11 Bookmarks by RetiredHuman
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“I tried being optimistic. For you, for us, for everyone but what the fuck does optimism do right now? What if this is all bullshit? Just a baseless, stupid, stupid conviction that has no—”
El can’t take it anymore.
She pulls him into a hug, wrapping her arms around him as tightly as possible, and his words peter out into soft, tempered cries, his face pressed into her shoulder.
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Mike and Eleven talk for a little while longer at the cabin, right before El goes to find Will. It leads to a conversation that exposes them both, in a way that they both need.
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She has him kneel, eat cherries from her palm that are sugary sweet.
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When he wakes in the mornings, it always takes Mike a moment to remember what reality he is waking up in.
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"I wish we could all meet back there," El whispers, as if completing Mike's thoughts. She breaks the plain waffle in half and offers it to him. "Home. Then we could all be together."
Mike swallows, consumed by the deep sorrow that feasts on his body when he remembers they have no home to which to return.
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Whenever Mike and El can't sleep, they have one tradition - sit on their kitchen floor, eat waffles, and share their innermost feelings and desires.
Set in a canon-divergent universe where Mike and El travel around the world and live in Paris because they deserved their happy ending together.
TW: body insecurities, mentions of suicidal ideation and alcoholism
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Let us go then, you & i by timetaker (VincereDiem), VincereDiem
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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The thing is, El has never understood the concept of personal space. Since she came back in 1984, ever since she integrated in their lives so smoothly and so warmly, Mike has had to get used to the fact that El treats distance with him as a personal insult.
To lose her then was to lose a beautiful, wonderful, magical, tragic mystery from a little week of his childhood; to lose her now would be to lose his own heart.
Or, seventeen-year-olds dealing with love. Set just before Season 5, ep 1.
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Paladin & the Pom-Poms by timetaker (VincereDiem), VincereDiem
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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Mike and El make out in the Hellfire Club. Eddie catches them.
Snacks are dropped, minds are blown, and Eddie wonders if he can pull a cheerleader too. Hilarity ensues.
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There's a serial killer in Hawkins, which would be easier to focus on, if there wasn't the problem of Billy Hargrove being driven to the brink of something very, very stupid.
AKA: Five times Hopper made the kids feels safe, and the one time that he couldn't.
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Mike should have better self control. He doesn't. Max comes over whenever he calls, though, so she doesn't, either.
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Normally El would be ecstatic with Mike coming over and spending the night, but not exactly under these circumstances
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Things are strange, people are stranger -hawkins, indiana, 1983
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HTTYD modern au - collab with dylacola by Double_Trouble_36, dylacola
Fandom DreamWorks Dragons (Cartoon), How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies)
07 Sep 2025
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For those who want to read all this AU content in one go (after reading the works in dylacola's modern AU ofc)
Universe setting and lore is from dylacola on ao3
my HTTYD modern AU masterlist! Now (finally) in chronological order!
trigger warnings may apply, please read carefully <3
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