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slaughterhouse (an outlet mall) by bookinit for astrobi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Apr 2023
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Something flutters at the back of Will’s neck. His scar twinges at his side.
It’s nothing, he tells himself, like he always does. It’s nothing, it’s just—you’re tense, you’re nervous, you’re being stupid, it’s not anything important—
His entire body thrums with a fearful energy. The feeling of otherness in his veins.
It certainly feels important.
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Stranger Things re-telling, but make it byler.
(Season 3 of 5)Series
- Part 3 of i know the end
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- English
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- 18/18
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04 Jan 2026
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It’s dark. Cold. He’s back.
Thick, ash-like particles scatter in the air. Writhing vines crawl up the walls and into the arcade machines, which flicker on and off like faulty lightbulbs. The whole room is gray, devoid of any music or life.
And through it all, there’s a voice. One that Will’s come to know almost as well as his own.
Come back, Will. Come home. Join us.
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Stranger Things re-telling, but make it byler.
(Season 2 of 5)Series
- Part 2 of i know the end
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- English
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- 99,239
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- 19/19
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03 Jan 2026
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Will swallows down his fear and stares at the door unblinkingly. Kill the monster. Take the risk. Cast fireball. Shoot the gun.
Of course, he hadn’t expected it to come from behind him.
The light burns bright into his retinas. The whole room shakes, wood paneling nearly busting at the seams.
A rolled seven. An unrewarded risk.
The beast’s got him.
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Stranger Things re-telling, but make it byler.
(Season 1 of 5)Series
- Part 1 of i know the end
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- English
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- 64,235
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- 16/16
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28 Dec 2025
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28 Dec 2025
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Will loves El. He really does, okay? They’ve become practically inseparable as siblings in the past year, and Will would honestly do anything for her.
But did she really have to practice her makeup skills on Mike— while Will was in the room, of all things?
(Or; an exploration of Mike and Will’s insecurities and internalized homophobia, with the help of El’s stubborn persistency and a little bit of makeup. Cue Mike’s minor existential crisis, through Will’s confused eyes.)
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25 Dec 2025
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Holy shit, Will thinks. Holy shit, that’s Mike Wheeler.
Dead center stage, his long fingers plucking expertly at a deep blue electric guitar, is a living ghost of Will’s desperately buried past. The central figure of his best childhood memories and worst adolescent shames, the boy he thought he’d left behind for good, the first and only person he’d ever really been in love with. Mike.
Chicago, 1993. Will is working as an illustrator, back in the Midwest for the first time since he left at 14. Mike is the frontman of an up-and-coming alt rock band he started with his college friends. Through sheer luck, their paths cross, and everything they ever left unsaid comes bubbling back to the surface.
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25 Dec 2025
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“Do you want to go home?” He questions, leaning close and voice soft, and Will pauses, before nodding again. Mike lets out a breath, and lets his hand press against Will a little more firmly when he starts to sway in place again. “Okay, let’s go.”
Then he looks up and is met with smug faces, and Mike flushes when he realizes his own hypocrisy.
“I don’t talk like that,” Max recalls, voice high-pitched and overly girly and – Mike definitely doesn’t talk like that.
According to everyone in his life, Mike has a voice reserved just for Will. He tries to figure out what that says about him.
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25 Dec 2025
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A year after Vecna's defeat, things have finally returned to normal. Well, aside from the lingering nightmares. And the fact that Mike is in love with his best friend and it's getting increasingly harder to keep that to himself.
But it's all going to be fine. They're going to go to Steve's parent's heretofore undiscussed lakehouse, spend two weeks slow-roasting in the Indiana sun, and be normal teenagers for once. Really, the least they deserve at this point is a little summertime relaxation.
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- Part 3 of Stranger Things: Mike/Will
- Part 1 of Boot Theory
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- English
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- 36,872
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- 20/20
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23 Dec 2025
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(yet another) stranger things texting fic! by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2023
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so i've been writing this since vol 1 came out and i think i've got to a point where i'm not gonna lose motivation. i haven't read any other stranger things texting fics specifically because i didn't want to subconsciously copy them, so if this is similar to any other stranger things texting fics you've read, i promise it wasn't on purpose.
all the characters are a year older than they were in season 4. would this technically mean that robin and nancy and etc should be in college?? yes. we're just gonna pretend that they all ended up going to college online or in hawkins.
also billy isn't here because he's racist. like we're just gonna pretend that he never existed
(ON HAITUS)
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- English
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- 30/?
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22 Dec 2025
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22 Dec 2025
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“It’s a good thing,” Will reassures, and his thumb swipes over Mike’s cheek. Mike thinks he might explode. “It means you’re nice to look at. Artists would love you.”
