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thank you so much for everybody reading this !!
✰ Set around February 1986 (between the events of Season 3 and Season 4). Everything from Season 3 has already happened, Except the Byers and El never moved to California!!
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The letter you kept (even the ones I forget) by LobsterLizzy_13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2025
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“That basement was more than a hangout, it was more than what it would seem to become. It was a refuge, a place where creativity blossomed in more ways than one. Where not only words were placed on paper; where words meant more when they were said in between moments of silence.”
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The Byers move in with the Wheelers and Will goes through the letters Mike gave him when they were younger and didn’t worry as much about the pressures of life. -
You’ve got a beautiful brain, but it’s disintegrating, from all the medicine by A1_Lex
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2025
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Mike Wheeler survived bullying, demogorgons, vecna, the mind flayer, the upside down and falling off a cliff but he never expected the thing that could finally take him out could be his own body..cancer.
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When they beat vecna and his army Mike thought he would be safe, then in the summer of 87’ he gets diagnosed with stage ll sarcoma cancer. He meets a boy in the hospital and finds love where he never expected. Then comes in Will Byers when he moves back to Hawkins.
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Mike Wheeler is gay. Ted Wheeler knows—has always known, actually.
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A needlessly angsty Mike fic about internalized homophobia, homophobic parents, and learning to love yourself.
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you’re gay, haha. wait shit, maybe i am too—stranger things AU by yeahidk434
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
08 Feb 2025
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Basically an AU where Mike Wheeler has a twin sister named Phoebe who’s just as gay and uptight as him.
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a mostly canon compliant churchgate/lettergate fic set post s4
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(You threw me straight into) Inarticulation by The_Paladin_and_the_Cleric
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2025
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Set shortly after S3 ends, a few weeks after the Byers moved to Lenora
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“Will and I were fighting yesterday. It was big. Somehow it got to El and… I don’t know, I got upset and I kept thinking of this fight we had right after El became friends with you and ‘dumped my ass’ that summer. And I said something really mean back then, and…” He stopped.
“What did you tell him?” Max pressed. She had a therapist-esque voice, and it reminded Mike of Ms. Kelley.
“I said…” He choked on his words. “I said it wasn’t my fault he didn’t like girls.”
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or: Mike Wheeler was Vecna'd, and he's dealing with the aftermath.
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- Part 2 of Mike Wheeler is Cursed by Vecna
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"You both lied to me!" he snapped. "She was lying about California, you were lying about the painting-"
"We've already talked about the painting, Mike!" Will groaned. "I'm sorry that I lied, okay! But I was just trying to help. It's not my fault you broke up!"
In the distance, a bolt of lightning cracked. Thunder boomed.
"That's the problem, Will," Mike said, waving his hands around. Water dripped down his face, and he couldn't tell if it was tears or just rain. "It is your fault!"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
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or: a s5 Byler rain fight, but it's interrupted by Vecna.
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- Part 1 of Mike Wheeler is Cursed by Vecna
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Despite the situation, Will cannot move. He can’t bring himself to move a single muscle, speak, or even breathe properly. If he makes one wrong move, he could wake Mike up, and then this whole situation would get even worse, because Will is sure his embarrassment level would shoot up to 100.
Will finds his control tested when Mike falls asleep on him in the pizza van
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A coming-of-age fic in which everyone realizes at their own times that Mike Wheeler is queer, but leave him to figure it out himself.
(Each chapter is from a different character's POV.)
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✿Dandelions & Sunflowers✿ by RocketRaccoonsFluffyTail
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2025
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Mike Wheeler being a gay disaster while picking flowers with his best "friend"
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Will Byers returned to Hawkins after five months to a lot of drama; Hawkins was split in four after some monster-goopy creature, called "Vecna", invaded Max's mind and made her blind and dead - but Eleven used her powers to revive her, but now she's in a comatose state.
Point is - there's a lot of shit going on in Hawkins. Though, Will Byers never thought he'd be in the centerpiece of it. Two weeks after returning, he found Dustin crying about some guy named Eddie, who died in the Upside Down. Dustin explained how he was such a good guy, but was blamed for something he didn't do, just because he liked DND - like Will.
That's when Dustin said something that would change something for Will Byers.
"He ran a DND club called Hellfire with me and Mike, he was a nerd like you."
