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Mike Wheeler writes fantasy novels now.
In his second book, a paladin falls in love with a cleric he loses long before either of them learn how to speak honestly.
Will Byers reads the dedication two years after they stop talking.
Or: to my cleric — i remember, and it was real to me.
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27 Sep 2026
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It's fucking hot out, and the sun is so bright that it's reflecting off the surface of the water and right into his eyes, so Mike really has no choice but to look over at Will, who's blushing pink and has his shoulders curled up into his ears in this endearingly bashful way, and maybe Mike is drunk, because that's really the only explanation for why he opens his mouth and says, "I know I'm not an authority on hot guys, or whatever, but if you, um. If your dry spell is really an issue, I'm here."
And then he jumps promptly back into the pool.
When he surfaces, Will is staring at him like he's grown two extra heads. "What?"
"Okay, that was kind of stupid of me to say," Mike admits, treading water.
Apparently, it's been a criminally long time since Will has had sex that was actually good. Mike, with all of the zero experience he has under his belt, is compelled to take matters into his own hands by forces outside his control - forces completely unrelated to Robin's lethal tequila pours, of course.
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27 Sep 2026
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“What exactly does this pact entail, then?”
Mike leans forward very seriously, bringing his face close to Will’s.
“When they make it legal for you to get married, because they will.” He pauses, as if to make sure that Will is listening. Will laughs and nods for him to go on. “And if we’re both still alone and miserable—”
“Wow. Is that the awesome future you’re painting for us on our last night?”
“Shh.” Mike is doing a decent job at staying in character, but the crinkles around his eyes are giving him away. “If we’re both still alone by then… and at least partially miserable. That part’s important,” he continues dramatically, “I’ll marry the shit out of you, William Byers. Deal?”
Or, before heading off to college, Mike and Will make a pact. Fifteen years later, gay marriage is legalized in the state of Massachusetts. These two events are intrinsically linked to one another.
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25 Sep 2026
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No, there was no way. Like seriously no way. He’d just been thinking about Will a lot recently. Will was far too shy to pose for pictures like this. He just… wouldn’t do that. Not his Will. Mike would just find the page again and prove it was someone else. He would open the magazine and see a stranger on the page, and everything would be fine.
As he flipped back, he prayed to a God that he didn't believe in. Please, let that model be a stranger.
How gay is it to jerk off after stumbling across a suggestive picture of your old best friend? Maybe it’s excusable. Suggestive is suggestive, after all. And everyone can agree that Will is a stunning dude.
But joining an AIDS coalition, getting a lap dance from a drag queen, spending the night in a holding cell, and accidentally finding a place in Chicago's queer community?
Yeah, that’s… pretty gay.
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- Part 1 of pictures of you
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23 Sep 2026
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Hawkins | Summer of 1990
Mike projects his feelings through a dungeons and dragons character he’s helping Will write named “Melchor”, a fallen Paladin, who also happens to be a peeping tom obsessed with a Cleric.
What begins as harmless watching and roleplay quickly turns into voyeurism: binoculars aimed at Will’s bedroom window, stolen NSFW sketches, and dangerously intimate D&D roleplay that reveals far more about Will and Mike's desires/insecurities than they're prepared for.
As Mike’s shame surrounding his sexuality deepens, his fixation on Will begins to consume them both—until the voyeur meets his perfect match: an exhibitionist who might enjoy being watched just as much.
Healing through kink. Emotional Slow burn. Mutual obsession. Voyeurism/exhibitionism. Kink. Punk Wheeler. Yearning. Angst
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- Part 1 of Voyeuristic Wheeler
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19 Sep 2026
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Thanks to an unexpected storm, the Party's camping trip is ruined. But Mike and Will are already here, the tent has been pitched, and fuck, Mike is far too horny to deal with this.
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19 Sep 2026
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Mike would like the record to show that he found BDSMtest.org entirely by accident.
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Mike finds a BDSM test online while doing research to "help Will" with his "incompatibility" issues. Naturally, he takes it and sends it to the entire party at 1:30am because he's totally and completely normal about all of this.
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18 Sep 2026
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“Let me get this straight. You told your Nana I’m your boyfriend about a month ago, mind you.” Will paused, waiting for Mike to nod. Mike obediently nodded.
“And you waited until…” Will checked his wristwatch, his eyes narrowing as he did the math. “…three hours before her birthday party to tell me?”
Mike swallowed nervously and nodded again. Will just stared at him. Then he scoffed, like he genuinely couldn’t believe this was happening.
“What the hell is wrong with you, Michael?”
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Mike accidentally tells his Nana that Will Byers is his boyfriend, and now his grumpy, very pissed-off best friend has to fake-date him for her birthday.
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17 Sep 2026
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Final so shit it made me draw byler had sex
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17 Sep 2026
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He stares up at the ceiling of his dorm for nearly forty five minutes after he hangs up. He listens to the creak of the dorm’s ancient pipes as the shower in the shared bathroom runs. His body almost feels like it is floating—like he’s not inside of himself.
