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This Crooked Heart by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys (2006), History Boys - Bennett
03 Feb 2025
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‘Do you ever wonder what you’re doing here?’ Posner asks.
‘At Oxford?’
‘Anywhere. What the point of it all is.’
Posner feels Scripps shift beside him. ‘I don’t think anyone knows the answer to that. God would say worship. Jesus would say love.’
‘And what would you say?’
Scripps falls silent as he ponders the question. Then: ‘I think it’s being with the people you care about. Finding moments of quiet. Looking for beauty.’
Posner smiles bitterly. ‘I don’t think I could find it if I tried.’
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Posner navigates adult life and everything that comes with it, both the good and the bad. Thankfully, Scripps is there through it all, in confusingly fluctuating capacities as friend and lover.
Rated M for some pretty heavy mental health stuff, a suicide attempt by OD (though not in graphic detail), and sexual content (again, not super graphic, but there are sex scenes). Triggers for individual chapters will be in the notes. Please be careful! This is angsty, but I swear it ends happily.
Title is from As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden.
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Or, 5 times Eddie comes out to his friends, and 1 time Steve comes out to him right back.
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The Untold Secrets of Desert Stars by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams
22 Jul 2018
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When a prospective client turns up at the Agency with the front half of a perfectly happy Siamese cat, matters have to be taken into Dirk and Todd’s entirely (in)capable hands. Over a thousand miles away, in a dusty town in New Mexico, a woman has disappeared without a trace, and the residents live in fear of falling prey to a monstrous witch who haunts their desert home. But nothing here is quite what it seems.
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Bring The Colour To My Life by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2018
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Several months after the Bergsberg case, the Agency is functioning with arguable efficiency. But, when an old friend of Dirk’s who died fifteen years ago shows up out of the blue, it’s clear that something, somewhere in the universe, is very, very wrong.
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Driving Home For Christmas by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys - Bennett, History Boys (2006)
04 Jan 2018
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I know it's not Christmas anymore, but I didn't manage to get this finished in time so HERE IT IS in January! This is just super fluffy romantic/family Christmas fun, in which David spends Christmas with the Scripps', and Don finally comes out to his parents. Very minor content warnings for mentions of depression, suicide attempt and medication (all only mentioned very briefly in one paragraph), as well as a reference to HIV/AIDS, a couple of sex references, and some slight parental confusion about the concept of bisexuality. Enjoy!
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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21 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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21 Jan 2026
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take a little moment (find the right words) by astrobi for wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”
“Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”
“Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”
“Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”
Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.
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20 Jan 2026
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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16 Jan 2026
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Where Will Byers is madly in love with Mike Wheeler, but Mike has a girlfriend.
However, that never stopped true feelings from becoming uncovered through flirty signs, paintings, letters and basements.
(Written to take place in the 18 month time gap between season 4 and season 5)
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10 Jan 2026