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Will inserts the new piercing in place before his confidence shrinks. He eyes the silver hoop glinting in his bathroom mirror, feeling the ghost of a smile forming on his lips. It’s only a matter of time before everyone notices. Before Mike notices. The thought excites him just as much as it terrifies him.
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Or, Will pierces his ear while visiting Jonathan in New York City in the summer of 1989. Upon returning to Hawkins, chaos ensues.
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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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23 Jun 2026
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Will is a young gay man committed to Lazarus by his father. Traumatized and alone, he's assigned to Cell 44—right next to Cell 45, where Mike lives. Mike is infamous: violent, isolated, feared by patients and staff alike.
Through late night conversations, Will learns fragments of Mike—his sharp wit, his cruelty, his unexpected tenderness. Mike teaches Will to breathe through panic attacks after his traumatic conversion therapy sessions. But Mike also pushes Will away, warning him to stay distant, insisting nothing good comes from getting close to him. A psychological tension between horror and attraction, exploring whether a monster can be capable of tenderness—and whether Will's inability to fear Mike makes him brave, broken, or both.Bookmarked by paladinpost
20 Jun 2026
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It's 1997 and the ghost of Mike Wheeler walks back into Will Byers' life twice in one day: first in a Midtown coffee shop, then as the writer assigned to his graphic novel. Eight years of awkward distance now have a deadline. Collaboration is a special kind of torture when the person you're building a world with is the one who broke yours.
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16 Apr 2026
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In a building split between grace and grit, six-year-old Jimin grows up dancing on the second floor while eight-year-old Yoongi learns to fight downstairs. Between them: a wide staircase where ballet slippers and boxing gloves constantly cross paths.
They don’t become friends. They notice. They grow.
Jimin struggles with becoming a teenager—with softness, with longing, with the way his heart reacts to boys like Yoongi. Yoongi pretends not to look. Pretends not to feel. Fails at both.
When Jungkook joins the boxing team and fiercely defends his ballet-dancing cousin, the worlds begin to overlap. Training sessions turn tense. Glances last too long. A locker room kiss changes everything.
And when Yoongi decides he’s done hiding, he does the one thing he hates most: he walks into the dance studio with flowers and asks, in front of everyone—
“Can I be your boyfriend?”
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30 Mar 2026
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a collection of lawless byler art
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28 Mar 2026