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1. will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • written before season 5 volume 2 comes out!!!!!
   • Artist Will Byers
   • Writer Mike Wheeler
   • Oblivious Will Byers
   • Kissing
   • Will Byers is an unreliable and inconsistent narrator
   • Making Out
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Underage Drinking
   • but they're all like 20 in this so barely underage drinking
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Friendship
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler Friendship

   Summary

   Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”

   Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”

   Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”

   Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”

   --

   Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.

   Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.

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