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love like a lead pipe (the cold and callous type) by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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“Does it need to be like ceramics last semester? Do I need to drop you off and pick you up at the door again like a fucking preschooler?” Will shakes his head as best as he can, a whimper escaping from his lips. Mike grips his jaw tighter. “Speak.”
“N-no, Mike.” Yes, actually, Will wants to say. He liked it when Mike did that last semester, walking him to and from class like Will’s big, scary guard dog. Sometimes, if Will was lucky, Mike would wait in the hallway during his class, clutching some mass market paperback, spine cracked and curled in on itself. Even big, scary guard dogs have owners, Will would think as Mike stayed put for him.
In which someone asks for Will’s number and it makes Mike murderously angry.
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- Part 1 of ruckus!
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- English
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- 14,001
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- 1/1
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- 136
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12 Feb 2026
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1989. Senior year.
It took nearly three years of growing apart, but Will Byers has finally gotten used to life without Mike Wheeler. He has El, he has Max, he has his art, and, as of two days ago, he has a full ride to art school in Chicago, so things are good. Right? So when Mike climbs through his window one night and stumbles back into his life, Will’s not prepared for the resurgence of old feelings—and even less prepared for the possibility that they might not be as hopeless as he always thought. With the expiration date of graduation looming, Will has to figure out not only his future, but what exactly he and Mike are to each other.
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- English
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- 33,017
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- 7/7
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- 1
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08 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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- English
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- 18,335
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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Bookmarked by pipperpanic
02 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler has been in love with Will Byers his entire life, but Mike always battled self acceptance. He was never able to tell Will the truth.
Until, it all became too much and Mike sent Will a series of postcards, trying to rebuild what they lost.
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27 Jan 2026
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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- Part 1 of darker in the day than the dead of night
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- English
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- 32,825
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 164
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- 5,982
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- 1,668
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- 116,375
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15 Jan 2026
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Mike really just wants to take care of Will, in every way he possibly can.
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- Part 1 of i can't be without you
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- English
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- 12,261
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 223
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- 4,118
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Bookmarked by pipperpanic
13 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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,401
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 1
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- 1,490
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- 16,168
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- 241,436
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11 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is drowning in trauma after the "Hawkins Disaster." Not only that but he is still trying to move on from his deep love and attraction to Mike Wheeler. Just when Will thought everything was going to pieces, he crossed paths with Chance Nozeda, a tall, flirty jock who completely throws him off balance. As their connection deepens, Will realizes that maybe it's nice to let his guard down a little bit. Is he ready to let himself feel something new, or will he mess the relationship with Chance up?
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- Part 1 of Stranger Things Series
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02 Jan 2026
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stop the world just to stop the feeling by mikewheelersfreckles
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Overall, Mike would say he turned out to be a pretty decent, well functioning adult. Well, how decent and well functioning a twenty-five year old should be. His parents say he’s doing well, that’s something! Nancy comes and visits him sometimes, and she said he’s getting by well, that’s also something! She also said Mike needs to make some new friends or settle down with someone sometime soon. That wasn’t something. Mike hadn’t talked to most of his friends in years. And by years, he means about two years after they graduated and all settled into college. The last he had heard, Lucas and Max were settling in well at college, Dustin was doing pretty well in his studies, and Will…
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Mike gets invited to Lucas and Max's wedding after going five years without talking to any of them. Upon arriving, he sees Will for the first time in five years.
Will and his very, very interesting boyfriend.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,283
- Chapters:
- 3/?
- Comments:
- 236
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- 1,005
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- 258
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- 24,817
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01 Jan 2026
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'Cause I've built my life around you by Ghostofjordan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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Mike has been to New York exactly three times before this.
Once, when he was nineteen, tagging along on a trip Nancy paid for because she felt guilty about leaving him behind. Once in his late twenties, for a conference his boss swore would open doors, and instead just reminded him how many of those doors were already closed. And once, when Will graduated from NYU, where Mike stood in the back of the crowd pretending he wasn’t memorizing the shape of Will’s smile.This is the first time New York feels personal.
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- Part 1 of can i handle the seasons of my life?
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01 Jan 2026
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"My Life Started The Day I Found You..." by WallShiganshina
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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Two years after the final battle in Hawkins, the war is over but nothing will ever be the same anymore.
Mike Wheeler watched Will Byers disappear into the Upside Down, locked away alone with Vecna for eternity. The way Will looked at him in those final moments, his big scared trembling eyes, soft with love and sorrow, already accepting his fate. He stayed behind so Eleven could live, so Mike could live, so everyone could be saved. Joyce Byers couldn’t. Grief took her life, leaving Jonathan hollow and bitter, a ghost forced to keep breathing. Just like that, the Byers family was erased, and with them, the version of Hawkins that once felt like home.
