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where is my mind? by ciders
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom
03 Apr 2018
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On November 6th, 1985, Will Byers crashed his bicycle while riding home from the Wheeler household, damaging his head and waking up two days later with no recollection of who he was.
Plagued with the absence of his memories and a dark haired boy who refuses to tell Will his name, all Will Byers has to do is remember. That's the hard part.
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- Part 1 of losing will, and other fatalities
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- English
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- 66,295
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- 14/14
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07 Aug 2022
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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
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- English
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- 1/1
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04 Aug 2022
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those are you got some nice shoulders (i’d like to put my hands around them) by orphan_account
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
18 Apr 2020
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Whatever little control Richie felt he had over his own body dissolved rapidly and humiliatingly around June, which is coincidentally also when Eddie deemed it warm enough to start wearing shorts regularly. Like a bundle of kindling, Richie was consumed by ferocious, hungry heat as the days curled and blackened at the edges under the Maine sun.
(Alternatively: A year in which Richie confronts the horrors of tenth grade and a crush on his best friend that just won't quit.)
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01 Aug 2022
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Eddie Kaspbrak is 14 years old and he just defeated a demonic clown along with his friends.
Eddie Kaspbrak is 16 years old and he's fighting against himself and the way he feels and the way he thinks.
Eddie Kaspbrak is 18 years old and he'd much rather fight a demonic clown all over again than face his true feelings for Richie Tozier.
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- 5/5
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30 Jul 2022
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When Will needs to get his thoughts out of his head, he writes a letter he never intends to send. He addresses it to Mike, and tells him everything.
Feeling lighter than he has in weeks and buoyed by the adrenaline of writing it all out, Will acts on an impulse and ends the letter with, "If you’d be willing to give me a chance, I’d be really happy to date you. If you’re open to trying it, please meet me in Castle Byers this Saturday at 2:00pm. I’m not asking for any promises, I’m not asking for forever or anything like that; all I’m asking is that you give me a chance. Come if you want; if not, I completely understand, no hard feelings, and I’ll never, ever mention this again."
He forgets all about the letter, and the distinctive red envelope he stowed it in, until he turns around to find it missing. Now, Will has to think of some way to stop Mike from reading that letter - or should he wait at Castle Byers on Saturday at 2:00pm and pray for a miracle?
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- Part 1 of The Red Envelope
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- English
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- 10/10
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29 Jul 2022
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I Never Find Out 'Til I'm Head Over Heels by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 May 2017
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Wherein Mike believes he’s being obvious, Will doesn’t know what he believes, and the pair of them could use a lesson or two in effective communication. Somehow all of this has both nothing and everything to do with five years' worth of school dances.
(This piece was written for the Stranger Things Big Bang)
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29 Jul 2022
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My contribution to MerMay.
Will was just trying to keep his head low and his bills paid. The job at the Research Center for Ocean Life was easy, quiet, and it kept food in his belly. Everything was going well until he saw something in the Deep Sea enclosures he couldn't explain.
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His sneakers slid across the soap, making him windmill his arms and for a moment, the safety training video he’d watched a few weeks prior played on a loop in his head, scolding him for not wearing no-slip shoes.
“No. Nope. No fucking way,” he panted through chattering teeth as he found his footing and leaned his back against the door.
He kept his eyes locked on the enclosure, waiting for the light to show up again or for his mind to come up with a better explanation than there was a fucking alien in a tank less than a hundred feet away from him. He waited almost half an hour before he found his nerve and crept back to retrieve the mop. He didn’t bother to clean the glass, justifying it with the lack of time he had left in his shift rather than the queasy feeling in his stomach and uncomfortable, primal fear of being confronted with something he had no logical explanation for.
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27 Jul 2022
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So, yeah. This has become less awkward and mentally painful to physically painful and extremely agitating. Will is seriously contemplating why his psyche ever chose this man, of all people, to have a stupid gay crush on.
Or: Bylers get Murrayed for the 2nd time.
