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if you ever try to leave me again by My_Chemical_Comeback
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Mar 2026
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Shane heard a strangled shout tear free from his mouth, and then his body was moving without his brain’s input. He flew across the ice, ripping his gloves off and reaching for Ilya’s throat. He wrapped his fingers around the warm skin, feeling the flow of blood pulse harder with each beat of Ilya’s heart. His eyes raced across Ilya’s face, desperately looking for a sign that his boyfriend was still with him. Ilya’s eyes were wide and glazed, staring past Shane instead of at him. His face was losing color rapidly, turning a sickly shade of white that mirrored the ice beneath him. His mouth was open, loose and slack, mouthguard still jammed into his upper jaw. Shane watched in terror as Ilya grew limper in his arms.
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During a Boston-Montreal game, Ilya's neck is cut by a skate, and Shane is forced to witness the love of his life bleeding out on the ice in front of him. All of the plans they have made seem to be slipping away before his eyes, right when they were so close to finalizing Ilya's transfer to Ottawa. As they race against the clock to save Ilya's life, Shane reckons with the secrets they have been forced to keep and fears that they might never get to live their truth out in the open. -
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“That can’t be comfortable,” he said as Mike finally dropped onto his towel beside him. At his questioning glance, Will nodded vaguely to his chest— which, at that point, was nearly visible through the wet, transparent fabric. He did not think about it.
Mike followed his gesture, looking down at his shirt. “It’s… hell, actually.”
“Why don’t you just take it off?” Will asked. That was, evidently, the wrong thing to say. Mike’s lips pursed— an expression that he only pulled when someone ticked him off particularly badly. He always tended to tone it down whenever Will was at fault for it, like he didn’t want him to notice. Will always noticed.
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Mike refuses to take off his shirt at the lake. Will would like to know why.
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baby blue (prettiest angel in the room) by reki_writes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2026
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Frat or become a huge disappointment. Those were the only two options he had upon arrival.
So far, Mike thinks he's been doing a great job at playing pretend. It came to him naturally by now—the art of smiling through things he'd rather not examine too closely.
Boys weren't supposed to be pretty. Especially not ones that were part of a frat house.
In which Mike joins a fraternity believing he has to become someone else to avoid disappointing everyone around him. As he struggles to fit the expectations of masculinity, he begins a journey of confronting the parts of himself he's long buried and discovering who he truly is.
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okay so are the curtains blue for a reason or what (this is a metaphor) by sunflower_J
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Dec 2025
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Now, someone walked into the room. A boy, awkwardly standing at the side of his bed, looking over him worriedly. His hair was brown and scruffy, and he had big baby doe eyes and a yellow-and-blue horizontally-striped shirt like a cartoon character. The window was lighting him up like he was important to Mike’s narrative. The curtains are blue, thought Mike, this boy is light. I love metaphors. Maybe he was high on the pain meds. Upon seeing him, Mike felt a great affection, a great peace. Plus, he had long eyelashes. Mike almost giggled to himself. He was definitely a little high.
“Hi.” breathed Mike.
“Hi.” he said, hesitating.
“We’re friends?” Mike asked hopefully.
Or: During the Party's final battle with Vecna, Mike is gravely injured and loses his memories. He wakes up in a hospital only remembering a handful of inconsequential little things, like how much he loves a boy who seems like light.
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16 Jul 2026
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holyshit this was so good
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burnin' through the summer (make the moment last) by discoheavven
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Mar 2023
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Richie was another business entirely; loud, brash and crude, but painfully funny, looking at Will’s neutral expression and taking it as a challenge, trying to make him laugh until he puked. Messing up his hair and begging him to just let Richie go to town on it with some kitchen scissors. Poking his sides, or pinching his cheeks with an inflammatory remark right on the tip of his tongue, every time. Calling their campaigns ‘nerd shit-’ but sitting in on their session, attentive to every single action taken, with colorful running commentary during it all. Being with Richie feels like fireworks are bursting right under his skin.
The melancholy and brevity of a summer romance does not make the time it happened any less bright.
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In which Mike follows Will to New York University for completely normal and emotionally healthy reasons, and then they try drinking together for the first time and Mike realizes pretty quickly that there were other latent feelings involved in his decision. Featuring truly Gen X levels of casual alcohol use, cranky hours at the Met, laundry in a haunted basement, a Psychedelic Furs concert, the gang reuniting for a party at Jonathan’s apartment, one scary incident reflecting the grittier realities of late 80s NYC, love confessions obviously, and rather a lot of hickeys. (And they were roommates!)
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Just Guys Being Dudes by FightMeImSmall
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jun 2026
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Ilya and Shane get outed via instagram live… as friends. The world reacts as their friendship becomes the most talked about thing in the hockey world.
Being openly friends affords them more freedoms to be together, but all the more easy to lose it all.
AKA
Shane has a touch of Hudson Williams to him
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“It almost feels like what you said today is pushing me to wake up from a trance I didn’t know I had fallen into.”
Will frowns. “Like Vecna’s curse?”
“Precisely.” He nods, eyes shining when Will understands. “I didn’t know I was under this trance to begin with, which is why I never questioned it, but I’m starting to think that I’ve been… asleep for a long time. Maybe always.” He sighs heavily. “Which means I have to wake up now, but I’m not sure how.”
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The tower scene from the finale, as it should have been.
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- Part 2 of ☆ susan's byler variants extravaganza ☆
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01 Jul 2026
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"i promise i'll never let him hurt you again" ... "i promise i'll survive him"
all this from the author of the werehare ear pulling fic
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Shane Hollander only likes to eat a handful of foods. He only thinks about hockey. He only feels comfortable around about five total people. He hates crowds and loud noises and bright lights and shoes that aren’t sneakers or skates.
