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First, there is the dark:
Waking, drowning, sideways-slipping.
A creature with three mouths, ten thousand teeth. The inky collapse of a nebula. A demo-dog with no beak.
Mike in the evening. Mike in the afterlife. Mike with sun-swollen cheeks.
Then:
“Disgusting?” Will echoes.
The clock starts to chime. The world seems to shrink.
“You're disgusting,” Mike says, definitive.
“I’ll just–” Will says, but there is no just about it, only floundering fish-feet as he struggles off the couch and to the foot of the stairs, someone behind him promising the juiciest steak you’ll ever eat!
Then:
Compared to Will’s skin, Mike's hand is nearly searing, long-knuckled, sixteen. It fizzles through Will like a lightning strike. In this moment, in the car, Will wants him.
Will always wants him – his dimples, his fine-motor skills, his tongue caught between his teeth.
or, after Vecna captures Will, things go a little differently.
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09 Mar 2026
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1. acknowledgement 2. resolution 3. pursuance 4. psalm
what lies ahead for two lives that just can't seem to untangle themselves.
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25 Feb 2026
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watch out now, take care, beware of the thoughts that linger, winding up inside your head, the hopelessness around you, in the dead of night
Beware of sadness; It can hit you, it can hurt you, make you sore and what is more, that is not what you are here for
post-starcourt, pre-finale.
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14 Jan 2026
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Put This Silence in My Heart in a Better Place by maddie_grove
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jul 2024
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Jonathan Byers disappeared on November 6, 1983. Barbara Holland disappeared on November 8, 1983.
Jonathan came home. Barb never did.
Nancy tries to make sense of it all.
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10 Jan 2026
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you keep looking but you can't find the woods when you're hiding in the trees
quiet moments between the chaos after the most romantic supposed "break up" ever put on tv.
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27 Dec 2025
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Nancy comes to school on Monday to find 'SLUT' scrawled across her locker in red paint.
It's nice to be back to normal, she thinks.
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13 Dec 2025
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El pulls down the makeshift blindfold, fashioned from a spare shirt Argyle had laying around in the van, from her eyes. Exiting the Void she looks straight at him.
”I found Nancy. She’s in trouble.”
”Drive faster!” He yells at his friend who’s already been way over the speed limit as they’ve blasted their way across the country.---
”Where’s Nancy?!” He repeats.
”What’s her favorite song?!” Robin shouts at him.Bookmarked by backonyou
09 Dec 2025
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Nancy Wheeler has been waiting for her twenty‑first birthday her whole life. In Hawkins, turning twenty‑one isn’t just about parties — it’s the moment you finally hear the music of your soulmate. Nancy has always dreamed of her own love story written in melodies.
But when the night arrives, chaos takes over. Robin Buckley is broadcasting her birthday across town, Steve Harrington is panicking over piñatas, and Jonathan Byers — quiet, steady Jonathan — shows up with flowers and a gift wrapped in twine. Amid the noise, Nancy begins to hear songs that don’t match the speakers around her. Each note feels like a clue, pulling her closer to the truth she’s been waiting for.
As the party spins out of control, Nancy realizes the music isn’t random at all. It’s been leading her to someone who’s been by her side all along — and when the harmony finally settles, she discovers that the greatest love stories aren’t about chance, but about recognizing the song that’s been playing quietly in your heart the whole time.
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08 Dec 2025
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Hawkins, Indiana has endured five years of chaos. Yet through every storm, one place has remained steady: Enzo’s, the little Italian restaurant where love, laughter, and pasta never fail.
When Jim Hopper plans to propose to Joyce Byers, Enzo’s becomes more than a restaurant—it’s the heart of Hawkins, proving that even in a town defined by darkness, love always finds the light.
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08 Dec 2025
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chapter 1: She’s sure she’ll tell everyone their first date was developing photos in the school’s darkroom on a Friday after school, before hanging out with each other the rest of the night, two weeks after they scorched a demon out of his brother and closed a gate to another dimension. She’s sure he’ll argue for the rest of their lives that it wasn’t actually a date.
