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(baby come back) you can blame it all on me by ninetees
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Mike has a new book in the works and he needs to absorb a new environment for some inspiration. He decides to go to New York, then catch up with some old faces that are striving and living their best possible lives in Manhattan.
A few glasses of Brandy get in his way, and it only sucks more because he never learned how to hold his liquor as great as the women in his life. And drunk words always meant sober thoughts.
Michael Wheeler, unfortunately, is no exception from that fact.
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10 Jan 2026
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“Have you, uh, ever had your makeup done?”
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Mike wants to practice his makeup-doing skills for El by doing Will's makeup.Bookmarked by artificialmind
10 Jan 2026
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A week ago, he’d had his toes buried deep in the sand, at some beach ten minutes from his apartment in Virginia. Sometimes, he’d stood there long enough that he was ready for the sea to open up and consume him whole, just like the way it gently erased the footprints in the sand. Mike wondered if his friends from Hawkins had ever visited any beaches. Mike wondered if Will had seen any beaches. They hadn’t spoken in years, really, not since freshman year of college. He’d seen Lucas over the summer, usually with Max in tow, but Dustin was off interning somewhere all the time, and Will? Will never came back to Hawkins. And to be fair, Mike wouldn’t have either, if not for his ridiculous homesickness for a place he’d never loved.
Now, his arms ached from driving so long, and his head hurt from the radio that he chose to blast as he careened across the country in his little rented movers’ van, and all he wanted, really, was a drink.Mike meets a stranger in a bar, and he thinks something is familiar about him. Maybe he's just desperate for friends, but something about the guy (who's very pretty and oozes confidence) reminds him of a friend he had years ago.
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10 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is done being scared, done holding back, and that includes pretending he does not want Mike Wheeler
or, my version of the buzzy shared look from the d&d game in the finale
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09 Jan 2026
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the great big mystery of mike wheeler's no good, very bad, terrible feelings by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Apr 2023
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It’s at that very moment that, for reasons completely and utterly unknown to anyone at all, every single possible word he has ever learned from any language ever has suddenly disappeared from his brain, and his throat feels relevant to the Sahara Desert.
None of this, of course, has to do with the fact that Will is very, very, very – shirtless.
Will blinks at him. “Are you okay?”
“Shoulders,” Mike says, sounding vaguely chipmunk-like, and he hears Max barely choke down a snicker.
Will comes back for the summer, and Mike deals with it.
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08 Jan 2026
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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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07 Jan 2026
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“I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
“What?”
“We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.
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07 Jan 2026
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mike and will are secretly dating in the epilogue and they're absolutely obsessed with each other.
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06 Jan 2026
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If love has no name, everything has changed by courtesyofthecupboard
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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Maybe, just maybe, he’s being dramatic.
Will can look at people. That’s okay. It’s fine. It’s as he said before: Will is not his. Will can handle himself. It’s fine. Sure, Mike is worried, but he trusts Will. Will wouldn’t do anything stupid. Mike can ignore that worry, the worry that is simmering under his skin and threatening to bubble over, and it’ll be fine.
Mike nods to himself, satisfied at his conclusion, and decides to give Will one last glance before going back to the kitchen.
And that’s when he sees it.
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After everyone rejects his idea to play DND instead of partying, Mike is salty.
It doesn't help that Will looks so good, and that he is seemingly far more interested in everyone who isn't Mike.
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06 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler and the Devastating Realisation That His Boyfriend Is Strong by r0twaifu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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Five times Will Byers was strong and Mike Wheeler experienced a full system shutdown.
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05 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler and His Inability to Be Normal About Will Byers by r0twaifu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler has a lot of nicknames for his boyfriend. The Party learns this against their will.
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02 Jan 2026
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"Have I ever explained how much I love you?" Will's raspy voice cuts through the momentary silence, something in his eyes shifting. Something unnoticeable to most, but very clear to him. Something familiar, like he's seen it before. And he has, he knows he has. Even before they began dating. In moments like these, that look of adoration and affection. Something like love.
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Mike being clingy. That's it, really.
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02 Jan 2026
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I'm Sleepy And Confused But At Least I Still Have You by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Sep 2023
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Mike has his appendix removed and he gets so loopy that he can't comprehend that Will truly loves him
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02 Jan 2026
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I don't quite know what to say (but I'm here in your doorway) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss, blingyu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Apr 2023
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“And - and we’ll go to Scoops Ahoy and I’ll get you your favourite ice cream.”
This is all starting to suspiciously look very close to a date, but Will brushes it off - it wouldn’t be the first time he’s read too much into things.
Mike starts fidgeting with his hands, when no answer comes.
“You - you know, like a proper date? I know I’ve done something wrong, because you’re not speaking to me, but we haven’t been on one in ages, so. And then, I was hoping - maybe - if it goes well, I was - uh. I was going to ask if I can kiss you again. Properly, I mean. It’s fine if not though!”
Will doesn’t hear anything else Mike might say afterwards, because his brain short-cuts.
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Mike confesses to Will - then kisses him. They don't talk about it, but maybe they should.
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01 Jan 2026
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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30 Dec 2025
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“I don’t think that it has to mean that you’re into guys,” Lucas says. His words are accompanied by a casual shrug, and said in the tone of someone who has clearly already given this subject some thought. Will doesn’t know what to do with that information. Jump from a building, maybe. “I mean, we’d all get flustered if Spider-Man carried us in his arms.”
Mike points to him enthusiastically. “Thank you, Lucas.”
Dustin looks between the two of them, his eyes narrowed.
“...Would we?”
“Sure,” Mike concludes. “He’s attractive. That’s not a weird thing to think.”
Will just barely resists the urge to bang his head against the table. He feels Dustin’s eyes glued to his burning face, and sinks even further down his chair.
In which Mike tells Spider-Man that he has a crush on his best friend, and Will jumps to some very wrong conclusions.
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29 Dec 2025
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put your lips close to mine, as long as they don't touch by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 May 2023
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“Well, I don't know,” Mike says. This is exactly what he had practised in the mirror earlier– except now he has to say it with the sudden certainty that this is all a very bad idea. “I guess I thought that a kiss would be a good bucket list item, or whatever."
Will looks at him for a few seconds. His gaze is calculating, and almost curious. But then he just shakes his head dismissively, and looks away.
“Yeah, I guess,” he agrees. “It’s not like there’s anyone to kiss here, though."
Mike almost laughs at that. Yeah, right.
He knows of at least two other people who would be down to kiss Will, if he asked them to. He selfishly keeps this to himself- because he doesn’t want Will to kiss anybody else, and because he doesn’t want to explain why, exactly, he has been keeping such close track of his best friend's romantic prospects.
“I mean,” he says instead, with a shrug. “I’m here."
It's the end of the world. Mike thinks that he and Will should kiss about it.
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29 Dec 2025
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“Whatever," Lucas shrugs. "You’re just jealous that you aren’t getting any.”
Mike raises an eyebrow, like he knows something the rest of them don't. Will looks like he wants to drown him. He probably deserves it.
In which Will has a love bite, the Party freaks out about it, and Mike is jealous of himself.
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29 Dec 2025
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gay panic in the mcdonald's bathroom (bonus scene) by hopelessromanfic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2023
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bonus scene from chapter 5 of landslide.
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- Part 2 of landslide
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29 Dec 2025
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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28 Dec 2025