#lakegate

[the-third-waterfall]

yall WSQK just did a shoutout that said "got a wild one coming in from Tommy and the night crew out of the quarry, says they're working late, keeping an ear on the Squawk, and need a tune that'll echo off the rocks. You got it fellas! Don't fall in!" *huge splash sound effect* I feel lakegate in this chilis tonight

[pinkoctoberbones]

I will take any Byler kiss I can get, but I really hope it’s flickergate.

[gay-mooshrooms]

FURTHER LAKE GATE EVIDENCE!!!! Mike and Will are the only two soaked and the outfit Mike is soaked in is the same outfit he’s reaching out to carry Will in something fucking happened istg

[be-rich-buy-whatever-you-want]

i love how we all thought that will and mike being wet basically confirmed loverslakegate. and then it turned out to be result of. fucking. faulty plumbing

[star-41306]

This came to me in a (vecna) vision

[pinkoctoberbones]

I made a lakegate prediction fic!

Well... not a prediction, per se, but definitely an interpretation.

No Depth I Wouldn't Swim on Ao3

After seventeen painstaking years of his life, Will Byers was finally going to die.

Death is not patient. Death does not wait.

And sometimes, people don’t care to wait around for Death either.

OR

Will Byers drowns in Lovers' Lake, and Mike Wheeler can't lose him just yet. Maybe not ever.

[the-third-waterfall]

Knowin' I'm Half of You (BylerBigBang 2025)

It's officially time for the @bylerbigbang, and I'm so excited to finally share my fic with you all! I had the privilege of working with the talented @khiquii - go check out the incredible art she made for the fic here (and all her other art)!

Knowin' I'm Half of You (25321 words) by kruspp, dreamingfinch Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler, Jonathan Byers & Mike Wheeler Characters: Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Joyce Byers, Andy (Stranger Things), Hawkins High Basketball Team (Stranger Things), Sam Owens (Stranger Things), Holly Wheeler, Vecna (Stranger Things) Additional Tags: POV Mike Wheeler, Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair, Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler, Canon-Typical Violence, Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Period-Typical Homophobia, Bullying, Blood and Injury, Pining, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Protective Mike Wheeler, Protective Will Byers, Saving each other's lives, Wound Care, Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler, Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers, Will Byers Has Powers, El mentors Will, Good Friend Lucas Sinclair, Good Sibling Jonathan Byers, Jonathan Byers tries to help and accidentally makes it worse, Lover's Lake, Lakegate, holding vigil at the hospital bed of the guy you're in love with, brief cleredin vibes in a dream where they're in Lord of the Rings, the mind flayer as an allegory for the AIDS epidemic, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, friends to (setting the stage for) lovers, Written Before Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1, but damn did I get some things right, s1-s4 canon-compliant, title taken from Nettles by Ethel Cain Summary: "I'm telling you, this is the weirdest shit I've seen all year. And I think we can all agree shit has been pretty weird." It's November 1987, and life in Hawkins still isn't quite back to normal. The "aftershocks of last year's earthquake" (an explanation Mike still can't believe anyone buys) are becoming more frequent, spitting nasty otherworldly surprises into town. But no one has been able to track down Vecna himself. Following a lead on a mysterious delivery to the old HNL building, the Party learns Will's connection to the Upside Down may not be as severed as they'd hoped. When Will subsequently begins to see through Vecna's eyes in dreams, the gang thinks they may finally have a way to find and defeat him once and for all. As Will throws himself into this task, hoping to assuage the guilt he still feels from his last stint as the spy, Mike must grapple with his own mounting feelings of helplessness. Mike had promised Will they would be a team—but what can he bring to the table right now? And can he even hold their team together when the stakes are higher than ever, and Will won't stop pushing him away?