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    dear will, (and all the things I'm too much of a coward to say) by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    01 Mar 2026

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    Summer of 1989. Before the group splits up for college, they plan one final camping trip in the woods.

    Trapped in a tent with Will, Mike is writing an apology letter that gradually turns into a heartfelt confession as he comes to terms with his true feelings. He has one week to find the right words, or he'll lose the love of his life forever.

    Or: after s5, Mike Wheeler writes a love confession he’s absolutely not ready for.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    but at least i finally found it (love) by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    22 Mar 2024

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    “So… how did you know you liked boys?” Mike randomly asks Will one afternoon.

    “How did I what?” Will swivels his head toward Mike, who’s looking back at him expectantly over the top of his comic book. He’s got on that thinking-face he does— the one that tells Will that Mike has definitely been staring at him for the past ten minutes minimum, trying to wrap his brain around some idea or another, like he’s working out a particularly difficult puzzle.

    “Like, what do you like about them? Oh, come on, don’t look at me like that,” he complains, and Will assumes he must be making a face somewhere between skeptical and bewildered. “We never talk about it. Why is it boys for you?”

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    Mike wants to know why Will likes boys— in a completely straight, heterosexual way.

    Aka Byler talking about boys for 7k words.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    Wash your face (hide your wrists) by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    03 Feb 2026

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    "Mike has been acting… weird. Cheerful, almost, in a way Will hasn't seen him since before Eleven died. Since before everything happened. 

    He's more carefree now, like the world won't collapse around him if he says or does the wrong thing. 

    It should be good that he's finally moving on, but it's unnerving, to say the least, and Will has a strange feeling settling in the pit of his stomach."

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    Mike is extremely depressed and planning on doing something about it, but doesn't account for Will finding out about it.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    never cried to them, just to your soul by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    20 Jan 2026

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    The last time he’d stood this close to the edge, Will had been gone, he’d thought he was dead. Nothing had mattered anymore, except protecting his friends, keeping those he had left safe. He hadn't wanted to live then, not without Will. He didn’t want to live now. Not because Will was gone—he was just across town in Mike’s room, probably not thinking about him or where he was for even a second—but because he didn’t deserve to. Because he was wrong, because he was sinful, because he didn’t matter, because nobody needed him and they never had. He’d just wanted them to need him because he’d needed them.

    All he ever did was hurt the people he needed. Why would anyone ever need him? He was–

    “Mike, where the hell are you?” Will’s voice latched a tether around his chest, pulled him back, pushed down his younger voice, silenced Troy and James.

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    It's October 1986, the Byers have been living with the Wheelers for 3 months now, and Mike can't sleep through the night, waking to nightmares and struggling to reconcile his growing awareness of his feelings for Will with the expectations of everyone around him. It all comes crashing down around him very quickly and suddenly (though it was a long time coming).

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    19 Jul 2026

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    The snow won't melt in mid-december by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    09 Nov 2023

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    "I-It was so loud... in my head. I just needed to quiet the noise. I-It was the only thing that would make it 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥."

    Mike's teeth are chattering so hard they hurt. He's shaking, his voice is shaking, and everything is spinning. The world ripples like murky water through his tears and blotchy vision, but Will is still. He focuses on him, on the fingers trickling soothingly down his spine like they're strumming a harp, and the smaller hand wriggled into his own, on the warmth of the body beside his own.

    "I-I thought I-I could just stop whenever I needed to..."

    "But you can't?" Will whispers. He sounds anguished, and it floods Mike with more shame than he can stomach. He gulps loudly, and at the nauseated look, Will looks slightly alarmed before Mike manages to reel his sickness back.

    "No..." Mike echoes. It's horrific to admit, "I can't."

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    19 Jul 2026