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Will’s eyes were blank, unseeing.
Mike blinked and was thrown back eleven years. His nose stung with memory of the damp, sour-sweet rot that had haunted Hawkins the year the tunnels vivisected the town.
It’s been eight years since the final battle, and everyone is back in town for Steve’s wedding.
The Upside Down is gone, Vecna is dead, and Will keeps waking up in the woods.Bookmarked by bareminmood
06 Oct 2026
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The Scheme (Mishaps of Great Friendship) by bimbo_the_himbo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jul 2026
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Mike looks up at Will excitedly. “So?”
Will clicks his tongue. “Oh, Mike, we can’t do that. I don’t wanna single the poor guy out just because he knows about us.”
“Will—”
“Obviously, it’d be way better to tell everyone individually and ask them to keep it a secret so we can see how long it takes for them to realize that they all know.”
Mike blinks, silent for a moment. Then he’s cupping Will’s cheeks. “Oh my god, I love you so much.”
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@sunsetozier on Twitter: "secret relationship byler except they actually tell the whole party but they tell them all individually and tell each of them that they really just wanna keep it a secret for now 'so if you can help cover for us it'd be cool' just to see how long it takes for everyone to catch on"
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05 Oct 2026
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“We haven’t done this since middle school,” Will says, voice barely above a whisper.
“Huh,” Mike whispers back. “Yeah, guess not.”
A couple years ago, Mike read a National Geographic article about a phenomenon called the polar night. In the farthest north and south regions of the globe, there are weeks, sometimes months depending on how close you are to the poles, where the sun does not rise above the horizon, plunging the world into a perpetual nighttime. Living in such conditions, the article had explained, can affect one’s circadian rhythm, heighten issues with concentration and energy levels, and cause a spike in depressive symptoms among local populations. Some resort to using light therapy lamps to mimic the daylight.
It was only after the Byers moved away, all those years ago, that Mike began to understand what the prolonged absence of the sun can do to a person.
The Upside Down is gone, and everyone has made it out unscathed. In the aftermath of the not-so-end of the world, snowballs turn into avalanches. Sometimes it just takes time.
or: Mike gets into Brown, Will gets into RISD, and the friends-to-???-to-lovers slowburn that ensues.
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05 Oct 2026
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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid (& Will’s Letter to El)
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A series of Ryanaim's lives post Bandee , to be read in sequential order
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15 Sep 2026