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1. in the dark blue light (you were illuminated) by Benign_Aperture

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   21 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Partying
   • Awkward Boners
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • College
   • post-epilogue
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Guilty Mike Wheeler
   • POV Alternating
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper Haunts the Narrative
   • Gender Non-Conforming Mike Wheeler
   • Gender Non-Conforming Will Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Gets a Break
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Gay Awakening
   • Will Byers Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Will Byers Finds Out Mike Wheeler Jumped Off the Cliff
   • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
   • Slow Burn
   • Slow Burn Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Slow to Update
   • Switch Will Byers
   • Switch Mike Wheeler
   • Top/Bottom Versatile Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Happy Ending
   • Will Byers Smokes Marijuana
   • Mike Wheeler Smokes
   • Marijuana
   • Alcohol
   • Will Byers Has Daddy Issues
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Will Byers and Mike Wheeler's Conversation on the Radio Tower Never Happened
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • POV Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is a Dungeon Master (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Horny Mike Wheeler
   • Nerdiness
   • Nerd Will Byers
   • Nerd Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   Mike and Will are college roommates at NYU and theoretically everything should be going great... but of course it isn't. There's an elephant in the room that seemingly nobody will address that only gets highlighted by their first ever college party...

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