14 Bookmarks by clemsun
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Mike prides himself on being the number one student in the junior class - that is, until a new girl comes to town. Luckily, he has his friends Dustin and Lucas to distract him from his failures.
Public high school is a breeze for El, whose adoptive father, Jim Hopper, sacrificed everything to raise her and her sister, Kali. But what's the point of being successful when she's so lonely?
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Or, the 2010s academic rivals-to-friends-to-lovers AU.
Title from: Hold Me Like a Grudge by Fall Out Boy
Bookmarked by clemsun
16 Apr 2026
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The Winner Takes It All (Challengers AU) by bananacandy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2026
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Mike and Lucas have been tennis partners for years, and best friends for even longer. They've been inseparable since they were kids and while they may bicker like an old married couple, what's Mike's is Lucas's and what's Lucas's is Mike's. That is, until they meet the alluring rising star tennis player El Hopper, and suddenly sharing doesn't quite seem like an option anymore.
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16 Apr 2026
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and through death, i discovered life by arcadesintheneighbourhood
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jul 2026
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As she turns her head to greet Mike, her sincere smile topples faster than a Jenga tower after the yank of the last block.
Mike’s throat shuts itself off from his lips as his eyes meet hers.
Because thirteen years later, El still has the most gorgeous pair of doe eyes Mike has ever encountered, and she’s caressing his new coworker right in front of him.
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Thirteen years after the season 5 finale, Mike and El's life paths have diverged.
El lives with her long-term partner in the UK, working as a producer for a popular children's radio show and forging her own path with a new community.
Mike finds meaning as a palliative care nurse, trading his long time home in Chicago for the stunning scenery of Kent, England.
So what happens when a chance encounter at Mike's work picnic draws Mike and El back together? And what happens when Mike delivers some life-changing news about an important person from El's past, one that has her questioning her current life and relationships?
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19 Mar 2026
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I’ll be your morning-bright, good-night shadow machine by thiccpecans
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler is, in every sense, a shell of the person he used to be. Days melt into years, success arrives without feeling, and the book deal he once longed for does nothing to fill the space inside him. Only El’s absence still maims him—persistent, potent, impossible to ignore. But then, she appears to him one night, in a vision that feels far too real.
Or El accidentally pulls Mike into the void after years of estrangement and they, slowly but surely, become one again.
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17 Mar 2026
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rarely is there one wave (meaning fortune comes in threes) by Randomness_is_my_order
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2026
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“I’m Elín,” El said and there was the note of stubbornness she’d always carried in her, still so present. “Please,” she said. “Please, Mike.”
Mike let out a laugh that grated on his ears, “Finally. I thought you’d forgotten my name.”
El’s brows furrowed, lips twisting, “You think I’d ever forget your name? Forget you?”
“Did you not?” Mike asked with a pained smile.
Egged on by his editor, Mike embarks on a journey to the remote town of East Iceland, Seyðisfjörður, to recuperate and perhaps, find something inspiring to write about. What he finds there instead is the love of his life, once presumed dead, now real before his eyes, and a community that offers him the space to heal without handing him the cure.
Maybe his life still has capacity for the adventure and wonder that he’d once thought he’d lost forever.
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set after season five of stranger things!Bookmarked by clemsun
26 Jan 2026
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Mortals will see a still body and hear the silence of a battlefield and declare the war ended. Foolish, they gather their dead and wounded and depart in hushed voices to plan for the future, a resounding victory cry on their lips. They take days, then months, then years to celebrate, to heal, to recover. They grieve, then rejoice in the victory, take comfort in knowing it's over.
Really, they could not be more predictable.
- Or, the weird time-travel fix it fic that I decided to write to cope with the horrible feelings of sadness from the ST finale.
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09 Jan 2026
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They’re sitting on her bed, playing Slap Jack. She’s unfairly good at it; apparently Hopper taught her the rules a while ago. Mike watches her eyes flash under the overhead light, her cheeks flush with laughter, her hand tangle with his in an attempt to grab a card out from under him. There’s something enormous swelling in his chest, something he doesn’t have any of the words for, and he knows that he needs to tell her now or he’ll never get the guts to again.
“I think I might like guys.”
Or: something Mike and El have in common
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30 Dec 2025
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The world doesn’t end with a bang or a whimper, it ends with a black ballpoint pen scribbling on smooth white paper. She smiles up at you from her side of the table. You’re not entirely sure how you could go from loving someone so entirely to this. “I’ll try and send pictures,” Susan says, with warmth and sincerity in her voice. You know her well enough to tell that she believes herself when she says it. Maybe this time you really will get your two or three polaroids. Then she’ll either forget or realize what a waste of time it is to send scraps halfway around the world to the dog you kicked and starved.
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20 Sep 2024
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by timeforsomethrillingheroics
Fandoms: Lost (TV 2004)
26 Jul 2023
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Sawyer doesn’t think about Jack’s mouth turning down in disgust in the morning, as he has his first cigarette of the day. He doesn’t think about it in the afternoon, lying under a tarp and sweating like a pig. He doesn’t think about it in the evening as he watches the sunset spread like a stain across the open ocean. He especially doesn’t think about it at night as he feeds log after log into the signal fire.
Jack and Sawyer's relationship through season one. Covers episodes 1.03, 1.08, 1.11, 1.16, and 1.19 with some changes to canon along the way.
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18 Sep 2024
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A Haunted Night at the Jack-O-Lantern Jamboree by obsessivedaydreamer, teethmarked
Fandoms: Lost (TV 2004)
31 Oct 2023
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“Did you get—”
“Fake blood? By the gallon.”
Jack stares down at the red wheel marks covering the white laminate floor, “Did you get bleach?”
John glances downwards, “As long as we have the caution signs up we can’t be sued for any injuries. Plus, this will add to the enviroment! Just like the fog machines last year.”
“I was in a cast for—” Jack starts, getting heated, “Yes,” John cuts him off, “but then I wrapped you up like a mummy and all was well. We got almost a dozen customers that day.”
The bell rings as the door slams shut, “I’m tired,” John whines, “let’s just ditch out the back.” Jack yawns, “Do you think this is why we have no customers?” John wheels ahead of him, “Probably.”- Language:
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15 Sep 2024
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So You Think Your Neighbor is a Serial Killer (What Not to Do) by teethmarked
Fandoms: Lost (TV 2004)
26 Oct 2023
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Walt’s very happy with his neighborhood. Which is why, of course, someone buys the one empty house in their culdesac.
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- Part 1 of The 'Burbs
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12 Sep 2024
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It’s only once in a lifetime you get to switch bodies with your . . . rival?
Sure. Rival works.- Language:
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Bookmarked by clemsun
07 Sep 2024
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It's Just a Bad Dream Sweet Pea by Jaynosurname
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game)
18 Feb 2026
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After getting shot in the shoulder, the last thing you expect is to wake up next to your surrogate father two years younger. Yet that’s the reality Clementine is thrown into. Follow Clem through familiar and unfamiliar hardships as she tries to prevent her old mistakes from killing her loved ones all over again.
Status: Ongoing
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26 Aug 2024
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Big Feet for Little Shoes by celestial_arrow
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game)
29 Nov 2025
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Satisfied with AJ spreading his wings to survive alone, Clementine has already accepted her death. But when she wakes up and sees people she knows acting the same way she remembers, she questions where she is.
Heaven? Hell?
Whatever it was, she was going to do things differently and save as many people as she could.
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- Part 1 of Dreams of Dead People
Bookmarked by clemsun
25 Aug 2024