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   there i saw you standing (must have been a holy light) by maroon_haze

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   21 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Lonnie Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Suzie Bingham (mentioned)
   • Erica Sinclair (mentioned)
   • Churches & Cathedrals
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Religious Guilt
   • Religious Content
   • Author Is Not Religious
   • I Wrote This While Listening to Ethel Cain's Music
   • Title from a Gigi Perez Song
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • No Vecna (Stranger Things)
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Mutual Pining
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Atheism
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
   • Angst and Feels
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Will Byers Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers Gets a Break
   • Not Ted Wheeler Friendly (Stranger Things)
   • Slow Burn
   • No Smut
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • this is how i’m coping with the loss of churchgate
   • Mike Wheeler Has Religious Trauma
   • will byers also has religious trauma
   • author was not raised religious
   • author still somehow has a complicated relationship with religion
   • I Wrote This While Listening to Hozier's Music
   • Bible Quotes (Abrahamic Religions)
   • Heteronormativity
   • Compulsory Heterosexuality
   • no smut but there is horniness and lust thinly veiled in religious figurative language
   • yearn white boy yearn
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Denial of Feelings
   • Implied/Referenced Cheating
   • Good Parent Joyce Byers
   • Lonnie Byers Is His Own Warning
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Bisexual Nancy Wheeler
   • Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler
   • Swearing
   • Underage Drinking
   • Vomiting
   • Christianity

   Summary

   What happens when a beautiful boy radiates divinity like God never could? When the sound of his voice alone could make one fall to their knees in prayer? When he is so pure, so holy, so utterly angelic that he must have come from the Heavens themselves?

   Or:

   Mike Wheeler is an atheist in a family of good Christians. Will Byers is the son of a preacher who just moved to Hawkins from California. Mike discovers that going to church might not be all that bad.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   40,693

   Chapters:

   12/18

   Comments:

   516

   Kudos:

   1,082

   Bookmarks:

   307

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   Bookmarked by 1ariss4

   28 Dec 2025

2. Public Bookmark 6

   I’ve seen stranger things… by angelw1ngtomato

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   31 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Vickie Dunne
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Canon Rewrite
   • Slow Burn
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Lettergate
   • Flashbacks
   • comphet
   • TW: SA depiction and discussion
   • Suicidal Ideation and Discussion
   • Child Abuse
   • paintinggate
   • byler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • rockie
   • Stick with me guys

   Summary

   officially abandoned this fic now haha but stay tuned...

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   14,751

   Chapters:

   9/?

   Comments:

   10

   Kudos:

   32

   Bookmarks:

   6

   Hits:

   981

   Bookmarked by 1ariss4

   28 Dec 2025