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1992,
The Party, a band formed of 6 friends bonded by their shared love for music, is in the process of making their third studio album 'Montauk'.
When feelings start changing and things start getting complicated, the only way through is to make music.or
AU where Mike, El, Lucas, Max, Will and Dustin are all members of a band in 1990s New York.
Mileven centric. Slowish burn.
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17 Feb 2026
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in which mike wheeler graduates college, goes on an unexpected trip to iceland, and learns that goodbye doesn't always mean forever.
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16 Feb 2026
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Summer 1986. Up until this point, El and Max hadn't met the Party. But a chance encounter at Benny's changes all that. What do you get when the Party discovers El's powers, townsfolk begin disappearing rapidly, and a mysterious man returns to Hawkins? One hell of a summer.
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15 Feb 2026
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the wish my heart makes (is that you're real) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Aug 2020
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But then Mike sees something new, something he’s never encountered in these woods before.
It’s a circle of trees, just off to his left. The way the sunlight shines down on the clearing in the center is what catches his eye, making the air look all soft and hazy under the glow. The ground in the clearing is blanketed by lush grasses and tiny patches of flowers.
And, in the middle of all of this, is a girl....
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When Mike is 11, he meets a girl in the woods.
...Or does he?
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14 Feb 2026
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He'd been called every name in the book: No-Leaf Clover, Black Cat, Captain Catastrophe, Star Crossed (he had Grandma Wheeler to thank for that outdated term).
His inexplicable bad luck was something that Mike desperately hoped he’d grow out of.
He hadn’t of course.
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11 Feb 2026
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strong and sudden and cruel sometimes by murderbymushrooms
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Apr 2018
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Last year during summer El had been stuck in the cabin with only a noisy fluttering fan for company and the summer months had dragged on endlessly.
For El, who had grown up in a temperature controlled windowless room with neat rows of white tiles and to whom things like the wind, sunshine, rain and snow had only been concepts she had read about in storybooks, the relentless heat and humidity had been almost unbearable.
_______A collection of memories from El's perspective during the summer of 1985.
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10 Feb 2026
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In which Mike is in an accident and cannot seem to understand why his incredibly beautiful nurse is so friendly.
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10 Feb 2026
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the road less traveled (is not the one we walk together) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Nov 2021
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.Mike and El grow and change together in the lead up to the Summer of 1985... and the rest of the world changes right along with them.
(or, how we got from the Snowball to the opening scenes of Stranger Things 3.)
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- Part 2 of diverge, converge, and reemerge
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10 Feb 2026
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Seventeen-year-old Mike Wheeler has never had much luck with girls… well, girls he’s interested in. That’s not to say he’s totally helpless; the savvy teen has taken to ghost-writing love letters in exchange for cash. It’s completely harmless, he’s helping out his peers, and nobody suspects a thing — not even his closest friends. But all of that changes when he’s paid to write a letter to El Hopper, a childhood friend and the girl he’s (not-so) secretly head-over-heels in love with.
[rewrite; originally posted in 2019]
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08 Feb 2026
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(what's in store) for my heart by everybreatheverymove
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Dec 2018
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Meet-cute AU: He's stacking shelves the first time he sees her — the cute girl with the curly hair and a love of Eggo waffles. A week later, she becomes the sole owner of Mike Wheeler's whole heart. Then all it takes is an embarrassing run-in and a Christmas song, and suddenly they're soulmates.
Standalone, AU oneshot.
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- Part 2 of the fate series
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09 Feb 2026
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Mike is not sure what he expected when he pushed open the door labeled ‘Employees Only’, but it definitely hadn’t been his girlfriend folded in on herself between out-of-service gumball machines and cardboard boxes full of crap.
“El, look at me.”
Prompt: What if Mike found Eleven hiding in the backroom at Rink-O-Mania before she could bash Angela’s face in, changing everything that followed?
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08 Feb 2026
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Four times Mike and Eleven celebrate Valentine's Day over the years — in their own unconventional way. From 1985 to 1999.
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08 Feb 2026
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pardon my emotions (i should probably keep it all to myself) by mermaidpromises
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Nov 2024
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El has been in love with her best friend Mike for years, but admitting it simply feels impossible—especially when she’s convinced he doesn’t feel the same.
Or, in which an afternoon at the movies and playing Super Mario Bros. in Mike’s basement changes everything.
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08 Feb 2026
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if you think you can save me, i dare you to try by mermaidpromises
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler’s internship at the Hawkins Police Station is a boring monotony that tests his last patience—until a bloodied girl with no memory stumbles through the doors, asking for help.
As they try to figure out what happened to her and why she can't remember, strange things start happening.
So strange that the more they dig for answers, the more unsettling the truth becomes.
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09 Feb 2026
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It's just another usual day, reading and hanging out together. He doesn't expect end up confessing his love to her, but maybe it's better that way.
She always knows what to say.
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08 Feb 2026
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“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
El Hopper may not be grown up entirely, but she’s getting there. And in the meantime, she has decisions to make.
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- Part 15 of the tales of short stack and string bean
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08 Feb 2026
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He needs her, he wants her, he loves her.
The story of how he realises each.
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- Part 1 of the tales of short stack and string bean
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08 Feb 2026
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"You should try not to get mad, you know. They only tease you because it gets such a rise out of you. But when you look past all the annoying stuff, they're actually really happy for you." PG-13, fluff/friendship, post-S2, Mike/Eleven + party antics.
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- Part 9 of Mike, Eleven, and the quiet moments
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07 Feb 2026
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El learns to express how she feels word by word about the kind boy she met in the woods when they were only twelve. A fluffy story about my favorite couple.
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07 Feb 2026
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Since returning from the Upside Down, El's powers haven't been the same. She worked so hard to return to them. Will her friends still want her once they find out? AV club and Mileven goodness.
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07 Feb 2026