and canon, the show, will end.

They're still fictional characters though, so where is their freedom? How do they carry on?

My hopes involve the writers suggesting the characters are trying to escape Chuck, canon, the spn writer's room, in favor of all the options, transformations, permutations, continuations of Supernatural that fans generate in fanfiction. That Team Free Will's ultimate escape is in the creative freedom of the masses that love them and write them for fun, not the few in the writer's room that are additionally limited by time, budget, popular opinion, and television censorship.

I so desire for Supernatural to leave a lovely message to its fans like that, full acknowledgement and shameless encouragement for us to continue Sam and Dean and Castiel's stories in eleventy billion different ways for years to come even after canon ends.

Endnotes: Sitting in a hotel lobby in Lawrence, Kansas writing this up and giving myself the warm fuzzies thinking about all the love and goodwill between everyone that could happen by the end of this season.

Wait, shit, now I wanna cry again. 😢

[meant-to-be-a-hero]

Season Three, Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?

Okay, this season, I remember. Or at least more than I did of season 2, anyway.

Alexei looks like Russian Jesse Eisenberg.

Let's make a hole into the horrible hell dimension. Terrible plan is terrible, Russians.

I forgot they bumped Erica to regular this season, I thought that was for season 4.

Oh yeah, this is the snogging season.

Starcourt Mall is such a great set piece. Talk about quintessential 80s.

"Isn't it time you died?" Erica's such a gem.

Scoops Steve, my beloved.

Will is pretty much 95% PTSD at this point.

"I'm not gunna fall in love." Okay Will, might be a bit late for that.

Yurtle! I thought Dart ate him, that's some good news at least.

Lifeguard Billy, my other beloved.

Giving power to someone with all that anger is a bad idea.

To be fair, I'm surprised Karen hasn't cheated on Ted before, considering how much of a giant dickhead he is.

Nancy's self-restraint is legendary.

Steve, Steve, Steve. You suck, you really do. (Because you're trying too hard).

Apparently the answer to "when did Steve get so hairy?" is "Season 3". I see chest hair poking out of that Scoops shirt.

I think Cerebro hill is the same hill as the end of Season 4.

The Mind Flayer is the Pied Piper of Hamelin, apparently.

Ew, rats go bang.

"Breast stroke." Billy is not subtle. Like, at all.

Suzie is the Chekov's girlfriend of the season.

Bob :(

Hopper's never been this neurotic, he's completely out of his element lmao

I'm surprised El and Mike's lips aren't fused together after all the kissing tbh.

Bye Billy. Couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole.

[jacksquatjb]

Happy #DrSeussDay! Meet the SeussAvengers! For those who don't know, the Cat in the Hat animated movie revealed the fish's name as Carlos K. Krinklebein, so that is where Krink comes from. His alter ego also follows the alliteration like Bruce Banner haha Originally I was gunna use Yurtle the Turtle for this character but he is definitely a villain and I know EXACTLY who I plan to make him in the future... And please support my artwork at Patreon.com/JackSquatJB so I can keep pumping out this sort of content <3 #SeussAvengers #DrSeuss #Marvel #Avengers #CatInTheHat #CaptainAmerica #GreenEggsAndHam #IronMan #HortonHearsAWho #Thor #BlackWidow #Hawkeye #Thanos #TheGrinch #FanArt #DrSeussFanArt #MarvelFanArt #Drawing #Illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CL7g_pbD-ag/?igshid=kaeuyqbw5c39

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

Random songs I plan on adding to my Cosmic 4 playlist cause ✨️ why not ✨️ some of these may or may not also be suggestions for season 4

In no particular order...

For The Longest Time - Billy Joel

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Fire - Barnes Courtney

Time - Pink Floyd

The Kids Are Back - Twisted Sister

Burnin' For You - Blue Öyster Cult

I Get Around - Beach Boy

Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

not sure if these types of questions get on your nerves or anything, but i was wondering what you do to organize and plan your writing. (cosmic specifically). ive been trying to start writing again, life’s just been so much but i wanna start getting back into writing. i was just wondering how you do it? love you 🤍

I don't mind at all, I'm happy to answer in fact!

Short answer: bullet points. This is especially important if you're someone like me who is doing a rewrite where it's following along with the show and working an reader/oc into the series everyone already knows, big convoluted background origin story or not. I bullet point scene by scene, episode by episode with each season. Tedious, I know, but it helps keep my adhd thought on track and organized

��� The idea:

When I first decided to write my first ever story, cosmic, i wanted to jump right in but I knew it was better for me personally to just sit myself down with this little crumb of an idea and get to know it and the world i wanted to bring it into. This little wisp of an influence I would have loved to have seen in the show and all I did was sit and watch the show while keeping this in mind. I got myself used to the world and the history of the lab and what boundaries our heroes faces when it came to investigating it so I knew what gray areas were free to play in as my little sandbox. And as I watched, the more that watered my idea and allowed me to develop it cause I saw ahead of time what I needed to make it happen (I also just happen to be someone who loves details and fitting them in wherever I can), and it definitely helped to jot down any thoughts that came to mind during the first watch.

