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selfless; self destruct by didthattwinkjustcommittreason
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jul 2022
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Jonathan doesn’t make any comments this time, though the glances are still there. Ones that ask, Still in those front row seats to the Mike and El shitshow?
Of course he is. They’re his friends. He’ll see any and all of his friends’ shitshows to the end. If this one in particular hurt, that was his own business.
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Will, being his usual selfless self, continues to suffer the painful position of Third Wheel™ in silence.Bookmarked by novembrain
16 Feb 2026
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He can’t help the panic rising to his throat. “Mike,” he yells again. “Jonathan?”
A chime rumbles outside of the window.
Will’s feet drag him towards it. He doesn’t want to go any closer, but it’s as if he doesn’t have any control over his body anymore. An anxious pressure grows in his chest as he peers into the glass.
A grandfather clock sits in Mike’s backyard.
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16 Feb 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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19 Jan 2026
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Caught in a storm of various too big feelings with no direct access to his preferred targets, he accuses Jonathan of not caring anymore. Jonathan looks down at the glass he’s holding, water swishing and swirling inside, and says quietly, “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
“Like, you feel stuck in Hawkins because of me? If that’s the case, then you—”
“No, Will.” His eyes dart up. “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
In which Will and Jonathan find that some things never change.
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13 Jan 2026
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looking up we see the point of entry, between where we are and we’ve been by andthentheybow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Nov 2025
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Mike watches the demogorgon fall, watches his best friend wipe the blood from under his nose, and he gets it.
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05 Jan 2026