7 Works by tarnishedmoon
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“You know, half the time when people at school are talking, I have no idea what they mean. And the other half, I do know, but I just–” El stopped, pressing her lips together. Her fingers brushed against a trophy on Max’s shelf, a small gold girl holding a skateboard above her head. “I haven’t done any of it.”
“You don’t have to do everything everyone else does.”
“But I want to!” El shot back, turning on her. “Don’t you get that? I want to.”
“Okay!” Max held her eyes for a moment. “So what do you want to do?”
Everything. That was the word that came to mind. She wanted to do everything she had missed out on. She wanted a life. But it was too late.
“I just… don’t want to feel like I’m a step behind everyone anymore,” El said, her voice small.
“Alright,” Max said, determined. "Let's do it then."
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It's the summer before their senior year of high school. And with the help of Max and a paper fortune teller, El's going to finally get to live her own life. And, in the process, she's going to fall in love. For real this time.
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Dear Will,
It hasn’t been that long since I last saw you, but I miss you.
I should be used to the feeling by now. I have been missing you my whole life.
I thought I’d grow out of it. That once the idea of object permanence settled in, and I got used to the idea of having a friend, that it would be easier to be apart from you.
But I was wrong.
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Right when Mike realizes he likes Will and Will likes him back, he has to go back to his life in Indiana. They slowly work out what they mean to one another.
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- Part 3 of hold the sun
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hold you like soft water holds the sky by tarnishedmoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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Mike froze in place. Someone pumped into him, sending him a dirty look over their shoulder, but Mike couldn’t give less of a shit. He was too busy trying to remember how to breathe.
Then, Will’s eyes found him across the gate. And his face broke into a smile that was achingly familiar. And Mike was running.
He practically threw himself into Will’s arms, spinning them both with the momentum of it. It took a second for Will to catch up and start hugging him back. But eventually he did, steadying the both of them in place. Mike held on for too long, reacquainting himself to the presence of his best friend. Will pulled back first, reaching to pick up Mike’s duffle bag from where he’d abandoned it recklessly on the airport floor.
“Hi,” Mike said with a goofy grin.
“Hi,” Will said back, his face a little red.
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Mike has finally started to accept what happened to El, and is ready to get his life back on track. Then he visits Will at NYU after months of not seeing each other, and is sent down another emotional spiral.
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- Part 2 of hold the sun
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Never play never have I ever with Will Byers by tarnishedmoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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One drunken night in college, Will decides to just say fuck it and be completely honest in a game of never have I ever.
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I'll turn in my lips and say goodbye by tarnishedmoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jan 2026
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Mike felt a solid hand pat his shoulder through the blanket. “Aw, man. Cheer up, yeah? Hangovers are what college is all about, right?”
Lucas didn’t get it. None of them got it. Mike would never feel better. He didn’t deserve to.
“I was going to break up with her,” Mike confessed to his pillowcase. Words he had sworn he would take to his grave, now trapped between skin and cotton.
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After graduation, everybody started to move on. Everybody but Mike. He has not been able to accept what happened to El. In large part because he is carrying around a secret about that day that he has not told anyone.
Set two years after the final battle, Mike is finally forced to confront his grief and start finding a way to move past it.
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- Part 1 of hold the sun
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Mike’s first thought when his best friend came out was, “I’m not ready.”
His second thought was “I’m an asshole.”—
Set after Season 5 Vol 2, where everyone is heading off to fight Vecna while Mike is heading off to fight his own feelings.
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That conversation with Remus before his first moon was the single most difficult thing Lyall had ever done. Or it was, until he had to sit outside the cellar door, listening to the bones in his baby’s body break until the beast Lyall had summoned clawed its way into the world.
And in the morning, as Lyall sat beside his sleeping boy, performing every healing spell he knew, he vowed to do everything in his power to ease this burden he had placed upon his son.
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Or, Lyall Lupin made mistakes causing his son to be attacked by a werewolf. Now he must deal with the fallout and learn how to move forward
Featuring Lyall's love of libraries, Remus' love of stories, and a young James and Sirius barging into Remus' life to cause chaos before they are even capable of magic.
Canon divergence - Remus, James, and Sirius meet before attending Hogwarts