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it's like i'm frozen but the world still turns by toes-ier (snowglobegays)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2022
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"She was being bullied,” he says softly. “I didn’t even know. She didn’t tell me because… I didn’t even tell her I loved her. I just kept writing to her without saying it and then I got there and we just—we just went to the skating rink and had a date like we’re in love and then everything happened and it just feels like bullshit. It feels like bullshit.”
Steve sucks in a sharp breath, like he’s in pain, but he doesn’t seem to be like, clutching his sides or anything. “Typical,” he mutters, more to himself than to Mike.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
"Like you’re in love?”
“I mean—” Mike blanches, and tries to backtrack. “We are in love. We are. She loves me. And I—”
Dammit, why can’t he say it?
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17 Jun 2025
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As Steve Harrington learned working at Scoops Ahoy: Ice cream makes the heart grow fonder.
If only he had known that when it came to Mike and Will.
(Or Steve watches Mike and Will fall in love)
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17 Jun 2025
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(give me a second to) forget i ever really meant it by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2024
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“Any of it.” Will shrugs, embarrassed. “I don’t know how to ask someone out, or how to act on a date, or how to- kiss, or anything like that.”
“Oh.” Mike’s expression clears, and he grins. “Well, like I said, you’re a catch, so I don’t think you’d need to worry about putting people off or something. And all of that stuff is way easier than it sounds, seriously.”
Will makes a face. “That can’t be true.”
“I’m serious!” Mike says, laughing a little. “Here, we can practice.” He shifts on the bed, arranging his legs beneath him and sitting up a little straighter, running a casual hand through his hair. “Pretend I’m a guy you like.”
Practice makes perfect, especially when the person you're practicing with is your best friend.
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16 Jun 2025
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“Can I kiss you?” he asks. Hearing the words out loud makes everything feel that much more real, and Mike loves it. He thinks he might love Will, too, and the thought doesn’t feel new. It’s like a stone that’s half buried in the dirt but just got kicked loose. It’s something that’s been deep in Mike’s heart for a while, years, maybe, but just got unearthed.
Will pushes him away, and Mike has no idea what he did wrong. He was just telling the truth. Friends don’t lie. “What?” Will asks, voice sounding kind of choked. He’s grimacing, and Mike wants to un-say whatever bad thing he said so that Will smiles at him again.
“I— I asked if I could kiss you,” Mike says, and Will shushes him. He looks around frantically.
“Mike,” Will replies. He sounds tired. “You can’t just ask that.”
“Why not? I want to kiss you so I asked.”
“But you don’t, Mike. You don’t want to… to kiss me. You’re just drunk.”
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alternatively: mike pines while drunk, and then he pines while sober
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15 Jun 2025
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When Robin and Steve volunteer to drive Murray back to Illinois, he may have met his match, a case he finally can't crack.
Or, Murray tries to break down Robin and Steve's "relationship", but it's more of a challenge.
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- Part 3 of Stranger Things One-Shots
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15 Jun 2025
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Mike Wheeler and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Obsolete by Pseudologia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Oct 2022
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“All right, Wonder Twins, prepare to meet your maker.” Dustin points a finger at El and smirks. “Never have I ever had a crush on Mike.”
Mike keeps his face neutral while El drinks, as is his ex-boyfriend-turned-best-friend duty. He sees a little movement out of the corner of his right eye, though, and he turns to follow it.
Will is taking a hit off his joint.
“Wait…” Mike says, cutting off Lucas in the middle of his never-have-I-ever announcement. His gaze doesn’t waver from Will’s face. “What?”
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- Part 1 of Byler Week 2022
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15 Jun 2025
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this is a beautiful start to a lifelong love letter by borealisaurora
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Nov 2022
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Ever since Will gave Mike the painting, Mike has been acting... weird. He's been standing closer to Will, there have been lingering gazes... but nothing too crazy, right? Nothing that Will can allow himself to dwell on.
That is, until Mike starts kissing him.
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15 Jun 2025
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Anonymous asked: Maybe for a prompt, Will sees how confident hanging out with Steve has made Dustin and all the advice Steve gives him, so Will goes to Steve and asks how to tell Mike he likes him?
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14 Jun 2025
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"So you- you haven't, like. Kissed anyone, then?" Mike asks, fully aware that he should probably just quit while he's ahead but needing to know, suddenly, if Will has any sort of romantic entanglements that he's neglected to tell Mike about. He's not sure why, but there's something in his gut that demands to know, has some sort of sudden need to know if Will has kissed anyone that's not him.
If Will has kissed anyone that's not-
Wait, what?
or: Mike is jealous of himself.
