17 Bookmarks by Laywfrfr
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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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05 Oct 2026
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Mike feels he has no one to talk to and so he begins to write to himself.
Only his very detailed scrapbook goes missing.
(idk how to tag well or do summaries sorry)
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17 Sep 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
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- Part 1 of Matador
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- 154,503
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- 23/23
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13 Sep 2026
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Hopper rubbed his face, looking suddenly tired. "Look, I know you think I'm being unreasonable. But I'm trying to do what's best for you. What if..." He paused, eyes looking back and forth between El and Will. He was thinking hard about something. "What if we modified the rule slightly?"
"Modified how?" El asked.
"You can date… when Will does."
El and Will’s stomachs both dropped.
"What?!" They burst out in unison.
"You heard me. When your brother starts dating someone, you can date too. That way I know you're both mature enough to handle it."
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OR: A Stranger Things Byler/Henderhop 10 Things I Hate About You AU
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- 10/10
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10 Sep 2026
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Will Byers wasn't just Mike Wheeler's neighbor, the boy next door had been his very best friend growing up. But the summer after graduation, Will climbed onto the back of a stranger's motorcycle and disappeared without looking back. Three years later, a frantic phone call brings Will back into Mike's life, along with witchcraft, murder, and one very inconvenient curse: Mike can no longer tell a lie. As a relentless police chief starts asking questions, Mike and Will must survive the consequences of the magic they've unleashed—and finally face the one truth that just might save them.
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Practical Magic Byler Style
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10 Sep 2026
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this is everything i didn’t say (from all the letters that i’ve saved) by BKGOROKI
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Oct 2026
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Mike Wheeler has a disguised diary that’s written in the POV of his Dungeons & Dragons character Mike the Brave, and after he gets flayed by Vecna and was outed for being in love with Will he uses it as a form of self-therapy and working through his own trauma and feelings. However, that’s not all, as he’s begun to add more direct poems, songs, and letters for Will as he regains more self-esteem too.
Will Byers, who was afraid of this exact thing happening to himself, had come out to everyone just prior to the final battle. And with Mike’s intense familial issues arising shortly after because of it all — he thought he spared Mike by not addressing the crush directly so soon after, and gave him the space to come to terms with things first.
However, now a semester into college, they still have yet to talk despite being roommates together at NYU because of just how messy recovery can be and how busy life gets. And one day Will finds Mike’s journal, thinking at first glance it was just a bunch of short stories. Surely Mike wouldn’t mind, right?
Well, he reads all of it, and realizes it’s everything Mike has ever wanted to and has struggled to say to him.
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10 Sep 2026
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Im starting with the (wo)man in the mirror by L3monC4ke
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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But, just for a second, doubt slivers into his mind. Because… What if it is real? What if that person in the mirror is really him? But that can’t be, because who he’s looking at right now is clearly, undeniably–
A girl.
When Mike unexpectedly wakes up as his girl counterpart in what feels like a parallel world to his own, he has to go through the motions of figuring out exactly what happened.
From learning how to act his part to trying to find a way out of this universe that seems to have been molded especially for him, how can Mike escape a world he doesn't fully hate? And when he starts forgetting what his life was like before, how can he convince himself to chase after the version of himself that he once despised?
Or: Mike Wheeler turns into a girl, and has to deal with all the struggles that come with it.
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31 Aug 2026
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Mike thinks his life is perfect — a quiet house, a garden, and Will.
Until Will gets sick.
Not all at once, not in a way that’s easy to understand. Just small things, at first.
So Mike makes a promise.
One wish. Every week. No matter what.“Hey, Will?”
“Yeah, Mike.”
“What do you want to do this week?”
“Stay with you and go to the beach.”
“Okay.”As long as they still have time.
Or: Wills gets sick and only has a couple of months to live and Mike will make his last months as perfect as he can.
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29 Aug 2026
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RESPONSIBILITY by Wheelerboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
24 Feb 2023
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The truth is, Will wouldn't know what an actual normal person does, not really. The word normal has become a thing of the past, an outdated word that's been permanently torn from his vocabulary.
Will Byers hasn't known normal for years. Not since that damn spider bit him.
And just when Will thinks he's finally figured out this whole superhero life, here comes Mike Wheeler, ready to prove him wrong.
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25 Aug 2026
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a lesson in coasting: an idiot's guide to gay allyship by michael j. wheeler by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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“So, I’ve been thinking," Mike throws his head back into the sofa’s head rest. “You know how I talk about girls all the time?”
