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Whale Island has never felt so small and isolated as right then, standing next to Aunt Mito’s letterbox holding a postcard from someone he’s suddenly not sure he’ll see again for a very long time.
After parting with Killua at the World Tree, Gon returns to Whale Island, weighed down with regrets. Sporadic postcards from afar are now his only connection to his best friend, fragile threads stretching across the vast distance as he tries to untangle what Killua truly means to him. As he drifts in the ache of separation and an uncertain future, darkness stirs on the horizon and threatens to draw them back together - whether they are ready or not.
My attempt to fill in the gaps for Gon and Killua between the World Tree and the Black Whale, with some creative liberties taken!
Beautiful accompanying artwork by sxrah_twt for this fic: Postcards - inspired artwork <3
Spotify: Postcards songlist
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- Part 1 of let's continue the never-ending journey
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21 Aug 2026
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“Hey, you freed me last night. You don’t get to be mad right now!”
Wednesday blinked. “I’m confused. I’m not mad right now,” She blinked again, clearly lost. “Are you mad right now?”
OR: Enid misunderstands and thinks Wednesday only loves her wolf form, but she couldn't be more wrong. Involving some murder and crimes because it's Wednesday.
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28 Jul 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
Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
11 Jul 2026
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I finally finished the last chapter after waiting a while so I could savor it. This Mike is genuinely, I think, my favorite Mike of all time. I think this is what his character was supposed to be—combining his kindness, his self-deprecating and depressed side, his stubbornness, and all of those traits playing into his incredible mental fortitude and approach to the situation here. Him slowly losing his sense of self is so trippy but described so well. Also it's kind of hard to explain but in both parts (especially the first), Mike feels like an actual teenager to me, albeit one who has been through a lot of pain in his life. His characterization is just amazing. And the poetry still means so much to me.
The POVs of the others were both a break from everything Mike was going through and depressing in their own right. But Will's POV where he learns to take the moments of joy as they come, despite all the grief and trauma, applies to a lot of this fic. So so well done
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the time problem (maybe this time we'll get it right) by GodsFavoriteUser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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They were finally free. The sky had returned to its natural blue, the ground closed up, and the fog of black smoke no longer hung over Hawkins. Mike had to keep reminding himself of that fact. Everything was perfect.
Maybe too perfect.
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Post season 5 fix-it, where everyone was Vecna'ed and the world did "end," and now they have to figure out how to get back home. But the way to get home might suck more than if they were to stay in the messed up, distorted version of Hawkins. At least for Mike.
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
26 Jun 2026
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Ahhh it took me too long to start reading this wow.
Canon (to me). This is a take I have yet to see with the time shit and merging of worlds and memories. One thing I'd really like to note is Mike and Nancy's Conversation in his room I loved it so much. Mike had so much to work through but he does it goddammit I'm proud (the summary of all my favorite Mike fics really) -
a lesson in coasting: an idiot's guide to gay allyship by michael j. wheeler by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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“So, I’ve been thinking," Mike throws his head back into the sofa’s head rest. “You know how I talk about girls all the time?”
The pencil in Will’s hand freezes for just a moment, something Mike wouldn’t have been able to tell at all if he wasn’t staring right at Will’s hands to avoid his gaze. “So?”
“Well, I’ve been thinking, right?”
Will looks up, but Mike isn’t looking back at him. He’s picking at a loose thread on the couch cushion. “What, about girls?”
“No,” Mike shakes his head, “about boys."
Will nearly chokes on his tongue. “You’ve been thinking about boys?”
or, mike conducts an uncomfortably elaborate semester-long personal inquiry project on how to be a better straight ally to his gay best friend. for educational reasons only. obviously
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
22 May 2026
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AHH
Beautiful, sweet, funny, Mike is trying his best oh boy. The dialogue is so awkward and genuine in the best way. I'm low-key (edit: high-key) emotional rn. Also, I really do appreciate the subtle demisexual rep <3 -
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In which Mike just doesn’t think it’s right that Will doesn’t get to experiment with a guy, but luckily Mike’s a guy, and a good friend, so. Featuring closet hookups, hickeys, really good cuddles in the midst of all the sexual experimentation, sneaking around, a canon-typical amount of boys crying, the Painting Lie!!!, conversations about feelings that don’t actually address any of the important feelings (until they do, and then ohh boy), and the happy ending that they goddamn deserved.
