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#Mike is having the time of his life#art#my art#byler#bloody byler#stranger things#fanart#mike wheeler#sketch#will Byers#mike wheeler x will byers#will x mike#byler fanart#byler art#st fanart#stranger things fanart#tw blood#blood
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BYLER X DIRTY DANCING: CLOSE TO ME
SURPRISE!! @wayward-sherlock and I have become a TEAM to bring to life the written and illustrated story of mike wheeler,, who, upon beginning another doomed bummer summer at his family’s retreat spot of choice, finds himself wrapped up in the responsibilities (and arms) of the resort’s dance staff…….
look out for chapter 1 soon,,,,,,
#we’re having lots of fun with this#michael wheeler is in for it#for what you ask#THE TIME OF HIS LIFE#byler x dirty dancing#close to me#feel your breath in my faceeee#YOUR BODY CLOSE TO MEEEEEEEE#ctm#dirty dancing#byler au#byler#stranger things#stranger things au#will byers#mike wheeler#byler fanart#my art
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In order to fully understand why it was so hard for Mike to express how deeply he loves El, and why his speech at the end of season 4 was one of the biggest, most important moments for his entire character, we need to look at not just who Mike is as a person, but also everything that has happened since he met her.
Every single time he opens up his heart to her, something horrible happens to her or she's taken away from him almost immediately afterwards.
1x08; he's an awkward little ball of feelings that are way too big for a boy so young. He makes a nervous attempt at confessing and asking her out on a date; when he can't find words that she'll understand, swoops in for a kiss instead. She lights up immediately and smiles. It's a brief moment of hope and pure happiness. Maybe they can have some semblance of a normal life and be normal kids after this is all over.
Minutes later, all hell breaks loose-- they're almost shot, El pushes herself too far until she can barely move, she's almost taken away by the Bad Men, the Demogorgon appears, and she uses the very last of her strength to sacrifice herself to save him and their friends.
He has to watch helplessly as she disappears.
He spends a year caught between believing she's dead and hoping she's still out there somewhere (but if she is alive then why won't she talk to him anymore...?). Kept silent under threat by the lab, he can't confide in anyone or even acknowledge her existence, not with anyone except those involved... but everyone else is keen on moving on and pretending it never happened. He can find some solidarity in Will, at least, who is in a similar kind of emotional turmoil... but it's not the same and it's not enough.
2x9; he is finally reunited with El, and she runs into his arms like she missed him too. She tells him that all those nights he called out to her, she heard him; she was there reciprocating his feelings the whole time.
In a burst of emotions that he's been forced to suppress for an entire year, he lashes out at the reason they've been kept apart (Hopper), screaming and sobbing. It's a massive catharsis for him, and for once an adult is understanding enough to hold him and not punish him for it.
Minutes later, she is going to go headfirst into a pit of monsters, the place where Mike had just firsthand witnessed dozens of people (if not more) get ripped to shreds only hours earlier, and she is going to attempt to close the Gate-- a feat that he knows may take every ounce of her power, just like last time. He cries. He can't lose her again. She promises he won't, and before she can seal that promise with a kiss, they're pulled apart again.
He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.
3x1; all seems to be okay now. He and El are happily together, and he feels comfortable enough to be playful, romantic, and intimate with her. It's the most emotionally open we've ever seen Mike thus far.
For reasons he can't understand (bc there's no way Hopper explained himself beyond "I'm in charge so do as I say or else"), Hopper is angry about it and threatens to never allow him to see her again: the one thing he fears most.
He panics big time and fucks it up in the process by lying to her. During a frantic attempt to apologize while also abiding by Hopper's rules, he runs into her at the mall. He panics again-- if anyone finds her here, and knows that he was here too, it's all over, and Hopper surely won't hear reason. El dumps him cold on the spot, spurred on by Max and her rebellious attitude (and without any context of course). He isn't given much opportunity to respond. He knows he's in the wrong for lying to her, so what could he even say...?
He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.
