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frame my heart (it's on the fridge!) by mynameisnobodyyy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Feb 2026
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Max Mayfield is not one to turn down a challenge, and her mid-term Film & Media project is without a doubt a tough one. Guess she’ll need to pull some strings.
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Mike Wheeler is much needed for his knowledge of the Middle Ages and can’t help but fall for his project partner’s roomie.
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20 Jan 2026
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Green irises became intoxicated with darkness (and I noticed that). by psieiko
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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Mike knows Will better he knows than himself. When his best friend starts acting strange, intending to help, he's the first to directly interfere with the Vecna's plans.
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Will, after revealing he doesn't like girls, notices one Mike suspiciously hopeful wanting to get closer.
"When we were little, I said we'd go crazy together," Mike reminded him, leaning in gently to get close and bump their elbows. "And Will... I know I would never promise that to just a friend."
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19 Jan 2026
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“W-what if it’s not him?” Will croaks. Once again, Mike’s face just falls, and Will shakes his head slightly, tears welling in his eyes. “What if… what if this is all just in… in my head? A-and that’s… that’s why El can’t find him? What if… I’m just making all this up?”
For a few moments, Mike is just quiet. He looks like he’s trying to figure out what to say, so Will takes another shuddered breath. “I-I feel like I’m going insane, Mike,” he admits, hating the way his voice cracks. “It’s like… like I don’t… have control of my own mind anymore… I-I just feel like I’m… like I’m going crazy.”
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In the year following the opening of Vecna's gates, Mike slowly loses Will, and Will slowly loses his mind.
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19 Jan 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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19 Jan 2026
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After proclaiming himself an Atheist one night at the dinner table, Mike's parents exile him to an Evangelical Summer Camp for one last summer before college.
But this year is different. On top of rejecting his faith, he can't stop thinking about the mysterious boy working as a caretaker.
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- Part 1 of Indiana Summer
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16 Jan 2026
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Mike didn’t want Will to be nervous with him. He wanted to maybe change the subject. Conversations were so hard for him… that he just said the first thing that came to mind.
“You’re a pretty crier.”
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During Will’s coming out, Mike Queerler notices that Will is a really pretty crier. And that he’s a little jealous of this ‘Tammy’ guy.
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10 Jan 2026
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“Shut up!” Mike says with a scowl. “I meant, like…I was just thinking…why don’t we just do it? Why don’t Will and I kiss?”
It’s as if you could hear a pin drop.
Lucas stares at Mike like he’s grown an extra head. Dustin and El exchange a meaningful look. Even Max, who just a moment ago had been happily poking fun at Mike, is seemingly at a loss for words.
Will is silent too, color rising to his cheeks. It’s one thing for Max to suggest it; it’s another entirely for Mike to double down. Mike, his best friend for as long as he can remember. Mike, who regardless of any newfound warmth could barely touch Will for an entire year. Mike, who is oblivious to the fact that Will is desperately in love with him.
Mike, who despite all that said Why don’t Will and I kiss as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
After his first semester of college ends, Will is more than happy to spend a relaxing New Year's Eve in Mike's basement with the rest of the Party. Things go off the rails, however, when Max and El ask everyone to join in on an interesting new tradition—a tradition which may or may not involve him and Mike sharing a kiss.
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06 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler knows that Will Byers is very gorgeous, but that doesn’t mean some jock has to start flirting, right in front of him, with his girlfr- his guy friend. He definitely didn’t just say girlfriend.
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06 Jan 2026
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“Shut the fuck up.”, Will whispers because he can’t, he just can’t deal with Mike’s confusing ass right now. The soft light is illuminating Mike’s features, jaw carved out so perfectly, cheekbones high, eyes so dark Will feels like they’re swallowing him. “You are, too.”, he adds.
“Prettier than your lame boyfriend?”, Mike ask, voice somehow careful and urgent at the same time.
“Mike…” Will shivers a little, not sure what to do with himself. It’s ridiculous for Mike to actually believe Will has a boyfriend; if that were the case, he would’ve never stepped a foot into this bed. But somehow, Mike’s need to come out on top compared to the guy he is supposedly dating makes Will break out in goosebumps all over.
“That’s not a no.”, Mike remarks.
“That’s not a no.”, Will whispers, scared to move at all and break the moment.
A soft grin plays at the corner of Mike’s mouth, “Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah.”, Will nods, “But you knew that already.”
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College AU where Will pretends to date a guy named Carlton to set a boundary with Mike and stop him from flirting when he keeps insisting they're just 'best friends'. It backfires and Mike sends him more mixed signals than ever.- Language:
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05 Jan 2026
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"That day, when you told us about how you don't like girls. You mentioned a crush, someone who didn't like you back…"
A punched out breath escaped Will. "I didn't think you would ever bring it up, honestly. For the longest time, I wasn't even sure you knew."
"I didn't. I just never- I don't understand.. why me? After everything that happened, why would it be me?" Mike felt like he was being wheeled into surgery, laid bare on the table for everyone to see the mess that was his heart.
"What? Mike, how could it not be you?" Will let out a disbelieving laugh. "Mike, it was always you. It had always been you back then."
Back then. Late again.
"But not anymore?"
Mike Wheeler gets drunk and confessions ensue.
