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Watching Stranger Things: A Second Chance by sendyourprayers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Apr 2026
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Will feels displaced in California, disconnected from his friends, and unsure of where he fits anymore. The others aren’t doing much better. They’re separated, carrying their own unresolved struggles, and feeling stuck in different ways.
After a particularly strong wish from Will to be together again, they are suddenly reunited in Mike’s basement and told they must watch their past, present, and future. As they go through all five seasons of Stranger Things together, they confront what really happened, and realize that, by the end, the future may not be as fixed as they thought, and they can make changes for the best.
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Or: The characters watch Stranger Things, with Byler endgame.Bookmarked by KayAreca
05 Jun 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jun 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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Bookmarked by KayAreca
05 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 aversion 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 KayAreca
05 Jun 2026
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Knock knock knock
“Jesus Christ! Hold on,” he mumbles, floating down the steps. He flicks on the porch light and yanks the door open. “What the hell are you–” He freezes.
For a moment, he really does believe he’s dreaming. You know, given that not a single fucking thing about this situation makes any goddamn sense. Because on the short trip from his bedroom to the front door, Mike made a list in his head of all of the people that could potentially be on the other side. It was a rather abbreviated list, to be fair: The cops. Nancy. His landlady, Freida. That one drunk guy he occasionally gives a cigarette to if he happens to be smoking on his porch when he walks by.
But it’s not any of those people. It’s Will. A year older, soaking wet, shivering with a waterlogged duffel bag slung over his left shoulder. Yeah. He’s dreaming. Because he had spoken to Will on the phone not even ten hours ago. He was about to go on his three year anniversary date with his long term boyfriend in New York City.
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Will needs some space from his boyfriend, James, and for whatever reason, he decides to take that space at Mike's townhouse in Boston. Mike is going to be so normal about it.
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04 Jun 2026
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Will’s skin being as cold as the bottom of the ocean was no problem. Mike knew he’d forever feel like the warmest bonfire in his heart.
Then, Mike realised.
He had loved Will ever since the prince tried to save him. Because, even when he was helpless, with his life laid upon Will’s hand, he saved him.
Will had saved Mike every day since he was on the island. Will saved him every day.
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Mike's ship is stranded on an island, and all he wants is to fix it and leave to keep going on his journey. But then, Mike ends up getting to know Will, a prince merman, who looks kind and quiet, but carries a curse deep inside his heart. Everything was fine until Mike falls in love and he's the one to fulfill Will's fate and prophecy.
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04 Jun 2026
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Will has been collecting data on everything Mike Wheeler since he was five years old. He has hundreds of file cabinets in his brain, cataloguing all of Mike’s behaviors. His likes and dislikes. His mannerisms and tells. His strengths and his…weaknesses.
If this asshole thought he was going to come in and snatch Mike up without a fight, he is sorely mistaken.
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When his best friend unexpectedly shows up to Spring Break with a boyfriend, Will quickly decides that if he can't have Mike Wheeler, no one can.
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Bookmarked by KayAreca
01 Jun 2026
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“You know it’s illegal to paint here, right?”
The painter doesn’t look at Mike. Instead, he hollers back, “what are you, a cop?”
The spray can is still hissing against brick, and it’s still getting under Mike’s skin. “No,” Mike finally settles on. “Just a… concerned citizen. You know. Because of the aerosol.”
“I don’t think you’re supposed to smoke there either. Do you not see the sign?”
"I smoke here every Wednesday and Friday night,” he says, dragging the cigarette from between his teeth. He pauses a moment before exhaling through his nose, smoke dissolving into the biting October air. He stares at the paint. “You know, I don’t think that’s good for the environment.”
“I don’t think aerosol paint is what’s killing New York, dude. Especially not with jackasses like you who smoke like chimneys.”
Or, when native New Yorker Mike Wheeler steps away from his band’s shitty downtown club gig for a smoke, he meets Zombie Boy: the eclipsed twin brother of infamous street artist Lab Rat, haunting the neon walls of Alphabet City.
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01 Jun 2026
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"So after being with her for years, you couldn't even tell her you loved her when she needed it the most?" Will spat back at him.
"I kept looking at her and seeing you. God you look so much alike, whenever I was with her, I kept thinking about you."
"No, don't put this on me. It's not my fault you couldn't tell Jane you loved her," Will replied. "Not even when she was killing herself to save us."
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Will wished it had been him instead of Jane.
So does Mike, but in an entirely different way.Bookmarked by KayAreca
01 Jun 2026
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"No," Will said quickly. "It's okay. He's going to be okay."
Nancy turned, the shock freezing her features into something horrifying. "He doesn't have a pulse."
Will held up his hands as he shook his head. "I know. But it—he—will be fine. You'll see."
Nancy choked on a sob. "He's dead! How is he going to be okay?"
Or: Four years after graduation, they're back in the Abyss, where a failing fight leads to Mike being bitten and losing everything about himself, except his love for Will Byers.
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01 Jun 2026
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"I really like being like this with you. It feels safe. Does it have to be more complicated than that?"
