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stay with me, hold my hand, there's no need to be brave by allthisandheaven_too
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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“Daddy, wake up,” she pleaded. “You’re having a bad dream. Please wake up.”
Will’s head turned then, slowly, and it was hard for Rose to understand how he still couldn’t actually see her, when it felt like he was staring straight through her eyes and directly to the back of her skull. “Rose,” he rasped, and her blood crystallized in her veins. This was not her father’s honey-sweet voice. It sounded like gravel running through a rock tumbler. And he never, ever called her just Rose, unless she was in big trouble. “You need to run. NOW.”
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Five-year-old Rose Maldonado is not afraid of anything. Until one night in early November when she stumbles upon her sleepwalking father having a horrible nightmare, and her parents realize it might be time to start telling their daughter the truth about what happened to them back in November 1983.
(ft. an extensive flashback of elmike platonic besties addressing the total bs final battle in a way that turns it into byler proof, because screw the duffers!!!!! you're in MY house now!!!!!!!!!)
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- Part 1 of the rosieverse
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[podfic] promise me you'll be there after, aftercare by pods (gothicbyler)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 May 2026
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What did he think, really?
What did he hope to find in the arms of a Mike Wheeler who's suddenly comfortable enough to go to gay bars in New York? That he was just going to have sex with his first love, who's gotten even prettier than he was six years ago and realise, oh, actually yeah I'm definitely over you?
Yes. Yes, that was what he'd hoped. That's exactly why he'd taken Mike up on the offer, goddammit.
But he can't face palm hard enough to leave a mark right now, because as he mentioned before, Mike is naked, lying on top of him, gently kissing up and down his neck, still warm and sticky inside him. He can't face palm, because he was wrong, and being wrong has never felt so right.
aka after the best hook up he's ever had, will tries to convince himself that mike is still a jerk. mike proves him wrong with aftercare and a surprising confession
Podfic of promise me you'll be there after, aftercare by miwiheroes.
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Just for a second, I remembered myself [Podfic] by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jun 2026
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Podfic of Just for a second, I remembered myself by Romanoff_mylove
Mike has finally made it as an author. But writing about your own past can get complicated, especially when fans start to draw conclusions that point Mike in the direction of the person he's been writing about all along.
And living life is hard. Especially when you're doing it all on your own. But grief and love are a lot more similar than you might realise. They both tend to wake us up from the monotony of our lives.
OR: Mike has a horrible time, which somewhere along the way turns into a wonderful time.
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slaughterhouse (an outlet mall) by bookinit for astrobi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Apr 2023
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Something flutters at the back of Will’s neck. His scar twinges at his side.
It’s nothing, he tells himself, like he always does. It’s nothing, it’s just—you’re tense, you’re nervous, you’re being stupid, it’s not anything important—
His entire body thrums with a fearful energy. The feeling of otherness in his veins.
It certainly feels important.
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Stranger Things re-telling, but make it byler.
(Season 3 of 5)Series
- Part 3 of i know the end
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The first few days are the darkest.
Set post-S2 and forward.