crisptrepidation
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- 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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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
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He’s perched on the worn down sofa in that same basement, drunkest he’d ever been in his life, putting a hand on his best friend’s knee, pushing into his personal space further and further, whispering is this okay? And he’s answering yes, just as uninhibited, and they’re kissing, messy and deep, and for a second it’s good, it’s so good, and then Will is crying, and when Mike wakes up the next morning with his head splitting in two, Will’s gone. Gone for New York City in his mom’s fully packed 1976 Ford Pinto, and Mike never even got the chance to say goodbye.
AKA: love isn’t always on time and neither is michael wheeler. famously
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01 Jun 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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28 May 2026
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Everyone settled into their seats and the questions flew across the room: how were finals, when did you cut your hair, any news on the job search, blah blah blah. Mike was hardly listening. He was picking at loose threads on the armchair cushion, staring at Will’s earring. Finally, he worked up the nerve to ask—
“When’d you get your ear pierced?”
Will glanced his way and smiled, a little sheepish. “Like a month ago,” he said, twisting the gold stud between his fingertips.
“What does Carlton think about it?” Max asked, leaning forward with a wolfish grin.
Will flushed, ducking his head. “He likes it,” he said, simply.
Mike’s mouth went dry. The world skidded to a stop. “Who’s Carlton?”
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11 May 2026
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Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.
Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’
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26 Apr 2026