crisptrepidation
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- Stranger Things (TV 2016) (2)
- Shameless (US) (1)
- Glee (TV 2009) (1)
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my lonely days are over (and life is like a song) by crisptrepidation
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2026
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They meet up with Jonathan and his new girlfriend around 2 and head for the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney and dinner in the West Village, organized by Mike and Jonathan, but it’s exactly what Will would’ve planned for himself anyway. Will is so grateful that he is so known. That he’s never felt the way he did when he was a teenager, birthdays all but forgotten, again, and he never will.
They laugh, drink the top shelf liquor Will’s usually too frugal to order for himself (old habits die hard), and swap updates — Jonathan’s trip to Europe to visit his daughter on her study abroad semester and location scout for his next project, how Mike’s latest novel is going, the artist residency Will’s doing in the fall.
Surrounded by his big brother and his husband — his favourite people in the world, at both age 5 and 55, Will is exactly where he wants to be.
or, a very fluffy little take on how will spends his 55th birthday.
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literally just a couple hundred words about the party loving and supporting each other post-vecna idk
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“Why are you guys being so nice to me?” Sam whispered, his voice barely audible above the rattling air conditioner.
Quinn exhaled, smiling a bit sadly, and sat down beside Sam, she put her hand on top of his. “We’ve all been where you are. Look, you don’t need to explain anything, but we know what it’s like.”
Artie rolled up next to the couch, his hand joining atop Sam and Quinn’s, he smiled, empathetically but equally devilishly. “Face it, dude. You’re one of us now.”
In the summer of 1977, Sam Evans heads west in search of people like him.
*formerly titled After All (You’re My Wonderwall
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There's just one thing missing Ian and Mickey's new married life.
Or, the one where Ian has baby fever.
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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13 Jul 2026
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It’s the year 2000, and Mike Wheeler has come to Montauk to house-sit, write, and very intentionally not think too hard about his life. Then Will Byers arrives unplanned and, without meaning to, forces Mike to reexamine everything he thought he knew about himself.
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One week by the ocean where Mike figures out he’s been in love with his best friend for years, and Will is trying very hard to not let old feelings resurface.
Bookmarked by crisptrepidation
25 Jun 2026
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Isn't There Someone You Forgot to Tell by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2026
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“Hopper doesn’t know I’m gay.”
Jonathan squinted at him, mind prone to lag in the morning. “Why would Hopper not know? You told us as clearly as you could without using the word—”
“He was already on the way to Radio Shack,” Will said in a rush. He gripped his bag tighter so his arms wouldn’t start to flail with panicky emphasis. “He wasn’t there when I came out.”
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25 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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17 Jun 2026
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i never knew my name until you spoke it from your chest by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2026
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When Mike first filled out the paperwork, he didn’t know if anything would come of it. He’d just arrived back in Ithaca after a spring break visit to the city. His neck was stiff from the weird nap he’d taken on the bus. It was snowing, in April. He didn't even have any friends to call up and announce his return, unless you counted his roommate, Jeremy, who greeted him with an indifferent head nod and a “hey, man” when Mike spilled through the door of their dorm room, shaking melting snowflakes out of his overgrown hair.
He trudged across campus the next day, past dirty iced-over snow drifts that seemed like they might never melt, and knocked on the door of his advisor’s office.
“If I wanted to transfer to another school next year,” he said, fidgeting with his backpack in his lap as he sat down in the squeaky vinyl-backed chair, “how would that work?”
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17 Jun 2026