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I'll believe in anything (and you'll believe in anything). by thousgay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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Will’s eyes flicked to Lucas. His eyebrows were high up on his forehead, eyes widened, and he shifted up a little straighter, like he was intrigued. Like he knew what was coming, and was bracing for it.
“And— and it’s like… shit, it’s like— kind of awful, y’know? Um. To figure out. The thing’s not awful. Well— maybe. Probably. Possibly? You guys might think so. My dad thinks so. I kind of think so? Uh. Well. Not as much. Not anymore?” His shuddering hand gestured outwards, pointing at nothing, a wide gesticulation of no substance or meaning beyond nervous habit. Mike sucked in another harsh breath. “And it’s like… this— this massive thing. Like, life-changing. It’s kind of re-contextualised my whole life, actually. Like I’ve suddenly switched D&D classes, or something.”
Or: Mike is the Party member everyone believes is gay. Mike is also the Party member that comes out first.
Or: the answer to MWTFDYDgate.
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16 Mar 2026
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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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29 Jan 2026
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Nothing is Lost { You Give Me Strength } by dormant_bender
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
11 Mar 2026
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Lo'ak is overwhelmed with grief and guilt; a cocktail of emotion that threatened to lead him down what would have been a dangerous and irreversible path, had a last minute decision not stopped him.
Immediately in the aftermath, he wishes to connect with Neteyam. And when he does, realization dawns that perhaps he had been strong all along.
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27 Dec 2025
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"When Jake looks at his children, he feels like he wants to live. He feels hope, and strength, and faith, and innocence.
Recently, he's also felt despair.
He held each of his children's kurus to connect them to their first communion with Eywa. He held his children's hands as he taught them to shoot their first arrow. He held up their spirits in a time of darkness, because it was the only thing he could do.
He also held a knife to his eldest son's neck, and prayed for the strength to drive it through his carotid.
He can’t forget it."OR
Jake's guilt post THAT scene in AFAA
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- Part 2 of Figuring it Out
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23 Dec 2025
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Born of Me (The Space Between Intention and Impact) by WillieTheNerd
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
19 Feb 2026
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Lo’ak’s eyes lift. “Promise?”
Jake lifts his pinky. “Pinky promise.”
Lo’ak’s smaller pinky wraps around it, serious as anything.
“See?” Jake says softly. “That’s another thing others can’t do—but we can. And pinky promises never break.”
Lo’ak nods solemnly. “Ever?”
Jake squeezes his finger gently. “Ever.”
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Jake Sully loves his son. He just doesn’t always understand him.
Told primarily through Jake’s POV before, during, and after The Way of Water, this fic explores Lo’ak’s childhood, rebellion, and the cost of silence, carrying its consequences forward into Fire and Ash, where love, guilt, and survival are anything but simple.
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23 Dec 2025