#byeler fics

[xxcreamixx]

Some Byler fic recs 💗 Part one

Fluff!

Wash my hair and tell me I'm pretty 3k, twoshot (made by the wonderful @kuumara >:D)

laminate the stasis 5k, oneshot

feel it in my kiss (i'm crazy for you) 3k, oneshot (by @andiwriteordie)

Was it ever really a secret? 2k, oneshot

Hopper's Dilemma 2k, oneshot

playing pretend never felt so real 23k, oneshot

i don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you 3k, oneshot

Soulmate au

And things were looking like a movie 1k, oneshot

Just a glance, that's all it took 2k, twoshot

When blue meets yellow in the west 8k, multichapter

It's a love story (baby, just say yes) 11k, oneshot

Violet and Blue 2k, twoshot

Unbreakable connection 20k, multichapter

Just a curious speck that got caught up in orbit 10k, oneshot (this ones made by the amazing @willow-lark 💗)

Death cannot so easily be determined 1k, oneshot

it's all me, just don't go . meet me in the afterglow (tell me that we'll be just fine even if i lose my mind) 4k, one chapter

The ballad of the sun and moon 3k, oneshot

The part of me that can't let go 7k, one chapter (made by @embarrassedwithapicketsign :D)

Fool death (we're the lucky ones) 3k, twoshot

The best thing i've ever done 10k, multichapter

Mike comes out & Wheeler family stuff

Mike Wheeler comes out with the help of Nancy's music taste! 4k, twoshot

The only thing I've ever had faith in 5k, oneshot

No more secrets. 628, oneshot

The box 2k, oneshot

Everythings about you to me 1k, oneshot

Im thankful for my sister (even though sometimes we fight) 18k, oneshot

Our secret 588, 1 chapter

Believe in one thing, I won't go away 1k, oneshot

Babygirlgate

(found most of these from @aramapostsandwrites)

I guess we're more similar than I thought. 1k, oneshot

I Held Your Face In My Hands, Babygirl 1k, oneshot

"Why does Will call you babygirl?" 1k, oneshot

[wackywriterwhowriteswhenever]

Merry Christmas, Adam, y'all (You know, Christmas Adam, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day)! Otherwise known as Christmas Eve Eve haha.

Anyway, here I am with what's likely my final fic of 2024. And I'm returning to my AO3 roots with a new Byler fanfic that is set at Christmastime. I won't say much more than that, but I hope you all enjoy this story.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Tagging a few friends: @byliever @seizetheedays @willthecleric @dany-is-bored

[jaegerisim]

⚘ My fics

It's Just Us:

✎ Byler Modern-Day AU

✎ No UD

✎ Enemies to Lovers in High School

✎ Preppy Artist Will Byers and grunge-y musician Mike Wheeler

✎ Ongoing. 3/? Chapters

Everything We Could Have Been:

✎ Byler Modern Day AU

✎ No UD

✎ Lovers to Strangers to Enemies to Lovers

✎ Painter Will Byers and Writer Mike Wheeler

✎ Hopeful Ending

✎ Finished. 5/5 Chapters

What If The World Could Be Ours Tonight?:

✎ Byler Modern Day AU

✎ No UD

✎ Strangers to Rivals to Lovers

✎ Tax Evader and fraudster Will and Casino owner Mike

✎ Will has tattoos

✎ With a side of Stonathan, Ronance and Elumax

✎ Ongoing. 9/? Chapters

Why Would You Ever Kiss Me (I am not even half as pretty):

✎ Byler Fantasy AU

✎ Cleradin vibes

✎ Cursed Prince Will Byers

✎ Little Shit Will Byers

✎ Prince Mike Wheeler

✎ Ongoing. 3/4 Chapters

Well, I Got Down On My Knees (and I pretend to pray)

✎ My take on S5

✎ Lettergate

✎ Flickergate

✎ Birthdaygate

✎ Will has a gun

✎ Will has powers

✎ Angst and fluff

✎ Ongoing 3/? Chapters

Say You Want Me (back in your life)

✎ Byler Modern Day AU

✎ No UD

✎ Will Byers is a freshman who just moved in from Lenora

✎ Mike Wheeler is a sophomore

✎ Everyone is Queer

✎ Heavy Byclair (NOT endgame tho)

✎ Dark topics

✎ Elmax and Stonathan

✎ Beta read by the wonderful Lex! 🩷✨

✎ Ongoing 1/? Chapters

I Played My Part (and you play your game)

✎ A really gay Harry Potter AU I did just to spite Joanne

✎ Possessed Will Byers

✎ POV Mike Wheeler

✎ Madwise

Screaming And Crying (and kissing in the rain)

✎ Actor!Byler

✎ NOT foah (ew)

✎ Willelmax friendship

✎ Based on a moodboard

[clericallyinsane]

pick the next oneshot i should write!

