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[podfic] can't outrun the ache by rosepods (roseprose) for Pseudologia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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It’s embarrassing how close his current reality is to daydreams he had when he was eight years old. All he does every day is go to school, see his friends, and plan heroic recon missions to help take down the Big Bad. His best friend lives in his house.
Mike wakes up every day to the chaos of adults shouting and doors slamming and feels completely content.
And then the guilt hits him.
Podfic Length: 15:33
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Mike Wheeler has a problem. He might be sent to Pennhurst if this keeps up. Or maybe just grounded for life if his mom ever sees his recent chemistry test. And it all started with Will and his stupid, small waist.
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i saw the tv glow. // Mike Wheeler 🩵 by cyrus_is_heere
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
09 Dec 2025
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Mike seeing flag colors on the tv after watching ghost buster reruns. Over the next few years it sends him into crisis of not knowing who he likes romantically and not being able to cope with the fact he might be gay.
open ending! :3
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Going back to Hawkins seemed like a nightmare to Will Byers. Especially when he understood it also meant seeing Mike Wheeler everyday. Mike Wheeler, who he thought was left to rot in his past, a vague memory of an old friendship from middle school. A friendship neither of them could keep alive as phone calls eventually faded and letters stopped coming in. It's been five years and Will Byers now sees Mike Wheeler as nothing but a stranger.
Too bad Mike Wheeler cannot keep his eyes off Will, no matter how hard he tries not to. He simply doesn't understand what went so wrong, his so-called best friend won't even look at him anymore. And why the hell hasn't Will told him he was moving back from California.
It just seems like they view their friendships on totally opposite sides of the spectrum.
TW. Eating disorder, mental and physical abuse, child abuse, self harm -
You Never Cried to Them, Just to Your Soul by torchyrains
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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It happens when he gets a phone call. It’s around 10:30 at night. El is asleep on the couch, and Jim is nearly there himself when the phone starts to ring. He picks it up, clearing the sleep from his throat. "Hello?"
“Oh thank god,” He hears Nancy sigh. The relief is nearly palpable through the phone. “It’s Mike."
Goddammit.
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I wish I could remember (I meant it anyways) by Vicvicsprin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2025
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NOT FINISHED
Mike Wheeler hasn't seen his best friend, Will Byers, for over a year.
Then one day, Will appears at his door as a surprise to stay over for the month of December.
The month flies by, and Christmas comes around. The party gets together and Mike loses track of his drinking.
The day after, he finds out he blacked out and something happened between him and his best friend. He let his mouth run loose and may have confessed something he didn't mean to.
Now-he has a week to figure out what happened and gain his best friend back. The task seems impossible. Is he going to be able to win Will Byers back? -
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In which:
Vecna forces Will to reveal the one thing he'd planned to take to his grave.
!!ongoing!! endgame Byler + possibly some other ships (to be decided on)
(and here's a link to the song this fic is named after, some (but not all) of the lyrics are so byler coded - https://open.spotify.com/track/3kgYZ1g4QRvDS7Z0L9dxbN?si=e3bbef5042874e69)
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- Part 2 of Byler fics 💛🩵
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Mike passes out during movie night and The Party handles the aftermath
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“My name is Mike Wheeler, I’m 16 years old, and a year ago today, my best friend lost his mind.”
Mike Wheeler hasn't talked to Will Byers in months. It's been a whole year since his best friend of 12 years went insane- Spitting out nonsense about monsters and other dimensions. No one saw it coming, and it has never sat right with Mike.
A day after this awful anniversary, though, Mike receives a visitor: A girl who calls herself Eleven.Eleven steps into Mike's mind and shows him the truth: Will was never the crazy one after all. Somehow, by some great means, Vecna has erased any memory of the Upside Down from all the minds of Hawkins.
Mike, Will, and El restore the original party to face the terrors of Vecna's influence once again, but when Vecna starts altering Will's own memories as a last attempt at power, things get confusing.
