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resting fields and empty temples by SarsparillaSparrow (Bundibird)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 May 2026
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Sokka's not going to let his little sister lose her soulmate to the bowels of a Fire Nation ship. Even if it kills him.
[The long-awaited sequel to hollow hearts and hateful souls.]
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- Part 2 of Window to the Soul
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19 Jul 2026
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"I just need you to know," Will says quietly, and he makes himself hold Mike's gaze, "that if something happens - if I hurt you, or anyone else - it's not because I wanted to. I would never want to hurt you, Mike. Never."
The words hang between them, loaded with more meaning than Will intended.
There's a pause where all Will can hear is their breathing echoing against the storage closet's walls. The hum is more distant now, buzzing in the back of Will's mind, but the uneven inhales coming from in front of him sound louder. The breath tickling his nose (because they really are that close) feels realer.
Mike's eyes are still darting across Will's face, and Will can feel him inhale sharply. "Will, why are you so convinced you're going to hurt someone? What did Vecna show you?"
Everything, Will thinks. He showed me everything. Showed me killing you over and over until I couldn't see anything else.
Somewhere between slaying interdimensional eldritch horrors, exploding an entire dimension, and risking their lives countless times, Mike and Will find each other.
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13 Jul 2026
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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04 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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03 Jul 2026
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“Mr. Hollander, what’s your designation?” One of the doctors, a beta woman with kind eyes, asks, typing away at a nearby computer.
“He’s an omega,” Ilya replies for him, because at the moment, all Shane can say is “ow.”
“Any chance he’s pregnant?”
“Maybe? He’s on suppressants.”
Or Shane goes into labor at the cottage, which would be fine, if he’d known he was pregnant.
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- Part 5 of Hollanov one shots
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16 Jun 2026
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Fanning the Flames by cjr2
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
11 Dec 2025
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The Voyageurs ask Shane to join FanMail in order to foster a better connection with fans. Internet sleuths start to notice some interesting details in the background of Shane’s videos, and then the internet does...what the internet does.
Or Shane and Ilya are granted an opportunity to come out on their own terms. Sort of. And in they do it in a very Ilya way. (Surprisingly, it is Shane’s idea)
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10 Jun 2026
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I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language) by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Dec 2025
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Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?”
“Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed.
“No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his teammates laughed, although they mostly looked surprised that Shane was speaking to them at all. Rozanov didn’t laugh, though. “Are you Russian?”
“Go fuck yourself.”
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Despite an inauspicious start, when Russia’s Ilya Rozanov learns that Canada’s Shane Hollander is fluent in Russian at their first World Junior Championships tournament, it changes everything and sets them on a different course. Instead of being branded as rivals from the very beginning, Ilya and Shane start off as friends.
And, after all, a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone, did it?
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- Part 1 of Competition is Better With a Friend
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08 Jun 2026
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Steve Harrington just wanted to go for a drive the night of November 6, 1983.
Just a drive.
He didn't expect to stumble across Will Byers running alone in the woods, let alone an inter-dimensional flower faced monster out for blood.
He definitely didn't expect to be dragged into something so much bigger than him that would flip his life upside down forever.
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08 Jun 2026
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The Cursed Child by FloreatCastellum
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
01 May 2026
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Harry and Albus have had a difficult relationship over the past five years, and worrying events have transpired. Now, Ginny has sent them to a mind healer to repair the damage.
An exploration of my personal version of the Cursed Child through therapy sessions and memory exploration.
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- Part 78 of Slice of Life One-Shots
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30 May 2026
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Albus Severus Potter is about to make an earth-shattering magical discovery that could change the world—if only he could stop getting distracted by Scorpius Malfoy.
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- Part 1 of Arcana
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30 May 2026
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Will Byers and Chance Lawson move through the same halls like parallel lines, close enough to notice and never meant to meet; mirroring each other without conscious thought.
They both watch life from the edges, shaped by different worlds yet bound by the same instinct to stay silent and unseen.
However, in choosing each other despite everything that separates them, they break away from what's expected and step into something a bit reckless, yet entirely their own.
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28 May 2026
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Will Byers is always there for everyone as they grieve for his sister. Yet, no one is there to hear his own, except for this random boy whom he somehow, against all odds, meets.
Set during the 18-month period timeskip in Season 5 Finale Episode
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26 May 2026
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It was like an epiphany. Somehow, Will could see his future. He could see the girls dumping the boys. He could see Mike and Lucas ignoring his attempts to start a D&D game. He could see Mike saying awful things, which made him destroy Castle Byers.
Will didn’t want that.
Instead, Will stopped the girls. He asked to talk. They listened.