(i'm not like you will reference)

[vipertooths]

bylers i need your help

i'm writing a fic where mike keeps rejecting possible girlfriends because theyre not will but he is too clueless to realize thats why he is doing it and i need 1 more reason for him to justify his disinterest in someone. (like her not being interested in d&d or [insert other attribute that fits will])

[bisexualsdean]

that blue moon had turned to gold

mike wheeler / will byers

rating: teen | wc: 4.7k

5+1 Things, Fluff, Oblivious Mike, Getting Together, Post S4

♡ 1. Max

Max gives Michael Wheeler a lot of shit even on his best days, but she thinks today really takes the cake on the dumbest things Mike has said.

She waits for the girl who was clearly asking Mike out to walk away before she smacks him in the arm. "Wheeler, what was that?"

She can't see him, but she knows that he is making that open-mouthed offended face he does when he shoots back a "What? What was that for?"

"You totally blew that girl off."

"Okay?" The confusion is evident in his voice and she can hear him rubbing his arm. Baby. She barely touched him.

"Haven't you been complaining that you miss having a girlfriend?"

"That's not exactly how I remember that conversation going."

Max drops an elbow on the lunch table and rests her head against her hand. "Whatever. My point is, why'd you say no? She was so out of your league too."

"You couldn't even see her!"

Max smirks. "Mike, every girl is out of your league."

"Rude! Will, do you hear this?"

read on ao3

[say-no-to-sports]

can someone please help me find this bye let fic i’ve been going crazy trying to find it. all i remember is the california crew is back in hawkins before max and the others can go to the creel house so they all go together and at one point mike and will are together and they hear lucas scream so will tries to go help him but mike doesn’t want to leave el and max and will looks at mike kind of like devastated? then i’m pretty sure will ends up getting vecnad and mike regrets not going with him or something pls help me find it

[lissyartfil]

Hey guys! I started writing stories a long time ago, but only a few years ago I decided to start share my art with others.

This is my first fanfic here. It's about stranger things and include some of my thoughts about Mike and Will. It's actually a little messy but I realy like it.

The name of our story

Short description: Mike Wheeler writes stories at night when everyone is asleep. These are incomplete notes that will someday be collected into a book, at least that's what Mike suggests.

Link is here.

Read it with this song.

[plsplspls-letmegetwhatiwant]

I haven't finished the last few chapters yet, but You Are The Heart by TouchTheSky is incredible. Probably one of, if not the best byler fic I've ever read.

But yeah, if anyone else has any recommendations I'd love to see them 👀

does anybody have good fic recs.... that ISNT "neutral" byler.......... pls........................... its not enough anymore i have very specific tastes

[castlebyersafterdark]

hello! I love your blog and the way you have fun here while also speaking eloquently about the dynamics and mechanics of the show. bravo for such a great space!

what do you think of people who don't see will as a main character? i've found my first on tumblr:

'i get he has importance. but also like, he is very much a plot device of Bad Stuff in at least the first 3 seasons, if not the 4th as well. (kidnapped, possessed, ominous Warnings that dont really matter except for building up tension) - we very much do only care about him because other characters do.'

this is less a comment on how they wrote will than his overall meaning in the narrative. even without the whole noah confirmation that will is BACK and BIG in s5, why do you think so many people, including GA, couldnt pick up on will's importance?

i recall first watching the show in s1 2016. even before ship wars existed, even before i knew about 'byeler' as it was called, i felt in my soul that will was important. there was a magic about him! he felt so intriguing and special. i even wrote in my journal that 'will byers is an iconic figure'. i have that old journal somewhere, and there's no elaboration! just that one sentence! haha

will was so mystical and powerful to me. i am not queer and did not pick up on this part of him, at least consciously, until s3. but something about him i adored and he mattered to me. these viewers who don't see will as important... do you think they truly missed the point of the show? if so, its a shame, but theyre very adamant that it's others who are missing the point and that we're not supposed to care for will, and i just can't see how that would ever be something the creators would want for any of their original characters. + will isn't an extra, or even a secondary character despite his lack of screentime because the heart of the story and narrative hinges around him. he is subtextually, implicitly important - this is storytelling 101!

(many of these will-indifferents also want fics of mike where will is only background/not important, even though they see mike as gay. they want a s5 gay mike arc, but where will doesnt figure in it, and i dont understand how that can make sense in this show when mike and will have always been part of each other's lives, even as friends???)

what are your thoughts my friend?

Hello!!! Glad you're here!

I honestly cannot understand Stranger Things fans who don't like Will. Or view him as non-important. Yeah, even though he was in so little season one, he is sooooooo so vital and if you don't care about that little boy, what are you doing here? The show failed you and its purpose. I cared so much from the moment he ran from that monster and disappeared, hooked for life on this silly little show. Will did that! Plot device? Sure, of course. All characters are plot devices to an extent. But to say that's all he is? We learn so much about who he is from little snippets in s1, he's a real character. Sure, we care about the story of finding him, but why do we care? Defined haunting the narrative. That's so sad if people only see him as this afterthought to move the story along.

