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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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21 Apr 2026
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Someone in the party has betrayed El and sent some photos that were supposed to be for Mike's eyes only to the party's group chat. Now, she has to unearth the guilty party by any means necessary.
*canon universe pulled modern so they all have smartphones*
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13 Apr 2026
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"It’s the interview all over again, and Ava feels just as reckless now as she did then. She’s already lost everything. Can’t lose it twice. “You heard me. I said: Fuck. You.” She over-enunciates both words, lips curling around them. Her blood practically sings with the force of it, all the anger she’s been tamping down for weeks surging to the surface."
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13 Apr 2026
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Will survived and came out numb— bored and still in love with his best friend, who’s dating his sister; he decides sleeping with him is the only way to feel anything, even if it ruins everything.
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Will being self-destructive.- Language:
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01 Apr 2026
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For their senior year spring break, the Party sets sail on a 7-day cruise to celebrate the next chapter of their lives. Not much has changed since their last reunion, as long as you don’t count Mike and Will breaking up two years ago, which fractured the friend group permanently and made it so neither of them could stand to be within ten feet of each other.
It’ll be a trip they never forget - that much Will is sure of.
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28 Mar 2026
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Dating apps aren't Mike's thing, until he finds out Will is using one. He can't let a bunch of trashy guys go after his best friend; he'll just make a fake account to scope out the situation. What could go wrong...or right?
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Mike creates a fake persona on a dating app to unknowingly flirt with Will.
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19 Mar 2026
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The Beggar King's Crown by LokiGodOfMischief
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
30 Dec 2016
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When his very life hangs in the balance, Viserys turns to his sister, the little girl he had raised and protected all those years. Will she protect him now? Or will she let him die?
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- Part 1 of King's Quest
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15 Mar 2026
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Mike is waiting for Will in the basement, a look of suspicious, nervous excitement on his face. He cleared the table and laid out upon it are two card games.
"Now, I know you’ll resist," Mike blurts out, stepping toward him. "But I think this will be good. For both of us! For when we... you know,” Mike trails off, “When we get partners.”
Will scoffs, stepping closer to inspect the titles.
Spill or Sip and Truth, Dare, or Strip.
Or: Mike suggests a spicy card game to help Will loosen up before college. It works a little too well, and suddenly they’re gambling with unresolved feelings, and clothes, that were meant to stay in place.
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13 Mar 2026
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there is a story that he can finally tell by wlfhrdlvr
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Mar 2026
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After years of distance, unsent letters, and business left unfinished, Mike and Will cross paths again as adults. College changed them, but some bonds never really disappear.
Reconnecting means facing old hurt, old love, and the question they never stopped asking: what if it’s not too late?
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- Part 1 of wlfhrdlvr's byler fics
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12 Mar 2026
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Will inserts the new piercing in place before his confidence shrinks. He eyes the silver hoop glinting in his bathroom mirror, feeling the ghost of a smile forming on his lips. It’s only a matter of time before everyone notices. Before Mike notices. The thought excites him just as much as it terrifies him.
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Or, Will pierces his ear while visiting Jonathan in New York City in the summer of 1989. Upon returning to Hawkins, chaos ensues.
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12 Mar 2026
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r/DnD
u/MWpaladin commented on “Can’t tell the difference between sorcerers and…” posted by u/LionsandTigers7 on r/DnDu/MWpaladin: Are you an actual idiot? Sorcerers and wizards are hardly even comparable. It’s not ‘the same thing’ in the slightest. A sorcerer’s magic doesn’t even come from a book of spells, their powers are INNATE. Maybe go back to third fucking grade before you ever try and DM a campaign of your own. Jesus Christ. Another important differentiation to note is… [expand]
Or: a long, very long, retrospective of Mike’s reddit history.
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11 Mar 2026
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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jun 2025
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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11 Mar 2026
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Jane stares at him, in some sort of an awe. (...) "That’s it?”
Mike blinks at her. He looks so defeated, all the softness gone from his face and turned into a grimace. "Wh- What do you mean ‘that’s it’?"
"All those things you said," she tries to explain, and the frown forming on Mike’s face only seems to deepen at that, “isn’t that… normal to feel this way about your friends?”
The silence that comes after her words is deafening.
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Mike comes out to Jane, not realizing that she has never had a chance to learn the concept of sexual orientation, so he tries to explain it to her by describing his feelings for Will.
Surprisingly, it sounds very similar to how she feels about Max.
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11 Mar 2026
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“Max, El,” Will said, trying to sound quiet so that the person knocking wouldn’t hear him. “He’s back.”
Max’s voice turned even more stern, which he didn’t think was possible. “Oh, shit, really? You better not be opening that door.”
“No, I’m still standing here,” Will assured, whilst the banging continued.
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Mike fucks up and Will angrily kicks him out of the apartment.
It doesn't take long for Mike to come begging for forgiveness.
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10 Mar 2026
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Mike Begs for It (and by it, I mean relationship status clarification) by dragonxraven
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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Will gets distracted playing DnD and decides to ruin Mike's life.
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- Part 1 of Mike Begs
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10 Mar 2026
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"It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."
"You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.
"Absolutely."
Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.
After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.
Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonspeaking autistic, and Mike is also autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!
// title from Coming Home by beabadoobee
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09 Mar 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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09 Mar 2026
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Sometime in the formless dark before breakfast, Mike Wheeler vanishes.
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A comprehensive guide to navigating parallel dimensions, disrupting the fabric of reality, and deciding to save yourself.
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- Part 1 of cosmonaut-verse
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09 Mar 2026
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Lucas doesn’t believe in coincidences. That much is a given. Most especially now that Max is still hospitalized, so he has more time to really observe the people around him and willingly take charge in uncovering certain mysteries smaller than the upside down and much closer to him than he thinks. He eventually starts picking up on things he’s always been skeptical of
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Sometime during the 18 months, Lucas is finally choosing to believe he’s in fact NOT crazy and that Mike Wheeler is exactly what Lucas has always thought he was (a homosexual)- Language:
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09 Mar 2026
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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09 Mar 2026