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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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01 Mar 2026
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A beat. “You… prayed for me?”
“Must’ve been an accident. Now’s not really a good time, Cas,” Dean strains out. He doesn’t dare let his eyes stray from where they’re locked on the kitchenette table in front of him, like if he can’t see Cas then Cas can’t see him. “Sometimes a man needs his privacy.”
“Is that what you yearn for, Dean? Privacy?”
He gulps down the sinking, sinking feeling that he has been caught with no way out. It’s not the first time in his life that he’s been trapped in a half-truth, and he bears this with as much grace as he ever has in situations like it. Jaw clenched. Ungraceful. “I’m not sure what you’re getting at.”
Cas’s voice is all unflinching divinity from a creature that watched the Library of Alexandria burn. “I feel your longing.”
or the one where dean is so touch-starved that less is more
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24 Feb 2026
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forwards beckon rebound by m4zzyst4r (cinematicghibli)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Nov 2025
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“Harrington,” he croaks - god why, why do I have to sound like that in front of him - he clears his throat, continuing, “you couldn’t have done me a favour and let me die in that shithole, spare me from Dustin?”
Steve finally turns to look at him, grinning madly. Fuck, Eddie thinks, fuck this is so unfair. You’re just standing there looking at me like that, smiling, all broad and pretty and scarred up, fuuuck.
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Alternatively titled: the Steve Harrington bisexual crashout of 1986. Because vecna might be dead- but repressing your feelings (and trying therapeutic D&D with the direct cause of your identity crisis)- is quite enough to be getting on with.
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23 Feb 2026
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smoking guns (hot to the touch) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2022
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Sure, they've saved the world, but the best part of that really is that it doesn't end there and in a town where everyone thinks he murdered a girl, he's at least got Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley. It's really not his fault he accidentally starts living at Steve's house, he was invited, after all. There's a mystery too, about Barbara Holland and Steve's pool.
“Your boner is digging into me,” says Robin, and Steve snorts a tired sort of laugh.
“I don’t have a —”
“You do, I can feel it. Gross.”
“Okay, but it’s only a little one,” he says in a small voice which sounds like he’s impersonating someone.
“Are you ever going to let that go? I peed a little bit when the Russians got the torture devices out, okay?” She sounds amused, though.
Eddie jolts. “Russian torture devices?”
Robin carries on like she didn’t hear him but Steve catches his eye and he’s grinning. “How do you even have a boner dude? You were definitely having a nightmare I know your twitching means a nightmare… Did you have a boner over Vecna?”
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20 Feb 2026
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On New Year’s Day, less than two months after the bomb and the end of the Upside Down, Mike comes out to Will.
On February 14th, another unexpected thing happens.
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A while ago, El watched a movie where a man took the hands of an actress with a pretty smile into his own. I’m mad about you, he told her, feverishly. He didn’t sound angry, not really– but that’s what he said. Mad. El came to her conclusion, then.
The heat in her cheeks must mean that she is mad about Max.
The first time El sees Max, she sweeps her off her feet. Over the next few years, Max returns the favour.
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13 Feb 2026
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But then Eddie saw a whole pile of kids get in Harrington’s car, and he overheard Nancy Wheeler say that “Steve was babysitting,” and that image didn’t even remotely align with anything Eddie knew about King Steve “The Hair” Harrington, but he figured he didn’t know much, anyway, and it wasn’t any of his business, when it came down to it.
Eddie thought so little of it, in fact, that he had almost forgotten that Max had apparently been babysat by one Steve Harrington. That is, until Steve Harrington started showing up at the trailer park, picking up Max and driving away, and then Eddie wouldn’t see Max at home again for days on end.
Eddie didn’t know much about babysitting, but he was pretty sure the gigs were more of an hourly thing.
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Or: Steve takes care of everyone, but Eddie takes care of him.
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13 Feb 2026
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Eddie's eyebrows shoot up as high as they can go. His heart is beating a rabbit rhythm against his chest. The floor below him crumbling into an abyss. He’s in free fall here, utterly helpless to the onslaught that is Steve’s confession.
Drunk confession.
The reminder does nothing to soften the blow when he feels calloused fingertips on the corner of his eye. “And your laugh lines, I don’t know anybody who has them. Not as deep as yours.” Steve’s fingers drag lower, to his cheeks, and brush against the scars on his jaw. “Has anybody ever told you that you laugh with your entire face?”
OR a reverse 5+1: The one time Steve drunkenly confesses all the things he likes about Eddie and the five times Eddie tries to fluster him with said attributes.
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11 Feb 2026
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You paint dreamscapes on the wall by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2026
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The thing was, Will loved Mike. He had always loved Mike. Loving Mike felt less like a choice and more like gravity. Something he’d learned to live with, something constant and unyielding, even when he’d tried, desperately, to move on.
“Your… your what?” Will managed finally. His voice sounded distant to his own ears, thin and unsure.
Mike swallowed. “My boyfriend,” he repeated, a little quieter this time, like maybe if he said it softly enough, it wouldn’t sound as insane. “I need you to be my boyfriend."
💕💕💕💕
After coming out, Mike asks Will to pretend to be his boyfriend for a trip home to Hawkins. It seems simple enough.
