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Mike and Will are perfectly happy—if not a little set in their ways—with their relationship dynamics. But Pride Month is a time for exploration, a chance for a role reversal. Who are they to pass up the opportunity?
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14 Jun 2026
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“You should do it,” Will repeats, this time with a shrug. “She’s right, you could always stay with me if you needed to, but I really don’t think anything’ll happen. And your dad is cutting off your access to his card when we move out of Hawkins in September anyway, so you might as well use it for the fun stuff while you can, right? Like, really, what’s he gonna do? Cut you off a few months early?”
“The fun stuff,” Mike slowly repeats, feeling, suddenly, like he’s going to pass out. “Like buying lube?”
Will’s face flushes a bit as he looks away, shrugging again, this time a bit more clunky with it. “Like things that are fun,” he murmurs. “Which, I mean, lube is what we’re talking about right now, so… yeah.”
or: following their college graduations, the party decide to have one last hawkins summer before starting their "real" adult lives. mike and will start a game that pushes past every boundary they've maintained for years.
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31 May 2026
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Mike’s no stranger to the supernatural and surreal. Few things frighten him anymore, but facing his complicated feelings and himself is particularly terrifying.
When Mike Wheeler’s doppelgänger, Michael the Brave, tumbles out of another dimension and into Mike’s bedroom, he teaches Mike a little something about loving Will Byers—and himself.
Or, simply: Mike takes the phrase “go fuck yourself” very, very seriously.
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- Part 1 of he and i, intertwined
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21 Apr 2026
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Will wishes he could take a mental snapshot of their life now and somehow send it back to his teenage self. Just to let him know that he's going to have this: their bed, and their shitty shoebox apartment, and Mike, who has a screwed up sleeping schedule, and who leaves his dirty clothes anywhere but the hamper, and who kisses the corner of Will's mouth when Will is doing the dishes, and who wants to do things with Will—the things that made Will so scared and miserable for wanting them at sixteen. Mike, who is completely naked, propped up on the elbows, and looking up at Will like he hung the moon.
Will's twenty years of deep happiness and acceptance told through the series of firsts.
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- Part 2 of Some Marvelous Experience
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18 Apr 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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18 Mar 2026