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Off Script & On Tour by wolfandsnap
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things RPF, Real Person Fiction
14 Feb 2026
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In a world that keeps trying to make them something else, they’re learning to be boyfriends anyway. They’re learning to want it more than they’re scared.
Maybe that’s all they can do.
Maybe that’s enough.Series
- Part 2 of What They Don’t See
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17 Feb 2026
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"Cicadas spend the vast majority of their seventeen-year life cycles underground. They chew on roots for the better part of two decades, crawl up trees, Cronenberg/Kafka into enormous flies, tear out of their alien shells, scream for two months, and die. I guess cicada days could either be a long time spent growing but not emerging, or they could be days spent struggling to become something new that doesn’t quite pan out so great, or they could be the two months of screaming. Or maybe it’s the height of summer, or the days when you can’t stand the noise outside. I guess I don’t really know. But the words feel kind of right to say."
Will Byers and Mike Wheeler have spent a semester at different colleges in Manhattan. After five months of no contact, they're about to meet back in Hawkins for winter break. Will has spent the semester growing but not quite emerging as he struggles to become someone new. Mike has just been screaming.
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16 Feb 2026
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Both of their bodies shake as they catch their breath. Will’s still hard, and his sweat is starting to dry uncomfortably on his skin, but all he can focus on is Mike.
It’s times like these he’s reminded how lucky he is to have Mike in this way. To see this side of him, this side that still feels too new and too intimate and too overwhelming all at once. Sometimes, he thinks he may be bitter. Resentful of his lot in life, being so painfully in love with someone who will so obviously never feel the same way. On his bad days, he even thinks he might resent Mike.
Like this, though, he knows that could never be true. Not really. Sure, it hurts, only ever having Mike halfway, knowing his body but never his soul. Yes, it’s going to kill him when Mike inevitably finds someone new and runs off into the sunset, leaving him in the dust again.
But it’s Mike. He'll take whatever he can get.
When he and Mike end up in bed together after graduation, they fall into something dangerously easy. Or, at least, it would be easy, if it weren't the most painful thing Will's ever done.
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12 Feb 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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08 Feb 2026
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What Happened During the 18 Months Skip? Absolutely Nothing. (Narrator: Everything.) by abrxsjaeger (klmrnngstr)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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Over the past few months, Mike had grown. Jesus, had he grown.
Taller. His shoulders had filled out. His jaw sharper now, more defined. His hands bigger too. God.
Will couldn’t stop noticing.
Couldn’t stop staring when no one was looking.
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Or Will presented as an Omega. The only male Omega in Hawkins, Indiana.
This changes things.
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06 Feb 2026