18 Bookmarks by nerdwithaheart
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In which Mike just doesn’t think it’s right that Will doesn’t get to experiment with a guy, but luckily Mike’s a guy, and a good friend, so. Featuring closet hookups, hickeys, really good cuddles in the midst of all the sexual experimentation, sneaking around, a canon-typical amount of boys crying, the Painting Lie!!!, conversations about feelings that don’t actually address any of the important feelings (until they do, and then ohh boy), and the happy ending that they goddamn deserved.
Takes place during the eighteen month time gap before they all graduate, then continues past the ending of the finale.
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
19 Feb 2026
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It's been three years, and everyone seems to have moved on except Mike Wheeler. Stuck in the same routine, days blending together over and over. He's opted to accept his fate, but some feelings can't stay repressed forever.
As he grapples with his demons he realizes escape is an option, leading him down a twisted road of memories past. Reliving each trauma reminds him, however, exactly why he was choosing to conform all along. If Mike can escape his repression and Vecna's curse, he just might rewrite a love story they've heard before.
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- English
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- 86,540
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- 14/17
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10 Feb 2026
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“Dude,” Dustin says, sounding kind of horrified but also kind of delirious with elation. “Oh my God, you like him. You like Will. Will. As in, our Will. Our best friend Will.”
“I do not–” Mike tries, even though he’d kind of just admitted to accidentally kissing Will Byers, a little, so maybe that’s an entirely fruitless road to go down.
Listen. No one should ever let Mike make decisions right after he wakes up from a nap, okay? Especially not decisions where Will is concerned. This is so not his fault.
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01 Feb 2026
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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- English
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- 59,047
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
31 Jan 2026
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mike and joyce have a heart to heart and mike finally has a breakdown (after many years of needing to have one)
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27 Jan 2026
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darling, you got to let me know (should i stay or should i go?) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2022
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Nobody expects it to be Mike.
Everyone is expecting it to be Max or Nancy, who both have already been targeted. Or maybe El, whose childhood in Hawkins Lab makes her the perfect target. Or Will, who has gone through more than enough trauma in the past three years alone for all of them.
Nobody expects it to be Mike.
Or, the one in which it's Mike, not Will, who Vecna targets.
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- 11,158
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- 1/1
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27 Jan 2026
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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- English
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- 26,172
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
25 Jan 2026
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and i haven't seen you since last winter break by you_get_to_exhale_now_cyrus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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It’s the middle of December 1989, and everyone is finishing up their first semester at college. They’re all returning back to Hawkins for the break, excited for a few weeks of rest, relaxation, and catching up with old friends.
Mike should be excited; he hasn’t spoken to many of his friends since he started college, the losses of the last few years still weighing heavily on his mind. But instead of excitement, his stomach is filled with dread. Dread of being back in his shitty hometown. Dread of all the memories that still haunt each corner of Hawkins.Dread of seeing Will again for the first time in months.
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winter break in hawkins with our favorite stranger things characters :)) (title from winterbreak by MUNA)Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
20 Jan 2026
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Every night it’s become a routine for Mike to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. He’d make a cup of coffee quietly and stay up the rest of the night, reading comics until the sun came up. Anything that kept the night terrors away. He’s become addicted to the feeling of staying awake or rather not facing sleep…until Will catches him up in the middle of the night.
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18 Jan 2026
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"They called you Zombie Boy after I took you," Henry murmured, "didn't they? You came back from the dead, and left something in the dark, in the grave dirt. Something that made you healthy."
Slowly, Will's outstretched hand cupped Mike's jaw. Henry made Will hold him lightly, hardly grazing the skin. He stretched one of Will's fingers out to trace his nail through Mike's face, and though Will had imagined holding Mike an endless amount of times, none of them had gone like this. He'd never wanted to hold Mike like this.
"Let him go," said Will, voice thick with emotion. "You can take what you want from me, you don't need him—"
"But you do," said Henry. "You need him."
When Henry starts to visit Will in his dreams, Mike starts getting inexplicable injuries. The stranger Mike acts— the more time he spends with Will, the more Will catches him staring, the more Mike dismisses the bruises and cuts scattered across his skin— the more Will starts to wonder whether Henry is right about him.
