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"Mike had noticed him because he was hard not to notice. He looked just so... Gentle.
Will moved through campus like someone trying not to disturb the air around him, while everyone else seemed determined to reinvent themselves at maximum volume in the new environment they were on at the campus, Will existed quietly at the edges of rooms, soft and careful and entirely self-contained.
And, unfairly enough, he was probably one of the prettiest people Mike had ever seen in his life."
Will doesn't speak. He decided to stop using his voice for his own personal reasons, but slowly, he starts to think that maybe it wouldn't be bad at all if he decided to use his voice again. Maybe that talkative boy– Mike, from Creative writing, might be the first person to prove him he was wrong about that part of himself.
Of a boy that after going through a lot of pain stopped using his voice as a defense mechanism, and a boy who can't stay quiet for long because his thoughts overwhelm him.
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29 Jun 2026
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The sequel to Super Soaker.
Mike and Will have left the pool behind, but not each other.
A story about the seasons after summer- navigating friendships, what it means being queer in the 90s, and all the fun of growing up alongside each other.
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- Part 2 of Super Soaker Series
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28 Jun 2026
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"This line." Will tapped the end of his pen on a sentence. "He wanted it more than he had ever wanted sunlight after a long winter. Mike. He's getting head, not returning from war."
"It's interiority."
"It's loneliness." Will said.
"It's texture."
"It's a blowjob with seasonal depression, Mike. You put loneliness into oral sex."OR: Mike Wheeler’s first job in Los Angeles is writing a sex column for Pink Noise, a chaotic queer magazine. Will Byers, his ex-best friend and current art director, needs copy he can actually draw. Mike writes sex like desire owes him an apology. He asks Will for help, for work reasons, research reasons. Normal, professional, absolutely not-life-ruining reasons.
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25 Jun 2026
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"Set me up a meeting with that artist friend of yours that you've been bugging me about."
"Wait, seriously?" Lucas' eyebrows had shot up in genuine surprise. "When were you wanting to organise the meeting for?"
"Today. Or, as soon as he's available. What's his name again?" Mike asked.
"I can call and see if he's free tomorrow, or if he'd be willing to swing by tonight." Lucas spoke, already walking towards the flip-phone on his desk. "But you'd probably have to offer an incentive for him to come on such short notice. And his name is Will. William Byers."OR
The Mob Boss AU where a protective Michael Wheeler absolutely despises his Don father, and struggles with his own moral compass when it comes to protecting the people he loves.
And artist William Byers has no idea what he's getting himself into when accepting a new art commission.Bookmarked by Pistachiocrumbs
25 Jun 2026
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He had spent his life trying to be good enough, so maybe God would stop looking at him like something unfinished. When the Wheelers move into town, Will’s quiet Appalachian world begins to rot at the edges. In a town built on shame and scripture, desire becomes it’s own haunting.
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Heavily inspired by Ethel Cain’s album, “Preacher’s Daughter”
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23 Jun 2026
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The one where Will Byers goes missing for three days, but there isn’t a monster or an evil alternate dimension.
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A coming-of-age, SLOW BURN story following the party from ages 12 to 16 (loosely following the original Stranger Things timeline, but without the supernatural elements).
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21 Jun 2026
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Love Will Tear Us Apart (A Glimmer Of Hope Refusing to Fade) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 May 2026
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After the events of 'A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade,' Will, Mike, and the Party are all battle-worn, exhausted, and half-grown-up - not to mention ready for their NDA deals to carry them into an easy life of peace, luxury, and recovery.
...but, of course, that doesn't happen. Whether it's the Upside Down following them and haunting whatever city they live in the same as it haunted Hawkins or just trying to survive after what they have, it's never going to be easy.
(It's worth a shot anyway. And they'll be damned if they don't try.)
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- Part 2 of The Glimmer Series
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19 Jun 2026
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i want you to need me (i need to want something more) by tasteofheaven
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 May 2026
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Because even if Will might have everyone in the room fooled, even if everyone thinks he’s happy and relaxed, he still doesn’t have Mike fully convinced. Because he’s still glancing at the staircase every few minutes. His shoulders still tighten when he hears a floorboard creak. And somehow his eyes still flicker toward the dark hallway anytime anyone asks him a question, like he’s incapable of answering without a script.
