rosepods (roseprose)
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[podfic] true sight by rosepods (roseprose) for Pseudologia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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On Monday, Will shows up to school wearing glasses.
After a lifetime of getting bullied for being a nerd, he’d rather show up to school covered in live ants, but it actually goes fine. Weirdly well, even. Jennifer Hayes asks him to carry her books to Geometry, and Denise King enthusiastically volunteers to be his lab partner in Chem. Will is all too aware of the attraction he somehow poses to the school’s most sought-after girls, but this feels like another level. Maybe it’s a charity case thing now, because of the glasses.
“It’s not,” Max tells him frankly at lunch. “You just look really hot with glasses.”
Podfic Length: 14:58
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[podfic] can't outrun the ache by rosepods (roseprose) for Pseudologia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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It’s embarrassing how close his current reality is to daydreams he had when he was eight years old. All he does every day is go to school, see his friends, and plan heroic recon missions to help take down the Big Bad. His best friend lives in his house.
Mike wakes up every day to the chaos of adults shouting and doors slamming and feels completely content.
And then the guilt hits him.
Podfic Length: 15:33
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[podfic] always something there to remind me by rosepods (roseprose)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Nov 2025
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It’s been a while since he had a nightmare like that. The kind that leave you panting and shaky, filled with a terror you can’t explain. Mike used to think he was lucky not to remember them - just the sour aftertaste. The sensation of falling, the burn of humiliation, the feeling that he’s lost something. Usually forgotten by the time breakfast rolls along.
But sometimes the not-knowing is worse. Like now, when there’s this heavy guilt throbbing behind his sternum and no way of diagnosing it. He rubs his chest, trying to coax it out but it only seems to burrow further into his viscera, like a parasite.
Mike finally braves a glance at his clock.
6:01, November 6, 1985.
Oh. Right.
Or: Nightmares, growing pains, and the mortifying ordeal of being known (ft. Mike Wheeler)
Podfic Length: 31:41
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[podfic] of these fixed points of light by rosepods (roseprose) for be_brave13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Nov 2025
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It had only gotten worse when the school year started. Max was pulling away, Lucas wanted to be popular for some reason, and only Dustin acted with any semblance of normality. Mike hadn’t known what to do with himself.
He hadn’t known himself. He’d pictured his mom with the wine glass. His father asleep in his La-Z-Boy. He saw himself in the basement, rotting away while Will and El were probably living it up in sunny California, and he ached.
He’d only made it through because of Hellfire. Because of Eddie’s bright maniacism and Dustin’s splashy laugh and Lucas’s steadying smile around him at the table while they rolled dice and were able to forget that the world contained evil they could not defeat.
But he’d been lost. He’d been so stuck and only barely staying afloat; his face dipping into the water, slipping down only to push himself off the bottom over and over and over and he was exhausted of it all.
OR, post S4, Mike has a think one night and realizes a few things.
Podfic Length: 38:58