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"Do you seriously just let him control you like that all the time? You're not his fucking dog, dude."
Max calls it control.
Will calls it trust.Because it's not just that Mike takes care of him.
It's that Will starts to lean into it, he craves it.And when he realizes Mike needs it just as much, needs to be praised, to be relied on, to be everything... Will decides to stop resisting.
After all, if Mike wants to take care of him...
who is Will to say no?OR
After nearly a year of living together, Mike and Will somehow stumble into a full-blown dom/sub dynamic before they so much as kiss or admit they're in love.
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- English
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- 100,632
- Chapters:
- 9/?
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- 1,322
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15 Aug 2026
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“You do like it,” Mike teases. “I can tell.”
“Obviously,” Will huffs. “You know what I like.”
Mike does. What a surreal feeling it is, to be the one who knows what Will likes. What makes him blush, or shy away. What turns him on. To be the only one who knows these things.
“Yeah,” Mike says softly. “I know.”
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Will becomes the patron saint of pretending to sleep with guys to help them come out of the closet. Mike isn’t exactly thrilled with the situation.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 113,309
- Chapters:
- 9/10
- Comments:
- 925
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- 2,812
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- 804
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- 114,484
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09 Aug 2026
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It was easy for Will Byers to fall in love with Mike Wheeler.
The trouble came when he had to pretend it wasn't real.
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- English
- Words:
- 189,454
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,675
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- 21,579
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- 766,805
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23 Jul 2026
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Will had been in love with Mike for the past two years. They had met in their first year of University and were now living together, sharing a room.
Every fleeting touch, every small gesture, left Will questioning whether their friendship meant something more, or if Mike was just being Mike.
But when he finds himself posting a comment to the university's gossip page an unexpected bond is formed.
He now has to navigate this new bond with an anonymous guy and his growing love for his best friend.
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Will and Mike both message each other on anonymous accounts, unaware that the person they are falling for is closer than they think.
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- Part 1 of O Castle (my castle)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,118
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 328
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- 673
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16 Jul 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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- Part 1 of Matador
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 154,503
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 4
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- 4,548
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14 Jul 2026
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Max and Lucas can't keep their hands off each other.
They kiss and grope and call each other sickeningly sweet names like "baby" and "sweetie-pie" and "hot-stuff". Mike finds it nauseating.
Mike and Will decide to do something about it.or
Mike and Will fake-makeout in an effort to stop their friends excessive PDA and pretend it doesn't mean anything.
Based off Thesweetestdream’s original concept for ‘talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet’
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- English
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- 41,891
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Comments:
- 767
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- 5,100
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- 125,514
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12 Jul 2026
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“So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
“Have sex.”
“Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
“And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.
(a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100,647
- Chapters:
- 9/15
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- 1
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- 1,054
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07 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 239,388
- Chapters:
- 9/12
- Comments:
- 3,553
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- 8,719
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- 2,229
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- 298,763
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28 Jun 2026
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Four years of peace, completely shattered. Mike and Will begin experiencing haunting, inescapable visions of their worst nightmares coming to life, and they both revolve around the same fatal weakness: their love for each other.
Vecna is back.
With the lines between reality and terror blurring, they have to face the ultimate test. Can love defeat fear, or will the darkness consume them both?
OR: my spin on a Leviticus AU (no Leviticus spoilers and you don’t need to watch it to understand what’s going on)
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28 Jun 2026
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What happens when you accidentally overhear your best friend getting banged left and right? Naturally, if you're Mike Wheeler, you jerk off to it.
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Mike Wheeler realizes he's mega-attracted to William Byers, his best friend of fifteen years. They live in a shoebox apartment in NYC, where he can hear every thrust and moan through the cardboard walls. Mike runs to Max, who helps him to devise a plan to get into Will's pants. If he doesn't manage to do it by the end of a ten-day period, he forfeits his love, pride, and a lump sum of money. Mike is incredibly awkward, but he's a stubborn man with a journal and a dream. Will he secure Will's affection, or will he be relegated to the cuck chair for all of time and eternity? Only time will tell.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,631
- Chapters:
- 5/12
- Comments:
- 335
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- 889
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- 345
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- 32,359
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24 Jun 2026
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Being a part-time superhero doesn’t solve Will’s problems; instead, it adds to them. As Cleric, he’s forced to deal with his egotistical know-it-all of a partner, Paladin. As Will, he’s stuck hopelessly pining after his best friend. He’s honestly not sure which is worse.
