6 Bookmarks by sweeeeedith
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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31 Aug 2025
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august, 1987
after a year and a half of work to repair the town of hawkins, indiana, things are finally looking up. sure, will's struggling to keep his powers under control, max is still missing two years of memories, and there are monsters roaming the fissure in the center of town, but they're docile... right?
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- Part 2 of retrogrades
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29 Aug 2025
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
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28 Aug 2025
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poor old jim's white as a ghost (he's found the answer that we lost) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 May 2023
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Even when he started on the force back in 1980... Jim Hopper knew there was something special between William Byers and that brat Mike Wheeler.
(AKA: Mike and Will fall in love, told through the perspective of one Chief Hopper).
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26 Aug 2025
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Going Too Far Just to Have You Near by borealisaurora
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Mike Wheeler always seems to gravitate toward Will Byers, like they’re connected by an invisible string; Will could be on the opposite end of any room and Mike would somehow find his way over to stand next to him. When Robin points this out to Will, Will thinks she’s crazy, and they strike a deal; if Will stays away from Mike for a week and notices how Mike will always find him, Will has to consider that maybe, just maybe, Mike has a crush on him too.
A deal which Will agrees to because, why not? There’s no way this can be true.
Can it?
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22 Aug 2025
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Will has a secret and a pack of cards. Lucas has a girlfriend in a coma. They hang out in the Wheeler basement.
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21 Aug 2025