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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jun 2025
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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- English
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- 39,868
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 425
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- 1,420
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Bookmarked by ir_i
26 Jun 2025
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Will Byers the Masked Menace Returns! by MogulMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
01 Jun 2025
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“Well, whatever.” Lucas starts, “Mike’s only sided with Will ‘cause he also has a man-crush,” then, a little conspiringly, watching Mike with twinkling eyes, “on Spiderman.”
Will Byers' alter-ego Spiderman has only just been placed under the limelight after the fiasco at Washington, and he's absolutely not dealing with all the attention and publicity in a healthy way.
Especially when his best friend Mike takes a sudden interest in the masked blue-and-red hero.
Yet, a new threat emerges on the horizon—and Will has to deal with it all without falling behind in his studies in his senior year.
Will his long-held secret survive the inevitable wreckage?
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- Part 1 of Spiderman AU
- Language:
- English
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- 75,336
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 365
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- 1,099
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Bookmarked by ir_i
25 Jun 2025
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“Mike?” Dustin’s words interrupted Mike’s thoughts. He simply hummed a reply, still looking at Will. God, why was he so obvious? His eyes just couldn’t seem to pull away from him. There was just something so captivating about Will. How could one ever look away from him? Ever look away from the living embodiment of a star at the centre of its own solar system? Such great gravity, you couldn’t help but be pulled towards it. It wasn’t Mike’s fault. It was only natural– a force of nature. One of Newton’s laws or something along those lines. He couldn’t really remember.
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My take on post-painting reveal byler and how they deal with their emotions.
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- English
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- 16,978
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
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- 69
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- 738
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Bookmarked by ir_i
17 Jun 2025
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Mike opens his eyes against the water droplets hanging off his eyelashes. Will hasn't stopped walking away from him, and he’s far enough now that Mike can no longer really see the details of his jacket. The rain feels like needles against his skin, and a frustration builds in his gut. Mike can't stand this anymore.
He breaks off into a run.
or Mike and Will finally confront each other about everything. It's raining, and things get messy.
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- English
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by ir_i
17 Jun 2025
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He looks up at him, eyebrows drawn together. “Do you not love her?”
Mike shrinks back. “What?”
He hadn’t meant to say it. He wouldn’t have, if he’d stopped to think about it for half a second. But it’s too late to take it back, and he can’t breathe until he knows the answer, and he looks at him resolutely and says, “Do you only love her because of what I said?”
Something darkens on Mike’s face, twisting it into a shape Will’s never seen. “Get out.”
It’s not a no.
or: Mike and Will share a room, and Mike finds out the truth about the painting.
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- English
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- 16,756
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Bookmarked by ir_i
17 Jun 2025
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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
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 1
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- 112
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Bookmarked by ir_i
17 Jun 2025
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“I need you.”
Will’s expression grows more stunned. “What?” he breathes, voice barely above a whisper.
His instincts tell him to take it all back, but the way that Will’s looking at him with those sorrowful, questioning eyes weakens him. And he’s been stupid for many, many years, so what’s a little more stupidity?
aka a s5 speculatory mike wheeler-centric fic about his internalised homophobia and a lot of moments where he's not so clever about his feelings with will
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- English
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- 46,457
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 161
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- 662
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Bookmarked by ir_i
08 Jun 2025
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“Mike…What you said. On the field.”
Mike stiffens. “Y—you remember that?”
“Of course I remember that.”
aka mike confessed to will to save the world, but will wasn't conscious enough to say it back. when he wakes the next morning, they have a lot to talk about.
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07 Jun 2025
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“What?” Derek breathes, and the glint in his eye that Mike had mistaken for mischief looks a lot more like panic now. “Are you kidding me—I swear I'm like, the only one who gives a shit about Holly.”
Mike’s eyebrows rise high on his head. Maybe this kid is annoying, but sometimes annoying people just…have to be that way, for their own reasons. And there are many good reasons.
aka holly's missing, and her friends are determined to find her and bring her home. one person in her friend group in particular is more passionate than the others about finding her, and soon mike finds out why that is. and why he felt so different about will to his other friends when he was a kid.
(set after the mike clip from the recent teaser)
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07 Jun 2025
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They were right, Mike really is oblivious.
Which is why when he figures out Will likes him, his entire world is turned on its axis.
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Mike finally puts the pieces together. Chaos ensues.
