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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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26 Jan 2026
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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- Part 1 of landslide
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23 Jan 2026
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(Byler one shot! ❄️)
After a long day, Mike just wants to practice some figure skating at his local rink. Unfortunately, it’s closed. Fortunately, a cute hockey player named Will who just so happens to have connections to the owner and a key to the building, arrives at just the right moment. They skate together, listen to Fleetwood Mac, and Mike is a pretty big gay mess.
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Nearing footsteps crunching on the salt-sprinkled sidewalk cause Mike to jump away from the door. He looks to his left as a boy around his age approaches from the parking lot, shoving his keys into the back pocket of his sweats. He’s wrapped up cozily, in a thick winter jacket and big, fur-lined snow boots. A hockey bag is slung on one arm casually with a stick peeking out of the top.
The boy looks up and they meet eyes.
“Oh!” The boy says, obviously surprised to see Mike.
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07 Jan 2026
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Will Byers has a simple commute, a simple job, and one not-so-simple crush on the mysterious boy who always sits across from him on the train. One stumble, one smile, and suddenly Will's whole world begins to shift.
He only meant to catch his train. He didn't expect to catch feelings, too.
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07 Jan 2026
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want to hate you (half as much as i hate myself) by MazzyStardust7
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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For not the first time that night, Mike wonders if Will is still awake in the basement.
Tossing and turning on the old spare mattress that Mike had relegated him to instead of- Well. Mike's thoughts slam into a wall. Even if he had let Will sleep in his room, he'd still be on that mattress. Just... just on the ground beside him instead of two floors down.
"You're a freak," Mike mumbles to himself, squeezing his eyes shut.
Or, Mike and El are taking a break, and in the absence of being able to pour himself into that relationship, he's spending entirely too much time thinking about Will... who just so happens to be living in his basement. During the 18-month time jump where the Byers have been living with the Wheelers.
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06 Jan 2026
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One fateful October night in 1995, Will Byers is dragged by his step-sister, Jane, and her best friend to a rock concert. That was just the beginning...
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Or:
A much needed byler enemies to lovers 90s rock band au.
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06 Jan 2026
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Will knows what having a crush looks like. He’s known it for years.
And lately, he's been seeing the signs on the face of one Mike Wheeler every time he looks at him. Maybe it’s always been there, but not to this degree.
In the last six months, though, the planets had aligned in some strange pattern, or the earth had been tilted on its axis by the hand of God, or something, because Will noticed it pretty quickly.
So, Will's finally decided to start testing the waters. For example: he has been flirting.
Well, okay…
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02 Jan 2026
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School is finally out for winter break, and Mike Wheeler is having a full-on crisis. Not only is he running into his “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” more often than he would like or expect, but he's simultaneously having to endure the excruciating experience of falling in love with his best friend.
…Of course, there’s also the fact that said best friend and Spider-Man are the same person, but Mike’s still figuring that out.
To put it simply, this Christmas is bringing him nothing but a mental breakdown.(Essentially, Will is Spider-Man, and Mike has no idea. For now, at least.)
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30 Dec 2025
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Robin made it clear. You can’t search for signals when your person is Tammy.
But things have changed.
Will has powers.
Mike thinks Will and Robin are dating.
And Mike’s reaction to those things makes Will try one more time.
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28 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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07 Dec 2025
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in which max loves messing with one certain michael wheeler, and in which will has one too many secret admirers.
title from conan gray's 'yours'!!
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05 Dec 2025
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knocking down your door (trying to make up for lost time) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Nov 2025
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But, then, in the dim glow of the kitchen lights, Will Byers comes into view.
And suddenly, nothing else in the world matters.
Oh, there you are, something deep inside Mike whispers. The butterflies in his stomach flutter helplessly, and warmth rushes to his whole face as Will freezes on the last step, his eyes meeting Mike’s own.
There you are, Mike thinks again to himself.
“Mike?” Will starts to say, but he never gets the chance to finish his sentence.
Or:
The night before the final battle with Vecna, Mike goes down to the basement to have a talk with Will.
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28 Nov 2025
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Playlist for When Your Boyfriend Stops Breathing by SunsetPlums
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 May 2025
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He pictures the funeral sometimes.
He pictures someone he doesn’t know saying Viktor’s name wrong. He pictures screaming in public. He pictures stealing the ashes and keeping them in a protein powder container because it’s the only vessel big enough. He pictures lying in those ashes like a widow bird. He pictures baking the ashes into bread and feeding them to pigeons in the park.
He pictures swallowing them himself.
