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you kiss me slow but without hesitation (you threw me straight into inarticulation) by burning_trash_pile
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
17 Aug 2025
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Romance was never Wonderlands x Showtime’s focus when it came to shows.
Honestly, they had never planned for it to be until the topic of Valentine’s Day rolled around, and Emu had a great idea.
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In an attempt to save their pining friends from having to play the romantic leads in a show, Rui and Tsukasa take the roles for themselves, but they run into a problem. The show concludes with the two characters kissing after far too long, but neither Rui nor Tsukasa has ever kissed anyone, so rather than fumbling on stage, they take matters into their own hands.
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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(give me a second to) forget i ever really meant it by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2024
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“Any of it.” Will shrugs, embarrassed. “I don’t know how to ask someone out, or how to act on a date, or how to- kiss, or anything like that.”
“Oh.” Mike’s expression clears, and he grins. “Well, like I said, you’re a catch, so I don’t think you’d need to worry about putting people off or something. And all of that stuff is way easier than it sounds, seriously.”
Will makes a face. “That can’t be true.”
“I’m serious!” Mike says, laughing a little. “Here, we can practice.” He shifts on the bed, arranging his legs beneath him and sitting up a little straighter, running a casual hand through his hair. “Pretend I’m a guy you like.”
Practice makes perfect, especially when the person you're practicing with is your best friend.
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Every now and then I get a little bit helpless by ForrestToffee (FrozenSpellMaster)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Feb 2023
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“What the fuck happened?!” Will exclaimed.
Who did he need to kill? Who did they need to sick El on? They could cover up a murder. Accidents happen all the time. But this…this was no accident.
Because in front of him stood Mike Wheeler, a ring of darkening bruises in the shape of hands around his neck.
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Ted finds out that Mike likes boys and doesn’t take it well.
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19 Oct 2025
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Mike didn't have self-preservation skills. Not when it came to Will, at least. When it came to Will, he lost control. Didn't think. Didn't wait to act. Just... acted. Acted on impulse, as though he were programmed to defend Will, even though, in most cases, Will was perfectly capable of defending himself.
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mike wheeler (tries) to defend will from bullies, which leads to a confession of very much so NOT UNrequited love
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19 Oct 2025
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the silence between i love you and i do too by byerseason
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jun 2025
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“I looked down from that cliff. At the lake. That lake. The one they pulled your body from. And in that moment, it didn’t feel scary at all. It felt—relieving. Like it was a step that would bring me to you. Like you were waiting somewhere in that water, just out of reach.”
That’s when the sound of Will’s sobs becomes unmistakable. Raw and full and desperate.
Mike doesn’t move. He just keeps talking. Because if he stops, he’ll break too.
or, the one where some of the secrets they never said finds a way out on the porch at 3 a.m.
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16 Oct 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
THIS FANDOM IS EXCELLENT AT YEARNING