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He remembers, eyes squeezed shut against the swell of nausea and vertigo that claws through him, being not-quite-thirteen, and listening eagerly to Mr. Clarke explain the science behind dreams.
“Dreams,” he’d said, “are often seen as these sacred experiences, something that has to have a deeper meaning. We have centuries of examples of dream interpretation, the art of examining commonalities between different dreams to find a single interpretation.”
“The thing is,” he’d continued, “dreams are just your brain’s way of processing and regurgitating information; a fruit-salad of information, so-to-speak. Sure, it can mean something, but it’s more likely to be a random grab-bag of facts and feelings that you’ve come across in life.”
A fruit-salad of information. Here, in the dark bathroom at a little past three in the morning, Mike breathes carefully, and tries to dissect where the supposed ingredients of his fucked-up dream salad actually came from.
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Vecna is weak. Injured. He's still strong enough to hit the Party where it hurts.
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- Part 1 of this is where the worlds collide
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11 Aug 2026
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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13 Jul 2026
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In 1983, Mike Wheeler jumps off the Quarry and survives.
In 1987, Mike is in the Upside Down, caught in the thrall of Vecna's torment, and he falls again, this time, without Eleven to catch him, and with his friends and family too late to save him.
Will jumps after him, wraps him in his arms, and makes peace with his death if it means he dies with the boy he loves. The Quarry, barren of water in this realm, is just rocks and dirt, and as the floor rises up to crush them, the world goes black.
They open their eyes in 1985.
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- Part 25 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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09 Jun 2026
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Collision Course: Unconcious Bias by druzyquartztheory
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 May 2026
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Every story has a moment where it can still turn back. This isn’t that moment.
Season 5 Finale battle re-write.
*All stories in the series are directly related, a continuation of the last, in order as they go.Series
- Part 5 of What We Hold Onto
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25 May 2026
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“I have a more important question,” Will says. “Um, why did the cleric have to be in love with the paladin?”
Turns out, it actually was all just a longwinded campaign of Dungeons & Dragons. The party has some concerns about Mike.
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24 May 2026