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Will’s eyes sting with tears, and his nose prickles with heat. He feels like he’s burning, like he’s on fire. But Mom’s right—he doesn’t have to be afraid. She knows, and she loves him, and she’s not leaving. All that’s left is the words. And he shouldn’t be scared of words. After all he’s been through, if what takes him down is the English alphabet, then the world has a really fucked up sense of humor.
He just needs to rip off the bandaid.
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Alternatively: Five times Will Byers came out, and the one time someone came out to him.
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Dustin Henderson, the Scientific Method, and Homosexuality by crow_of_crimes (Theyna_Shipper)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jun 2022
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Dustin Henderson is, if nothing else, a firm believer in the scientific method. As a bug collector since age 4, an aspiring computer scientist since 5th grade, a member of Hawkins A/V since 6th grade, a science camp attendee since 7th grade, and a boy with a lifelong passion for science, he recognizes its principles: careful observation, study, and peer review.
So when strange things begin to happen in Hawkins, that fall outside the usual nature of strange things that happen in Hawkins, he returns to his roots to find the answers. After all, the scientific method applies to social science, too. And if any observation ever needed careful dissection, it was this one.
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Or: Dustin Henderson applies the scientific method to figure out why two of his best friends have been acting so strangely.
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- Part 6 of Stranger Things One-Shots
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Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
17 Dec 2023
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the comforts that make us feel numb by passerine_in_jade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Oct 2023
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“No, but really. If I were a girl,” Mike presses on, looking up at Will with red-rimmed eyes through dark lashes. Leaning in. Somehow, fully unaware that this line of questioning has Will's heart climbing up to his throat. “Would you want to kiss me?”
Will and Mike get high in the desert.
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He hears the distant creak of the basement stairs. And then the door, and the cautious footsteps that follow. And he turns over his shoulder, water cup still in hand, to find exactly who he knew he would find.
Mike Wheeler, standing in the shadows of his own home like he doesn’t belong there.
Instantly, that familiar pain reappears, shooting right to Will’s sternum as he’s pinned under Mike’s piercing stare. Half-hearted concern, and confusion, and care, all shining from those dark, soulful eyes. “Hey,” Mike says, tentatively.
Will thinks about walking away. Strongly considers it, in fact. But his momentary indecision has frozen him in place, and. Well. He’s never been especially good at ignoring Mike. And after the day they’ve had…
Will bites back as much bitterness as he can. (Which, it turns out, is not very much at all.) “Hey.”
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Will & Mike have an awkward night post-rain fight
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
12 Dec 2023
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Oh. She thinks he and Will are dating.
And Mike knows it's wrong, he knows it is, but his mom is waging psychological warfare on him in the frozen food section at eight in the morning, and he hasn't even had coffee yet, and he really, really needs this. It would be vindicating. It would be his one chance at proving to his family that his thing for Tom Cruise wasn't a phase. And most importantly, it would be kind of hilarious.
"Mom," Mike says slowly, ducking his head to make pointed eye contact for the first time over the course of their conversation, "Will and I are together. Romantically. And I'm not having Christmas dinner without him."
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
12 Dec 2023
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But he’s getting better. He’s getting better at it. Mike steps forward, and Will retreats. He’s getting better.
“You’re avoiding me.”
So, for Mike to barge into his room and demand an explanation for why Will has been pulling away – well, maybe he’s a little confused.Will finally rips off the band-aid. Mike won't let him.
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- Part 4 of fix-its
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kill the director by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (Podcast)
17 Jul 2022
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“Hi,” Robin says, voice cracking. “Will that be all?”
And it turns out that yes, it will be. Nancy thanks her, they say goodbye, and she leaves as uneventfully as she came. It's no tragedy, and it's no epic romance. Nancy Wheeler is just one of the many fascinating girls that walk into Family Video all of the time. Robin will live to see another day. Probably. If she can stop thinking about that thirty-second interaction for long enough to remember to look both ways before she crosses the street.
“So," Steve asks. "Are we going shopping for your wedding suit?"
Robin flips him a bird, and allows her head to fall into her hands.
Robin's life is nothing like the movies. That is, at least, until Nancy Wheeler comes along.
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
11 Dec 2023
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“Whatever," Lucas shrugs. "You’re just jealous that you aren’t getting any.”
Mike raises an eyebrow, like he knows something the rest of them don't. Will looks like he wants to drown him. He probably deserves it.
In which Will has a love bite, the Party freaks out about it, and Mike is jealous of himself.
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Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
11 Dec 2023
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make me tremble by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (Podcast)
31 Jul 2022
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“So just talk to her, then.”
“That’s the total opposite of my problem, Dingus” Robin says, “Whenever I have a crush, it's like I can’t do anything but talk. ”
Finally freed from the woollen fabric of her scarf, Nancy raises an eyebrow. “What do you mean?” she teases, sliding into the empty seat next to Steve. “You always talk a lot.”