Or: When Viktor chooses a quiet death, Jayce learns how to love him to the edge of the end and carry what’s left through the sad art of letting go.
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01 Jun 2025
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“You kept my painting,” Will says. Sure enough, there’s the heart on Mike’s shield, just as red as the day Will painted it. It was Will’s heart that he painted, maybe. It was also Will’s heart that he pulled out and molded into the lie he thought Mike needed to hear, halfway between Salt Lake City and a secret government bunker in Nevada.
Will’s heart is in his throat now, and in Mike’s hands, and on Mike’s wall, framed and carefully displayed.
They stand there in silence for a minute, Will on one side of the room and Mike on the other and too many years of radio silence in between. The quiet is so heavy it’s like a weight on Will’s chest, crushing him, applying pressure—but to a wound or to a bruise, he doesn’t know.
“Will,” Mike says. “Why are you here?”
(or, will has some realizations and a lot of hard conversations, and not every loss is forever.)
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- Part 3 of boys in bars
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06 Jun 2024
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It's November sixth. Seven years ago, Mike’s world went to shit in the woods outside Hawkins Laboratory. For three years, his life was a bloody, twisted wreck with a hell of a lot of casualties. Somehow, this just feels like another extension of that, like the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be a train, and it’s bearing down on him at full speed while he’s just standing there and letting it.
Seven years ago today, Mike Wheeler lost his best friend, and then he lost himself.
November 6, 1990, in the corner of a crowded room with another boy’s hands in his hair, he feels like maybe, just maybe, he’s finally got a little bit of himself back. He doesn’t know if it’s a part that’s worth keeping, is all.
(or, mike wheeler on kissing boys, growing up, losing your best friend, and finding him again.)
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- Part 2 of boys in bars
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23 May 2024
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That night he had not slept.
He had lain in his cot instead, eyes fixed on the ceiling and gaze too distant to notice how moonlight had slowly trailed her fingers on the walls, how light had shifted from silver to grey to pale gold. Dawn had come and found Mike restless on top of his still-made bed, middle and index finger pressed against his lips – a whole night spent reliving and sifting through the same memories and yet it still felt unreal, too dreamlike to have been true.
When dawn had come to caress Mike’s cheek, rosy-fingered and warm, she had found resolution in his heart and a foolish, foolish plan firmly rooted in his mind.
or; how Mike came to be cursed - among many, many other things.
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- Part 2 of Beneath The Willow Tree
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22 May 2024
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If anyone had asked, Mike would always say his favorite season was fall.
Could you blame him? There was just so much to love about it – the shifting hues of amber, bronze, and ruby that adorned the falling leaves in Central Park; the dwindling temperatures that brought relief from the sticky summer heat; the feel of a new knit sweater against the fresh gales of fall breeze. The gloomy sky and crisp air perfectly synthesized into the type of atmosphere that let Mike justify another cup of coffee, and hell, he’d take that over the glaring sun and thick humidity of New York summers any day.
What was there to not love about fall? Honestly, he couldn’t think of one thing even if he tried his hardest –
Oh. Right.
His boyfriend hated the fall.
OR: With the upcoming anniversary of Will's disappearance, Mike hatches a plan to make the next two days a little more tolerable.
OR OR: Will, entirely from Mike’s eyes, and the love he knows will never fade.Bookmarked by sometimesimhere
24 Apr 2024
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“Well, Will,” Mike says, and it’s serious, suddenly. Whatever he’s about to say, it’s important. Will stops pumping his legs for a second, slowing to a stop beside Mike. Neither of them are swinging anymore, just sitting side-by-side. Waiting. Holding their breath.
A little hand pops out of Mike’s jacket pocket, and he presents it proudly, bridging the gap between them. “Do you want to be my friend?”
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a swingset, a smile, and the start of it all.
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10 Apr 2024
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"He was standing on an island, the one that they begin the story at, with a wrecked ship in front of them, flames dancing around the sail and wood burnt to a crisp."
OR: A Jumanji AU where Mike’s homebrew DnD campaign is a bit more than just a game.
EDIT (02/04/2024): this fic began in July of 2022, before i began playing D&D. my writing style has continued to improve since then, which is very evident as the chapters progress.
bit of a warning, for all my TTRPG nerds: the beginning of this fic is absolutely nothing like how D&D mechanics actually work, and is subject to be edited.
hope you guys enjoy regardless, and expect an update soon. :)Bookmarked by sometimesimhere
05 Apr 2024
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he got my heartbeat, skipping down sixteenth avenue by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Dec 2022
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Mike's family, the Party and everyone else is acting extremely weird around Mike and Will.
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02 Mar 2024