📝 The Bullet Points:

The second watch is where I really get into the physical planning of it all. I wouldn't necessarily consider it any more important than the first cause if I didn't have the first (again, maybe this is just how my brain works) I wouldn't have had the opportunity to fully develop my ideas and let myself get inspired as I enjoy the show (that's how I came up with the story in the first place, after all!) But it is where all the "writing" gets done.

All it is is just a bullet point list, episode by episode, scene by scene, of what is going to happen. Probably not super conventional or how "the pros" do it, but again, my brain just might be weird and likes to be thorough. I don't make myself go in detail for stuff I don't need to. Literally, half the bullet points are stuff like

-gov does tests on pumpkin patch. Powell tells hopper about the reported sighting of el.

^that's an actual copy and pasted line from my season 2 bullet points. The stuff where I actually integrate reader (yes, I try and do this wherever I can which is another reason why I am reluctant to update s1 on tumblr cause there's a lot of missing experiment nuggets in non reader scenes) The point is, it can obv be as extensive as you want if you even find that bullet points work for you.

A quick example from my tua fic plans. Sorry I couldn't get anything from cosmic, the app I used for that one didn't allow screenshots, but it is the exact same process.

As you can see, i don't always keep my notes super serious and/or wordy and just have fun with it to keep myself from working myself into a corner 😅 believe me I have a lot of great little nuggets, including literal memes just thrown in there. But overall, that's about it!

🔁 Repeat:

That's pretty much it, and is still the method I use more or less today. Like when season 3 of ST came out, I just sat down to watch it as a fan. But it was also the first time I was watching stranger things while having my series out so it was really fun to watch with a new lense with y/n just riding in the back seat of my mind and popping in here and there. (Again, notes have gotta be ready!) And I plan to do it again with season 4, and it will be the first time I do it with my tua fic being written as s3 releases!

Again, I just want to give a disclaimer that this is just how I go about things cause my unmedicated brain gets tangled and distracted easily so doing this helps me. I've definitely gone through trial and error, as anyone likely has and will but my best advice is not being afraid to try things. When I had the idea to sit down and be thus thorough, I really wasn't super jazzed about it and I certainly didn't dive in all at once because I was afraid of getting bored. But it weirdly helped and felt kinda satisfying?? Cause I went the extra mile ahead of time instead of facing that later if that makes sense? I knew it was something that was gonna bother me later, knowing the lore and getting it 👌just right👌

If you just stick to your gut and get what you feel like you're gonna need, I think things will work out just fine. Sorry if this was super long but I feel like people should know by now that's just me 😂 also, thats the kinda the point I was trying to make! Lol shutting up now. Love you too darling, feel free to stop by anytime <3

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

Soo the Day That Wasn't and the Day That Was is tricky

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

COSMIC || Will Byers x Male!***Adopted!Henderson!Reader Masterlists:

***link to -> she/her ver. // they/them ver. // main masterlist

-> written by Yurtle, edited by Ria (@1-800-call-ria)

Season One || [✓] [completed on wattpad]

The story in front of you is the entire series of Stranger Things, with only one difference; you the reader are apart of the story. You are a member of the original party, with Mike, Lucas, your adoptive brother Dustin, and your best friend Will Byers. What you don't know yet is, your best friend Will has basically been head over heels for you ever since you and your brother moved to Hawkins Indiana in the fourth grade. When Will goes missing, it's up to you and your friends to find him.

Season Two || In Progress [...]

As always, you the reader are apart of Stranger Things.

It has been a year since your best friend Will Byers was found, and as the the anniversary of his disappearance creeps up, things take a turn for the worse. A new threat has made its way to Hawkins Indiana, and with it, a familiar face offering answers to your past. Come along in the thrilling second season of Stranger Things, where things only get stranger.

Season Three || Loading...

It's the summer of 1985 in Hawkins Indiana, better known as the Summer of Love. You and Will are together and happier than ever. Alas, lasting peace is hard to come by in Hawkins. It is not long before things begin to change for the worse. Signs of the Mind Flayer's return begin cropping up everywhere. Inhabiting a new host, the Mind Flayer plots his revenge, with 𝘆𝗼𝘂 in his sights.

Season Four || Pending...