It's a hard blow, and he retreats back into himself, unable to get any joy out of playing D&D (which he clearly hasn't lost interest in), back to the deadpan sarcasm and accidentally snapping a little too harshly at anyone whom he feels would take El's place.
3x6; no one seems to understand the danger El is putting herself in. Everyone is berating him for worrying about her safety. He's seen firsthand what these monsters do to people, he's seen firsthand how El pushes her abilities too far. No one is listening.
The words "I love her and I can't lose her again" burst out in his desperation, perhaps before he's even had a chance to realize how deep those feelings run, despite whatever protective walls he's tried to build around his heart to keep it from getting broken again.
Soon after, all hell breaks loose. El is nearly killed several times over, her leg is ripped open, she pushes herself so hard that she breaks herself and loses her powers completely. Her father is taken from her. She's shattered by all of this, and there's absolutely nothing he could do or say to make it better.
She tells him that when he admitted he loves her, she heard him, and indeed she loves him, too... But now she's leaving.
He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.
4x1; they've been apart for a few months, and write letters back and forth to each other. El's letters paint a picture of an ideal new life: she and the Byers family are doing well; she's starting school and it's going well; she's made new friends, she likes her new home, everything is going well. She seems to be thriving. She sounds happy, maybe even happier than she had been living in Hawkins. Maybe Max was right, maybe she's better off being her own person without him, and maybe the respectful thing to do is step back... It's a small insecurity that creeps up subconsciously. In his replies he holds back, afraid of clinging too hard.
Though there's little logic in it, he's afraid that if he tells her he loves her again, another disaster might strike and this lovely happy life she's finally found might get taken from her. After all, that's what always seems to happen when he does.
4x2; after months of waiting, they can finally see each other again. He wears her favorite colors, picks a handful of flowers for her, and falls happily back into step with how they used to be. Soon that same day, however, reality becomes clear and the facade crumbles. People he was told were her friends show up to torment and publicly humiliate her. She had been lying. She isn't happy here, she hasn't healed, she is right at the edge of a breaking point that he doesn't see coming at all. He can't believe she would lie to him, she's not the kind of person to lie... especially not about something like bullying, something that she was always so understanding about with him.
On that logicless subconscious level, he wonders if it's all his fault-- he should have known somehow, he should have been there for her. She protected him from his bullies, he should have protected her from hers. He tries to come to her rescue. She runs away from him.
He's helpless to save her, again.
4x3; after a night to process everything that happened-- and deciding that the betrayal he feels from her lying to him is nothing compared to the turmoil she must be going through right now-- Mike approaches her in the gentlest way possible, wanting to listen and trying to understand. El, however, isn't receptive at all to his attempts at reassurance. She is at an all-time low, she's given up. She believes she is unlovable, irredeemable, a monster, just a thing that doesn't even have those superhuman abilities to compensate anymore. Mike can't believe what he's hearing-- doesn't she know that she's always been so much more than her powers? She's always been so much more than what she lacks in quote-unquote "normalcy"... None of those things matter, they have absolutely no bearing on whether she's worthy of being loved, because he loves her, completely regardless of any of these things. He always has...
El starts flinging his restrained words back at him, the products of his insecurity and trauma-induced fear. That fear takes hold yet again, and he stumbles, afraid of saying too much or not enough, because surely both could result in pushing her away-- she's retreating, hearing none of it; nothing he tries to say consoles her.
Moments later, local police come knocking. She's taken away in cuffs, and she's so broken inside that she won't even look at him when he chases the police car down the street and promises he'll get her out somehow...
Once again, he has to watch helplessly as she drives away.
4x8/4x9; after days of driving through the heat and dryness of southwest desert, having narrowly escaped being shot at with military-grade assault rifles, witnessing the death of and burying a man whose last words were that El is in danger... After watching dozens of people get mowed down by a sniper in a helicopter, and watching that same helicopter be smashed into the ground in a ball of flames...
There she is. Just as powerful and beautiful and alive as she's ever been. When he runs to her and embraces her, she looks at him like she can't believe he's real. She's beaming a smile right from her soul and it's like all the insecurity and self-doubt that have plagued them both just vanish from existence now that they're in each other's arms again.
