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Fly, Fly Away: An Analysis of Holden Caulfield from a Bird’s-Eye View by verumadstrum
Fandoms: The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
05 May 2020
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An in-depth study of the characters in JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, from an alternate perspective, written for my English class.
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After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Or: Mike and Will's Apocalypse Romcom Spectacular
(Formerly known as We Will All Go Together When We Go - see beginning author's note for more info)
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- Part 1 of To Hell and Back Again
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22 Dec 2025
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show me yours, and i'll show you mine by lightsflicker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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Suddenly, Mike is twelve, teetering on the edge of the quarry. Maybe tomorrow the paramedics will pull him from the same exact place they found Will's body. It’s a comforting thought, morbidly enough. To be with Will again.
“You should have jumped,” the voice echoes. “You should’ve just jumped.”
or: Vecna gives Mike Wheeler a no good, very bad evening.
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20 Dec 2025
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That's when Tommy realized he was, like, the worst fucking friend ever. Because Steve was an omega and they had learned in health class that omegas craved physical contact. And Steve, a secret male omega with shitty absentee parents, wasn’t getting any love at home and he couldn't exactly reach out and ask his buddies for some cuddles. No one but Tommy knew about him and Tommy sure as shit hadn't been offering to hold his hand.
So now here Steve was, getting a goddamn contact high because he was squished in between Davey Bower, who smelled like ball sweat and Cheetos, and Andrew Floyd, who looked like a fucking toe. But Steve was too blissed out on, like, happy omega hormones to care about that, and Tommy was the shittiest best friend in Hawkins.
Goddammit. Tommy was going to have to start giving Steve hugs. He was going to have to give him so many goddamn fucking hugs.
When Steve presents as a rare male omega he is forced to hide his status and question his worldview; he learns to be less shallow, more caring, and more open-minded. Tommy Hagan stays loyal to his best friend and is dragged kicking and screaming into being a better person too.
Just a little bit, though. Like, maybe 10% better.
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11 Dec 2025
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Won’t You Ever Know (I’m In Love With You)? by AttentionDealer (Nearell)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Nov 2025
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“Guys, Mike’s not like me, he just can’t name characters.” They both give him a pointed look, clearly not believing a word. “I’m serious, every character is a reference to someone we know.”
“Are they now?” Dustin raises an eyebrow at him.
“Yes!” Will is perhaps a bit exasperated, “Stephen and Jay are clearly Steve and Robin, and James is Hopper,” at the blank look they give him, he clarifies, “his first name is Jim.”
This somehow only makes Lucas seem more unimpressed, “okay, but you do see how that’s more suspicious right?”
“What? That Mike can’t come up with names?”
“No,” Lucas shakes his head and clasps Will in the shoulder, “that the first name Mike thought to cannibalize when coming up with a boyfriend for you was his own”.The party grows closer after Will moves in with the Wheelers, picking up D&D again. It all goes well until Mike introduces a new character, Sir. Gabriel Whepler, whose sole purpose seems to be flirting with Will.
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02 Dec 2025
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“…I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Words:
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21 Sep 2025