Mike’s heart feels like it’s about to burst out of his chest. Will is still looking at him, and he swallows, throat dry. “Yeah?”
Will’s own face reddens, like he’d just thought about what he said. “Yeah,” he answers, and Mike grins.Living in a shared apartment with Will is all Mike could ask for, except for the part where he keeps thinking about kissing Will in the middle of their kitchen.
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Bookmarked by Catcontrol
21 Dec 2025
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just for kicks, i wanted to do a texting fic for the stranger things kids
this is my second ao3 fic (my other one is called the dress and it’s elmax if you wanna read it!)
anyway there’s gonna be a lot of swearing just btw
annnnddddd i hope you like it! i’ll update as i write but fingers crossed for every day
🫶🫶🫶
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20 Dec 2025
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You're so gorgeous (I can't say anything to your face) by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2024
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Mike hates Valentine’s Day. It was fun as kids, when teachers would make every student decorate a little shoe box with pink and red heart stickers, that by the end of the day would be filled with cheesy Valentines and sweets.
But this isn’t kindergarten anymore— there are no school-enforced rules that his classmates have to give him a Valentine. He has to earn them. And he hasn’t.
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Mike is (not) upset that he’s the only one of his friends that hasn’t received a Valentine. That is, until something just so happens to fall out of his locker the next day.
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- English
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- 15,615
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20 Dec 2025
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Won’t You Ever Know (I’m In Love With You)? by AttentionDealer (Nearell)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Nov 2025
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“Guys, Mike’s not like me, he just can’t name characters.” They both give him a pointed look, clearly not believing a word. “I’m serious, every character is a reference to someone we know.”
“Are they now?” Dustin raises an eyebrow at him.
“Yes!” Will is perhaps a bit exasperated, “Stephen and Jay are clearly Steve and Robin, and James is Hopper,” at the blank look they give him, he clarifies, “his first name is Jim.”
This somehow only makes Lucas seem more unimpressed, “okay, but you do see how that’s more suspicious right?”
“What? That Mike can’t come up with names?”
“No,” Lucas shakes his head and clasps Will in the shoulder, “that the first name Mike thought to cannibalize when coming up with a boyfriend for you was his own”.The party grows closer after Will moves in with the Wheelers, picking up D&D again. It all goes well until Mike introduces a new character, Sir. Gabriel Whepler, whose sole purpose seems to be flirting with Will.
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- English
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- 25,860
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- 1/1
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20 Dec 2025
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“I’m glad they moved me closer to the art block,” Mike mentions after a second, and Will blinks at him. “It’ll be easier to bother you, now.”
Will clicks his teeth. “Incredibly professional,” he notes, and Mike’s smile widens. Sometimes, Will’s heart feels moments from exploding, like a firework someone had poured gasoline onto and threw in a fire.
“I’m the pinnacle of professional,” Mike decides, oblivious to Will’s cardiovascular issues.
Between being a teacher in a school full of chaos, being in love with his best friend and coworker of several years, and Lucas' worst idea yet, Will tries his best to make it through another school year.
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- English
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- 1/1
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20 Dec 2025
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warnings: swearing, mentions of weed/getting high, mentions of alcohol/getting drunk, sexual jokes/innuendos, high school age party (15-16), intentional lowercase
genre: multi-part fic, high school au, group chat fic, chatfic, fluff, slowburn, long distance
PSA: THERE ARE NO INAPPROPRIATE UNDERAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN THIS. i only put the underage marker because the party is still in high school at this point.hi!! i'm super excited to start writing a stranger things group chat fic!! if i'm being honest i don't have a real great idea of the roadmap of this fic. i really just want this to be a feel-good, coming of age, group chat fic. it's going to be slowburn and flip between a couple different group chats. at this point in the story, will, el, jonathan, argyle, and joyce are still living in california, the binghams are in utah, and the rest of the squad is in hawkins (including hopper). it's not going to be completely off of the plot (el still has her powers, the upside-down still exists), but for the sake of the story, we're going to kinda just assume that the upside-down and all the creatures aren't bothering our kiddos, because god knows they've been traumatized enough. so yeah, that's that. hope you enjoy!
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- English
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- 69,092
- Chapters:
- 45/45
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- 1,384
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- 5,078
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20 Dec 2025
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Ianto jones is just an average English teacher when the school hire a new music teacher. Will ianto make friends with the new teacher ... or something more?
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15 Dec 2025
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Ianto is the average sixth former at his local Cardiff highschool. What will happen when the new boy, jack harkness, arrives And knocks his world out of kilter.
Bookmarked by Catcontrol
09 Dec 2025