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Will has a secret and a pack of cards. Lucas has a girlfriend in a coma. They hang out in the Wheeler basement.
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27 Apr 2026
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April 7th dawns like every other day, and it's not until Will throws a Kit-Kat at him that he realizes there's something amiss. He blinks the sleep from his eyes and stares up at where Will's standing, watching him with something like expectation in his face.
"Happy Birthday," Will says. There's the faintest hint of a smile on his face, barely reaching his eyes.
Mike blinks. Once, then twice, and when the third time brings no more clarity, he manages to force out a "What?"
Or: Three birthdays where Mike's life is vastly different, but one thing always stays the same.
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16 Apr 2026
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His brain finally catches up with Mike’s words, and Mike is saying things like, “C’mon, Will—you can do it,” and “I’m so proud of you,” and “Don’t rush, it’s okay.” In the softest tone imaginable, and if Will maybe pretends to still be a little more out of it than he actually is just to keep hearing Mike talk to him like that—well, that’s his business.
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After Season 5 Vol.1, Mike refuses to leave Wills side.
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11 Apr 2026
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give me your shirt (now give me your heart) by Kagome300
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Mar 2026
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"The first time Will really noticed it was when he was nine and quarters mysteriously found their way into his pocket at the arcade.
He had left Mike alone with his jacket and returned from the bathroom with two whole dollars more than he'd started with in his jacket pocket. Will had looked at Mike suspiciously, but his friend had insisted that he didn't know what Will was talking about.
The next time they were at the arcade, Will was prepared. He had counted his money three times before he left his house and kept track throughout the day. Then, during an intense round of Space Invaders, Will had felt Mike bump his arm. He hadn't thought anything of it in the moment, distracted by the game. But the next time that Will shoved his hand into his pocket, he found seven new quarters waiting for him.
He was sure then: Mike was secretly slipping him quarters."
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aka the one where Mike gives Will the Princess Treatment his whole life.
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04 Apr 2026
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Then he heard kissing.
Loud, wet, enthusiastic kissing.
Oh. He stared at the ceiling while his brain caught up to his precarious situation. After living in New York for so long, he'd forgotten how well sound traveled here. How little insulation there was between his room and Will's. He'd lived with that fact his whole life and it had never once mattered, and he would have lived a long happy life having never thought about that fact again.
He heard a short bit of creaking, then the soft rustling of fabric.
“Fuck, Will…most perfect ass I've ever seen.”
Oh God, NO!
In which Jonathan Byers has the worst night's sleep of his life, and learns several things about his brother he had no business knowing.
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03 Apr 2026
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“Hey! Mayfield!”
He glanced over his shoulder and felt his stomach drop. Chance and Andy were coming up behind them, coasting on their bikes. Both were still wearing their varsity jackets even though they’d graduated and it was hot as hell outside.
Will had a split second to register how stupid they looked before his pulse started to race. This wasn’t going to be good, and to top it off, he was holding the world's most homosexual ice cream cone.
A quick trip to the Wheeler house turns into a mess when Chance and Andy won’t leave Max and Will alone. It goes about as well as you’d expect.
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02 Apr 2026
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It was Lucas who broke it, looking over at Mike "Hey. The floor's open, by the way. If you wanted."
Mike blinked. "What?"
"Oh yeah! We always end up talking about this stuff without you." Dustin said, rolling onto his side. "Lucas talked about Max. I've been monologuing about Stacy for over a month, which in retrospect was a waste of everyone's time-"
"Tremendous waste." Mike agreed. "Historic, really."
"-and you've got something going on now." He shrugged. "It's your turn."
Mike looked at Lucas, who raised his eyebrows in a quiet yeah, what he said.
He looked back at Dustin. "You want me…to talk to you about having sex with Will?"
In which Dustin is a shit head and Mike ends up oversharing about his sex life.
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02 Apr 2026
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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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02 Apr 2026
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The way you move is like a full on rain storm by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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Will was not expecting an ambush.
Lucas wiggled his eyebrows at him, deeply unsubtle. “Soooo?”
Will blinked. His mouth was dry. “What about me and Mike?”
Lucas groaned loudly, flopping backward into a pile of clothes. “Oh, come on, man. You two are clearly in love with each other.”
Dustin whipped around to jab him in the ribs. “Dude! I thought we were going to play it cool?!”
Lucas elbowed him back without missing a beat. “We are playing it cool!”
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Mike and Will have always been close. Close enough that their friends start noticing the soft voices, the gentle smiles, the way Mike only ever seems to be gentle with Will.
A gum-chewing experiment, a handful of soft moments, and one unexpected downpour later… they finally admit it.
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02 Apr 2026
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Hand under my sweatshirt (Baby, kiss it better) by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Nov 2025
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Will looked up.
Mike was frozen mid–chew, a piece of pasta hanging stupidly from his fork. His eyes were wide, fixed on Will’s chest.
On the hoodie.
On his hoodie.
The moment stretched like elastic. Mike blinked once. Twice. Then the blush hit - an immediate, fierce red crawling up his neck to the tips of his ears.
“Oh,” he croaked, voice cracking.
Will blinked. “Oh?”
“That’s, um, that’s…” Mike swallowed hard. “That’s my hoodie.”
Will felt heat rush to his own face. “Uh. Yeah. Sorry. I… I forgot to return it. I’ll give it back later.”
“No!” Mike squeaked, far too loudly. He cleared his throat violently. “I mean, you don’t have to. I’m not, like, I don’t need it. You can, um. Keep it. If you want.”
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Will borrows Mike’s hoodie once. Then twice. Then it becomes…a whole thing.
