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“You need to stop having sex with your boyfriend.”
“Excuse me?”
“I know I was the one who suggested it, and I know you have good intentions,’ Robin continued to his mortification. “But it really hasn’t been helping. In fact, I’d say it’s gotten worse.”
“You have pavloved Mike into yelling at us,” Lucas cut in, impatient. “It’s sick. It’s cruel.”
Snapshots of the 8 months worth of planning for the Byers-Wheeler wedding
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22 May 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 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.
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21 May 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.
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20 May 2026
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After a string of bad relationships, Will Byers is done with dating - for real this time. Mike Wheeler, alone for the first time in his life, is determined to make the most of his fresh start at the coast. When they meet at Maxine's on Will’s 30th birthday, they think they can make time for one last indiscretion before turning over new leaves.
They didn’t realize how long, exactly, this one night stand would last.
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04 May 2026
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My gift is my song (and this one's for you) by mel0phil3
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 May 2026
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As he stared at the boy his eyes trailed from the rings delicately decorating his slim fingers, to the silver chains hanging around his neck, to the metal bar poking out from his right eyebrow. He had a large reddish almost heart shaped birthmark on the left side of his face.
That birthmark looks oddly familiar…
Finally, his eyes drifted to lock eyes with the chocolate brown ones gazing back at him.
oh shit how long have I been staring?
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In 1990, Will Byers has finally escaped his small town of Hawkins, Indiana for the bustling city of New York. He's going to college to take art classes and finds himself sharing an apartment with his brother's girlfriend's brother who he's never met before.
Mike Wheeler has escaped his homophobic parents and run off to NYC to join a band, but he can't afford living in the city on his own, so his sister arranged a roommate for him, which to his surprise someone he recognizes...Fic title from Your Song by Elton John!!!
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playlist: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/my-gift-is-my-song/pl.u-pMylDqaH4e1moR3Bookmarked by rat_teef
02 May 2026
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The Paladin and Cleric are well known within New York's underworld. They're killers, feared by most organizations except their own. While the Paladin is all knives and hands, the Cleric works with poison, patience, and mystery.
When they're supposed to kill each other, they don't — instead, they indulge in a journey filled with murderous flirting, a whole lot of suspense, and a whirlwind of emotions.
And while New York's gang world starts to falter, they're left to figure out whether they really want each other dead — or what really lies between them.Bookmarked by rat_teef
01 May 2026
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Unknown:
It's Mike. We met at the bar and you were dancing with your ginger friend… Mia? Max?
This is El right?Will:
oh um
my sister gives my number out to creepy guys sometimes when she doesn't want to say noUnknown:
WHATBookmarked by rat_teef
29 Apr 2026
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Knock knock knock
“Jesus Christ! Hold on,” he mumbles, floating down the steps. He flicks on the porch light and yanks the door open. “What the hell are you–” He freezes.
For a moment, he really does believe he’s dreaming. You know, given that not a single fucking thing about this situation makes any goddamn sense. Because on the short trip from his bedroom to the front door, Mike made a list in his head of all of the people that could potentially be on the other side. It was a rather abbreviated list, to be fair: The cops. Nancy. His landlady, Freida. That one drunk guy he occasionally gives a cigarette to if he happens to be smoking on his porch when he walks by.
But it’s not any of those people. It’s Will. A year older, soaking wet, shivering with a waterlogged duffel bag slung over his left shoulder. Yeah. He’s dreaming. Because he had spoken to Will on the phone not even ten hours ago. He was about to go on his three year anniversary date with his long term boyfriend in New York City.
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Will needs some space from his boyfriend, James, and for whatever reason, he decides to take that space at Mike's townhouse in Boston. Mike is going to be so normal about it.
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20 Apr 2026
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“Thrilling shit, Professor Wheeler. You always manage to make me feel so grateful I’m free of E-Lit for the rest of my life.”
“You probably just needed a better teacher.”
“Hmm, perhaps. Do you know any good English Literature Teachers around? Maybe I could retake a class or two.” Will’s voice was low and soft, right behind his ear, chasing shivers down Mike’s spine.
