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Between the ages of 0 and 31, Buck speedruns the L, T, and B in LGBT. (Eddie will have to take care of the G.)
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“I think my hairline is receding,” Buck says, flinging himself dramatically into a deck chair. “That can happen with testosterone, you know!”
“I’m all too aware,” Bobby says wryly.
“Your hair looks great, Cap,” Buck says seriously. “I can only hope to have your follicular density at such an advanced age.”
“Watch it,” Bobby tells him, and Buck grins up at him.
“I have to start shaving,” he says. “I’m getting scruffy. Isn’t that awesome? Do you think I could pull off a beard?”
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25 Jan 2026
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i could be your perfect disaster (you could be my ever after) by 0r1g1np01nt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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"mikes gonna hear good luck babe in 40 years and lose his mind" "mikes gonna hear conan gray in 40 years and go crazy" mike is gonna watch dead poets society like a week after will leaves hawkins and in a fit of insanity is going to fly to new york and show up at his door unannounced like the messy gay disaster that he is
aka i wrote a fic based off of my own tumblr post bc it's not like i have anything Else to be doing (sarcasm)
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18 Jan 2026
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He remembers, eyes squeezed shut against the swell of nausea and vertigo that claws through him, being not-quite-thirteen, and listening eagerly to Mr. Clarke explain the science behind dreams.
“Dreams,” he’d said, “are often seen as these sacred experiences, something that has to have a deeper meaning. We have centuries of examples of dream interpretation, the art of examining commonalities between different dreams to find a single interpretation.”
“The thing is,” he’d continued, “dreams are just your brain’s way of processing and regurgitating information; a fruit-salad of information, so-to-speak. Sure, it can mean something, but it’s more likely to be a random grab-bag of facts and feelings that you’ve come across in life.”
A fruit-salad of information. Here, in the dark bathroom at a little past three in the morning, Mike breathes carefully, and tries to dissect where the supposed ingredients of his fucked-up dream salad actually came from.
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Vecna is weak. Injured. He's still strong enough to hit the Party where it hurts.
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- Part 1 of this is where the worlds collide
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18 Jan 2026
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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- Part 1 of rio's byler fics
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11 Jan 2026
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Literally such a good fic 100/10 does such a good job diving into Mike's mind I'm gonna cry
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Will frowned slightly and bent down to pick it up. “What’s this?” he asked, already unfolding it before anyone could answer.
Mike watched Will’s face change in real time. The confusion first, surprise, then color bloomed across his cheeks.
“Oh,” Will said softly.
Dustin immediately leaned in. “Wait, wait, wait. What is it-” He squinted, then gasped loudly. “Holy shit!”
Lucas craned his neck. Max leaned over. Jane squealed so loudly a kid down the hall actually turned to look.
“It’s a love poem!” Jane announced, delighted.
Will tried to fold the paper back up, mortified. “Guys-”
“It says I love you,” Dustin read aloud, absolutely not helping. “Whoever this is, they are down bad.”
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Or, Mike starts sending Will anonymous love letters and immediately becomes his own biggest problem.Series
- Part 2 of The Byler Archives
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09 Jan 2026
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should've done more (why didn't I?) by Demiwitchwoodwalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Nov 2025
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“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” He knew they couldn’t hear him, knew his words spoken into the deafening silence of the hospital bathroom meant nothing, but they spilled out nonetheless, his voice cracking, echoing back at him. His sobs continued to wrench themselves out of him, like the first one had started a chain reaction there was nothing he could do to stop, and he slid slowly down the stall’s wall. Nothing seemed able to stifle the sounds tearing through him and the tears wouldn’t stop falling. His chest felt ripped open, shredded apart with his insides laid bare for the world to see. Holly was– Holly was missing, taken, like Will had been all those years ago. His baby sister. And his parents were bleeding out, held together by doctors in an unreachable place. They could be dead now. Holly could be–
He’d told her the monsters wouldn’t get her. He’d promised. He was supposed to protect her and she was– she was–
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Everything hits Mike, all at once, standing in the hospital where his parents are dying while his sister is missing. Because I think Mike deserves to have a breakdown too (and be comforted by Will).
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05 Jan 2026
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you're no demon (don't be frightened now) by Demiwitchwoodwalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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I told you we weren’t going to spend our lives in my basement, playing games and never getting girlfriends, but now I wish we could. I was wrong then. I was so wrong.
I just want you to come home. I just want to play games in my basement forever, the two of us.I’ll see you tomorrow, and you’ll never see this letter. I miss hearing your voice. I never can now, with the way the line is always busy. I miss your smile.
God, I miss your smile. I haven’t seen it in years.I miss you.I’ll see you tomorrow. Happy early birthday.
Even though I’ll say it tomorrow. And you’ll never read this.Love, Mike
“Dude, I thought you were getting clothes, what–”
Mike flinched, dropping the shoebox on the floor and sending the letters inside sliding across the floor in cascades, pulse racing in his throat. Robin raised her eyebrows, half inside his bedroom door, hair disarrayed and sweater askew, and Mike’s eyes flicked down to the letter that slid towards it, the papers now scattered all across the floor.
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Mike finds his unsent letters to Will, prompting him and Robin to talk, about Will, about Vickie, about themselves.
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05 Jan 2026
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It's all over now, they've all gone their separate ways, moving towards the future they've sacrificed so much for, except Mike isn't doing so good.
