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1. i’m not gay i’m a scientist (the biggest lie of 1989) by sudokukidding

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Summer Vacation
   • Post Season 5
   • Pre-University
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Coming of Age
   • Mutual Pining
   • Sweaty Summer
   • Pre-College Blues
   • Close Proximity
   • mike wheeler is a neRD
   • Mike Wheeler is a Disaster
   • Scientific Method
   • Will Byers Deserves The World
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Yearning
   • Kissing Practice
   • Touch Starved Mike Wheeler
   • Touch Starved Will Byers
   • Gay Awakening
   • Love Confessions
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • First Time
   • Virginity
   • Sexual Tension
   • slow burn to smut
   • Mutual Masturbation
   • Oral Sex
   • Hand Jobs
   • Dry Humping
   • Praise Kink
   • Experimental Smut
   • Will Byers is Patient
   • Author Misses Summer
   • Drunk Making Out
   • awkward dirty talk
   • Mike Wheeler is a Cunt
   • Jane and Dustin Being Cute Together
   • Jonathan Byers Ruins the Moment
   • Injury
   • Moving To University
   • Summer After Graduation Nostalgia
   • Written because its cold as fuck outside
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is Chronically Incapable of Being Normal
   • Will Byers Has Him on a Leash Actually
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • Will Byers is Down Bad
   • Mike Wheeler is gay
   • mike wheeler apologist
   • Using Each Other to Practice
   • They Call it Research
   • Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Practice Kissing
   • Making Out
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Not Beta Read
   • Fingering
   • Porn with Feelings

   Summary

   Mike Wheeler has exactly 2 brain cells and both of them are dedicated to ‘logic,’ which is why he convinces Will Byers that they need to kiss ‘for science’ so Will doesn't fail at college. It’s a flawless plan with zero flaws until Mike breaks his arm, screams in a carnival, and realizes he’s actually just obsessed.

   Or: 5 times Mike said it was ‘just practice’ and 1 time he admitted he’s been pining since 1983.

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