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Art School Confidential by cyclogenesis (addictedkitten)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.
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14 Mar 2026
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JJ can’t stop staring and as he stares, the words come easy. Like floating. Or surfing. Or falling in love.
“So, this is stupid,” he starts. “But. You remember that time when I showed up to the Chateau and basically fell off my bike?”
“I remember.” John B traces the bone of JJ’s wrist with his finger. “Scared the shit outta me.”
“Yeah, sorry, I guess?” JJ tries and John B snorts at him. “Well, you picked me off the ground and once you realized I really couldn’t walk straight, you kinda put your arm around me? You helped me inside, kept asking what happened. I couldn’t even answer ‘cause the only thing running through my head was ‘I didn’t know, I didn’t know.’”
John B stops moving. “Know what?”
There are Kooks and Tourons and Pogues on Kildare, and then there’s something worse. Maybanks.
*a shamelessly JJ centric story.
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- Part 1 of Seabird Collection
- Language:
- English
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- 289,925
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- 54/54
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
16 Feb 2026
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“I didn’t break the cup.” He said more intently, picturing the mug whole and unbroken, the radio station logo that was plastered on the side uncracked.
And as he willed it, it was.
He blinked and the glass was gone like it had never been there, and there was a whole coffee mug sitting on the table in front of him when he looked down. It was sitting on the table like it had never left, the wet pool of cold coffee from before was gone and in its place was a rich brown cup of coffee, steaming lightly in the nighttime chill.
“What the fuck?” Someone said, disbelief coloring their tone and all Mike could do was stare downwards, a fresh wave of blood leaking from his nose.
“I didn't break the cup.” He echoed himself emptily, words a tad disbelieving.
He looked up then, taking in the stunned and worried faces that were surrounding the table and by proxy, him.
He pressed his fingers to his nose, eyes slipping downwards to look at the wet red that stained his fingertips and looking back up.
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- English
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- 39,667
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- 7/7
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16 Feb 2026
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For the World’s More Full of Weeping by IdLike2SayBeautifulThingsButIDontKnowHow
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
30 Mar 2025
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Reid moved over to the map to adjust the position of the pin. Only then did he realise the others’ eyes were still on him.
“Reid, you have a visitor,” said JJ, curiosity lacing her voice.
He turned back to face her.
“She says she’s your sister.”
Or: What if a violent incident at home led an 11-year-old Spencer Reid to be placed in foster care – only for him to discover that he might have been safer staying where he was?
Now the team is back in Las Vegas, just streets away from where he grew up, investigating a case that strikes just a little too close to home.
What secrets will they uncover and what has Reid been hiding all these years?
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16 Feb 2026
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the great divide (i think about you all the time) by strangeswift
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2024
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you know i think about you all the time / and my deep misundеrstanding of your life / and how bad it must have been for you back then / and how hard it was to keep it all insidе
mike comes out. lucas processes.
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10 Feb 2026
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
03 Feb 2026
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Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
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- Part 1 of Come Sleep
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 101,052
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 2
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
29 Jan 2026
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Sometime in the formless dark before breakfast, Mike Wheeler vanishes.
Or,
A comprehensive guide to navigating parallel dimensions, disrupting the fabric of reality, and deciding to save yourself.
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- Part 1 of cosmonaut-verse
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- English
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- 94,991
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- 18/18
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- 533
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27 Jan 2026
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but at least i finally found it (love) by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2024
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“So… how did you know you liked boys?” Mike randomly asks Will one afternoon.
“How did I what?” Will swivels his head toward Mike, who’s looking back at him expectantly over the top of his comic book. He’s got on that thinking-face he does— the one that tells Will that Mike has definitely been staring at him for the past ten minutes minimum, trying to wrap his brain around some idea or another, like he’s working out a particularly difficult puzzle.
“Like, what do you like about them? Oh, come on, don’t look at me like that,” he complains, and Will assumes he must be making a face somewhere between skeptical and bewildered. “We never talk about it. Why is it boys for you?”
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Mike wants to know why Will likes boys— in a completely straight, heterosexual way.Aka Byler talking about boys for 7k words.
Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
06 Jan 2026
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promise i am awake, promise it's warm by percyandthepen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2025
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A sick, ugly, twisted part of Mike wonders if his nose has to start bleeding before someone notices he doesn't wanna be around anymore.
