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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    The story is over. His friends have moved on. Only Mike is incapable of it. He is trapped, with nowhere to go and nothing left that feels worth living for. But that’s just depression, right? Or maybe it’s something else, maybe something more sinister has survived in a place no one thought to look, and there is only one person Mike can turn to, will always turn to, even if he knows he shouldn’t.

    Mike’s hands are gripping the wheel so hard that his knuckles turn white when he passes the shield by the road announcing that he is leaving. He shouldn’t. He cannot. Everything in him is screaming at him to turn around. To go back. To stop this, whatever it is. Insanity, most likely.

    No. Not everything. There is this one part of him, buried deep down. The part that is yearning. The part that once was part of something better (who shared looks and shared smiles and shared hugs). It is that part who steps on the gas. It is that part who keeps his eyes on the road. On the horizon.

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    12 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

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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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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    “What would you have said?” He asks, needing confirmation that he’s right. That Will had actually told him everything in the summer of 1986.

    “What?” Will asks, a little high-pitched.

    “If you confessed. What would you have told me?”

    “Mike, we don’t have to—“

    “I— I want to know,” Mike urges, forcing a smile. An attempt at softness, at lightness. A smile that’s trying to say, this can just be for fun, right?

    Will studies him for a few moments, brows furrowed. He sighs, sitting up and bringing his hands to his lap where he fidgets with them. “I don’t know. I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I probably would have made a complete mess of it.” He huffs a cautious laugh.

    Mike widens his smile, tilting his head to say, go on.

     

    OR: Mike and Will leave Hawkins together for a road trip during the summer of 1989. The two weeks they spend together change them and their relationship irrevocably.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    Mike keeps scrolling the Will Byers/Mike Wheeler relationship tag page on AO3. He's filtered out the explicit fics for his own sanity, but there's still a few hundred works available.
    For some reason, Take Me to Church, a 3-chapter fic tagged #love confessions, #heavy angst #religious guilt and #no beta we die like Mike Wheeler's heterosexuality (?), gets his attention. According to the summary:

    Mike and Will work together on their next campaign, which revolves around Will the Wise's character background. As they flesh out the cleric's story, personal fears and religious trauma come to the surface, as well as their romantic feelings for each other

    Jesus — pun intended — too depressing.

    OR
    The Party runs a D&D actual play show and people write RPF about them.
    Mike discovers byler and learns some things about himself (and his feelings for Will)

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    12 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    sweet boys sharing a Valentine’s Day card and a first kiss

    note: there is mentions of homophobia and homophobic bullying against young children illustrated in this fic. please do not proceed if you feel like that is too heavy to read about!

    For US readers, please visit thetrevorproject.org for resources on supporting yourself and LGBTQ+ young people in the United States 🏳️‍🌈

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    12 Jun 2026