10 Bookmarks by zxroodd
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‘Til the tears run down from my eyes by Pineapples_everywhere, Strike5190
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2026
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“Will! Please!” Mike begs as his best friend walks away from him.
Will’s face is twisted with a look of repulsion that shatters Mike’s heart. After a few more steps back, Will finally turns his back and keeps walking to the dark corridor.
“Please… come back to me” the boy is now crying, he wants to run, to apologize for everything he said two minutes ago, but his muscles don’t want to move, Mike is frozen and forced to watch Will disappear.
This is the end. He ruined everything. Again.
He ruined everything with everyone, El, Eddie, Lucas, so many others, and now…
He fell to his knees while he struggled to breathe, his throat tightening from his tears. Mike wants to scream, but nothing comes out from his mouth.
Why is he like this? Why did he fall in love with his best friend? Why?
“It’s you. You are the curse, Michael.”
OR rewrite of the Stranger Things’ finale because the real one is bad. (With Byler obviously)
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05 Apr 2026
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Don’t chase danger, let danger come to you by CC (Sp0n6e)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Mar 2026
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Mike came from a lineage of gunslingers (assassins), chosen by the Archangel Gabriel himself. At the age of five, he was trained by his mother’s twin sister, Noctis Childress. By ten, he gained his powers, by twelve, he lost them. This might change the story or not at all.
(This is a rewrite of Season 5 Vol. 2 to provide a backstory explaining why Mike started acting like he’d undergone a lobotomy—because, in this version, he actually did. Kind of?)
*Summary lacks the lore, you might have to read to find out*
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02 Mar 2026
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I’m So Messed Up (I Sent My Therapist to Therapy) by Lincolntheperson
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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“Michael?” She greets him, holding out a hand.
He shakes her hand, not meeting her eyes. She studies him, trying to get a firmer foothold. There are lots and lots of tired lines etched in his face. His glasses obscure his eyes for the most part, but she thinks she sees something injured in them. Something pained.
Not unusual for a therapist’s office.
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55 year old Mike Wheeler goes to therapy. He has a lot to talk about.
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09 Feb 2026
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I’m not scared of God (I’m scared he was gone all along) by CC (Sp0n6e)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
02 Feb 2026
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After defeating Vecna and The Mind Flayer, five years has passed and everything has been good (great even), not until Mike finds himself waking up in a strange dimension with an entity that found interest in him.
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The King in Yellow chooses Mike to be his vessel.
[Post Season 5, where Mike gets transported to the City of Carcosa and gets cursed by the Yellow King feat. a bunch of hurt Mike]
Spotify Playlist of the story if you want to get into the mood!
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- Part 2 of I've seen much more STRANGER THINGS eh? Eh?
- Part 1 of Searching For A Person That Used To Exist
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24 Jan 2026
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“Your friend, Eleven, disrupted your assimilation,” Vecna explains, so close Mike can see his crooked, rotting teeth. “The others were gone in a moment, absorbed into my psyche, but you… linger.” His expression darkens on the word, bitter that things didn’t go as planned. “But no matter. It won’t last long. You are simply an echo of a dying mind. You’ll lose yourself soon enough. Lose yourself… to me.”
Dread settles in Mike’s stomach. Unlike the others, he doesn’t even get the privilege of a proper death.
This hell is just for him.
Or: Trapped in Vecna's mind, Mike tries desperately to hold onto a fading sense of self. Meanwhile, the Party in Hawkins struggle to pick up the pieces and prepare for their final confrontation with the evil that has overtaken their town.
This is a continuation from my s4 rewrite in which Mike never made it to California, covering the 18 months between s4 and s5. Read Part 1 first!!
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- Part 2 of Come Sleep
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03 Jan 2026
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Billy Hargrove hit Mike just a little bit harder, Max woke up just a little bit later and Mike Wheeler had always had shitty luck. He gets drugged, hauled to Russia and jabbed with so many needles that he doesn’t know where he began and the needles ended.
But it’s not so bad (He’s lying, it fucking sucks) at least he has the boy in the bed next to his, and relatively regular mealtimes and-
Yeah, he's having trouble coming up with anything positive.
He just wants to go home, but the doctor and this strange new thing in his chest aren’t going to let him. That’s fine, he’ll just have to get himself out.
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TLDR: Mike Wheeler gets taken to Russia, gets powers and has to figure out how to get himself the hell out of there without killing himself or getting killed first.
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27 Dec 2025
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“I didn’t break the cup.” He said more intently, picturing the mug whole and unbroken, the radio station logo that was plastered on the side uncracked.
And as he willed it, it was.
He blinked and the glass was gone like it had never been there, and there was a whole coffee mug sitting on the table in front of him when he looked down. It was sitting on the table like it had never left, the wet pool of cold coffee from before was gone and in its place was a rich brown cup of coffee, steaming lightly in the nighttime chill.
“What the fuck?” Someone said, disbelief coloring their tone and all Mike could do was stare downwards, a fresh wave of blood leaking from his nose.
“I didn't break the cup.” He echoed himself emptily, words a tad disbelieving.
He looked up then, taking in the stunned and worried faces that were surrounding the table and by proxy, him.
He pressed his fingers to his nose, eyes slipping downwards to look at the wet red that stained his fingertips and looking back up.
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- English
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27 Dec 2025
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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16 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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- English
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- 8/8
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16 Dec 2025
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Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
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- Part 1 of Come Sleep
- Language:
- English
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- 101,053
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- 10/10
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12 Dec 2025