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you're all that i've known for a while by wayward_sherlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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The ache has multiplied, now, spreading from his chest to his whole body, and he suddenly feels a real urge to cry, for the first time in — years, probably. He wants so desperately to talk to Will that it feels a little bit like he might throw up, but he knows that Will sleeping through the entire night is almost as rare as it is for Mike — less because of his brain betraying him and keeping him up like Mike’s does, but more because of the near-constant nightmares he never talks about — and he looks so peaceful, laying under the softest blanket that Mike could find, that Mike refuses to be that selfish, selfish enough to wake him.
He can — he can stay, though. Maybe watching Will breathe will be enough to make Mike’s insides stop churning, stop doing their damndest to escape through his skin.
christmas eve, 1986. mike just wants to be close to will.
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- Part 1 of 'tis the damn season.
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23 Dec 2025
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Mike considers the current Byers-Wheeler household. Ruminating on Christmas gift giving, his own wants, and sneaking into the basement where Will sleeps.
Jonathan squeezing Mike's shoulder as he passes him on the stairs. Something so small that really got me.
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forsooth, it was strange and terrible by dragons_like_smores for KissingTinyFlowers, Marsonaplate
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Dec 2025
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Mike nodded and said, “Please draw me looking knightly,” and then he began to hum the tune of the bardic song.
Will studied Mike’s face, tilting his head this way and then that, and murmured, “What makes one look knightly?”
“Handsome and strong. Righteous. Brave. An upstanding servant to the kingdom.”
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In the small medieval village of Hawkins, animal attacks spread panic, young farmer Will feels awfully left behind, and squire Mike has to confront his conflicting feelings about his knightly duties and his best friend.
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02 Jan 2026
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Squire Mike protects werewolf Will.
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“Will,” Mike starts.
“No, seriously,” Will says. The hand that isn’t holding his beer raises between them, twitching downwards like he’s physically shoving any of Mike’s other questions back down where they came from. “It was a stupid thing to ask.”
Mike shakes his head, then scoots forward, inching closer to Will. “It’s not,” he insists. “If it’s you asking, it’s not stupid, Will.”
On New Year's Eve, 1996, Will asks Mike a question. He gets an answer and then some.
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01 Feb 2026
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post canon byler. Mike and Will bring in the new year 1997.
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23 Jun 2026
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Mike being messy and pathetic and obsessed with Will. As it should be.
Everything about Come As You Are but especially the kiss in the Byers' Montauk driveway cemented this series as an all time classic. Wow. Wow wow wow.
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23 Jun 2026
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college byler is always good but this specific portrayal of Mike and Will... I do compare many fics to this series. I do.