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Naim misses Ryan at the bus stop. A year and a half later in Melbourne, they find each other again.
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27 Jun 2026
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Maybe that's what terrifies Naim more than anything. More than the entity that wears Ryan’s face. More than the feeling of being alone. More than the knowledge that there’s something else out there— something unbelievable and otherworldly like his mom had always told him.
None of that terrifies Naim as much as the idea that he might want this all any way. Want Ryan with him always. Want them to never be apart. Want him not because of everything, but in spite of it.
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Post movie ending, imagining Ryan and Naim's life together now and what comes next.
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22 Jun 2026
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trouble's always gonna find you, baby (but so will i) by messifan2006
Fandoms: Leviticus (Movie 2026)
19 Jun 2026
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“So, what now? We keep catching coaches from shithole to shithole?”
A mosquito pricks Ryan’s neck and he smacks it away. He thinks about the weight of Naim’s head on his shoulder on the bus, the tinny melodies emitted by cheap earphones filling the space between them. Remembers how settled he’d felt, how uncertain yet still oddly calm, having only the vaguest idea where he was going but being sure about who he was going with. He looks at Naim. “Maybe, yeah.”
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Ryan and Naim keep going.
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20 Jun 2026
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Will and Mike turn sneaking around into a twisted routine, convincing themselves that whatever happens in the dark doesn't actually count.
Or: Ruining a friendship is easy. It's the rebuilding that might actually kill them—or finally make them honest.
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11 Jun 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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01 Jun 2026
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“So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
“Have sex.”
“Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
“And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.
(a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)
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27 May 2026
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One second he’s halfway through a swipe, the next he isn’t moving at all, because the profile in front of him causes an interruption so physical, Mike shoots up straight on the couch. He looks down properly then, and there’s no ambiguity to it, no need to check twice.
Will. 23. Brooklyn. Illustrator. NYU. Figuring it out.
Mike sees Will’s Hinge profile at twelve-thirty on a Saturday night and, against his better judgment, makes several increasingly questionable decisions immediately afterward.
Everything after that is, more or less, inevitable.
Or, despite losing touch three years ago, Mike was always going to run into Will eventually. This is just the version where it happens like this.
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19 May 2026
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A wrong digit leads Mike Wheeler to a stranger named Will Byers.
What starts as accidental late-night texts slowly becomes the most important part of their days.
Neither of them know they’ve already met before.
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17 May 2026
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Knock knock knock
“Jesus Christ! Hold on,” he mumbles, floating down the steps. He flicks on the porch light and yanks the door open. “What the hell are you–” He freezes.
For a moment, he really does believe he’s dreaming. You know, given that not a single fucking thing about this situation makes any goddamn sense. Because on the short trip from his bedroom to the front door, Mike made a list in his head of all of the people that could potentially be on the other side. It was a rather abbreviated list, to be fair: The cops. Nancy. His landlady, Freida. That one drunk guy he occasionally gives a cigarette to if he happens to be smoking on his porch when he walks by.
But it’s not any of those people. It’s Will. A year older, soaking wet, shivering with a waterlogged duffel bag slung over his left shoulder. Yeah. He’s dreaming. Because he had spoken to Will on the phone not even ten hours ago. He was about to go on his three year anniversary date with his long term boyfriend in New York City.
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Will needs some space from his boyfriend, James, and for whatever reason, he decides to take that space at Mike's townhouse in Boston. Mike is going to be so normal about it.
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11 May 2026
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The thing is, in the complete madness of the past three days, he has completely forgotten about Tina’s Halloween party.
So, he thinks, he can’t really be blamed for not recognizing Samantha at all at his locker Monday morning.
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10 May 2026
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Post-Vecna, post-graduation, pre-disaster.
Will Byers is always angry these days—at Mike Wheeler most of all.
Mike is just as angry, especially when Will makes a choice he can't take back.
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08 May 2026
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Will and James both looked at him with confusion. “Right, well, we have a reservation so-” James said, smiling at Will, and there it was again, Will’s Mike Look except right now it was a James Look and-and James was reaching out, lacing their fingers together, and they were giggling, and the door was shutting behind them, and then Mike was-
Mike was alone. And his roommate-
His roommate was going on a date with Will Byers.
Which was a terribly inconvenient time for Mike to realize that the bitter taste, the sinking feeling, the anger that crept up inside him wasn’t anger at all. It was something worse.
Jealousy.
aka Will dates Mike's college Roommate and Mike crashes out
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06 May 2026
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a lesson in coasting: an idiot's guide to gay allyship by michael j. wheeler by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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“So, I’ve been thinking," Mike throws his head back into the sofa’s head rest. “You know how I talk about girls all the time?”
