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we are running so fast (and we never look back) by kerosenedaze
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Aug 2026
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“Is he your boyfriend now, Wheeler?” the jock shouted after them. Will flinched, expecting him to remove his arm from around his shoulders. He learned when he was young that insinuating that you were gay was one of the worst insults you could receive.
The other boy didn’t let go of him, though. Instead, he used his free hand to reach back and flip them off. “Why? Jealous? Don’t worry, your mom still likes you. She told me last night.”
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California boy Will Byers moved to Indiana after being severely bullied, only to find out bullies are everywhere.
Hellfire Mike has a shit homelife.
They were destined to meet and save each other.
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29 Aug 2026
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How Not to Survive a Music Festival by this_was_not_the_plan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler's summer plans were simple: stay home, avoid people, and continue pretending everything was fine.
His friends had other ideas. Mike is dragged to Woodstock '94 for few days of music, questionable camping decisions, too much beer, too much weed and not enough sleep. His survival plan is straightforward: make it through the weekend.Then he meets the guy in the red shorts...Suddenly, surviving the festival becomes the least of Mike's problems.OR
Mike Wheeler blames the tent. His Brain blames the weed. His Heart blames the cute guy in the next tent.
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29 Aug 2026
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Dustin and Lucas decide to prank Mike by putting up an embarrassing poster of him at their college campus, exposing that he has a huge dick and begging someone to take his virginity. A very horny stranger named Will is more than willing to volunteer himself.
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What happens when you give a virgin Mike Wheeler with a huge dick to a very horny Will Byers.
First chapter is from my SMAU but the rest will be regular long-format.
title taken from morning dew (donk) - beyonce
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29 Aug 2026
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Mike and Will share a cozy apartment, a loving relationship, and a passionate sex life… But, somehow, Will still hasn’t seen Mike naked.
Or: Mike hasn’t forgotten he was bullied for being “ugly.”
(5 times Mike kept his clothes on + 1 time he didn’t.)
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23 Aug 2026
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Will's eyes are saucer wide, his eyebrows upturned. His lips twitch, like he's fighting off a pout. Mike's half convinced that Will's using some kind of mermaid power on him, the way he instantly knows he would do just about anything Will asked him to. "You want to be a human?"
Will grabs his notebook and frantically flips to a previous page.
YES PLEASE ◡̈
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Mike likes his life. He has great friends, a good job, and he's going to school for writing like he's always wanted to. But when he suddenly stumbles upon a washed up mermaid, he finds that maybe there's more to life than like.
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20 Aug 2026
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“Woah,” Will whispers to himself incredulously, laughing a little under his breath as he shuffles through the pages of the letter again. He can’t help but admire the smooth, off-white stationery, its pleasant weight in his hands. A serious-looking “MJW” watermark adorns the top of each page, totally at odds with the entertaining missive and its author’s garbled cursive. Will laughs quietly to himself again. What sixteen-year-old boy on earth has monogrammed stationery?
Michael J. Wheeler, apparently. Where did Max find this guy?
Mike Wheeler is insecure, even by normal teenage standards. So when his friend, Max, connects him with her old friend from California, he's surprised by how easily they get along. But as the weeks wear on, their letters grow increasingly personal, and they make plans to embark on a week-long trip, Mike can't let go of one inconvenient, anxiety-inducing thought: What if he wants to be more than friends?
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20 Aug 2026
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who was in my room last night? by myprivatearchive (ficsbydarienjay)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler has been dealing with semi frequent sleep paralysis for the past eight months, ever since one of his first nights in his college dorm room. At first he could deal with it, let it just be a part of his life. His doctor said it was just stress, prescribed him pills that didn't help and just made him even more tired. He couldn't deal with any other changes.
Besides... these dreams have been getting awfully... personal, as of late.
OR: Mike Wheeler's sleep paralysis demon is shaped like his childhood best friend, and he can't help the wet dreams that happen during these near-nightly sessions.
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19 Aug 2026
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caught in your web (caught in your love) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler is a journalism student with a part-time job at the Daily Bugle and a growing obsession with New York’s newest hero: Spider-Man.
Will Byers is just trying to get through college, pay rent, and also happens to be the one swinging across the skyline at night.
They meet at a party. They become friends. It would be simpler for everyone involved if it stayed that way.
But Mike keeps searching for Spider-Man, and Will keeps hiding in plain sight - caught somewhere between wanting to be seen and being terrified of what happens if he is.And when something in the city starts to break, something strong enough to tear it apart, Will has to wonder if being Spider-Man is going to cost him everything.
