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arguing is hard, even when you're not carrying emotional baggage so heavy that airlines would run screaming from it
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05 Jul 2026
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no voyage by aheartcalledhome for safefromheartbreak
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 May 2020
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The second anniversary of the war dawns on Wizarding Britain and Harry Potter still does not feel anything approaching normal.
He had really thought waking from that 24 hour nap after the Battle of Hogwarts would fix him once and for all, but two years on, he’s still unable to sleep through the night, so jumpy that his girlfriend is worried about him, and he doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life after he failed the psych evaluations necessary to become an Auror. He had never expected to feel perfect two years after the Battle of Hogwarts, not that he knew what that was like, but he *had* expected to be okay.
Good thing Harry Potter's well used to disappointment.
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04 Jul 2026
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From the top of the Astronomy Tower, the stars always look brighter. Funny, how Harry can’t seem to find them at all anymore.
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01 Jul 2026
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“Harry’s been behaving strangely.”
“Strangely?” Arthur asked, taking a sip of his tea. “How so?”
Sirius tapped a long finger against the table. He briefly wondered how to best phrase his concerns, but ultimately, the plainest question came out of him.
“Did you notice Harry has a habit of doing the dishes?”
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With the Second Wizarding War over, Sirius is more than excited to put everything behind him and raise Harry as his own. However, he and Remus begin to notice odd and troubling behaviors from Harry. Without answers from the source, Sirius turns to Harry's previous guardians--Molly and Arthur Weasley--and learns Harry is still making adjustments from his time with the Dursley's.
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28 Jun 2026
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It’s 1995; Mike Wheeler is twenty-four, new to New York City, and desperately in need of someone he actually knows to help with his semester-long Master’s assignment.
And then, he runs into a familiar face at a bookstore.
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09 May 2026
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the strings would break (the instrument shattered into fragments) by jurassicwill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2026
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Will Byers knows how to do his job. Three years as concertmaster, and he has never once let the music ask more of him than he was prepared to give.
Then the new conductor walks in and starts asking for exactly that.
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Will's hand has been wrong since spring, Mike Wheeler has been watching him since September, and the Pathétique is not a kind piece to fall apart to.
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06 May 2026
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Statistically Speaking by foolscapper
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 May 2018
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"Did you ever get babysat?" He sits up, pushing his rounded glasses back up his nose with the edge of his palm. Sniffs, like it's not really a big deal. Like it's just casual conversation between friends, and not something that'll potentially ruin his whole friendship. "By, like... teenagers?"
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23 Mar 2026
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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid (& Will’s Letter to El)
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14 Feb 2026
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“And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”
Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”
What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?
“Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”
The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.
“Maybe something here wanted you back.”
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fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .Series
- Part 1 of @burntsepia's fics collection
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12 Feb 2026
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Will knows he should talk about it.
He knows it’s not quite fair to everyone else. To just… shove it all down, so deep and compressed that it becomes hard and solid and flammable under the right conditions. But… well, what the hell is he supposed to do? Is he supposed to just… explain what happened?
Will isn’t even sure what happened. If it was…
...well.
(After a history of sexual assault, Vecna starts to use this against Will by tormenting him in his dreams. Will, even more traumatized, frightened, and jumpy, struggles to rest or breathe - until one night, Mike reveals that he hasn't been asleep during Will's nightmares and hugs him.)
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02 Feb 2026
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Browsing a record store, Will Byers encounters the strangest thing he's seen in his short, strange life: an openly gay man. And what's more, this man seems to like him.
(this is NOT a romance. this explores an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship between an adult man and a teenager in a way that is not meant to romanticise or sexualise it. it's a very personal story. read with caution.)
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01 Feb 2026
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we were born sick (you heard them say it) by sweetmiwi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Nov 2025
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“We are going to do such beautiful things together, William.”
He hardly sees him in his nightmares. At least, not directly. And, he hardly dreams about that night.
But, when he does, those are the worst nightmares of all.
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My take on Will, Mike, nightmares and a very much needed heart-to-heart.Bookmarked by junebug4
01 Feb 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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31 Jan 2026
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What if Will Byers was never found in the Upside Down that first week? What if he spent three years fighting back trying to get home?
And what happens when he finally does?
(A Stranger Things AU)
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28 Jan 2026
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What if Joyce stopped believing Will was alive?
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Will had been stuck in the Upside Down for the past three years. They hadn't believed he was alive and El closed the gates, locking him with the monsters, with Vecna. It is only when the events of season four begin, Vecna begins to open the gates, that Will is able to escape, go home. But how does a person go home when their entire world has been turned Upside Down? Literally...
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An exploration of 16/17 year old Will coming back home, dealing with the trauma he went through, and also whatever the fuck Vecna is trying to do. Like take over the fucking world? Who even knows?
*2026, have returned and am locked tf in- Language:
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21 Jan 2026
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Approximately four hours ago, Will had snapped, fear and anger clouding his mind when he saw the people he loved in danger. Approximately four hours ago, Will had let the darkness in him seep out for all to see, obliterating the monsters who threatened to hurt his friends. To hurt Mike.
Approximately four hours ago, Will had nearly lost him. He hadn’t quite come to terms with that yet.
AKA Mike being a nerd while Will spirals and overthinks things for over 6000 words straight
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14 Jan 2026
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The most surprising thing about Will is not that he’s seemingly shot up something like a foot in six months, or that he’s developed shoulders, or that he even fucking smokes now- it’s this. Four of them dancing over a looming ledge, and Will being the first to jump.
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08 Jan 2026
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There’s something wrong with Will.
It started three weeks ago, almost four. Will had woken from some sort of nightmare and, instead of seeking comfort in Mike the way he usually would, he’d rolled out a sleeping bag from the closet and chosen to sleep on the floor.
No one believes Mike, except for Joyce. But even she doesn’t understand the full extent to which something is wrong with Will.
Mike understands, though. Mike has been paying attention.
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- Part 1 of eye of the beholder
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31 Dec 2025
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Mike walks in on his roommate making out with another guy and gets really upset about it. For all of the normal, straight reasons.
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26 Dec 2025
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Will gathers up all his courage into his sore arms, cradling bravery against his chest, holding it over his broken-and-then-healed ribcage. “Ever since I got back from the Upside Down, I’ve been in pain.”
“What do you mean?” Mike asks.
“It’s like I came back wrong. My body hurts pretty much all the time. It wasn’t that bad when it started, but it just kept getting worse and worse and now I’m just—” Will swallows the lump in his throat. “I’m crippled, basically. I’m sorry.”
Mike’s mouth opens and closes a couple times. “Hold on, did you say since the Upside Down? Three years ago?”
Will nods.
“And when you say ‘all the time’, you mean all the time?”
“The severity changes a lot, but yes.”
Mike looks… very concerned. “Even right now?”
It’s not funny, but he laughs. “Especially right now.”
or, Snapshots of Will's experience with chronic pain over the years, and how he navigates it with Mike.
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10 Dec 2025