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02 Apr 2026
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i’d give it all away if you give me just one day by miketozier (smallcuts)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2023
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“Are you, like… are you trying to break up with me?”
Will gapes at him. There is no possible way Mike just said that to him. Penciling in a mental note to get his hearing checked in the distant future, he continues to look at him, at the hurt shimmering in his pupils, the slight wobble of his upper lip as he turns away.
Will has a boyfriend. Will doesn’t know he has a boyfriend. Chaos ensues.
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02 Apr 2026
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Don't Get too Close (it's Dark Inside) by theGirlwiththebrokenSmile
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Mar 2026
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Slowly, he presses his thumb over Will’s, over the fall-faded smatter of freckles on his skin. There is no sound other than their breathing and their heartbeats.
“I missed the sun”, Mike says. “I missed you.”
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Mike is the one who sees Robin and Vickie kiss in the hospital, and the world is ending, and Will is constantly bathed in sunlight.
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02 Apr 2026
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Anger as Poison, Us as Drinkers by theGirlwiththebrokenSmile
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2026
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"Before she can think it through, she has already stopped the wheels of Will’s left roller skate and he jerks to a sudden halt. He loses his balance and she watches him fall."
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El watches the princess treatment Mike gives Will and the attention he bestows upon him and something ugly rears its head inside her
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01 Apr 2026
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Kiss my bruises, so they can see I was loved once too. by sunniesdoll for blunterthanabullseye
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Mar 2026
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“Does- does your mom know?” Mike asks, quieter now. Will shakes his head. Mike’s throat tightens. “I think my mom’s gonna call her,” he murmurs, even though he’s not totally sure. It feels like something she would do. Mike kind of wants her to, too.
Will curls in tighter at that, like the words themselves hurt. “Dad’s gonna get mad again,” he whispers. “I don’t want him to get mad.”
Mike’s nose scrunches up, his eyes burning. It feels like crying, but different. Hotter, sharper, like it’s trying to claw its way out of him instead of spill. “He hurts you,” Mike spits, voice wobbling despite how hard he tries to keep it steady. “He shouldn’t do that. That’s- that's not allowed. That’s bad.”
or, miwi werehere. Mike just wants Will to be safe, and the safest place he can think of is his den.
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- Part 6 of Will Byers B-DAY Week 2026!!
- Part 2 of Werehere <3
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30 Mar 2026
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“I just… I want to be able to take you somewhere, alright? Then we'll go for a drive, and I have something else planned.” He hesitates for half a second. Then, softer, “let me take care of my wife.”
Will makes a small, startled sound, and then he’s laughing, hiccupping a bit from the force of it. “Your what?” Will manages, breathless, grinning despite himself.
Behind him, Mike’s smiling, he can feel it, the way it presses warm and bright into his shoulder. “My wife,” Mike repeats, even though he's tensing a little like he's nervous Will is going to turn him down.
or, It's Will's birthday and Mike's planned the whole day for him, like a good boyfriend should. Will's a lot more focused on the fact that Mike keeps referring to him as his wife, though.
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- Part 7 of Will Byers B-DAY Week 2026!!
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19 Mar 2026
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r/DnD
u/MWpaladin commented on “Can’t tell the difference between sorcerers and…” posted by u/LionsandTigers7 on r/DnDu/MWpaladin: Are you an actual idiot? Sorcerers and wizards are hardly even comparable. It’s not ‘the same thing’ in the slightest. A sorcerer’s magic doesn’t even come from a book of spells, their powers are INNATE. Maybe go back to third fucking grade before you ever try and DM a campaign of your own. Jesus Christ. Another important differentiation to note is… [expand]
Or: a long, very long, retrospective of Mike’s reddit history.
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17 Mar 2026
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Whom does a god worship?
Every year, the cleric kneels before the flowers and utters his prayers for the dead.
Every year, the paladin looks on, and he remembers.
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17 Mar 2026
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William got to his feet and turned around, prayer book clutched to his chest. Michael was standing in the center of the chapel, obviously just come from sparring practice. He was still wearing his dented cuirass, a leather pauldron on his right shoulder. The moonlight through the stained-glass windows painted him in blue and gold.
“Forgot to leave your armor behind in the gymnasium?” asked William lightly, skirting around him to set the prayer book back in its tabernacle.
“Something like that,” said Michael. He stepped out of the shaft of light, joining William at the perimeter of the circular room.
William closed the ornate wooden door of the tabernacle and turned to face him. “How did you know I’d be here?”
“I know you,” Michael said simply. I love you, he might as well have said, for the way it sent William’s heart skittering inside his chest.
Michael has been betrothed to the princess since their infancy. But it’s her brother he really wants.
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16 Mar 2026
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this was so wonderful, like a cup of tea on a rainy day. this time, love does defeat fear :')
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“I miss when he wished to be called Mike the Brave, not Sir Wheeler of the royal guard.”
He parts her hair evenly, reweaving it with practiced care. “In but a handful of moons, he shall stand among the realm’s finest, and he will do so with honor.”
Holly leans into Will's touch, her mouth set in a stubborn line. “Should family not come before such vows?”
"...Perhaps, in a better life, it would."
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“Stay with me,” Michael presses. “Do not dare letting your thoughts stray, do not let them wander where he may reach you. Cast him out, Will. Drive him from your mind.”
Will swallows, shaking. “I-I can’t-”
“You can, and you will.” The knowledge wells up within his throat, begging to leave his lips, that Will is not quite sure he will be able to leave here. “You must, because I demand it of you. Do you understand?”
Or: My Cleradin au where Will is once again haunted by demons and mass amounts of plot, and paladin Mike needs to learn to keep his hands to himself and not on his pretty cleric he wants to bind his oath to
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16 Mar 2026