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1. Art School Confidential by cyclogenesis (addictedkitten)

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   20 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Slow Burn
   • College
   • Stranger Things 5
   • Post-Season/Series Finale
   • Domesticity
   • Cooking
   • Art School
   • Gay Bar
   • Alcohol
   • Queer Culture
   • Fake/Pretend Relationship
   • (but it's random and they're so ridiculous about it)
   • Jealousy
   • Depression
   • Cuddling & Snuggling
   • eating issues
   • Gender Exploration
   • (casual and assuming clothes are gendered which I don't think they should be but whatever)
   • Fem Mike wheeler
   • (see previous caveat)
   • Vers Will Byers
   • Vers Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Mike Wheeler
   • Anal Sex
   • Kissing

   Summary

   In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   42,975

   Chapters:

   3/3

   Comments:

   65

   Kudos:

   118

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