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“Good morning, babe.”
Will woke up to a gentle voice at 8:27am. His eyes fluttered open to return Mike’s wake-up call except -
It wasn’t Mike.
It was Carlton.
His boyfriend, Carlton.
Of course.
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Joyce and Hopper are getting married. Will, of course, brought his boyfriend as his plus one. Mike is there for the wedding too. Will is dying inside.[Continuation of “i made it weird (i made it worse)”]
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- Part 2 of i made it weird (i made it worse)
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31 May 2026
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Fire in My Heart: Heatwave of '92 by Thetheoryholdstrue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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It's the summer of 1992, and Will Byers has come home. And Mike cannot stop staring.
Mike is on the NYU waitlist. Will just finished his first year of art school in New York. They have one summer in Hawkins before everything changes, and Mike is running out of room to hide.
Fire in My Heart follows Mike and Will from the thick Indiana heat of June through their first months sharing a studio apartment in Brooklyn. Wrestling matches on the basement floor. Long drives that end with the car idling in the dark. A gay bar in Indianapolis where everything finally breaks open. And then New York: two people who have known each other their whole lives, finally figuring out what it means to actually be together.
Grief lives in the walls of this story. The trauma didn't stop when the gates closed. And Mike Wheeler has been in love with his best friend for longer than he's willing to admit, even to himself.
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29 May 2026
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Art School Confidential by cyclogenesis (addictedkitten)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.
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25 May 2026
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moonlight on our fingers (the gravity between us) by liminalyearning
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jun 2026
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"I was just thinking about the moon. How it's the same one, everywhere."
They save the world.
Then they try to save themselves.Will leaves Hawkins for art school in New York. Mike stays behind and slowly falls apart.
For three years, they orbit each other: phone calls that say nothing, letters that say too much, stolen touches in the dark, fights that feel like breakups when they were never technically together. They try dating other people. They try being just friends. They try pretending the thing between them doesn't exist.
Nothing works.
It takes distance.
It takes loss.
It takes someone finally getting on a plane. Not to chase, but to choose.A post-Season 5 slow burn about grief, shame, wanting someone you’re not supposed to, and learning the difference between loving someone quietly and loving them out loud.
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25 May 2026
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The night of graduation after Mike's campaign, the party goes to Stacy's to celebrate. With liquid courage and buried feelings rising to the surface, Mike and Will finally cross the line and admit how they feel about each other. But when summer comes to an end and Will refuses to be kept a secret, the boys go their separate ways.
Years later, Will runs into Mike at a gay club in New York, forcing them to confront feelings neither of them truly left behind. Will has already tried to move on, but Mike is determined to win him back despite the hurt he caused.
There's just one problem: Will has a boyfriend.
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In which Mike and Will finally kiss and have to face their feelings. Mike struggles with internalized homophobia while Will struggles with being kept a secret, and the two split up at the end of the summer. Years later, they meet again, and they can't fight the want. Will has a boyfriend now—Mike doesn't care.
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23 May 2026