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14 Jun 2025
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11 times someone was in need of Steve Harrington's "life-saving" hugs + the one time he needed a "life-saving" hug of his own.
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14 Jun 2025
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Steve Harrington thought they were kidding. A week ago, Robin and Eddie had been excitedly talking about this thing called a “Renaissance Faire” coming to Indianapolis the following weekend. The way they were talking about it with the costumes and the lore, Steve presumed it was another Dungeons and Dragons thing that he did not understand so he tuned them out.
(i.e. the fruity four and the kids go to the renaissance faire and something about Eddie in a costume gets Steve flustered)
title from "Soldier, Poet, King" by The Oh Hellos
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13 Jun 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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13 Jun 2025
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“Do you want to go home?” He questions, leaning close and voice soft, and Will pauses, before nodding again. Mike lets out a breath, and lets his hand press against Will a little more firmly when he starts to sway in place again. “Okay, let’s go.”
Then he looks up and is met with smug faces, and Mike flushes when he realizes his own hypocrisy.
“I don’t talk like that,” Max recalls, voice high-pitched and overly girly and – Mike definitely doesn’t talk like that.
According to everyone in his life, Mike has a voice reserved just for Will. He tries to figure out what that says about him.
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13 Jun 2025
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Mike had acted a little weird when Nancy first explained what "bisexual" meant when she told him that she and Robin were dating, but it wasn't anything bad, just the immediate shock of "wait that's a thing?!" and going quiet, staring off into a random corner for the next minute that she explained.
Now Robin didn't consider herself an expert on being queer, but it was an eerily similar reaction to her first reaction when she heard about another girl who liked girls.
Robin helping Mike work out his feelings for Will
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13 Jun 2025
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I don't do too much talking these days by strawberry_sophie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Aug 2023
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How had he ended up like this? One day he was worrying about the new X-Men comic coming out, the next he was facing the world alone, facing his fears alone. Everything felt like there was no possibility of somebody understanding what he felt. He knew the feeling was unrealistic, yet he didn't know who to turn to.
"Hey, can I help you?" a soft voice broke through his thoughts. Robin - Steve's friend - was staring at him with a friendly smile.
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In which your local homosexuals have a talk about movies n being queer in the 80s
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11 Jun 2025
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Lucas smiled. It didn’t reach his eyes. “Mike, there’s nothing wrong with you, you know that right? Just- let yourself be you. Let yourself have him. I think you’ve spent too many years pretending to be someone you’re not.”
Or the people in Mike’s life give him free therapy and a bonk on the head. A wake up call, if you will.
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11 Jun 2025
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“If you just wanna watch it for the cute girls, Star Wars has Leia, dude.”
Mike shakes his head. “Star Wars may have Leia, but neither Han nor Luke compare to Conan!”
And that is because Conan the Barbarian has the muscles of a Greek god. And he’s shirtless for the entire movie! His appearance gives a fun tickling feeling in Mike’s stomach. Probably because he’s so astonishingly cool.
(In which Mike Wheeler wins(?) a bet, experiences a paradigm shift in a Family Video, and asks someone out on a date.)
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11 Jun 2025
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“Uh, yeah? I thought you knew who I was talking about?”
“I thought I did!”
“Wait, if you weren’t talking about Will—" There was her confirmation, she couldn’t say she hadn’t slightly suspected it. "—is there another gay person?”
Robin paused. Moment of truth here. She had to be incredibly convincing. "Um. No?"
____ft. misunderstandings, robin and mike friendship, and dustin being horribly unsubtle
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11 Jun 2025
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Mike had just uttered the question that had haunted Robin her entire Sophomore year and she stood there in shock. The tapes slipped through her arms, clattering on the floor. What was Steve doing there giving him advice? Robin should be there, encouraging him and letting him know that it's okay to feel like this.
Mike goes to Steve for some vague advice, but Robin knows what's up.
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11 Jun 2025
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The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad by bottomless_abyss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Nov 2022
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“Aren’t you going home ? We finished talking.” Mike deadpanned, and Robin chuckled. She liked Mike. He was straightforward and avoided roundabouts like the plague, and Robin liked it.“Actually no, we didn’t finish talking.” Mike raised a brow, putting away the snacks he served them, and leaned on the table, and Robin mirrored him.
“I want to know you better.” She said, and Mike’s brows raised so high they almost disappeared in his hair. He quickly regained his composure, crossing his arms. Robin wasn’t an expert on body language by any means, but she knew what that meant.
“You know me enough.” He replied. She recognized his behavior as defensive, as if he stood with a sign with “DO NOT APPROACH” written on it. But Robin liked to pretend she didn’t learn to read.
Robin is curious about Mike Wheeler. It was one of her best ideas.
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11 Jun 2025