17 Bookmarks by Truest_Blue
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It's two weeks after the Snow Ball, Nancy's officially with Jonathan, and Steve is trying to move forward. If only he wasn't on a path that keeps circling back to the both of them.
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Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
30 Apr 2026
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No Graphics for This: Signed in Blood and Graphite by BloodBloom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Rules were made to be broken, especially when those rules are taped to a fridge in an apartment shared by a pining Alpha and a desperate Omega. This is a story about a broken coffee machine, a nosebleed at the worst (or best) possible moment, and the realization that Mike’s neck was always meant to be Will’s canvas.
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24 Apr 2026
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Mike agreed to be Will’s reference model for his new art series. The series - Trust, vulnerability, and the surrender of control.
Dustin’s eyebrows shot up. “Mike Wheeler volunteering to get naked and tied up for art. I need to speak to the manager of this timeline.”
They told themselves it was just art. Just a favor between best friends. But with every session, the excuse wears thinner. Mike isn't just posing anymore; he’s discovering a side of himself he never knew existed and he’s realizing that the person he wants to surrender to is the one drawing him.
It was supposed to be "just reference, just art," Until it wasn't.
Or:
Mike realizes how much he is into BDSM after volunteering to be Will’s reference model. It’s just art, until it isn't.
Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
23 Apr 2026
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Will has a problem. His sex life with Carlton has gone nearly nonexistent, and he realizes his darker desires can’t be met with him. He eventually comes to the conclusion that he’ll just have to get over it.
But then one night, while Carlton is gone, Mike shows up at his door to apologize for past mistakes… and things take an interesting turn.
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Will has dark sexual desires he can’t explore with Carlton, so he takes it out on Mike.
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08 Apr 2026
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Mike Wheeler is on a mission.
Someone out there is breaking his best friend’s heart, and Mike is absolutely determined to find the girl responsible and put a stop to it.
...If only people would stop looking at him like he’s the world’s biggest idiot—and actually take him seriously—this would all be a lot easier.- Language:
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Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
23 Mar 2026
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Was…was Mike’s heart reacting to Will?
Mike isn’t looking at him. He’s staring hard at his cards as if he hasn’t seen them before, biting his inner cheek, and accentuating his dimple. As Will looks closer, he notices the pink shade spreading over the shell of Mike’s ear, the red emerging from the black curls like a rose sprouting from the earth.
Was Mike still nervous around him? Hadn’t they resolved that?
Will decides to test it. He leans onto the bed and rests a hand on Mike’s uninjured thigh, his thumb swiping side to side over the covers, and waits.
Mike's leg twitches into his hand, and barely a moment passes before the beeps speed up again, a rapid climb from steady to sprinting, and when Will looks, the blush has spread to Mike’s cheeks, his eyes unmoving and glued to his cards.
Oh. Will gapes at the monitor, the green spiking line. That's not discomfort.
Oh. He can have some fun with this.
Or: Mike, while protecting Will, gets attacked by a demogorgon. Guilt-ridden, Will stays with him in the hospital, forcing them to resolve the awkward air that has surrounded them for months, and, along the way, uncover some truths.
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- Part 32 of Mike Wheeler suffering
Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
16 Mar 2026
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In which Mike just doesn’t think it’s right that Will doesn’t get to experiment with a guy, but luckily Mike’s a guy, and a good friend, so. Featuring closet hookups, hickeys, really good cuddles in the midst of all the sexual experimentation, sneaking around, a canon-typical amount of boys crying, the Painting Lie!!!, conversations about feelings that don’t actually address any of the important feelings (until they do, and then ohh boy), and the happy ending that they goddamn deserved.
Takes place during the eighteen month time gap before they all graduate, then continues past the ending of the finale.
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Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
06 Mar 2026
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Will Byers had gotten used to ignoring his feelings for Mike Wheeler.
So when Mike drunkenly confesses his love at a party and then forgets everything the next day, Will isn't entirely sure what to do.Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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say you love me to my face (am i what you needed?) by hxllcatspangled
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Mar 2026
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"It's complicated," Mike says.
"Well, make it less complicated!"
Dustin throws his hands up. "Yeah, are you guys dating, or are you fighting? Because there's no way you're just friends anymore."
Will opens his mouth. His eyes are wide and a little scared, and Mike doesn't like it, but he looks back anyways.
