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It’s 1995; Mike Wheeler is twenty-four, new to New York City, and desperately in need of someone he actually knows to help with his semester-long Master’s assignment.
And then, he runs into a familiar face at a bookstore.
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05 Mar 2026
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What defines a holy patron? Must it be a god, or can divinity be found in anyone? What is an oath if not just a promise of protection?
These are all questions asked by a young boy as he swears his paladin's oath not to a god, but to a boy he's decided it must be his life's work to protect and to love.
But when they are suddenly launched into a new, unfamiliar place, a new question arises.
Can love survive in every universe?
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05 Mar 2026
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The slow but inevitable queer awakening of Steve Harrington through the pursuit of casual make out sessions and pointed guidance from his friends, followed by his eventual realisation that the boy he wanted was in front of him all along.
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Five times Steve drunkenly made out with a boy that wasn’t Eddie + one time he soberly made out with Eddie instead
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03 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler has spent the last four years of college wandering aimlessly through life. He'd followed Will to California, only for Will Byers, his best, most trusted friend, to slowly phase himself out of his life. And frankly, he'd seemed happier without Mike. What was he supposed to make of that?
But then, Mike discovers some things about himself. He starts to find the pieces that he was looking for. And... what is Will supposed to do with that?
(aka: a post-canon "mike finds his way back to will eventually" 90s college fic, in which will byers gets to scream at mike a lil like he deserves, and mike gets to prove himself in return)
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02 Mar 2026
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red light, yellow light, green-a-light go by goldenasteri
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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IAN! @poppytuft: someone write fic where they all go to the party that night after their campaign and mike and will make out in the bathroom bc Will says I hate your hair like this. please let me fix it. and he’s running his hands through mikes hair and he goes oh. OH. don’t give a fuuuuck
IAN! @poppytuft: Dustin henderson kat stratford ten things i hate about you dancing on the kitchen table moment while mike and will are dry humping in the bathroom. Who cares anymore
IAN! @poppytuft: I'm doing it myself
(or: the party DOES go to Stacy’s party, and mike and will get so gay off that vodka)
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02 Mar 2026
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corrina, corrina by curlymcclain
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
01 Oct 2019
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Seeing him here, in New York, surrounded by the deep browns and golds of Hobart and Blackwell, is so alien to me I have to repress the urge to pinch myself like a child would after a dream. It looks incorrect, him standing here. Like someone has taken a pair of scissors to my memories of him, cut him out of his rightful place on the abandoned playground, and pasted him sloppily into a corner of my life where he doesn’t belong. Has it only been a few weeks? It feels like ages longer, like it’s been a decade, like we’re different people trying to see what exactly we liked about each other so much way back when.
But then he says it again- “Potter.”- and that feeling vanishes as quickly as it arrived.
“You came,” I say dumbly.
He gives a cheery smirk that I don’t believe. “Promised I would.”
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- Part 1 of corrina, corrina
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02 Mar 2026
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I Told You So by TheFriendlyRose
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Jan 2025
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Izuku shoved the phone back into his pocket and began to run out. “The other new teacher should be here any minute! Text me if you have any questions! I’ll see you later!”
“Wait, Deku!” The door shut, making Katsuki’s mouth snap closed. He wasn’t the only newbie. He put his head in his hands and tried to contain the uncertainty bubbling in him.
“Bakugou?” A voice called across the room.
Katsuki knew that voice in an instant. “Kirishima?” He asked the question before he even turned around to look at Kirishima. He looked exactly like he did the last time that Katsuki saw him, except that he had aged like a fine wine. He still had that red spiky hair and the same stupid, shirtless hero costume. Katsuki couldn't even remember the last time they were in a room together. What was that? Seven– no eight years ago?
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OR: At Aizawa's request, Katsuki becomes the new homeroom teacher for class 1-A. He isn't expecting the new class B teacher to be Kirishima, the man he used to be in love with in high school, who's been overseas for the last eight years.Series
- Part 1 of ITYS - KRBK as Teachers!
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20 Feb 2026
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august by CordeliaRose
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan, The Sun and The Star - Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro
31 Aug 2023
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Somehow, Nico's life only gets more confusing after he defeats a primordial Goddess.
Will Solace accounts for about 90% of that confusion.
(A journey through August, and all its ups and downs.)
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- Part 1 of august
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13 Feb 2026
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Will burst into one of the most blinding, dazzling smiles Mike had ever seen. It wouldn't matter if they were on the darkest, cloudiest night in the middle of the ocean; Will was a beacon of light. Mike couldn't tell if there were actual stars in his eyes or if it was just a reflection, but it didn't matter. Will was too stunningly beautiful, and that look was too intense, and he had to look away as his stomach turned and his brain tried to come up with a generic response to whatever Dustin was saying on the radio. The past few weeks he had been desperately trying to convince himself that it was just his old crush rearing it's head. He had moved on from Will, really. They could be friends again without all the relationship drama that came between them in highschool. But sitting on the top of a hill on a cold November night he realized nothing had changed at all.
Fuck, he was still madly in love with Will Byers.
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After graduating, both Mike and Will struggled to adjust to life after the Upside Down. It didn't help they had already drifted apart. But now, 8 years later, Mike finally reached out again, and the 2 struggle to rebuild their friendship while also hiding their romantic feelings for each other.Series
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09 Feb 2026
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Will loved ordinary things, an uneventful existence was something he craved. Sadly, when Mike Wheeler walks into his life, Will’s easy going path snaps right in half. A passion he could never imagine overtaking his whole being.
It was too bad their friend groups hated each other and his sister had a huge crush on the musician. Off limits.
Fantastic.