Five infuriating things about Robin, and why Nancy wants her around anyways.
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i need you more than anyone darling (you know that i have from the start) by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Aug 2022
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It’s fine. It’s totally fine. He’ll just go to sleep- and when he wakes up tomorrow, he’ll forget that this crisis had ever even happened. He closes his eyes, and tries to turn off his brain. It shouldn’t be too hard, probably. He’s heard Max make that joke enough times to suspect that there might be some truth in it. After all, Mike has spent this long being oblivious. Surely, he can manage one night more.
Not even an hour later, he finds himself climbing up Will’s bedroom window.
Mike has more realisations in one night than in two whole years. It's all Jonathan's fault.
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Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
11 Dec 2023
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“Max is a girl on our school’s softball team,” Lucas explains, since Mike’s statement is severely lacking. “Jane wants to woo her, so we're helping her learn how to play before the tryouts.”
Dustin gestures at the two of them, as if to say: there you have it.
Jane isn’t quite sure what “it” is supposed to be- but judging by the expression on Steve’s face, he doesn’t seem to think that they have much of anything. She tries to picture what they must look like; the five of them, with their school backpacks, silly graphic T-shirts, and hand-me-down flannels. Not like a promising softball team, certainly.
“Thoughts?” Dustin prompts.
“And prayers,” says Steve.
Jane has a crush, and the boys try their very best to act as her wingmen.
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A while ago, El watched a movie where a man took the hands of an actress with a pretty smile into his own. I’m mad about you, he told her, feverishly. He didn’t sound angry, not really– but that’s what he said. Mad. El came to her conclusion, then.
The heat in her cheeks must mean that she is mad about Max.
The first time El sees Max, she sweeps her off her feet. Over the next few years, Max returns the favour.
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
11 Dec 2023
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THEMM IM BREAKDANXJNG I LOVE THEM SO MHCH
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“I don’t think that it has to mean that you’re into guys,” Lucas says. His words are accompanied by a casual shrug, and said in the tone of someone who has clearly already given this subject some thought. Will doesn’t know what to do with that information. Jump from a building, maybe. “I mean, we’d all get flustered if Spider-Man carried us in his arms.”
Mike points to him enthusiastically. “Thank you, Lucas.”
Dustin looks between the two of them, his eyes narrowed.
“...Would we?”
“Sure,” Mike concludes. “He’s attractive. That’s not a weird thing to think.”
Will just barely resists the urge to bang his head against the table. He feels Dustin’s eyes glued to his burning face, and sinks even further down his chair.
In which Mike tells Spider-Man that he has a crush on his best friend, and Will jumps to some very wrong conclusions.
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Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
11 Dec 2023
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put your lips close to mine, as long as they don't touch by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 May 2023
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“Well, I don't know,” Mike says. This is exactly what he had practised in the mirror earlier– except now he has to say it with the sudden certainty that this is all a very bad idea. “I guess I thought that a kiss would be a good bucket list item, or whatever."
Will looks at him for a few seconds. His gaze is calculating, and almost curious. But then he just shakes his head dismissively, and looks away.
“Yeah, I guess,” he agrees. “It’s not like there’s anyone to kiss here, though."
Mike almost laughs at that. Yeah, right.
He knows of at least two other people who would be down to kiss Will, if he asked them to. He selfishly keeps this to himself- because he doesn’t want Will to kiss anybody else, and because he doesn’t want to explain why, exactly, he has been keeping such close track of his best friend's romantic prospects.
“I mean,” he says instead, with a shrug. “I’m here."
It's the end of the world. Mike thinks that he and Will should kiss about it.
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
11 Dec 2023
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When Steve and Robin both come down with a cold, El and Max agree to cover their shifts at Scoops Ahoy. It's just scooping ice cream. How hard can it be?
(or: a scoops elmax fic feat. jealous max discovering her feelings for el)
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
09 Dec 2023
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El's lips are pink like strawberries, Max notices.
She wonders if they taste like strawberries too.
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
09 Dec 2023
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my love for you blossoms (like a flower) by StaticKissed
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jul 2023
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El smiles at Max again, and she fiddles with the flower crown in her hands. “Here,” El says, holding it out for Max to take. “You can put it on if you want to!”
Max stares at the flower crown for a moment before her eyes flicker back up to El’s face. She’s still looking at Max with that soft look and that something in her eyes, so Max swallows down her nerves and meets El’s gaze.
“Can you,” Max starts, throat suddenly feeling very dry and she already feels the warmth rushing to her cheeks. “Can you put it…on me?” She asks, her voice is surprisingly steady, albeit a bit rapsy and quiter than she thought it would be.
Or, El makes a flower crown. Max makes a move.
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Max Mayfield didn't like red.
But she would move mountains for the one who wore it.
At another school dance, Max wants to make sure that El knows how special she is.
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eleven doesn't understand what's wrong with her body.
Bookmarked by lucid (lucidd_lemon)
09 Dec 2023