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Will gathers up all his courage into his sore arms, cradling bravery against his chest, holding it over his broken-and-then-healed ribcage. “Ever since I got back from the Upside Down, I’ve been in pain.”
“What do you mean?” Mike asks.
“It’s like I came back wrong. My body hurts pretty much all the time. It wasn’t that bad when it started, but it just kept getting worse and worse and now I’m just—” Will swallows the lump in his throat. “I’m crippled, basically. I’m sorry.”
Mike’s mouth opens and closes a couple times. “Hold on, did you say since the Upside Down? Three years ago?”
Will nods.
“And when you say ‘all the time’, you mean all the time?”
“The severity changes a lot, but yes.”
Mike looks… very concerned. “Even right now?”
It’s not funny, but he laughs. “Especially right now.”
or, Snapshots of Will's experience with chronic pain over the years, and how he navigates it with Mike.
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27 Jan 2026
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Will wakes up in pain. Mike spends the day looking after him and cheering him up.
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27 Jan 2026
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Mike decides it’s finally time to fight the loser allegations and goes out to party.
He doesn’t plan on seeing Will and his boyfriend making out. Even less being the reason why Will cheats on said boyfriend.
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27 Jan 2026
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Except he wasn’t truly alone in the garden.
Will tore his eyes from the paper and looked over at the frog: it had not moved an inch, all the while Will had filled the page and got lost in his thoughts, found his way out and got lost anew.
The frog blinked slowly at him. Will lowered his sketchbook. It was definitely staring.
or; Mike gets cursed a little too often.
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- Part 1 of Beneath The Willow Tree
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26 Jan 2026
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Talking to Strangers Online (Was the Best Decision I Ever Made) by Fvckit
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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Once he finished reading the new fic, he reblogged it and rushed to his and Heart’s messages.
Wise.Zombie: HOLY SHIT!!!!
Wise.Zombie: HEART!! IT’S SO GOOD THANK YOU!!! AHHH!Armour_Heart: Woooooow, wise if I didn’t know better I’d think you liked the fic lol
Armour_Heart: But seriously, your art was so good I couldn’t resist, you’re like my own personal museWise.Zombie: If it makes you write that well, then I’ll have to keep it up
Armour_Heart: Cute
Armour_Heart: Is the plan for next week still on?The plan for next week. One that had Will grinning from ear to ear and also so nervous he was going to throw up.
He and Heart were going to meet.
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Aka Will Byers is definitely not in love with his Tumblr Mutual. Mike Wheeler definitely is.Bookmarked by nlsonsprings
23 Jan 2026
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Lavender Fields by scienceisrealyo for KitSaidOui
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
13 Jul 2025
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31 year old Nick Nelson retired from professional rugby and is giving Sarah Nelson a well-deserved year off from running Lavender Fields Bed and Breakfast. And Nick’s doing fine, thank you very much. Until the guest name C. Spring changes everything.
Note: 1-31 are the original story (Nick's point of view). Chapters 32 - 60 are from when Charlie bullied me into providing his perspective, too.
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23 Jan 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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Mystery Work
Part of lost in the woods forever
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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19 Jan 2026
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“How obvious?” He asks, unsure, despite what should be the blaring sign that hides under his layers.
Robin smiles at him, humor lacing her words as she answers.
“Let’s say the, uh, snowball became an avalanche.”Season 5 rewrite ft. #mwtfdydgate and Omegaverse
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- Part 1 of before today
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19 Jan 2026
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Miami Beach: Art Deco District and Museum ($3), Vizcaya Gardens ($10), lunch on Ocean Drive - Big Daddy’s(?), Lincoln Road, dinner at the Carlyle (next door!!), propose!!!!! That’s what his scrawled bullet-pointed list had said; their loose itinerary for today even though Mike wanted to hit every point before the proposal to get the quintessential experience.
A very special Byler Christmas.
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19 Jan 2026
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“Do I really have to do this?” Will asks, for what is presumably the millionth time. He lost track a while ago.
“Yes,” Max replies without hesitation. “You’re unbearably lonely.”
Will drops his jaw, offended. Sure, he might not have the most entertaining love life, but he wouldn’t go that far. He’s happy where he is. Content. He doesn’t need a guy to fulfill him. “My loneliness is completely bearable.”
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Will reluctantly joins a dating app at his friends’ insistence. He doesn’t have much hope, until he’s messaged by a dork who likes rocks.
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18 Jan 2026
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"It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."
"You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.
"Absolutely."
Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.
After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.
Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonspeaking autistic, and Mike is also autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!
// title from Coming Home by beabadoobee
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18 Jan 2026
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After proclaiming himself an Atheist one night at the dinner table, Mike's parents exile him to an Evangelical Summer Camp for one last summer before college.
But this year is different. On top of rejecting his faith, he can't stop thinking about the mysterious boy working as a caretaker.
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- Part 1 of Indiana Summer
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- 67,468
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- 12/12
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16 Jan 2026
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Mike really just wants to take care of Will, in every way he possibly can.
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- Part 1 of i can't be without you
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- 2/2
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14 Jan 2026
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"Will likes it so much. Likes being Mike’s baby, likes being called syrupy names, likes being doted on. Can’t believe he almost gave this up."
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Will's insecure that he's not enough for Mike in bed. Mike shows him otherwise.
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- Part 2 of i can't be without you
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14 Jan 2026
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A charged silence hung between them, the only sound being that of Will sketching. Mike had a tendency to fumble through moments like this, finding comfort in little quips to shift the vibe. It's expected of him, really, he can't help himself.
Mike's suggestion this time, however, was completely unexpected. Before Mike could even decipher it, the thought had reached his lips and just tumbled out.
"You'd look good as Luke Skywalker."
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Mike asks Will to dress up as Luke Skywalker for Halloween for totally normal reasons that aren't linked to Mike's huge gay crush on Mark Hamill—or his huge gay crush on Will, but he doesn't need to know that yet.
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14 Jan 2026
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They say that moles are spots marked by your soulmate’s kisses from your past lives.
Maybe for Will, that’s not too far out of the realm of possibility.
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13 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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04 Jan 2026
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One fateful October night in 1995, Will Byers is dragged by his step-sister, Jane, and her best friend to a rock concert. That was just the beginning...
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A much needed byler enemies to lovers 90s rock band au.
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03 Jan 2026
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read this back in december and loved it omggggggg
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At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.
It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.
or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.
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01 Jan 2026