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said that i was fine, said it from my coffin by ruetistic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2024
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“I just–” Mike interrupts, voice cracking as if the words are knives in his throat. “Why does everything have to be like this? Why does this have to be so hard? Why can’t we just–” he cuts himself off, frustrated, with a scoff.
Will knows Mike well enough to hear everything he's not saying: Why can’t we just be like everyone else? Why do I have to hide how much I love you?
And God, Will feels it too—every bit of it.
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Another byler wound cleaning fic because I am OBSESSED
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07 Jul 2025
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a cruel summer with you by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2024
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“Oh, come on,” Will says, struggling to keep his voice neutral in a different way. His mouth is dry, and he hates Mike for it even more. “Is this what it’s going to be like this summer?”
Mike looks back at him, considering, lips pursed in an effort to shut down the smirk that Will knows is fighting to break free. Will doesn’t dare to let his gaze catch there, focusing instead on holding Mike’s stare, because this, too, is a game.
Five years into a rivalry with bittersweet origins, the only thing Mike and Will want is to beat each other at this summer’s camp counselor competition. But being back at camp is dredging up old memories, and as Mike and Will lose momentum and gain something else entirely, it becomes increasingly clear that one summer can change everything.
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- Part 5 of in the quiet of the night
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05 Jul 2025
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freaking out throwing up sobbing i love them so much this is such an incredible fic
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After saving the world for a second time, Steve doesn't have anywhere to go. His house is empty and isolating, and a pile of blank college applications sits perpetually untouched on his coffee table. He has no friends, no popularity, and no future, but at least he has a bat full of nails and a decent concussion.
Yeah. He's screwed.
Or: How Steve deals with the aftermath of fighting interdimensional monsters, plans his future, and finds a family.
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28 Jun 2025
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let me steal this moment from you by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Mike moves in his bed, and Will's eyes stay firmly on the ceiling. "I feel like we barely know each other anymore."
And Will can't argue with that, so he replies, "What do you want to know?"
There’s a long lapse of silence, and then –
“Can you come up here?”
In the wreckage, Mike and Will spend a series of nights together.
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- Part 6 of fix-its
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28 Jun 2025
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hand-me-down tune by birthdaycandles for lesbianrobin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Apr 2019
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He wonders if this is a sibling thing. Like, now that he automatically has six younger siblings does that mean he loses six things from his closet? Did Nancy and Jonathan make this sacrifice? Is this something everyone knows about except for him? Does he even care?
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28 Jun 2025
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Will lets out a small squawk as Mike’s hand— his very cold, very freezing hand— finds its way around the blankets and under his sweater. “I’m sick, you weirdo,” he says, half-laughing into the side of Mike’s head, “I have a fever.”
“I don’t care,” Mike mumbles, “you’re warm and I’m cold. This is nice.”
“You’re going to get sick,” Will tries, for the umpteenth time, but it’s pointless. Mike Wheeler is stubborn and hardheaded and he never does anything halfway— not even this.
Will gets sick. He's dealing with it. Seriously, Mike- he's fine.
(or: a study in intimacy.)Bookmarked by N1ght_J4r
28 Jun 2025
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Will blinks. Mike is looking at him with an amused look on his face, wide-eyed and a little pink across the bridge of his nose, and God, okay, Will wants to–
“Um,” he says instead. “Huddling? For warmth?”
“For warmth,” Lucas echoes, and then looks back at Dustin again. “Huddling. For warmth.”
“Like penguins,” Mike offers, and then rests his head on Will’s shoulder like this is supposed to be helping, or something.
Will Byers and the harrowing experience of being snowed in with your mom, your almost-stepdad, all of your friends, and your (kind of) (secret) boyfriend.
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28 Jun 2025
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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28 Jun 2025
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“Okay,” Will says, and throws the door open. “Surprise!”
Mike opens his eyes. Then–
“Will,” he says, and it comes out a bit strangled. “Is that a puppy?”
This is a bit of a stupid question. Mike isn’t dumb. He knows what a puppy looks like. The thing in Will’s hands– a little wrinkled and brown and very covered in fur– is definitely a puppy.
Will brings home a dog. It goes about as well as expected.
