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Arthur doesn't press too hard on why he wants to see Merlin drunk—he just does.
Or, five times alcohol does not work in Arthur's favor and one time it does.
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25 May 2026
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Years after Sasuke has come home to the village, he still doesn't really fit in very well. Naruto thinks maybe it's his turn to wait for the olive branch. All the ramen is an added bonus.
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23 Mar 2026
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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20 Mar 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jun 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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“Come over tonight?” Mike whispered into his flip phone, his hand cupped tightly over the speaker. He lay on his side beneath navy blue covers, knees drawn up, heart hammering as he listened for footsteps in the hallway. He crossed his fingers under the blanket like it might help. “Please?”
He winced the second the word left his mouth. God, he sounded needy.
A soft laugh crackled through the line. “Of course I’m coming over,” Will said, his voice warm and unmistakably amused, like he could picture Mike exactly as he was—curled up in bed, chewing on his lip, trying not to be heard.
Mike’s mouth split into a grin before he could stop it. He pressed the phone closer to his ear.
“Great,” he said, lowering his voice even more. “Just—be careful climbing over the garage this time, okay? My dad would actually fucking kill you if he caught you out there.”
“When have I ever gotten caught?” Will shot back, teasing, confident.
Mike snorted quietly. “Are you serious? Remember when—”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever,” Will cut in, laughing now. “I’ll be there by midnight.”
“You better be.” Mike teased.
“Fuck off,” Will said fondly.
Mike smiled so hard his cheeks hurt. “See you.”
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- Part 1 of Byler 2000s AU (mostly oneshots)
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27 Feb 2026
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Will is having nightmares. Mike is having desires he doesn’t understand.
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Mike felt something warm bloom in his chest. Will looked so soft, so peaceful, hair ruffled, lips parted gently against the fabric of Mike’s shirt, breathing slow but deep. He couldn’t help the swell of pride that rose inside him—pride because Will felt safe enough to fall asleep pressed against him, trusting him entirely.
And yet, a bitter ache threaded through that warmth.
Is Carlton as gentle with him?
Does Will fall asleep in his arms?
Does he feel safe like this with him?
Is he patient with him when he’s drunk, when he’s trembling and cold?
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Mike and will drunkenly sleep together after Stacy’s party.
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He’d thought he was over Mike. He’d told himself he was. He’d accepted that Mike would never feel the same way. Mike wasn’t like him. Untouchable. Unavailable. A dead end. He’d made peace with that over 18 months ago when the world was ending.
But now Mike was here. And he was touching him. Looking at him like this. Like he wanted him.
And Will was too drunk, too raw, too undone to shove the feelings back down where they belonged.
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Will lets Mike put handcuffs on him while he blows him.. that’s lowkey it.
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When the Wheeler family invites the Byers over for dinner one night, Mike just can’t stop looking at Will.
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Will swallowed. “Our families are literally in the next room,” he murmured. “Are you insane?”
“Please, Will. Look at you,” Mike breathed, pressing his forehead to Will’s neck. “In that shirt. You look—” He swallowed hard. “You look so handsome.”
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- Part 4 of Byler 2000s AU (mostly oneshots)
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24 Feb 2026
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“Did he touch you?” Mike asked.
Will blinked, caught. “Mike--"
Mike stepped closer anyway, crowding him until Will’s back brushed the door. His hand landed at Will’s shoulder, thumb pressing into the flesh above his collarbone.
“Did you let him see them?” Mike added, quieter. Meaner. “The panties.”
Will’s breath stuttered.
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Mike finds a pair of panties in Will's laundry and slowly spirals.
Will doesn't seem to mind, though.
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The Heart Finally Stops Running And Calls It Salvation by Depressed_Anon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2026
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He wanted to say a hundred things. ‘You look good.’ ‘I’ve missed you.’ ‘I hate myself for making it weird.’ ‘You look so fucking good.’ ‘Did you ever--’
His brain supplied the rest, cruel and automatic; ‘Did you ever love me like I thought you did? Did you ever want me like I didn’t know how to want you?’
Instead, because Mike was Mike, he said, “Your tie--”
Will blinked. “What about it?”
Mike pointed, stupidly, at Will’s collar like it was an emergency. “It’s… not… there.”
Will stared at him for a beat, then snorted. “Yeah. Because I’m not wearing one yet.”
Mike felt heat crawl up his neck. “Right.”
Will’s mouth twitched. “Are you nervous?”
“No.” Mike lied.
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Lucas and Max are getting married, and Mike finally grows some balls.
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It's always the rain. In his nightmares, there are no monsters or alternate dimensions, just the wet sound of tires on asphalt and a bicycle abandoned on the shoulder of Highway 22.
Seven years have passed since Will Byers disappeared into thin air. Seven years in which Mike Wheeler has tried to convince himself that he's a functional adult, that he's moved on, that the sleeping pills are just for university stress.
But the body doesn't forget what the mind tries to erase. And when a call in the middle of the night brings a ghost back home, Mike will discover that getting back what you lost doesn't mean it stops hurting.
