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“You’re not my fuckin’ dad,” he snaps, finally gaining the remaining of his voice. It tastes like freedom, like breathing when the noose is loose while he steadies his weight on his tiptoes, albeit fleeting.
Henry doesn’t frown. The muscles in his shoulder slacken as he tilts his head. A challenge. Will hates that the sight makes him squirm. “Am I not?”
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18 Feb 2026
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your destinies above you, like angels who don't love you by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Kali thought that maybe if Jonathan Byers weren't quite so soft, he might have fit in with her crew.
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- Part 3 of High Hawk Season
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16 Feb 2026
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Will drops out of college, no longer sure what he wants to do in life. He finds meaning in a petty rivalry between him and his divorced, middle-aged downstairs neighbor.
Or, Will lives on the top floor of his apartment building. He accidently drops a book. Henry has serious issues. Will does too.
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- Part 2 of HenWill
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09 Feb 2026
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The party + the teens work as best as they can to get Dustin and Will together, despite their constant arguments and secrets kept. Will they learn to communicate? (probably)
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08 Feb 2026
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Will's powers have manifested. This has not gone unnoticed.
Dr. Kay is literally out for blood and about to get more than she bargained for.
Henry Creel is willing to return his twelve victims - if he gets to keep his first…
No one is offering a fair exchange - but then, Will doesn't have any other choice. And it's probably better than no deal at all.
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- Part 1 of Hand in Unlovable Hand
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29 Jan 2026
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“Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.
Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.
Penelope was ruined.
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27 Jan 2026
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which one is leading me to hell or paradise? by soupesou
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2026
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Will Byers has never been found, and is officially declared dead. Four years later, they discovered a locked room in the Creel house, which might be related.
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23 Jan 2026
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and that's the thing about illicit affairs by doomedbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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During another night of a decidedly non-casual encounter with Mike, Will's boyfriend starts calling. Mike makes Will make a reckless decision.
cheating byler basically
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22 Jan 2026
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"Some minds do not belong in this world. And you...
...belong with me."
The Mind-Flayer knows its lost sheep might prove a threat to its plan to capture the Earth, and takes steps to ensure he is brought fully into the flock. Who better to facilitate the transformation, than another creature that has lost his humanity?
After the battle at the military base, Vecna takes Will with him to the Upside Down. Will has been poisoned one too many times; finally, the curse kills him.
For Mike Wheeler, there is more than one kind of heartbreak.
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20 Jan 2026
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In the midst of the frantic, rhythmic motion, a small shift in the air, pulled Will from the blinding focus of sensation. His head lolled back against the pillows, his eyes, hazy and dilated, snapping open.
That’s when he saw her. Vanessa. Standing in the sliver of the doorway.
He didn't gasp. He didn't stop Mike, didn't even slow the relentless, punishing rhythm. There was no room for surprise, not now, not after all this time. He just stared at her with the quiet, triumphant knowledge that had settled deep within him years ago. It was a look of profound, quiet acknowledgement—a confirmation of the ending he had always known was their inevitable destination.
In that gaze, Will was telling her that her story with Mike was over, that he had merely held the place for him until the time was right.
The problem with Mike Wheeler was not that he didn't know how to exist in halves, but that he refused to let Will Byers exist without him. In 1991, Will Byers is an art student at NYU, living for the 10:00 PM calls and the thick, ink-stained manuscripts Mike sends from Bloomington. He has resigned himself to being the moon to Mike’s sun.
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18 Jan 2026
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Every scene a potential - After Dark (Comics/Art) by TBGkaru
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Feb 2026
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If Mike was this obsessed with making out with his girlfriend (in attempt to conform or not), imagine how he's gonna be with his college boyfriend
a.k.a. collection of lawless Byler art that I update often cause I'm in the trenches. Tags will update with more art.
(Make sure the site "imgbox" is reachable on your browser or pictures won't load.)
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- Part 2 of Byler comics-art
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18 Jan 2026
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Will wants to scream and shake his head and tell him that no, no he doesn’t love him. He wants to tell him about wanting to just go home. He misses his mom and his brother, he misses everything he was and could’ve been before this.
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Bad things happen to good people. Henry happened to Will.
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18 Jan 2026
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“It’s a 20-sided dice.” William explains as if it is not obvious looking at the plastic icosahedron resting on his palm.
“I was thinking.” White teeth on soft yellows. “For when you have the Bad Thoughts again.” Henry wants to draw his own hands. Maybe even William’s as well, for good measure. “You should roll it. You can only do the Bad Thought if you roll a 20.”
(Or: Henry remembers a cave (no, the mines), remembers entering the crack in the rocks. He remembers walking (squeezing, r u n n i n g, crawling) through the empty deep darkness for a long, long time. It had felt like decades but also just like a few ticks of the clock, life in that whispering void. When he comes (retched, disowned) out back into the light it is November 13, 1983 and he is carrying a small, pale shivering boy ( W i l l i a m ? ) in his mangled dead arms.)
