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“Sometimes it can help to give pieces of ourselves to strangers, because it feels like they don’t really know us to judge us. Is that how you feel around Andrew?”
“Not really. Am I supposed to feel that way around you?”
“Some people do. How do you feel around me, Neil?”
“I feel like this is a big waste of time, and Andrew isn’t a stranger.”
“Then is he a friend?”
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- Part 2 of we were together
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the boy who loved (the boy who survived) by I_Will_Survive
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is a 25-year-old artist living in Manhattan with Robin, his roommate. He’s scraping by—teaching art lessons to kids and working as a programmer for an office job.
Mike Wheeler, 24, works downtown as an accountant, playing guitar on the weekends. Mike remembers all of the fucked up shit that happened to Will. But, more than anything else, he remembers that boy from years ago.
Meeting in a writer’s group session wasn’t exactly what either of them had in mind.
A long-form story about romance, work, art, trauma, growth, and sex in the city.
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the complications of asking your best friend to be your best man by defenselessgold
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
06 May 2024
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“Jean.” Jean could almost hear Neil’s lip curl in a sarcastic smile. “I need a favor.”
Jean replied with a low hum, his nerves getting the better of his vocal cords.
Neil let out a short but quiet spurt of laughter. “Could you be my best man?”
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Neil calls Jean in the wee hours of the morning to ask him to be his best man.
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- Part 1 of all for the complications drabbles
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The Destination Was Always Forever by TheseSmallDelights
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
30 Jun 2026
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This is the story of Neil and Andrew post “The King’s Men” and spans 12 years. It’s about their sexual journey – every baby steps, missteps, and gigantic leaps. It is also (and perhaps more importantly) the journey of how they stay committed throughout it all, made visible in the little things, and bigger, grander gestures. Most of this is a mix of canonical facts and my own take on their future.
A few of the scenes include: the night following the championship game, Andrew allowing Neil to get him off, Neil getting fucked for the first time, the handcuffs scene, Andrew moving to a new city while Neil has to stay at Palmetto for his last year, Andrew bottoming, Nicky’s wedding, and Andrew and Neil’s public coming out far, far in the future, followed by a crazy Fox reunion.
Content warnings and trigger warnings in the notes of every chapter.
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- Part 1 of Destination -
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the fireflies, the moonlit skies (and a whole lotta foolin’ around) by SarahJacobs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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Mike wasn’t totally sure what made him accept this summer camp job- definitely not his father, who told him he was wasting good internship time on friendship bracelets. Maybe it was his girlfriend of about a year sitting him down and telling him this just wasn’t working anymore, that it wasn’t him except it kind of was because he didn’t love her. And though he told her he did, he always had, even he couldn’t put up too much of a fight, not when he knew she wasn’t exactly lying.
So now El was off backpacking in Sweden and Mike was here, spending his days trying to teach little brats how to swim, not thinking about El and certainly not thinking about-
“Will!” Dustin called over his megaphone. “The banners look great. You’re doing a terrific job.”
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The Fleet Foxes Detective Agency by transandrewminyard (nocturnalboys)
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
16 Mar 2019
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In a catastrophic post-1929 Boston, the stock market crash and violent, unpredictable weather have dissolved the young nation known as America. Replacing it, a new lawless world rises, the nation-state of Independence, run by elite families who have the cash and clout to keep their grip on the survivors of the Crash. Andrew Minyard and Renee Walker, private eyes and owners of the Fleet Foxes Detective Agency, are the law, solving crimes in exchange for making their livelihood. When Andrew meets Neil Josten, jazz singer and objectively handsome man, he feels himself falling- into the realm of a new mystery, one that he isn't entirely sure he's prepared to solve, and a case that could radically change Independence forever.
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Will knew something was wrong back in Lenora. He just didn't know how to confront everyone. How do you even begin telling your mom, brother, and estranged best friend that they had missed your birthday?
A story in which Will is being forgotten by those he loves.
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Kevin's (hot, sexy and dangerous) childhood best friend is coming back to the States and Andrew (has dibs) is the one suffering the consequences.
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"Are you scared?" Josten asked, voice low and provocative.
"No.” Andrew said, bravely leaning closer to The Threat “What's in for you?"
