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  1. Rec *

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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 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 Nancy’s graduation dinner.

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    The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV (with a season five rewrite because what the fuck!)

    Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate

    Steve "the ally" Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will

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    21 Jan 2026

  2. Rec *

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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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    17 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    When Eleven saves Will from Vecna she gets more than she bargained for when they wake up in the wrong bodies. Now to prevent Vecna from infiltrating the mind of his most perfect host the two of them must pretend to be the other.
    Will grapples with the feelings that he’s trying to push away.
    Mike wonders why it feels like he’s falling in love all over again.

    What will become of everything when Hawkins finally falls?

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    02 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    “I’m sorry,” he tries to say. The darkness is heavier, now. Oppressive. His body won’t move, his lungs won’t fill, there is blood in his throat and he is dying. He is dying.

    I wish I could stop this, he thinks as he fades, as the world around him slips into nothingness and he does, too. I wish I could save you. I wish I had been enough. I wish–

    A guitar wails, drums pound, and Eddie is alive.

    He jolts upright with a gasp that feels more like a sob, adrenaline thrumming through his veins, heart beating erratically in his ears.

    Something is tangled around his ankles, pinning him, trapping him and he kicks desperately, freeing his legs and throwing himself backwards. He hits a wall– he hits a wall, he hits a wall– and squeezes his eyes shut, waiting for teeth and ripping and pain, but–

    “Ed!” Wayne calls from…somewhere, voice cutting cleanly through the panic fogging his brain. “Turn that noise down ‘fore you wake up the whole neighborhood!”

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    Or, Eddie dies in 1986.

    In 1981, he wakes up. And this time, no one is dying.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he’s already knee deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.

     

    OR: What starts as a distraction from missing Max turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)

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    20 Oct 2025