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“You have so many freckles on your back,” Will whispers gently, hand still moving the pen across Mike’s skin.
“What are you doing?”
“Connecting them. Making up my own constellations.”
Mike hums once more. “You should see if you can find actual ones.”
“I don’t know them that well.”
“I’ll teach you some soon.”
Will and Mike slip into an innocent, comfortable painting routine which soon turns into something more intimate than they both can handle. Touches become more frequent and linger for a beat too long — and Mike decides that he wants to explore this dynamic further.
What he doesn't know, however, is that the underlying reason for his sudden interest in said dynamic is just as hard to grasp as paint running through fingers.
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12 Jul 2026
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“I need like– actionable steps. ‘Act normal’ is too vague.”
Will sighs and reaches over to turn the radio down even quieter.
“Ok for one, stop staring at my mouth,” Will says.
Mike glances over at him automatically.
Will laughs. “See? That’s exactly what I mean. You’ve been doing it for years, but now it’s like…it’s a lot, Mike. People are gonna notice.”
“But I wanna kiss you,” Mike whines.
It’s been a week since Mike and Will got together – one blissful week, like a honeymoon before the wedding. Now they’re in Montauk for Joyce and Hopper’s, surrounded by friends and family, and trying to fly under the radar. Somewhere along the way, Mike realizes he doesn’t want to hide anymore.
Or, two horny idiots in love struggle to keep their relationship hidden.
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- Part 2 of don't dream it's over
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11 Jul 2026
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Down by the broken tree house (Take me as I am) by Kachina
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Jul 2026
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Ten years after leaving Hawkins behind, Will Byers has to face his past again: unresolved trauma, a small town filled with homophobes, and a friendship that needs rekindling. It would probably be easier to face all that without his boyfriend tagging along—but when has his life ever been easy? Even meeting Richie Tozier in college had been anything but easy ...
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07 Jul 2026
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let me keep this memory (just this one) by willfulcreatures
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Apr 2026
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“Mike,” Will repeats through a smile. The name tastes familiar on his tongue. Like he’s said it thousands of times in his lifetime. Like he’d like to keep saying it a thousand times more. “I’m sorry, I don’t— I don’t think we’ve met.”
New York City. 1990. Will Byers loves his little life in the Big City. He has his brother by his side. His friends from Hawkins he stays in touch with. And the few friends he's made since he started college to help pull him out of his shell. So what if he forgets his past. He gets to live life to the fullest in the present. Until the memories start seeping out. And Will meets a stranger in a bar he wishes he never forgot.
Or: Will Byers loses his memories of Mike Wheeler, as well as the supernatural aspects of his trauma. Mike Wheeler remembers everything, and will do whatever it takes to get Will back.
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04 Jul 2026
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“’Morning,” Mike grumbled, voice low from sleep.
“Noon,” Max corrected, as if she hadn’t only woken up thirty minutes before him.
“Wow,” he replied, squinting at the light. “Nobody thought to wake me?”
It happened casually after that, so casually it almost didn’t register at first. El laughed at something Lucas said, then turned toward Mike and leaned in, instinctively, easily, pressing a kiss to his lips like it was the most logical way to say good morning to him.
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Or: Mike and Will have been together for a year and a half when El comes back. The problem is, El assumes she and Mike are still together. The bigger problem is that Mike doesn’t realize Will thinks he might choose her.
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02 Jul 2026
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As a wedding planner, Will adheres to five rules for every new contract:
1. Never skimp on floral arrangements,
2. Make sure all lighting is up to par,
3. Use cake testing as positive reinforcement,
4. Don’t get involved in family drama,
5. Remain as professional as possible.These rules have never posed a problem for Will, until he’s hired to plan the biggest endeavor of his career: the wedding of New York Times bestselling author Mike Wheeler, his estranged best friend.
What could possibly go wrong?
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30 Jun 2026
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Every Friday night, Mike Wheeler gives advice to strangers on his college radio show. When a caller asks what to do about their feelings for a friend, Mike tells them to test the waters. He never expects Will Byers, his best friend, roommate, and biggest weakness, to take that advice as well.
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26 Jun 2026
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Public Bookmark 115
Mystery Work
Part of Byler Fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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25 Jun 2026
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In which Mike follows Will to New York University for completely normal and emotionally healthy reasons, and then they try drinking together for the first time and Mike realizes pretty quickly that there were other latent feelings involved in his decision. Featuring truly Gen X levels of casual alcohol use, cranky hours at the Met, laundry in a haunted basement, a Psychedelic Furs concert, the gang reuniting for a party at Jonathan’s apartment, one scary incident reflecting the grittier realities of late 80s NYC, love confessions obviously, and rather a lot of hickeys. (And they were roommates!)
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24 Jun 2026
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“I could become a lesbian,” Mike said, hands on his hips. He was in the midst of a contrarian phase.
“Sure you could,” Nancy said.
)///(
“Yes, this is your fault,” Mike confirms. “You chose MIT over Columbia and look what happens. Will and I are all alone in the city—”“I’m here,” Jonathan points out.
Mike continues, “We’re all alone with Jonathan—”
“I wouldn’t put it that way,” Jonathan says.
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North Star (that takes you home) by tatsuverso
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
18 Jun 2026
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Richie Tozier doesn’t mean to say it out loud.
But when Will Byers comes out, the words slip out anyway—and suddenly, everything between them changes.It starts as a joke.
Just practice. Just kissing. Just because there’s no one else queer in their small towns.It’s easy, at first. Easy to pretend it doesn’t mean anything. Easy to keep it a secret.
