13 Bookmarks by purescent
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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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 130,743
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 971
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- 931
- Bookmarks:
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14 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler has survived monsters, alternate dimensions and the literal end of the world.
Unfortunately, he has no idea how to survive Will Byers in New York; confident, teasing, and somehow making Mike's dick develop a mind of its own.
A list. A rating system. Zero self-control.
It's just an experiment.
Definitely not a way to avoid admitting he's in love with his best friend.
Or: Mike Wheeler gets hit with the world's worst gay panic, and Will Byers has been waiting years to enjoy the show.
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04 Aug 2026
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"Mike."
"Yeah?" Mike pulls back slightly and Will's eyes flicker down, watching as he sucks his bottom lip into his mouth.
He doesn't know what to say; he's not sure he even knows how to breathe.
"Strawberry," Mike says after a moment, his voice wavering.
"What?"
"The flavor… is it strawberry?"
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Mike and Will play the chapstick game, the line between friendship and something more blurring as they do whatever it takes to win.
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14 Jul 2026
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“I think it could be fun. It would be pretty cool to, y’know, be around other people who are… Like me.” He’s avoiding Mike’s eyes as he finishes his sentence.
Mike nods. If only he knew he’s around people like him a lot more often than he realizes. “We can definitely do that.”
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Mike and Will attend their first Pride event together.
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09 Jul 2026
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"No," Will said quickly. "It's okay. He's going to be okay."
Nancy turned, the shock freezing her features into something horrifying. "He doesn't have a pulse."
Will held up his hands as he shook his head. "I know. But it—he—will be fine. You'll see."
Nancy choked on a sob. "He's dead! How is he going to be okay?"
Or: Four years after graduation, they're back in the Abyss, where a failing fight leads to Mike being bitten and losing everything about himself, except his love for Will Byers.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 63,319
- Chapters:
- 14/?
- Comments:
- 746
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- 1,326
- Bookmarks:
- 346
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- 34,172
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09 Jul 2026
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For their senior year spring break, the Party sets sail on a 7-day cruise to celebrate the next chapter of their lives. Not much has changed since their last reunion, as long as you don’t count Mike and Will breaking up two years ago, which fractured the friend group permanently and made it so neither of them could stand to be within ten feet of each other.
It’ll be a trip they never forget - that much Will is sure of.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 179,435
- Chapters:
- 11/?
- Comments:
- 2,230
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- 5,923
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- 1,629
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- 272,118
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06 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:
- 239,387
- Chapters:
- 9/12
- Comments:
- 3,638
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- 9,018
- Bookmarks:
- 2,309
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- 318,814
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05 Jul 2026
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a collection of lawless byler art
- Language:
- English
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- Chapters:
- 21/?
- Comments:
- 1,413
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- 11,260
- Bookmarks:
- 1,104
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- 216,961
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12 Jun 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:
- 1,288
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- 10,046
- Bookmarks:
- 2,639
- Hits:
- 226,619
Bookmarked by purescent
16 May 2026
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900-XXX-XXXX call 4 a good time <3
"And what does God do?" The Reverend leans forward, gripping the edges of the pulpit. One hand raised towards the crowd, others reaching forward with pained expressions, lips moving in urgent whispers—pleading, begging, some of them crying.
Mike watches them pray for salvation.
They can’t all be saved.
or;
Will Byers is a phone sex operator, and Mike Wheeler is his favorite caller.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 129,259
- Chapters:
- 11/?
- Comments:
- 1,204
- Kudos:
- 2,217
- Bookmarks:
- 643
- Hits:
- 81,147
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07 May 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
- Comments:
- 4,558
- Kudos:
- 13,567
- Bookmarks:
- 2,952
- Hits:
- 400,181
Bookmarked by purescent
04 May 2026
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no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin by bridgetobyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Mar 2026
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“You… um, smoke?” Will asks before he can stop himself, swallowing as he watches a boy lean against the dusty, cracking brick wall.
Will doesn’t know much about the boy, except that his name is Mike and his father is the pastor.
“What?” He replies, pulling the cigarette from his lips and lightly blowing the smoke from his mouth. “Just because my dad is the pastor, you think I can’t enjoy a cigarette?
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Will Byers is no stranger to religious guilt. He carries it everywhere he goes, and it’s starting to weigh him down.
When he meets Mike Wheeler, the pastor’s son, he realizes there is more to life than just fearing God, and it’s much scarier.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,263
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 431
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- 2,153
- Bookmarks:
- 692
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- 52,401
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08 Apr 2026
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Mike is no stranger to a little moral ambiguity, and mind reading is far more harmless than burying a body without telling anyone. So he dives in. Will smiles at him, and Mike prompts his brain to figure out why.
He finds nothing.
This is… odd.
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Mike gets telepathic powers randomly, three years after Vecna’s defeat. He tunes into people’s thoughts, expecting every guy’s mind to be like his. When he finds surprisingly few gay thoughts about best friends, he’s forced to re-evaluate and see if maybe it’s just him? (it is.)
It doesn’t help that the one mind he wants to read the most seems to be set to a different frequency entirely.
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- Part 1 of About Thoughts
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,174
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 381
- Kudos:
- 1,231
- Bookmarks:
- 318
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- 18,705
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30 Mar 2026