16 Bookmarks by ariathewizard
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A curse born from jealousy feeds on others love.
To lure it out, Yuji and Megumi are assigned to pose as a couple.
It should have been simple.
The problem is that somewhere between fake dates, shared stories, and pretending to be in love, the line between acting and reality begins to blur.
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18 Jun 2026
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Please Please Please (let me let me let me) by Phoenan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Set Post-Volume 1.
Mike and Will are taken by the military who take a special interest in Wills powers. While Will is subject to experimentation, Mike does everything he can to keep Will safe.
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"Will!" Mike crashes to the ground next to him. Gets a good look at him.
Wills eyes are dazed slightly. They latch on to Mike anyways and he seems to sag with relief. The blood from Wills nose falls onto his lip. Into his mouth.
"That was- that was amazing!" Mike brings his sleeve up and wipes the blood away. He opens his arms and lets Will collapse against him, head resting on Mikes chest and Mike doesn't even think twice about how intimate it should feel.
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06 Jun 2026
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(the beating of our hearts is the only sound) by Connellllll
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2026
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This is just a cute little one shot of a Will Byers coming out scene fix-it, or really how I wish the duffers would've given our sweet boys the ending they deserved
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02 Jun 2026
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I just died in your arms tonight (must’ve been something you said) by WillByersIsMySon1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Apr 2026
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It’s Dec 19, 1986 and it’s the last day of school before winter break.
Mike notices something seems wrong with will, he isn’t like how he used to be.
(Also a Christmas party fanfic!!)
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01 Jun 2026
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I burn for you in the dark by Angel_eyes_and_basketball
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jun 2026
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Will Byers was familiar with nightmares. They had plagued him for years, even if they hadn't always been about the Upside Down.
What he was not familiar with was shattered light bulbs and feelings of dread so intense he could only think of it similar to what he had felt in the field last year. Not from nightmares. Except he wasn't quite frozen. It felt almost like being beckoned closer, and he wasn't sure he knew if he could resist.
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Will gets his powers in season 3 instead and has to navigate as he tries to figure out what it is that he's going through while dealing with other issues in his life. Featuring Byler endgame, wonder twins, and a progression of events just different enough to change things immensely.
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29 May 2026
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A continuation of the beloved Sharknilla fic "Going Live"!
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29 May 2026
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your tears won't fix anything (but i will) by space_b0y28
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jun 2026
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Mike had never been the best at the whole regulating emotions healthily thing, but there was only so much Nancy would take.
It was painfully clear that he was distraught, and Nancy was sure she knew why. Will Byers, the love of his life, the boy Mike has been in love with since he was six, officially moved out of their house.
The Byers were living with them for at least two months until they received a surprising amount of hush slash “sorry about all this, I really didn’t think this would happen” money from a certain Sam Owens, and bought back their old house. The family who lived there was just happy to get it off their hands and get out of Hawkins, which was very reasonable considering the town was collapsing in on itself.
_______Inspired from a post I saw on Pinterest w/ Nancy saying she fixed Mikes love life n Will being mad at her cause Mikes sobbing at his house... anyways enjoy (I tried my hardest)
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25 May 2026
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its the 2000s and mike likes will but is far too stupid to understand or be normal about it
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24 May 2026
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Will Byers was never found in 1983. Now it is 1987, and someone unexpected appears to take him home.
Will Byers was never found AU!
This takes place before/during season five. (Kinda a rewrite of season 5, too.) Also kinda Byler focused :)
Each chapter is named after a song, and I'm making a playlist with the songs for each chapter in order. This is the link: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4l3MR45RRoG4vVHnUx8p0Ojbs-i50L9g&si=QjjrXkJbubQHhrcZ
Happy (or not so happy wink* wink*) reading!
*NOTE* Adding tags as I write -- pay attention to tags before interacting!
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10 May 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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05 May 2026
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The summer before college is supposed to be easy.
Mike teaches Will how to drive. They get jobs at Family Video. Evenings still belong to the park, the swings, the same routines they’ve had for years. For a while, it almost feels like nothing has changed.
Then their boss gives them ten boxes of unlabeled tapes and tells them to watch them. All of them. Tuesdays, paid, just the two of them in a dark room writing down runtimes and summaries like it doesn’t matter.
Most of the tapes are nothing.
Some of them aren’t.
And suddenly, being alone together starts to feel different. Something neither of them quite knows how to name, or admit, or look at too closely.
Told in alternating POV, this is a story about growing up, denial, and what happens when something you’ve spent years ignoring refuses to stay buried.
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25 Apr 2026
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Will Byers is forced to relive the worst day of his life - March 22nd.
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- 6/6
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22 Apr 2026
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For their senior year spring break, the Party sets sail on a 7-day cruise to celebrate the next chapter of their lives. Not much has changed since their last reunion, as long as you don't count Mike and Will breaking up two years ago, which fractured the group permanently and made it so neither of them could stand to be within ten feet of each other.
It'll be a trip they never forget - that much Will is sure of.
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20 Apr 2026
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"I have Ms. Kelly today," Max says, almost bitterly. "You'll be okay at lunch without me?" she says it sarcastically, like a joke, but there's an undercurrent of something else in her voice; for a moment, she almost sounds scared.
Will releases her hand, even as they walk out of the gym doors together. "Works out for me," he tells her, "I have that project for art I have to finish up anyways." He pauses, hesitates. "Will you be okay without me?"
Max takes a breath, and then gives him a shaky smile, one that doesn't quite reach her eyes. "I'll have your tape," she says, wiggling the wires of her headphones. "See you after school."
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or: a shared tragedy brings max and will together for their first year of high school in hawkins. they stay together, even as their demons rise again. a s4 rewrite, in which joyce is the one who dies at the end of s3 and thus the byers + el never move.
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- Part 1 of breaking out
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10 Apr 2026
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Will Byers has PTSD from the events of stranger things 5. TW! Self-Harm
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18 Mar 2026
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Will forced himself to stop thinking. The Upside Down was closed for good. Eleven had close the gate last year and saved them all. His mother, Jonathan and Nancy had taken the Mind Flayer out of him. There was nothing more connecting him to that place. He was clean. Purged. And those stupid chills he got from time to time in the back of his neck were just his brain messing up with him. It was him not being able to move on from what happened in the past. It was him not being able to grow the fuck up already.
Dustin clapped his hands, the sound echoing in the calm night, making Will snapped out of his thoughts. “We can become heroes, Will. Honest to God American heroes. Like freaking Red dawn or something.”
Season 3 rewrite in which Will listens to the Russian transmission with Dustin. Inspired by American Heroes by catchip2
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- Part 1 of Our way to the Rightside Up
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30 Jan 2026