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What I’d do to just forget (what can be done to remember) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2026
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It’s not fair.
Nothing about this is fair.
Everything is lost.
In truth, everything he tried to protect is there, but the reasons are gone.
He’s nothing.
He stares at all of them from a distance, holding each other in their bloody arms and wounded bodies, and he’s just there.
He was the one at fault for everything anyways, he created the upside down.
It wasn’t even on purpose, but alas, the punishment still stands.
His existence is erased, and he has nowhere to go anymore.
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Everyone’s memories of Mike has been ripped out of their heads, Mike is left dealing with the grief, restarting, and being painfully in love all alone.
He can finally leave Hawkins in less than 4 months, he keeps his head down, keeps out of trouble, and most of all avoids the 5 people who used to be the center of his life.
But when he's forced to finally face the obscurities of fate and truth, where will he turn?
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30 Dec 2025
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Roll the Tape Forward by ForrestToffee (FrozenSpellMaster)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Also known as Stranger Things watches Season 5 of Stranger Things!
A typical watch-it fic, cause I'm a sucker for them.
Set at the end of season 4.
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“No,” Will whispered.
Lucas shook his head slowly. “That’s not—”
Then Robin let out a small, disbelieving laugh. “So… we’re watching the future.”Bookmarked by Pythoness
28 Dec 2025
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Now, Mike had almost three extra years' worth of memories, including the revelation and inevitable acceptance of his feelings for his best friend and the subsequent aftermath of said best friend’s heroic sacrifice.
“No, no, no, NO! I just got you back! Please, please, Will, please–I can’t lose you, not again! WILL–”
He remembered the two girls placing their hands on his shoulders, Kali’s sympathetic grip and El’s agonized clench as they gazed down at their adopted brother.
Now, here he was, the summer it all started going too wrong to right.
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After Will sacrifices himself to defeat Vecna, Mike is sent back in time to the beginning of season 3 to prevent any more tragedy
Now, he'll do whatever it takes
For Will.
(thank you all for following along!)
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- Part 10 of stranger things
- Part 1 of All the time in the world
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- 15/15
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28 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler has never been good at communicating his feelings. Always putting other before himself. So, what happens when he starts to hear Venca's voice trying to infiltrate his mind? Will friendship and love be enough to set him free of the shackles that Venca has on him or will he become just another death in Hawkins?
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28 Dec 2025
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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.
Or:
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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28 Dec 2025
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Long Live the Fast Times (Long Live Us) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Nov 2025
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“I love her like I love Lucas, or Dustin, or Max. Like a friend.”
Will nodded slowly. “Like me.”
“No,” Mike said before he could stop himself, “not like you.”
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Holly gets taken by Vecna and Mike knows he has bigger problems than his unrequited feelings (or so he thinks) for Will Byers. That doesn't stop him from spilling his guts anyway and avoiding the ensuing conversation by diving headfirst into the mindscape to save his baby sister, and maybe find Max along the way. But Will isn't going to let him get away with a confession that easily. AKA Mike is clocked by more than one person in the midst of the apocalypse and figures he might as well go for broke.
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27 Dec 2025
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All Sides Of A Jumprope by GhoulSanderson for ghostshaming
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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In Side A, Mike Wheeler falls asleep safe and warm in his boyfriend's arms.
He wakes up in Side B, shivering and wet in the middle of the road.
A Spinoff of The Faces You Wear by me, and Cosmonaut by Ghostshaming!
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- Part 4 of TFYW Spinoffs
- Part 30 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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27 Dec 2025
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You promised "together." Honour your word. (Please?) by Mdashqa
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2026
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Mike seemed to have become a ghost in two months. Time is passing, time is not going to wait, but Mike does not understand why people start pretending that everything is fine. How can they smile or go to the movies when Will isn't around?
In short: Mike's monologue, then another monologue, and maybe another one...?
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25 Dec 2025
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“I didn’t break the cup.” He said more intently, picturing the mug whole and unbroken, the radio station logo that was plastered on the side uncracked.
And as he willed it, it was.
He blinked and the glass was gone like it had never been there, and there was a whole coffee mug sitting on the table in front of him when he looked down. It was sitting on the table like it had never left, the wet pool of cold coffee from before was gone and in its place was a rich brown cup of coffee, steaming lightly in the nighttime chill.
“What the fuck?” Someone said, disbelief coloring their tone and all Mike could do was stare downwards, a fresh wave of blood leaking from his nose.
