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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    Jeremy hasn't been the same since the play. People are starting to notice, and it's getting harder to hide his downward decline. Because the problem was never really with the SQUIP.
    The problem was always with him.

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    07 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    The Long Walk — and the vampire who runs it — aren’t just urban legends. One way or another, anyone who enters never worries about money again.
    or,
    Pete McVries makes a monster.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    Steve hasn’t been sleeping. The panic attacks are getting worse, the ringing in his ears won’t stop, and he can’t look in the mirror without seeing what the Russians did to him. So he does something he never thought he’d do—he shows up at Jonathan Byers’ door asking for weed.

    What starts as a desperate attempt to quiet his mind for a few hours turns into something else entirely: an honest conversation, a vulnerability he didn’t know he was capable of, and maybe, finally, the understanding that he doesn’t have to carry his trauma alone.

     

    tl;dr: Steve Harrington shows up at Jonathan Byers’ house with a lie about wanting to try weed “for fun.” Jonathan sees right through it.

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    03 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 42

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    He wished—God, he wished—that Mike was looking at him because he still cared. Because he missed him. Because he still saw him the way Will saw Mike every time he drifted too close. But Will had forfeited the right to want that. El was his sister. Mike was…Mike. And Will’s longing had always felt like a betrayal, a quiet, awful selfishness.

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    Mike had lost track of how many times he’d muttered Where the hell is he now? in the last thirty-six hours. It had become a refrain, a pulse, a constant grinding irritation in the back of his skull—not at Will, never at Will, but at the universe for apparently conspiring to pull Will in six different directions until there was nothing left of him.
    ....
    “You’ve been through worse,” Will had said, and Mike had almost snapped at him right then. Worse didn’t matter. Comfort didn’t matter. Mike didn’t need the bed. Will did. Will needed sleep, warmth, a pillow, someone physically forcing him horizontal—
    And instead Will got…this. A cold spot on the floor and the stupid conviction that he didn’t deserve more.

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    12 May 2026

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    "Mike is a mean, cruel, starved dog, but not to Will. No, he always listens to his master."

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    Mike is Will’s possessive guard dog; Will doesn’t seem to mind.

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    26 Apr 2026