Mike refuses to heal. He refuses to move on. His mind unravels quietly, day by day, until he vanishes from everyone’s life, carrying the weight of a love he never got to acknowledge, refusing to bury. When Jonathan says something in grief and spite that will haunt Mike forever, Mike makes a choice; if Will is trapped in memory, then memory is where Mike will live.
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30 Dec 2025
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“How obvious?” He asks, unsure, despite what should be the blaring sign that hides under his layers.
Robin smiles at him, humor lacing her words as she answers.
“Let’s say the, uh, snowball became an avalanche.”Season 5 rewrite ft. #mwtfdydgate and Omegaverse
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- Part 1 of before today
- Language:
- English
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- 88,601
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Comments:
- 517
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- 88,891
Bookmarked by pipperpanic
28 Dec 2025
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All Mike knew was that he wanted to be by Will's side. He'd accept anything as long as it came from him.
or: 5 times Mike was courting Will without noticing, and 1 time he did it on purpose.
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28 Dec 2025
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if you give a dog a bone, he will you follow you home (and wait for you) by twentythreecrows
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Nov 2025
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Will is pretty sure he’s supposed to be dead right now.
Not in like, a depressing way or anything. It’s shocking, but even with all that he’s gone through, he’s actually doing alright mentally for once. His connection with Vecna has been silent for months, he’s been spending time with his family and friends, and he has a boyfriend. A boyfriend who he has a three month anniversary celebration with in less than a week, by the way. And don’t get Will wrong, he is extremely excited. How could he not be? He gets to date Mike, the boy who he’s been attached at the hip with since he was five. The only issue is, well, he can’t very much attend their anniversary movie night if he’s, you know, dead.
Will may be mistaken, but he’s pretty sure the demodog that was charging at him should have ripped his insides out about thirty seconds ago.
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Will adopts a demodog. This goes about as well as expected.
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23 Dec 2025
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Will shares his love through art, and Mike falls apart, one painting at a time. Because they are not his to take home.
It's 1987, and Will doesn't paint for him anymore.
(a look through scattered memories between seasons 3-5)
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21 Dec 2025
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You were the best, but you are the worst by theweirdoseth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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Then, in the most obvious way possible, his eyes rake over Will’s figure, lingering on the way his shirt hugs his stomach, and over the muscles in Will’s arms.
And then, to Mike’s absolute mortification, his younger-self flushes, cheeks growing impossibly red and eyes darting to the floor. Not in an obvious manner either, because Will immediately levels Mike with a questioning stare and a teasing smile which makes him want to crawl into a hole and die.
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Post s2 Mike and Will travel to the future. It ends dramatically.Part of a writing challenge tackling specific issues in the 1980s, check chapter 1 notes for more details.
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- Part 1 of Miwi Time Travel fic
- Language:
- English
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- 46,313
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- 17/?
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- 311
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- 1,012
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- 201
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- 24,556
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16 Dec 2025
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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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,834
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 5
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- 928
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- 24,338
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- 4,963
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- 282,015
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14 Dec 2025
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Robin leaned closer, voice gentle. “All I’m saying is, it’s okay to like him. And it’s also extremely, painfully obvious.”
Will froze. “…to who?”
Robin’s grin stretched slow and wicked. “Only to me. Because I understand. He doesn’t know, don’t worry. Because that boy? Dense. Like, heroically dense. Historically dense. Scientists are going to study him.”
Will huffed, cheeks burning. Will’s eyes darted involuntarily to the centre of the room. Max and El were squished together on an armchair. Mike was sprawled on the carpet with Dustin and Lucas, waving his arms around dramatically as he argued about which Star Wars film was objectively the best. His hair was a mess. His cheeks were flushed. He was smiling.
And Will felt that stupid expanding warmth in his chest that he couldn’t get rid of no matter how hard he tried.
💕💕💕💕
Post-Vecna, Will and Robin continue to bond. Robin knows Will likes Mike. Mike thinks Will likes Robin.
One jealousy spiral, several misunderstandings, and a lot of pining later… they finally kiss.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,473
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 369
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- 8,598
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- 1,467
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- 87,578
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13 Dec 2025
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The world is ending, which means for the time being, Will is living at the Wheeler’s house with Mike and El. Which means his life is once again a third-wheeling roller rink nightmare, and he’s basically invisible to Mike.
Until Jonathan gives him $20 to go to an art sale, and he meets Tobias, a guy just as into art as he is.
It’s not long before him and Tobias start dating.
And then suddenly, Mike’s paying attention to him after all.
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Will gets a boyfriend. Mike doesn’t like it.
Series
- Part 1 of Tobias Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 120,535
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 3,329
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- 15,424
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- 2,849
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- 461,510
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06 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,632
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 13,850
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- 190,286
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- 29,164
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- 2,494,530
Bookmarked by pipperpanic
06 Dec 2025