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Love Will Tear Us Apart (A Glimmer Of Hope Refusing to Fade) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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After the events of 'A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade,' Will, Mike, and the Party are all battle-worn, exhausted, and half-grown-up - not to mention ready for their NDA deals to carry them into an easy life of peace, luxury, and recovery.
...but, of course, that doesn't happen. Whether it's the Upside Down following them and haunting whatever city they live in the same as it haunted Hawkins or just trying to survive after what they have, it's never going to be easy.
(It's worth a shot anyway. And they'll be damned if they don't try.)
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- Part 2 of The Glimmer Series
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In a galaxy ruled by tradition and colonization, Mike Wheeler of the Solokovs has always been the misfit - a bookworm and a bit of a loser who's been forced into warrior training on the frozen planet of Denorax because he's the backup heir. But when he's appointed to being a diplomat for Denorax instead of a fighter, everything changes, especially when he meets Dhuri.
Dhuri, going by Will behind closed doors, is the first diplomat for his planet Thorara and the native tribe ruling it as well as the youngest diplomat in centuries. He comes bearing warnings of war and threats, but when Mike chooses to align Denorax with Thorara and himself with Will, it begins an alliance like nothing ever seen before - and Mike makes a friend (or perhaps more), which becomes even more important when galactic tensions rise and the two boys and two planets have to rely on each other to survive the storm coming.
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I Hate You (Almost As Much As I Hate Myself) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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After the mind-fight at Surfer Boy Pizza, three big things happen (other than the obvious):
1. Mike and El break up
2. Mike gets ready to confess to Will
3. Will... has a mild breakdown.These things... interplay, for sure - but whether for good or bad, they're not quite sure for a while.
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Ground Control & Major Tom by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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Byler astronaut AU. Mike’s just started working at Mission Control for NASA in Houston, and things are… fine. He’s not nervous at all about screwing something up the way that he screwed his life up before.
(But you know what helps? The fact that one of the astronauts on the ISS is actually really sweet and talks Mike through a panic attack he has on call with the ship. His name is Will, and he hums the ‘Star Trek’ theme song enough that half the people on that station want to kill him but don’t because he’s genuinely lovely. As time goes on, Mike looks forward to talking to Will more than anything else in his life and starts falling for the disembodied voice. And then he realizes that he knows Will. That he has for a very long time.)
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Time Cast A Spell On You (But You Won't Forget Me) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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Will is never found. But… well, he’s not alone. Because when Mike steps off the cliff, he’s gone into the Upside Down too.
Time is different in the Upside Down.
And it makes things very, very strange when, four years after Will and Mike disappeared and five years after the Upside Down became a recurring evil part of everyone’s lives, the Party finds those two boys on a crawl. And they’re still twelve years old.
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Will… is special. And Henry desperately wants to control him, to take that power as his own, to have Will out of his way.
To get Will to submit, for Henry to use his powers while keeping Will locked away, he’s started to create another world to keep him in, and he brings Will in every night in his sleep, searching his mind and slowly attempting to manipulate him. But one day, Henry finds an even larger secret than Will’s sexuality, than his love for Mike, even larger than the powers he desperately hides - he learns that Will is intersex and able to carry a child. And… well, Henry has no qualms about Will being a means to an end - years prior, he used him to carry D’art, after all. Why not use the extraordinary coincidence of Will’s genetic powers and his ability to have a child? Henry doesn’t even hesitate.
Will, meanwhile, is already miserable and struggling as Hawkins devolves into an apocalyptic wasteland, his relationship with Mike gets weird, and he feels like reality is slipping - so when one day he wakes up from a very ugly nightmare pregnant, despite never letting anyone even see him without a shirt to hide the truth (despite never even letting himself think about sex), he slips.
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You're the Sunflower by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
17 Feb 2026
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Miles has... made some mistakes.
Most recently on that list, he skipped a grade, passed a few tests with a few too many extra correct answers, and now that's resulted in Miles attending Visions High School, AKA White Rich Person Stress-ville. Where he is... very lonely, very stressed, and feels very out-of-place. Surprise?
Which isn't helped by this cool dude showing up wearing anarchist pins and flirting and Miles getting... bitten by a radioactive spider? Huh?
And now he's Spider-Man, even more freaked out and stressed, and things are just escalating from here. What just happened?
