19 Bookmarks by captainlost11
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What if Billy didn’t die? What if El and Will never left? What would happen?
Well apparently, thanks to Eddie, they’d both end up on the cheer team alongside some very familiar faces.
As Will grapples with becoming a cheerleader and gains some fans amongst the student body, he finds himself being charmed by a very persistent jock. On the sidelines, Mike is forced to watch as his best friend changes before his eyes. Is it for the better? Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, strange things are happening in Hawkins. The Upside Down is back. Can Will juggle cheer, finding love and saving the world?
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16 May 2026
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Neon Spirits of New York (four friends and a thousand of ghosts) by French_Fraise
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Aug 2026
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**1993, New York City.**
Will, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas are living the dream—sharing an apartment in West Village and attending some of the city’s most prestigious universities in different majors.
But they’re not like other students. They’re ghost hunters.
Ever since his mysterious disappearance for one week in November 1983, Will has been able to see—and communicate with - the dead. What started as a game has become something bigger, pulling the four friends into the haunted corners of the city that never sleeps.
As they chase ghosts through neon-lit streets Will confront more than just restless spirits. He must learn to live with his gift… and face the quiet truth he’s been avoiding for years: his unconditional love for his best friend—and that this love may never be returned.
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11 May 2026
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The People On The Edge Of The Night by NeurodivergentAndQueer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jul 2026
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"This night should be going like every other night has these last few months. Only Max is not in her bed and her mother is not asleep on the couch and this night is going wrong in every possible way."
After a drunk incident Max's mother is deemed unfit to care for her daughter so Max is sent to a group home. Only problem is: Max fucking hates it here. If only there was an adult who could take her in until her mother gets out of rehab. As Max struggles to open up about her issues and one Steve Harrington tries everything in his power to get custody over her, she learns some things about herself and the people she cares about.
(Also titled 'The long process of Steve Harrington adopting Max for a few months')
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28 Apr 2026
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Max has a secret- a secret that could rip the party apart if she tells them, or a secret that will kill them if she doesn't. Does she tell them, and maybe save them, or does she lie? She chooses lie.
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Max is number 12 and has pyrokinetics
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19 Apr 2026
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i’ll dive in deeper (deeper for you) by cherriicharms
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jun 2026
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It’s the summer before college and the Party has big plans to spend their days lounging in the California sun, out by the poolside, or on the beach. But when Max, Will, and Jane develop mysterious powers and transform into creatures of the sea, their adventures take a fishy turn. Summer jobs, friendships, and new romances are tested as the three friends navigate their newfound identities as mermaids.
For Lucas Sinclair, standing by Max no matter what is easy. And for Dustin Henderson, he’d spend all day researching Jane’s newfound powers. And, well, Mike Wheeler has always thought Will Byers was magic, but he’s in for a boatload of surprises when his best friend reveals his secret.Or, simply, the H2O: Just Add Water Byler AU!
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17 Apr 2026
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The Tigers’ Boy’s Basketball Team is about to fly out to Nationals.
All the while…
Mike Wheeler is hiding a secret from his best friend—Will Hopper—who’s also hiding a secret from him.
Dustin Henderson’s hatred for a particular person on their team leads to an underestimated plan and incident.
Lucas Sinclair’s excitement for his girlfriend to watch him at nationals is being chipped away by the overwhelming notion that he must “fit in.”
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15 Apr 2026
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The Soliloquy of a Clinical Pessimist by aloragrace322
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 May 2026
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"And when the sun falls graciously from the sky, who cloaks itself in grieved darkness," Mike's eyes settled on his own, and Will felt in close affiliation to the falling sun, with his face burning in panic and some buried feeling he did not know how to confront. But Mike's soft smile was as bright and unfaltering as the galaxy of stars. "I shall return. As sure as the rise of the day."
Will Byers – the sole survivor of the Stillwater Serial killer – has spent most of his adolescence locked within the safety of his own home, or rotting away in hospitals and police offices: constantly pushing to see justice served, in light of his near-death experience at no older than eleven. Five years pass, and it is not until his brother returns home from New York that he gets a taste for a normal life. With enough convincing, he leaves the ghost town of Roane County and moves to All Saints Academy in Vermont, where he is yet to face a brand-new beginning, starting with three enigmatic Dungeons and Dragons players, and ending – hopefully – with a clean school record slate. Right?
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Will Byers is traumatised and finds friendship in the most unexpected of places.
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14 Apr 2026
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Set almost a decade after their graduation, the Party has went into their different paths wherein they became renowned and famous in their respective fields.
Lucas became a Professional Basketball Player, Max is a songwriter/singer, Mike is a novelist/writer, Will is a painter, and Dustin is a scientist/researcher.
However, despite their obvious success, the scars from their teenage years are yet to heal. The Upside Down still haunts them in their choices and lives. With some of them like Max, resorted to few vices for coping mechanisms like the alcohol and smoking.
It is probably time for the party to reunite and catch up.
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12 Apr 2026
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Will Byers is perfectly content with his adult life: his Manhattan apartment, his roommate who he is definitely no longer in love with, and friends he wouldn't trade for the world. So what difference does it make when his step-sister reappears after disappearing to California as soon as they finished college? Who cares that Dustin might have a thing for her, and Mike is suddenly being a better roommate, and Lucas keeps giving him this look like he knows something no one else does?
Certainly not Will. That's for sure.