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16 Jul 2022
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"You look nice," Robin said, patting Mike on the shoulder when she found him alone in the hallway, a glass of punch in his hands. She's dressed in black jeans and a grey woolly sweater. Mike glanced down at himself.
"I always wear this," he declared.
"You don't wear khakis. Or plaid."
She said it like she knew him better than he knew himself.
That was the first thing that made him think.
Or, Mike Wheeler and his blossoming friendship with Robin Buckley.
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- Part 1 of she knows so much about these things
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09 Jul 2022
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Mike feels a little or a lot, never controlled and always one extreme or the other. It’s visible in the way he snaps at his friends when he gets too angry or too upset, and it’s audible in his relentless stutter that appears when there’s attention on him. It’s laced in the lies that he grinds out through his teeth, claiming that he’s fine, and it’s in the fight to appear as though he’s swimming gently through a body of water when in reality he can’t keep afloat.
His feelings are like waves, gentle or all consuming as they rise and fall with the tide, and nothing drowns him quite like Will Byers.
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mike falls apart one drunken night. will helps piece him back together.Bookmarked by pylons
09 Jul 2022
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It’s always been Mike and Will since the day that they met, and so life goes as follows – they stick by one another throughout everything, from campaigns to demogorgons, and yet somehow they can’t quite see what it is they’ve been missing (or ignoring) this whole time.
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five times that others noticed how mike felt + the one time that will did.Bookmarked by pylons
09 Jul 2022
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i feel like an open wound by agustplz (shout_out_lou)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jul 2022
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"But I know the truth you hide, Michael." His voice sounds like it's in Mike's head even though he keeps a few feet of distance between them. "All those fears. Who you truly are inside. You cannot hide those things from me. Do you not question what I showed you? Why are your only fears William Byers and yourself?"
or, the vol. 2 fix-it where: the party fights vecna together, mike gets vecna'd and Discovers Feelings, no one dies, and byler actually get to have that long overdue conversation.
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06 Jul 2022
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He knew Mike was avoiding him. At first he convinced himself the other was just too busy with school and daily life to contact him but then Will saw the mountains of letters he sent to El and realized that maybe he's just the problem.
Things fell apart slowly until only this was left.
Whatever this can be called.
Or Will and Mike talk, it ends dramatically.
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03 Jul 2022
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The other day I was thinking about how Mike would totally be the sort of dork to call or go talk to Will right after he loses his virginity.
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16 Jun 2022
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It’s almost Christmas, and they’ve all made it through another year without incident. Joyce is just starting to relax again when she notices a change in Will.
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14 Jun 2022
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Of course Will is here. They take care of each other. It’s what they do.
or: Mike and Will, through the years and in between the lines of friendship and something more.
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14 Jun 2022
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It’s the fall of their senior year and Will just got his wisdom teeth taken out. Mike, Dustin, and Lucas came to hang out while he’s drugged up on pain meds and some embarrassing confessions slip out (not that Will’s going to remember any of them).
Now Mike has to deal with the fact that his best friend is in love with him and figure out why exactly he’s excited by the idea of kissing Will. (Hint: he’s got an itty bitty crush of his own.)
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14 Jun 2022
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there's a Starman waiting in the sky by the_angry_pixie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Feb 2018
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Will makes a daring choice for his Halloween costume.
Mike goes into crisis.
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- Part 1 of Starman Universe
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- English
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- 8/8
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14 Jun 2022
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When Will accidentally hands Mike a personal sketchbook instead of a school notebook, he may as well have just handed Mike a full confession. Will realizes just a tad too late. Mortified, ashamed, Will flees to Castle Byers. Mike follows.
It's a sweet coming-out story with a happy ending, yo. Because Will Byers deserves a good day, okay?
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- English
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- 4,145
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- 1/1
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- 4
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- 143
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14 Jun 2022
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When Eleven starts putting makeup on them, Mike is a little weirded out but doesn't consider it a problem. What he does consider a problem is that he starts finding Will pretty with makeup. And maybe without makeup too.
He's screwed.
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14 Jun 2022