(Basically, 'Into the Spider-Verse' except it's Hobie who shows up to Earth-1610 instead of Gwen. It changes... literally everything. Mostly canon-compliant through ITSV, but then becomes very different through ATSV and starts speculating for the AU version of BTSV.)
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In season one of Hannibal, Will figures out the truth about the Chesapeake Ripper during episode eight instead of episode thirteen. However, when he goes to confront Hannibal, things take an unexpected turn - instead of subduing him and bringing him in, Will ends up kissing him instead.
(A fix-it fic - well, as fix-it as cannibals can get - featuring murder husbands, chronically-ill-bisexual-disaster Will, a pack of too many dogs, an overprotective Hannibal regretting his choices as far as who his family is, 'The Deadliest Catch,' and Hannibal loving and cherishing Abigail and Will instead of whatever the fuck the show was.)
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Je T'aime, Je Te Hais by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Feb 2026
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A Timebomb classmate and modeling AU.
Ekko’s worked hard to get into the Academy - Zaunites don’t get to come here a lot, and after years of fighting against Silco and running the Firelights, he’s decided he’s earned the ability to pursue a PhD and does so. However, is the girl with blue hair, the girl who used to be a mobster until Silco died a few months ago, giving a good impression of the people in Zaun, all chaos and pigeons and wide smiles as she gets her own PhD? No. She’s reflecting poorly on them, and between that and the, you know, issue with her being the daughter of a mob boss, Ekko hates her. However, that starts to change, both as a modeling career takes off and as he realizes that the Undercity wasn't Silco's only victim, and they become close friends - and maybe something more.
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After the events of 'Lone Wolf,' Joel's managed to get Ellie recovering and keep her safe in Jackson, where he's fighting for them to have a home and a life. However, as much as Ellie loves Joel, she feels responsible for the whole world because of her immunity - and thus, when the Fireflies come, she wants to go.
But Joel? Joel, who only just got his daughter - his still-injured twelve-year-old daughter - and the opportunity to keep her safe? No, of course he doesn't like that.
But he loves her, and when the time comes, he's willing to follow her to the ends of the earth.
Even if it means bad things are going to happen.
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- Part 2 of Lone Wolf
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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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When Tess gets bitten, the Cordyceps doesn't spread - she's immune.
But what are the odds that two people are immune when nobody else is?
(And what are the odds that Marlene happened to give Ellie, a girl exactly the same age that Joel and Tess's dead baby would have been, to them?)
(Basically, Joel and Tess are Ellie's biological parents, Tess is immune, etc)
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Henry gets bitten instead of Sam, and as a result, he makes Joel promise to save Sam before taking his own life. Which means Joel has to try to get across the country with a severely-ADHD 12-year-old and a deaf 8-year-old.
(It's fine, though. Everything's fine.)
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I Love You So (Please Let Me Go) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08 for TheSunflowerQueen333
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Feb 2026
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When an Omega is in severe distress, it's obvious - they become unable to eat, their scent shifts into something achingly sweet, and their throat punches out mournful chirps, all designed to attract pack members and mates to the Omega's aid, designed for the pack to spoon-feed and carry and cuddle and coddle the Omega. This is called a drop. Since Joel's murder, Ellie's been in that state twice - once when she had Dina, Jesse, and Tommy to watch over her and take care of her as they hunted down Abby, and then again now as she hunts Abby down on her own. But now she's alone. Her pack is completely gone, Jesse dead and Dina and Tommy despising her, Ellie even being kept away from her own pup, JJ. This state has gone on for months and no help is coming as Ellie becomes borderline catatonic.
Until Abby finds Ellie at death's door, and it doesn't matter if Ellie hates her, what kind of Alpha would she be to let an Omega suffer like that? Of course she has to treat the girl who wants her dead like she were Abby's own mate, recruiting Owen and Mel to help bring the little Omega back - what else is there to do?
(And even more important a question: is that situation the truth? Or is it just a dream?)
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Runs in the Family by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Feb 2026
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Six months after Vi's life falls apart, Jinx goes to check on her sister and finds her in a bad place. Out of some sense of loyalty and love, she invites Vi on a trip to Viktor's cult without reason - but when they start traveling, she notices Vi muttering to herself and flinching at nothing. As time goes on, Jinx watches Vi slip off the deep end and lose her mind, talking to thin air, constantly disoriented and confused, hitting and hurting herself when upset, and refusing to eat, drink, or sleep, and she decides to take Vi back to Zaun and a familiar environment in the hopes of bringing her back to normal. On the way back, Caitlyn shows up, her men having alerted her that something was wrong with Vi, and (after a brief catfight with Jinx) takes her back to the Kiramman home for treatment, where she and Jinx (mostly) set aside their differences and work together trying to bring Vi back to normal. Despite relationship tension between all three of them, Isha the only one who's not involved in some kind of argument, things start going better as all of them slowly mend their relationships and mental states.
