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let light be light (i found you first) by aspentree13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2026
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January of 1992. The fifth year since Jane Hopper died in front of Dustin and the Party and disappeared forever.
Dustin is restless. He graduated early from MIT just because there was nothing else to do. He receives an invitation to complete his PhD in Oxford and books it there as fast as he can. But England is pretty much just as boring as America. Until he sees Jane Hopper at his local grocery store. It's not really her, though. It can't be. Right?
(In which Dustin finds a girl he thought he'd lost forever and stays by her side as she learns to choose herself)
Title from "Let Light be Light" by Lizzy McAlpine, a song that made me cry when I listened to it while writing this fic because it was so perfect for it.
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What Was Ours Still Will Be by aspentree13
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)
27 Jan 2025
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"Jack rolled her eyes and snatched the last drawing from Katherine’s fingers. “What, a little different from where you were raised, heiress?”
Katherine sucked on her cheek as her face flushed from the insult. Good. Grovel in it, Jack thought.
“Snyder told my father that you were arrested stealing food and clothing. This is why, isn’t it? You stole to feed those children.”
Jack shook her head. How could this girl even try to pretend to understand? To pretend she cared? She would never care- especially not like Jack did."
In which Jack Kelly, after being dolled up by Pulitzer and scabbing the people she loves most in the world, is confronted by the girl she can't stop thinking about.
In other words: the rooftop scene but they're lesbians thank you.
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PJO in High School by aspentree13
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
28 Aug 2023
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Heroes of Olympus/PJO but they're in high school! I got bored on an airplane and randomly started this. There won't be a very big overarching plot, mostly the characters getting together and then a day-by-day conflict. Think silly TV show.
All the main characters will get their own pov for a bit.
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Jack Kelly but she's a girl and that's it by aspentree13
Fandom Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)
27 Jan 2025
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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of Broken Mirror: a collection of us
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04 Mar 2026
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ego death at a new year's eve party (fate's got a funny way, baby!) by sapphicwithapen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2026
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“You didn’t tell me Will had a boyfriend!”
Shit. Mike felt his own jaw drop without even realizing it.
“No, he doesn’t,” Max said, but it came out more like a question than anything. And then she looked over at Mike, who was horribly red in the face and was suddenly feeling an overwhelming urge to reconnect with nature after this. “Wait. Does he?”
OR: Mike gets jealous at a party, accidentally reveals that Will has a boyfriend, and neglects to tell anybody that he's the boyfriend in question.
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- Part 1 of stranger things 90's mix
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06 Feb 2026
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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02 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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01 Feb 2026
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don’t go wasting your emotion by catrastherapist
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
24 Jan 2026
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“Hey,” she said, tearing her eyes away from Annabeth to look at me for the first time. “Peter, right?”
“Percy,” I grumbled. As if Mr D wasn’t bad enough, now I had to deal with this girl too?
“Percy,” she repeated with a frown. “Very colonial. Didn’t know people still had names like that.”
My hands curled up into fists. Peter was a stupid name anyway.
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i tweeted "au where rachel likes annabeth instead of percy" and people seemed to like it
features bi annabeth and a very jealous percyBookmarked by aspentree13
25 Jan 2026