my heart is so full of you, i can hardly call it my own. ⚠️ SEXUAL ASSULT, VIOLENCE, AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION⚠️

Mike Wheeler's stuck in a lot of ways. He's stuck in Hawkins, since his parents insisted he stayed in town for college. He's stuck in his mind, which has caused him to spiral into a deep depression ever since he helped save the world a year and a half ago. But worst of all, he's stuck in his own feelings for his best friend, Will. Will, who's been moving while Mike's been stuck. Moving out of Hawkins the day after graduation, moving on from his trauma, moving on from Mike. To try to cope with the mess that's Mike's life, he started imagining countless "what ifs". Harmless things, really. What if there wasn't an Upside Down? What if El lived? What if he could finally leave Hawkins? When he found himself thinking "What if Will were a girl?", he ended up diving head-first into a spiral he doesn't think he can come out of. When the spiral led to frequent visits to the quarry, the change of location brought infinitely more "what ifs" than Mike could even comprehend-"what ifs" of the future instead of the past. "What ifs" that promised danger, which, if Mike was entirely honest with himself, he didn't really mind. (Title is from Trailers after dark by Finn Wolfhard)

A story that takes place around 1991, Mike Wheeler is now an author, struggling with his thoughts constantly revolving around Will after reuniting at a library in NYC. (Cover will be added soon.)

a byler fanfic, basically a re-writing of episode 8. and yes, my first ever fanfic heh... i'm so cooked bro. This is MOSTLY in Mike's POV, a bit of Will. idk what else to say lmfaooo. also, if you came from my yt, HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi yes i'll likely put this on AO3 too. I just gotta make an account hah.

a life beyond hawkins, but a feeling Will remembers all too well.

The sequel to my finale fix-it fic Smalltown Boy. Mike and Will's sophomore year at NYU is going as well as expected--with a few exceptions, of course, because what are their lives without exceptions? In the week before Thanksgiving break, Mike and Will deal with the many challenges of life like friendships, relationships, and grades.

Continues immediately after the events of Stranger Things, season 5 episode 7. Basically the finale, but written by someone who actually cares about queer representation. Mike did NOT deserve that absolute assassination and I WILL be doing him right. In other words, a fix-it fic based on my last byler theory on my YouTube channel, in which we get a Mike-central finale where byler is canon. I do want to clarify I only watched the finale once and I refuse to watch it again so I might get some plot points wrong but you guys don't care anyway because no one likes the finale.

After the Byers move to a small town, Hawkins Indiana, Will Byers finds himself questioning everything his father has taught him. So what happens when realizes his real feelings for one of his new friends? There are a lot of triggers to this story so if you get triggered by things easily this may not be the fanfic for you! <3

hiding your feelings for him won't change them, you know?