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They lose each other at a party.
Mike finds Will kissing someone else—and realizes, far too late, that watching hurts worse than admitting the truth.
Drunk confessions, years of repression and declination, and one bathroom that becomes the point of no return.Bookmarked by buratto
05 Jan 2026
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"Do you think it's real?" Mike asks.
Will turns to look at him. "What?"
"The way they show it. Kissing." Mike is staring at the screen, jaw tight. "Movies make it look—I don't know. Transcendent." He half-laughs. Unconvincing. "Like it changes you. Like you'd die if you couldn't have it. You think it's ever actually like that?"Mike asks Will to help him practice kissing. Will says yes.
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02 Jan 2026
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December 31st 2001
New Year’s Resolutions:
1. STOP SMOKING!
2. Get a better job so no longer have to dread social functions.
3. Enter into nice respectable relationship with nice respectable man; see above.
4. Develop interesting hobby as talking point in the event of failure on points 2 and 3 – anything to avoid being introduced as Edwin Payne who had a nervous breakdown after two terms at Cambridge, holds a pissant little job at a publishing house of no significance or renown and couldn’t catch a man with both hands and a bear trap. Will be 32 years old this year, for heaven’s sake. Feel strongly that now is the moment to take charge of my life. At the stroke of midnight tonight, the year 2002 shall begin, and I shall be a new and improved Edwin Payne.A Bridget Jones’s Diary AU.
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01 Jan 2026
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Max and Lucas are sat at the dining room table when Will arrives back at the apartment. They’re silent, as is the rest of the place, and Will realises the radio isn’t even on Standby, but unplugged at the wall, meaning they had been silent for a while.
He stands in the doorway, and they consider him with narrow eyes.
“So,” Max begins, “when were you planning on telling us that Mike fucking Wheeler is in town? Oh, I mean more specifically, when Mike fucking Wheeler started working at your job?”
Will swallows. “Uh.”
Lucas grins. “Oh, this is gonna be good.”
Max elbows him in the ribs.
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Will Byers works as a secretary in Manhattan for a firm he knows nothing about. He’s not sure why. Mike Wheeler, who is supposed to be studying law at the University of Pennsylvania, has suddenly started working at said firm. He’s not sure why. Max and Lucas are less than pleased with this turn in events. He’s not sure why.
Will is going to throw himself off the Empire State Building if he doesn’t start finding out why.
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29 Dec 2025
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“Dude,” Dustin says, sounding kind of horrified but also kind of delirious with elation. “Oh my God, you like him. You like Will. Will. As in, our Will. Our best friend Will.”
“I do not–” Mike tries, even though he’d kind of just admitted to accidentally kissing Will Byers, a little, so maybe that’s an entirely fruitless road to go down.
Listen. No one should ever let Mike make decisions right after he wakes up from a nap, okay? Especially not decisions where Will is concerned. This is so not his fault.
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28 Dec 2025
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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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26 Dec 2025
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“This is highly unprofessional,” Edwin huffs, a few ticks after the cupboard door clicks shut behind them. “We are here on a case, Charles.”
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- Part 7 of Brief Moments
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25 Dec 2025
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Psychomanteum, noun. A dimly-lit room containing a comfortable chair and a mirror angled so that it reflects only darkness, intended to communicate with spirits of the dead.
It is our privilege to welcome you back, one and all, for the Summer 2024 season at the London Athenaeum. As some of you will no doubt be aware, this past winter saw a spate of minor thefts, with one enterprising thief successfully removing a marble bust of the goddess Carpundia. We are pleased to report that the probate court proceedings are now complete, and all of the stolen artifacts have been returned to us. For safety reasons, we must now ask that all rosaries, japa mala, ojuzu, komboskini, misbaha and other similar prayer beads are left at the door and collected upon exit on account of one of our new acquisitions, a devil vitrified in a prism of glass, and the multiple recent incidents of attempted strangulation.
We are proud to present a slate of all new exhibitions and events, including the crown jewel of this season: an exhibition on the 170 year history of the Athenaeum itself by acting head curator Edwin Payne. This is the distillation of an extraordinary life’s work, and one not to be missed.
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- Part 3 of Wunderkammer
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21 Dec 2025
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The voice comes again. “Hello? Edwin?”
Edwin recognizes it. Not from then, but from now. From University classes, movie nights, and sparkling smiles over picnic tables.
A rope is cast down into the dark, and he latches onto it with both hands.
Swallowing convulsively, he says, “Charles. Did I—did I call you?”