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27 Jun 2025
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Will’s eyes sting with tears, and his nose prickles with heat. He feels like he’s burning, like he’s on fire. But Mom’s right—he doesn’t have to be afraid. She knows, and she loves him, and she’s not leaving. All that’s left is the words. And he shouldn’t be scared of words. After all he’s been through, if what takes him down is the English alphabet, then the world has a really fucked up sense of humor.
He just needs to rip off the bandaid.
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Alternatively: Five times Will Byers came out, and the one time someone came out to him.
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26 Jun 2025
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
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26 Jun 2025
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terrified you'll bite the hand that needs you by ruetistic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2025
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If you had told Mike Wheeler from 3 years ago that he’d find himself locked in a lab with two children on his arm running from his possessed best friend, he’d laugh in your face.
And right now, Mike really wishes he could laugh along. Because that sounds ridiculous, no?
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Hypothetical s5 byler (+derek, debbie & joyce) because i'm still thinking about that shot
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- Part 3 of possible s5 scenes
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26 Jun 2025
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“You should just tell her,” Mike says from behind his comic book when Will hangs up the phone.
“I know,” Will replies, because he does. They’ve had this exact exchange at least once a week for the last month. “But—”
“Yeah, I know.” Mike tosses the comic onto Will’s bedside table and sits up. “But I mean, El broke up with me. And we were fifteen years old. I think she can handle it.”
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- Part 7 of Byler Week 2022
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24 Jun 2025
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This is the first girl who’s ever asked Mike out — something he had, in the not too distant past, been terrified would never happen. And Mike just stands there, feeling like his dining hall dinner is about to crawl back up his esophagus.
Jeremy, Saint Jeremy, nudges him with an elbow. “He’s kind of private about it, but Mike actually has someone back home.”
Mike turns his head to look at Jeremy, expecting a knowing smile or the hint of a wink. But Jeremy actually looks sincere, which makes Mike’s eyebrows sink down, almost to the top of his nose.
“Will, right?” Jeremy supplies, forever trying to be helpful. “He’s at CalArts?”
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24 Jun 2025
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It's not even like Will is some godlike specimen. His skin is olivey and a bit summer-tan, and he has floppy, honey-brown hair and a few moles smattered adorably across his face and arms, but he is very much just a boy. Average height, average build, symmetrical face. He's wearing jeans and a Zelda T-shirt and plain white Vans. But he gives Mike an awkward half-smile and a wave as he introduces himself at the box office, and Mike can actually feel himself get stupider.
Will and Mike meet working at their local movie theater, and Mike is so into Will — particularly his hands — that he almost gets fired.
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24 Jun 2025
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in the quiet of the night by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Oct 2025
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24 Jun 2025
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I Never Find Out 'Til I'm Head Over Heels by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 May 2017
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Wherein Mike believes he’s being obvious, Will doesn’t know what he believes, and the pair of them could use a lesson or two in effective communication. Somehow all of this has both nothing and everything to do with five years' worth of school dances.
(This piece was written for the Stranger Things Big Bang)
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24 Jun 2025
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Mike nods solemnly. “This isn’t my first rodeo,” he says.
“No,” Will agrees, letting out a little laugh, “it’s – what, your third today?”
“Aw, you remembered,” Mike says, his hand coming up to rest on his chest, right over his heart.
“You’re hard to forget,” Will replies, and before Mike even has the opportunity to feel some type of way over that comment, Will continues, “or, more accurately — your guests are hard to forget.”
“Right,” Mike says quickly, not at all petulantly, because of course that’s what Will meant. That’s what they’re here for, after all — their guests. Not whatever sick satisfaction Mike gets from having to come in here every forty some-odd minutes, tail between his legs, to bother Will into doing his dirty work.
Mike has had a rollercoaster of a day. All he wants is a nap.
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23 Jun 2025
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Will is gay. Robin knows.
Or, Robin and Will go on a supply run. Set in post-season 4 apocalyptic Hawkins.
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23 Jun 2025
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the sound of the one that loves you by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2025
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Things aren’t weird at all... until they are.
Because like always, Mike figures out how to fuck everything up.
And somewhere along the way—between the release of their second studio album and the disastrous end of Will’s years-long relationship—it finally clicks for Mike.
Holy shit. He’s in love with Will.
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While on tour with The Party, Mike comes to terms with his feelings for Will and decides to do something about it.
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- Part 9 of random hiatus fics
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23 Jun 2025