Will chews his lip and looks between Mike’s eyes. “I guess not. I feel safe with you too.” He laces his fingers behind Mike’s neck.
“I want this, and I don’t care that you’re a boy. You’re just Will to me.”
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Will has never been kissed. Mike realizes he wants to be the one to kiss Will. As summer progresses, Mike discovers through a dangerous amount of sun exposure, a bottle of aloe vera, and a silver necklace that he wants more than just kisses, and maybe he always has.
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28 May 2026
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Mike is in his second year of being Camp Leader, this year he runs a camp himself. Will unknowingly applies to Camp Cleradin, things get awkward, then sneaky, then weird, then romantic and all of the above. Some of the ST universe will be canon to this story, however relationships are different, lore is different, things may get confusing and that is just so okay. They are all 22 years old, I may mix up some of the timelines since I don't have a whole story board for this
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28 May 2026
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"What exactly are you calling for, Nancy?"
There was a moment of silence before she continued. "I'm living in Paris—for work. I can't… they won't let him leave the country, and I can't move back fast enough for it to matter."
Will felt his face pale. "What about your parents?"
"They don't want anything to do with him, not after—"
"Yeah, I heard. What about…"
"Will, there's no one else. I've tried."
"Nancy, I can't… I can't just—"
"Please. I wouldn't be asking if there was another option."
Will bit the inside of his cheek. "Okay."
Or: Mike is on house arrest for 6 months and has no choice but to stay with Will, even though they haven't spoken in two years.
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27 May 2026
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The School of Rebels and of Goods. (You made a rebel out of me) by rosstrytobe
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Ever After High
17 May 2026
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The Son of Snow White, Mike Wheeler has everything he asked for. Good grades. Good friends. A soulmate he met since middle school. He was just waiting to sign his fairytale book to fulfil his destiny.
On the other hand, the son of the Evil King, Will Creel was just trying to survive at this school. Maybe sneaky out and kiss a pretty boy named Carlton was not so bad.
The only one who was no so happy about it. It's his roommate and future arch nemesis Mike Wheeler.
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27 May 2026
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Will Byers returned as the new Ferrari driver for the 2026 Formula 1 season after three years of his sudden retirement, rocking the motorsport world just one hour after the announcement.
Mike Wheeler had his own world rocked after seeing a simple notification the night before the season began.
racerwillbyers started following you.
Holy shit. He was fucked.
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Driving Sideways by lyreandfigs for ToiletGhostie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Formula 1 RPF
08 Mar 2026
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It's been five years since Will Byers left the Formula 3 and disappeared from the radar, leaving behind his biggest dream. Five years since he last answered a call.
Five years since he left Mike.
Or: a Formula 1 AU where Will and Mike, once best friends, collide with each other after five years drifted apart.
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26 May 2026
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Mike Wheeler and Will Byers have been chasing each other since they were kids: from karting tracks to the brightest stage of Formula One. They were teammates once. They’re rivals now.
And with a championship on the line, the only thing between them and the finish line… is each other.
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The story of Mike and Will’s racing careers, from karting to Formula One, and everything that happens when two drivers spend their lives chasing the same finish line.
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26 May 2026
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It's been 5 years, one days from one of the openings they see him, Will, he's alive, but he has stayed the same, he looks the same as the day he disappeared
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24 May 2026
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Mike was sick of them. Sick of their double dates, their couple's costumes, inside jokes and plans they just have to make a 'couples thing'. Sure, the six of them still hung out together all the time, but Mike and Will would always end up ostracized by default, unable to communicate with them now that they only spoke the language of love and nothing else. And that summer, at the cottage, it definitely wouldn't be any different.
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It's 1993. The party goes over to Lucas's family cottage for the summer; Mike and Will get bothered by how often they're excluded from all the couples stuff their friends do, which leads them to start pretending to be dating in the most insufferable way they can come up with. They just weren't counting on it completely blurring the lines of their friendship.
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24 May 2026
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Mike Wheeler is on a mountain in the middle of nowhere to write the biggest story of his career.
Turns out there's some research you can't do alone.
"You know it's about to snowstorm up here, right?" Mike stuttered. "You could get stuck. You need to get back down the mountain."
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24 May 2026
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“I was scared,” Mike says abruptly. Will looks up. “To tell you. About the, um, liking guys thing.”
He stares at one of Will’s older drawings on the far wall. It’s the two of them, Mike the Brave and Will the Wise, facing off against some formidable beast. Mentally, he scoffs. He’s never felt less like Mike the Brave than he does right now.
“Not like you’d have reacted badly, obviously. But I felt like I’d missed some kind of metaphorical window, and the longer I didn’t say anything, the harder it felt to bring up. So I just… never did.”
“And that’s why you stopped writing?” Will asks hesitantly.
“It’s part of it,” he admits. “The other part is that I was pretty miserable, and I didn’t want to put that on you.”
After losing touch over the fall semester, Mike comes face-to-face with Will for the first time in months while home for winter break, forcing him to confront a number of things he’d rather avoid. Naturally, they end up sleeping together. Repeatedly.
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22 May 2026