The pencil in Will’s hand freezes for just a moment, something Mike wouldn’t have been able to tell at all if he wasn’t staring right at Will’s hands to avoid his gaze. “So?”
“Well, I’ve been thinking, right?”
Will looks up, but Mike isn’t looking back at him. He’s picking at a loose thread on the couch cushion. “What, about girls?”
“No,” Mike shakes his head, “about boys."
Will nearly chokes on his tongue. “You’ve been thinking about boys?”
or, mike conducts an uncomfortably elaborate semester-long personal inquiry project on how to be a better straight ally to his gay best friend. for educational reasons only. obviously
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06 May 2026
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Max's eyes dart between Will and Mike, studying them with thinly veiled amusement. She turns to Lucas and nudges him with an elbow. "Was it really this obvious?"
"Yep," Lucas sighs. "The whole time."
Max snorts. "Oh my god. When I get back, nobody is living this down."
Or: Will has seen a lot of things in the past few years, but the arrival of a friend from ten years in the future is… unexpected, to say the least. The ceiling opens up and spits out a twenty-six-year-old Max Mayfield, and the definition of possible expands again.
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04 May 2026
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and live at peace with our hearts by stoprobbers for lunar_years
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Apr 2026
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“Up or down?” Dustin asks.
“I say both,” Nancy says with a firm nod. “Search in teams of two. Cover more ground.”
“Yeah, that’s cool with me, but can we just switch the teams up?” Jonathan watches Steve turn a plaintive gaze on Nancy, tipping his chin down to make his eyes bigger. “Nance, you and me to go up?”
His spine goes cold.
“Sure,” he says before anyone else can chime in. “New teams. New eyes, new thoughts; maybe we’ll find something different. Maybe we’ll finally break through.”
jancy fic week DAY 3 — canon divergent or fix it
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03 May 2026
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Mike matches with Will on Tinder at the metro station during his morning commute. Little does he realize Will is already sitting on the train.
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Will plops down beside Mike, dropping his bag in his lap, and huffs. “Jesus christ, you can’t just text people to ‘look up.’ That is so creepy.”
“Creepy? I thought it was kismet.”
Will scoffs and playfully nudges Mike’s shoulder. “That was D&D, Mike.”
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01 May 2026
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Jonathan tries to have a talk with Mike about not playing with Will's feelings. It doesn't go as expected.
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“Will really cares about you, you know?”“I care about him a lot, too,” Mike mutters at the ground.
“I know,” Jonathan smiles. Of course he knows that. He’s known Mike since the boy was five years old. He’s seen him share his comic books and stand up to bullies and sleep at Will’s side like he could fight off the nightmares with his bare hands.
“The two of you are just kind of different-”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Mike snaps.
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13 Apr 2026
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I wouldn’t Bet on it (but I’m Wishing all the same) by DecemberDisappears
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jul 2026
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Mike means to say something tame. Something like “Hi.” simple, can’t possibly mess up a greeting, right?
Or maybe if he’s feeling confident (which he isn’t) say something like “Hey, could I maybe get your number?” Leaning against the counter or, “Could I ask when you get on your next break?”
But instead of something a normal human would say, or how Steve would chat up a hot girl (and apparently also guys? Shocking revelation) at a bar.
But instead of literally anything else, what comes out of Mike’s mouth is:
“Could you help me win a bet?”
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Mike has to win a bet and prove he can get a date in less than two weeks to bring to Nancy’s Birthday party, before he has time to rethink it, their very hot waiter shows up to take his order, and Mike is staring too long, and not speaking right.Mike’s fucked basically.
(Also for the sake of this fic, the Byers live in NYC, and the Wheelers live in the state of New York.)
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19 Mar 2026
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Will has been collecting data on everything Mike Wheeler since he was five years old. He has hundreds of file cabinets in his brain, cataloguing all of Mike’s behaviors. His likes and dislikes. His mannerisms and tells. His strengths and his…weaknesses.
If this asshole thought he was going to come in and snatch Mike up without a fight, he is sorely mistaken.
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When his best friend unexpectedly shows up to Spring Break with a boyfriend, Will quickly decides that if he can't have Mike Wheeler, no one can.
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13 Mar 2026
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“’Morning,” Mike grumbled, voice low from sleep.
“Noon,” Max corrected, as if she hadn’t only woken up thirty minutes before him.
“Wow,” he replied, squinting at the light. “Nobody thought to wake me?”
It happened casually after that, so casually it almost didn’t register at first. El laughed at something Lucas said, then turned toward Mike and leaned in, instinctively, easily, pressing a kiss to his lips like it was the most logical way to say good morning to him.
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Or: Mike and Will have been together for a year and a half when El comes back. The problem is, El assumes she and Mike are still together. The bigger problem is that Mike doesn’t realize Will thinks he might choose her.
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26 Feb 2026