He grinned wickedly, pierced tongue poking out "If I win, you convince Kevin to let me buy 49% of the Foxhole Bar"
The blond almost laughed at the improbability of it all. He frowned instead, half angry, half curious. In what could have been his biggest lapse of judgment or a yet-to-be-crafted plan, Andrew made a decision: he would amuse Neil Josten.
"What would I get?"
"If you win, you get to sleep with me" Neil smirked as he whispered, much like a feral predator, mischief glinting in the deep blue of his eyes "That's what you want, right?”
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It's been three years, and everyone seems to have moved on except Mike Wheeler. Stuck in the same routine, days blending together over and over. He's opted to accept his fate, but some feelings can't stay repressed forever.
As he grapples with his demons, he realizes escape is an option, leading him down a twisted road of memories past. Reliving each trauma reminds him, however, exactly why he was choosing to conform all along. If Mike can escape Vecna's curse, he just might rewrite a love story we've heard before.
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'He hears him say “Do not tell a soul, Levi” and wants to laugh. Tell anyone? To what end? So that others have the images that Levi now has running through his head; of grabbing hands and harness marks, hard words and soft lips, of lies upon lies upon lies in a desperate attempt to get to the truth?'
Levi begins to notice Erwin leaving HQ alone and not returning until the dead of night.
Slow-burn, pre-show Eruri.
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Lonnie never left.
But Jonathan did.
He packed his things slowly, like he was afraid the walls might remember him if he moved too fast. College brochures, thrift-store jackets, a future that didn’t fit inside that house. Joyce tried to make it feel temporary—I’ll visit, I promise, it’s just work right now—but promises became phone calls, and phone calls became texts, and texts became silence.
And Will stayed.
Someone had to.
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Stay In The Feeling by boulderuphill, TheSlavicShadow
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
13 Dec 2020
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The sense of relief is short lived. Years ago Jean would have considered it a tiny miracle to be able to spend even a moment alone with Kevin. They would have leaned close together and spoken in quick French, eager to make the most out of every second without supervision.
- Jean meets Kevin again and old feelings resurface.
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As long as he’s loved Jean, Kevin has often been struck with an intense urge he could never name. He knows now, immediately, that it was this. To take Jean apart.
Kevin Day has a strap-on and Jean Moreau underneath him.
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"It’s bullshit, Will thinks. Senior year doesn’t look good. Not even in the movies."
All Will Byers has to do is get through the final year of high school without anything changing. All anyone else wants to do is fix everything that happened all those years before.
A story about change and healing and an illegal candy store.
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- Part 2 of roots
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Kevin Day's best kept secret is Jean Moreau.
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Allison never thought that she would get a second chance with Renee.
After Seth’s death in Allison’s third year at Palmetto State University, Allison had coped. She had to give it to Neil—if it weren’t for the danger he’d put them all in that year to keep her so busy, she probably would’ve spiraled a lot harder than she had.
She had to give it to Neil and Renee, that is.
Or: In their third year at Palmetto State University, Allison kisses Renee for the first time. Three years later, Renee leaves, and Allison doesn’t stop her. Five years after that, Renee comes back home. Everyone’s a bit stupid about everything.
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to sail guilessly in these seas by clysmicthoughts (phosophenes)
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
03 Jul 2021
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“It’s not a good time to dwell upon wonderings. There never is.”
Too bad he’s terrible at following his own advice.
Or: Three times Armin should've asked Eren to stay, and the one time Eren should've asked instead
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- Part 2 of crossroads at rhapsody
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Levi swore to Erwin he would kill the Beast Titan. But how can he follow such an order when it's Erwin himself he pulls from its nape?
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This Slope is Treacherous (And I Like It) by picture2burn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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It's been 8 years since Mike Wheeler laid eyes on Will Byers.
Everything spirals due to a box of lucky charms, a meeting of the minds, and also a hypothetical slap on the head from Max.
And even then, Mike still doesn't do it right.
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“I talked to Will.”
“It’s about goddamn time,” Max says, her arms flailing in the air. “It only took, what, eight years?”
“I told him I’m in love with him.”
Max’s eyes widen and she sits up straight. “Oh. That complicates things.”