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  1. Public Bookmark 90

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    After Vecna’s death, and being severed from the hive mind, Will doesn’t feel free — he feels empty. The world goes quiet and distant, his senses fading one by one until pain is the only thing that still reaches him.

    He doesn’t tell anyone what’s happening at first, he just takes matters onto his own hands. It starts out simple, pinching his arm during class, biting his lip at the dinner table, throwing a playful punch at Dustin just to receive one back. Small things, safe things, just to keep him grounded.

    However, Will’s craving for pain quickly becomes unbearable. His life starts to revolve around finding new ways to hurt himself — and Mike becomes the only thing that makes it manageable. Mike doesn’t know what’s wrong, only that something is, and he agrees to help Will no matter what. As time goes on, Will’s requests grow darker, obsessive and more dangerous, and what starts as concern turns into something binding, pulling the two of them closer together until Will’s need becomes too much to survive.

    Soon Mike is forced to choose between being what Will needs and being what might save him, even if it slowly destroys them both.

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    18 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 58

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    18 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 57

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    Mike Wheeler is one of the biggest actors in the world. He’s used to people staring, asking for pictures, pretending not to recognize him. A eighteen-hour flight to Auckland is supposed to be the one place he can finally get some peace.

    Will Byers is leaving everything behind. One-way ticket. Two suitcases. No real plan except to start over somewhere no one knows his name.

    When everything that can go wrong does—and a broken seatbelt earns Will the last available seat in Business Class—they end up side by side for the longest flight of their lives.

    Mike expects another fan. Will has no idea who Mike is.

    Somewhere over the Pacific, between awkward silences, shared meals, sleepless hours, and conversations neither of them expected to have, two strangers begin to realize that maybe the person sitting beside them is exactly who they needed.

    Or: a celebrity, a runaway, one accidental upgrade, and eighteen hours that change everything.

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    15 Aug 2026

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    There are three things Will and Mike learn on a random afternoon after high school graduation:

    - Teen magazine quizzes are way more intense than expected.
    - They are wildly unprepared for college.
    - Taking advice from anonymous “fever confessions” is a terrible idea.

    Unfortunately, they only realize the third one after they’ve already started acting on the first two.

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    Will and Mike accidentally read a very inappropriate teen magazine and decide the best way to prepare for college is to practice being less inexperienced… on each other.

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    15 Aug 2026

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    “It’s s’posed to be a bowl!” tears roll down his face now.
    He laughs, “you don’t like my hair?”
    “I’m sorry—I didn’t mean it. I really love it. It’s just that you're old and different now, it’s scary,” his hands scrunch into Will’s shirt.
    “Okay. You’re very drunk,” he pushes Mike off of him gently. Mike’s arms clumsily reach out in an attempt to hold him again. “You know you shouldn’t compliment a gay guy like that. He might get the wrong idea.”
    Mike furrows his brows at him. If he was sober, Mike would be able to pick up the sarcasm in his voice, but right now his brain is functioning at an all time low. “Good thing I’m gay then. That’s the idea I want them to have.”

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    Will hasn't talked to Mike for two years. He's happily living his life at college in San Diego. Max's dad just so happens to have a beach house in the same place. So she brings them all on vacation.
    Problems arise when Mike drunkly comes out to him. Why should that matter to Will though? He's over Mike.

    Title is a lyric from 'Actor' by Conan Gray

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    28 Jul 2026