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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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09 Jun 2026
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"No," Will said quickly. "It's okay. He's going to be okay."
Nancy turned, the shock freezing her features into something horrifying. "He doesn't have a pulse."
Will held up his hands as he shook his head. "I know. But it—he—will be fine. You'll see."
Nancy choked on a sob. "He's dead! How is he going to be okay?"
Or: Four years after graduation, they're back in the Abyss, where a failing fight leads to Mike being bitten and losing everything about himself, except his love for Will Byers.
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08 Jun 2026
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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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07 Jun 2026
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“Will, how is it possible that you cool things off for Mike without even being there?”
“What? I don’t—” he starts.
“Yeah, you’re like his cooler,” Dustin adds. “When you don’t come out with us, Mike just sits at the bar and mopes.”
“I do not!” Mike shouts.
“And when you do come out with us,” he continues. “Mike spends half the night checking on you. And he’ll tell whatever girl he’s talking to that he needs to go ‘check on his roommate,’ and he ditches her.”
“Will, don’t take this the wrong way, but you’ve totally been cockblocking Mike without even doing anything,” Lucas teases.
“Come on, don’t be a dick, Lucas,” Mike grumbles.
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After a months-long dry spell, the party agrees to help each other get laid, and a misguided Will dedicates himself to being Mike's anti-cooler. Then, a drinking game gone wrong puts Mike and Will in a precarious situation where they must kiss or risk losing the game, and a panicked Mike accidentally says something a little too revealing about his feelings, much to Will's surprise.
loosely based on the events of New Girl 2x15, Cooler
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06 Jun 2026
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Mike looks at me and I reach a single hand out toward him, my shoes touching the base of the stairs.
He mouths something I can't read, then his thumb presses down on the button.
What did you say, Mike?I’m drowning under the weight of the nightmare. But I don’t think I want it to end if it means losing the last place he still exists.I can feel the heat of the explosion scorching my face.
I think I always will.
or: Will Byers has been given a re-do by fate, two years after Mike Wheeler sacrifices himself to close the gate for good.
Is this really a dream?
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05 Jun 2026