OR: a friends x the party sitcom au
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12 Apr 2026
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The Selection by Komodo_Butterfly
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Selection Series - Kiera Cass
07 Aug 2026
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In the Kingdom of Hawkins, Prince Mike (a one) had a difficult choice to make. Thousands had applied for The Selection and twenty candidates were chosen. It was out of those twenty that he would have to choose the person he would marry. The person who he would have to trust to support him. Too bad Mike didn't want any of it.
For Will Byers, a five, The Selection was a pipe dream. He knew he would never win, would never even get chosen. But if it meant giving something back to his family, after all they had done for him, well he would try anything once. Even if that meant giving up his chance to find true love.
For those lucky enough to be selected, it’s the chance of a lifetime. For Will, he just wants to be selected so he and his family can become threes and they can finally stop worrying about money. Everyone knows The Selection is rigged. Will knows he won’t find real love. Right?
Aka a Stranger Things/The Selection crossover.
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05 Apr 2026
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Vecna is back. And the world that everyone knows isn't real. There's only one way out, and El was the one to find it.
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02 Apr 2026
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saints of manhattan (and their secrets) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2026
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“Are you sure?”
Will should’ve said no. He should’ve shut the laptop and focused on anything else. But after 16 years of dealing with the idiocracy that is Mike Wheeler, he didn’t. He couldn’t.
Would he regret it? Probably. But was it worth it? Absolutely.
Maybe this time Mike will finally learn his lesson.
XOXO, Gossip Girl.
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an alternate universe where the party lives in manhattan, new york, in 2009. — after a weird situation happens between mike and will, max helps will get revenge. what starts as simple ‘slander’ posts, soon ends as the destruction of mike’s perfect reputation. hopefully.
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01 Apr 2026
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Max Mayfield survived the Upside Down, Vecna, and the coma that followed. She’s alive, but living feels like a different kind of fight then before.
After she woke up from her coma she had hoped for an easy restart to everything, but that wasn’t the case.
While dealing with grief, living with her health slowly declining and a new housing situation, her mental health starts declining rapidly.
(This fic will be really depressed, it will get really bad and worse but I’ll end it with a happy ending, PROMISE)
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29 Mar 2026
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Lucas stares down at the ground, sheepishly. And then he looks at her with a glint in his eyes and a painful realisation that he kind of wants to marry this mean, gorgeous redhead. Oh, shit.
Don't say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t—
“I love you.”
(or, they keep saying the wrong things at the wrong time.)
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25 Mar 2026
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It was an accident. Really it was. Gun to her head that’s what she’d say. That’s her story and the details may be a little fuzzy and no one needs to know how she ended up at the end of his journal. But could someone really blame her? She had missed out on so much of their friend group dynamics after being in a coma for so long. Reading the last entry couldn’t really hurt anyone. It’s a victimless crime, she reasoned.
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Mad Max unlocked after she reads baby Will's journal. And Mike and Will are all the better for it, or maybe Chance and Will are all the better for it…
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24 Mar 2026
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“Like… Will, you’re a really great best friend, did you know that? I’m sorry I’m a bad one.” Mike’s heart clenched for some odd reason as he said it. “I’m sorry I’m like a bad…ex-boyfriend to your sister and stuff. And, and, I’m making you babysit me right now. I don’t mean to. I just wanted to try the weed pen with you, I think. If you wanna kill me, that’s okay. I would let you kill me,” Mike blinked at Will, eyes wide. He was still super high.
“Uh. Wow,” Will managed to say. “Your pupils are huge right now. Mike… it’s okay. I don’t know if I’m even ready to try weed yet. I’m fine just... being here.” Will looked at him again, with the whisper of sentimentality in those fluttery, soft eyes, holding a fry between his index finger and thumb.
“And your eyes are really… pretty too,” Mike said. “Can I just look at them for a moment?”
Will blinked.
“No, Will, don’t do that. Don’t blink. Let me look.”
~ Modern Stranger Things high school AU with episodic adventures, featuring a confusing Mike-Will situation, a complicated Lucas-Max situation, a rebellious Dustin Henderson, and a somehow all-too-knowing El Hopper.
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21 Mar 2026
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Lord William Byers wants to help his step sister find her perfect match, but he sees what used to be an all too familiar face. Lord Micheal Wheeler.
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Byler Bridgerton AU or also Regency AU, with Inspo from the Bridgeton series.
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18 Mar 2026
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a cruel summer with you by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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“Oh, come on,” Will says, struggling to keep his voice neutral in a different way. His mouth is dry, and he hates Mike for it even more. “Is this what it’s going to be like this summer?”
Mike looks back at him, considering, lips pursed in an effort to shut down the smirk that Will knows is fighting to break free. Will doesn’t dare to let his gaze catch there, focusing instead on holding Mike’s stare, because this, too, is a game.
Five years into a rivalry with bittersweet origins, the only thing Mike and Will want is to beat each other at this summer’s camp counselor competition. But being back at camp is dredging up old memories, and as Mike and Will lose momentum and gain something else entirely, it becomes increasingly clear that one summer can change everything.
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- Part 5 of in the quiet of the night
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15 Mar 2026
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Losing My Religion - Byler by im_a_vagetarian
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
26 Jun 2026
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Mike’s worst enemy is himself. Not only because his hands tremble and his skin burns when he looks Will in the eyes, or the way he prays to make that heat in his stomach go away, but also, literally!! Thanks to Steve Harrington and his stupid summer camp of doom and despair, Mike is stuck in the woods for 2 months with everyone he knows, a constant reminder of his dead ex, AND…a rudimentary copy of himself who seems set on ruining his life, and…stealing the best friend he doesn’t actually own and…definitely isn’t in love with. What fun.
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15 Mar 2026