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Nepenthe:
a drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind.Getting transferred from the South branch should have been the worst thing to ever happen to you. Moving away from your closest friends is something you wouldn't wish upon anyone else. So why did meeting a boy of all things turn your experience upside down? You were supposed to be wallowing in your sadness, not enjoying the comfort that vulnerability bestowed upon you.
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01 Apr 2026
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Not really a slashreader fic person ever, but this is fire. Writing flows well and easy to comprehend
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“Not into the whole superhero thing, then?” Steve asks Nancy.
“Of course she isn’t,” Jonathan mutters. “Nancy cares about real journalism.”
Steve raises his eyebrows. “And Spider-Man isn’t?”
“A man in tights swinging from webs?” Jonathan deadpans. “Definitely not, no.”
In which: Jonathan is the unfortunate Daily Bugle intern tasked with taking pictures of New York's new favorite superhero, Steve struggles with the trials and tribulations of maintaining a secret identity, and Nancy is just trying to do some actual goddamn investigative journalism for once.
Or, an au where Steve is Spider-Man.
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Will moves back to an upright position, wiping his hair out of his eyes, head and shoulders peeking above the water. “Mike,” he says, pulling Mike up with him, their fingers still intertwined.
“Yeah?” Mike says, tilting his head so the water trickles out of his ears, wincing slightly. “What is it?”
Will’s eyes dart back and forth between his, and then Mike feels his hand squeeze his own. “I don’t want you to, like, think I moved back for you,” he starts, which in and of itself would be enough to get Mike’s soul soaring straight out of his own body, if it weren’t for Will’s thumb pressed against his pulse point like some kind of mortal tether. “Because it’s not like that, I promise. But I think– I think I realized there’s a difference between things you want and things you need, you know?”
mike wheeler on losing people and having them again, the difference between wanting and needing, and finally letting go.
ft. robin buckley, will byers, and the mortifying ordeal of working in the food service industry
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17 Feb 2026
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Mike introspections. Summer dog days, this fic is the embodiment of Texas in August.
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“Tomorrow,” Jonathan says, hesitantly. “If I don’t believe you right away. We should have a code word, or something.”
“It won’t . . . ” Nancy sighs, and shrugs a little. “That won’t work. You won’t remember this at all.” She gives him a rueful smile. “I’m the only one who will.”
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11 Feb 2026
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Holy shit this is so fire oh my god. Timeloop nancy
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“You didn’t care to tell me he’s a… vampire?” by lixsun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jan 2026
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“Your bat gave me a surprise last night,” Will continues, voice low.
Dustin shifts uncomfortably. “Will—”
“But there’s something you didn't tell me,” Will says, stopping and staring at Dustin, as he sinks back into his pillow. “Something kind of crucial.” He leans forward slightly, lowering his voice even more, turning the words into a furious whisper.
“You didn’t care to tell me that he’s a… vampire.”
or; Will starts college with unexpected excitement. His roommate is funny, if a little strange. But when he ends up in the infirmary with a broken arm, asking Will to look after his pet, a damn bat, Will is pulled into a situation that is anything but ordinary.
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03 Feb 2026
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Such a cool concept and conversation about the morality of vampirism. Reincarnation Byler. Ambiguous ending though :(
Im back, this was so good. Ambiguous ending is KILLING me