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you wouldn't care if i fell over and died by will_the_wise1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2025
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“You’re turning this in as your final? It’s… lazy. Half-assed.”
Will didn’t flinch. Pencil poised, he replied evenly:
“Better lazy than garbage. You really shouldn’t judge something you clearly don’t understand.”
Mike smirked, voice sharp.
“Don’t lecture me on understanding. I can tell a bad idea when I see one, and this? That’s exactly what it is.”
Will set the pencil down slowly.
“Maybe you should focus on your own work before critiquing mine.”
Mike leaned back, eyes cold.
“Please. It's exactly what you’re doing, you're just hiding behind a pencil while thinking you’re impressive.”
Will’s jaw tightened.
“Better than hiding behind words and pretending they mean something.”OR:
fall 1992, Will is 21 as he leaves Hawkins and his family behind to study art at UCLA. College was a big change for him which also meant leaving the safeness of Hawkins. He challanges his feelings but also struggle with trauma from his childhood.
Will takes an extra course in physics where he meets Mike Wheeler, a guy who is a year older and studies literature and writing. He is also extremly annoying (according to Will) -
I wanna get better ( at sending letters ) by MirellaIndigo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Sep 2025
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Can I still call myself a writer if I can't even write a decent letter to my best friend? Can I still call them letters if I never send them?
Every letter that he writes to Will ends up in a box under his bed right next to the art binder. On their senior year Will finds them.
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Two years. That’s how long it’s been since Mike and Will last spoke, since Mike promised to call and never did.
Now Will has a new life in California: new school, new friends, even a boyfriend. Mike? He never moved on.When Mike visits, everything shifts. Will’s distant. And Mike can’t understand why it hurts so much to see Will with someone else.
Maybe it wasn’t El he missed.
It was Will. It’s always been Will.
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holding hands while the walls come crumbling down by tulipluvrr8
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
19 Sep 2025
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Juggling high school and being Spider-man wasn't always easy but Will managed to make it work. Until a particular hallway altercation blesses him with a month of community service with a bunch of people he had zero intention of ever speaking to. What will he do when the secret of his double life starts to slip, part in due to a one Mike Wheeler?
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Michael Wheeler could tell you a few things.
He could tell you about his duties as a cop in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. However, there wouldn't be much to tell because he mainly patrols certain areas in the city, or “beats” as the IMPD calls them.
Or he could tell you a more embarrassing story! Like the time that he suddenly figured out he was gay during a date with his college ex-girlfriend of 3 years. It didn't end so well, to say the least... He'd also tell you that as a cop in a big city, he was pretty confident in his ability as a smooth talker when addressing citizens and criminals.
Well, at least he thought so…
Apparently, all it takes to completely ruin his confidence in that department is to shove an attractive brunette guy with brown eyes in front of his face while the guy holds a spray can like a lifeline.
Or; 2 times Mike fails to get the name and number of a cute guy he runs into while working, 1 time he succeeds, and +1 time he gets to go on a date.(aka 3 +1 things)
(Disclaimer: I know this is not accurate to how the city of Indianapolis actually is- trust me I've been there and lived there before- don't take it too seriously this is a fanfic after all)
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two students met in the art room when everyone else left.
— Can I come back on random days ?
will never thought a simple stranger could turn his whole world upside down.
quickly, he caught unfamiliar feelings toward the black haired boy.[art x music students]
• they're adults (~18)
• the story is set in modern times - in the early 2000s
• fluffiest fluff on fluffy planet, do not expect anything else -
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Ever since Will came back to Hawkins, he’s felt Vecna’s presence growing stronger, haunting his dreams and leaving him on edge. To keep everyone safe, he starts to pull away, even though it hurts. Mike can’t understand why Will is shutting him out, but he refuses to let go. Between nightmares, secrets, and feelings they’re both too scared to admit, everything builds toward a breaking point.
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Mike's always used his writing to navigate the world around him. It's been his only way to comfortably explore and express his feelings since he was a kid.
And now, years later, he's an aspiring writer in college.
His newest writing prompt might just be his big break. And though he's excited, it's a sore topic for him.
Romance has never been his strong suit. He learns a lot during this assignment.
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You can come to mine, but both my roommates are home
Think I know a bar where they would leave us alone
And I wonder if you'd take it slow
-finally // beautiful stranger [halsey] (the song/title of this fic)Series
- Part 1 of Finally // beautiful stranger
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After a messy junior year for Will, the Byers family is uprooted from Lenora, California and dropped into the middle of nowhere, aka Hawkins, Indiana.
Will will be going into senior year, but he isn’t looking for friends, more just a quiet place to disappear.
But Will finds himself unwillingly pulled into the orbit of the loud D&D obsessed kids. One boy in particular — Mike Wheeler, with his midnight black hair — catches Will’s attention in ways he can’t explain.
What begins as a reluctant agreement to join their campaign might turn into the very thing Will has been avoiding — connection, belonging, and maybe something more.
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steal this moment (lesbyler / fembyler au) by corpsebyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Sep 2025
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michelle can't wait until she can leave hawkins --- she hates this town. but something changes when someone new moves: a girl named willow, unlike anyone michelle's ever met before. as they grow closer, michelle starts to understand that she might like willow as more than just a friend.
