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“It wasn’t on purpose! I promise I don’t go around attacking people with flower arrangements,” Will says, horrified.
“Well, that's a shame," Mike replies, smiling as he hands him back a fallen stem, “I think it’s a pretty memorable way to introduce yourself.”
(Or: Will owns a flower shop, Mike owns a publishing house, and somewhere between window notes, flower crowns, late-night conversations, and an alarming number of rom-com situations, they accidentally fall in love.)
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12 Jul 2026
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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12 Jul 2026
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11 Jul 2026
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Max Mayfield is in search of a co-worker for her part time job at a thrift store. The problem is, she doesn't want one.
So naturally, she comes up with a plan to prove she is incompatible with one. And who better else to ask but Mike Wheeler?
(A post-canon college/thrift store madwheeler story)
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03 Jul 2026
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21 Jun 2026
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13 Jun 2026
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It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Will Graham is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Hannibal, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Will's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Will and Hannibal discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
A Hannigram, Call Me By Your Name AU
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11 Jun 2026
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@d20dreamer: Can I clean you up afterwards? Seeing you all messy like this drives me mad to take care of you
Rainbowbaby paused the movement, leaning his torso forward to read the chat with the toy still humming quietly inside him. “Look at that… d-d… dreamer wants to clean me. Yes… l-love, you can. How would you do it? Tell me, make me imagine…”
@d20dreamer: With soft tissues first, to wipe the bulk… then neutral soap and warm water, rubbing slowly until you shine again. I’d dry you with a fluffy towel and cover you with your cosy cardigan!
For Mike Wheeler, life is a matter of lists, absolute control, and organization, whose only system failure is his fixation on a camboy from a streaming platform. However, when he crosses paths with the sweet and reserved Will Byers, the lines between his digital obsession and reality begin to blur. Will is a masterpiece of broken glass and hidden scars, trapped in a game far more dangerous than Mike ever imagined. When the ghosts from the boy's past — and the shadows of a predatory industry — threaten to reclaim him, Mike realizes that being a 'safe harbor' means fighting a war he wasn't prepared for.
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- 14/14
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28 May 2026
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will i always wonder? (will, i always wonder) by acatalepsae
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jul 2026
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“I keep imagining telling you all of this in person and then immediately shoving a gun down my throat and killing myself. Because then you’d look at me differently. Or worse— you wouldn’t. You’d look at me exactly the same, and I wouldn’t know what to do with that.”
His voice cracks slightly, but he keeps going.
“I don’t want you to feel like I’m breaking in front of you.”
“But I think I already am. I think I already did. I think you looked away. I think you still care. I think you’re scared. I think I love you. No. I Know I love you. I’m as sure of it as Dustin is about wavefunctions collapsing the moment you try to define them too precisely.”
“Will, I always wonder… if we too, would collapse if one of us tries to define what we are too precisely.”
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In which Mike and Will get high, make terrible decisions, and avoid one very obvious conversation for an impressive amount of time.
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25 May 2026
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11 May 2026
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It's 1995, and it's snowing in Hawkins. Will has not been home in five years. He hasn't laid eyes on Mike Wheeler in five years. A phone call that he can't ignore, a long drive, and he's there, in front of Mike's house, like nothing has changed. And maybe, nothing has.
Or: Mike falls apart. Will puts him back together.TW suicide attempt
(Everyone was far too happy in that epilogue for my liking... you will mourn el properly and you WILL have trauma and you WILL ALL be miserable. This will be really depressing but I fear I have no choice in the matter. Byler I will avenge you.)
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10 May 2026
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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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08 May 2026
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i MAY potentially come back to this and write some one shots that detail my "fade to black" scenes LOL and perhaps graduation
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01 May 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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- 15/15
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01 May 2026
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After Eleven dies, Mike Wheeler starts needing Will Byers in a way that has teeth.
Same bed every night. Mike counting Will’s breaths, Will’s shivers, every place his mouth has been allowed and every place he has forbidden himself to touch. Will keeps asking what they are. Mike keeps not answering.
A fight in Will’s studio goes too far. When he wakes, the world has gone quiet.
Years later, Will is learning how to live without waiting for Mike Wheeler to choose him. Mike is learning, badly and late, that loving Will with everything in him was never the same as loving him the way Will needed.
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Mike Wheeler is being eaten alive by his OCD, Will Byers has spent too long mistaking need for love, and neither of them knows when the thing between them became a compulsion. What's left is distance, and therapy, and the slow, quiet work of building a life in the silence. A psychological slow burn about the difference between loving someone and needing them to stay.
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- 288,153
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- 33/51
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26 Apr 2026
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“Rules. Like, there’ll be no eating in my car. You’re not driving my car. No heavy metal,” Steve keeps listing, “you’re not picking up women and fucking them in m-”
“I'll try to control myself,” Eddie interrupts with a quip, a smirk. Fucking girls in Steve’s car, or anywhere else for that matter, isn’t going to be an issue, unless something pretty fundamental shifts in him.
Steve continues, completely ignoring Eddie, “You’ll wipe your feet. You’re not dragging dirt all over my car. No hitchhikers. No cutesy road games. No smoking in the car. I’m not paying for all the gas.”
“Ass, gas or grass, got it,” Eddie says, like he's taking this very seriously. He is not taking this seriously.
Or: Road trip!
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26 Apr 2026
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26 Apr 2026
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26 Apr 2026
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in the quiet of the night by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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26 Apr 2026
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Will's injured after a Demogorgon attack, and Mike insists on patching him up. It should be simple—clean the wound, wrap the bandage, done. But Mike's hands keep lingering, and the air between them feels heavier with every touch. They've been walking this line for months, finding excuses to be close without ever crossing it. Maybe it's time to stop pretending.
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26 Apr 2026