Like always, however, the universe comes crashing down soon after. Max is marked for a gruesome death and all of Hawkins is in danger. They're miles away and helpless, and the only possible way for El to save everyone is if she goes in alone. She's stronger than ever, but so is her foe. Once again, she descends to face all the demons of hell on her own, and Mike can't do anything.
She's losing. She's choking. She's dying. He's helpless.
He must be cursed. He must be. Being with her, loving her, allowing himself to admit he loves her, it always brings only pain and suffering and loss. His heart is so full that it's aching, it's bursting out of his chest, and he can't contain it any longer.
She's going to die and it's going to be all his fault, because he fell in love, and it's cursed her.
Just before it all crumbles into utter despair, the earnest support from his oldest and dearest friend-- one who's always shared and understood his feelings of helplessness-- sparks a light of hope in him: "You're the Heart." You're not helpless. You can save her.
The words that come spilling out of Mike's mouth are truer than any he's ever dared to speak before, and it's the most terrified he's ever been, but he has enough courage for this moment. Despite all of the fears that have been building, stifling, choking him to death for years-- fears that the light of his life will inevitably disappear again, and there's nothing he can do to stop it-- despite it all, he pours out his heart to her.
He loves her. He's always loved her. He loves everything she ever was, is, and could be. He can't imagine a world without her in it. She saved him, in every way a person can be saved. And he needs her to live. He believes in her.
And it works. It's music to her ears.
#stranger things#mileven#mike x el#mike wheeler#mine#mileven fuels my soul#'you can only have 30 photos at a time in one post' alright fuck you tumblr#had to collage the first set to fit everything in lol#but ohhh godddd i am so emotional about this dude#he doesnt struggle to say it because he has doubts. its not about whether or not he has feelings for her.#it is 100000% his own personal struggle with himself and his traumas#grabbing screenshots for that last scene though. GOD i was in tears AGAIN#SOMEBODY give Finn every goddamn award under the sun for that performance#the way his VOICE BREAKS!! he sounds so SCARED and VULNERABLE but also so COMPLETELY EARNEST#'i don't know how to live without you' in particular#i will never get over this ever in my whole life tbh#it was so beautiful#also i need there to be more discussion about the parallels between mike's and hopper's internal struggles#because it is almost exactly the same.#the black hole analogy... 'they didnt need me. i needed them. i'm not cursed I am the curse'#like... biggest of ouches#okie dokie ive spat my bars and dropped the mic now its time for B E D#edit days later: i very much regret not brightening the images. goddamn its dark af here
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Can we all give Mike Wheeler some understanding, please? I don't wanna hear your whiny ass say that Mike Wheeler isn't good enough for Will one more time, I WILL find your home address. (Directed)
"Will isn't 'head over heels' for Mike, he just has a crush" I'm sorry but did you have your eyes closed in the interview in which his actor explains how he's been in love with Mike since the first season?? Hello???
Mike Wheeler is a gay boy in the '80s. Mike Wheeler is dating a girl he doesn't love romantically to appear "normal". Mike Wheeler has seen several people brutally die in front of him. Mike Wheeler had to witness the disappearance and possession of his best friend. Mike Wheeler has dealt with thinking two people he cares about have died. Mike Wheeler is a boy who went through homophobic bullying. Mike Wheeler is a boy who had to save the world four times already.
MIKE WHEELER IS A BOY.
He dealt with all this bullshit at the VERY young age that is 12-15. You want to tell this kid he's a bad person for being stressed? He has so much on his mind at such a young age from literally all of that and you expect him to act rational? Peaceful? "Correct"??😭
You are literally stupid if you think that's the proper opinion. He is going through the same shit as the other characters, the only reason you don't get pissed at Will is because he internalizes his feelings, rather than kind of exploding (which is what Mike does). These are just different responses to trauma, dumbass. Sorry it doesn't look pretty for you, but that's not how it works.
