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You keep on turning pages (for people who don't care) by Sad_Duck
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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After nearly being kidnapped and no one believing him, Will Byers decides to make a change. He strips his room of posters and hides his art supplies under his bed. And shockingly? It works. He makes more and more new friends, but loses his best ones since they’re too busy with the weird new girl in town.
But whatever, he doesn’t care. It doesn’t matter that his mom and Jonathan always stop talking when he’s in the room, or that the new girl is now his step-sister even though his mom won’t tell him how she and Hopper met. He’s moved on with his life, after all, he’s in high school now. And Will Byers is something no one believed he could ever be. Popular.
But after so long, why is everyone suddenly trying to reconnect with him?
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The Demogorgon didn’t succeed in taking Will that night, and when he tried to tell anyone, no one believed him. As his family and friends slowly get pulled into trying to stop Vecna, Joyce insists that they don’t involve him.
They never move to California, and Will drifts further away, becoming popular and hanging out with Chance and Andy. With Vecna opening gates all around Hawkins, Joyce decides it’s finally time to talk to him. But is it already too late?
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“Meow,” and there’s no way she heard that right, eyes snapping away from where she’d been distractedly watching the TV screen and over to her brother’s friend. She checks again, and yeah, Will is holding a stuffed bear, not a cat. The beloved Tiggy stays firmly attached to his bag, so they aren’t playing with tigers, either.
“So they go back down the mountain, and now all the village people are asking them about the crystal, and Rory is sad thinking they didn’t get it that whole time, but then–”
“Meow. Meow,” Will declares, removing the teddy from the dinosaur’s back and making it do some sort of interpretive dance.
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Or, Mike makes a new friend. Nancy learns how to speak cat.
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It took his eyes a few seconds to focus, and once they did it only brought him even more confusion because the person standing before him was none other than… Mike Wheeler?
What the fuck?
When he left Hawkins behind in the rear-view mirror of his car yesterday, he did not expect to get such a stark reminder of it again so soon.
Mike is Chance’s college roommate and he hates his guts, the only silver lining is the pretty boy who comes to visit him every week.
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Spider survives.
He survives the forest.
He survives the sky people.
He survives the war.
What he doesn’t know how to survive is being cared for.Bookmarked by Sad_Duck
08 Feb 2026
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(SOCIAL MEDIA AU)
The party enter their senior year! Will Byers is coping with poor mental health, being queer in a small town, and being hopelessly in love with his best friend. He ends up meeting a friendly jock who may just be his key to moving on and finding happiness!
Twitter formatted comedy with a lot of romance and a bit of angst!
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“And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”
Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”
What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?
“Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”
The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.
“Maybe something here wanted you back.”
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fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .