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   Thick Skull by sapphicwithapen

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   08 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Post-Episode: s05e04 Sorcerer (Stranger Things)
   • Underage Smoking
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Catholicism
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Introspection
   • Coming Out
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Religious Guilt
   • portrayal of siblings written by a sibling
   • except literally nobody has serious conversations with their siblings
   • so its probably still unrealistic
   • very prose very annoying
   • Title from a Paramore Song
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Self-Hatred
   • not beta read we die like every death-fodder character the duffers introduce rather than killing off a main character
   • Not Canon Compliant

   Summary

   Every Sunday for as long as Mike could remember, he would spend those few minutes with his eyes closed and his head bowed with every other person in that room, and not once did he ever hear God’s voice the way the pastor promised he would.

   He could never find a simple answer for that, either.

   OR: Mike and Nancy have a conversation outside of the WSQK.

   Language:

   English

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   Comments:

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