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a circle of eternity(the cycle of fate) by GloriousSarcasm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 May 2026
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He recoils in shock and terror when he sees its limbs – twisted and wrong. Its skin is torn open in places and hanging down, he can see the whiteness of bone beneath the torn flesh. A thick spurt of blood wells to the surface and splatters onto the floor between him and the sink.
The creature snarls and Mike screams.
It drops to the ground, twisting in mid-air to land on all fours. Its head is twisted in the wrong angle, its spine is sticking out from its back. More blood falls as the flesh is jostled. A thick, rotting smell fills the air.
Mike keeps screaming.
The handle jangles again, harsher this time. Will’s voice filters through, he sounds panicked. Mike can’t make out the words over the sounds of his own screams.
The creature titters, skittering forward, and Mike stumbles back. He hits the door with a loud thud. He’s still screaming.
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21 May 2026
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"I'm glad I went," Mike murmurs near Will's ear.
"Had fun?" Will asks playfully.
"Oh, yeah," Mike stretches sarcastically.
They stay like that for a little longer than necessary, then reluctantly separate, still looking at each other. Will can't hold the eye contact for long, and turns away, biting down a smirk.
"Goodnight, then," he breathes out.
"Yeah. Goodnight," Mike nods nervously and smiles. That same stupid dorky smile.
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The Party have one last fun summer together before moving away, everyone is alive and happy and in love and stupid.
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- Part 1 of Mike and Will nervous boyfriends
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- 28/28
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15 May 2026
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“I need like– actionable steps. ‘Act normal’ is too vague.”
Will sighs and reaches over to turn the radio down even quieter.
“Ok for one, stop staring at my mouth,” Will says.
Mike glances over at him automatically.
Will laughs. “See? That’s exactly what I mean. You’ve been doing it for years, but now it’s like…it’s a lot, Mike. People are gonna notice.”
“But I wanna kiss you,” Mike whines.
It’s been a week since Mike and Will got together – one blissful week, like a honeymoon before the wedding. Now they’re in Montauk for Joyce and Hopper’s, surrounded by friends and family, and trying to fly under the radar. Somewhere along the way, Mike realizes he doesn’t want to hide anymore.
Or, two horny idiots in love struggle to keep their relationship hidden.
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- Part 2 of don't dream it's over
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17 Mar 2026
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On the first day of Mike Wheeler's final year at Hawkins Senior High, he meets Will Byers: the mysterious new kid who doesn't speak. Mike decides to figure out why, falling head over heels in the process.
Or, mute Will Byers x pining Mike Wheeler
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04 Mar 2026
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Will knew something was wrong back in Lenora. He just didn't know how to confront everyone. How do you even begin telling your mom, brother, and estranged best friend that they had missed your birthday?
A story in which Will is being forgotten by those he loves.
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- 24/24
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26 Feb 2026
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i had some help (it aint like i can make this kinda mess all by myself) by ikykwhoiam
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2026
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Mike didn’t know when Steve Harrington became the person he relied on. Heavily.
Maybe it was the way Steve hovered around Dustin like a worried mother hen with shocking vocabulary. Maybe it was the fact that he kept throwing himself at Upside Down disasters armed with nothing but a bat and misplaced confidence all for the sake of just helping. Or maybe it was because Nancy Wheeler had broken up with him.
Somehow, all of Nancy’s exes became significantly cooler once she had dumped them.
Whatever the reason, Mike had started moping at the Harrington house.
A lot.
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Or... Steve is like an older brother to Mike and instead of helping him constantly he seems to be distracted by a certain someone's older brother.
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25 Feb 2026
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First, there is the dark:
Waking, drowning, sideways-slipping.
A creature with three mouths, ten thousand teeth. The inky collapse of a nebula. A demo-dog with no beak.
Mike in the evening. Mike in the afterlife. Mike with sun-swollen cheeks.
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“Disgusting?” Will echoes.
The clock starts to chime. The world seems to shrink.
“You're disgusting,” Mike says, definitive.
“I’ll just–” Will says, but there is no just about it, only floundering fish-feet as he struggles off the couch and to the foot of the stairs, someone behind him promising the juiciest steak you’ll ever eat!
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Compared to Will’s skin, Mike's hand is nearly searing, long-knuckled, sixteen. It fizzles through Will like a lightning strike. In this moment, in the car, Will wants him.
Will always wants him – his dimples, his fine-motor skills, his tongue caught between his teeth.
or, after Vecna captures Will, things go a little differently.
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25 Feb 2026
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Public Bookmark 3256
Mystery Work
Part of hideaway
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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23 Feb 2026
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Begins a couple months after the end of the movie. Follows an alternate timeline in which none of the Losers other than Beverly move away from Derry, and none of them forget It or each other.
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23 Feb 2026
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What would happen if Will Byers was never found during the events of Stranger Things season 1? How would he survive the upside down? How would the people of Hawkins react?
Will breathed in a ragged breath. Black smoke poured from his mouth as he tore himself free from the wall. He collapsed forward, coughing and gasping on the cold, moist floor.
His heart pounded in his ears as he shakily scrambled to his feet. Eyes darting around the abyss, he started to run. And he ran, and ran, and ran.