Maybe Henry did give Will a disease, back in the Upside Down. Maybe, as he dreams, Will passes that disease on to Mike, too.
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16 Jan 2026
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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- 34,403
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- 3/3
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13 Jan 2026
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you looked back at me once (but i looked back two times) by IIBreathlessII
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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After everything that they had been through together, Will Byers is sure one thing remains unchanged: his feelings for Mike Wheeler are one-sided. Though he's living in the Wheelers' basement, he tries his best to get over Mike and fully accept himself with the help of Robin Buckley. Mike, meanwhile, is struggling with emotions he doesn't yet understand and a twisting feeling in his stomach at the thought of Will and Robin getting close so quickly. Misunderstandings grow, jealousy simmers, and buried feelings refuse to stay quiet as the boys figure themselves out.
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- 85,478
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
06 Jan 2026
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“Honestly, I bet they’ll end up dating at one point or another. I’ve just got a feeling.”
“I’ll take that bet,” Steve says, voice filled with certainty. “Bet you ten bucks Wheeler and Byers are just friends and don’t get together.”
Or:Robin and Steve make a bet on whether Will and Mike will end up together. Naturally, chaos ensues.
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- Part 2 of let's hear it for the boys
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05 Dec 2025
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you were bigger than the whole sky by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Nov 2022
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Mike breathes out sharply, sinking to his knees in front of Will without conscious thought. Every bone in his body is turning to jelly, because Will is here, but he's also- not. His form is made up of the same dusty gold that fills the air around him, flaking off him and dancing around. Mike wants to reach out and catch the light in his palm. Will looks not entirely solid, like this is some poor imitation of him rendered in light particles, like his physical form is somewhere else, and for a horrible moment Mike thinks that Will is a ghost after all. That this is an illusion, brought about by Mike's hopeless yearning. If it weren't for the pebbles digging sharply into his legs as he knees on the ground and the crisp chill of the spring air on his face, Mike would be sure he was dreaming, but he doesn't think he could dream up something so simultaneously as magical and horrifying as the specter of his maybe-dead friend hovering before him.
"Will," he whispers, reaching out until his fingers are centimeters from Will's arm, and Will's eyes fly open.
on march 29th, 1986, will byers vanishes for a second time. 366 days later, he reappears.
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
03 Dec 2025
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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A Chance to Keep Breathing by Wtfisgoingonhere
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
18 May 2025
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After DC, the world keeps on turning.
Steve faces the aftermath of the fight with HYDRA and the fall of SHIELD, and tries not to lose himself in this new, empty world where Bucky Barnes is alive and doesn’t remember who he is.
Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
17 Jun 2025
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This absolutely shattered me and healed me at the same time.
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The Forties by darkbluechrysanthemum
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
19 Dec 2025
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A distress signal gets broadcast into the New Avengers Tower, and weirdly, its timestamp reads 1949. Yelena thinks nothing of it until she reports it to Bucky, who thoroughly loses his shit. And so this ragtag dysfunctional team’s first mission ends up being to New York City, 1949 to save Steve Rogers from one incredible returning-the-Infinity-Stones mission fuck-up. Or, in other words, to get Bucky his boyfriend back.
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- 100,708
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- 21/21
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
16 Jun 2025
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Make this canon. That is all I'm asking for.... MAKE THIS CANON I'M BEGGING
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James "Bucky" Barnes was Steve Roger's best friend, watching him fall in to his death was enough to break Steve. Steve placed that plane in the water in hopes that he would not survive, when he woke up to find out that he had jumped into the future, he could not imagine a worse fate. However, when he discovered that his best friend has been alive this whole time, but forced to do Hydra's biding, Steve realized he had the better situation. Determined to be strong for Bucky, he hid what was happening in his brain. Bucky, on the other hand, was beyond grateful for everything that Steve and the Avengers were doing for him, but he knew that Steve was not okay. He just need to see that it was okay for him to ask for help too.
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- 130,195
- Chapters:
- 56/56
- Comments:
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Bookmarked by nerdwithaheart
16 Jun 2025