Now the question is: What more does Vecna want? Will Mike and the others be able to help him hold on much longer? And in a reality where it's possible to have your memory altered at random, how is Will supposed to know what's real... and what's a trick of the mind?ALSO GO FOLLOW THE FIC TUMBLR TO KEEP UP TO DATE!! https://www.tumblr.com/memorymaster07
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The Byers have been living with the Wheelers since quarantine happened. It's something Mike and Will have dreamed of since childhood, but dreams aren't always reality. Mike and Will are no longer on speaking terms, and Mike thinks it might eventually kill him.
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He couldn’t hear them. He could hear the sound of them, but he couldn’t hear them. He knows it’s his kids. He knows their hands and heads anywhere. But he can’t hear them or see them straight, and everything feels so wildly out of his control. And no matter how hard he tries, he can not string a sentence together. And then suddenly they’re all gone.
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why can't we give love, give love, give love? by blackdiamondswa
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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There’s not a doubt that something happened between Mike and Will during the 18 months time skip. What the hell was Mike doing for Will to get him so hopeful? That's a question on everyone's mind how obvious was Mike? 18 months is a lot of time to change the narrative upside down so i wrote this hoping to satisfy the curiosity of the infamous gate called
mikewhatthefuckdidyoudogate
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My Panic’s at the Ceiling, but I’m Face Down on the Carpet by CrimsonWolf715
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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Six months after most of the kids in the Party died in the final fight against Vecna, Mike’s living in his own personal Hell. Everybody has moved on and has continued their lives like almost everyone that he loves isn’t dead.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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Im having trouble coming to terms with the fact that mike lowkey had zero reaction to the fact that his younger sister is missing, his parents are in the hospital. nancy’s in the upside down… (+ he saw vecna for the first time and saw the kids get dragged away but thats not really fair to the writers cus they haven’t continued it yet)
BUT ANYWAYS i wrote what i think his internal conflicts should be like, because i think my boy needs to be seen by the audience for once…
im writing this at 5am tho, so im not finished, but let me know if i should make this into an actual fic? i’ll change the title and everything! pls read and give it a try 😔 -
Your Powers are More Innate. || Byler. by coolkidmcboykisser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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Mike can't love Will.
It's stupid, weird, and a sin. 🎞🎥Plus, he loves El.
So he CAN'T love him.
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He will furthermore give in to the fantasy that Mike will let him in one more time.
or, Mike and Will drunkenly, secretly hook up at Mike's family cottage.
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Mike, Lucas, Robin- unsafe, but unharmed- all staring in shock at the dead monsters before them. Will falls to his knees, his hands slowly unclench, and somewhere in the distance, he can feel Mike and Joyce staring at him.
“…You saved me.”
Will looks at him, surprised at the affirmation. He knows he saved him, but to have Mike acknowledge it, and with such awe… it makes his heart skip a beat.
“Yeah, well,” Will shrugs, trying to play it off. “I had to.”OR
Mike and Will after the end of s5 ep4
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Mike Wheeler knows there's something different about him. For years he didn't want to believe it, whether it was shoving those thoughts in the back of his mind, or convincing himself he was 'normal' like everyone else, Mike couldn't accept the fact he was different. All that changed when he had a mental break down in his room about who he truly was, and before he knew it; He was spilling out the truth to the one person he never thought he'd say it to.
And I know it's not my fault,
But I blame me,
cause it's easier than
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Upside Down (Boy You Turn Me Inside Out) by Bella85421
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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Steve spoke up for the first time, side-eyeing Mike as the younger boy picked on the skin around his fingernails, a bad habit he had adopted since the disappearance of his sister, "Stop it both of you, Robin's right about the risks this suggestion carries," he added more as Dustin's jaw dropped, "...But, it's the best idea we've had yet, and I propose that we vote on it. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea?" His own hand rose as he finished his sentence, as did Nancy's, Will's, Jonathan's, Dustin's, Lucas's and Erica's. Only Robin and Mike didn't raise their hands.
Steve's eyebrows shot up, surprised so many agreed with him. Usually, he was the only one.
Robin sighed, an exasperated sound coming out of her mouth. She turned to look at Dustin, his hand still up in the air like a quiet rebellion against Robin's protest, and then at Steve, her eyes saying I didn't think you had it in you to betray me like this. She rolled her eyes as she looked in front of her where the rest of The Party sat, splayed across the couch and floor.
Or: my own version of Stranger Things Season 5