Mike was in a DND club? Will remembered, standing in his house before he moved, Mike promising that he'd never join another a DND club, and he joined, without even telling him?
With the relationship between them already being strained, this made Will even more upset. He loves Mike, and he does this...BULLSHIT to him?
What the fuck is Will supposed to do now?
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Mike’s eyes burned with fresh tears. “Just drop it, Lucas,” he muttered, pulling his arm free.
“No!” Lucas’s voice cracked, and he grabbed Mike’s hand, holding it tightly. “Tell me who did this. Please.”
Mike’s resolve crumbled, and he lashed out, yanking his hand back. “Your stupid basketball friends, okay?” he shouted. “Your amazing, perfect friends beat the shit out of me!”
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High school is hard, being bullied is even harder, but being called different by your own friend is heart shattering.
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Basically Original Stranger Things meeting DND AU
The party were in Mike basement trying to find a way to stop Vecna when suddenly,they get teleported in a place that only existed when they played.
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What if Will found out that Mike was gay long before they kissed?
Also if you love platonic Steve & Robin as much as I do THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!!
The movie time stamps besides Fast Times are accurate by the way, they are movies I’ve watched recently!
Notes: language, sexual humor, some underage drinking
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I sat on the cheap uncomfortable plastic benches, popping one of Dustin's fries ( the ones he told me to stop eating) in my mouth as he continued talking. “So.. you just got a love letter?” He said, cautiously. A smile playing on his lips.
Of course he thinks it's funny– everyone did. They made this seem like a prank. It was not a prank. I'm sure of it. And if it was a prank, then it was a fucked up one. I don't think anyone could be that shitty. Except me, of course.I scoffed. The Annoyed Look ™ at its finest. “Why does everyone think it's funny?”
Max flipped her hair out of a ponytail. “Because even if you are attractive– which I would never admit– no girl would just do that, especially to you”
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Post vecna-pocalypse, Will and Mike grew apart. Causing a year of un needed aversion. But one day, Mike receives an anonymous love letter- and Mike cant help but have an itch on who it was. Despite everything in the universe telling him the opposite. Will, on the other hand, had (obviously) sent Mike that letter, and is trying his hardest to keep these familiar emotions he once hid away.Embark on a story where stupidly helpless nerds finally see what they always wanted.
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- Part 2 of The Rightside Up
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Merry Christmas (Please don't call) by Pythoness for 0Eleana0, WalkinInHawkins
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2025
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He chokes back more tears, feeling horrible. He can practically feel Will’s heavy gaze on him, the memory of Will’s eyes strong in his mind. The truth weighs heavy on his shoulders and he can’t help but let it spill from his lips. “Oh Will, I was just starting to dream the silliest and softest of dreams.” He bites his lips. “I dreamt that we were hanging out at the arcade, playing dig dug, and you were laughing.” He pauses to swallow a cry. “You were laughing, and it was possibly, no it WAS, the most beautiful sound I ever heard.” He can feel his body weaken as he speaks. “I… you should know that I died slow Will. I fell slowly, I wasn’t always sick. I’m sorry.” he breaks, crying. “I’m sorry.” He shakes his head. “Will, you were like magic, you know? You casted a spell on me Will the wise, and I didn't even notice until it was too late. This feels more like a curse, divine revenge for being such a dick. “He sniffles. “Ironic isn't it?” Mike lets out a dry laugh.” I’m usually the one who casts divine smite.” He laughs again, sounding more pathetic. “I’m such a nerd.”
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Or, Mike hates Christmas and this one seems to get worse and worse with no reprieve. But maybe something will change that?
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- Part 1 of Voicemails
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The Byers are going over to the wheelers to surprise Mike. The only issue is the fact that Will and Mike have spoken in the past few months and it’s harming Will more than Mike could even imagine. If only Will some how found those unsent letters Mike kept underneath his bed… oh wait he does.
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The Confusing Sexuality Crisis Of Michael Wheeler by STRAWBERRYF1ELDZ
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2024
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“Whenever he thinks about El, he has to force himself too. He has to focus on his thoughts, and his thoughts only, if he doesn't, his mind wanders to other things, he has to pull himself back.
But right now, he just can’t stop thinking about Will.”———————————————————————
After a certain event of “just trying things out,” Mike is sent down a confusing, and emotional crisis, all surrounding one man, Will Byers.