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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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    03 Jan 2026

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    Dina’s a 22-year-old English major with a crush on the kind of girl who only dates cool, confident queers. Dina is none of those things. She’s never dated a girl, panics whenever she tries, and the one time she made eye contact with her in the campus café, she dropped her phone into her latte.

    Ellie is also 22, a college senior, and one failing grade away from blowing her art degree and losing her scholarship. She needs to pass Contemporary Poetry and the Queer Form to graduate, and she needs help doing it.

    Ellie’s dated enough girls to know how the game works. She does not have time for someone else’s gay panic. But she’s also just desperate enough to say yes when Dina proposes a trade: tutoring for tutoring. Books for girls. Clean deal.

    Until it isn’t.

    Because the more time they spend together in study sessions and late-night practice flirting, the more the plot starts to shift.
    Will Dina get the unattainable girl of her dreams?
    Will Ellie survive poetry with her GPA and emotional detachment intact?
    Or will they both realize they’ve been writing the wrong story all along?

    The College AU/Tutoring AU/Cyrano De Bergerac AU trifecta you didn't expect from me.

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    03 Sep 2025

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    “Oh wow” Vi chuckled, starting her third lap as she used the shortcut that she had found during a Mario Kart tournament with her siblings. “So your sister... is she hot? More importantly, is she single?”

    “Woah” Jayce immediately paused the fucking game. Honestly, the nerve of this guy. He turned towards Vi, looking dead serious.

    “I think you missed like the first basic rule we have here in our fraternity.”

    Will rolled his eyes at his brother’s dramatic-ass attitude. Vi had to agree it was a bit – a lot – over the top. “It’s an unspoken rule that you aren’t allowed to fuck the sister of one of your bros.”

    Vi let a chuckle escape as she nodded. "Sure, not a problem"

    She wasn't into nerdy bitches anyways.
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    A college AU where everyone's favourite lesbians pine for each other once more when they decide to just be friends after a one night stand. If only it were that fucking simple.

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    18 Apr 2025

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    “I always loved summer,” Caitlyn tells the young woman across from her, “because, in the summer, my parents and I made the trek out to our summer house in Zaun.”

    Caitlyn smiles as memories washed over her like the gentle waves on the lake - sandy feet, the county fair, ice cream smeared on her nose, the warmth of the sunburn that came from days spent lying on the dock.

    She looks out the window, watching the midday sun sparkle off a lake that was nearly untouched by the years and the memories.

    “Miss?”

    “Hmm?” Caitlyn says, turning toward the source of the gentle prompt. “Oh, I’m terribly sorry. I’m afraid I became lost in thought.”

    The young woman nods kindly, and Caitlyn’s eyes sparkle as she continues, the expression seeming to smooth the lines on her face, fade the white from her hair. “I especially loved the summer after I turned seventeen. That was a special summer.”

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    Caitlyn and Vi fell in love as teenagers, and then were separated for 10 years. Will the spark still be there when they're reunited?

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    The Inspired-by-The-Notebook AU: The Happy Ending Version

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    20 Mar 2025

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    “Houston, do you copy?”

    Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the damn push to talk button…

    “Hellooo? I said Houston, do you copy?”

    Caitlyn fiddled with her headset, having finally found the green button on the side and hastily letting out a rather breathless reply. “Um, yes. Hello? This is Houston. I copy.”

    There was a long pause in which Caitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs, anxiety pushing the frantic pulse of her heartbeat through her eardrums. Was that wrong? Did she already fuck up? She took a steady deep breath, finger hovering over the talk button until the familiar voice of the astronaut came through her headset once more.

    “Damn, Houston. I didn’t expect you to sound so sexy.”

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    Caitlyn has been assigned as the personal capcom to one of the astronauts currently on a year long expedition at the international space station. Cue long months of pining and desperate longing.

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    09 Mar 2025