it was the best thing i’ve ever done.

The US Government is currently trying to pass an incredibly dangerous national law for trans youth called HR 2616.

This bill would ban all Federally funded schools from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation, prevent teachers from using the correct pronouns and names for trans students, remove books with any trans representation in them, and even go as far as to prevent teachers from acknowledging trans identity AT ALL.

Any school that does not follow this will lose all federal funding. This bill would also require teachers to forcibly out trans students to their families, which would be fatal to any trans student with a transphobic Family or just hateful family in general. Trans people are already a group that already has some of the highest rates of being victim to suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

This bill actively makes teachers put those innocent children at such a big risk. This bill has rapidly passed the house this week with support from all 209 republicans, as well as 8 democrats. But, it's still being voted on in the senate, which means there is still time to help stop this.

To help stop this, you can visit 5calls.org (look up 2616 in the search bar), one of the most top issues filed Oppose Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students. Once you put in your general location, it will pull-up contact information for your senator, and give you a script for calling them.

If you are a minor and/or do not feel comfortable doing this, PLEASE repost this on here, or any other platform you are on/can find! This needs to be heard and fought against.

Thank you for reading this, my lovely people!

Mine are under the cut so this doesn't get hellishly long

Miwi doodles ✿

will tries to play along and feel the buzz of excitement that’s radiating down the hallways because he doesn’t want to be a downer or ruin it for his friends and he really does wish he was feeling it. he’ll let his mom take pictures of him all dressed up and coo about how handsome he looks, and he’ll let hopper awkwardly tell him to be safe and remind him of his curfew and the 3 inches rule that used to drive mike and el crazy the summer they were 14 (… like there’s anyone he’d need that for, he thinks self-deprecatingly) and he’s so thankful he has the best, most supportive parents in the world but it just sucks. there’s no one for him to ask, and he knows no one (or at least no one he’d actually want to go with, plenty of girls in his art class would die to have him as their date) is going to ask him. and even if there was, he knows it wouldn’t be safe to go together, to show up in matching tuxes and hold hands in the high school gym. he hates it and he just wants to feel normal and have the same end of high school experience that he’ll look back on fondly in 30 years as everyone else and it’s just not fair.

mike, on the other hand, is just depressed. everyone assumes it’s because he knows el should be here. should be his date. that she would love going dress shopping with joyce and getting ready with max and using up all the film in jonathan’s polaroid camera that she’d borrow taking photos of everyone — and partially that is it. but it’s not all of it. but no one really wants to ask and set him off on a spiral where he goes completely distant and doesn’t show up to school for a week like he did in november, so they just don’t.

so it’s prom night. and mike and will are both just sitting there. just like they did at the snowball. miserable and sad and appreciating each other’s presence but not saying anything, they barely even look at each other, because then they’d have to acknowledge that something’s wrong.

max and lucas and dustin try to get them to get up, to dance, to have fun, but after a few failed attempts to raise their spirits they just stay like that. until the dj announces that this is the last slow song and tells them to find someone special and head to the dance floor.

and mike exhales so loudly that will can hear it over the music. he stands up and holds his hand out, face red and tense but trying to be mike the brave and he’s trying to be casual and nonchalant not act like he feels — like this is the most potentially life-altering thing he’ll ever do (it is) and he just asks. he asks will if he’ll dance with him.

will looks around all bashful and confused, like he genuinely expects there’s some girl standing behind him. and mike laughs a little and confirms that yeah, he means will.

and of course will says yes. it’s mike. his answer is always yes.

