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A city where no one knows your name by qualifyingmikes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Feb 2026
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“Since when are you into crafting?” Will frowned.
Lucas opened his mouth to speak, but Max shook her head and rested a hand on his arm. “It’s his quarter-life crisis.”
Mike pursed his lips, thinking to himself for a moment. He thought about how his whole life was some kind of crisis.
Or: Mike and Will spend a weekend in Cali with the party!
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- Part 3 of Promises and contracts
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I wasn’t looking for love this year by qualifyingmikes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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“It’s so quiet in here.” Will whispered. “It feels so…light.”
“I’ve never felt like this before.” Mike’s own honesty surprised him. “I mean,” he continued, “moving here was meant to fix things. But it just made everything so much heavier…”
“Until now.” Will completed his sentence.
Or: After the concert, Mike and Will explore some truths…and meet their idols.
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- Part 2 of Promises and contracts
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I can’t seem to sit still any longer by qualifyingmikes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Nov 2025
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Mike studied him fiercely from his desk at the front of the room. He was small (even smaller than Mike, which was really saying something) with a chestnut bowl cut and a tired-looking jacket hanging loosely over his thin frame. He looked like he was folding in on himself as he stood before the class, like the embarrassment was eating a cavity inside him.
Mike knew exactly how that felt…to be so desperate to hide.
Or: Mike meets the new kid Will for the first time— in 1978.
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Promises and contracts I used to keep by qualifyingmikes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Nov 2025
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Before him stood a short guy with ruffled brown hair and thin silver-rimmed glasses around hazel eyes, alive with a spark he hadn’t seen before.
“Can I help you?” He asked, voice dry as a California summer. It had been hours since he’d last taken a drink…or maybe it had even been days. There was no way to tell anymore.
“I’m Will. I just moved in upstairs.”
Or: modern day au where mike and will live in New York and bond over twenty one pilots!!
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- Part 1 of Promises and contracts
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Walking on ice but nobody breaks it by qualifyingmikes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Oct 2025
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At Rink-O-Mania, Will Byers finally snaps.
Or: What if he’d just shoved Mike and El to the ground? (heheh)
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Will comes over to Mike's house on Christmas Eve, 1978.
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- Part 1 of my stranger things works !
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i said i'm fine (just put it in drive again) by limerency
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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“Max, I just wanted to—This is so random but I felt—I’m sorry.”
Well, that was not what Max was asking for but she’ll take it. Another new addition to Mike Wheeler—him apologising!
“What are you sorry for? Your awful driving?” Her face cracks into a wide smile and she doubles over laughing. She really did find herself hilarious. Max realises quickly that she’s the only person in the vehicle cracking up, “oh you’re serious?”
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Mike offers to drive Max to her routine hospital appointments after the whole 'end of the world' situation. Usually they just bicker and talk about Will, but today's car ride was different—Mike decides to unburden himself.
A heart to heart ensues.
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“Mike?” She tries again, her throat bubbling. She hates this. She hates not knowing how to fix things.
More heavy breathing blows through the receiver.A shaky sob.
And a response.
“I’m gay.”
A scared weep rattles into her ear and Nancy’s chest squeezes.
Fuck.
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In the middle of the night, Mike comes out to Nancy over the phone.
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15 Feb 2026
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No one saw it coming.
After all the recent days had brought them, all the suffering, all the fear... somehow, no one predicted this.
Based on a prompt from Reddit, it consumed my whole being and I had to write it
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Will confesses his feelings
Bookmarked by qualifyingmikes
01 Feb 2026