Takes place during the eighteen month time gap before they all graduate, then continues past the ending of the finale.
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
13 May 2026
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Uhh, hello?? This made me laugh. This made me emotional. The love between them is so obvious and sweet even when they're both angsting to themselves about it. Peak
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Enid Sinclair is Dead (Again) by anonymousjackrusselterrier
Fandoms: Wednesday (TV 2022)
06 Feb 2026
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"Wednesday - it’s me! It’s Enid!” Enid’s breath hitched as she felt Wednesday’s hand begin to shake, and she watched in disbelief as Wednesday blinked. For a second, it almost looked like Wednesday was trying to blink away a tear.
Well, that couldn’t be right.
“You are not Enid. Enid’s dead.”
There was a beat. Then another.
“WHAT?”
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Or, what if Rosaline Rotwood's dirty trick was to trap Wednesday in a time loop, forcing her to relive the very vision she was trying to prevent: Enid's death.
Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
02 May 2026
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Holyy shit. Honestly one of the most nuanced time loop stories I've ever read or seen?? And the fact that it was in Enid's perspective stuck out to me from the start, but then you slowly realize how clever and fitting that is. There's so much I love about this fic, like Wednesday's character development for starters, it's so well done. Wow
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"I have known for a long time how deeply you matter to him and his sister both. The ways in which you matters to them." Will — not Will, Vecna taking Will's form, eyes white — walks in front of him, and it's with the voice Mike loves most in the world that he taunts, "But I didn't know the ways they mattered to you until I could truly get close. Inside your head."
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
29 Apr 2026
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Omg legendary Vecna-possessing-Mike fic pull
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There's something wrong with Hawkins, and Will can feel it.
Yeah, okay— so there's always been something wrong with Hawkins. But even this, Will thinks, is teetering on the edge between wrong and plain fucking crazy.
Holly’s found a new friend in an invisible man who gives her invisible toys. Nancy keeps looking at Will like she wants him dead, or maybe just out of her house. All the animals in Hawkins are acting more like possessed statues than actual animals, and Will keeps hearing a raspy, unsettling voice that seems to think he has some sort of power.
As for Mike, Will doesn't even want to think about him, because the guy is driving Will mad. And the bar for Mike making Will crazy is practically in hell, so that should say something.
Oh, right. Did he not mention the sleepwalking?
(Or; Will’s started hearing from a certain someone— think blonde hair, unnerving smile, limb-snapping tendencies— who thinks he has a certain power. Holly’s started hearing from a man who wants to take her to Wonderland.)
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
16 Apr 2026
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This is. So cool and atmospheric. I love this Will so much
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listen to your heart (when he's calling for you) by lifeshardbutimharder
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Nov 2025
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Will's breath caught when Mike leaned forward, into his space. Mike could surely tell—he was close enough for that, close enough for Will to see his dilated pupils even in the dark.
Neither spoke as Mike loosened his grip on Will’s wrist, and his hand slid up to cup the back of Will’s hand. Slowly, he guided it toward Will, then firmly pressed the palm into his chest, just slightly to the left.
Mike wet his lip, stared at him hard. “Can you feel it?”
“Feel what?”
“Your heartbeat.”
Just weeks after everyone regrouped in Hawkins, danger is closer than it seems.
Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
03 Apr 2026
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Shushddhi this really does justice to their characters. I love that not everything is resolved bc of the natural pacing of the fic and the Vecna apocalypse situation but enough is (El and Mike, Mike being there for Will and telling him he wants to make things right) that you can tell things are starting to heal even in the midst of the Horrors™. Speaking of, Will's conversation with Vecna and connection to the Upside Down is so interesting here. The POV switches were really well done, too (and I loved the short Jonathan cameo at the end lol)
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Oh. She thinks he and Will are dating.