The pencil in Will’s hand freezes for just a moment, something Mike wouldn’t have been able to tell at all if he wasn’t staring right at Will’s hands to avoid his gaze. “So?”
“Well, I’ve been thinking, right?”
Will looks up, but Mike isn’t looking back at him. He’s picking at a loose thread on the couch cushion. “What, about girls?”
“No,” Mike shakes his head, “about boys."
Will nearly chokes on his tongue. “You’ve been thinking about boys?”
or, mike conducts an uncomfortably elaborate semester-long personal inquiry project on how to be a better straight ally to his gay best friend. for educational reasons only. obviously
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16 Aug 2026
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Maybe Mike would’ve felt brave for once and held Will’s hand. Maybe, Will wouldn’t have minded. Maybe then, he’d ask to go somewhere else, a broom closet or something, and maybe in there, Mike would have had the guts to spill everything out. Tell Will how much he cared for him, how he was the most important thing in Mike’s life, how he would rather his dad die a thousand times over than Will leave him. Tell Will just how much he lov-
Ding!
His coffee’s ready.
or: What if Mike was the one to see rovickie kiss at the hospital instead of Will? (this is pretty much a volume 1 rewrite, except I make Mike an actual character with feelings and not a cardboard cutout (yes, im still mad about the finale))
(title from “The Killing Moon” by Echo & the Bunnymen)
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11 Aug 2026
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In Starlit Nights I Saw You by DoomTheShroom
Fandoms: Hawkeye (TV 2021), Black Widow (Movie 2021), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter - Fandom
27 Jun 2025
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Kate is in her sixth year at Hogwarts and has a plan to make this year the best one yet. It was simple: hang out with her friends, vehemently ignore her sister, and sweep one, Yelena Belova, off her feet. She'd been crushing on the Slytherin since their first year at Hogwarts. It was time for her to make her move.
However, a wrench is thrown into Kate's plan when the Daily Prophet continuously prints rumors about her mother, her friends keep acting strange, and getting closer to Yelena was proving to be more difficult than Kate thought.
How is she supposed to hang out with her when Yelena keeps mysteriously disappearing?Updated on Fridays.
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11 Aug 2026
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Mike's life is split into two, clean halves. His life in Indiana, in the sun's harsh light, where he's fucked up in more ways than one. And then there's his other life, under the alias of legendarymichael, on the never-ending planes of the Internet. His digital heaven, where Mike exists as an untouchable, faceless deity; worshipped and praised.
Mike is good at keeping the two separate. Or so he thought, until Will Byers collides into his neatly sliced life, and derails it all when he takes a bite from both halves.
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Faceless content creators legendarymichael and williamethyst snowball into an online rivalry. At the same time, Mike Wheeler meets Will Byers at a dog park, and begins to fall in love. Those two sides of their lives begin to bleed into one perfect storm.
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09 Aug 2026
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A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Dec 2025
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When the Byers move to California, Will is lonely, bullied, and struggling with his mental health. When Mike comes to visit, he notices that something is off, but doesn’t know what’s wrong or how to help while his best friend feels so far away even though he's physically there. However, maybe Mike finds the answer after they are brought closer than ever after El is abducted by the government and they end up facing capture, interdimensional monsters, torture, the past, their own feelings, and attempting to prevent the apocalypse. (Post-s3, rewriting s4, and predicting s5).
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- Part 1 of The Glimmer Series
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- English
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- 150/150
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02 Aug 2026
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You're so gorgeous (I can't say anything to your face) by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Feb 2024
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Mike hates Valentine’s Day. It was fun as kids, when teachers would make every student decorate a little shoe box with pink and red heart stickers, that by the end of the day would be filled with cheesy Valentines and sweets.
But this isn’t kindergarten anymore— there are no school-enforced rules that his classmates have to give him a Valentine. He has to earn them. And he hasn’t.
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Mike is (not) upset that he’s the only one of his friends that hasn’t received a Valentine. That is, until something just so happens to fall out of his locker the next day.
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17 Jul 2026
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30 Jun 2026
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When Mike & the others went to rescue Dustin, Nancy, Jonathan & Steve through a gate to the upside down near Hawkins lab the last thing they expected running up to them was a Will Byers from 3 years ago.
Just what is going on?
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15 Jun 2026