He tries to catalogue all the moments he had spent with Will—the moments he’d had Will inside him—trying to see if he could find the one that had gotten them—gotten him—into this situation. It had happened more than once—each time had involved alcohol—but Mike knows that after the first time the alcohol had become an excuse, that he nor Will had been more than a few sips in each subsequent time. It was a denial—the alcohol—a way to explain the intensity that kept bringing them together without ruining the years of them underneath.
He thinks about it too frequently—their couplings—heat coiling in his stomach and shame twisting his heart. He’s a teenage boy for Christ’s sake—he lives in a near perpetual state of hyper arousal—but he thinks he’s probably the only teenage boy on this campus who's got something growing inside of him because of it.
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- Part 1 of For Mike
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14 Sep 2026
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But I wonder if you want her (In the way I wish you would need me) by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Dec 2025
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Mike doesn’t know what’s going on with Will and Robin, but all he knows is that it makes him want to scream. Or curl into a ball and cry. Or jump off a cliff. Any of those options would suffice, really, to convey just how much he hates it.
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13 Sep 2026
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Will's injured after a Demogorgon attack, and Mike insists on patching him up. It should be simple—clean the wound, wrap the bandage, done. But Mike's hands keep lingering, and the air between them feels heavier with every touch. They've been walking this line for months, finding excuses to be close without ever crossing it. Maybe it's time to stop pretending.
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12 Sep 2026
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In the end, it doesn’t matter. None of it fucking matters. Because what’s really in control is the tension. This elusive string tied between their chests that’s always changing length. Right now it’s so short and taught and strong that Will can’t imagine resisting it. So really, it was never a matter of if he would. Just when. When will he fold? When will he let go and let himself follow Mike into the water?
He dares to glance down at his knees, where he can see Mike’s fingers peeking out from behind his calves (as if he needed that visual reminder that they’re touching), and then back up to meet Mike’s expectant gaze.
He’s going to do it. He’s such a fucking idiot.
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Mike & Will have a long overdue conversation on the way back to Hawkins— by, in, and around a random motel pool.
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12 Sep 2026
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Mike Wheeler needs proof that Will is still here.
Same bed every night. Mike counting the beat under Will’s skin, Will’s shivers, every place his mouth has been allowed and every place he has forbidden himself to touch. Will keeps asking what they are. Mike keeps asking him to stay.
A fight in Will’s studio goes too far. When Will wakes, he is deaf.
Years later, Will is learning how to live without waiting for Mike to choose him. Mike is learning, badly and late, that loving Will was never the part he got wrong.
Or: Mike spends a year asking Will to stay. Will leaves anyway. Mike spends years earning the chance to ask again.
A psychological slow burn about grief, OCD, codependency, and three thousand miles of yearning.
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10 Sep 2026
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Fanart for the beautiful fic "Signs Over Lies" by the amazing Ivyngxxx.
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10 Sep 2026
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Mike still had both of Will’s wrists pinned over his head in one hand.
“Working title,” he said. “Part One.”
“‘Everything He Was Given the First Time Is Still Inside Him.’” A beat. “Italicize still.”
“That's awful.”
“Comma. ‘And the Writer Intends to Add to It.’”
He tapped two fingers against Will’s lower stomach. “That’s the it.’”
Will pressed his lips together. It didn’t work.
“Fill the spread.” Mike tapped him again. “No white space.”
OR: Mike Wheeler gets hired to write a sex column for Pink Noise, where his ex-best friend Will Byers is the art director stuck illustrating it. Will thinks Mike writes sex like desire owes him an apology. Mike asks him to prove it and calls it research.
Their first feature: How to Fuck Your Friend and Keep Your Dignity.
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08 Sep 2026
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Will Byers is possessed. Again. But this time it's coming for him fast and hard, and it's not something they can just force out by poking him with a fire iron; he needs a different form of release, and Mike Wheeler has been waiting.
It's El that answers for Will, and for every truth that she utters everything begins to click into place.
"Will would need someone to help him."
And there it finally is, the undeniable truth: Someone needs to fuck Will through it. It doesn't land like a sucker punch to the gut that would have left him winded like Mike had expected. Instead, the fact consumes him like a sudden blast of cold wind, eliciting a tingle in his skin and leaving goosebumps in its wake to travel from his arms up to his shoulders and to his nape, at the back of his ears. He feels it settle in his scalp like a hundred pinpricks from a needle.
"I'll do it."
Mike signs his death sentence in three words. He finds it hard to regret—even poor bastards due for the executioner's block are granted their last meal, after all.
Or: byler Fuck Or Die, wherein mike has to exorcise will by fucking the possession out of him as it is actively ongoing.
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08 Sep 2026
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Hands pulling at shirts in a darkened room, a tongue licking along burning skin, moans and pants and belt buckles being unclasped.
Mike presses his knees together so hard his bones grind.
“Tell me," he gasps. "—Confess—to God—-all of your sins.”
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08 Sep 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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03 Sep 2026
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The one where Mike finds out that Will has a small dick and promptly comes up with a five-step plan to make Will feel better about it.
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03 Sep 2026