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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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13 Jul 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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06 Jul 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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03 Jul 2026
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This isn’t my sole code. This is all @/vinsodas on twitter (for the AI detection) and @/sorakissed on twitter for the snoopy edition) and all I really did was combine the two and change the red into a lilac :)
ch2 includes code that u can add onto the bottom of any of your own site skins to include the code-detecting AI skin.
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02 Jul 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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22 Jun 2026
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One particular Sunday night, however, the Starcourt employees had trouble finding the right channel. After hitting several channels that certainly weren’t Dustin and Lucas, they landed on another one that definitely wasn’t them, but unlike the others, this one caught their attention. Specifically, it caught El’s attention, from the little Russian she’d picked up in the lab. From what she could understand, it was nonsensical. They should have chalked it up to just that - nonsense.
Maybe if they had, El wouldn’t be underground, staring through a set of locked doors at, for the first time in three years, a gate.
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A very silly, canon-divergent SurfsAhoy re-telling of the season 3 Russia plot ⚓︎
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18 Jun 2026
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There’s something rotten in the Temple of One, the living god. When trainee cleric William, the particular favorite of One, goes missing just before he is due for full initiation into Temple service, his friend enters the Temple to find him. Michael is determined to let nothing stand in the way of bringing Will to safety - not One’s manipulations, nor his broken body, nor the flower blooming in his lungs.
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Hanahaki-inspired Cleradin.
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16 Jun 2026
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gave me no compasses, gave me no signs by argentoswan
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Jun 2024
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It's his final year of university and Sokka doesn't have the time to be distracted by the stranger living next door- by his startlingly gorgeous eyes and awkward conversation and the way he always seems to be hiding something- yet for some reason, Sokka can't bring himself to look away.
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The balcony at Sokka's new apartment is way too close to his neighbors', and he notices far more than people give him credit for.
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01 Jun 2026
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Learn Eridian with this Eridlingo language course! 🪐
(a semi-interactive Duolingo-inspired Eridian "course" made with HTML and CSS elements)
Latest Minor Update: 05/14/26 - Added Introductions for Verbs, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Prepositions Lessons
( slow updates )
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- Part 6 of PHM fics
- Part 5 of work skin fics
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25 May 2026
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Spider-Boy, King of Thieves by whyamistillwritingpages
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Apr 2026
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"Easy. Fuck Thor, marry Iron Man, kill Spider-Man.”
Mike snorts. Loudly. Everyone turns to look at him, and he falls silent.
Max peers at him. “You got something to say, Wheeler?”
Mike shrugs. Then the alcohol gets the best of him. “I’d fuck Spider-Man.”
Will chokes on his water.
Mike’s devised a plan. If he lets himself crush on Spider-Man, then he can work on getting over Will, his roommate and best friend who's clearly uninterested. It's foolproof, really.
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- Part 1 of Webs of Opacity
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13 May 2026
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cleric seeking paladin (locked your love in a screenshot) by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Mar 2026
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You are now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You and the stranger both like Dungeons & Dragons.
Stranger: rp? i rp as a cleric!! pref for paladins but not picky :-) open to explicit (i’m 20), but wanting plot driven. i have prompts
You: Hey :)
You: Paladin here. Also open to explicit and also 20. What kind of prompts do you have?
In which Mike has a thing for sassy clerics and D&D roleplay on Omegle.
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21 Mar 2026
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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12 Feb 2026
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“What?”, Will huffs, shaking his head in disbelief. “You know blue does not only equate sadness, right? It is one of the blatantly obvious meanings, sure, but it can also imply tranquility, loyalty, trust, peace, and—"
Shut up, shut up, shut up, the voice in his head screams by now, but one cannot interrupt Will in the middle of one of his art rants. Impossible. No chance. “And with the vastness of the sky or sea, blue is also often associated with distance, longing, yearning, and— stuff.”