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“Mike,” this time Will hoped to convey his eye roll through his tone.
“Will,” he said back, mimicking and with an audible smile.
“Are we just going to spend this entire call saying each other’s names?”
“If it means I get to keep hearing you say my name, I wouldn’t mind,” Mike said, beginning playfully but ending on a much softer note. Will sucked in a breath, surprised at the honesty in his tone. It made him feel raw.
or, as pitched on my tumblr,
Byler college fic post-canon where the party goes different places and it’s centered around Will and his closest friend who is also queer and she despises Mike after hearing about Will pining for him but one day in November, Will has a worse panic attack than usual and she can’t help him and is forced to call Mike and for the first time learns Will went missing and goes home with Will to Hawkins during winter break because her family sucks and learns about the Upside Down and Mike is jealous because he thinks they’re dating and the second the friend sees Mike, she knows she’s right and that Mike is in love with Will too.
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The Price I’m Going To Pay For Dreaming by NoMartiniNoParty
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Sep 2025
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Will didn’t know what was wrong. He’d drawn Mike before. Hundreds of times.
But now, he couldn’t seem to grip the pencil properly, let alone apply delicate layers of paint. The furthest he’d gotten was Mike’s torso and an outline of his head, but when he tried to draw the rest of his body, Will ended up feeling so dizzy that he had to sit down.
He flopped face down on to his bed with a whine. How was he going to be a brilliant artist if he couldn’t even draw a figure?! It was just Mike! It was just legs! Will wouldn’t actually have to draw his… his crotch…As Valentine’s Day sweeps across Lenora Hills High, Will finds himself struggling to finish a very special painting. Searching for answers in the library, he comes across something that shakes him to his core, changing the way he looks at Mike Wheeler forever…
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- Part 3 of It Was Coming All Along
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If time stood still, I'd take this moment (Make it last forever) by chuuyaloverfrfr
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Aug 2025
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In the past two months since he got back from California, Will Byers has come to the realization that it is surprisingly easy to make a routine during the apocalypse.
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So what if the world is supposedly falling at its seams? That sure wont stop one William Byers from admiring his best friend in the golden-red light of destruction. -
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Mike's view of him is blocked by a frosted glass panel, but he can still tell he's typing on a computer since he could hear it way before he made it there.
He stands by the already open door awkwardly, fidgeting with his fingers and picking at a hangnail, not sure what to do or where to go. He can feel his heart's thumping gradually intensify as his fear of feeling incompetent returns, but then the man stops typing, stretches, sighs, and turns around his rolling chair and all Mike sees is the face of an angel.
An angel with curious hazel eyes.
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Or, a miserable burnt out bestselling author falls for a publishing company intern who has a hidden talent.
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Indie Rock band AU in which Mike, Max, Dustin And Lucas play in a band. Where art major, book loving Will Byers finds himself being dragged to his bestfriend Max's gig.
*Modern setting College AU*
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a goddamn blaze in the dark (and you started it) by gleefulbrie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Aug 2025
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"Perhaps I am a gentleman in sinner’s clothing... but I know my love is not a crime."
➺ When William Byers is commissioned to paint a portrait for the wealthy soon-to-be-weds, Michael and Jane, he finds himself upon the Massachusetts coast, entangled in a messy web of family secrets and an unexpected love that changes his life, for better or worse.
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- Part 2 of in every universe (au series)
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The year is 2004. Will Byers is the top student at his school, everyone loves him, he's creative and is always at the top of his classes. Joyce is convinced a prestigious private school will give him the best shot at going to Yale university. Will isn't prepared for just how cutthroat the place is...or for making an enemy on the first day?? He was just trying to be himself.
Mike Wheeler, the star newspaper reporter for the school paper and every teachers favourite student, sees Will as an immediate threat. With his best friends, Lucas and Dustin, Mike makes sure Will knows he's not welcome and that every day is a living hell for him.
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Muse by italwaysis_isntit
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
13 Aug 2025
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Will sees a familiar face, one that has made him unable to paint or draw, except- It's not the same face, it's someone with much sharper facial features and a more relaxed way of moving
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Mike looks at Will for a moment before asking, “Have you heard of Dungeons and Dragons?”
Dungeons and Dragons. The name sounds familiar, giving him the same deja vu that Mike did when he turned up at his exhibition, even though he’s certain he’s never actually heard or seen it before. That’s harder to explain, so he shakes his head, saying, “I can’t say I have.”
“Right,” Mike says after a while, clearing his throat. “Well, it’s this…like, fantasy role-playing game where you can write stories and you and your friends’ characters can go on adventures and…anyway. I played it a lot growing up, back in Indiana. And I had a friend—well, he was my best friend, really—who really liked my campaigns, which are like, the stories you write and…yeah. He told me I should become a writer, and I guess that always just stuck with me.”
“I bet he’s proud of you.”
Mike gives a small smile. “I hope so.”
Will has been in California for as long as he remembers. Not that he remembers much.