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    "I was just thinking about the moon. How it's the same one, everywhere."

    Will leaves Hawkins for art school in New York. Mike stays behind and slowly falls apart.

    For three years, they orbit each other: phone calls that say nothing, letters that say too much, stolen touches in the dark, fights that feel like breakups when they were never technically together. They try dating other people. They try being just friends. They try pretending the thing between them doesn't exist.

    Nothing works.

    It takes distance, loss, and someone finally getting on a plane. Not to chase, but to choose.

    A post-Season 5 slow burn about grief, shame, wanting someone you’re not supposed to, and learning the difference between loving someone quietly and loving them out loud.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    What begins as a transforming love between Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak in the summer of 1965 quickly derails into something far more tumultuous when Dean is drafted in the Vietnam War. Though the two both voice their relationship is one where saying goodbye is never a real truth, their story becomes fraught with the tragedy of circumstance. In an era where homosexuality was especially vulnerable, Twist and Shout is the story of the love transcending time, returning over and over in its many forms, as faithful as the sea.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    “Did you know?” he asked at the last moment, voice cracked and warbly from crying. He hadn’t sounded that young in years.

    She hesitated for one painstaking moment, and at last replied, “No, Mike.”

    She almost closed the door, but stopped again.

    “I am sorry,” she whispered, remorse staining her voice, and quietly closed the door behind her.

     

    Three days after graduation, Will disappeared in the dead of night with nothing but a note left in his absence, and Mike's heart left with him.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”

    Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”

    The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.

    Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.

     

    Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    Will’s not supposed to be hiding in corners, forcing a fake smile when Mike asks him if he’s okay. He’s not supposed to brush off insults like they're jokes. He’s not supposed to vanish for six hours during a school day, leaving Mike feeling like he’s slipping away all over again.

    Whoever said that beating Vecna’s going to fix Hawkins’ problems, Will’s problems, Mike’s problems—they deserve an earful. They deserve to feel this weird, hollow dissatisfaction chewing away at their chests.

    aka mike begs will to escape their small town after too many run-ins with homophobic small-town bs. he knows will's meant to find himself elsewhere, but he never expects to find an answer to the age-old question of his own fate. prom, gay bars, sleazy hotels, train stations, two lesbians and their not-so-legal marriage - they aren't the traditional sources of wisdom, but he can't complain.

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    10 Jul 2026