Then summer ends, and Richie goes back to Derry.
The letters start out friendly.
They don’t stay that way. (They get spicy and freaky).By the time Richie comes back to Hawkins, both of them know something has shifted—
they just don’t know how to face it without ruining everything they already have.OR
The summer where Richie hears Mike and Will at the Squawk Tower and realises Will deserves better so he offers to kiss him, just for fun and they get to involve in it. (And freaky)
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22 Jun 2026
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"- I won't be making Mileven, i guess mike can end up alone. (Sorry byler and reddies, this is for my ryers)."
Another one, thank you 🏳️🌈🌻 -
The Hour of Lead by evsthewise
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
21 May 2026
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“Do you want me to spell it out?” Mike scoffed, moving closer until they were eye to eye. “Sharing a room with Will, getting all touchy with him, cozying up? Don’t play dumb.”
Richie gaped. “What? You mean being a decent human being?”
Mike's cheeks flushed. “You're obviously…” He struggled, then finally muttered, “…flirting with him.”
Richie choked. “Me? Flirting?” A laugh burst out of him.
It's summer in Hawkins, and Richie wouldn't mind getting to kiss a certain boy—maybe even more—if it weren't for the minor inconvenience of a massive earthquake tearing the town open like a giant gate to hell.
It’s a bit of a turn-off. But he’s nothing if not optimistic.
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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
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18 Jun 2026
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And I won't say it if you won't say it first by AtlasMoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
17 Jun 2026
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“I mean-” Richie started again, the performance seeping slowly back into his voice. “You’ve been struck down by a case of lacking me in your life. That’s fatal.”
“It really is,” Will said, more honest than he’d intended.
Keeping a relationship that was both long-distance and secret was hell, but with things rapidly changing in both of their lives faster than they were ready for, the connection between Richie and Will became their lifeline.
Maybe the only way to survive their nightmares was to share them.
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- Part 2 of I am human and I need to be loved
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17 Jun 2026
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It's 1997 and the ghost of Mike Wheeler walks back into Will Byers' life twice in one day: first in a Midtown coffee shop, then as the writer assigned to his graphic novel. Eight years of awkward distance now have a deadline. Collaboration is a special kind of torture when the person you're building a world with is the one who broke yours.
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16 Jun 2026
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“So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
“Have sex.”
“Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
“And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.
(a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)
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15 Jun 2026
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Will is a young gay man committed to Lazarus by his father. Traumatized and alone, he's assigned to Cell 44—right next to Cell 45, where Mike lives. Mike is infamous: violent, isolated, feared by patients and staff alike.
Through late night conversations, Will learns fragments of Mike—his sharp wit, his cruelty, his unexpected tenderness. Mike teaches Will to breathe through panic attacks after his traumatic conversion therapy sessions. But Mike also pushes Will away, warning him to stay distant, insisting nothing good comes from getting close to him. A psychological tension between horror and attraction, exploring whether a monster can be capable of tenderness—and whether Will's inability to fear Mike makes him brave, broken, or both.Bookmarked by queensiel
07 Jun 2026
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the strings would break (the instrument shattered into fragments) by jurassicwill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2026
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Will Byers knows how to do his job. Three years as concertmaster, and he has never once let the music ask more of him than he was prepared to give.
Then the new conductor walks in and starts asking for exactly that.
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Will's hand has been wrong since spring, Mike Wheeler has been watching him since September, and the Pathétique is not a kind piece to fall apart to.
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06 Jun 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of priv00090
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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28 May 2026
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“I’ll push the air into your lungs from mine, so that it’s not so hot.”
“H—how do you do that?”
There’s a deep crimson flush moving up Mike’s neck, and Will wonders if being high makes people warm like alcohol does. It’s hard to tell if his own hot skin is from the weight of Mike’s gaze or the weed getting to him.
“You open your mouth.” Mike’s eyes trace slowly down Will’s face, glassy and unfocused, until they fix on his lips. Surely the weed is getting to Will. “And I’ll blow the smoke in while you inhale.”
Will’s tongue goes dry. Yeah, definitely the weed, he’s heard about cotton mouth. If Mike is suggesting this, then it must be a normal thing to do with your friends. He wouldn’t offer to do it if it wasn’t.
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New York is loud and crowded. Will’s mind is tangling up all his creativity until he’s not sure what to do. When his parents go on a “pre-wedding honeymoon”, he jumps at the chance for an isolated summer at the beach. It’s perfect, except Mike crashes the escape in search of his own. Mike is running from his own shit— things he'd rather keep secret. While high, bordering estranged, and sitting under the stars— they agree to a summer of answers and no questions.
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21 May 2026
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and when we're getting dirty, I forget all that is wrong by kennedybegins
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2026
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He knew it was wrong.
Mike knew that he wasn’t supposed to feel this way. He knew he was not supposed to want in this way. He knew that it was a sin to want to touch, to kiss, to feel this way about him. About Will.
But it was Will. How could he not want him? How can anyone not love him? How can he not love him in every way possible? How was it a sin if it felt so good? So right?
If being with Will was wrong, he did not want to be right. He would go through fire just to be able to touch him one more time.
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It's 2005, and thirteen years after meeting, Will Byers and Mike Wheeler have been inseparable best friends. As they begin to navigate their final years at Saint Christopher's Preparatory School in Hawkins, all their friends fall in love, while Mike and Will fall into something more dangerous- each other.
(re-editing some chaps)
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- Part 1 of saint christopher's verse
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21 May 2026