((Or: S2 Will Byers and his Reluctant Emotional Support Lobotomized Vecna AU))
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- Part 1 of stranger rolls have happened
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15 Jan 2026
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kiss me, just once, for luck by stardustandswimmingpools for petalrock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jan 2026
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There was a plan, if Lucas remembers correctly. Rescue the kids. Kill Vecna. Save the world. Done, done, and done.
And then there was another thing. A closing bullet point on the to-do list. He hasn’t stopped thinking about it. If anything, he’s thought more and more about it every second. To the point where it’s almost debilitating.
Like, there was a larger question, which is, Does Lucas Sinclair like boys, and while it’s hard to say for certain, the answer is really skewing yes lately. Everywhere he looks he’s noticing guys like they’re a brand-new species. It turns out Steve is hot, if you can get past the part where he’s basically been their glorified babysitter for several years. Dustin’s alright, but the mullet works against him as much as Mike getting rid of the mullet is working for him. Mostly, these are passing observations. Acknowledged and then dismissed. Whatever. Lucas thinks guys are hot now. Or always did and never noticed.
But there’s also a much narrower, more precise question, tapering off like an arrowhead, pointing directly at Will.
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- Part 2 of desperate measures
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13 Jan 2026
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gonna make a heartthrob out of me (just a bit of minor surgery) by stardustandswimmingpools
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jan 2026
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Will shakes his head. “No, I mean. I mean I— I do like girls, just not like you. Not like that. I mean.” He groans, frustrated. “It’s not just that I don’t like girls—”
“You like…boys?” Lucas offers, and Will’s head snaps up in surprise. “Um, not to step on your moment, and I’m proud of you and all, but…Will, I already knew that.”
“You— you knew?”
“C’mon, man, you’re one of my best friends. Yeah, I knew,” Lucas says. Relief hits his bloodstream like a drug—of all the somethings, this is the best possible outcome. “You like Mike, right?”
Will stammers, jaw dropping. “Wh— what? No! I don’t— I don’t like Mike. I mean I…I did, I used to, but I don’t anymore. I swear.”
“Dude, it’s cool,” Lucas says slowly. He smirks. “I mean, I don’t get why you’d go for Mike when you have a much better option right here—” He does a gratuitous shimmy, and Wills snorts a laugh, “But I guess there’s no accounting for taste.”
(Or: Will patches Lucas up after the Demogorgon attack and they Talk About Things. Canon divergent missing scene for 5x05.)
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- Part 1 of desperate measures
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13 Jan 2026
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Nancy opens the door before considering to check through the peephole, and she’s startled when the man in front of her is so far above her eye level. She takes a couple steps back and immediately regrets it when he takes it as an invitation to step over the threshold.
She recognizes him, of course. She wasn’t that young when Lonnie Byers finally left Hawkins. She never saw him much—she didn’t spend her tween years frequenting the bars where he must’ve spent most of his time—but she knows what he looks like. She thinks about him often enough, when she’s contemplating Jonathan’s tense shoulders and perpetual skittishness. (Mostly, she thinks about punching him in the face. Now that he’s here, that seems less doable).
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Nancy has an incredibly tense conversation with one Lonnie Byers. (Jonathan is also there, eventually).
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12 Jan 2026
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it could be bad (but i wanna find out) by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jan 2026
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“It’s not like I don’t drink at college too, you know, I mean, just because I don’t go to frat parties, if you’re worried I’m going to judge you or something—”
“That’s not what—” Will huffed out a laugh, staring up at the ceiling. He turned around. “I go to gay bars, okay? It’s—just, not your scene. Obviously.”
Will’s face twisted on that last word, half a grimace. For some reason, it was a punch to the gut. Something defiant rose up within Mike.
“Well, do you have to be a card-carrying member to get in, or something?” he asked, eyebrows raised. “I mean, a bar’s a bar, right?”
Will’s face broke into an uncertain smile. “Mike…”
“I came here for the Will Byers New York experience,” Mike said, earnestly. “Am I going to get it, or what?”
Mike visits Will in New York and realizes a few things.
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11 Jan 2026
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Will "The Wise" Byers and Henry "The Queen of Drag" Creel Kill Mike Wheeler by Finallygotintoao3university
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Will and Vecna team up against Mike Wheeler after that awful radio tower scene.
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05 Jan 2026
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Will cannot live if Henry is killed because of the Hivemind. He finds a different way to defeat him.
When it becomes apparent that the party will not win the final battle, Will channels Vecna's powers and traps himself and Henry inside of his mind, believing that despite the initial rejection there is still good in Henry... Will just has to give him whatever he wants in order to draw it out.
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- Part 1 of HenWill
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05 Jan 2026
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i was just guessing at numbers and figures; pulling your puzzles apart by briellajade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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“Will, sweetheart,” Henry tries again, his voice less serrated, more rounded, softened edges. As soft as a blade can be anyway. “What are you doing?”
The silence is thick.
The silence taunts.
What the fuck does it look like he’s doing? He’s leaving you, you fucking worthless piece of shit.
He's going back to Hawkins and he's leaving you.
Or, Forgiveness is not an endless lake. It can run dry. Will Byers has been thinking of ending things. Henry can tell.
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05 Jan 2026