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• lazy butterflies by driblety4dc

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  20 Feb 2026

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Lucas Sinclair
  • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
  • Will Byers & Nancy Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Claudia Henderson
  • Canon Compliant
  • Pre-Season/Series 03
  • Post-Season/Series 02
  • Good Friend Lucas Sinclair
  • Good Sibling Jonathan Byers
  • Confused Will Byers
  • Jealous Will Byers
  • Character Study
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
  • no thoughts head empty
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Will Byers Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Past Trauma
  • Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler
  • but not to mike
  • Byclair
  • if you squint and take a few steps backwards
  • Will Byers-centric
  • Will Byers Has a Crush on Mike Wheeler
  • but it takes a minute
  • POV Will Byers
  • My First Fanfic
  • Beta Read
  • Gamma Read
  • Will Byers is Bad at Feelings
  • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
  • miwi
  • Kinda
  • Lettergate
  • Sort Of
  • Sexuality Crisis
  • Feelings Realization
  • Denial of Feelings
  • Self-Discovery
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Will Byers is a Mess
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Unreliable Narrator Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Hopeful Ending
  • Nancy Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Heart-to-Heart
  • Background Relationships
  • will byers hating on mileven for like 2000 words
  • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
  • Dustin Henderson is the Best
  • will byers is the biggest lumax shipper

  Summary

  "Will Byers doesn't know what happened while he was possessed...Since when did the world begin to revolve around girls?"

  or

  Will is eager to understand all the hype around crushes and liking girls, but he ends up confusing himself in the process. It turns out that he was going about it the wrong way all along. Featuring birthdaygate crumbs, byclair friendship, and byers siblingism.

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  English

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