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- Part 1 of Enduring
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04 Jan 2026
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“You kissed me,” he repeats, pointing at Mike. “Did you fucking forget that? That you fucking initiated it?”
“Will—“
“You kissed me,” Will says again. His voice breaks. “You held me, and you kissed me, and you liked it.”
Mike stares at him, taking a breath that trembles.
“I know you liked it,” Will says softly, looking into Mike’s eyes. They’re shining.
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03 Jan 2026
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At six years old, Holly Wheeler wants to be a pilot when she grows up. She doesn’t know that she’ll never get the chance.
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03 Jan 2026
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"I'll cry quieter."
"Or you can cry with me here," he says, still looking at the floor. "You don't have to talk about... whatever it is. But just... Jesus, Nance, you're not completely alone."
She exhales shakily, looking at him in the dim light of her nightlight. He looks so much older now, even older than he did a few weeks ago. Sharper. More tired. He even sounds older. Like he's lived five lives in his fifteen years.
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Nancy Wheeler is in love with a girl. Mike Wheeler is in love with a boy. They're both more alike than they though, and they're both less alone than they thought, too.
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03 Jan 2026
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This is the first girl who’s ever asked Mike out — something he had, in the not too distant past, been terrified would never happen. And Mike just stands there, feeling like his dining hall dinner is about to crawl back up his esophagus.
Jeremy, Saint Jeremy, nudges him with an elbow. “He’s kind of private about it, but Mike actually has someone back home.”
Mike turns his head to look at Jeremy, expecting a knowing smile or the hint of a wink. But Jeremy actually looks sincere, which makes Mike’s eyebrows sink down, almost to the top of his nose.
“Will, right?” Jeremy supplies, forever trying to be helpful. “He’s at CalArts?”
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20 Dec 2025
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barriers (i'll break 'em down) by booksandpaperss for significant_ace_nnoyance
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Dec 2025
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“Will?”
A light clicks on to his right, bathing a sleepy looking Will in a warm glow. “Hi,” Will says.
Mike grins like a maniac. “Hi,” he replies, and dives right onto Will’s bed.
It's the Byers first night back in Hawkins with the Wheelers, and all Mike wants is for Will to be fully comfortable with him again. He gets a little more than he bargained for.
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20 Dec 2025
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“Whoa, hey, just lie back.” Will scoots up so he can push Mike’s shoulders. Mike crumples with barely any effort, elbows giving out. Will catches the back of his head and sets it carefully on a child sized mattress that’s been here since 1983. The first time. Will shivers.
“You cold?” Mike asks, lulling his head to look at Will. His lids are drooping; he’s clearly struggling to stay conscious, yet still somehow has the capacity to catch Will shivering. Jesus. He’s so. Just so.
In the aftermath of the painting fight, Will gets taken. Mike rescues him, and they narrowly escape Vecna’s lair at a cost: Mike is injured. And it could get much worse if Will doesn’t figure something out fast.
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20 Dec 2025
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“What... what are you trying to imply?” Mike’s voice was so quiet, and for a terrifying second, Robin was convinced she had read the situation incorrectly, her body freezing up in fear. She just doomed not just herself, but Will, too. She felt sick to her stomach.
“I’m not implying anything, Mike,” Robin started. “I’m just stating what I see.”
Post S5 EP4:Robin realized that she misjudged Mike.
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17 Dec 2025
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show me yours, and i'll show you mine by lightsflicker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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Suddenly, Mike is twelve, teetering on the edge of the quarry. Maybe tomorrow the paramedics will pull him from the same exact place they found Will's body. It’s a comforting thought, morbidly enough. To die for his friends. To be with Will again.
or: Mike Wheeler has no good, horrible, very bad evening.
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17 Dec 2025
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you look at me like you're hypnotized by tearsofsaudade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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“That wasn’t on you,” Will says. “You did everything you could. Our crew is the ones who screwed up. If we’d kept Derek blindfolded better, then maybe—”
“Not on you either,” Mike interrupts. “You were watching us beat the shit out of that demo.”
“Hurt like hell,” Will admits with a snort, glancing at Mike. He expects a laugh in return, at the very least, even after his embarrassing moment of flirtation earlier. He doesn’t expect the smile to slide right off Mike’s face and shift into something horrified.
“You felt that?” he asks, his face pale even under the yellow light of the flashlights.Or: Will feels the demogorgon during the Turnbow trap. Mike is horrified by this.
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- Part 1 of stranger things 5 one-shots
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12 Dec 2025
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“I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
“What?”
“We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.
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11 Dec 2025
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as the world caves in (it's you that i lie with) by mfst4rb0y
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2022
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“Holy shit, Wheeler, I thought we lost you.” She breathes into Nancy’s hair, still crying a little. Nancy pulls her face away from Robin’s chest, tugging the headphones off as she glances up at Robin with watery eyes.
Between the mind-numbing relief, the lingering panic and the feeling of wild joy, something else sparks in Robin’s gut as Nancy stares at her. It’s familiar, achingly so, from years of wanting and not having, and it flares to life with a previously unknown intensity as Nancy keeps looking at her. Because Nancy Wheeler, even dirty and tear-streaked and shaking, is still the most beautiful creature Robin’s ever seen.
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11 Dec 2025
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Sometime in the formless dark before breakfast, Mike Wheeler vanishes.
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A comprehensive guide to navigating parallel dimensions, disrupting the fabric of reality, and deciding to save yourself.
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- Part 1 of cosmonaut-verse
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11 Dec 2025