One thing’s for sure, though — he needs a change. In one of his weaker moments, Will comes up with a plan: get over Mike by getting under someone else, someone he knows he won’t fall for.
Maybe Paladin is good for something, after all.
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- Part 1 of I Need a Hero
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,400
- Chapters:
- 10/20
- Comments:
- 786
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- 586
- Bookmarks:
- 229
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- 24,871
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11 Jun 2026
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never let you slip away by kellogsfrostyflakes, waveyspaces
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2026
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"We get it, you're hilarious. Now take these off, please, so I can go home."
"Sorry, man," Lucas says, shrugging. He stands from his spot on the floor to come to Max's side. "But it was getting bad. You've been weird since Stacey's party."
Or: Mike and Will refuse to admit what happened last Friday, and the Party has the perfect solution. 24 hours handcuffed to your best friend shouldn't be so bad, should it?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 17,023
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 128
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- 1,083
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31 May 2026
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17 May 2026
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A polaroid lies face down, stark white against the carpet. Will crouches, breath already unsteady, and turns it over. His breath caught in his throat as the image came into focus, sending a jolt straight through him. Mike's jeans strained visibly against the thick bulge at his crotch, the denim stretched taut over an unmistakable erection.
Dear Will,
If you wanted to see me with a boner, you could've asked instead of drawing it.
Love, MikeOR
Will accidentally gifts Mike an erotic drawing of him, Mike returns the favor by sending him polaroid evidence of what his boners really look like.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 48,705
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 788
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- 8,801
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- 161,696
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06 May 2026
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A month in a half after the events of "My Will Is Good," Mike and Will spend a weekend in Montauk, get closer than ever, and navigate life as a couple. Mike grapples with the idea of coming out and what it means to be gay in the 90s.
Or: Mike and Will have fun in Montauk, do it without condoms, and are really nerdy and in love.
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- Part 2 of Nirvana
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,156
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 340
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- 2,986
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- 720
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- 48,775
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23 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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 71,098
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Comments:
- 1,281
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- 9,961
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- 2,622
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- 224,028
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16 Apr 2026
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Dating apps aren't Mike's thing, until he finds out Will is using one. He can't let a bunch of trashy guys go after his best friend; he'll just make a fake account to scope out the situation. What could go wrong...or right?
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Mike creates a fake persona on a dating app to unknowingly flirt with Will.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 69,196
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 1,568
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- 4,518
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- 984
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- 105,404
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01 Apr 2026
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He looks like the Real Thing (he tastes like the real thing) by iheartkastle
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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“So you’re from a different dimension?”
“My Cleric and I are from a different realm to yours, yes.”
“He’s not yours,” Mike said steadily.
“Ah, so he is yours?”
“He’s not yours,” Mike spat again.
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When Will uses his powers in Sorcerer, the energy surge attracts a Paladin from an alternate reality. Convinced that Will is his lost Cleric, the Paladin Mike the Brave vows to treat Will better than Mike does, Will really doesn't mind being sandwiched between them.
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31 Mar 2026
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An old diskette in the summer of '89 by Certified_Bylerologist
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jun 2026
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Will choked on air, the oxygen punched from his lungs. "What??"
"I can help you." Mike repeated. "I could teach you how to blow someone. I've had it done to me before, I know what feels good. I can show you how to do it on an object, or something. To help you practice."
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A story set during the summer of '89 that starts with an old diskette and two boys who thought it would be funny to watch bad porn together, and ends with...?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 71,117
- Chapters:
- 10/?
- Comments:
- 655
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- 1,921
- Bookmarks:
- 509
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- 69,158
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31 Mar 2026
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Mike is waiting for Will in the basement, a look of suspicious, nervous excitement on his face. He cleared the table and laid out upon it are two card games.
"Now, I know you’ll resist," Mike blurts out, stepping toward him. "But I think this will be good. For both of us! For when we... you know,” Mike trails off, “When we get partners.”
Will scoffs, stepping closer to inspect the titles.
Spill or Sip and Truth, Dare, or Strip.
Or: Mike suggests a spicy card game to help Will loosen up before college. It works a little too well, and suddenly they’re gambling with unresolved feelings, and clothes, that were meant to stay in place.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 189,725
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Comments:
- 6,756
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- 20,304
- Bookmarks:
- 3,791
- Hits:
- 748,628
Bookmarked by lemoncarnations
28 Mar 2026