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“We have to kill him,” Mike finishes fiercely, and for a second, Will pictures him in full paladin gear, making the same speech in a castle, or a magical forest, or a dark dungeon. He’s every bit the boy Will’s always known, the one who stands up for his friends and his principles and never, ever backs down. Even when the odds are against them. Even when they’re impossible.
Will swears that he can feel electricity crackling in the air, Mike’s last sentence settling on the group like a physical weight. Everyone looks impressed: Jonathan, Hopper, even Owens. Will knows the look on his own face must be incredibly obvious, incredibly stupid.
He doesn’t care. That’s the Mike he knows. That’s the Party’s leader.
That’s the boy Will fell in love with.
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Stranger Things re-telling, but make it byler.
(Season 5 of 5)Series
- Part 5 of i know the end
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11 Dec 2025
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How They Make You a Weapon by monicawoe
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
10 Feb 2017
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written for the prompt
"Lovingly detailed dark!fic about the process by which Hydra turned Bucky into the Winter Soldier."Series
- Part 1 of How They Make You a Weapon
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- 15/15
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05 Dec 2025
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Loki scowled, "You seem to regard me as something I'm not."
"—And what's that?"
"Some...some self-serving, wanton plaything who bows to the highest bidder."
"That's not how I see you at all, Loki." Mobius said, unexpectedly earnest. "We all play roles sometimes."
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- Part 1 of Lokius fics <3
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- English
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- 3/3
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03 Dec 2025
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03 Dec 2025
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Blanc returns from Greece and enjoys the solace of a very pleasant domestic arrangement.
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- 1/1
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03 Dec 2025
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“This is so sad,” Art says, shaking his head – but then he grins, the first genuine smile Patrick’s seen all night. It’s so warm and familiar that Patrick forgets for a second, that he’s nothing and they’re nothing, that the slight November chill is making them both shiver.
(Patrick and Art spend a confusing weekend together at the tail-end of the year)
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- Part 1 of lost weekend
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- English
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- 2/2
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01 Dec 2025
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Theo didn’t fly home right away; he stayed in Antwerp and together, he and Boris flew back to New York. They start over, two troubled teenagers all over again. They’ve replaced scorching Vegas summers with chilling New York winters. It was never about the place anyway.
They’re together-- they’re something-- but Theo still struggles to be open to strangers passing by.(PLUS an extended part two/epilogue to give us more comforting boyfriends and less internalized homophobia for Theo!)
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04 Nov 2025
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“But with Bobby, I’ve been trying to do better,” Eddie says.
A hand rests on his shoulder, a thumb stroking. It’s a familiar gesture, but the fingers aren’t calloused enough to be her brother’s. Maddie’s fingers are slimmer, more delicate. It eases the hurt all the same.
“I think you have been,” Maddie reassures him, “at least you’re not joining illegal fight clubs this time. Just very legal book clubs.”
Eddie snorts. The callout was unexpected.
“You’re not what?” Karen’s eyes bulge out of her head as she sits back down.
Eddie chuckles and finally meets Maddie’s gaze. “I hate that Buck tells you everything.”
OR: Eddie joins a book club with Maddie and Karen after Bobby’s death, while Buck slowly drifts away.
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21 Oct 2025
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What's Left to Say? by Nael06
Fandoms: The Maze Runner Series - All Media Types, The Maze Runner (Movies)
27 Mar 2019
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The moment Minho's feet touched the sand, he thought it was over; No more WCKD, no more running, no more pain, if only his best friends would wake up. Thinking it would be the solution to everything that is going wrong with him, Minho awaits and continues to believe a happy ending for all of them is possible.
But hope and courage only got the Gladers so far on the run, now they need a new strategy as they have to face a much more twisted enemy; a normal, peaceful life.Or Thomas gets a second chance at actually dealing with his feelings for Newt but overthinks it. Or Minho and Brenda (aka the power couple) decide to help their friends before Gally punches one of them.
Meanwhile, Vince still doesn't know how he ended up in charge of this mess...Bookmarked by just_your_average_potato
20 Oct 2025
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every version of me by sunshinesrose
Fandoms: The Maze Runner Series - All Media Types, The Maze Runner (Movies)
17 Feb 2021
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The curtains are yellow. Thomas doesn’t know why this strikes him as strange - maybe because he’s never had curtains before, or not that he can remember, or maybe just because yellow reminds him too much of blond hair and brown eyes.
or where newt lives because i said so
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16 Oct 2025
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Seresin men love with reckless abandon. It’s put every man before him in the ground.
Jake refuses to be buried.
