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holding on where i am able by Zannolin for hoorayy, astrobi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jul 2024
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“Are you okay?” Nancy asks, shifting a little closer so their arms are pressed together in one continuous line of warmth. Mike flinches a little, like he’s surprised at the contact, but he doesn’t pull away, doesn’t retreat any further into himself where she can’t ever hope to follow.
Instead of answering her question, Mike asks, “Do you— are you ever angry?” Before she can answer, he continues, voice low and sort of strained, “I mean, like, really fucking angry. Whether you want to be or not.”
"About what?"
And Mike, still not looking at her, says, “Everything.”
(or, mike and nancy over five sleepless nights.)
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29 Dec 2025
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Mike keeps losing Will, time and time again. Time and time again, he always gets him back.
Or, alternatively: “Mike and Will’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night in the Upside Down: and Other Tales” by Mike Wheeler
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29 Dec 2025
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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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28 Dec 2025
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Jackie snatches up the magazine and stares at it with bulging eyes. Nope, she thinks. This doesn’t mean anything. It’s only a date. Months and numbers stop mattering when you’re surrounded by indeterminate miles of pure, utter nothingness, so this month and number don’t matter to her one bit. Not anymore. She’s expired. She’s gone.
(Or: Jackie relives the day of the crash again. Then again. And again. She's going to fix this. She just has to be convinced that it's worth fixing first.)
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23 Apr 2025
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She always had this dream they would save themselves.
And she saw how in love Mickey Milkovich was with her best friend.
Only Ian was coming apart at the seams, Mickey grasping at edges he didn't know how to hold onto and this was getting crazier the more they tried to save him themselves. The more they tried to figure it out themselves.Bookmarked by lcveinstereo
07 Feb 2025