Cue the classic 80’s movie montage, which starts with a makeover, brings some important questions to the surface and makes Will realise something really important.
Will doesn’t like girls.
Luckily for him, Max and El are more than happy for him to join them when scouting for cute guys at the mall.
Of course that’s when everything goes to hell. With Russian spies, a new terror unleashed and Billy acting really weird, summer is never going to be the same again. For so many reasons.
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24 May 2026
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What if Billy didn’t die? What if El and Will never left? What would happen?
Well apparently, thanks to Eddie, they’d both end up on the cheer team alongside some very familiar faces.
As Will grapples with becoming a cheerleader and gains some fans amongst the student body, he finds himself being charmed by a very persistent jock. On the sidelines, Mike is forced to watch as his best friend changes before his eyes. Is it for the better? Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, strange things are happening in Hawkins. The Upside Down is back. Can Will juggle cheer, finding love and saving the world?
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23 May 2026
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His inner omega was practically hysterical… It hated that they had abandoned their nest, the home they presented in, and a potential mate, all to sit in the back of a van for days on end without properly caring for their pack. It hated that Jane had suffered, that Max remained comatose, that they had given Mike a courting gift that he unknowingly repackaged for someone else. It hated feeling scorned and rejected by someone so close to them, whose orbit they could not escape. His inner omega felt the need to prance around like a peacock, wanting to attract as many alphas as possible. It wanted to show Mike just how coveted Will truly was.
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Or: Will Byers presents as a male omega while in California. He would have been a rarity in Hawkins, but felt almost normal as he settled into his designation in Lenora.
Until he gets trapped in his hometown during the apocalypse, that is, and has to navigate what it means to be a male omega and “Zombie Boy” at the same time. And maybe fall in (and out) of love while he’s at it.
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21 May 2026
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"Hi," he waved awkwardly.
"Hi, are you Will?" she asked.
"Uhh, yes, I am." He stared at her serious face. One would think that Will, after living with Holly in the same house for more than six months, would know how to act around kids, but...
"I am Lizdebeth. You can call me Lizzie," she said, still standing in the doorway, all serious and a bit... judgmental? Huh.
"Oh my god, Lizzie," Will heard Chance's voice from inside the house. Then he appeared next to her, turning to Will. "Hey, you came! Come on in, sorry," he said sheepishly. He then turned to his sister, "Lizzie, what did we talk about when opening the door to strangers without me, Mom, or Dad present?"
"He's not a stranger, it's Will!" she said matter-of-factly. Chance rolled his eyes, and Will was two seconds away from laughing.
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Six months after the "earthquake," Will Byers is trying to balance Hawkins High with his own darkening thoughts. When Vecna reemerges, Chance, a classmate who offered to help him with Geometry, gets drawn into the horrors the Upside Down hides.
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20 May 2026
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Yearning (Push It Down) by xXxGreatRedxXx
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
15 Apr 2026
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Five times Nico di Angelo found himself in Jason Grace’s bed by accident, and one time he found himself there on purpose.
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16 May 2026
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all i wanted (was you) by pinklemonades
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
13 May 2026
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It has long been surmised that Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Sun. Scientific investigation suggests that this star system has two primary stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, gravitationally bound together.
Anthony J. Crowley always found this fascinating.
(or the beautiful mundane glory of human relationships, asking questions, and embracing the unknown as told through anthony and asa’s romantic affairs)
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15 May 2026
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GOOD OMENS S3 MAJOR SPOILERS!!! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, DON'T READ.
A man walks into a bookshop on a Tuesday afternoon looking for a book on astrophysics.
This is not, on the face of it, a remarkable event. People walk into bookshops every day. The Tuesday afternoon in question is grey and slightly damp, which is the default setting for Tuesday afternoons in London, and the man — tall, red-haired, wearing glasses that are absolutely not appropriate for the weather — does not look like someone in the grip of destiny.
Neither does the bookshop's librarian, for that matter.
But here is the thing about destiny: it doesn't particularly care what you look like, or whether you've combed your hair, or whether the astrophysics section is embarrassingly wedged between Gardening and Philosophy. Destiny has a long memory and a great deal of patience, and it has been waiting, in one form or another, for rather a long time.
The man's name is on the cover of the book. The librarian's name is Asa Fell.
Twenty years later, they will sit together in a cottage on the South Downs and listen to a nightingale.
This is the story of everything in between.Bookmarked by rubyxcube
14 May 2026
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After Nancy, Jonathan and Robin left the WSQK roof, Steve reflected on the past few year's failures and regrets, and how he'd put them right.
(This ignores 6 nuggets talk with Nancy being there, so let's just pretend he was in denial.)
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06 May 2026