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all yours (so let me adore you) by arrows_and_letters
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Sep 2026
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Steve knew this was a bad idea. He also knew that he was going to go through with it anyway.
Look, in his defense, rational decisions kind of fly out the window when the end of the world is on the horizon. It’s like in those sci-fi movies Dustin forced him to watch, where people confess things when they think they’re going to die! It’s very normal. Honestly, if you think about it, it was kind of the most rational thing to do, considering the circumstances.
or: steve harrington and love confessions at the end of the world
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r/AmITheAsshole
u/thehairI have maybe caught feelings again for my ex girlfriend after becoming friends with her current boyfriend. AITA?
or: steve harrington gets on reddit and bares his soul to the world.
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The first time that Jonathan calls Hopper “Dad”, it sneaks up on him, in a way.
It's January when it happens, and the neighbors still haven't taken down their Christmas lights, and Jonathan is antsy and desperate to get out and forget and stop feeling like the walls of the house he's lived in for eighteen years are caving in on him.or: a treatise on family, friendship, and letting people in
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your love is a threat(and i'm nauseous) by arrows_and_letters
Fandoms: Never Have I Ever (TV)
25 Nov 2025
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Oh fuck.
He'd seen the movies. He'd watched the shitty teen dramas. He knew what this was.
Paxton Hall-Yoshida was down bad.
Paxton Hall-Yoshida did not get down bad. People became down bad over him.
He was the most popular guy in school. He was hot, and cool, and fun! Why was he pining over the national spelling bee champion who literally cheated on him?or: a peek into paxton's brain in s2 e09, where he is coming to terms with the fact that he has gotten weird girled.
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lose your memory (find your life) by arrows_and_letters
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Restart - Gordon Korman
15 Sep 2025
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Azula Sozin doesn't remember anything. Not her family, not her friends, not her classmates, not even what makes kids in the hallway flinch when they see her. And she's starting to wonder if maybe that isn't such a bad thing after all.
Or, the restart by gordon korman au that absolutely no one asked for. featuring the gaang as video nerds, fencing prodigy jet, former bully azula, and tired but supportive older brother zuko.
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jun 2025
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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“That day I came over,” Steve says. “You acted like…like you thought you knew every possible thing I was thinking about you, or your house, or whatever.”
Jonathan doesn’t say anything.
“Do you want to know what I actually thought?” Steve says.
Or: Steve visits Jonathan's house once in 1982, and then another time in 1986.
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In a room full of people, I look for you by JustASmalltownBoy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2025
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Mike’s had a lifetime of experience pretending to be chill.
From a young age he’s learned that the easiest way to get by in life is by acting completely unaffected by everything. When you grow up in a small, judgmental town with the parents Mike has, it kinda comes with the territory.
So far it’s managed to work pretty well for him; after all, he’s made it through three years of high school with his body and his dignity mostly intact, and he’s got some pretty sick battle scars to prove it.
All of that seems to go out the window whenever it comes to Will.
So Mike does what he does best and tries to keep Will at an arm’s length, to keep him close but not that close, so that Will won’t be able to see through his poorly concealed thoughts and get scared off.
This time it’s different, though.
Things have changed, somehow, for some reason.
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Mike has never been a jealous person. In fact, he prides himself on not being easy to read—that is, until Will comes out to him, and suddenly, the thought of him hanging out with other people forces Mike to confront the complicated feelings that he’s been running from before he loses Will for good.
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After the events of season four, El not-so-patiently waits for Max to wake up. When she finally does, she is not the same as she was before, and must learn how to navigate the world without sight. Fortunately, El has a bit of practice seeing the world differently. As El helps Max through her recovery, they discover that being brought back to life has unexpected side effects, and their feelings for each other might be more than friendship.
or: El and Max fall in love while trying to save the world.