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the now, the then, the thinking of when by orphiclucent
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2026
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This was a bad idea. Wanting this. Wanting him. “I’m gonna…” Mike gestured vaguely. “Get some water.”
“Mike,” Will called, gentle, like always. Mike almost hated him for being so kind. “You okay?”
“Yeah,” he lied. “I’m fine.”Basically, whoever has been drawing on the chemistry lab table the period before Mike sits there is an incredible artist, and he’s becoming rapidly obsessed with the one-line conversations they have through notes scribbled on said table. Additionally, Mike may be falling in love with his best friend, but he’s going to ignore that, like he usually does with all his problems.
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Mike's arms ached from driving so long, and his head hurt from the radio that he chose to blast as he careened across the country in his little rented movers’ van, and all he wanted, really, was a drink.
Mike meets a stranger in a bar, and he thinks something is familiar about him. Maybe he's just desperate for friends, but something about the guy (who's very pretty and oozes confidence) reminds him of a friend he had years ago.
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Oftentimes, that was how it was. Receive a letter, give advice, get an update and thank-you. He had a feeling that wouldn’t be the case with Lovesick Lunatic. Somehow, their story stuck with him. After his relationship with Ginny had crashed and burned, and he had to witness his best friends get together, he found a little special interest in it. The letter was something he could appreciate, something sweet and not attached to anyone he knew. He reveled in that, the distance between Lovesick Lunatic and him. And Harry lived vicariously through each word on the browning parchment.
Or, Harry James Potter finally has a year to himself without someone trying to end his life. He decides to start an advice column. He did not, however, choose to fall in love.
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Chat Noir had something going on in his mind, somehow now more than ever. She could hear the gears churning, and he’d been distracted on patrol every day this week. “Did he find out who you were? Before…you know. You’ve been kind of out of it, m’lady.”
She frowned. Some nights she couldn’t sleep, thinking of the way he’d dragged her out of the cabinet by her sole ankle. She felt the imprint of his palm burned into her skin. She was haunted by the sight of his fingers crumbling in front of her eyes, by the bright flash of light that had changed their lives.
“You okay?”
Ladybug hummed. She fidgeted nervously, pulling at the fabric covering her fingers as if it was going to come off. “Just thinking."in which ladybug can't bear to keep a secret.
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“Are you going to listen to me now, dear?” Alhaitham positively beamed, dimples creating deep cavities right where Kaveh wanted to bury his fingers.
“Yeah,” he conceded. “I could use some—wait. Alhaitham. Get back here, you motherfucker, did you just—”
Alhaitham hummed, threw Kaveh’s own neatly-folded blanket at him, turned on his heels, and left.AKA, five times Alhaitham calls Kaveh a pet name, and one time Kaveh returns the favor.
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r/DnD
u/MWpaladin commented on “Can’t tell the difference between sorcerers and…” posted by u/LionsandTigers7 on r/DnDu/MWpaladin: Are you an actual idiot? Sorcerers and wizards are hardly even comparable. It’s not ‘the same thing’ in the slightest. A sorcerer’s magic doesn’t even come from a book of spells, their powers are INNATE. Maybe go back to third fucking grade before you ever try and DM a campaign of your own. Jesus Christ. Another important differentiation to note is… [expand]
Or: a long, very long, retrospective of Mike’s reddit history.
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Bookmarked by orphiclucent
04 Mar 2026
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Mike is on Reddit.
He needs to stop oversharing online.
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25 Feb 2026
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“If you go,” Will starts, and he’s so close, Mike could trace the line of freckles crowning his cheekbones. “Think about what’ll happen to Max. Or El. Or Dustin and Lucas.” Will smiles, sparkling bright in the moonlight. “The city would fall apart in a day without you.”
And you? What about you? Mike wants to ask.
As if Will hears him, he says, “I don’t think I could live without you.”
Mike Wheeler, in no particular order:
1. Gets a new job.
2. Falls in love.
3. Becomes Spiderman.One of those things is not like the other.
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Bookmarked by orphiclucent
10 Feb 2026
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He sits at his desk and thinks to himself about the story he can never tell.
It isn't the story of the mage; that, perhaps, is the easiest story to tell. An acceptable one, a story of love and loss, of power and politics, of magic and monsters.
The stories he grew up on are the same stories he's doomed to tell now. Of supernatural entities and learned helplessness.
No, the story he can never tell is one he's never seen or read before. One that could never have a happy ending.
It goes like this:
Four boys playing a tabletop role-playing game in a basement. Loud, chaotic, wild. There is a distinct air of youth surrounding them. They are untouched by trauma and unharmed by life.
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mike wheeler, grief, and the (love) story he cannot tell.
Bookmarked by orphiclucent
09 Feb 2026
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ego death at a new year's eve party (fate's got a funny way, baby!) by sapphicwithapen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2026
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“You didn’t tell me Will had a boyfriend!”
Shit. Mike felt his own jaw drop without even realizing it.
“No, he doesn’t,” Max said, but it came out more like a question than anything. And then she looked over at Mike, who was horribly red in the face and was suddenly feeling an overwhelming urge to reconnect with nature after this. “Wait. Does he?”
OR: Mike gets jealous at a party, accidentally reveals that Will has a boyfriend, and neglects to tell anybody that he's the boyfriend in question.
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- Part 3 of byler? i hardly know her!
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05 Feb 2026