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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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Will’s eyes are still fixed on the broken bulb. Mike senses his apprehension, and he pokes a finger to Will’s cheek. “Come on,” he drones, turning Will’s head to face him, “it’s cute!”
“It’s embarrassing,” Will groans, head plunging to Mike’s shoulder.
And — okay. Maybe it’s a little embarrassing, sure, having to explain to the Melvald’s guy why he needs a new light bulb every two and a half weeks, but Will Byers, Mike’s boyfriend — Mike’s boyfriend! — has superpowers, and that's a marvel in and of itself.
Mike never thought that dating Will Byers would result in this many blown fuses.
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13 Feb 2026
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the wonder twins vs. simon cowell by abysstrips
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Britain's Got Talent RPF, One Direction (Band)
12 Feb 2026
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When Jane discovers Harry Styles was in a band, she beams. When she finds out Simon Cowell was rude to this band, she decides he must pay.
The only logical response is dragging her brother all the way to London to audition for Britain's Got Talent as magicians when they're really just using their telekinetic powers. Will thinks it's insane but he is also going along with it anyway because that's what siblings do.
Featuring: aggressive British accents, an alarming number of singers, Ant and Dec being national treasures, and Will Byers accidentally roasting Simon Cowell on live television.
(They have superpowers. They've fought monsters. How hard can a talent show be?)
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10 Feb 2026
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not sure why i read this, but i surely wasn’t disappointed. awaiting the boss battle
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there is a quarry (and it knows the sound of god when he opens his mouth) by ithinktherearegods
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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Mike thinks he’s never left.
The quarry where Will’s body was lifted, the small house that held him first, his own basement.
He’s still there.
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07 Feb 2026
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I wrote this at like 3:00am based on a dream I had. So.
.Mike was touchy, it was just in his nature.
Maybe that's why, when Mike reached out, hands cupping his own, leaning in close, a murmur of “I miss you, Will. I miss us,” all Will did was squeeze back, the way he always had.
It started off the same as always, something unintentional that Will could brush off, accident touches that slowly grew into something friendly, platonic, normal. The occasional nudge of an elbow to his side, a long look and a hand reaching out to grip his shoulder. Simple. Friendly.
But now?
Now Mike couldn't seem to be able to keep his hands off of him.
It was driving Will crazy.
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28 Jan 2026
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Paint me a picture, one I can look back on when I lose you. by sundollop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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Sometimes, all he can think about is how he’ll kill himself.
“Will! Will, come on- come on, wake up-”
His lungs shudder as he breathes in, hands gripping his face, his shoulders, alternating wherever they could.
“That’s it- that’s it, come on, come back to me-”
He feels dizzy, out of it, the way he always did. He’s pulled into a chest, a heartbeat he could spend forever memorizing, and tries to get his bearings.
Or, Will is going through some shit. He knows a way to get out of it, but... no one seems content to let that happen.
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“... Will.”
“Okay, sure, yeah. What about him?”
“I’m a bad friend.” Mike admitted, breathing it out like a vomited confession, like something he was desperate to be rid of.
“Did something happen?” Steve asked.
“Yes.” He paused. “Well, no. It’s— it’s more like… more like… he got a boyfriend.” Mike huffed out a breath.
“I know.” Steve agreed slowly, brows raised. “Carlton. Will, Robin and I met up a while back and he introduced us. Seems like a good kid. What about him?”
Mike felt like a fucking idiot.
Of course Steve didn’t get it. Why would Steve get it?
“I… I just…” How was Mike even meant to begin to talk about this? “It’s driving me crazy, man. I hate the guy.”
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Mike spirals about his feelings, gets in his car, and somehow ends up going to Steve Harrington for help. He gets a much-needed pep talk and finally goes after what he wants.
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24 Jan 2026
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“I think I need you.. Mike. Inside me.”
Always on the same page, he and Will are.
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Will teases Mike during the Party’s final DnD game.
Mike goes on a mission to make him regret it.
Will regrets nothing.
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stop the world just to stop the feeling by mikewheelersfreckles
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Overall, Mike would say he turned out to be a pretty decent, well functioning adult. Well, how decent and well functioning a twenty-five year old should be. His parents say he’s doing well, that’s something! Nancy comes and visits him sometimes, and she said he’s getting by well, that’s also something! She also said Mike needs to make some new friends or settle down with someone sometime soon. That wasn’t something. Mike hadn’t talked to most of his friends in years. And by years, he means about two years after they graduated and all settled into college. The last he had heard, Lucas and Max were settling in well at college, Dustin was doing pretty well in his studies, and Will…
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Mike gets invited to Lucas and Max's wedding after going five years without talking to any of them. Upon arriving, he sees Will for the first time in five years.
Will and his very, very interesting boyfriend.
