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“How obvious?”
“Let’s say… the snowball became an avalanche.”Mike Wheeler had always known he loved Will Byers. It was a fact of life. The sky was blue. The sun would rise in the morning. Empire Strikes Back was the best Star Wars movie. Lucas’s favorite soda was Dr. Pepper. Mike loved Will.
He also knew that “love” had never been quite the right word, but it was the only one Mike could use to describe the feeling, the title of a much longer book.
When he looked at Will now, it was like someone had flipped the page to a new chapter and shoved it in his face. In big, bold letters, there were seven earthshattering words that Mike had never considered. Had maybe always felt but never considered.
Mike Wheeler thought Will Byers was attractive.
It didn’t mean anything. It didn’t mean Mike was…it didn’t. Everything was fine.
This was cool. Everything was cool.
Mike felt like something inside him was about to explode like a dying star.OR: The Gay Awakening of Mike Wheeler, Local Dumbass
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Heartlines (Zutara Week 2018) by trojantoast
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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Zutara Week Submissions from 2018.
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The Love, The Dark, The Light, The Flame (Zutara Week 2019) by trojantoast
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Dec 2025
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"Tell me if, somehow, some of it remains
How long you would wait for me and how long I've been away
The shape that I'm in now, your shape in the doorway
Make your good love known to me or just tell me 'bout your day"
- As It Was (Hozier)The Gaang returns to Ember Island.
Loosely connected Zutara Week Submissions from 2019.
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Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 by trojantoast for J_man
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Dec 2025
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My Submission for the 2025 Zutara Gift Exchange!!
Part One "Behind Closed Doors": A moment of peace after a long day.
Part Two "Solstice Surprise": Katara, Zuko, and their kids take a trip to the South Pole for the Winter Solstice. Under the aurora, a new light shines.
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"Steady is the hand that's come to terms
With the lessons it has had to learn
I've seen the things that I must do
But Lord, this road is meant for two
So I am waiting here for you"
- Cold is the Night (The Oh Hellos)My submissions for Zutara Week (2020). Prompts are independent, but are part of the same narrative.
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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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literally so wonderful !! tbh im a weedfrog truther for life
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With a groan, Mike rolled over. "What the hell?" He asked, brushing his hand under his nose to make sure it wasn't bleeding.
"You stopped in the middle of the sidewalk!" Retorted the person who had crashed into him—a girl with red hair, who carefully inspected her scraped up palms before glaring hard at him. Her knees are scabbed and shins were bruised and her hair was kinda all over the place. Mike had never seen a girl like her before.
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mike's on a vacation to san diego, max lives in san diego, and they are both ten years old.Series
- Part 15 of cel’s madwheeler
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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i love u getting high fic getting high fics i love u, also amazing amazing characterization
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your touch brought forth an incandescent glow by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Mike took a sip of his own cocoa, eyes drifting to the window. “It’s really coming down, huh? Kinda nice.”
Will looked at him instead of the snow.
“Yeah,” he whispered. “It really is.”
The living room glowed with soft Christmas lights, snow falling silently outside, Mike’s hand warm over Will’s toes. And for a moment, Will let himself imagine that this was how it would always be.
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With Henry gone and Hawkins finally safe, Will learns how to love winter again - and maybe how to love Mike Wheeler out loud.
A soft, snowy Christmas Byler fic full of cocoa, sketching, gentle touches, healing, and two boys slowly realising they’ve always been each other’s home.
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christmas time is here (it’s not, it’s june) happiness and cheer bitches!!!
this fic was written before vol 2 and this exists in an alternate timeline of joy and and happiness — can’t recommend it enough -
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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this was so wonderful. i’m all gooey and mushy inside and thinking about mike and will being free and in love in nyc