“Distance”, Mike echoes, and only then does Will truly understand what he has just admitted into the air freely, completely unprovoked and voluntarily. “Longing. Yearning.”
Obviously, this is the exact moment Robert Smith decides to sing about the fact that it is Friday, and that he is very much in love.
Five times Mike distracts Will from his art assignments with his stupidly flirtatious ways, and one time Will actually needs his help to complete a coursework.
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12 Feb 2026
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“Are you offended that people think we’re dating?”
“No,” Mike says immediately. “Of course not,” because, again, he should be so lucky.
Will’s baffled expression does not change. “Then why would I be?”
“So– okay, fine, whatever. Should we, like, tell them to get their heads out of their asses and that we’re not– um– dating, or–”
“I think,” Will cuts in, “well. You know what would be funny?”
Honestly, Mike doesn't know what he thought being Will Byers' fake-boyfriend would entail, but he definitely didn't think it would involve this many ugly Christmas sweaters.
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09 Feb 2026
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The terrible, awful thing about finally getting what he wanted — namely, Mike — is that now he wants more, the selfish creature that he is. When he was younger, he’d been able to convince himself that kissing Mike, just once, would be enough to last him a lifetime. Foolishly, he’d thought that he could relish that single kiss and live a peaceful life, one where Mike was still his friend and nothing changed but his feelings would dissipate.
Instead, they grew; they’re still growing, Will fears, growing bigger and bigger each time Mike and him get together, because every sound Mike makes when Will kisses him makes Will want to find ten more little gasps and whines and groans, and each time Mike twists their fingers together and pants against his skin Will thinks about how much better it is than the time before.
will and mike are - something, and will's not entirely sure what. whatever they are, he wants more, but he's not sure if he can have it.
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- Part 1 of casual au
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- 48,428
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- 8/8
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09 Feb 2026
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To the crowds at the Battle of the Bands, Mike Wheeler is "The Villain"—the chaotic, arrogant frontman of The Party, willing to burn the world down for a moment in the spotlight.
To Will Byers, he’s just Mike. The boy who needs a roadie to tune his guitar, tape his cables, and keep him from shattering.
Will has always been content to stand in the shadows, the silent architect of Mike’s success. But when the pressure to win pushes Mike into a spiral of ego and internalized fear, Will makes a choice to step into the light—behind a mask.
As the mysterious "Echo," Will finds the voice he’s denied himself for years. But as Mike becomes obsessed with this new musical rival—falling in love with the sound of his own best friend without realizing it—the line between performance and reality begins to blur.
In a town defined by noise, the quietest truths are the most dangerous. And when Will tries to choose a "safe" life to escape the fire, Mike will have to decide if he’s the hero of this story, or the monster who keeps the other monsters away.
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- 25/25
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01 Feb 2026
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
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27 Jan 2026
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you still see them in your dreams by ravencollector for sweetpotatoTM
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Nov 2023
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“Will?” Mike’s voice comes through the walkie, and Will starts violently, free hand flying out to brace against the roof tiles. “I’m awake, what’s up? Over.”
He sounds endearingly groggy, and Will’s guilt at waking him up is fast eclipsed by the relief blooming in him. “Just a nightmare,” he admits, smiling fondly as he imagines Mike, soft around the edges from sleep, answering in his own bedroom. “I didn’t now you were asleep, sorry. Over.”
“No, it’s okay,” Mike replies easily. There’s a shuffling noise as he continues, “I wasn’t really sleeping, anyway. Do you want to talk about it?”OR
Five times Will and Mike can’t sleep, so they talk about it instead, learning more about themselves—and each other—in the process.
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26 Jan 2026
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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09 Jan 2026
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skip the exit to our old street & go home by theroyalsavage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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The summer after graduation, three years after the barely-averted end of the world, six teenagers drive an elderly minivan halfway across the continental United States. It goes better than you might expect, considering the circumstances.
Or: Will Byers comes of age.
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05 Jan 2026