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something better than these broken parts by odysseus_day
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 2026
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Mike Wheeler has a lot of problems with where his life has ended up, but his most prevalent at the moment has to be just how irrevocably stupid his decisions have started to become.
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Or, in which it takes almost a decade post-finale for Mike to finally accept what he's spent his whole life running from... but better late than never, right?
(Featuring: messy post-college Byler, platonic soulmates Madwheeler, and Mike Wheeler's severely unmedicated BPD)
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18 Jun 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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Charisma Check (DnD is just an excuse for flirting without consequences) by Rogue_Mercury
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jul 2026
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Mike randomly includes a mysterious, recurring NPC in one of their summer 1989 campaigns - a male tower guard who appears to be interested in Will. Will is a little apprehensive and confused at first, but Lucas, Dustin, and Max are very much intrigued.
The guard seems to be hiding something crucial for moving the campaign forward, but it turns out Will is the only one who can get him to talk... by charming him.
(Inspired by that one post “Was playing DnD and started flirting with the tavern keeper to get some info and at a certain point I realized I was just dirty talking with my buddy Ben.”)
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Hannibal Lecter would like your attention.
This is the sequel to He Who Pours Out Vengeance.
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- Part 2 of The Better Angels
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Bookmarked by alien_shape
29 Apr 2023
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This is why I don't read WIPs. By god is it good, bookmark to remind myself to come back, and in hopes it gets finished someday.