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(looking for) an absent sun by aloneintherain
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superboy (Comics)
06 Jan 2026
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Lex’s fingers trail down his scalp, stroking the nape of Kon’s neck with his nails. He shivers. “Kon, it’s not a secret that Superman and I are not friends, but you don’t think I would bring his child into our disagreements, do you? You wear his emblem, and yet we don’t let that get between us.”
Of course, Kon thinks. Jon is still a middle schooler. Too young for Lex to look at him with rage, the same way he looks at Superman (or with hunger, the way he looks at Kon). He still feels weird that Lex knows Jon exists.
OR: Kon thinks of Jon like a brother. He would do anything for the kid—anything except tell Jon that he’s been hooking up with Lex Luthor for the better part of a year.
Kon knows Lex isn’t a good guy, but he’s the only adult that Kon can turn to. Mount Justice has become too big and too empty, and Lex is always there to comfort him whenever he needs. No one would understand, Lex says, and so Kon will keep this secret from everyone. Even his team. Even Jon.
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07 Jan 2026
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Will takes a moment, hands clenched into fists at his sides, to rest his head against the grain of the wood and close his eyes. Here, with the solid weight of the door to ground him, he evaluates the facts: the war is over, Vecna dead and gone for good this time. Max is awake, reunited with Lucas and El at last, who both rushed to return to their places at her bedside the moment they knew. The rest of his family is upstairs, the rest of his friends alongside them, alive and mostly well and rejoicing in the fact that a years-long nightmare has finally reached its conclusion. It’s a night for togetherness, for celebrating hard-earned victories, for finally looking ahead instead of back over their shoulders.
It’s also a night where Will almost killed Mike.
In the midst of their final stand against Vecna, a possessed Will nearly strangles Mike to death. In the basement bathroom of the Wheeler's house after their victory, Mike and Will confront the aftermath.
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05 Jan 2026
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Will doesn’t know how they got here. Ten months ago, things were good. They were good. Mike was his friend. Mike was the one person who treated him normally. Like he was his old self again.
But then again, normal boys don’t die for a week and come back. When normal boys die, they stay dead.
Things Will knows, things Will doesn't know, and things Will learns, in time.
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05 Jan 2026
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Built My Life Around You by fanfareandwhimsy
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
03 Jan 2026
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Two boys were waiting on the porch.
They were as familiar to him as his own reflection. They were complete strangers. Darry wondered if they, too, felt the enormity of this moment, the first time they'd all three been together in nearly eight years. They had to, right? Or maybe they were just overwhelmed. A new (old) home, two new (old) brothers—it was a lot for one day. Then Soda took a tentative step forward.
"Darry?"
Or, Darry was only twelve when his parents were killed in a car wreck, and he and his brothers—eight-year-old Sodapop and five-year-old Ponyboy—were split up by the state. When he successfully receives guardianship of them at nineteen, he suddenly finds himself raising two boys he hasn't seen, let alone spoken to, in close to a decade.
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19 Dec 2025
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The Byers’ new house is closer to Mike’s.
This is a Development.
Mike sees Will on the weekends. Mike sees Will on occasional school nights. Mike sees Will like he’s living with them again, stuffed into Mike’s back pocket, comfortably, reliably close.
Turns out, this is a problem.
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or: Will is lovely, and Mike is in love. Maybe. Probably. Definitely.
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