Ilya thinks Shane is completely perfect the way he is. He wishes things were not so hard for his husband, but is always happy to help Shane navigate a world that isn’t built for brains like his.
Yuna and David Hollander love their son more than anything. They don't want any limits placed on his life, or any labels that would hold him back. He can thrive without a diagnosis being put on him.
Or: Everyone knows Shane Hollander is autistic. Except for Shane.
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30 Jun 2026
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ritardando (rit.) • /ri.tarˈdan.do/
becoming gradually slower → used as a direction in musicJames Potter never anticipated getting panic attacks. Or finding himself relying on Regulus Black for comfort. Or for all of that to somehow lead to a pretend relationship.
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- Part 1 of ritardando (op. 29)
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he turns off the big light by gurlsrool
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
31 Mar 2026
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Ilya knows firsthand that the world isn’t comfortable. It’s loud, bright, demanding, a harsh place in direct opposition to everything he’s recently learned about autism.
Is it so wrong that he wants Shane to feel safe here? To carve out a space where, even if only for a few hours, he doesn’t have to grin and bear anything? He can just be?
Or: Ilya Rozanov has a lot of good ideas. Telling his fuck buddy that he should consider getting an autism diagnosis isn’t one of them.
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I'll Make The Time Stop Wasting Away by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jun 2026
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“Either way, they’re fine with it as long as we’re back home by two. Honestly, we could probably get away with staying out the whole night. I think your mom in particular might actually be happy if you got into some normal teenage trouble for once.”
“That might be true,” Will allows, smirking slightly. “Okay, sure. We can leave at seven? After dinner?”
“Great.” Mike grins, the tension leaving his shoulders almost completely. For a second, he seems to hesitate, fingers tightening in the leather, before he releases it long enough to give Will’s hand a squeeze that lasts all of one second but sets Will’s entire body on fire. “It’s a date.”
Which makes Will’s heart just about give out.
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In which Mike asks Will out on a date once the Upside Down is closed for good and Will does a healthy amount of freaking out about it. All things considered, it goes pretty well, even if Steve isn't happy about them breaking curfew.
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25 Jun 2026
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Before Mike left for school the next morning, he looked positively giddy in his new outfit and ‘masculine’ cologne. Karen almost made him pose for a picture because of how handsome he looked, but she didn’t want to risk losing the mom points she’d worked so hard to earn the night before. Karen was really starting to gain confidence in her assumption about it being for a new girl. She was vaguely aware that Mike had a little girlfriend in the past—some puppy love situation—but obviously, he had his eye on someone new now.
What threw her for a loop, however, was when Mike carefully selected one of his new outfits and spent twenty whole minutes in front of the mirror just to hang out with Will.
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Karen knows Mike is hiding something from her, and she's awfully confident in her assumption that it's a new girlfriend.
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"And is like I said, very easy to do. You just lay back and let someone else do work. Could do it in my sleep, would not be problem at all for me to come hands-free.”
Hollander scowled, full competitive personality shining through. “Prove it.”
“Fine, I will,” Ilya snapped back.
Hollander's eyes went wide, and so did Ilya's when he realized what he had promised. His words hung in the air between them, suddenly heavy with implication.
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Ilya doesn't think switching with Hollander one time for the sake of settling a bet will change anything about their arrangement, and it certainly wouldn't make him discover anything about himself. Afterall, it would only be one time, right? -
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“We don't have to talk about anything. I can just-” Will fumbles shortly for words before saying, “Be here for emotional support.”
“Like a therapy dog?” Mike says.
“I was thinking more like a best friend.”
Or: Mike unknowingly experiences the pain of an autistic burnout after graduating from college. As a last resort, his mom and sister thought it would be a good idea to stay with Will. Will is so good and patient- Mike isn’t sure why he agreed
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- Part 2 of autistic mike oneshots
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friend of my brother is my enemy (or something like that) by rosesgf
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Aug 2022
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Jonathan would never hear the end of it if Will found out what he’s doing, so he needs to be subtle. Just enough to get Mike to treat him better. Just enough to redirect things.
He settles on a stern, “Mike, I think we need to have a talk.”
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09 Jun 2026
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Since moving to New York City, Will and Mike have been exploring. Like, sailing the seven seas, exploring. They’ve always had overactive imaginations. It should be no surprise that their love of games and roleplaying translates to their sex lives, so Mike comes up with a campaign unlike any other.
Or: the one where Mike and Will roleplay as a hooker and a john, respectively.
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- Part 3 of Explorers
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09 Jun 2026
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wait why am i crying over a feminization kink fic... this was genuinely the sweetest thing ever
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it's like i'm frozen but the world still turns by toes-ier (snowglobegays)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2022
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"She was being bullied,” he says softly. “I didn’t even know. She didn’t tell me because… I didn’t even tell her I loved her. I just kept writing to her without saying it and then I got there and we just—we just went to the skating rink and had a date like we’re in love and then everything happened and it just feels like bullshit. It feels like bullshit.”
Steve sucks in a sharp breath, like he’s in pain, but he doesn’t seem to be like, clutching his sides or anything. “Typical,” he mutters, more to himself than to Mike.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
"Like you’re in love?”
“I mean—” Mike blanches, and tries to backtrack. “We are in love. We are. She loves me. And I—”
Dammit, why can’t he say it?
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08 Jun 2026
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OMFG everyone needs to read this immediately
such a compassionate (and shockingly mature) take on mike and his feelings, i'm usually more of a gay!mike truther but this is probably the best characterization of bi!mike i've ever read
(suffer bros take notes, this is what we could have had) -
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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05 Jun 2026
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softest characterization of mike ever, loved every minute of it
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Public Bookmark 112
Mystery Work
Part of Supersecretprivatecollection
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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04 Jun 2026