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It’s always been Mike and Will since the day that they met, and so life goes as follows – they stick by one another throughout everything, from campaigns to demogorgons, and yet somehow they can’t quite see what it is they’ve been missing (or ignoring) this whole time.
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Something has gone terribly wrong. Without realizing it, Mike has slipped into a dark and horrifying pit, one that Karen is all too familiar with. This happens to boys sometimes; it’s been that way since Biblical times. Thankfully, it can be cured, and Karen loves her son too much not to help him. Unfortunately, the temptations are strong, so there’s a long road ahead. Karen constantly asks herself where she went wrong, and the answer is clear - it’s that damn Byers kid.
A look at Karen Wheeler and her relationships with her son and the Byers family throughout the years.
Bookmarked by loservirgin
25 Jun 2026
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- Karen POV is unique, and well-fitting.
- Depiction of casual homophobia (curable disease) seems to be accurate (at least based on what I've researched so far)Would've loved to see it more uncoventional with Joyce moving in with Karen loll. (Not romantic, just roommates. Still goes against suburban norm).
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Mike Wheeler Accidentally Told His Coworkers He Had a Boyfriend (He Doesn't, He Just Panicked) by sayuwami
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler gets accused of being homophobic at work, which is not on his 90s office bingo card. So in a full-blown panic and desperate to prove he’s not that guy, he lies to his coworkers that he’s gay and (for extra credibility) already has a boyfriend. Which would’ve been fine. Except it isn’t, because his department wins an all-expenses-paid company vacation, and his boss has already happily signed Mike up with a plus-one.
Now Mike has a boyfriend who doesn’t exist, a workplace that’s way too invested in his love life, and exactly zero ideas how to survive ten days without the lie collapsing like a poorly stapled brochure.
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December rolls around, as it usually does every year, and Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler are still laid up in Hawkins Memorial Hospital, as they will be for a while—or so Nancy's been told. So it's up to her to look after Holly and Mike, if they'll let her, and deal with the doctors to sort out recovery plans, if they'll listen to her, and clean the house up from that total wreck of a night over a month and a half ago when the world almost ended. And also maybe kind of try to make Christmas feel like anything resembling the stretched out shape of a holiday at all.
Nancy has a lot on her plate. Probably could use something to take her mind off it all.
And Steve's been Christmas shopping anyway, so he may as well look around. Just in case.
Bookmarked by loservirgin
12 Jun 2026
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- mom steve! mom steve! mom steve!
- everyone is in-character :)
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No Such Thing as Happy Endings (unless I choose you) by SlowKindling
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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It's the 2000's, and Michael Wheeler is miserable. He hates everything about himself; everything he'd become. He has nothing left to lose. Dustin, who still greives Steve's and Eddie's death, invents a machine that allows them to travel through the multiverse- to see other dimensions, other versions of themselves.
Together, they look for a reality where Steve and Eddie are alive, but instead they find answers Mike didn't know he was looking for.Or: Miserable Mike realizes that he is only happy when he's with Will.
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Summer break, two years after graduating high school. Will and Mike almost kiss, and everything changes. They find themselves on a journey together after a mysterious clue. They have no choice but to finally confront what’s been going on between them for years.
“I keep showing up,” Mike says. His voice doesn’t break, but he feels like it should. “Even when you try to throw me away.”
Will flinches, and Mike hates himself for it immediately.
“I didn’t- ” Will says, and his eyes drop. “I didn’t throw you away.”
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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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Bookmarked by loservirgin
02 Jun 2026
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captures mike's sexuality crisis perfectly.
descriptions of attraction are spot-on in my opinion! it matches how i feel towards attraction, or rather my lack thereof :)
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Oliver makes a rare visit to his parents with an SPR colleague in tow, under the pretenses of training and research. While excited to see her son again, Luella quickly becomes curious towards Oliver's true intentions; it's not everyday he willingly participates in social interactions...let alone insists that a work colleague join in.
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AO3 is great, but can it run Doom? Of course!!
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Bookmarked by loservirgin
14 May 2026
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This story is a complete rewrite of Season 5, following the original script very closely.
There is a heavy focus throughout of Will and Mike's relationship (platonic and eventually romantic). There is implied sexual content throughout but nothing physically happens between Mike and Will until the end of the story.
*Honorable Mention Song: “Never Tear Us Apart” INXS*Vecna is hiding out in the Upside Down, the party has significantly slowed him down and injured him but he has a new fury burning within, even through his charred flesh and scales. The Molotov cocktail Steve threw might as well have been an ignition switch. They will pay for what they’ve done…
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The day of their graduation, Will was smiling for photos with Hopper and his mum, Joyce when the phone rung. Will laughed as the tarp behind Jonathan fell again while taking photos while his mum picked up the phone. She frowned and Will could faintly hear Karen Wheeler’s frantic voice. Joyce lowered the phone to her shoulder and mouthed the words, “Mike has been missing since last night.”
The old cold feeling washed over Will again. No Mike probably stayed at Lucas’ house or something, right?
And if not, then where the hell did Mike Wheeler go?
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The Apricity Of You: The Boy in the Tower by beebopbyers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2026
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Looking over to the open windows of the tower, the view of nothing but crowded trees that hid the taunting glowing city from afar.. the place he truly belonged to, made him let out a low, menacing hum.