Times have changed here in Hawkins and not for the better. The party has splintered and so have you. Surrounded by broken promises, an absent friend, a protective mother, inexplicable dreams, and two very important people far out of your reach, your anger has made you unrecognizable. Or so your brother Dustin says. But he's been spending all his time with that Munson kid, so how would he know? Good thing you've got a stockpile of letters from Lenora to keep you company until your arrival for Spring Break. Just in time for Mike and you to throw a secret surprise party for a certain someone. Let's hope nothing deters your plans, Henderson. Bad enough you're leaving a bleeding Hawkins undefended… There are more people expecting you in Lenora Hills than you realize. So you better get a move on. The clock is ticking.

Season Five || Pending...

IT'S TIME TO COME HOME...

-> masterlist updated: Sun, March 6th 2022

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

The Pre Season 4 Premiere Disclaimer [more announcements coming soon]

Otherwise known as the I Don't Plan On Erasing Any Canon Queer Rep We May or May Not Get Masterpost

First things first! Cosmic is an x reader series dedicated to rewriting the series with you the reader into the story as a member of the original party, as inclusively as possible as Dustin Henderson's adopted sibling. There are three pronoun copies (the one I started with, she/her, and then they/them and he/him). This series was planned and started back in 2018 when only s1 and 2 were out with a preplanned fleshed out backstory for the reader that would be uncovered throughout the course of the series.

Will Byers was chosen during this planning session as the readers love interest and has remained so throughout both seasons and into s3 as the show has progressed. Read more about that here [X]

Will Byers sexuality, any feelings for a certain party memeber, however and whatever is portrayed in *checks countdown* 3 days 8 hours 11 minutes will not be ignored in this fic but incorporated in as closely to the original material as possible flowing from whatever point I have him at with this fem!reader. If you are upset/confused as to why there is a fem!reader in the first place, please read this answered ask in full [X] which dives into my own internalized homophobia and you'll see I have every intent to correct this and without giving away too much, i hint that i have plans to continue this copy without disrupting this. Also, if you've been reading this far into COSMIC, you'll see that this is far from a surprise as well as both Mike and Will have been written heavily as having underlying feelings for one another despite their existing relationships for a long time.

Again, this is before season 4 has aired officially but it's been something on my mind for much longer and though I've stated it so endless times, I realize others might be new to the series and won't know. Hence this post.

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Much love <3

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

Heads Up, COSMIC Readers!

Big announcement time!!

We've got good news and bad news:

Bad News: Despite having everything already being pre-planned for years, I will officially be postponing the last two episodes of season 3 until season 4 has been fully released. Only cause I know where I want the story to go, and I have to make sure the endgame of season 3 sets this up correctly. Essentially, I have to see if I predicted things accurately and if not, I'll just make some adjustments to a few outcomes in the penultimate and finale. But overall, I'm going to keep as much as I can cause I'm really really happy with what I have planned.

The Good News: E PLURIBUS UNUM is almost here, and just like season 4 it's the biggest one yet! Long ago, I discarded writing extra scenes that weren't relevant to the COSMIC plot to essentially make it feel like an immersive novel, but i don't think it was very popular for this reason and secondly, it obviously took a long time. I still haven't changed this out, but the original copies remain on tumblr to this day. Now. Excluding those first few episodes, this will be the first time a COSMIC episode has surpassed a six chapter limit! No filler, it's still all Griswold Family and Scoops Troop content, but like I've said, I've been building to a lot of stuff in the COSMIC universe that I hope you guys will like. There's a lot of stuff in here that I'm pretty proud of.

More Good News: We've got a release date! 🙌 That's right, E PLURIBUS UNUM will be coming your way very soon so mark your calendars for May 9th! Next week! Just promise me you'll take lots of breaks and hydrate plenty? 🤨 It's a long one.

That's it for announcements, and I thank you graciously for reading, love ❤️ I wish to you the best things and hope you are having a splendid day/night <3

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

can i ask you how our precious girl el is doing today? please?

Forgive me, dear nonnie, I wasn't sure if you meant El or Cosmic!El but either way, I'd be delighted!

(whoops this got away from me. Guess that's to be expected at this point though, lol)

C!El, the sweet pea, is currently in a food coma on the couch, surrounded by her amazing little family. Her mother made enough food to feed a family of bears, and yet between her, her mother, and her two brothers, no one managed to even touch dessert. Actually, her and Will both got pretty close, but if it hadn't been for the little competition between them who could finish first, they wouldn't have filled up so fast. (Jonathan almost regrets accidently putting the idea in their heads). Everyone is excited, though, because the day after tomorrow they'll be flying down to Hawkins to celebrate with loved ones, and plan on staying through New Years. The process will be brutal given its the holidays, but they've been through worse.

Poor joyce, though... Between Jonathan raving about seeing Nancy, Will and El going on and on about seeing the party again (particularly the Wheelers and Hendersons), she hasn't heard anything in the last week from anyone that wasn't about the upcoming trip. She loves it though, she can't remember seeing any of her three kids so happy and it makes her super happy.

