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Will gets dumped by Carlton/Carlos/whatever and fired from his job on the same day, takes a last-minute summer job as a tattoo artist to avoid his mom's wedding planning, and doesn't tell Mike Wheeler he's in HIS town.
Mike's living THE college life, getting piercings, crashing concerts, but when he shows up at midnight with his "boyfriend" Riley hoping for a couple's discount on tattoos, Will Byers is the last person he expects to be the artist.
They're both lying. They're both idiots. Max Mayfield has had enough. So have I.
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A story about three tattoos (a d22, a witch hat, and one more), two lies (Riley and Carlton), and one truth (they've been in love since they were twelve).
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16 Mar 2026
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Trinity and Dennis have been roommates for three months, and she wouldn't say that they're friends.
Sure, they spend all of their time together. And yes, they watch The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives religiously every week and chat about it at work. And yeah, fine, she'll meal prep them both lunch while he fixes her sink, but they're not friends. And that's how it'll stay.
Until the day a patient comes into the ER and Dennis refuses to treat him. Not out of revulsion. Not because the guy’s an ass.
Because Dennis is terrified.
And fear has a funny way of cracking things open.
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10 Mar 2026
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Her gaze dropped to Mike’s hand on Will’s wrist. “Don’t hurt Papa!” she begged desperately.
For a split moment, Will didn’t understand, the thought so far-fetched, improbable, and ridiculous that it didn’t even cross his mind, but then the realization hit him like a bucket of cold water being dumped over his head.
She thought Mike was going to hit him.
Mike must’ve understood it at the same time, because his hand fell away, quick, like he’d been burned.
.........or: When Will and Mike’s four-year-old daughter walks in on an argument, she mistakes raised voices and hands for something far worse - she thinks Mike is going to hurt Will.
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10 Mar 2026
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all systems down (they've got control) by paladinupland
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Mar 2026
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The hope was that Vecna was dead, because a portal to Hell splitting Hawkins down the middle was a kinder reality than the one they lived in. Max had woken up, after all, so maybe miracles do happen, and whatever took place during Spring Break was the end of it. Luck was never on their side, though.
The anniversary of Will's disappearance looms over them, like a guillotine in the form of a ticking clock. They knew well enough that all it takes is one night for everything to go wrong. The crawl goes off-script, Hopper is M.I.A., and the Wheeler's house is in ruin.
Maybe what they need is a return to form; maybe Will needs to go back there, to the Upside Down, himself, to get the answers they're looking for.
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The events of November 1987 are retold through the eyes of The Party, because it should have ended how it started.
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08 Mar 2026
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Will’s eyes sting with tears, and his nose prickles with heat. He feels like he’s burning, like he’s on fire. But Mom’s right—he doesn’t have to be afraid. She knows, and she loves him, and she’s not leaving. All that’s left is the words. And he shouldn’t be scared of words. After all he’s been through, if what takes him down is the English alphabet, then the world has a really fucked up sense of humor.
He just needs to rip off the bandaid.
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Alternatively: Five times Will Byers came out, and the one time someone came out to him.
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