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A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Dec 2025
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When the Byers move to California, Will is lonely, bullied, and struggling with his mental health. When Mike comes to visit, he notices that something is off, but doesn’t know what’s wrong or how to help while his best friend feels so far away even though he's physically there. However, maybe Mike finds the answer after they are brought closer than ever after El is abducted by the government and they end up facing capture, interdimensional monsters, torture, the past, their own feelings, and attempting to prevent the apocalypse. (Post-s3, rewriting s4, and predicting s5).
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- Part 1 of The Glimmer Series
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15 Jun 2026
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i want you to need me (i need to want something more) by tasteofheaven
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 May 2026
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Because even if Will might have everyone in the room fooled, even if everyone thinks he’s happy and relaxed, he still doesn’t have Mike fully convinced. Because he’s still glancing at the staircase every few minutes. His shoulders still tighten when he hears a floorboard creak. And somehow his eyes still flicker toward the dark hallway anytime anyone asks him a question, like he’s incapable of answering without a script.
Nobody else notices this.
Mike wishes that he didn’t, either.
Everyone thinks Will Byers is lucky to have married the successful and well respected Carlton Van Note. Will believes he should feel so, too.
Except— no one sees what goes on behind closed doors, not when Carlton drinks too much, not when jealousy turns into rage, not when Will learns how to fawn just to keep the peace that only now echoes in the empty, silent halls. No one sees the physical evidence left on his body after violent nights, hidden under long sleeves and careful smiles. And for years, Will has gotten good at pretending.
Unfortunately, Mike Wheeler knows him all too well.
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14 Jun 2026
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we thought this place was haunted (but we stayed anyway) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jun 2026
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Three months after the truth finally came out, Mike Wheeler and Will Byers are together, and still trying to figure out how to build a life with each other.
Rosecliff Manor no longer feels quite as haunted as it once did. Will is making a home there. Mike is trying to step back into the world. Lily is determined to make sure neither of them takes anything too seriously.
But the past doesn't disappear just because they've chosen to move forward. As Mike begins facing the grief he spent years hiding from, Will discovers that some shadows are harder to escape.
Falling in love was only the beginning.
Now they have to learn how to stay.
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- Part 2 of we thought this place was haunted
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14 Jun 2026
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when i've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed by girlgbtq
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jun 2026
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"Sullivan's pace quickened as he strode down the halls of the lab in the Hellish dimension, the last thirty minutes stuck in his mind on a loop. Some trouble makers breaking into the base, a swarm of those vile undead monsters, a demon shooting his hand through the face of Ramirez-
And a boy, snapping the limbs of one of those monsters without even breaking a sweat- a brand new variable that Sullivan hadn’t predicted discovering."
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When Joyce, Mike, and Will leave the MAC-Z after discovering Will's powers, they assume that the only enemy they have left to deal with is Vecna. However, they fail to notice that Lieutenant Jack Sullivan wasn't killed in the massacre- and that he saw Will using his newfound powers. Once Sullivan informs Dr. Kay, it doesn't take too long for the military to set their sights on a new target, one that has powers that they would love to get their hands on...
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12 Jun 2026
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After years of running from past mistakes, trauma, and the life he left behind, Will has finally settled. He’s found his purpose as an art teacher at a group home for troubled kids, and he’s starting to believe he can actually cauterize his own wounds by tending to the fresh ones of others.
But as he starts his second year - the new creative writing teacher helps him realize you can’t grow new flowers when your roots are still displaced.
Or: An entire school year in which Mike and Will rediscover themselves and their relationship after 8 years no contact, bonding over their shared love for the sweetest children with familiar, painful histories.
"Every time I make you cry, it starts raining," Mike states quietly. His voice is barely audible over the roaring downpour, but it cuts through the thunder like a blade.
"Only the times you've witnessed," Will says in return, his voice barely a whisper.
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11 Jun 2026