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After Vecna’s death, and being severed from the hive mind, Will doesn’t feel free — he feels empty. The world goes quiet and distant, his senses fading one by one until pain is the only thing that still reaches him.
He doesn’t tell anyone what’s happening at first, he just takes matters onto his own hands. It starts out simple, pinching his arm during class, biting his lip at the dinner table, throwing a playful punch as Dustin just to receive one back. Small things, safe things, just to keep him grounded.
However, Will’s craving for pain quickly becomes unbearable. His life starts to revolve around finding new ways to hurt himself — and Mike becomes the only thing that makes it manageable. Mike doesn’t know what’s wrong, only that something is, and he agrees to help Will no matter what. As time goes on, Will’s requests grow darker, obsessive and more dangerous, and what starts as concern turns into something binding, pulling the two of them closer together until Will’s need becomes too much to survive.
Soon Mike is forced to choose between being what Will needs and being what might save him, even if it slowly destroys them both.
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14 Jan 2026
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Sometimes, Will really, really wishes he could catch a fucking break.
As if getting dragged into the Upside Down and making everyone rescue him a second time wasn’t bad enough, this time, somehow, Will also leaves the Upside Down with the ability to read people’s minds.
At least he’s not throwing up slugs this time.or;
Will gets telepathic powers, and can't control them. Through this, he accidentally learns that his best friend is having some less than heterosexual thoughts.
The only problem is he doesn't seem to know he's having them.Series
- Part 1 of supersensory perception
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05 Jan 2026
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Mike walks in on his roommate making out with another guy and gets really upset about it. For all of the normal, straight reasons.
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04 Jan 2026
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When bad boy Will Byers gets expelled from school in the second half of his senior year, his mom uproots their lives from Queens, New York to her hometown of Hawkins, Indiana.
As if that weren’t bad enough, they move into the guest house of Joyce’s childhood best friend, Karen Wheeler, and her picture-perfect family.
This should be interesting.
*this story is complete*
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- Part 1 of When Worlds Collide
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion by cortexikid
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
30 Dec 2021
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“You grow out of it,” Richie mumbled, barely above a whisper.
“I don’t believe you," his younger self spat back.
“It was just a crush,” he insisted, lying through his teeth. “Puppy love. You get over it. Over him."
The kid whirled around, eyes flashing with contempt.
“I know what I feel! I can see how you feel. Fuck, I don’t get it. He’s even...he also likes…” he floundered, taking a step closer to Richie.
“Why the fuck are you with that blond dude when you’re obviously still in love with Eddie?”
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29 Dec 2025