ST!El... *season 4 standing behind me with a knife* ...bah, who cares! I'm not looking at it right now so therefore, it does not exist. Believe it or not, this may be the closest to the happiest she's ever been. (Even if we're counting the very end of the finale) she has her family!! Her full family!! Her dad is alive and within her reach, she's got two wonderfully annoying brothers and an amazing, brave mama bear of a mother. All of whom, would do anything to protect her and know she's loved. No matter what El is going through (which is a lot) she makes it her duty to cherish the good she has in her life now and she's holding on and NOT letting go or taking it for granted. Even in between the actual hell on earth madness, I'm positive her and her little family find a way to sneak in even a tiny tiny little bit of holiday spirit. Idc if it's an unspoiled can of beans, there's a gift right there depending on the state of things. Els got every intention of letting her loved ones know how important they are (and yes, of course this includes Max. I like to think she made a little bracelet or something and it fits around her cast and everything 🥺) and they certainly make time to make sure she knows how much they love her. Abysmal times or not, know this: El is so deeply loved.

So yeah, I guess I don't have a straight answer since it's hard to say for sure where it's going, but that's my main belief. She is so loved by her people and she knows it.

This was so heartwarming to think about, thank you for the little prompt of sorts! This kinda thing is always fun! Thanks again dear anon, I hope you are having a very happy holidays and are staying safe, healthy, happy and warm!

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

i was thinking through it and now im a tad worried, (more than a tad), but since max and lucas are broken up, are u going to have will and y/n break up too? i would hope not, seeing as the two can’t function well without each other, but i wanted to see what you’d say

Possible spoilers for Cosmic 4 below**

Honestly? Nah. At least, I don't have any plans to at the moment. Really, when it boils down to it, it depends on what happens in s4. I already have a pretty good guess why Max and Lucas are broken up (though I hope they get back together, myself) but that's their reason. What the reader and Will have is their own thing, and what I try my best to make unique. So no, I don't currently have any plans to have reader and Will break up, and the point is they can function independent outside of each other--as this is what is meant to separate them from the other couples--but you're not entirely wrong about them needing each other. Especially with everything each of them has faced.

After all these years, the trauma is starting to pile up and it gets harder to carry. Especially if you both were targeted and nearly killed by the mind flayer. And now the person you lean on lives more than halfway across the country. These poor babies, maybe one more than the other, is working through some stuff 🥺❤️‍🩹

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

COSMIC || Will Byers x Gender Neutral!***Adopted!Henderson!Reader Masterlists:

***link to -> she/her ver. // he/him ver. // main masterlist

-> written by Yurtle, edited by Ollie (@imwaytootires)

Season One || [✓] [completed on wattpad]

The story in front of you is the entire series of Stranger Things, with only one difference; you the reader are apart of the story. You are a member of the original party, with Mike, Lucas, your adoptive brother Dustin, and your best friend Will Byers. What you don't know yet is, your best friend Will has basically been head over heels for you ever since you and your brother moved to Hawkins Indiana in the fourth grade. When Will goes missing, it's up to you and your friends to find him.

Season Two || In Progress [...]

As always, you the reader are apart of Stranger Things.

It has been a year since your best friend Will Byers was found, and as the the anniversary of his disappearance creeps up, things take a turn for the worse. A new threat has made its way to Hawkins Indiana, and with it, a familiar face offering answers to your past. Come along in the thrilling second season of Stranger Things, where things only get stranger.

Season Three || Loading...

It's the summer of 1985 in Hawkins Indiana, better known as the Summer of Love. You and Will are together and happier than ever. Alas, lasting peace is hard to come by in Hawkins. It is not long before things begin to change for the worse. Signs of the Mind Flayer's return begin cropping up everywhere. Inhabiting a new host, the Mind Flayer plots his revenge, with 𝘆𝗼𝘂 in his sights.

Season Four || Pending...

Times have changed here in Hawkins and not for the better. The party has splintered and so have you. Surrounded by broken promises, an absent friend, a protective mother, inexplicable dreams, and two very important people far out of your reach, your anger has made you unrecognizable. Or so your brother Dustin says. But he's been spending all his time with that Munson kid, so how would he know?

Good thing you've got a stockpile of letters from Lenora to keep you company until your arrival for Spring Break. Just in time for Mike and you to throw a secret surprise party for a certain someone. Let's hope nothing deters your plans, Henderson. Bad enough you're leaving a bleeding Hawkins undefended…

There are more people expecting you in Lenora Hills than you realize. So you better get a move on. The clock is ticking.

Season Five || Pending...

IT'S TIME TO COME HOME...

-> masterlist updated: Sun, March 6th 2022