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you drive me crazy, for sure (but i can do that myself). by FrodoInAFez
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 2026
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There's something wrong with him and he knows it, and he's known long enough for it to become foundational. His name is Michael Francis Wheeler. He's a middle child, with two sisters who piss him off in unique ways and parents he sure does live with. His two great passions in life are analytical chemistry and cheesy fantasy stories. Something is wrong with him.
Words exist for pieces of it, but they never quite encompass the sprawling root system of his flaws, and he's given up on trying.
But if forced to summarize, he wishes he was content with normalcy.
<3<3<3
(It's the end of the world, Mike's worst fear is himself, and he copes by sitting on the edge of a cliff.)
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GroupMe Chat - Apex Vol. 83
Mike (EIC): @apex REMINDER: the AP StyleBooks are located on the wooden shelf to the right of our adviser’s desk. They’re on the third level up from the bottom. Some of you are unaware of this fact. Please take note of this and adjust your writing habits accordingly.
Will (Design Editor!) hearted this message
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(The Apex Yearbook will meet its winter deadline, regardless of whatever Mike Wheeler's got going on with the design editor.)
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"I… I don't think I'm a guy? Like. Not completely?"
Will goes completely quiet. No gasp of revelation, no rustling of fabric, no reassuring words, nothing.
Somehow, that feels more like the end of the world than seeing Vecna face-to-face did.<3<3<3
(It's 11:43 pm. Will Byers picks up the phone, and Mike Wheeler confesses a few things of mild importance.)
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“I never did share a dance with you.”
Starlight crept through layers of forest, faintly illuminating the wilted greenery and soil they’d camped on for the evening. The wilderness remained utterly still – the quiet of momentary peace, rather than the silent approach of danger. A rare glimpse of calm in the eye of their quest.
“Pardon?"
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“It’s me.”
Sting’s blade quivers against his neck, almost glittering in the moving light cast by the shadow of the setting sun and the wings of beasts overhead.
“It’s your Sam.”
Fingernails carve blood-red crescent moons into his shoulder – from rage, fearful desperation, or a volatile combination of the two he can’t discern.
“Don’t you know your Sam?”
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the comforts that make us feel numb by passerine_in_jade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Oct 2023
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“No, but really. If I were a girl,” Mike presses on, looking up at Will with red-rimmed eyes through dark lashes. Leaning in. Somehow, fully unaware that this line of questioning has Will's heart climbing up to his throat. “Would you want to kiss me?”
Will and Mike get high in the desert.
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17 Apr 2026
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something better than these broken parts by odysseus_day
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 2026
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Mike Wheeler has a lot of problems with where his life has ended up, but his most prevalent at the moment has to be just how irrevocably stupid his decisions have started to become.
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Or, in which it takes almost a decade post-finale for Mike to finally accept what he's spent his whole life running from... but better late than never, right?
(Featuring: messy post-college Byler, platonic soulmates Madwheeler, and Mike Wheeler's severely unmedicated BPD)
Bookmarked by FrodoInAFez
09 Apr 2026
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PEAK trainwreck mike wheeler and a truly beautiful journey <333
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i'll dream awake (now i'm wide awake) by starrylance for lxthetruth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Mar 2026
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“Do you want to be my friend?”
Mike learns what it means to be brave. It begins with love.
Bookmarked by FrodoInAFez
27 Mar 2026
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this is literally the most underrated and GORGEOUS fic on this website. easily the best mike wheeler character study i’ve read <3 genuinely cannot recommend enough WHAT R U STILL DOING READING MY BOOKMARK NOTES GO READ THIS!!!
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you wanna be friends forever (i can think of something better) by wheezykaspbraks
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Sep 2019
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It’s just past midday on a Saturday in the middle of summer break, and Will thinks that he’s in love. It’s not a new thought — after his first oh crap I think I love my best friend realization at thirteen, Will’s spent a good four years coming to terms with it. Somewhere along the way it became a fact of life; the sky is blue, Dungeons and Dragons is the best tabletop game in the world, Will’s entire existence revolves around his undying adoration for Mike Wheeler.
in which will loves mike almost as much as he hates himself
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24 Mar 2026
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I Look Just Like You In All My Dreams (What Does It Mean?) by PainterOfWords
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler isn't a religious person. He's been through too much to actually believe.
But then he looks in the mirror. And he sees his frog face, and twig arms, and his stupid continent-sized birthmark, and he knows.
Someday, this knowledge won't hurt as much. For now though, it's a vice to the heart; a cage to the soul; a prison to the mind.
It’s a labyrinth, twisting and turning, every new passage a lie, every corner a dead-end, every slope a trap.
And Mike is never going to escape.
OR: It's the summer before senior year. Mike Wheeler has a gender identity crisis, Willow Byers almost has a sexuality crisis (she's a lesbian), Max Mayfield is tired of these idiots.
!! this isn't a straight byler fic okay M just doesn't know she's trans yet !!