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04 Jan 2026
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“Stoned Mike Wheeler seems a bit confused.”
“That’s not the weed. It’s you,” he stated. “I’m always a bit confused when you’re near me.”
Will sighed, passing a hand through his hair.
"Definitely don’t say that when he’s around.”
“Who? Cartoon?”
“His name is Carlton,” he reprimanded, fighting a smirk. Mike smiled and let his head finally fall on Will’s leg.
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On the day of his 19th birthday, Micheal Wheeler gets an invite. Accepting will have him stumble through Will's messy New York apartment, parties, jealousy and maybe, acceptance and freedom.
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04 Jan 2026
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but at least i finally found it (love) by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2024
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“So… how did you know you liked boys?” Mike randomly asks Will one afternoon.
“How did I what?” Will swivels his head toward Mike, who’s looking back at him expectantly over the top of his comic book. He’s got on that thinking-face he does— the one that tells Will that Mike has definitely been staring at him for the past ten minutes minimum, trying to wrap his brain around some idea or another, like he’s working out a particularly difficult puzzle.
“Like, what do you like about them? Oh, come on, don’t look at me like that,” he complains, and Will assumes he must be making a face somewhere between skeptical and bewildered. “We never talk about it. Why is it boys for you?”
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Mike wants to know why Will likes boys— in a completely straight, heterosexual way.Aka Byler talking about boys for 7k words.
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04 Jan 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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04 Jan 2026
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Will’s expression smoothes out then, and he’s looking at Mike in consideration, like he sees him in all the ways Mike does not want to be seen.
“You were jealous,” Will offers it like it’s a fact, simple as that, and Mike nearly doubles over with the shock of it, an immediate blow to whatever unbothered facade he’d been attempting to put on for Will.
“Was not,” but his voice is so weak that he nearly collapses in embarrassment, an omission of guilt clear as day.
Mike is in love with Will. He tries very hard to love him quietly.
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03 Jan 2026
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"They called you Zombie Boy after I took you," Henry murmured, "didn't they? You came back from the dead, and left something in the dark, in the grave dirt. Something that made you healthy."
Slowly, Will's outstretched hand cupped Mike's jaw. Henry made Will hold him lightly, hardly grazing the skin. He stretched one of Will's fingers out to trace his nail through Mike's face, and though Will had imagined holding Mike an endless amount of times, none of them had gone like this. He'd never wanted to hold Mike like this.
"Let him go," said Will, voice thick with emotion. "You can take what you want from me, you don't need him—"
"But you do," said Henry. "You need him."
When Henry starts to visit Will in his dreams, Mike starts getting inexplicable injuries. The stranger Mike acts— the more time he spends with Will, the more Will catches him staring, the more Mike dismisses the bruises and cuts scattered across his skin— the more Will starts to wonder whether Henry is right about him.
Maybe Henry did give Will a disease, back in the Upside Down. Maybe, as he dreams, Will passes that disease on to Mike, too.
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02 Jan 2026
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“So… So then why did you paint it?”
Will grew quiet, finding it difficult to form a proper sentence. And, then, after giving it some thought, his lips parted;
“I guess.. Painting just helps me express how I really feel at times. But It’s just all these feelings— They’re so different, and— And when you feel… Different, sometimes you feel like… A mistake.
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After being shown dark, horrible visions of what would happen to him, his friends and family, Will is scared that Henry will come after Joyce, Jonathan and Mike. After successfully coming out to Jonathan and Joyce, it leaves Mike; the boy he thinks is his Tammy.
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01 Jan 2026
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He’d stared at Will without really seeing him, so caught up in his own thoughts—a constant, monotonous beat of oh my God, I’m alive. Oh my God, Will has powers. Oh my God, he saved me.
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Oh my God, he’s beautiful.
The thought had stopped him short, had landed with a soft and devastating clarity.
Beautiful.
That single word had broken something open within him, something he’d spent years reinforcing with lock and chain and prayer and denial.
After Will saves Mike from the demogorgon at the MAC-Z, Mike finally lets himself acknowledge a truth he's been running from for years:
He is in love with Will Byers.
Now all Mike has to do is come to terms with that truth—especially when Joyce sees it too.
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29 Dec 2025
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Mike has spent months ignoring what he feels when he looks at Will. Months pretending that the way his heart races doesn't mean anything. That "best friends" is enough.
Then Will uses his powers to save them all, and Mike can't stop watching. Can't stop wanting.
When Mike walks downstairs and sees Will changing his shirt—sees the freckles scattered across his back like stars—everything he's been denying comes crashing down.
Will knows. He's always known. And he's done waiting.
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25 Dec 2025
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baby i can't fight this feeling anymore by peskeynonbinary
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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In his almost 17 years being alive, Will has learned many things. Very high on that list is that there’s a fine line between “best friend” and “something more.”
Michael Wheeler uses that line like a fucking jump rope.
“You… wish I had saved just you?”
or; Mike and Will chat after the Mac-Z
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25 Dec 2025
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Where Will Byers is madly in love with Mike Wheeler, but Mike has a girlfriend.
However, that never stopped true feelings from becoming uncovered through flirty signs, paintings, letters and basements.
(Written to take place in the 18 month time gap between season 4 and season 5)
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24 Dec 2025