15 Bookmarks by neversurrender
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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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09 Jun 2026
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Upon his therapist’s persuasion, Will Byers sets off on a journey to a remote counselling camp in sunny California, armed with nothing but crippling anxiety and fading nightmares. What’s promised to be a month of respite and hikes turns into a painstaking pursuit of truth in the face of dreams, beasts and woodland shrouded in secrecy.
OR: a horror AU inspired by The Howling (1981) with a side of requited unrequited love and Mike Wheeler’s infamous guard dog tendencies.Bookmarked by neversurrender
05 Jun 2026
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something better than these broken parts by odysseus_day
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 2026
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Mike Wheeler has a lot of problems with where his life has ended up, but his most prevalent at the moment has to be just how irrevocably stupid his decisions have started to become.
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Or, in which it takes almost a decade post-finale for Mike to finally accept what he's spent his whole life running from... but better late than never, right?
(Featuring: messy post-college Byler, platonic soulmates Madwheeler, and Mike Wheeler's severely unmedicated BPD)
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01 Jun 2026
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Will lets out a shaky gasp. "Mike."
Mike shivers. "Oh, fuck- don't."
"What?" he pants.
"Don't- don't say that."
"What? Mike?" Will asks in a low voice. Mike's hips jerk, and his dick twitches against Will's leg.
"Mm- mmhm." He hums into Will's shoulder.
"Oh. ...Oh. You like that."
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It's the summer before their junior year of college, and it's just like any other. Except for the fact that Will is staying at the Wheelers,' and he's muscular now, and Mike has a new idea to get Will to keep sleeping in his bed.
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23 Mar 2026
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The end of the world is a terrible time to realize you’re bad at monogamy.
Mike Wheeler has a plan: do nothing, say nothing, and hope the apocalypse handles it for him.
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12 Mar 2026
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Stuck in a Loop (Watch the Curtain Come Down) by isa_grapes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler. Stupid Mike Wheeler.
And stupid Will, always ruining his own life.
another post s5e4 oneshot
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- Part 3 of Stranger Things
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12 Mar 2026
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“I’m about to do something really shitty,” Will said. “But I think we might die today. And I guess I’d rather live with you hating me than die without you knowing exactly what I am.”
Or, Mike Wheeler gets kissed, lives, and tries his hand at a happy ending.
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- Part 1 of Come On, Pilgrim
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12 Mar 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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12 Mar 2026
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“You never said anything?” Michael whispers. He knows the answer before Will even speaks.
“How could I? What difference would it have made?”
All the difference in the world, Michael thinks, but he understands that isn’t what Will means. The watchful eyes of Michael’s order and of the gods would have made it impossible for anything beyond the lines of camaraderie to flourish between them.
In the dark stairwell, pressing up against the wall and away from beam of silvery moonlight, Michael leans his head down to the delicate shell of Will’s ear and whispers:
“The eyes don’t reach here, do they?”
Or: Sir Michael and Will the Wise find themselves breaking oaths and making promises
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12 Mar 2026
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“I hear you’re giving out love advice.”
“That’s the show,” Will croaks.
“Hm,” says Mike. “Well, maybe you can help me. There’s this person I—I’m interested in. A friend. A really good friend.”Or,
When Will is forced to sub in as the host for Steve’s cheesy dating advice show on the Squawk, he receives some interesting calls.
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12 Mar 2026
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In a desperate, last-ditch flail of an effort to salvage the situation, Mike grabbed Will’s arm.
The silence veered from heavy to charged. All of Mike’s attention surged into his hand. He felt like the entirety of his consciousness was suddenly located in the place where his skin touched Will’s.
What the fuck, thought Mike for the second time in ten minutes.
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After first using his powers, Will falls unconscious—and stays that way. Refusing to leave Will's side, Mike reflects on the last year and a half while he waits for Will to wake up.aka mikewhatthefuckdidyoudogate, FEATURING: wound cleaning, bed sharing, disco, Jealous!Mike, queer literary analysis, & the most horrifying eldritch specter of all (gay panic). Canon compliant through S5 Vol 1.
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Bookmarked by neversurrender
12 Mar 2026
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Cross my heart, won't tell no other by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Oct 2025
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“I won’t tell him,” she says softly. “Any of them. About any of it.”
Will looks up with surprise. “Why?” he asks.
Nancy just gives a tight smile, but in her eyes, something deeper brews. “You keep my secret, and I’ll keep yours,” she responds.
Will doesn’t really understand much about Nancy Wheeler at all. But Will’s happy to be her secret keeper, so he nods.
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At the end of the world, makeshift living arrangements push the unexpected together, and a new Byers-Wheeler alliance forms.
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12 Mar 2026
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Mike’s gotta be cursed.
It was fine. For the first time in ages, Mike’s life seemed to be on an upward trajectory instead of plummeting downwards. College had, in some way, fixed things. Fixed Mike. He didn’t even feel the need to dissect what exactly had made his early teenage years so horrifying.
But like a curse, it’s all come back.
aka mike figures out his sexuality in the worst way possible, but as always, will is there to help. in more ways than one.
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12 Mar 2026
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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- 34,403
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12 Mar 2026
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“I don’t think that I belong in the world. I feel like a stranger so much of the time. There’s something that divides me, something I don’t understand, but it’s always been there.”
Or: Will Byers is stalked by an ancient presence that seeks to destroy the quaint town of Hawkins in its pursuit of him. A Will Byers-centric, gothic inspired S5 rewrite
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12 Mar 2026