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1. Rec *

   Just for a second, I remembered myself by Romanoff_mylove

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   24 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Writer Mike Wheeler
   • Artist Will Byers
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Post-Time Skip
   • Grown Up Characters
   • Mike Wheeler has a breakdown in his 30s and realises he forgot the point of living
   • Slow Burn
   • Depressed Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler I know What You Are
   • Mike is a famous writer
   • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers is the coolest ever
   • Eventual Byler
   • 2000s
   • Angst
   • Eventual Fluff
   • Angst and Feels
   • hurt but eventual comfort
   • Mike Wheeler crashout of the century (eventual)
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Homophobia

   Summary

   Mike has finally made it as an author. But writing about your own past can get complicated, especially when fans start to draw conclusions that point Mike in the direction of the person he's been writing about all along.

   And living life is hard. Especially when you're doing it all on your own. But grief and love are a lot more similar than you might realise. They both tend to wake us up from the monotony of our lives.

   OR: Mike has a horrible time, which somewhere along the way turns into a wonderful time.

   Podfic version by Sahana: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83941371/chapters/221295601
   Russian translation: https://ficbook.net/readfic/019ce7f9-31da-7933-8df9-83a19fad21d6

   Series

   • Part 1 of Just for a second, I remembered myself

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   100,889

   Chapters:

   36/36

   Comments:

   1,797

   Kudos:

   2,980

   Bookmarks:

   730

   Hits:

   71,909

   Bookmarked by WickedVicky

   28 May 2026

2. Public Bookmark *

   Experimentation, Embers and Everything Else. by BamSara

   Fandoms: Don't Starve (Video Game)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   25 Nov 2019

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Willow/Wilson (Don't Starve)
   • Charlie/Maxwell (Don't Starve)
   • slight Willow/Wx-78
   • Willow (Don't Starve)
   • Wilson (Don't Starve)
   • WX-78 (Don't Starve)
   • Wendy (Don't Starve)
   • Maxwell (Don't Starve)
   • Charlie (Don't Starve)
   • Winona
   • Warly
   • AU
   • irregular updates
   • No beta reader
   • We post and die like men
   • Slow Burn
   • Magic is still a thing
   • Friends to Lovers
   • slow plot
   • Wilson is a mad scientist
   • he's very good at hiding it tho
   • Wx-78 is genderless and uses they/him pronouns
   • Mutual Pining
   • Jealousy
   • adding tags as we go
   • character's slow decent into insanity and madness
   • and by character i mean wilson
   • puns
   • flirting but they're both dumbasses about it
   • idiots to lovers
   • OOC
   • I do not consent to having my work uploaded onto lore.fm

   Summary

   After an incident that leaves Willow homeless and criminalized for a crime she never committed, she runs far away. Alone with only the handful of belongings and a fierce will to keep moving, she seeks refuge in a forgotten town in the middle of nowhere, searching for her chance for a new beginning.
   A newspaper finds it's way to her hand and she stared at the ad printed in tiny black ink. Assistant Needed.
   ----
   Or:the story where the Constant never existed, the survivors live normal lives, magic still exists, shadows and Them hide within reality and all of the events that transpire in-between.

   Series

   • Part 1 of EE&E Universe (Mad Scientist & Arsonist Assistant AU)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   96,474

   Chapters:

   14/?

   Comments:

   188

   Kudos:

   1,026

   Bookmarks:

   109

   Hits:

   25,140

   Bookmarked by WickedVicky

   04 Feb 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Really good!!!

3. Rec *

   Stag Beetles and Broken Legs by Aryashi, relationshipcrimes

   Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Game)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   07 Sep 2019

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Knight & Quirrel (Hollow Knight)
   • Quirrel & Relic Seeker Lemm
   • Quirrel (Hollow Knight)
   • Relic Seeker Lemm (Hollow Knight)
   • The Knight (Hollow Knight)
   • Attempted Suicide
   • Suicidal Ideation
   • don't worry we're gonna pry that out of him with a crowbar
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Quirrel is a history nerd
   • silent void child is trying their best
   • lemm is a grump
   • [strums ukulele] GIANT WOMAN

   Summary

   A chance meeting on the shore of Blue Lake interrupts Quirrel making an unfortunate decision.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Stag Beetles and Bonus Scenes

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   66,615

   Chapters:

   12/12

   Comments:

   1,431

   Kudos:

   8,223

   Bookmarks:

   1,824

   Hits:

   171,955

   Bookmarked by WickedVicky

   17 Jan 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Wonderful character writing.

4. Rec *

   THE FURY OF A SHATTERED MIRROR by ASpooky, Thood74

   Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game), Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   04 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Harry Du Bois
   • The Princess (Slay the Princess)
   • The Narrator (Slay the Princess)
   • The Voices in Your Head (Slay the Princess)
   • Written in the Style of the Game Disco Elysium
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canon-atypical violence
   • depending on which canon you're coming from
   • Canon Divergence
   • Canon Convergence
   • Pre-Canon
   • Post-Canon
   • after life - death -- after death - life again
   • after the world - the pale -- after the pale - the world again
   • Now for some content warnings:
   • Canon-Typical Suicide
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Drug Addiction
   • Internalized Misogyny
   • Gore
   • Heavy Angst
   • These tags apply to various chapters at various times
   • But above all else remember:
   • There Is Still Hope

   Summary

   YOU - [Look around.]

   INLAND EMPIRE [Legendary: Failure] - You are alone in a place that is empty.

   PERCEPTION (HEARING) [Impossible: Failure] - It is quiet here.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   586,143

   Chapters:

   62/?

   Comments:

   4,412

   Kudos:

   5,586

   Bookmarks:

   1,168

   Hits:

   374,494

   Bookmarked by WickedVicky

   09 Dec 2025

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Genuinely stunning writing.