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  1. Public Bookmark 2

    love, always by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    24 Aug 2026

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    Two weeks ago, I'd requested the school counsellor for college guides, and now I have packets of them all over my desk. And I don't know. It feels weird. I guess I'd never considered a future until now?

    Hawkins stuffed me into a big liminal bubble long before other dimensions and death came to play. Like a hamster ball on a pool table. I could've tried to run in one direction, but there'll be others ricocheting and pouncing me off my path. And if it's not other balls, it'll be a stick, someone or something else looming, ready to decide my fate for me; God, the son of God, someone's son, or a dad playing God.

    So now that I'm writing to you about it, it's like cementing hope into the whole college-dream. Part of me wishes I'd written in pencil instead of pen. But maybe hope can be a beautiful thing if I let it be.

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    One of Will's letters to Max when he lived in Lenora.
    Or: Will being brave + yearning for Mike :)

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    05 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 14

    love, from by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    21 Aug 2026

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    December 1, 1985
    Did you know P.S. stands for post-script? I thought it was a shortcut for psssssst… Like, "psssst... I have more to say, by the way."
    We're off to a bad start already. Sorry. I’ll try again after dinner.

    March 1, 1986
    Pieces of your missing poster's still stuck on the traffic pole by the theatre. I tried to scrape it off while I waited for the crosswalk, and now it feels wrong to remove the paper pulp under my nails.

    I’m still not ready to see you or talk to you.

    ☼

    Mike's unsent letters to Will before his trip to Lenora.
    Or: Mike is lovesick and losing it.

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    05 Sep 2026

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    The Scheme (Mishaps of Great Friendship) by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    24 Jul 2026

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    Mike looks up at Will excitedly. “So?”

    Will clicks his tongue. “Oh, Mike, we can’t do that. I don’t wanna single the poor guy out just because he knows about us.”

    “Will—”

    “Obviously, it’d be way better to tell everyone individually and ask them to keep it a secret so we can see how long it takes for them to realize that they all know.”

    Mike blinks, silent for a moment. Then he’s cupping Will’s cheeks. “Oh my god, I love you so much.”

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    @sunsetozier on Twitter: "secret relationship byler except they actually tell the whole party but they tell them all individually and tell each of them that they really just wanna keep it a secret for now 'so if you can help cover for us it'd be cool' just to see how long it takes for everyone to catch on"

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    02 Sep 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 32

    in bloom; in season by ,

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    27 Aug 2026

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    When Mike had gone to a sunflower field as a child, surrounded by a sea of the richest yellows and hazels he’d ever seen, something had shifted in him. He’d made his own quiet promise to himself that when he grew up, he’d find a way to be around flowers always.

    Now, he stands frozen. It’s just– what do you say when the most gorgeous man you’ve ever seen, chestnut hair haloed by the golden light, stands in front of you, bathed in the colors of your very first love?

    Or, Will is a tattoo artist who is unlucky in love, and Mike is a florist who just might help him bloom.

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    02 Sep 2026

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    when will you accept yourself? by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    17 Jun 2022

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    "You look nice," Robin said, patting Mike on the shoulder when she found him alone in the hallway, a glass of punch in his hands. She's dressed in black jeans and a grey woolly sweater. Mike glanced down at himself.

    "I always wear this," he declared.

    "You don't wear khakis. Or plaid."

    She said it like she knew him better than he knew himself.

    That was the first thing that made him think.

    Or, Mike Wheeler and his blossoming friendship with Robin Buckley.

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    02 Sep 2026