Did people not watch season 2? I can kiiiiiind of get what people meant if we were thrown back in time to pre-s2 times and we only know what we know and as a casual watcher, maybe you just saw the show and didn't think too deep. (Not me, I loved Will and was looking forward to what else was in store with him after that s1 cliffhanger with the slug, are you kidding??? How interesting!) How can you still view Will this way after season2?

I think these people missed the point of the show. Truly. Surface level watching, I honestly don't know. I can excuse the fandom colloquial and snarky read of the "GA" because these are just people who like the show but with everything they like, it's not deeper thinking. Still goofy how they miss so many points I feel are blatant in the show, but a lot of people barely absorb what they're watching ("omg I love ST, Dustin and Steve are so funny haha I hope they bring Eddie back haha the show is so scary haha") <- like that's honestly how randos sound.

The fandom fandom people who are actively on sites like tumblr and into actual fan shit??? How do you hate Will if you're not a milkvan stan? Why?? What is the reason to care about a Mike sexuality storyline and think it has nothing to do with Will?????? Whose arc thus far has that play a huge role in his character? They are so entwined. Just say you're a FW stan and stop pretending to be anything deeper, that's totally fine, but just admit that. The rest of us aren't crazy for analyzing deeper and understanding the point of the show - that Will has always been and will always be the heart of the storyline. Season 5 gonna be a huge wake up call for a lot of people. But I try not to think about or indulge those people too often. Stay positive, ignore dumbass interpretations and takes. We know what and who are important.

[wackywriterwhowriteswhenever]

Coming soon….

[clericallyinsane]

regarding my "5 times the party thought mike was acting weird + one time he broke down" fic, I started writing it before s4 came out, so currently it's set in s3 going off the idea that mike realized he liked will in that season. Would you guys like it written that way or would you like me to include s4?

[byeler]

hi hello. one question, how dare you? how dare you ruin my life. PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU I HAVE NOT RECOVERED FROM I'LL FIND MYSELF IN MOONLIGHT I NEED A CONCLUSION I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I'LL NEVER EVER MOVE ON IM BEGGING YOU. also i love your writing so much it inspires me alot and im just joking my life has been significantly more wonderful ever since i read that fic however i will never move on from it uh thanks ahm alr byebye byeler

my darling love i am drunk in the middle of epcot and was how stly not prepared to read any of that. this gave me a heart attack. i love u so much.

in an ideal world i’d tell you more about what i’m working on. but im drunk in the middle of epcot. also i can’t keep posting snippets of this or else i’m gonna spoil the entire thing on here before i actually finish it. but here’s a little bit bc i love you so much. ok mwah love you goodbye

[mlchaelwheeler]

can u please share the byler fics uve read 10+ times??

ok i may have been exaggerating when i said i've read these 10+ times,, but i absolutely adore these (plus a billion more, but i'm trying to keep it short):

undertow - @byeler (beansie)

a dream always the same - sevensided

to hell and back - perexcri

filling the gaps - nfna118

jealousy (turning saints into the sea) - wasabi8000

i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this) - @blackdeathmamba

love in slow motion - @astrobei

a game of truths - @itsromeowrites

everything changes, what a shame - @andiwriteordie

it's dangerous to go alone - @byeler (beansie)

[fizzseed]

byler fic rec week: DAY 2!

theme: season 5 speculation

the secret to being unlucky by lovetriangled [13.7k]

it's the end of the world, and will has to help fix it. mike loves him no matter what.

i had a dream (i got everything i wanted) by andiwriteordie (@andiwriteordie) [11.3k]

vecna shows mike what he thinks he wants. then, he shows him what he, deep down, knows he wants.

i'll find myself in the moonlight by beansie (@byeler) [16.7k]

you'd think, in the middle of the apocalype, that a painting wouldn't be so important.

baby, we're perfect by bookinit (@bookinit02) [16.7k]

"senior year in hawkins. will and mike figure some things out."

i'm not going anywhere by vissers [5.9k]

will and lucas have a conversation in max's hospital room, and realize that they aren't as alone as they might have thought.

on the other side by bbbeets [4.4k]

mike gets hurt and will takes care of him. in the upside down.

[if-not-now-tell-me-when]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let's spread the self-love 💞

Thank you for the tag @hunter-sylvester!

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Just Forget The World La Sociedad de la Nieve | 805 words | T

El Pasado És Lo Que Más Cambia La Sociedad de la Nieve | 15,464 words | M | 7/40 chapters

Tricks and Treats La Sociedad de la Nieve | 722 words | G

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow Titanic | 14,138 words | M | 4 chapters completed

No pressure tagging: @melisusthewee @byeler @dueliz @hmslusitania @aanon04 and anybody else who wants to do it <3