Erm, have the day you deserve, I guess. Bye, chat.
#this is directed#at that one person who is always on my pinterest fyp#fuck you#you dont understand anything#just because Mike doesn't have the capacity to hold in everything he's dealing with doesn't mean he's a bad person for letting it out#it just means he's a teenager dealing with way too much bullshit for his age and doesn't have anyone to help him#because of that fact that everything he's dealing with is stuff he's ashamed about#he cant say ''hey im gay and having a hard time accepting myself'' becaue then people would know#no one is there to tell him that its okay#jesus christ#this is all reflective of how you'd deal with people in your own life too#you must be a pain in the ASS to be around#byler#stranger things#mike wheeler#will byers#byler endgame#mike wheeler apologist#byler tumblr#st5#byler nation
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THINKING THOUGHTS
#i can't explain them#but like Wheeler siblings +this song#“And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills til the landslide brought me down”#and like they're the same#and the forced conformity#“I've built my life around you” and it's him building his life around El#but but but “time makes you bolder even children get older and i'm getting older too”#like they both have to change#gnawing at the bars of my enclosure#wheeler siblings#nancy wheeler#mike wheeler#stranger things#st5
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cannot get over the idea of michael having to explain anything traumatic that happened to him well after the fact and it's just. so clear he hasn't dealt with it at all. eyes downcast, voice shaking. he doesn't realize he's crying until somebody tells him.
it's like it's happening all over again.
#this is inspired by three things#one is saffron mike having to explain what it was like to be a runaway teenager to evan#two is evan and mikey talking again in death and evan wanting to understand why mike was how he was when they were little#and three is the idea of mike being made to explain his trauma from foster care to william after he's released#i think what really gets me is like#the increasing horror of things he didn't fully understand while they were happening#the pain can't dull with time if there's new things hitting you as you grow to understand it more and more as life goes on#bc then it never really ended#fnaf#michael afton#mike's stuff
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SOOO uhh the new fairy godparents show huh?
It's good. I made ocs based of the few episodes I pirated legally watched. I don't know much about the lore about fairies so I don't know if any of this contradicts canonical lore (it was hard to find information about the lore or anything related to the shows, screw fandom wiki)
Anyway meet Dev's new babysitter, Mike, and their Fairy Godparent (who is stuck in a jar)
#fop: a new wish#void's art#fairly oddparents#ocs#fairy godparents#art#I tried to make Mike not a horrible irredeemable monster#He's just a teenager who has issues and thinks that fairy godparents actually make their godkids lifes worse because their magic doesn't#actually fixes the godkids problems just makes them happy and into a healthy adult#also being near denzel did not help#does it make sense that Dev would have a babysitter?#probably not because his dad doesn't care about him enough to care about his safety#I think Mike would fit in the timeline at a time where Dev doesn't have Peri but later on does (or in the past did)#idk where I'm going with this#i'm procrastinating on so many things
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lololol, aside from not drawing bayverse or next mutation turtles in forever my ass also hasn’t drawn my au turtles in a hot-ass minute either
like, since returning with Rise after my last memories were with Next Mutation one of the things I noticed is the teenage part seems roughly... the same? I can’t really speak on it since I’m barely scratching 03′s surface and I haven’t even gone near 12. But aside from contemporary fixtures like their cellphones, and maybe Rise!Leo dabbing.
like just very vague, almost non-descript “(american) teen culture” markers. but like. these are new york kids.
and in my time they were new york kids from the 90s????? And they had them referencing Moonlighting???????? like Raph wouldn’t have been hard into Biggie, or Mikey wouldn’t be out on the cardboard mats with the bboys. c’man. At the very least Next Mutation had them throw a Save the Animals Rave, and honestly that’s the most 90s fucking thing they’ve done that I remember ‘til that point.
