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It’s 1990, and Hawkins is finally behind them, or at least, that’s what Mike Wheeler tells himself.
Now sophomores at NYU, Mike and Will Byers are roommates, best friends, and survivors of things no one else can ever know. The Upside Down is gone, Eleven is gone, and the world has moved on. They haven’t.
Will is learning how to exist openly in a city that lets him breathe, finding joy in art, late nights, and music that feels like freedom. Mike is stuck, haunted by grief and guilt, pouring everything he can’t say into his writing instead. Between shared movie nights, quiet apartments, and nightmares that never really stop, they orbit each other in ways that feel dangerously close to something more.
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24 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler has spent four years writing a fantasy story about a paladin and a sorcerer. A metaphor about his late realisation that he's in love with Will Byers.When the group gathers for a reunion in Hawkins, Mike and Will meet again after years of no contact.
Mike realizes he should feel happy for Will now that he has a boyfriend, but instead, he's falling apart even more.
Then Will finds his folder.
The truth Mike has been bleeding onto pages for years. And everything Mike has been hiding crashes into the light.Or: A story about breaking and healing. About loving someone from the moment you understood what love was, even when you didn't have words for it and about the courage it takes to let yourself be saved.
Or: Mike Wheeler's journey from "definitely straight" to "catastrophically in love with my best friend" to ''healing through love''
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23 Jan 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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23 Jan 2026
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The Best Days of My Life (Summer of '87) by borchrtslab6
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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A year after the world heals those who had defeated Vecna rediscover joy they all thought they’d never have again over those few summer months. Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington, and Mike Wheeler are in for another summer they’ll never forget.
The summer of 1987 in Hawkins, Indiana; unconventional relationships, fist fights, and revelations.
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20 Jan 2026
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this love is strong [why do i feel weak?] by bigskyandthecoldgun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Dec 2023
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Between lining up schedules, getting parental approval, planning out storage space in the Bounder for everyone’s luggage, divvying up the beds, making sleeping arrangements, and creating a full-blown itinerary—thanks to Nancy—Eddie’s almost impressed that it had only taken them a little under a month to get everything ready.
Steve looks back at them over his shoulder and raises his voice. “Ready?”
“Ready!” the rest of them chorus, and Steve nods, turning back to the front and starting up the Bounder.
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the party goes on a road trip, and eddie's keeping his secrets to himself, thank you very much.Series
- Part 2 of slow down [you're doing fine]
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19 Jan 2026