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09 Feb 2026
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i’m not your tammy thompson, and i never will be by LaaurenEv
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Mike’s entire body pulses with frustration. “Because I’m not Tammy Thompson!”
Will can’t breathe. “But–”
“I’m not Tammy Thompson.” Mike’s eyes blaze. “I’m goddamn Mike Wheeler, and I’ve been in love with you since you set my hair on fire in science class when we were ten.” His jaw clenches, and Will feels like someone let off a grenade next to his head. “I realised I was in love with you when you left me for Lenora, and realised you loved me when you made up that bullshit about El asking you to make me the painting.”
Will feels the blood leave his face, feels his entire world shifting in an instant. “Mike–”
“And then you stand there and tell everyone it’s this crush that amounts to the same as some girl who didn’t like Robin back?” Mike’s voice cracks. “I– how am I that to you?”
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Mike confronts Will after he comes out to the group, because he isn't goddamn Tammy Thompson.Bookmarked by Kathegreat
09 Feb 2026
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“You kept my painting,” Will says. Sure enough, there’s the heart on Mike’s shield, just as red as the day Will painted it. It was Will’s heart that he painted, maybe. It was also Will’s heart that he pulled out and molded into the lie he thought Mike needed to hear, halfway between Salt Lake City and a secret government bunker in Nevada.
Will’s heart is in his throat now, and in Mike’s hands, and on Mike’s wall, framed and carefully displayed.
They stand there in silence for a minute, Will on one side of the room and Mike on the other and too many years of radio silence in between. The quiet is so heavy it’s like a weight on Will’s chest, crushing him, applying pressure—but to a wound or to a bruise, he doesn’t know.
“Will,” Mike says. “Why are you here?”
(or, will has some realizations and a lot of hard conversations, and not every loss is forever.)
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- Part 3 of boys in bars
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09 Feb 2026
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Who knew band practice could bring up so many complicated feelings? Certainly not Will Byers or Mike Wheeler. Meanwhile, El finds out how cool music is, and also stims over how awesome Max and Lucas are. She's a little in love.
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08 Feb 2026
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"I'm so hungry I could eat Will Byers." Jane bursts into a fit of giggles. Mike's heart drops.
"What?" His mouth feels dry. His hands are sweating. He can feel a flush creeping up his neck.
Jane repeats her words between cackles and wheezes, "I said... I'm so hungry... I could eat... Will Byers!"
All of the kids are laughing now, some big inside joke that Mike is the butt of. He feels sick. He feels something he can't place.
"How do you know that name?" He asks, the words catching in his throat like bile.
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In which a silly TikTok trend changes the course of Mike's boring adult life.
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06 Feb 2026
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“D’you ever consider I did it on purpose? I am a bit of an attention-seeker, you know.” Perhaps Mike is drunker than Will initially thought.
“What?”
“How else could I get the chance to talk to you alone?” Will feels like the air was just knocked out of him. Of course Mike is joking, but there’s a hint of truth to the statement. He was looking for ways to get Will alone. Will isn’t sure whether this information excites him or terrifies him.
“You’re nutty,” Will says, physically shaking the worries from his head.
“Maybe so,” Mike says, “but it worked.”
A collection of moments between cowboy Mike and saloon worker Will as they start to understand what they want in life. Story set in the Red Dead Redemption universe. Byler Big Bang 2024
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- Part 1 of red dead byler
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- English
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- 38,896
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- 7/7
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04 Feb 2026
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What a Pair - 5+1 Javid Series by orphan_account
Fandom Newsies (1992), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
27 Jan 2019
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David Jacobs and Jack Kelly love each other. The world doesn’t seem to want to let them have an easy go of it, but that’s okay- they have each other.
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A series of 5+1 style stories that follow Jack and Dave through their relationship.
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04 Feb 2026
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Rumour has it, someone tried to dethrone Spot Conlon by ChaosFairytale
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
02 Sep 2023
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“You got stabbed?” Race interrupted, worry evident. That was probably the huge amount of blood on his shirt.
The blond shrugged his shoulders dismissively as much as he could do so with one arm still over Racer’s shoulder. “Not that big of a deal, the otha’ guy’s off worse."_____________________
Or: Someone tries to dethrone Spot and, as it seems way more people are in on it than he thought, he goes to Manhattan where it is unlikely someone will stab him (again)
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- Part 1 of Rumour has it...
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“You big softie!" Soda grinned, "You’re savin’ it for Pony, ain’t ya? So he’ll have his favourite before his big race.”
“The kid’s gotta eat,” Darry said simply, but Soda could see his cheeks flushing.
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27 Jan 2026
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His laughter stops when he notices someone crouched by his door.
Homelessness is a real problem in New York City, and Will’s heart aches at the thought of someone being desperate enough to get their way into an apartment block as shitty as this one. He shrugs Jason off of him, who lets out a pitying tut.
But then the someone looks up, and it’s no longer a someone. It’s Mike Wheeler.
Will sobers up almost immediately. He lets out a strained gasp - partly from not seeing Mike for.. Almost seven months at this point, and partly from the sheer shock of Mike’s state. His eyes are bloodshot and wet, cheeks rosy and his nose is running. It reminds Will of a child who's fallen and scraped their knee and is trying desperately not to weep over it. It reminds Will of thirteen year old Mike Wheeler.
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OR: Will has built himself a new life far away from Hawkins where he's out and proud, and hasn't spoken to Mike for months. But when Mike comes to his doorstep in a state, can Will keep his cool? Or will the past 7 years catch up to them?Bookmarked by Kathegreat
26 Jan 2026
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Brand me with your hands so everyone can see. by sundollop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Mar 2026
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Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”
Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”
The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.
Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.
Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.
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16 Jan 2026