Nobody else notices this.
Mike wishes that he didn’t, either.
Everyone thinks Will Byers is lucky to have married the successful and well respected Carlton Van Note. Will believes he should feel so, too.
Except— no one sees what goes on behind closed doors, not when Carlton drinks too much, not when jealousy turns into rage, not when Will learns how to fawn just to keep the peace that only now echoes in the empty, silent halls. No one sees the physical evidence left on his body after violent nights, hidden under long sleeves and careful smiles. And for years, Will has gotten good at pretending.
Unfortunately, Mike Wheeler knows him all too well.
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14 Jun 2026
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we thought this place was haunted (but we stayed anyway) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jun 2026
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Three months after the truth finally came out, Mike Wheeler and Will Byers are together, and still trying to figure out how to build a life with each other.
Rosecliff Manor no longer feels quite as haunted as it once did. Will is making a home there. Mike is trying to step back into the world. Lily is determined to make sure neither of them takes anything too seriously.
But the past doesn't disappear just because they've chosen to move forward. As Mike begins facing the grief he spent years hiding from, Will discovers that some shadows are harder to escape.
Falling in love was only the beginning.
Now they have to learn how to stay.
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- Part 2 of we thought this place was haunted
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14 Jun 2026
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when i've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed by girlgbtq
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jun 2026
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"Sullivan's pace quickened as he strode down the halls of the lab in the Hellish dimension, the last thirty minutes stuck in his mind on a loop. Some trouble makers breaking into the base, a swarm of those vile undead monsters, a demon shooting his hand through the face of Ramirez-
And a boy, snapping the limbs of one of those monsters without even breaking a sweat- a brand new variable that Sullivan hadn’t predicted discovering."
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When Joyce, Mike, and Will leave the MAC-Z after discovering Will's powers, they assume that the only enemy they have left to deal with is Vecna. However, they fail to notice that Lieutenant Jack Sullivan wasn't killed in the massacre- and that he saw Will using his newfound powers. Once Sullivan informs Dr. Kay, it doesn't take too long for the military to set their sights on a new target, one that has powers that they would love to get their hands on...
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12 Jun 2026
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After years of running from past mistakes, trauma, and the life he left behind, Will has finally settled. He’s found his purpose as an art teacher at a group home for troubled kids, and he’s starting to believe he can actually cauterize his own wounds by tending to the fresh ones of others.
But as he starts his second year - the new creative writing teacher helps him realize you can’t grow new flowers when your roots are still displaced.
Or: An entire school year in which Mike and Will rediscover themselves and their relationship after 8 years no contact, bonding over their shared love for the sweetest children with familiar, painful histories.
"Every time I make you cry, it starts raining," Mike states quietly. His voice is barely audible over the roaring downpour, but it cuts through the thunder like a blade.
"Only the times you've witnessed," Will says in return, his voice barely a whisper.
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11 Jun 2026
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There's A Place Where The Light Won't Find You (But I Will Seek You Somewhere) by whossellie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jun 2026
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Hawkins, 1987. Four years have passed since that tragic November 6th, 1983, and the world seems to have forgotten William Byers. Everyone, except Mike Wheeler. As the weight of an unfillable absence consumes him, a military interception by Murray Bauman reignites an impossible hope: a mysterious figure is haunting the perimeter of the base within the Upside Down.
Mike decides to brave the abyss to bring home the only person he never stopped looking for. But the Will he finds is no longer the shy boy he once knew: he is a survivor scarred by the void, with a fragmented memory and a dark connection to Vecna that threatens to consume him.
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Will was never found
«Because your face haunts me.» Will snapped. «Ever since you appeared, I can’t sleep anymore. I feel as if something inside me has opened. And it hurts.»
«Then why do you keep me alive, if I’m hurting you?»
«It isn't you who’s hurting me. That’s the problem.»
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11 Jun 2026
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Will Byers disappeared into the Upside Down for the second time during the Battle of Starcourt in 1985. Two years later, Mike Wheeler is still in denial that his best friend could be dead and pours everything he has into planning the crawls, trying to find both Vecna and any evidence of Will.