His feet pounded on the ground when suddenly he found himself on a familiar path. Finally, something familiar. Will sprinted through the woods, as a feeling of hope filtered its way through the panic. He was getting there, he was gonna be safe, it was finally within reach.
Castle Byers.
The pain in his chest and legs screamed at him to rest, but he couldn't risk stopping. He pushed himself further, calves aching with each step. Suddenly, a loud screech echoed through the air from somewhere up ahead.
Will skidded to a stop as the monster moved on the path ahead. It was in the way, standing between him and safety.- Language:
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22 Feb 2026
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“They’re the American frontrunners,” Max explains.
“You’re having lunch with your fiercest competitors?” Mike questions, taking Will’s outstretched hand and giving it a firm shake. It’s warm and soft, unexpectedly so. Will is smiling at him, also warm and soft—and Mike, not usually very smiley, can’t resist returning the expression as he takes his seat at the table.
“Fiercest?” Jane asks, her tone bewildered. She reaches out and grabs Will’s jaw with her hand, shaking his face back and forth as he scowls. “Look at this face! Does this look fierce to you?”
Or, an Olympic Figure Skating au.
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- Part 1 of Not Afraid to Fall (Lift Me Up)
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22 Feb 2026
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Art School Confidential by cyclogenesis (addictedkitten)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.
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21 Feb 2026
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The weight of Mike’s touch grounds him, tugs his mind out of the Upside Down and brings it back here—in Hawkins, looking into Mike’s eyes as the world crumbles around them.
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The end draws near. The Mindflayer beckons. Mike and Will cling to love against the dying of the light.
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20 Feb 2026
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“You’re on all of my pillows.” He says with a yawn, Will takes a deep breath, moving to get up before Mike tugs on his wrist.
"Don't move. You’ll do just fine.”
Mike turns over fully, wrapping his arms around Will’s middle, and resting his head just below Will's sternum. Mike slings a leg over one of Will’s own, letting a satisfied sigh leave his lips. They're...cuddling? The thought made Will want to pinch his arm, prove that it was real, but he didn't need to. He placed a hand over Mike's arm, in hopes to keep him there.
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Mike leaves Hawkins unexpectedly on Halloween 1983 and loses touch with Will. When Mike arrives back in Hawkins nearly 10 years later, Will doesn't recognize him. This story is about Will finding out who he is and why he left.
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14 Feb 2026
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Will Byers has slowly lost his memories over the years due to the lingering effects of Vecna. So Mike Wheeler, the storyteller, reads to him, hoping that their story, might guide Will back to himself. Back to him.
or: A slow burn friends to lovers that starts in college and follows them through the years, with kicking your feet and giggling moments, angst that burns your chest, and yearning that will have you taking a lap around your room.
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12 Feb 2026
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i'll love you (even at the end of the world) by ziahra
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“Mike,” Will had said to him, voice calm despite how hard it was for him to even make a sound. He didn’t try to sit up, but Mike wasn’t sure he could, even if he wanted to. “I need you to kill me.”
Mike shook his head, holding Will closer to his chest.
“Mike, please.” Will pleaded, closing his eyes against the light, or perhaps it was too much effort to keep them open. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You won’t,” Mike whispered, surprised at how vulnerable he sounded, at the shake and utter defeat in his voice. “You won’t kill me, Will. Because we’re the same. We can’t hurt each other, even at the end of the world.”
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It's been three years since the start of the zombie apocalypse and Mike is finally returning home. He discovers that not only is he not the sole survivor of Hawkins, but that his friends and sister are alive, too. As he begins to reconnect with them, the tension between them begins to increase, and Mike doesn't know how long he can stay with them.
Because while some of the group are more than happy to have him around, others don't like the company he keeps...
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08 Feb 2026
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“Why do you laugh?” Mike the Brave asked. The question was utterly sincere. He could not fathom the source of the mockery, of why Mike would be laughing at his display of fealty.
Mike spluttered, his face flushing. “I—It’s just… you only got him a book off the shelf? That’s your big ‘honour to serve’ moment? It’s just… a book.” He gestured vaguely, defensively, at the book, embarrassed.
Will the Wise’s lips curved into a smile tinged with sorrow. He looked from the flustered boy to his own beloved protector, his hand reaching up to stroke his Paladin’s cheek.
“He has crossed realms for me,” Will the Wise said, his melodic voice filling the cottage. “He has faced beasts and shadows and the silence of the abyss. He would do anything for me, and I for him. The grand quests are written in songs and psalms, sung by revellers around fires and bards in the inn. But the story of us… it is written in these small things. In a fetched book, a mended cloak, a tender kiss in the dawn light.” He looked directly at the younger Mike, his gaze piercingly kind. “We like to remind each other of our affections. In every possible way. There is no deed too small to be an act of love.”
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- English
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06 Feb 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 328,109
- Chapters:
- 45/45
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- 9,668
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05 Feb 2026
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Public Bookmark 252
Mystery Work
Part of Editing
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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24 Jan 2026
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Mike would rather eat snow than spend a weekend in a suspiciously haunted cabin while his family tries to set him up with a stranger. So, naturally, he panics and blurts out the worst lie possible:
“I have a boyfriend.”
Unfortunately, the first name to come to mind is Will Byers.
Even more unfortunately, the Wheelers are thrilled about it.Bookmarked by Human_knowledge
24 Jan 2026