“I didn't break the cup.” He echoed himself emptily, words a tad disbelieving.
He looked up then, taking in the stunned and worried faces that were surrounding the table and by proxy, him.
He pressed his fingers to his nose, eyes slipping downwards to look at the wet red that stained his fingertips and looking back up.
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- Part 3 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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25 Dec 2025
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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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- Part 1 of devotion | Indiana University
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24 Dec 2025
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in which mike wheeler would rather turn to an empty radio channel than the rest of the party
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24 Dec 2025
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After the Byers move to California, Mike discovers the world of goth music and fashion, all thanks to Siouxsie and the Banshees.
"What. The. Fuck.
Those were Mike’s first thoughts after he finished listening to Juju. How could he have been missing out on this?! This music being hidden from him for so long was a crime! The song’s melody mixed with the singer’s voice was like a siren's call to Mike. Mike was in heaven and Siouxsie was the angels choir."
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- Part 1 of Goth Mike
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24 Dec 2025
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Mike's mom keeps telling him that colors are bright. He can't handle brighter, some of them already hurt his eyes if he looks at them for too long.
Will agrees. Will thinks his head will explode if he has to see more like his mom said.
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23 Dec 2025
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After the Byers moved to California, life in Hawkins has continued on. Everyone has managed to get by well enough in their absence, with the exception of Mike Wheeler, who is... struggling.
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- 4/?
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23 Dec 2025
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“What are you saying?” Will asked with a slightly concerned expression.
Mike paused to buy some time before he revealed his final point.
“I think if I get Vecna to possess me, I could get into his mind and find Holly. Maybe I could even find out how we can defeat him for good."
Where Mike has a plan to save Holly that goes incredibly wrong, and he also has Feelings for Will and just generally a lot of unresolved emotions.
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21 Dec 2025
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i'll love you (even at the end of the world) by ziahra
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“Mike,” Will had said to him, voice calm despite how hard it was for him to even make a sound. He didn’t try to sit up, but Mike wasn’t sure he could, even if he wanted to. “I need you to kill me.”
Mike shook his head, holding Will closer to his chest.
“Mike, please.” Will pleaded, closing his eyes against the light, or perhaps it was too much effort to keep them open. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You won’t,” Mike whispered, surprised at how vulnerable he sounded, at the shake and utter defeat in his voice. “You won’t kill me, Will. Because we’re the same. We can’t hurt each other, even at the end of the world.”
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It's been three years since the start of the zombie apocalypse and Mike is finally returning home. He discovers that not only is he not the sole survivor of Hawkins, but that his friends and sister are alive, too. As he begins to reconnect with them, the tension between them begins to increase, and Mike doesn't know how long he can stay with them.
Because while some of the group are more than happy to have him around, others don't like the company he keeps...
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21 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler is good at pretending he’s fine.
Good at ignoring nightmares.
Good at ignoring pain.
Good at hating the parts of himself he refuses to name.OR
Mike gets Vecna’s curse.
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20 Dec 2025
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i've stood here before (in the pouring rain) by sweetxghosts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Dec 2025
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There was something wrong with Mike Wheeler.
No, there had been something wrong with Mike Wheeler ever since Spring break, and it wasn’t their sinking, failing friendship.
Or, Will is trying his hardest to survive living at the Wheelers while simultaneously getting over his feelings for Mike, when all he can think about is how his once best friend is slowly fading into someone he can’t even recognize anymore.
(or, my interpretation of mwtfdyd gate)
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20 Dec 2025
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"I have no idea where she is and no idea how to find her. ...That was a lie. I know exactly how to find her. I’m just not ready yet.”
Months after a painful escape from the Circus, everyone has scraped the pieces of their lives back together: Pomni is an urbexer, Ragatha has broken free, Kinger takes it a day at a time, Zooble and Gangle plan their happily ever after.
Jax is MIA.
Jax is staring into a mirror.
Jax is making a promise. For the first time in his life, he thinks it's one he's going to keep.
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- 63,453
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20 Dec 2025
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Will's happy. She makes him happy. So Mike should be happy for him. Right?
"I'm glad they get along so well," Vickie said softly by his side, "I think Robin really gets your friend, Will, was it? Sees herself in him. If you… know what I mean?"
Mike didn't.
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Will and Robin start hanging out all the time. Mike is completely fine with that.
He’s also completely fine with the increasingly pointed love songs on the radio, the talk of a mysterious plan to win somebody over, and the fact that he's sure it has absolutely nothing to do with him.
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20 Dec 2025