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Will Byers has already spent one full year studying at Boston University.
That fact still surprised him sometimes, the way it landed in his chest when he stopped to think about it.
Mostly, he's been focused on figuring out what a normal life felt like. Classes. Assignments. Deadlines. Critiques that didn’t involve anyone almost dying. Days that passed without incident.
And then, one night, he decided—fuck it.
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or: after the end of the world, will byers builds himself a new life.
Boston, art school, a boyfriend, and a home that finally feels like his own—until the past comes knocking, and mike wheeler suddenly makes leaving the past behind harder than will thought.title from: Good Luck, Babe - Chappell Roan
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18 Jan 2026
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"Is a kiss a possible signal or...start of a...snowball?"
"A kiss isn't a signal nor a snowball." Will frowned immediately, confusion knitting his brows together, his mouth turning down at the corners.
"What is it then?" The question came out quiet, almost afraid of the answer, but needing it desperately anyway.
"An avalanche."
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in which, mike figures out about the painting during the 18 month time skip
mwtfdydgate & season 5 re-write
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14 Jan 2026
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Brand me with your hands so everyone can see. by sundollop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”
Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”
The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.
Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.
Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.
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07 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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02 Jan 2026
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Pouring Like An Avalanche, Coming Down The Mountain by Beeplesnorp
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Will Byers woke up on the morning of November 3rd 1987, on the floor of his best friend's bedroom with a sinking feeling in his stomach and an insatiable yearning in his heart.
Micheal Wheeler, woke up three minutes later that same day, trying not to question what he felt as he watched his best friend slip out the door without a word.
A full scene-by-scene rewrite of Stranger Things Season Five from Will's (and Mike's) perspective. Because I’m a bit upset, and I’ll be damned if these plot holes aren’t fixable.
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02 Jan 2026