anyway, my AU is less an AU and more a “sure bad shit happened to them but they’re all alive and together, splinter’s here and so is venus, and they still play ninja pogs” retconning fluff
and they would’ve been fans of Boyz II Men (and Blackstreet and a ton of other groups from my childhood) and not a one of you can fight me about it uwu <3
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my tmnt au (where everyone made it past their 20s, splinter’s alive just old, venus is here, and they deserve some goddamn respite and shenanigans)
tmnt au part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4
tmnt au omake 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
lny visit 1 | 2
#just like#one of the main things about TMNT#is that it's parody#(when it's not soul-crushing drama)#and when I rewatched the movies and started dipping back in the 87 cartoon#it just hit me that#obviously teenagers couldn't have worked on these productions but like#it was a very Adults observing what they could observe about Teens These Days#which#fair#it was the 90s#and those jokes were for the older crowd#but like#Donnie's all white human disguise in 03#the ugly cackle I did#anyway#Mikey woulda been so into Michael Jordan#'Be Like Mike' woulda been his mantra for life#Mikey rewatched Space Jam so many times#I know Raph woulda hidden the VHS
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if mike was straight, stranger things would've ended after season 2
#straight mike isn't real he can't hurt you vs stranger things fatigue#anyway i can elaborate on this#season 2 is a false ending#someone died but it was just bob and they used that to make sure no one ELSE died#mike might have gotten caught in the tunnels but he was rescued! it's fine! everything's fine! he's at the snow ball with el it's FINE!!!!!#and then season 3 picks up and everyone#they expected it to be over#i know that's a thing EVERY sequel season but in 3 they're all WEIRDED OUT by it#it takes them SO LONG to accept that the ball's rolling again#because they bought the false ending! the straight mike ending!#what do you mean it's back on? everything's fixed isn't it? mike should be happy#happy heart happy life#but no he's being unnaturally annoying and pissing everyone off and saying that plot activities are STRANGE#when he's the ONE person who's historically been like wdym? this makes perfect sense#when it's actually the weirdest thing in the world#but now Unsanctioned things are happening. hopper's fucking off with joyce to another state and mike did not Approve of it#it's Weird he says#This can't be a coincidence He says#as if he didn't make that call#which goes against his dungeonmaster role#as does his inability to track down dustin when he VERY MUCH WANTS to find dustin#and the plot usually rearranged itself to grant mike whatever he wants#not this time! you want hopper and dustin? sorry. they've been taken off the board. your move#there's a paradigm shift is what i'm saying#within mike both on a character level and on a plot level#what's the plot again? people being flayed aka possessed aka taken over by an external force and made to act unlike themselves?#fascinating#surely not relevant to the main character who's suddenly acting unlike himself though#certainly not#st posting
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Mike Wheeler + Phantom by Rina Sawayama
#mike wheeler#I cry every time I listen to this song#it’s his song#it’s about losing your inner child too soon#that screams MIKE#mike <3#byler#again screaming how they intertwined the conflict of growing up with queerness#he thought he should have a girlfriend instead of playing games instead of being with Will#he wants to spend the rest of his life with Will… but he can’t wish that… that’s a childish dream he’s not s kid anymore
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i still appreciate trt mikes voice cause it matches the rest of his juvenile/troll persona at the time,, and maybe it’s nostalgic cause when someone becomes his fan that’s almost always the first version of him they see, cause epic is so prolific!! he definitely got more attractive with age though
that totally makes sense too bc, while I was totally aware of him and Faith No More when Epic came out, my 10 year old self was crushing on like...Ray Liotta and Linda Hamilton (and see my post on John Linnell). It wasn't until I *heard* the California and Tomahawk albums that he even made an impression on me....and like....I became a "oh shit he's beautiful" fan only like a year and a half ago watching FNM reunion tour and California tour videos....so it's all jumbled up for me.
i like your comment about his voice matching his persona - for me, knowing how much more varied he was with his voice in early Mr. Bungle, i really appreciate it more there.