Or: two idiots, one secret identity, and absolutely no communication skills.
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- 121,103
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- 13/19
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15 Aug 2026
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“Good night, Mike,” he hummed, softly. There was something satisfying about the way he said my name. I liked the way it sounded. All of the trepidation we both felt only minutes earlier seemed to have been forgotten– pushed back into the recesses of our minds by the covenant that we would talk to each other again. Or maybe that was just how I felt. “Good night, Will,” I offered. Maybe it was the mystery of it all– the promise of adventure and intrigue. Maybe it was my curiosity about Will. Whatever it was, it was potent. Almost addictive. And I was already starting to suffer from withdrawal.
----------------The Wheeler family moves to Hawkins, Indiana in the fall of 2017. Mike Wheeler hates everything about his new life. He just wants things to go back to the way they were. Until he finds an old rotary phone in the attic of his new house.
When the phone rings out of the blue one night, Mike is wholly unprepared for the dramatic turn his life is about to take.
----------------OR; Mike finds a phone that allows him to talk to some guy named Will, who claims to be calling from the year 1987.
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- 20/21
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15 Aug 2026
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Give Me One More Hour (I Don’t Want to Land Yet) by Flora_byler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Sep 2026
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Mike Wheeler is one of the biggest actors in the world. He’s used to people staring, asking for pictures, pretending not to recognize him. A eighteen-hour flight to Auckland is supposed to be the one place he can finally get some peace.
Will Byers is leaving everything behind. One-way ticket. Two suitcases. No real plan except to start over somewhere no one knows his name.
When everything that can go wrong does—and a broken seatbelt earns Will the last available seat in Business Class—they end up side by side for the longest flight of their lives.
Mike expects another fan. Will has no idea who Mike is.
Somewhere over the Pacific, between awkward silences, shared meals, sleepless hours, and conversations neither of them expected to have, two strangers begin to realize that maybe the person sitting beside them is exactly who they needed.
Or: a celebrity, a runaway, one accidental upgrade, and eighteen hours that change everything.
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- English
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- 151,100
- Chapters:
- 45/50
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15 Aug 2026
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Will Byers has two problems:
1. His sister is catastrophically obsessed with indie rock band Paper Halo.
2. Paper Halo accidentally hit him with an SUV.Now Will’s stuck with a ruined bike, a bandaged hand, and Mike Wheeler, exhausted frontman, professional over-apologiser , and owner of the most unfairly sincere eyes Will has ever seen — showing up at his house to personally replace the damage.
Which would already be complicated enough.
Unfortunately, Mike seems determined to keep looking at Will like he’s something worth memorising .
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- Part 1 of Paper Halo
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- English
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- 155,509
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- 128/128
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15 Aug 2026
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Carlton loves his boyfriend. He does so, so much. To degrees that his friends have sometimes called ‘unhealthy’, though none of them have ever been with anyone as pretty or as intelligent and fascinating as his Will.
Every long term relationship needs to spice things up every once in a while, right?
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13 Aug 2026
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Will Byers lives a quiet, solitary life as a children's book illustrator, helping bring other people's stories to life—fixing lonely trees, drawing impossible worlds, and leaving pieces of himself on pages no one will ever know he touched.
Then, one cold night, he finds a stranger collapsed outside his apartment building. A young man who can't speak, pale, exhausted, and little more than skin and bones.
Will only means to offer him a warm place to sleep. A meal. A shower. A few days to recover.
He doesn't expect Mike to stay. He doesn't expect to learn how to understand him without words. And he certainly doesn't expect the silent stranger in his home to become part of the story Will has been trying to remember his entire life.
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- 12/12
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13 Aug 2026
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"Need a light?" MJ looks down at the joint in Will's hands, confused.
"Oh, right now?" Will startles, looking at the door handle.
"Are you always this jumpy? Man, you really need this, huh? C'mere." Will hesitates. MJ sighs, reaching for the joint in Will's lap and feeding it to him.
He sparks the lighter and holds it to the end of the freshly rolled joint. Will watches his eyes on the flame, unsure what to do next. "Breathe in." MJ demands through an airy laugh, waiting for the end of the joint to glow before leaning back in his seat.
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a 2000s au in which 'MJ' is a drug dealer and Will, a tired, broke, college student, is his favourite customer.
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13 Aug 2026
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Will used to know how to create things. Now, at thirty-three, everything feels stuck.
His studio hasn’t been touched in years. His body no longer follows the timelines it once promised. The life he spent a decade building ended in a way he still doesn’t quite know how to recover from.
