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• Hawkins (Never Been) by 1mlostnow

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  18 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Robin Buckley
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Will Byers's Coming Out Scene Fix-It
  • the ending they deserved
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • POV Third Person
  • Getting Together
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • He’s also an idiot
  • Unfortunately it’s 1987
  • Ted Wheeler Being Homophobic (Stranger Things)
  • 5x7-8 rewrite
  • Mike Wheeler's Basement
  • First Kiss
  • mike wheeler is not lobotomized
  • he’s just in his own head a lot
  • Camping
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Like an epilogue within an epilogue
  • summer before college
  • Road Trips
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Mike Wheeler-centric
  • Geographical Inaccuracies

  Summary

  Mike was in the right place at the wrong time, like usual, and overheard some information definitely not intended for him.

  Could he really be blamed for how that information influenced him?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  15,818

  Chapters:

  5/5

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  75

  Bookmarks:

  4

  Hits:

  842

• In the Rough Draft He Loved You by 1mlostnow

  Fandoms: Dead Poets Society (1989)  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  20 Nov 2025

  Tags

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  • Todd Anderson/Neil Perry
  • Charlie Dalton & Neil Perry
  • Steven Meeks/Gerard Pitts
  • Chris Noel/Knox Overstreet
  • Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society)
  • Todd Anderson
  • Charlie Dalton
  • Knox Overstreet
  • Steven Meeks
  • Gerard Pitts
  • Richard Cameron
  • Parents of Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society)
  • Todd Anderson's Parents
  • Charlie Dalton's Parents
  • Knox Overstreet's Parents
  • John Keating
  • Love at First Write?
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Period Typical Attitudes
  • Mutual Pining
  • Angst
  • Todd Has Self-Esteem Issues
  • Tags will be updated as the story progresses
  • and I’m still learning how to tag properly
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • POV Third Person
  • Roommates
  • Found Family
  • Anonymous Poems
  • Sneaking Out
  • Canon Compliant
  • until the end
  • Non Canonical Ending

  Summary

  Neil can admit when he’s made a mistake—but not when it led him here.

  Neil finds a lost journal and begins leaving contributions of his own.

   

  Inspired by Dear McCracken — Bug Hunter

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,634

  Chapters:

  5/?

  Comments:

  5

  Kudos:

  21

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  366