And Mike knows it's wrong, he knows it is, but his mom is waging psychological warfare on him in the frozen food section at eight in the morning, and he hasn't even had coffee yet, and he really, really needs this. It would be vindicating. It would be his one chance at proving to his family that his thing for Tom Cruise wasn't a phase. And most importantly, it would be kind of hilarious.
"Mom," Mike says slowly, ducking his head to make pointed eye contact for the first time over the course of their conversation, "Will and I are together. Romantically. And I'm not having Christmas dinner without him."
Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
15 Mar 2026
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UGH this is so found-family amazing (with the Hopper-Byers and the Party). Mike's relief and overwhelm realizing he's part of the family!! and that part where he realizes he doesn't even feel a flicker of shame in front of his mom just. His gratefulness and love for Will. SO well done and beautiful
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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
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
14 Mar 2026
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This is. Amazing. Sped through it. It also. Put my heart in a blender. 10/10 Mike characterization all the way through. Him reciting poetry to calm himself down which is something I could see myself doing (and the specific poems used?!)and then the way it was incorporated later... literally actually broke my heart but it's fucking. Fine. "I have miles to go before I sleep" AHHH. Anyway the Byler crumbs (which is really not the focus but is still super important to Mike's character and the story ugmfh), platonic Madwheeler, that one really solid conversation between Robin and Mike we got. As well as so many meaningful interactions between all the characters actually. The atmosphere at the beginning when Mike is hiding in the cold and they bring him oatmeal and coffee and hand warmers (and how I thought it was angsty back then, I had no idea haha 🥲). I'm trying not to spoil too much here in case anyone ever stalks my bookmarks but it's hard not to. All my favorite parts are heartwrenching spoilers. This fic is automatically in my top 5 for Stranger Things I fear
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The feeling of being wanted is a powerful drug. Being wanted by the one you want is incomparable.
"Mike," Will says lowly. "You’re— You’re so close."
Too close, his brain supplies, a little hysterical. Too much.
Mike doesn’t pull away. "I know."
"Why?"
"Keeping up…" Mike exhales a short laugh that Will feels on his neck, "appearances."
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A guy hits on Will at a party, Mike leaves with a hickey, and by morning everybody thinks they're dating.
Will knows it’s supposed to be pretend. He just doesn’t know how to act like he hasn’t wanted this for as long as he can remember.
Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
06 Mar 2026
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Omg amazing. Basically pure fluff. Fit so many little details and references in there ("we might be crazy...but at least we're doing it together", little bit of lettergate, Mike looking up into Will's eyes even though he's taller, and several things I already can't remember but are definitely in there). Also ofc, El lives. That's not super relevant but it's great to see the canon we deserved
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an empty shell made of lies (even ghosts know) by lo_fi_fi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Mar 2026
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Max leans forwards, grabs onto the bottom of the wall separating the two of them, and propels herself into Mike’s stall, not bothering to sit up once she’s there. Instead, she opts for having her body sprawl across the gross bathroom tile, letting her messy and mostly undone braids fall out around her. She presses the toes of her Vans to the wall, and her knees are bent, but her arms are both spread out. It’s nice, she thinks. To melt into the ground after the day she’s had.
Mike wrinkles his nose. “This floor’s disgusting,” he says, judgmental as ever, and Max rolls her eyes. “I’m already covered in blood and sweat and puke, it’s fine. Answer my question, Wheeler. Fib.”
Max and Mike get drugged by Russians, have a conversation in a bathroom, and watch Back to the Future. In no particular order.
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04 Mar 2026
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okay so are the curtains blue for a reason or what (this is a metaphor) by sunflower_J
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Dec 2025
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Now, someone walked into the room. A boy, awkwardly standing at the side of his bed, looking over him worriedly. His hair was brown and scruffy, and he had big baby doe eyes and a yellow-and-blue horizontally-striped shirt like a cartoon character. The window was lighting him up like he was important to Mike’s narrative. The curtains are blue, thought Mike, this boy is light. I love metaphors. Maybe he was high on the pain meds. Upon seeing him, Mike felt a great affection, a great peace. Plus, he had long eyelashes. Mike almost giggled to himself. He was definitely a little high.
“Hi.” breathed Mike.
“Hi.” he said, hesitating.
“We’re friends?” Mike asked hopefully.