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- English
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- 13,590
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 173
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Bookmarked by ir_i
03 Jun 2025
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But he’s getting better. He’s getting better at it. Mike steps forward, and Will retreats. He’s getting better.
“You’re avoiding me.”
So, for Mike to barge into his room and demand an explanation for why Will has been pulling away – well, maybe he’s a little confused.Will finally rips off the band-aid. Mike won't let him.
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- Part 4 of fix-its
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,482
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 156
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- 3,239
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- 575
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- 35,146
Bookmarked by ir_i
02 Jun 2025
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they’re coming to get me (maybe i’ll let them take me) by andthentheybow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jul 2022
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“They call me Vecna,” Henry says. “And if I am Vecna, then you- you will be my Acererak. My apprentice. Because, Will Byers, you are just like me.”
“I’m nothing like you,” Will insists, shaking his head as he wracks his brain for any information on Acererak from the D&D handbooks he’s pored through so many times. Acererak- saved by Vecna when he was a child, apprenticed under Vecna and saved his life, later became a lich and then a demilich- a demilich. “Besides, aren’t demiliches more powerful than regular liches anyways?”
“What?” Henry says, his face contorting, and it’s enough of a distraction that Will is able to run.
Things lying dormant are finally awoken. Will is screaming. A Mind Flayer is born.
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- English
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- 6,606
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- 1/1
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- 55
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02 Jun 2025
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“You will see soon enough. There is blood on your hands just the same as I. These humans might save you now, but who will save you from yourself?” Vecna’s voice tumbled through the atmosphere from all angles. “You cannot avoid the truth for much longer, Will Byers. You, belong, here.”
my take on will getting vecna’d and a rewrite of the finale/volume 2 as a whole
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01 Jun 2025
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Slow-Burn, canon-compliant and set after season 4. Will Byers & Byler centric. If you like lots of feels and pining, a nice dose of spooky beasties, some silly character moments and seeing our boy Will kicking ass, taking names and coming of age, you're in the right place.
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It's two weeks after the fall of Hawkins and the Party are trying to figure out how to move on, find Max and stop Vecna.Will's heart is still breaking over Mike and El, but when those emotions awaken something decidedly more otherworldly and powerful he, and a strange new friend, have to confront what really happened in Hawkins on November 6th 1983 and what side Will himself is really on.
A fever-dream, mucho-feels, super long, semi-fix-it, version of Season 5.
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- English
- Words:
- 138,363
- Chapters:
- 27/27
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- 1,374
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- 2,036
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02 Jun 2025
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“Will,” El says gently, moving back into his space. “Your nose.”
He’s suddenly aware of the warm sticky feeling on his upper lip, and when he wipes a hand under his nose his fingers come away wet and red.
He’s about to reply when a chime rings in his ears, so loud it echoes inside his head, and he startles. “What the hell?”
Max’s gaze snaps to him. “What’s wrong?”
He frowns at her. “Did you hear that?”
Her eyes widen, her entire body going tense. “Hear what? Was it a clock?”
Oh, shit. “Is this one of the—”
He never finishes the sentence, because in the next moment, searing pain blooms in his head, far worse than any of the migraines he’s been getting since he crossed the Indiana border. It’s so intense that he staggers, vision whiting out, and he’s pretty sure he’s curled up on the ground—he can’t be sure; the world has blended sound and image and light and his mind is scrambling to make sense of it.
Don’t be afraid, someone says, but Will shies away from the voice, pressing the heels of his palms into his eye sockets. Welcome home.
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01 Jun 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.
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- Part 1 of Tobias Universe
- Language:
- English
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- 120,535
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Comments:
- 958
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- 1,996
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- 284
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- 50,544
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30 May 2025
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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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,825
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 115
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- 2,845
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- 693
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- 35,381
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27 May 2025
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It’s always been Mike and Will since the day that they met, and so life goes as follows – they stick by one another throughout everything, from campaigns to demogorgons, and yet somehow they can’t quite see what it is they’ve been missing (or ignoring) this whole time.
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five times that others noticed how mike felt + the one time that will did.Bookmarked by ir_i
25 May 2025
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Of course Will is here. They take care of each other. It’s what they do.
or: Mike and Will, through the years and in between the lines of friendship and something more.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,326
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 149
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- 5,585
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- 1,120
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- 58,707
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21 May 2025
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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,203
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 620
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- 9,015
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- 2,051
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- 121,094
Bookmarked by ir_i
21 May 2025