And then they figure out that Vi's pregnant.
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Part of the Crew by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Feb 2026
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After mentioning that she wants to be an Enforcer over dinner, Caitlyn is transferred from the Junior Academy to Zaun's only school to discourage her from choosing that path. During her first day, a girl named Vi begrudgingly helps Caitlyn and allows her to sit with her and her siblings, and Caitlyn develops an interest in being their friend (and... maybe (definitely) also develops a tiny (massive) crush on Vi). Despite their reservations, they accept her into their little group, and she fights to be a full part of the crew, through both high school and heists.
(Basically, Vi, Mylo, Claggor, Powder, and Caitlyn at the age they were in S1: Act 1 in high school in Zaun, featuring Caitlyn and Vi having an adorable teenage romance, Vander's kids trying to make Caitlyn into an anti-establishment delinquent (it mostly works), Vander ending up with another kid constantly hanging out in his basement, and the six of them (including Ekko) being chaotic teenagers/kids trying to find their way among a steampunk borderline-dystopia, high school, and their constant shenanigans that happen as a result of them all being chaotic little gremlins plus terminal illness and class war.)
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Tea (I Am Stronger Than You Give Me Credit For) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Feb 2026
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Silco's... not a good parent. As much as he loves his daughter, he has a few flaws when it comes to her. But he can explain it all away, from slipping drugs into her tea to keep her his perfect little girl to keeping her safe away from the world. He can even explain giving her to the Enforcers in exchange for Zaun - after all, they've given their word that Jinx is not to be harmed.
Ekko, meanwhile, went to the bridge upon overhearing the Enforcers' plans to capture Jinx on their radios - she's too far gone, and as the last person who knew Powder as well as the leader of the Firelights, it's his job to put her down.
But after rescuing her instead upon realizing Jinx is still at least a little Powder, when he learns that 'Jinx' the persona isn't real but instead a defense mechanism, upon learning about the drugs in her system and the pain and fear inflicted on her, he insists she can be saved.
And thus begins the rest of her life.
(Featuring childhood-friends-to-enemies-to-friends-to-lovers Timebomb, a complicated relationship between Jinx and Silco, genius Firelight bioengineer Jinx/Powder, and Jinx proving she's stronger and better than anyone gives her credit for.)
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In Another Universe by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Feb 2026
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When Jinx falls, attempting to take her own life, Ekko jumps after her, desperate when the Z-drive is starting to run low - but when he catches her and pulls the cord, they get thrown into an alternate universe, where Zaun is free and happy, they're married with a child, and everyone is alive. While they try to re-orient and figure out how to go home, they have to navigate the question: do they even want to?
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A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Dec 2025
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When the Byers move to California, Will is lonely, bullied, and struggling with his mental health. When Mike comes to visit, he notices that something is off, but doesn’t know what’s wrong or how to help while his best friend feels so far away even though he's physically there. However, maybe Mike finds the answer after they are brought closer than ever after El is abducted by the government and they end up facing capture, interdimensional monsters, torture, the past, their own feelings, and attempting to prevent the apocalypse. (Post-s3, rewriting s4, and predicting s5).
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- Part 1 of The Glimmer Series
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Mike isn’t sure he’s ever just… existed without one person he’s loved more than anything. Without someone his heart belongs to.
The first day of kindergarten, his heart split a tiny bit to make room for a new wedge - this boy, quiet and alone and who liked dinosaurs as much as Mike, who drew him pictures and gave him his lunch when Mike was still hungry and who was the smartest, best person Mike had ever met even if he’d only known a few people by then.
With every month that passed, it felt like, that tiny sliver that went to Will got bigger and bigger and bigger until Will was… the majority of Mike’s heart. His mom and Nancy and Holly still had slivers, of course, and Dustin and Lucas had small sixteenths that would leave them hungry if it was pizza or pie, but Will…
...was everything.
(As the Demogorgons close in, Mike reflects on how much Will means to him as he tries to get them out of there)