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02 Jan 2026
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“Wait,” Will said in a harsh, croaky voice. He felt like his brain was dribbling out of his ears and he fell onto the couch with a small poof of air as he stared at Mike in such a hard daze that it was a wonder he didn’t pass out again. “I - what do you - “
They stared at each other.
The air was thick and suddenly it was like Will could taste ozone at the back of his tongue, like electricity was coating his mouth and didn’t leave any room to breathe, to think, and his voice was wobbly, uncertain, as he said, “what do you mean… other boys?”
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Will tells everybody about his Tammy.
Mike, of course, reacts in a totally normal way.
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30 Dec 2025
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He wasn’t entirely sure what it was. The pain. It was brutal, and it was suffocating, worse than the first time he’d been dragged to the Upside Down at eleven years old and frozen half to death, curled up wetly in the corner of Castle Byers. It was very pinpointed, though. He could distinctly describe every sensation — it started on the surface of his skin, initially freezing cold, and then growing into a heat so fierce it stole the breath from his lungs. It was as though somebody had crashed a molotov into his body and watched him light up for their own warmth.
Or, Will still feels Vecna's agony after the end of The Piggyback. Only one person can make it go away.
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26 Dec 2025
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don’t you know (that i love you) by bookinit for satvrnnrings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2022
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Mike opens the door to Lucas’s house, and everything is abruptly not perfect. Not even a little. Not at all.
Because Will—good, handsome, sweet, perfect Will—is sitting on the couch, which is not as good or handsome or sweet or perfect, but that’s okay, because it’s a couch, and couches don’t have to be those things.
But sitting next to him, smiling and laughing and slinging an arm around Will’s shoulders like it has any right to be there, is a man Mike’s never seen before in his entire life.
There’s only one logical conclusion.
Will’s brought a date.
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holiday parties, jealousy, and the horrors of growing up… oh my!
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21 Dec 2025
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There’s something wrong with Will.
It started three weeks ago, almost four. Will had woken from some sort of nightmare and, instead of seeking comfort in Mike the way he usually would, he’d rolled out a sleeping bag from the closet and chosen to sleep on the floor.
No one believes Mike, except for Joyce. But even she doesn’t understand the full extent to which something is wrong with Will.
Mike understands, though. Mike has been paying attention.
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“I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
“What?”
“We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.
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10 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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10 Dec 2025
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He’d stared at Will without really seeing him, so caught up in his own thoughts—a constant, monotonous beat of oh my God, I’m alive. Oh my God, Will has powers. Oh my God, he saved me.
And then—
Oh my God, he’s beautiful.
The thought had stopped him short, had landed with a soft and devastating clarity.
Beautiful.
That single word had broken something open within him, something he’d spent years reinforcing with lock and chain and prayer and denial.
After Will saves Mike from the demogorgon at the MAC-Z, Mike finally lets himself acknowledge a truth he's been running from for years:
He is in love with Will Byers.
Now all Mike has to do is come to terms with that truth—especially when Joyce sees it too.
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07 Dec 2025
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Will was practically entranced as Robin spoke, and he saw how happy she was in her relationship. He wanted something like that for himself so badly it made his chest ache, “How obvious,” he asked breathlessly.
“Let’s say, the uh, snowball became an avalanche,” Robin whispered to him like a shared secret. Will glanced away for a moment. Robin’s words made sense, and even more importantly, they felt familiar. Familiar in a way he almost didn’t dare to believe, because if he was wrong, he worried he would never come back from the heartbreak of it all…
Or... The five times that Mike was incredibly obvious about his feelings for Will during the 18 months they lived together, and the one time Will did something about it.
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05 Dec 2025
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Will moves back to an upright position, wiping his hair out of his eyes, head and shoulders peeking above the water. “Mike,” he says, pulling Mike up with him, their fingers still intertwined.
“Yeah?” Mike says, tilting his head so the water trickles out of his ears, wincing slightly. “What is it?”
Will’s eyes dart back and forth between his, and then Mike feels his hand squeeze his own. “I don’t want you to, like, think I moved back for you,” he starts, which in and of itself would be enough to get Mike’s soul soaring straight out of his own body, if it weren’t for Will’s thumb pressed against his pulse point like some kind of mortal tether. “Because it’s not like that, I promise. But I think– I think I realized there’s a difference between things you want and things you need, you know?”
mike wheeler on losing people and having them again, the difference between wanting and needing, and finally letting go.
ft. robin buckley, will byers, and the mortifying ordeal of working in the food service industry
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02 Dec 2025
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“Dude,” Dustin says, sounding kind of horrified but also kind of delirious with elation. “Oh my God, you like him. You like Will. Will. As in, our Will. Our best friend Will.”
“I do not–” Mike tries, even though he’d kind of just admitted to accidentally kissing Will Byers, a little, so maybe that’s an entirely fruitless road to go down.
Listen. No one should ever let Mike make decisions right after he wakes up from a nap, okay? Especially not decisions where Will is concerned. This is so not his fault.
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02 Dec 2025