A series of jancy fics I wrote on tumblr back in 2018 that never made it onto here (these were all written between season 1 to season 3, however can be read whenever!!)
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04 Dec 2025
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“And what about you, how are you? Are you uh, seeing anyone?”
Later, Nancy will blame many things for the words that come out of her mouth—the wine, Carol, her precarious emotional state—but even as she says them, she knows they will be impossible to take back.
“Actually yeah, I am.”
What has she done?
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02 Dec 2025
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“I know, okay? I know.” Mike ran a hand through his hair. “I’m just scared. I don’t want them to think of me like that.”
Will wrinkled his nose. “If you have a problem with being ‘like that’, then you need to take a step back and evaluate the situation. Because I hate to break it to you, but we’re both ‘like that’ whether you like it or not.”
Mike stared back unflinching. “That’s not what I meant. You think I have a problem with being queer? No. Of course not. Believe it or not, I love it. It means I get to have you.”
The earnest look in Mike’s eyes was enough to melt Will. So he tried to smile and placed his hand on top of Mike’s. “So what do you mean, then?"
“I don’t want them to think of me differently. Like, I don’t want to be their gay friend. Mike, the queer. I just want to be Mike.”OR: Will's ready to come out to the Party, but Mike isn't quite there yet.
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01 Dec 2025
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it’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate (it takes strength to be gentle and kind) by wavesoftranquility
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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“In the back of his mind it occurs to Will at that moment that he doesn’t yell like this, ever.
Maybe once when Mike and he had that fight in the Wheeler’s garage 2 years ago, but either than that… Will doesn’t yell. He’s gentle, and grounded, and sensitive. He’s kind, and emotional, and… not hostile. Never has been. He’s supposed to forgive, brush everything off, give grace to even the meanest of people.
But, God does it feel good to get that out. Years of bottling it up and letting people around him just have the win, holy fuck, he needed that.”
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after the events of MAC-Z, will byers is tired of everyone speaking for him.
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will byers crashes out not clickbait emotional
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01 Dec 2025
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“Whatever," Lucas shrugs. "You’re just jealous that you aren’t getting any.”
Mike raises an eyebrow, like he knows something the rest of them don't. Will looks like he wants to drown him. He probably deserves it.
In which Will has a love bite, the Party freaks out about it, and Mike is jealous of himself.
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30 Nov 2025
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Ever wondered what happened in the 11 months in between s1 and s2? Well, it’s time to find out…
*JANCY CENTRIC*
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30 Nov 2025
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The first real fight they have – not a disagreement, not an argument, not a debate, but a for real fight – is when he admits he's not going to NYU.
Nancy once told him she didn't want to be like her parents - meet an older man, get married, move to a cul de sac, start a family. But just because she makes a different plan doesn't mean the world will follow it.
Series
- Part 1 of Future Perfect
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23 Nov 2025
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“You really did sound like a total nut on the phone earlier, Nance; 'Code red, code red.' I thought you’d seen Vecna reincarnated behind your house or something—”
Worse. "I slept with my ex," Nancy burst out.
// Jonathan and Nancy mutually decide to break up before going off to their separate colleges. It lasts for all of three months.
Written for Jancy Week 2022 Day 4: I'll always come back to you.
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22 Nov 2025
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"Sometimes, Jonathan catches himself looking down at his scarred palm and remembering the feel of her fingertips tracing over it. He thinks about this mark much more frequently than the one on his hip. It feels more significant; He’d given this one to himself, after all. They’d chosen it together, him and Nancy, standing in his living room. Knife to palm."
Or, Jancy soulmate AU.
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22 Nov 2025
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Jughead snorts loudly beside her. She turns to look at him. His eyes stay trained on his lunch tray, fingers picking at a bit of crust left from his sandwich.
“What?” Betty demands. She’s never known Jughead Jones to have many opinions about her love life, but if he’s got one now, she wants to hear it.
Jughead glances at her, then Archie, and shrugs. “Nothing.”
(Trev likes Betty. Betty thinks she likes Trev. If only things were that simple.)
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23 Jul 2025
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The Election Day AU literally no one asked for
or, I challenge my voting day energy into something bughead
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24 May 2025