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Mike wasn’t coming after him this time. This whole thing was Mike’s fault in the first place, and Will didn’t want to see him, he made that clear. He did want Mike to notice, though. He wanted Mike to be standing inside the arcade, staring at the front door, itching to come outside and talk to him. He wanted Mike to get a shit score at Dig Dug because he was distracted wondering where Will had gone.
It was kind of like the View-Master feeling, being stuck between resenting Mike so much and wanting him back so desperately. Sometimes, there would be a glitch, and the facade he carefully constructed would disappear, revealing the cold, harsh truth. I still love him.
or: byler exes to lovers
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14 Feb 2026
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Will’s eyes are still fixed on the broken bulb. Mike senses his apprehension, and he pokes a finger to Will’s cheek. “Come on,” he drones, turning Will’s head to face him, “it’s cute!”
“It’s embarrassing,” Will groans, head plunging to Mike’s shoulder.
And — okay. Maybe it’s a little embarrassing, sure, having to explain to the Melvald’s guy why he needs a new light bulb every two and a half weeks, but Will Byers, Mike’s boyfriend — Mike’s boyfriend! — has superpowers, and that's a marvel in and of itself.
Mike never thought that dating Will Byers would result in this many blown fuses.
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Public Bookmark 523
Mystery Work
Part of Old Stuff
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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07 Feb 2026
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It’s seriously hot in here. Will shifts on the carpet, his stomach rolling. It feels like his skin is welting from the heat. He blinks hard, fruitlessly trying to slow the rapid rise and fall of his chest.
“Will?” Lucas calls, sounding far away.
Across the room, there’s a clamor, and then an understanding, “Oh, fuck.”
Everyone seems to realize the same thing at once, himself included. He’s going into heat. He’s going into heat in the middle of Mike’s basement, with everyone watching.
It’s the summer of 1985, and everything in Will's life is already falling apart. So, of course, puberty just has to go and make it all worse.
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07 Feb 2026
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Mike’s mouth is warm.
Warm, and a little chapped, and pressing against his with an uncertainty that makes something in Will’s chest ache. He should pull away. He knows this. He knows it in the same way he knows not to touch a hot stove, not to stare too long, not to let himself imagine impossible things. His body seems uninterested in logic, though, and he supposes he can’t blame himself, not really.
Mike shifts slightly, trying to figure out what to do with his limbs. His lips move against Will’s with more intention, and Will’s breath stutters out of him in a way that is deeply embarrassing and entirely involuntary.
Oh, his brain supplies unhelpfully.
It’s something he’s imagined countless times before, kissing Mike Wheeler. He imagines it so often, in fact, that he cannot even recall the first time he imagined it. It’s an ever-present fantasy, always lurking in the back of his mind.
And yet, despite his thorough experience in imagining this moment, he somehow never imagined it quite like this.
Or: Five times it doesn't mean anything, and one time it finally does.
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07 Feb 2026
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“You make this place feel alive, you know,” Henry says one morning, passing Will a clean glass. The compliment settles warmly in his chest, purring like a cat.
Their days become a predictable thing, but Will can’t help but find the predictability comforting. Time starts to blur around the edges, and the days don’t end so much as they… loop. Meals repeat. The light that streams in through the windows always looks like late afternoon, warm and yellow. Eventually, he stops checking the clock. Nothing changes when he does, and he has nowhere to be, anyway. Nothing pressing. No reason to rush. All he has is right here, warm and solid against his back.
Trapped inside a carefully constructed reality, Henry offers Will a life he knows he could never have in the outside world. As fragments of the apocalypse his friends are fighting begin to bleed through the facade, however, Will is forced to confront what exactly Henry is keeping him from, and all it's costing him to stay.
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06 Feb 2026
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Mike thinks back to the painting Will gave him, rolled up and placed carefully in his dresser drawer, because for some reason it felt too wrong to hang it up on the walls with everything else. Too intimate. Like Will had made it for his eyes only. Or, apparently as everyone else thought, some mystery lover in California. And then he thinks about Will dozing off on his bed, and saying I think I’m in love with you all soft and slowed down from the inertia of sleep, and that’s right about when Mike starts to feel seriously lightheaded. He leans back against his bed and focuses very hard on taking deep, even breaths.
Mike contemplates his feelings for Will Byers, partakes in a concerning amount of swooning, and learns to drive. Sort of.
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04 Feb 2026
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Both of their bodies shake as they catch their breath. Will’s still hard, and his sweat is starting to dry uncomfortably on his skin, but all he can focus on is Mike.
It’s times like these he’s reminded how lucky he is to have Mike in this way. To see this side of him, this side that still feels too new and too intimate and too overwhelming all at once. Sometimes, he thinks he might be bitter. Resentful of his lot in life, being so painfully in love with someone who will so obviously never feel the same way. On his bad days, he even thinks he might resent Mike.
Like this, though, he knows that could never be true. Not really. Sure, it hurts, only ever having Mike halfway, knowing his body but never his soul. Yes, it’s going to kill him when Mike inevitably finds someone new and runs off into the sunset, leaving him in the dust again.
But it’s Mike. He'll take whatever he can get.
When he and Mike end up in bed together after graduation, they fall into something dangerously easy. Or, at least, it would be easy, if it weren’t the most painful thing Will’s ever done.