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“You know it’s illegal to paint here, right?”
The painter doesn’t look at Mike. Instead, he hollers back, “what are you, a cop?”
The spray can is still hissing against brick, and it’s still getting under Mike’s skin. “No,” Mike finally settles on. “Just a… concerned citizen. You know. Because of the aerosol.”
“I don’t think you’re supposed to smoke there either. Do you not see the sign?”
"I smoke here every Wednesday and Friday night,” he says, dragging the cigarette from between his teeth. He pauses a moment before exhaling through his nose, smoke dissolving into the biting October air. He stares at the paint. “You know, I don’t think that’s good for the environment.”
“I don’t think aerosol paint is what’s killing New York, dude. Especially not with jackasses like you who smoke like chimneys.”
Or, when native New Yorker Mike Wheeler steps away from his band’s shitty downtown club gig for a smoke, he meets Zombie Boy: the eclipsed twin brother of infamous street artist Lab Rat, haunting the neon walls of Alphabet City.
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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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fifty-seven hours in new york city, 1989 by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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“What in the absolute fuck are you doing here?”
“I—” Mike tries, but the words die in his throat. Will’s the first to pull away, but Mike wants to stay tucked into his warm, dry arms and neck and scent forever. “I missed you.”
“You — you missed me?”
Mike flushes crimson and tears his gaze away from Will — suddenly he’s feeling a little too seen, a little too looked through. “I — yeah.”
or, the four days in which mike runs away from hawkins and shows up on the doorstep of will's east village apartment without telling a soul he was coming - including will himself
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- Part 3 of post epilogue byler core
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“Can you please stay?”
Mike’s hand lingers on the doorframe, voice catching a little. A shiver of something — maybe something like awareness — passes between them.
“What?”
Don’t move. Don’t go to New York. Don’t leave me behind. Please, don’t leave me behind.
“Stay the night?”
“You want me to stay the night?”
“I—” Mike chokes. I don’t know how to say goodbye anymore. “Yeah.”
or, epilogue mike and will are too late
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- Part 2 of post epilogue byler core
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And Will’s not the writer here, Mike is, but he has no idea what goes on inside Mike’s head anymore, because Mike doesn’t let anybody in. He’s become all but a total recluse — reticent, he just buries his head in books and hunches over his typewriter for hours on end, writing stories nobody’s been allowed to read for months and getting lost in made-up paracosms to fulfill the gaping hole that El has left in his life — in their lives.
But it’s not fair, because act as he might, Mike wasn’t the only one who lost El.
They all did.
or, will and jonathan's 2am phone conversation a month pre-epilogue about growing up, first loves, and how to finally learn how to put yourself first
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- Part 1 of post epilogue byler core
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my outsiders canon :p by cinnamoncider
Fandom The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
07 Aug 2025
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basically just all my interconnected mostly-canon-compliant (but probably gayer) outsiders fics, mostly focused on the brothers and/or peril with some other random stuff thrown in, in chronological order!
some of them are a little connected together and some of them have basically nothing to do with each other; they're just all in the same lil pre/post canon compliant universe in my head :)
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