Mike Wheeler is a teacher at high school, and on Valentine's Day he suddenly finds a present sitting on his desk. He's extremely worried about a student being in love with him - his best friend, crush, and Art Teacher Will Byers helps him through it.
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17 Apr 2026
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Mike’s life was quiet and simple. Nothing out of the ordinary…and that’s how he likes it.
Nothing could’ve prepared him for losing three days of his memory then ending up in a halfway house for demonic recovery? Which is apparently a thing?
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16 Apr 2026
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Circus Freak (fly me to the stars and the moon) by wisekang
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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Michael James Wheeler is a well-known and prominent playwright in the 1850s theatre industry. But what happens when his sister is able to convince him to trade that typical, mundane life of his for one night of something bright and colorful?
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the one where Mike Wheeler is so down bad he’s willing to give up his entire life’s work for just a fleeting look from one Will Byers.Bookmarked by rat_teef
16 Apr 2026
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Will isn't a big fan of dating apps, but he'll do anything to get Mike off his mind for a moment. Nothing seems to be getting through to him...until someone by the name of Manny catches his eye.
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Will's POV of Swipe Right.
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14 Apr 2026
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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12 Apr 2026
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09 Apr 2026
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give me your shirt (now give me your heart) by Kagome300
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Mar 2026
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"The first time Will really noticed it was when he was nine and quarters mysteriously found their way into his pocket at the arcade.
He had left Mike alone with his jacket and returned from the bathroom with two whole dollars more than he'd started with in his jacket pocket. Will had looked at Mike suspiciously, but his friend had insisted that he didn't know what Will was talking about.
The next time they were at the arcade, Will was prepared. He had counted his money three times before he left his house and kept track throughout the day. Then, during an intense round of Space Invaders, Will had felt Mike bump his arm. He hadn't thought anything of it in the moment, distracted by the game. But the next time that Will shoved his hand into his pocket, he found seven new quarters waiting for him.
He was sure then: Mike was secretly slipping him quarters."
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aka the one where Mike gives Will the Princess Treatment his whole life.
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09 Apr 2026
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[podfic] friend of my brother is my enemy (or something like that) by rosepods (roseprose) for rosesgf
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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Jonathan would never hear the end of it if Will found out what he’s doing, so he needs to be subtle. Just enough to get Mike to treat him better. Just enough to redirect things.
He settles on a stern, “Mike, I think we need to have a talk.”
Podfic Length: 50:30
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03 Apr 2026
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"You're... you're such a jerk," the older Will panted, his eyes fluttering shut, his hands coming up to grip the older Mike’s forearms, though he wasn't pushing him away. If anything, he was pulling him closer.
The older Mike leaned down, his lips brushing against the shell of the older Will’s ear. "Am I?" he whispered, the audio catching the low, gravelly vibration of his voice.
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In the summer of 1989, a video store appears overnight in Hawkins, one no one remembers.
Inside, Mike and Will find a tape labeled with their names, dated years in the future.
When they watch it, they realize it isn’t a movie, it’s them.
But the signal is fragile, only steadying when they are touching; to keep the future from dissolving into static, they must maintain constant physical contact.Bookmarked by rat_teef
29 Mar 2026
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Mike and Will find themselves trapped in an escape room the first time they meet. Everything that comes after that is rather unexpected.
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28 Mar 2026
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Steve looks between the four identical faces. “You’re not even a little curious?” he asks. “About how your other lives are going?”
“No,” Mike answers, immediate.
Too immediate.
Mike with the eyebrow ring snorts. The one in the tracksuit glances at Will again—just a flick of the eyes. The knight folds his hands behind his back and looks at the first Mike like he’s deeply disappointed.
[Or: The one where several Mikes exist simultaneously, and every single one of them is Will’s problem.]Series
- Part 1 of parallel hearts
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22 Mar 2026
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Dating apps aren't Mike's thing, until he finds out Will is using one. He can't let a bunch of trashy guys go after his best friend; he'll just make a fake account to scope out the situation. What could go wrong...or right?
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Mike creates a fake persona on a dating app to unknowingly flirt with Will.
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19 Mar 2026