During a mission to rescue his sister from Vecna and prevent other kids from being taken, Will reappears and turns Mike's life upside down once more.Bookmarked by Pistachiocrumbs
05 Jun 2026
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04 Jun 2026
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Will Byers is familiar with the short end of the stick. It’s what sent him on a cross-country hitch-hike from California to New York City with 500 dollars that he scratched together, a backpack with nothing but what’s important, bruises on his face, and an address that hosts the brother he’s had no contact with for nearly four years.
The short end of the stick is what has him desperate to start over and forget. Forget about the abuse, the seizures, and the burden of his childhood. It’s what guides him to one Nancy Wheeler, who lands him a job in a field he never considered an option: corporate.
But as Will starts from scratch, he realizes how much his past really weighs on him, especially after he catches the eye of Mike Wheeler.
Will Byers is not used to love, kindness, or wealth. But maybe he can be. He just needs to take it one step at a time.
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After escaping an abusive relationship, Will lands a job at a major publishing company to start over in New York. Mike happens to be the guy who’s inheriting it.
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04 Jun 2026
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Will Byers is used to being watched, It comes with the job.
Gallery openings, interviews, strangers who look a little too long at his work, at him.
What he isn't used to is being targeted.
When the messages start getting too personal, too specific, Lucas insists on bringing in outside security, someone who would blend in more.
Will expects someone obvious.
Instead he gets Mike Wheeler.Quiet. Controlled. Always watching.
The kind of person who doesn't miss anything.
Including Will.
And that might be the problem.Bookmarked by Pistachiocrumbs
01 Jun 2026
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As much of a mystery as Mike was, Will had come to understand at least one thing. Mike needed to be needed.
Will felt like a lightbulb had gone off in his head when he’d come to the realisation.
The dealing, the sex, the taunting texts – it all made sense. People came to Mike to get what they needed, whether that be drugs, an orgasm, or the last word in a fiery exchange.
The goading messages were a test, Will had decided – a constant push and pull, Mike seeing whether Will would come back and defend himself against his harsh words.
In a way, Will was no better than the people traipsing Mike’s door at all hours of the night. He did need something from Mike, just the same as everyone else.Or:
Ending up on the infamous roster of the college drug dealer was not in Will's college plans. He'd had a list — a real one, written down — of how this year was supposed to go. Mike Wheeler was not on it. None of this was.
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01 Jun 2026
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After Eleven dies, Mike Wheeler has no name for what he feels toward Will Byers, so he does the only thing he knows: he holds on too tight.
Same bed every night, his mouth on every part of Will except the one that would make it true. Will keeps asking what they are. Mike keeps not answering.
It takes a paint-stained studio and a fight neither of them walks away from whole for the world to finally go quiet. Will stops hearing that day.
Two thousand miles apart, there's no clean version of this. Will is learning that leaving isn't the same as dying. Mike is learning that some things you break stay broken, and loving harder was never the fix.
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Mike Wheeler has OCD, Will Byers is too good at being needed, and the thing they keep doing in the dark only gets a name after Will loses his hearing and love has to learn a new language through their hands
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19 May 2026
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What the Night Takes (And How To Get It Back) by ClaudiaCreature
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jun 2026
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It's 1992.
Will Byers and Mike Wheeler are college roommates at NYU... and attached at the hip.
When Will's nightmares take a turn for the worse, will Mike notice? Or will he hide his head in the sand?
Will Will ask for help when he desperately needs it? Or will he try to deal with it on his own?
Will either of them ever say out loud how much they need each other?OR
Will accidentally turns to sleeping pills when his nightmares get really bad and Mike tries to parent him too hard.
They cannot say out loud that they love each other, and the further Will falls into his drug issue, the harder it becomes to talk aboutAlso, Max is an amazing friend and basically becomes their buffer
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- 87/?
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08 May 2026
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“I want you to take a close look, because if you try to leave. I will mount Mike’s head right here in place of this deer.” Vecna points to the mounted head in the middle of the room.
Will’s whole body is trembling.
Vecna stares at him longer than is polite or comfortable. He nods, satisfied with Will’s response, then breaks back out into an arrogant smile.
“Let me show you your new home.” Vecna croons as he pulls on Will's arm.
Or Part 3 of my series Endless Circles
Where Will gets his powers mid-season 3 and it changes everythingSeries
- Part 3 of Endless Circles - Series
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02 May 2026