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[Pre-crash / No crash AU]
They've been best friends since childhood, but Shauna has two massive secrets she keeps from Jackie: That she's desperately in love with her, and that she also deeply resents her.
With a few months left until their high school graduation and Nationals on the table, everything changes for Jackie and Shauna when Jackie breaks up with Jeff and one of their usual late-night makeouts crosses a line that can't be un-crossed. As their friendship turns sexual, Shauna tries to decode what it all means while she waits for an acceptance letter from Brown and hopes to leave Jackie—and the feelings she's always had for her—behind.
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- Part 1 of JackieShauna Curse Universe
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14 Jul 2026
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My dearest beloved,
It is with great relief that I finally write to you. I think it doubtful for my words to ever reach your ears, but spare me this chance to lend you a piece of my thoughts — and only a piece, for I must write with caution lest I be discovered.Neil, amidst his own internal emotional conflict, accidentally stumbles upon letters Todd had been writing in secret to an unknown recipient. Neil (an idiot) continues to intrude on Todd's privacy by reading each new letter in secret, continuously agitating over their purpose.
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- 4/4
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11 Feb 2026
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girls of your dreams (you know what i mean) by maxineholtzmann
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2023
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The two of them continued, kissing quietly. Chrissy wondered how far she could let this go before they realized she was awake. She ached to touch herself, listening to the panting and low moans now coming from the other bed. Fuck it. Chrissy rolled onto her back and Robin and Nancy froze. She looked over at them, Robin on top of Nancy, pinning her hands above her head. The kissing sounds Chrissy had heard were clearly actually Robin working on Nancy’s nipples with her mouth–both of the cups of the negligee had been pulled down leaving breasts exposed.
Chrissy sighed. Slowly moving her hand down her body between her legs she said, “You don’t have to stop as long as I don’t have to stop.” Chrissy started circling her clit with her fingers, arching her back.
“Are you sure?” Nancy asked, still panting.
“Does it look like I’m not sure?” Chrissy said, using her other hand to fling the blankets back, spreading her legs and making sure Robin and Nancy could see where her hand had traveled.
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- 2/2
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07 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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- 8/8
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05 Dec 2025
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Once Neil gets to about page 6 when looking over his play, he feels his eyebrows furrow. Now, obviously since the play was about the Poets as a whole, there wasn’t really a main character. There would be a more prominent character in each given scene, but Neil made sure to avoid making himself the one who narrated and directed the entire story.
But once he was about halfway through rereading what he had so far, he realized that every character more or less revolved around one Poet in particular. Every scene managed to include the character, there were always in-depth descriptions of what he and his facial expressions looked like, and everyone either went to him for help or obviously valued his opinion highly.
Neil had named the character William, and he was realizing now that he had included a surprising amount of descriptions about this character’s blond hair, blue eyes, and unassuming but devout personality.
Oh shit, Neil thinks to himself, I accidentally made Todd the main character.
Or in which it's 1960, the Poets' senior year at Welton, and Neil's writing a secret play, his magnum opus, but there's just one problem: Todd keeps getting in the way.
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07 Mar 2025
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Mike's disappearance was sudden and not nearly as complicated as the citizens of Hawkins believed ,one day he was there and the next he simply wasn't. Sometimes people wondered if he even existed in the first place, but his dirty clothes still piled the floor, jamming his closet door open and baking in the sun, releasing waves of pungent musk. Posters of bands he never got to see were still plastered against his water damaged walls, corners hanging over as they tried to peel themselves away from the grief and decay. But so little of his social remains were left behind, like an idea that never came to fruition. Only those who knew him well remembered that they knew him at all.
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mike wheeler goes missing at 17 years old. 5 years later he is trying to live with the guilt of leaving everyone behind in hawkins and battling with his humanity. Will byers attempts to track him down and they end up in the same town.
Angst and gay shenanigans ensue.This fic is on an indefinite hiatus.
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- Part 1 of An ode to life and related works
Bookmarked by arose42
14 Feb 2025
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Slow-Burn, canon-compliant and set after season 4. Will Byers & Byler centric. If you like lots of feels and pining, a nice dose of spooky beasties, some silly character moments and seeing our boy Will kicking ass, taking names and coming of age, you're in the right place.
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It's two weeks after the fall of Hawkins and the Party are trying to figure out how to move on, find Max and stop Vecna.Will's heart is still breaking over Mike and El, but when those emotions awaken something decidedly more otherworldly and powerful he, and a strange new friend, have to confront what really happened in Hawkins on November 6th 1983 and what side Will himself is really on.
A fever-dream, mucho-feels, super long, semi-fix-it, version of Season 5.
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- English
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- 27/27
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30 Jan 2025
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holding the stars in place by castlebyer (loverslakes)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Nov 2024
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"It's officially been a month without kissing you since I realized I could," Mike announces.
Will and Mike figure things out after they almost kiss a week after spring break, 1986.
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04 Jan 2024