He flies like he has nothing left to lose (he doesn’t), a one man army (he is), leaving everyone else in the dust (so they don’t leave him). Admiral Kazansky claps him on the shoulder, says he expects great things from him, and Jake’s smile is feral as the rest of his flight school cohort looks on in disbelief.
Hangman, they all say, like Jake’s entire personality was a long con, and he ranks first in class.
Rooster doesn’t look at all.
(They've got history spanning the better part of a decade and they are absolutely, positively not over it.)
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- Part 1 of Men Like Us
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02 Aug 2025
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Goose has been dead for a week and a half when Iceman loses his first wingman in a dogfight with six Soviet MiGs over the Sea of Okhotsk.
Goose has been dead for thirty years when Iceman loses his second wingman to a surface-to-air missile on the tail-end of a mission he's responsible for: he's sent his family on a suicide mission to destroy a uranium enrichment facility in Russia's Far East.
This is the story of those thirty years in the middle.
(Or: Tom Kazansky rises through the ranks while trying to stay a good man. If he ever was one to begin with.)
[Final edit 2/4/23. See Ch. 1 notes for major changes.]
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- Part 1 of Easier Done Than Said
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12 Jul 2025
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Maverick doesn’t regret it when he takes the hit, when the last thing he hears before he ejects is Rooster screaming his name.
But then he wakes. Not to a vast, white snowfield behind enemy lines—but to an inverted cockpit of an F-14.
And to Goose, alive and well in the seat behind him.
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Or; the time-travel fix-it in which TG:M Maverick wakes up at the start of TG (1986).
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- Part 1 of as lions
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09 Jul 2025
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Art was right, Patrick turned out to be the best friend he ever had. He had friends before, obviously, but never any like Patrick. His old friends would never have hugged him after a match, or sometimes used his toothbrush when they didn't find theirs, he would have found that weird. But with Patrick, it was only natural. He wasn’t stupid, he saw how the other boys looked at them ; he saw how they could find it weird that the two boys would prefer each other’s company over everyone else’s at school. He saw how none of the other boys were as worried when their friend was in the infirmary as he was for Patrick, and he saw how none of them left their dorm wearing their roommate’s clothes like Patrick did with his. He thought they just didn’t understand because they didn’t get as lucky as him to have someone like Patrick as their friend.
A glimpse into Art and Patrick's teenage years, tracing the evolution of their bond as Art reflects on their connection and his confusing feelings.
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16 Jun 2025
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People you kiss in an airport baggage claim and then don't talk to for thirteen months shouldn't be able to exist, let alone make your chest do the things Arthur's chest is doing. There are rules.
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22 Apr 2025
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This is what his life has become: hotels and coffee and reveling in those few hours he has to himself. The French news lulls him to sleep, and Arthur thinks if he can just get through this job, then it will be over. If only.
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21 Apr 2025
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“What’s the difference between falling and flying?"
Or, the one where Freddy and Billy stumble through feelings, let themselves fall, and come to an answer.
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20 Apr 2025
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Two years ago, Billy Batson received his powers from the wizard Shazam.
A week later, he found his mom.
A month after that, a new hero appeared.
Or, the revised story of how Billy Batson discovered himself, found his home, and fell in love in the process.
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- Part 1 of Champions
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20 Apr 2025
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Selene keeps waiting for him to leave.
She knows he will. Since she first heard Michael speak about loss, she knows his heart is too soft to live this life. She almost hoped he would pull the trigger when she handed him the gun in that interrogation room, so that she wouldn’t need to watch such a soft heart twist and darken and go mindless with hate — because then, she’d need to put a bullet in him herself. She watched it happen before. She knew others that were brought into the life that went mad with vengeance — she knows better than anyone what that feels like.Selene reflects on what happened to lead her and Michael to where they are after they kill Marcus and William.
Canon for Underworld and Evolution, and diverges after the second movie.
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- Part 1 of Underworld: Revolution
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09 Apr 2025
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Kevin lifted his chin. "I know you ain’t weak. I never said you was. But, you scared as fuck to be happy.”
They glared at each other and the seconds ticked by until Chiron broke the silence. “Why you think that is, Kev?” he asked, his voice weary now, defeat in his eyes.
Both miserable, they sat there and seconds bled into minutes before Chiron spoke again. “I trusted you…” he said, his eyes on the sand, head down.
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Chiron and Kevin hit a rocky patch and realize that sex doesn't solve everything. Real love between real people isn't just about moonlit fairytales, it's about the decisions made and lived out in the daylight. They'll have to fight for their relationship, if there's anything left to fight for. Some storms leave a different kind of devastation behind.Series
- Part 1 of Dark Side of the Moon
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03 Apr 2025