His brain is doing the thing where it moves faster than he can follow it. Two options, Dustin said.
Will's mouth is still open. Mike thinks about fighting, and his brain slams shut. Nope. He thinks about everything Will said four days ago. If those are the only two options, Mike already knows which one he's picking.
"We're... dating," Mike says.
Or, Mike Wheeler decides that fake dating his best-friend-turned-hookup is a better option than losing him.
Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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love, and other post-traumatic stress disorders by moonlit-nightsx (moonlit_nightsx)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jan 2026
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"Did you not hear me? I said I was in love with you.” Will cringes at the repetition.
“So? It’s two in the morning. I’m tired.”
“In love. Like romantically.” Jesus Christ, why couldn’t he stop saying it?
Mike rolls his eyes. “I know what it means, William. What I don’t know, is why that means I can’t go back to bed right now. We can talk in the morning if you want.”
Will blinks.
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“Imagine?” Mike asks, raising an eyebrow. He leans closer, cocking his head. “You do a lot of imagining, Will?”
Will briefly squints in confusion before going red, the color spilling across his cheekbones and down his neck. “Not like that!” He shrieks, but he’s still so, so red, and Mike almost desperately wants to know just how far down the color goes.
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In a fit of midnight panic, Will accidentally tells Mike he's in love with him. But Mike...doesn't even seem to care. Will goes a little insane about it (and so does Mike).Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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In the aftermath of the battle, Will tells Mike he's in love with him, then asks for space to move on.
Predictably, Mike doesn't handle it very well.Or; Will needs time, and Mike needs Will.
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Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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“You kissed me,” he repeats, pointing at Mike. “Did you fucking forget that? That you fucking initiated it?”
“Will—“
“You kissed me,” Will says again. His voice breaks. “You held me, and you kissed me, and you liked it.”
Mike stares at him, taking a breath that trembles.
“I know you liked it,” Will says softly, looking into Mike’s eyes. They’re shining.
Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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For a long while, which Will felt too embarrassed to admit, part of the reason he left this secret unsaid was so he could cling on to the smallest scrap of possibility. A little imaginary corner of his mind and heart where he could pretend Mike might maybe, just maybe, one day feel something more.
It was foolish, he knew this. But it had been his.
And now? Now it was gone.
They’ve survived the near end of the world. Now Will just has to survive telling Mike the truth. It seems a lot easier than it is.
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04 Mar 2026
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“And if she was going to lose you,” Will says numbly, “I— I think she’d rather just get it over with quick. Like ripping off a bandaid.”
Still, Mike says nothing. Silent. Patient. Impassive.
Fucking terrifying, and so, so beautiful. Will’s heart, sitting across from him in the backseat of Argyle’s pizza van.
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aka: what the painting reveal should have been.
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Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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like a child stargazing (i want it for myself) by roundmango
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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Mike rotates himself to accommodate this, turning his head to the side while looking down at Will, thinking of a best way to kiss him, when Will says, “I told Jonathan about us.”
Mike wants to be with Will on his own terms. But he is nothing, if not open to negotiation.
Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
04 Mar 2026
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chances are high that this is a one way by SalbeiZwilling
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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After El's disappearance, Mike struggles to come to terms with what it means to only realise you didn't love someone when they are already gone and you can't talk to them about it anymore.
But time passes as it always does, and Mike finds that the answers to all his questions have always been right in front of him in the form of one Will Byers.Series
- Part 1 of still now, you believe in me somehow
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04 Mar 2026
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When Will came out, he was relieved to be accepted by the people closest to him, especially Mike, and especially after Will made it clear to Mike that he was his crush. It was just a silly, stupid crush that really wasn’t about Mike at all. The best part is, Will got over it quickly, and they were able to laugh it off and remain friends. Things have been solid since he let those feelings go. That dumb high school bullshit is in the past. Their friendship is far too important to dwell on a crush that is doomed to be unreciprocated.
Imagine Will’s surprise when he catches Mike in a Chicago gay bar making out with another man.
Turns out, Mike is gay. So, what now? What is he supposed to do with this information? More importantly, what does that mean for them?
Friends? No thanks.
Best friends.
Or: The one where Mike is gay and Will is in the Friend Zone the whole time as he helps Mike along his self-acceptance journey.
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- Part 1 of The Book of Judith
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Bookmarked by Truest_Blue
01 Mar 2026