He tells himself he has time. It doesn’t feel true—but it’s easier than thinking the alternative.
He doesn’t expect anything to change. He definitely doesn’t expect someone to walk into his life and change it.
Especially not someone younger— someone who looks at him with something dangerously close to adoration.
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- English
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- 10/21
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13 Aug 2026
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Will didn’t consider himself a promiscuous man. For him, it was Henry alone. It had been that way for more than ten years now. He was monogamous. He was loyal. He had no interest in what other men saw when they looked at him. The only man whose eye he wanted to catch was Henry’s. With that eye being harder and harder to reel in lately, he was feeling needier than ever. Which was probably why Mike’s attention filled him with such heat and pride. He was still desirable. He could still drive a man to distraction.
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will is henry creel's lonely and neglected husband, and mike is the younger man willing to give him all the attention he craves.
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13 Aug 2026
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The summer before college, Mike and Will move into a tiny studio together, ready to start their next chapter — only to discover their across-the-street neighbor has a very public, very active sex life. Their weekly “observations for research purposes” are all jokes and commentary…until one night the neighbor brings home a man, and something in Mike shifts. Suddenly the bit isn’t so funny, the spiral is very real, the lines start to get a little too blurry, and the curiosity feels a bit too personal.
Unfortunately for Mike, the only thing more distracting than the view outside is his childhood best friend living three feet away.
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- Part 1 of before the curtains close
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 117,171
- Chapters:
- 14/14
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12 Aug 2026
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To All the Finn’s I’ve Loved Before by LongLiveByler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King, The Goldfinch (2019), Hell of a Summer (Movie 2025), The Turning (2020), To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Movies)
10 Aug 2026
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Five love letters are accidentally (and maybe also purposefully?) sent. These letters are sent to the following:
Richie Tozier: a boy will kissed back in the seventh grade as a result of truth or dare, he’s now considerably popular and is dating the captain of a the cheer squad. As much as Will has forgotten about that kiss ( I mean let’s face it, clearly Richie is straight and only kissed him cause of the game) his heart still flutters when he passes Richie in the halls.
Mike Wheeler: Wills own sister’s boyfriend. Will knows how messed up it is that he is in love with Mike, but in all fairness, he was friends with Mike…best friends, long before Jane and him had even started dating.
Miles Fairchild: a boy that Will had gotten very close to when Mike first started dating Jane. They had been close friends all throughout eighth grade, sadly broken apart when Miles was sent away to boarding school.
Boris Pavlikovsky: A “fling” Will had briefly when his family moved to Lenora, California.
Chris: Wills past summer camp crush.
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- Part 1 of To All the Finn’s I’ve Loved Before
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11 Aug 2026
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Now, Mike had almost three extra years' worth of memories, including the revelation and inevitable acceptance of his feelings for his best friend and the subsequent aftermath of said best friend’s heroic sacrifice.
“No, no, no, NO! I just got you back! Please, please, Will, please–I can’t lose you, not again! WILL–”
He remembered the two girls placing their hands on his shoulders, Kali’s sympathetic grip and El’s agonized clench as they gazed down at their adopted brother.
Now, here he was, the summer it all started going too wrong to right.
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After Will sacrifices himself to defeat Vecna, Mike is sent back in time to the beginning of season 3 to prevent any more tragedy
Now, he'll do whatever it takes
For Will.
(thank you all for following along!)
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- Part 10 of stranger things
- Part 1 of All the time in the world
- Language:
- English
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- 34,080
- Chapters:
- 15/15
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- 601
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10 Aug 2026
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Something is Wrong with Mike Wheeler by The_Bees_Want_Arson for Orcareux
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2026
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“Jeez, you really are sick.” Will muttered and Mike choked out a laugh.
“‘S just my luck.” He murmured, ignoring the way his head spun when he lifted it from the toilet seat.
Even under the harsh white light of the bathroom, Will still looked good, his honey brown eyes furrowed in concern and lips slightly parted. He was beautiful, and Mike wanted to bite him.
He recoiled a bit at the thought but now that he had thought it, it wouldn't go away. He could imagine it, digging his teeth into Will’s wrist, blood beading from the teeth marks faster than he could lick it up. The rushing in his ears got louder, twin heartbeats thudding in his ears and Mike turned to heave into the toilet again, not even bothering to stop the sobs that were ripping through him.
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Mike Wheeler has always had shit luck; he just didn't think it was this shit. Something is wrong with him, and it all started when he was attacked by a stray Demo-bat.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 89,269
- Chapters:
- 16/?
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- 963
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10 Aug 2026