18 Bookmarks by IBelieveInByler
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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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09 Apr 2026
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promise me you'll be there after, aftercare by miwiheroes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Mar 2026
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What did he think, really?
What did he hope to find in the arms of a Mike Wheeler who's suddenly comfortable enough to go to gay bars in New York? That he was just going to have sex with his first love, who's gotten even prettier than he was six years ago and realise, oh, actually yeah I'm definitely over you?
Yes. Yes, that was what he'd hoped. That's exactly why he'd taken Mike up on the offer, goddammit.
But he can't face palm hard enough to leave a mark right now, because as he mentioned before, Mike is naked, lying on top of him, gently kissing up and down his neck, still warm and sticky inside him. He can't face palm, because he was wrong, and being wrong has never felt so right.
aka after the best hook up he's ever had, will tries to convince himself that mike is still a jerk. mike proves him wrong with aftercare and a surprising confession
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07 Apr 2026
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“You’re not coming this summer. I haven’t seen you in a year and a half and I know it’s-it’s pathetic—“
“It’s not pathetic,” Will interjects quickly, shaking his head, “It’s not—“
“It is, Will,” he hears Mike’s voice break over another hitched breath, “I know you’re… I just want you to be happy. I never want you to come back to Hawkins, but I’m fucking selfish. I’m so selfish, and I’m sorry.”
Will lets the tears spill over and he lets that want that’s always itching under his skin show itself.
“My whole life I’ve missed you every second you’ve been away from me,” Will confesses quietly into the receiver.
If you’re pathetic, I’m wretched.
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Not long after the final battle, Mike and Will were inseparable– until Will moved out to New York.
Despite the weekly calls and the freedom of living their lives without terror, there’s no world in which they could last so long apart without it feeling like torture.
Will gets a call, and three days later, Mike is at his doorstep.
It only takes a day for them to fall back together again.
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19 Mar 2026
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mike works at a sex shop. will happens to walk in.
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16 Mar 2026
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“Why does it even matter?”
“It matters because you lied.”
“About a stupid painting?”
“It’s not stupid to me!"
“Mike! What do you want from me!” The question is desperate and so loud, it fills the entire room, knocking the fight out of them both. Will’s eyes brim with tears.
It's the last night of his trip visiting Will at NYU and Mike finds something curious in a sketchbook. Before he can face what it might mean for him, he has to find out what it meant (or means) for Will.
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- Part 1 of don't dream it's over
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Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
15 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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- 5/5
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11 Mar 2026
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I got your number (I need to make you mine) by readandwritesilver
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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He brought it in with the mail a few days ago. Alongside bills and bank statements and miscellaneous junk, all addressed to W. Byers and M. Wheeler, there was a half-size flyer. Vague enough, so as to be acceptably distributed where children or bible thumpers or whoever else may find it, but still plenty clear to any worldly adult in what it was advertising. Lonely? in swooping cursive, over a picture of a landline not unlike the one currently in Mike’s sweaty deathgrip laid artfully across silk bedsheets, with a 1-900 phone number printed at the bottom. Your first call is free.
This is so stupid.
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Mike, feeling lonely when Will starts working nights at a mysterious new job, turns to an operator on a phone sex line that he feels like he can spill his guts to about all his problems. His biggest problem, of course, being that he's in love with his roomate-slash-bast-friend-since-age-five. Not that it matters if he tells some random guy in a call centre about that, right?Right?
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07 Mar 2026
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spit swear by poorlittlegreenie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
27 Mar 2026
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Will bites his lip and nods, looking down at his shoes again so Richie won't see how hard he's holding back a giddy smile.
Everybody in the party knows everything about him. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to keep a secret from Mike for a little while.
It's kind of exciting. Sneaking in a boy Mike hates.
Will shakes his head, trying to clear Mike from it for the night. Only when he looks back up at Richie, Richie has this conspiratorial smile on his face, like maybe Will isn't the only one eager to piss off Mike Wheeler.
OR: the concept of Richie Tozier being Will Byers' dirty little secret and Mike Wheeler being so jealous he can't breathe. Byler endgame.
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Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
04 Mar 2026
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“I panicked, Max. Like, full-body—couldn't breathe."
"Maybe you just need to find someone who can pay attention to you," Max tells him. "Someone who would notice if you were about to freak out, or something."
They're not talking about Mike, obviously, even though he'd be so good at that job.
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Mike overhears Will talking about a failed bondage attempt with his boyfriend. Mike becomes obsessed with the idea that he could do better.
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13 Feb 2026
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“That’s not my favorite.”
“Oh.” Will blinks. “What is?”
Mike’s tongue darts out to wet his lower lip. “O negative.” Will feels a flush move across his entire body. His magic hums inside of him, excited. His fingers twitch against the carton. Maybe Will was wrong, maybe this is different than having a favorite kind of pizza. More personal. O negative sits differently in Will’s head than double black olives with extra cheese does. More intimate.
“Oh.” Will blinks again. And maybe O negative sits differently in Will’s head, because it also flows through his veins. He feels obligated to tell Mike. “I’m O negative.”
Mike’s pupils widen again. “I know.” His voice is low, gravelly.
Will’s breath hitches again. “You know?” He flinches when Mike’s fingers graze his, peeling the carton out of Will’s hand.
Mike takes a deep breath. “I can smell it.”
Or, five times that Will offered Mike his blood and the one time that Mike accepted.
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- Part 1 of take me as you please | vampwise
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Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
11 Feb 2026
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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27 Jan 2026
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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- Part 1 of landslide
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Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
25 Jan 2026
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
24 Jan 2026
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Another fucking dream about Will.
Mike presses the heels of his hands into his eyes until he sees stars.
Three years.
Three goddamn years since graduation, since separate colleges, since everything changed and nothing changed at all.
And still—every night—his traitor brain keeps building Will out of memory and longing until the wanting feels more solid than reality.
He lets his hands fall.
Stares at the ceiling.
Tries to breathe.
Fails.
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Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
15 Jan 2026
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“You seem to be doing just fine for yourself.”
Part of Mike means it to be a sharp and defensive quip, but it comes out as sad as it really is. Will’s eyes are glassy and round and unfairly innocent. Big doe eyes pinning Mike in place. Mike can never escape their gaze.
“What else am I supposed to do?”
Wait for me. Mike can’t say that. He’s been selfish enough. He should’ve said it months ago, should’ve sat Will down and told him everything at graduation, but he didn’t. Now he’s too late. He can never grasp the time that slipped away from him.
or: Mike visits Will in college and realizes just how much has changed. Will is moving on. Mike can't do the same. Everything has changed, except that Mike is still in love with him.
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12 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is no amateur when it comes to a party. Nor is he an amateur at kissing, using his hands, and leaving you wanting more. He wants to make the most of his experience at college, so if that means making out with his friends and eye-fucking a stranger across the room, he'll do it.
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Mike Wheeler notices Will Byers at a party and can't get him out of his mind.
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12 Jan 2026
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After dating El for three years, it should feel right – she’s his first love, just as he is hers. The problem is, every time Mike’s eyes meet Will’s, he realizes just how badly he wants him, instead. Suddenly, everything he's been doing for the past three years feels utterly and completely wrong.
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10 Jan 2026
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"I need you to pull something crazy"
Will gets stuck through time and space trying to save his sister. Stupid, stupid move, he knows. Good thing Mike Wheeler will let the world burst in flames before he lets that boy go without putting up a fight fist.
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Mike and Will meeting every night in his dreams until Mike is able to touch him again. Until Will's safe and sound, again, in the arms of someone who never gave up on him.
Bookmarked by IBelieveInByler
10 Jan 2026