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my advice is always ruin the friendship by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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“Have you noticed the signals?” Robin asks softly.
Will freezes. He’s quiet for one… two… three moments, before slowly, he lifts his head and meets Robin’s gaze. His eyes are still wide—full of an understandable uncertainty but also a hope that’s so infectious that Robin can’t help but smile.
“I… I think so,” he confesses. “I… I don’t know if they actually mean anything, but… but everything you said to look for… all those signals…”
His voice trails off, and Robin offers a wry smile, finishing the thought for him, “They’re definitely there.”
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The one in which Robin witnesses a snowball become an avalanche.
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14 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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Bookmarked by bylersoldive
13 Dec 2025
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It’s the end of the world, sure, but Will Byers has more pressing matters: mainly, that his family is bunking with the Wheelers for the foreseeable future. The situation should theoretically be fun, but instead, each second Will spends around Mike draws him further into his own scrawled-out, screwed-up crush. And while Will thinks Mike can’t tell, the only Wheeler boy is finally starting to think about—or even think through—his own feelings.
Or: making out...while the world collapses
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Reaching his hands up, he rests a palm on my arm, fingers gripping my shoulder. Almost immediately, my anger dissipates with a sharp intake of breath. All I can focus on is his hand on my body, the way his eyes look down into mine. His smell, musk and pine and something else that I can’t quite put my finger on.
“Will.” His voice is velvet. It slips through me, over me, settling into my body with an achingly familiar comfort. He’s close enough that if I wanted to, I could twist my fingers into his jumper. Pull him towards me with the fabric and grab onto his wrist.
“Will, I can’t.” His voice cracks and his eyes look up, searching mine. “I can’t lose you again.”
Bookmarked by bylersoldive
03 Dec 2025
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Right after Will’s powers awaken, the Party hides out in the old radio station trying to make sense of everything. As Will explains what happened, with Mike glued protectively to his side, Robin watches them and realizes something Will hasn’t said out loud yet.
Mike isn’t Will’s Tammy Thompson. He’s his Vicky.
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Or: Robin realizes she was wrong, and Mike realizes it’s always been Will.Bookmarked by bylersoldive
30 Nov 2025
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It turns out, Will Byers is a bit more than he appeared to be.
Everyone has some opinions on that, especially Will himself.
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Hopefully I'll be able to update this semi-consistently until Vol. 2 releases, at which point this entire thing will be non-canon.
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28 Nov 2025