With a flick of his wrist, the dark slimy vines closed the window shut – the darkness enveloping them. Just a fleeting sight of light seeped through the cracks from above, falling down to the little boy's fluttering amber eyes.
Vecna – or Henry, slowly clasped his hands behind his back, staring down at him.
"You and I, we are going to do such beautiful things together, William."
Yet somewhere beyond Vecna's reach, an oathless paladin unawarely moved through The March and searched something he could believe in – a devotion with no name - and it was going to collide paths with him, waiting for him in a tower that was built through shadows no spell could find..
For his fate was already bound to the blessed cleric that the world once thought they lost.
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CLERADIN TANGLED AU
⚠️ SECOND BOOK IS UP!!Series
- Part 1 of The Apricity Of You Series
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a lesson in coasting: an idiot's guide to gay allyship by michael j. wheeler by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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“So, I’ve been thinking," Mike throws his head back into the sofa’s head rest. “You know how I talk about girls all the time?”
The pencil in Will’s hand freezes for just a moment, something Mike wouldn’t have been able to tell at all if he wasn’t staring right at Will’s hands to avoid his gaze. “So?”
“Well, I’ve been thinking, right?”
Will looks up, but Mike isn’t looking back at him. He’s picking at a loose thread on the couch cushion. “What, about girls?”
“No,” Mike shakes his head, “about boys."
Will nearly chokes on his tongue. “You’ve been thinking about boys?”
or, mike conducts an uncomfortably elaborate semester-long personal inquiry project on how to be a better straight ally to his gay best friend. for educational reasons only. obviously
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Once the marquee is in view, Mike's stomach drops to his ass. It's right there underneath the block letters reading, 'A Nightmare On Elm Street 2, ' written in red spray paint.
'Mike Wheeler is a f*g.'
If it weren't for the public humiliation, Mike would probably laugh at the irony. This is truly a nightmare, indeed.
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Or, Mike Wheeler and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
inspired by a tumblr comment from palebluemoonlight
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My contribution to MerMay.
Will was just trying to keep his head low and his bills paid. The job at the Research Center for Ocean Life was easy, quiet, and it kept food in his belly. Everything was going well until he saw something in the Deep Sea enclosures he couldn't explain.
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His sneakers slid across the soap, making him windmill his arms and for a moment, the safety training video he’d watched a few weeks prior played on a loop in his head, scolding him for not wearing no-slip shoes.
“No. Nope. No fucking way,” he panted through chattering teeth as he found his footing and leaned his back against the door.
He kept his eyes locked on the enclosure, waiting for the light to show up again or for his mind to come up with a better explanation than there was a fucking alien in a tank less than a hundred feet away from him. He waited almost half an hour before he found his nerve and crept back to retrieve the mop. He didn’t bother to clean the glass, justifying it with the lack of time he had left in his shift rather than the queasy feeling in his stomach and uncomfortable, primal fear of being confronted with something he had no logical explanation for.
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a grave will fit me better than a landlocked home by paisparker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Dec 2025
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And Mike, wrapped in water and teeth and devotion, thought dimly again that if this was how he died, drowned in the arms of his lovely ocean creature, he would welcome it with bliss.
Mike Wheeler, has always belonged to the sea. When he finds something the water has claimed — and loves it — he chooses to follow it home.
; or mike is morbidly obsessed with death and the water, and will is both of those incarnate.
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Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair are starting college, and they decide to share a house.
But fate has other plans that will lead the two girls to be way more than just roommates.
Or, Wednesday and Enid sign paperwork for their new house and accidentally get married.Series
- Part 1 of Till Rent Do Us Apart
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Polished Steel // Silvered Tongues by ItsKnightCerulean for xylemsap
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 2026
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“You’re like a shadow,” Will had said one evening, from his seat in the palace library, his eyes falling on where Mike stood beside the fireplace, “your silhouette, it’s always there.”
“Would you prefer I stand behind your back,” Mike replied, not quite sure if Will’s comment was an accusation or just a plain acknowledgement.
Will smirked, just slightly.
“I think that’d be worse. Then I couldn’t tell when you’re staring or not. At least there,” he gestured towards Mike with his hand, “I can tell when you’re looking at me.”OR
Will Byers is the second-born son of a decrepit royal bloodline, watching his brother inherit their neglected kingdom. Bearing his own arcane secret, he finds himself with fewer places to hide from his harrowing past.
Mike Wheeler has tried running away from his duties as a nobleman his whole life. Ducking his head down in the face of excellence has led him to trail after his sister to a far-flung kingdom swathed with contemptuous whispers, and an even more taciturn prince.
Their lives collide in the months leading up to Jonathan’s coronation, where their bond slowly blossoms into something much greater than a knight watching over his charge from afar.
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Everyone knows Wednesday and Enid have been dating for months now.
The only problem is, no one thought to let Wednesday know.
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Step 1: Agree to go to the Renaissance Faire with your best friend.
Step 2: Realize that said best friend looks like a literal fantasy heartthrob in a star-dusted velvet sorcerer’s hood.
Step 3: Fall in love all over again.
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Mike Wheeler has a plan: be a good friend, keep his hands to himself, and definitely do not let Will Byers know he’s been pining for him since the 1980’s.
But, between the mead, the crowded stalls, and the way Will looks draped in purple velvet, the Paladin within him is losing his grip on reality.
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Bookmarked by loservirgin
27 Mar 2026
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Fluffy, only one scene that was 🌶🌶🌶, but otherwise wholesome.