#asks#mike patton#my fixation on mike is a really strange one because it's built not on nostalgia for mike#but nostalgia for a time period in my life that almost has nothing to do with mike#and at that time i'm nostalgic for - i was 24 and mike would have been 36 so.....ya#i literally did not know what he looked like other than his trt self until like....2021....#but i have fallen in DEEP
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oh wait now that mikes in prison i am so so soo excited for harveys prison wife arc. do you think he joins some facebook groups
#''but mike is getting beat up in prison'' this aint about him#i want to see harvey have the take the long bus ride with all the other prison widows for the first time and realize this is gonna be his#life for the next two years…#amanda.doc#suitsposting
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Oh man I have so many Thoughts on the new Fall of the House of Usher show
#i absolutely loved it honestly#the fall of the house of usher#i have so many thoughts#getting strong 7 deadly sins thematic elements and wondering if that's just me#waiting desperately for my one film nerd friend to watch it so we can discuss it#i wish I had more horror/film/EAP nerd friends to bother#I'm watching through it a second time already#life of faye#mike flanagan#his shows are kinda like if american horror story was actually good and had plots that actually made sense
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*does a gay little dance that pisses you off*
#pokemon#pokemon mystery dungeon#nuzleaf#cacturne#breloom#my art#luwel#keith#mike#blueberry jj#strawberry jj#i post these slowly and slowly over time i hate the concept of spamming things. Anyways#ui think abt them when my life depends on it. luwel gets the ugliest coat known to man but htats when hes active in the team#(which STILL has no name btw i think its funnier if they never have a team name)#the last 2 imgs are to do with my very own special episode 1 which is. a thing thats split up into 2 seperate stories that are ongoing#by ongoing i mean they happen simultaneously thats what i meant#keith and mike go to stormy sea (i only pick stormy sea bc i wanted a water location and went for. the place that would have#kyogre at the end even if they dont go there bc i think even a passive light nod to the kyogre that killed#keith during that 1 nuzlocke is raw comedy evn if i never touched on it) to like. pick up a random item that was stolen#the job was posted by lord jellyjam (jellicent) it's his daughters item that was stolen and he's offering anything as a reward#since k&m spend a lot of time wandering around they actually know who jj is (keith tried to break into his house once) (he was not caught)#(he also had to leave before he could actually get In) and theyre like oh. Hi this could be so cool#like 'why did nobody take this offer does nobody know who he is. what an absolute steal'#anyways since hes soooooo rich and whatever keith is like ok well i know his home address what if we visited him first and like#introduced ourselves. get in his good books. we can be his number one explorerds (He Wants To Steal From The House)#(he fails to do this again) theyre introduced to jellyjam and jj is like hey youre so cool and awesome and erm. i have to go somewhere this#weekend. since i trust you you look SO trustworthy do you know who can take care of my children whilst im gone#because everyone i have tried to hire keeps STEALING from MEEEEE#jj has to leave for a good reason ijust wont go into it#anyways. k&m go oh. oh hold on we can get our friend to look after your kids. he'll say yes i promise
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#i feel like saying he ever liked her ignores his survivors guilt#like those ‘romantic’ actions you’re referring to are just examples of it#‘but they kissed!!’ suddenly gay people who kissed the opposite sex arent gay anymore guys#sorry im allowed to have my opinions on other opinions#nothing is really romantic about a boy scared to lose a girl who ‘sacrificed her life’ for him one time already and leaving him guilty#also when has el ever been displayed in mike’s pov the way will has??#never was a light shining on el the way it was for will#sorry
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Someone put my Mike on the Sexypedia, honestly this is the biggest honour and nothing will ever top this, it's been great everyone <3
#Jay Talks#Mike#I may be a bit overstimulated today don't mind me#Got home earlier and I'm just packing stuff but my brain is also filled with I Love My OCs Thoughts and GOD#I need to tell everyone how much I love my OCS#I love them and they make me happy and when they make other people happy as well then that makes it all worth it#I feel like I don't talk enough aobut how grateful I am for people's support and interest in my work#I just can't get used to it it makes me so grateful#I'm so happy my guys can make people happy as well#my thoughts derailed too much this is supposed to be a post about Mike being on the Sexypedia#I'm glad people understand his GILF appeal#Been fighting for my life all this time to have people Get It
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