Or: During the Party's final battle with Vecna, Mike is gravely injured and loses his memories. He wakes up in a hospital only remembering a handful of inconsequential little things, like how much he loves a boy who seems like light.
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
26 Feb 2026
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So, uh--holy shit? I should really be asleep right now but alas. The tags were not lying about this going back and forth from super sweet to super angsty LOL. But in the best of ways. Mike's journey with internalized homophobia was a little too real like wow. So well done. Found myself really relating to the lines about Mike feeling exposed finally letting himself Talk About It, like he was leaving the house without pants on or generally doing something wrong or off.
And the plot in general? Mike being so whipped for Will? Mike's interspersed interactions with El and Nancy and Max and really everybody in the party? So amazing -
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“But Will’s a boy,” he says.
There’s a split-second, in between his breaths, shaky on his tongue, where he realizes the world’s stopped spinning. Everything comes to a complete standstill as Max tilts her head to the side, slowly, like she’s balancing the sight of him beside all the secrets she’s ever learned to keep. “Mike,” she says, quietly.
mike talks to max about some things. he talks to will after, too.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter. None of it fucking matters. Because what’s really in control is the tension. This elusive string tied between their chests that’s always changing length. Right now it’s so short and taught and strong that Will can’t imagine resisting it. So really, it was never a matter of if he would. Just when. When will he fold? When will he let go and let himself follow Mike into the water?
He dares to glance down at his knees, where he can see Mike’s fingers peeking out from behind his calves (as if he needed that visual reminder that they’re touching), and then back up to meet Mike’s expectant gaze.
He’s going to do it. He’s such a fucking idiot.
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Mike & Will have a long overdue conversation on the way back to Hawkins— by, in, and around a random motel pool.
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
16 Feb 2026
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I want to eat the emotional tension here
(I just know they pruny af tho)
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It hits him when he’s packing her lunch.
Its not the first time he’s done it. It’s the fourth, actually. She’s been here, with him, a little over a week. Nancy, his mom, and his dad have been dead a little over a month now. Holly wants peanut butter and nutella on her sandwich, and he knows for a fact Mom never let her have peanut butter and nutella. Too much sugar. Mom is dead.
He spreads peanut butter on one side. A little less nutella on the other. Wonders if he’s doing this wrong, if Mom had a special way of making sandwiches that he suddenly can’t remember.
Something drips off of his chin. Hits his wrist. Itches a little. Dries there. Oh. He’s crying.
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Mike takes custody of Holly after the death of their parents and older sister. He, Will and Holly are all just figuring it out as they go.
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Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
14 Feb 2026
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Okay so this is actually so amazing and beautiful and beautifully sad excuse me. The fuck.
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promise i am awake, promise it's warm by percyandthepen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2025
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A sick, ugly, twisted part of Mike wonders if his nose has to start bleeding before someone notices he doesn't wanna be around anymore.
It’s stupid. It’s so incredibly stupid it hurts, and Mike knows it. He’s sixteen years old. He can handle the thoughts and the darkness and how bad it gets each and every winter, like clockwork. He doesn’t even need help, not like he thought he used to. He learned what real hurt was the fall Will went missing.
He just…feels like it never quite stopped hurting.
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Mike is depressed. He doesn't quite think he deserves to be, most of the time. Will disagrees.
Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
13 Feb 2026
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I'm screaming (internally, because it would draw attention if I did it out loud but still). Low-key tearing up rn? There's a gentle sort of hope that this fic gives you like ugh. The way Will isn't Mike's magic cure or anything, but still helps soothe the ache. Genuine love goes a long way.
Such an underrated gem like actually? Of course depressed Mike Wheeler is always something I'm looking for more of (lmao), but this is just superb
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The world is ending, one of his closest friends is in a hospital in a coma, his girlfriend isn’t talking to him, and all Mike can worry about is how Will’s smile isn’t reaching his eyes and it’s all his fault.
It’s the post volume two, canon compliant attempt at figuring out where mike and will can go after all that.Bookmarked by littledizzyhere
11 Feb 2026
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A great read:D. Addresses the "my life started the day I found you in the woods" line in probably my favorite most realistic way I've seen someone do so far.