15 Bookmarks by michoooo
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“There’s nothing you can do, Mike.”
Yeah, he thinks. That’s the problem.
“I know,” he concedes. “But I told you: I want to help however I can.”
“You do help,” Will says, simply. “This helps.”The Byers are back in Hawkins, but Will’s life is far from normal. Between the disturbing visions and the whole town treating him like a bad omen, sharing a room with his best friend should be the least of his problems.
Hawkins is under lockdown, but Mike has other priorities. Even with a crumbling relationship and monsters roaming the streets, he can’t stop thinking about his best friend.
Threats loom large while secrets linger, but love has a way of making the apocalypse just a little bit better
Or: A byler-centric season 5 rewrite that actually addresses The First Shadow
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27 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 105,445
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 1,696
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- 3,873
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- 103,988
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22 Jun 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 154,503
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 4,403
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- 12,314
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- 2,723
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- 356,079
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02 Jun 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 125,264
- Chapters:
- 6/12
- Comments:
- 1,860
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- 4,739
- Bookmarks:
- 1,369
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- 125,224
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31 May 2026
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A month in a half after the events of "My Will Is Good," Mike and Will spend a weekend in Montauk, get closer than ever, and navigate life as a couple. Mike grapples with the idea of coming out and what it means to be gay in the 90s.
Or: Mike and Will have fun in Montauk, do it without condoms, and are really nerdy and in love.
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- Part 2 of Nirvana
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,156
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 320
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- 2,716
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- 671
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- 42,027
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15 May 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 71,098
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Comments:
- 1,235
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- 9,205
- Bookmarks:
- 2,466
- Hits:
- 205,088
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15 May 2026
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,728
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 604
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- 9,856
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- 2,774
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27 Apr 2026
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“我比他差在哪里，”他抬起头看向Will，“为什么不选我？”
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Mike和Will在纽约大学的第二年搬入了同一间公寓，当他们都准备为了对方变成一个更好的朋友时，事情发生了变化：Will和一个男生开始约会，而Mike开始阻止自己犯下一级谋杀罪。
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27 Apr 2026
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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...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 101,450
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 419
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- 2,097
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- 773
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- 38,424
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27 Apr 2026
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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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,632
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 14,249
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- 198,737
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- 30,489
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- 2,702,096
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27 Apr 2026
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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid (& Will’s Letter to El)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 48,989
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 1,804
- Kudos:
- 14,443
- Bookmarks:
- 4,238
- Hits:
- 274,172
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27 Apr 2026
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,597
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Comments:
- 1,908
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- 11,188
- Bookmarks:
- 2,681
- Hits:
- 235,324
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27 Apr 2026
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One fateful October night in 1995, Will Byers is dragged by his step-sister, Jane, and her best friend to a rock concert. That was just the beginning...
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A much needed byler enemies to lovers 90s rock band au.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 163,010
- Chapters:
- 31/31
- Comments:
- 1,660
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- 8,197
- Bookmarks:
- 1,729
- Hits:
- 183,294
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27 Apr 2026
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It's 1997 and the ghost of Mike Wheeler walks back into Will Byers' life twice in one day: first in a Midtown coffee shop, then as the writer assigned to his graphic novel. Eight years of awkward distance now have a deadline. Collaboration is a special kind of torture when the person you're building a world with is the one who broke yours.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 124,313
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Comments:
- 845
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- 1,611
- Bookmarks:
- 625
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- 56,617
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17 Apr 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jun 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 110,939
- Chapters:
- 15/17
- Comments:
- 21,498
- Kudos:
- 90,170
- Bookmarks:
- 11,739
- Hits:
- 2,474,298
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05 Mar 2026