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I'll Make You Popular by AnxiousOddball
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Wicked - All Media Types
16 Jan 2026
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“My mother hates me.”
Steve looked up at his roommate in confusion. “What?”
“Thats not the secret. The secret,” Jonathan started as he cautiously took a seat on the corner of Steve's king-sized bed, “is that she has a good reason to.”
“It's my fault,” The Byers boy said, as if that explained everything.
However, Steve was not exactly known for being quick on the uptake, even when things were spelled out for him. And here, in this moment, Jonathan was clearly holding back, not spelling anything out. "What is?"
“That my brother is… the way that he is.” Jonathan went on to say, having Steve's full attention. He thought of Will, that strange boy, who he had seen rocking back and forth on his elder brother's bed, despondent, almost entirely mute, and missing an eye. How could that possibly be the fault of a brother only a few years older, who seemed to have nothing but love for the odd boy, Steve had no clue. So he blinked a few times, and gave a look he hoped to convey ‘continue’ without interrupting.
OR Stranger Things Wicked AU.
In which Steve is Galinda, loveable and popular. And Jonathan is his strange and unusual roommate, who may or may not have magic powers.Series
- Part 1 of Strange and Wicked
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Strange and Wicked by AnxiousOddball
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016), Wicked - All Media Types
16 Jan 2026
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Is it Real or a Fable? (Well I suppose a friend is a friend) by eeros
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2026
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“I love you, my cleric.” Mike says. “I love you, William, please come home.”
It’s so soft it’s devastating. Mike sounds like the rest of his life. It’s delicate, how he says it, self-assured yet bursting open at the seams in vulnerability and that's when Will realizes it.
This isn’t his Mike.
His Mike would never say that. Not ever.OR
Paladin Michael and Cleric William are iskeaied to Hawkins (and are way better at relationships than Mike and Will)
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“So walk me through the plan again?”
Max huffed, lifting herself up to sit on the kitchen counter next to where Will was brewing a pot of coffee. “Seriously? We’ve been through this about a dozen times already.”
“I know, I know! It’s just—I don’t know, I’m feeling a little nervous about it.” Will anxiously tapped his fingers on the countertop, staring at the slow drip of the coffee. “I don’t love the idea of lying to Mike–what if he completely freaks out?”
“Isn’t that kind of the point?”
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Max & Lucas devise a plan to make Mike jealous by pretending to be in a polyamorous throuple with Will when Mike comes to visit over Spring Break.
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Back to the Future (With Mike Wheeler) by Nymphadoragreenleaf
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Nov 2022
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On a list of the top five most unexpected things to happen to Mike Wheeler, traveling 10 years into the future has got to take the top spot.
The half-naked man claiming to be his best friend might be number two.
Alternatively known as,
Mike Wheeler tries to survive a week in the 90's and figures a couple of things out along the way.
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Bookmarked by AnxiousOddball
27 Jan 2026
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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Bookmarked by AnxiousOddball
20 Dec 2025
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AU where Mac & Dennis meet as kids on vacation at the Jersey Shore and Mac is Dennis’ first kiss under the pier.
(And Charlie is also there for contrived reasons.)
(And so is Dee because she loves nosing in.)Based on s7e2 The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore
Bookmarked by AnxiousOddball
07 Jul 2025