Except pretending is harder when you’ve already been in love for years.
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31 Jan 2026
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Will’s eyes sting with tears, and his nose prickles with heat. He feels like he’s burning, like he’s on fire. But Mom’s right—he doesn’t have to be afraid. She knows, and she loves him, and she’s not leaving. All that’s left is the words. And he shouldn’t be scared of words. After all he’s been through, if what takes him down is the English alphabet, then the world has a really fucked up sense of humor.
He just needs to rip off the bandaid.
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Alternatively: Five times Will Byers came out, and the one time someone came out to him.
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29 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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Eddie wakes up from his coma on a Friday afternoon with Robin at his bedside, because of course he does.
“So… this is really weird” Eddie says.
“So weird!” she agrees.
“I don’t even know what to do now, because I’m supposed to stay with you for like another hour or something, but I never even thought about what I’d say to you if you woke up while I was here.”“What do you mean you’re supposed to stay with me for another hour?” He asks, looking more than a little mortified, his voice a loud theatrical whisper as he asks “Do you… you’re taking turns sitting with me?”
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Eddie forms new relationships with The Party while he recovers in the hospital.
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24 Jan 2026
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you can keep your boots on baby (I'm a woman not a lady) by hexiewrites for alligator_writes, oriscribes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2023
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God bless low rise jean shorts, Chrissy thinks, as she squirms under Robin’s ministrations.
Robin shifts so that her lips are right up against Chrissy’s ear, and Chrissy can’t help but squirm again, back into Robin. “You’re driving me crazy,” Robin husks into her ear, and Chrissy shivers at the sound.
“Why, sugar,” she says, in her best Tennessee accent. “I’m just a sweet innocent country girl!”
Robin laughs and it’s lower, full of promise. “Somehow,” she mumbles, and her pinky dips down below Chrissy’s waistband, brushing back and forth over the lacy edge of Chrissy’s thong, “I don’t think that’s true at all.”
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interconnected post season five explorations of the characters in and adjacent to the party, how they are shaped by their experiences but also heal together and continue to love and support each other. can be read in any order, but are organized here alphabetically by character last name.
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18 Jan 2026
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"The first thing that El does once it’s all over is sit. Just sit. It is not a guilty sitting where she feels like she should be training instead, or a stolen sitting in between moments of running for her life or a tense sitting while trying to reach out and find someone in the beyond, it’s just sitting. Stiller and simpler than she’s let herself be in months, maybe years...She feels her breath moving through her body, feels her heart being in her chest and basks, not just in her calm, but in her life. The simple, beautiful, astronomical fact that she is alive."
Or, El Hopper lives beyond the final battle. And lives. And keeps on living. She figures out a lot of things about herself along the way.
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- Part 3 of the party; family
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17 Jan 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of Editing
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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17 Jan 2026
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we might be lovers (if the rhythm's right) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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So, seeing Mike like this- Star Wars T-shirt and corduroy hanging off his shoulders, grinning so hard he’s glowing- sends relief soaking down to Will’s bones. Rings dash his fingers as he reaches above his head, a stretch that reveals his pale expanse of stomach and ribs. His hair curls like a rockstar, if rockstars were dungeon masters and literature snobs. He runs a hand through it, and Will’s mouth goes dry.
Oh yeah, Mike giving in to his true self? It’s also reallyfuckinghot.
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Or: After a d&d campaign Mike uses the vampire persona to flirt his ass off, and unfortunately it actually works
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17 Jan 2026
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Long Live the Fast Times (Long Live Us) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Nov 2025
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“I love her like I love Lucas, or Dustin, or Max. Like a friend.”
Will nodded slowly. “Like me.”
“No,” Mike said before he could stop himself, “not like you.”
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Holly gets taken by Vecna and Mike knows he has bigger problems than his unrequited feelings (or so he thinks) for Will Byers. That doesn't stop him from spilling his guts anyway and avoiding the ensuing conversation by diving headfirst into the mindscape to save his baby sister, and maybe find Max along the way. But Will isn't going to let him get away with a confession that easily. AKA Mike is clocked by more than one person in the midst of the apocalypse and figures he might as well go for broke.
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17 Jan 2026
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our house (in the middle of our street) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Aug 2022
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He's in the market for a house, it's not his fault the Creel Murder House is the cheapest place he can find. It's kind of the perfect house, really, Steve's got a big family.
Eddie fumbles in rolling the blunt. They’re sitting in Eddie’s room while he rolls on the tray balanced on his knees. “You’re — you’re giving me a key?”
“Yeah. I don’t know if you want to move out of here but uh… option is there if you uhm, need it?”
He stays staring at Steve, fingers paused over the tray like the ridiculous caricature of a stoner caught red handed by the cops. “For real? What about rent?”
“Yeah man, of course. I know you haven’t been sleeping great here for obvious reasons and like, a new place isn’t going to help that much but…” He shrugs. “Got more rooms than I know what to do with, so fuck rent. I’m getting keys for you and Rob next week and maybe some for the kids, I don’t know if I trust them with keys to my house.”
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- Part 1 of our house (was our castle and our keep)
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16 Jan 2026
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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Bookmarked by magicae
14 Jan 2026