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1. it used to be that loving you was easy (but I'm loving only pain) by Dallioz

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   09 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Steve Harrington
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Kali Prasad
   • Murray Bauman
   • Mr Clarke
   • Vickie Dunne
   • Conformity Gate
   • False Hydra
   • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Repressed Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Mental Breakdown
   • Byler is canon fuck the Duffers
   • byler
   • title from a butthole surfers song
   • Post-Finale
   • Post-Season/Series Finale
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Canon Compliant
   • Fix-It
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
   • Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2 Rewrite
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Fix-It
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • WillEl Wonder Twins
   • Mike Wheeler Gets Character Growth
   • Let's Maraudeurs the fuck out of this fandom
   • Mike Wheeler Is A Professional Yearner
   • Protective Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Daddy Issues
   • Author wrote this on like 4h of sleep spite and a vision
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Rewrite
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Byler-Centric
   • Plot is blurry but it's there
   • can't be worse than the finale

   Summary

   They won.
   Life is easy.
   It shouldn't feel so scary anymore.
   (You only notice it once it stops singing.)

   OR : The master storyteller still has a chance at writing his ending.

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   A Conformity Gate one shot (as of now, who knows...)

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