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   Colour My World by anntigone

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   04 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Slow Burn
   • 1970s
   • Alternate Universe - 1970s
   • New York City
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Pathetic Mike Wheeler
   • Coming of Age
   • Forced Proximity
   • Poet Mike Wheeler
   • Artist Will Byers
   • Fluff
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Religious Guilt
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Angst
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Flirting
   • Art and Literature References
   • author is a literature nerd if you couldn't tell
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • and they were ROOMMATES
   • Developing Relationship
   • First Kiss
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   New York, 1974.
   Midwestern would-be poet Mike Wheeler arrives in the city with a small leather case tucked under his arm, in search of sophistication. What he finds instead is love in the duchenne smile of aspiring artist Will Byers, ripening in sultry, shirtless evenings and shared Coke bottles on the rusty metal of fire escapes.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   15,358

   Chapters:

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   Kudos:

   10

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