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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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08 Jun 2026
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i never knew my name until you spoke it from your chest by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2026
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When Mike first filled out the paperwork, he didn’t know if anything would come of it. He’d just arrived back in Ithaca after a spring break visit to the city. His neck was stiff from the weird nap he’d taken on the bus. It was snowing, in April. He didn't even have any friends to call up and announce his return, unless you counted his roommate, Jeremy, who greeted him with an indifferent head nod and a “hey, man” when Mike spilled through the door of their dorm room, shaking melting snowflakes out of his overgrown hair.
He trudged across campus the next day, past dirty iced-over snow drifts that seemed like they might never melt, and knocked on the door of his advisor’s office.
“If I wanted to transfer to another school next year,” he said, fidgeting with his backpack in his lap as he sat down in the squeaky vinyl-backed chair, “how would that work?”
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07 Jun 2026
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i'll dream awake (now i'm wide awake) by starrylance for lxthetruth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Mar 2026
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“Do you want to be my friend?”
Mike learns what it means to be brave. It begins with love.
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26 May 2026
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“It’s okay. I know it’s… hard for you.”
“Yeah,” Mike exhales through his mouth. With the way Will is spread out on the bed, his shorts have ridden up on his thighs and it’s making it hard to breathe—Will is all comfortable and unguarded, and Mike can sense more than see the vein running up the side of his knee, along his inner thigh and then even higher up.
Mike’s eyes rest there for a second. He imagines following the scent, his nose pressed to Will’s skin. Pushing the fabric of his shorts out of the way, all the way up to his groin. Burying his teeth just underneath the junction of it, where the skin is softest and the vein pulsing warmest.
Or, Mike returns from the Upside Down changed, with a newfound hunger for blood—Will’s blood, specifically. It’s getting harder and harder to resist.
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15 May 2026
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a year without her (a year with you) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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Eleven is gone. And Mike feels like the world should’ve ended that day.
Over the next year, he tries to convince himself that he’s just grieving. But winter doesn’t last forever. Spring brings rain and cracks in old walls. Summer arrives hot and relentless – and so do the feelings he’s been trying to outrun.
By autumn, when Will’s future no longer includes Hawkins, Mike has to decide whether he’s brave enough to stop pretending.A four-season story about loss, growing up and falling in love when you least expect it.
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01 Apr 2026