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• This Is What It Sounds Like by niceonemari

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  03 Apr 2026

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Angst
  • post-epilogue
  • Stranger Things 5
  • Will Byers is thriving
  • Mike wheeler is surviving
  • Grief/Mourning
  • College
  • Sexual Repression
  • Masturbation
  • Underage Drinking
  • Smoking
  • Mike Wheeler in Denial
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • He's clueless but we love him anyway
  • Yearn white boy
  • Slow Burn
  • Mentions of Sex
  • Miscommunication
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Mixtape
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Mutual Pining
  • Love Confessions
  • Coming Out
  • Pining Mike Wheeler
  • New York City
  • mixtapes as a love language
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • carlton mentioned
  • Making Out
  • Boners
  • Post-Canon Fix-It

  Summary

  “If you can’t tell me how you feel, then show me.”

  Mike Wheeler has never been good at saying what he means.

  But maybe a trip to New York, a messy club night and a mixtape on a stormy night are enough to change that.

  OR

  A story about what’s left unsaid and what finally gets heard.

  Language:

  English

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