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- Part 2 of I'll Be Your Best Friend
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19 Dec 2025
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loved more than one thing by cutevamp for deadtwinksdetectiveagency (heckofabecca)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
14 Dec 2025
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“Dont really believe in soulmates,” Charles shrugs. “I mean, I believe in us, obviously.”
Edwin angles him a small, private smile from the sofa, the line of his shoulders loose.
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14 Dec 2025
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Will Byers is awake at 4am, learning the architecture of wanting something he can't have while living in its house.
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13 Dec 2025
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RIP to Orpheus But I'm Different by RoseGanymede95 for babyseraphim
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Nov 2025
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“What is it?” Charles asks.
“Hang on,” says Edwin. He flips rapidly through pages of his notebook. He magically extended it a while back, so the bloody thing’s got more than seven-hundred pages full of Edwin’s notes and sketches. It makes for a tense several seconds of flipping.
When he does stop, finding the correct page and holding it open under the light, Charles’ breath catches in his throat.
“Is this her?” Edwin asks urgently.
Edwin’s a damn good artist, even if he insists it’s just a practical thing. He’s captured her likeness shockingly well. Lank hair, full cheeks, sullen pout. Wide, staring eyes.
“Yeah,” Charles breathes. “That’s her. Who is she?”
Edwin is clearly horrified. No, it’s worse than that. Edwin looks scared. Charles’ instincts all kick up into high gear, and he has to clench his fists to resist the urge to simply shove Edwin into his backpack.
“I don’t know,” Edwin says quietly, like he’s afraid of being overheard. “But I’ve seen her.” He hesitates. “In Hell.”Series
- Part 7 of Who? You mean your teammate in the Codependency World Cup?
- Part 3 of Qualifiying for the Codependency Olympics
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12 Dec 2025
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thinking of futures, reaching for sutures by Ingi for ghostinthelibrary
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Dec 2025
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Three times that Edwin doesn't sleep, and one that he does.
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11 Dec 2025
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I'D TELL THEM PUT ME BACK IN IT by minormendings
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
06 Dec 2025
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When Pete McVries gets one cosmic do-over, a choice to redo the Walk and save Ray, he doesn’t hesitate. The muscle pain, torn-up feet, sleep deprivation, hallucinations, nausea, and finally a bullet — he’ll go through it all again to get five more days with Ray, and to make sure it’s Ray who makes it out alive.
When it turns out that this is not just a one-time do-over but a time loop, he doesn’t quite know what comes next.
Or: Can a highway in Maine, like Hill House or the Overlook Hotel, be born bad?
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08 Dec 2025
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objects in the mirror (are closer than they appear) by Monstrous_Femme
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Apr 2023
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“Which do you think you’re having?” she asks, pushing herself back to the land of the ordinary.
“Lonnie wants a boy,” Joyce says.
“Your husband?”
Joyce snorts. “If you can call him that.”
There’s something nice about how that sounds, like the idea that just because you said your vows in front of God and your whole family doesn’t mean you have to call the man your husband. Karen smiles.
“You know what?” she says. “Give me a cigarette after all.”
The smile Joyce gives her back is like a secret between friends. “My kind of girl,” she says, fishing into her purse, and when Karen takes the cigarette between her lips, Joyce lights it for her.
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05 Dec 2025
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Greatest In The League by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
22 Nov 2025
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Charles Rowland has it all figured out. He’s going to go to school, play hockey on a scholarship, and get a good job. That is his masterplan, and nothing is going to stand in his way.
Not even his lack of ice time. Or his questionable grades.
Thankfully, his new friend Crystal has the answer to all of this in the form of her best friend and world-famous figure skater, Edwin Payne.
They might just fall in love if they don’t kill each other first.
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02 Dec 2025
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“Beast likes pretty things,” one of the men yanks a mountain of lace over Charles head, standing back to survey his work.
Charles bites his tongue, fingers tightening on the hilt of his blade.
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A monster hunter is sent to slay the beat hiding in the shell of a mansion.
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23 Nov 2025
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This is Charles favorite part; the tickle of bubbles against her tail as she whips the sea into motion, up, up, bursting through the surface to that golden sun, Ediths eyes huge in her face every time, soft with wonder, her true, toothy smile rarer than a blue moon.
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20 Nov 2025
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“So, do you come here often?”
Edith gives Charles a look. “Yes. Twice a week, by contractual agreement.”
Charles snorts, pillowing her face on her hand, fins kicking energetic eddies behind her.
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20 Nov 2025
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“I understand the irony, believe me, but its not me you ought to worry about,” Edwin grins through bloody teeth.
The priest looks as if hes sucked on a lemon.
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good omens au. a punk angel and a gentleman demon form an unlikely alliance
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17 Nov 2025