It’s stupid. It’s so incredibly stupid it hurts, and Mike knows it. He’s sixteen years old. He can handle the thoughts and the darkness and how bad it gets each and every winter, like clockwork. He doesn’t even need help, not like he thought he used to. He learned what real hurt was the fall Will went missing.
He just…feels like it never quite stopped hurting.
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Mike is depressed. He doesn't quite think he deserves to be, most of the time. Will disagrees.
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30 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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- English
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- 52,632
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 13,798
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
06 Dec 2025
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Will has been living a totally normal life since the Upside Down was closed two years ago–it’s just been school, homework, art projects, hiding the giant crush he’s had on his best friend for the past several years, and even working at Melvald’s to help carry his own weight in the Byers-Hopper household. It’s his junior year, and everything is going fine.
That is, until someone tries to ask Mike to prom in the office supplies aisle of Melvald’s during one of Will’s afternoon shifts. It sends his world spinning off of its axis, and he realizes there’s a little creature that lives somewhere in between his stomach and chest that likes to roar and claw at his insides. Some people might call it jealousy.
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- English
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- 5/5
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- 202
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
01 Dec 2025
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Mike feels a little or a lot, never controlled and always one extreme or the other. It’s visible in the way he snaps at his friends when he gets too angry or too upset, and it’s audible in his relentless stutter that appears when there’s attention on him. It’s laced in the lies that he grinds out through his teeth, claiming that he’s fine, and it’s in the fight to appear as though he’s swimming gently through a body of water when in reality he can’t keep afloat.
His feelings are like waves, gentle or all consuming as they rise and fall with the tide, and nothing drowns him quite like Will Byers.
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mike falls apart one drunken night. will helps piece him back together.Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
24 Nov 2025
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Robby is starving.
Dennis starts to notice.
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- Part 1 of hickory, just as well
- Language:
- English
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- 30,750
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 188
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- 2,356
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08 Nov 2025
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The problem wasn't that Robby touches Whitaker. The problem was that Dennis started touching him back.
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- English
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- 2/2
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- 375
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02 Nov 2025
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There’s a hand, fingers cold, on his elbow – someone trying to get his attention. Usually, usually, his staff would know that just calling his name is enough, that he’s fine-tuned to the sound of it like a dog waiting for a command. But as he looks down and then to the person the chilled digits belong to, he finds Whitaker staring up at him owlishly. A shudder goes through him, senses zeroing in on the point of contact.
“Can I help you?” It comes out bitchier than he intended, caught off-guard as he is. But he doesn’t take it back, not even when the kid bites at his lower lip as if he wants to apologize.
“I just wanted to ask if you liked the chicken parm.”
aka Robby doesn't know he's being wooed by home-cooked meals and big, honest eyes.
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- English
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- 14,248
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- 1/1
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- 3
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- 78
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29 Oct 2025
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Even weeds need to grow.
Susan looks up, and keeps her eyes open during the prayers.
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12 Oct 2025
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the seas of all i knew by softtooth_jpeg
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
12 Jun 2021
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it’s edmund’s father who teaches him how to be a man.
he teaches him how to ride a bike (and not to cry when he wobbles and bruises his knees on the cobbles); he teaches him how to fasten a tie (not to slouch when he sits, to say please and thank you, to be polite and quiet and convenient); he teaches him his multiplication tables (heads bent together over the scrubbed kitchen table, edmund’s pen tapping against his two loose front teeth), his words (sounding out the harder ones, black spiky characters on a white page that jumble themselves in front of his eyes), how to play cricket (“not bad, ed,” dad says, and edmund is overcome with boyish pride), how to fish (though, not often, because they’re in london and london isn’t exactly overflowing with lakes) –
of course, he teaches peter all this first.
- Language:
- English
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- 59,872
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- 1/1
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- 165
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- 1,587
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
07 Oct 2025
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He forced himself to forget the way Ethan used to kiss him, hands tangled in his hair and eyelashes fluttering against his cheek. He forced himself to forget the way that Ethan would hold him in his twin bed in their tiny flat off campus all those years ago. He didn't, couldn't, remember the way Ethan had made him feel.
After all, they're just friends, and friends don't think like that.
Or; Spencer is a profiler, so he should really know if he's dating someone or not.
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- Part 1 of When We Were Young
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06 Jul 2025
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Richie had no idea what to expect when Stan and Patty asked him to be their daughter's godfather, but it definitely wasn't becoming the part-time dad to a newborn.
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- English
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- 82,275
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- 12/12
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- 1,360
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Bookmarked by devoidcolourstiles
21 Jun 2025