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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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20 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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15 Jun 2026
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"Mike grew and matured and his fantasies of Will Byers followed suit. Where when he was younger he envisioned trading toys and running across long grassy fields with the boy, Mike now imagines what it’d be like to have Will Byers sat in the passenger seat of his beat up blue pickup truck, just within enough reach for Mike to place a firm hand on his leg or a wet kiss on his cheek. When he had dinner with his family, Mike imagined Will Byers in the empty chair next to his, a hand reached over to trace gentle but unintelligible patterns along the fabric of Mike’s jeans with the tip of his fingernail. The frequency of Mike’s ‘Will Byers-related’ reveries should have been concerning to him; it would’ve been to anyone who knew of them. It surely would’ve been concerning to Will Byers himself.
Yet it was that exact reason that Mike never put too much thought on the ethical nature of his delusional immersions; The real Will Byers was practically non-existent on every other day besides Sunday."
Farmer's son Mike Wheeler has been harboring a seemingly one-sided obsession with the scorned and condemned Will Byers, who also happens to be the son of the man who owns their town's sole standing Baptist church.
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09 Apr 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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A month in a half after the events of "My Will Is Good," Mike and Will spend a weekend in Montauk, get closer than ever, and navigate life as a couple. Mike grapples with the idea of coming out and what it means to be gay in the 90s.
Or: Mike and Will have fun in Montauk, do it without condoms, and are really nerdy and in love.
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- Part 2 of Nirvana
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29 Mar 2026