and so they dance. they dance to a stupid top 40 ballad that they both hate and it’s a little awkward, they don’t really know the steps or whose hands should go where and they don’t want to be too obvious or draw any attention and mike is so nervous and will just can’t believe this is happening. but mike pulls will close and whispers that he knows it was him. will’s crush. and he’s sorry that he wasted so much time. he’s sorry that it took him so long figure it out and he’s sorry that high school’s almost over but he hopes he’s not too late, that they can make the best of the next four months before will leaves for new york. and will almost kisses him right there, but he remembers where they are. in a smelly high school gym in hawkins, indiana, and andy and troy and all the rest of them are probably somewhere in this crowd of sweaty overdressed teenage bodies and he really doesn’t want his first kiss to end in him or mike getting punched in the face so he resolves to hold mike tighter, folding into each other so that his mike is leaned over and tucked into the crook of his neck and all will can smell is that head and shoulders shampoo karen buys that he knows so well because he used it himself for 18 months —sharing a bathroom with mike and letting himself fantasize in the shower about what it might like to be like to live together just the two of them. (if max and lucas notice and position themselves in such a way where they happen to obsecure mike and will from most of the gym’s view. well, that’s just a happy coincidence). and will tells mike that he’s not too late. that he’d wait forever if mike needed him to.

if they were best friends while always sitting next to each other with an arm or knee touching, or standing with their shoulders always brushing, i can't even imagine how insufferable they'd be while dating.

they constantly lay together in one of their beds, just completely tangled in each other while having a casual conversation. if they're sitting at a table, their chairs will absolutely end up right next to each other. if Will is sitting on a couch, everyone knows they have to leave a space for Mike, or they will definitely be hearing complaints for the rest of the night.

once Mike and Will get comfortable around the party, their PDA would be insufferable. and yes, they do get teased for it sometimes, but it feels so natural to them, and their friends are already used to them being in eachothers personal space so much that it never gets paid any mind.

you're going to die in your best friend's arms by edelwoodsouls

"Mike bleeds out, slowly, in Will's arms. Just enough energy to say the words he's always meant to say.

Then he wakes up.

It's 1983.

(Or: Vecna wins. Time travel ensues.)"

teen, graphic depictions of violence, 31,146 words, 12/?

really good I reread this a lot

we started dating before i even knew i loved you (please don't forget me) by local_adgenda

"Will sucked in a breath. “I know… we got attacked by a bunch of demos and bats. I was really overwhelmed, and I kept seeing through the monsters’ eyes—it was awful. My head hurt so bad, and then I got grabbed, I think, and… that’s all I really remember. Until waking up here.”

Mike swallowed hard, looking down at the white tile. He wasn’t sure if it was a good or bad thing that Will didn’t recall anything after passing out.

“Do you remember Mike saving you?” Max inquired, a faint grin reaching her lips. Mike blinked, turned to Max, then risked a glance at Will.

The boy was smiling faintly at Max, a blank look on his face. “Mike? Who—Who is that?”

OR

When Will gets injured during the final battle and ends up losing some of his memory, Mike struggles to come to terms with the fact that his best friend forgot him. In an attempt to recover Will's lost memories, Mike tries to remind him of their adventures together, and accidentally-on-purpose tells Will that they're secret boyfriends. Once Will's memories return, he decides not to say anything, just to see how far Mike is willing to take the charade."

teen, no archive warnings apply, 105,627 words, 7/10

if you enjoy mike being a lovable dumbass then you will like this fic

to have you in another universe (why aren't you mine in this one?) by wolffromtheshadow

"Two years after they stopped talking, Will and Mike are doing fine. (If you can call desperately missing each other fine.) Then a spell casted in another universe crashes their fantasy counterparts into their lives and Will and Mike end up stuck helping them find a way back home. Which should be amazing, really, it's their childhood dreams coming true except... William the Wise and Michael the Brave are painfully, devotedly in love. And that would be a lot easier to deal with if Will and Mike didn't have years of unresolved feelings, unsaid confessions and pining between them.

Or: Cleradin get transported to Byler world and what follows is a lot of angst, many interactions between all four of them, Byler drowning themselves in regret and yearning, and Mike Wheeler having at least two serious emotional breakdowns before anyone gets their happy ending."

mature, no archive warnings apply, 89,937 words, 8/14

this one is so good trust me

Spiracle by Alice_reese48

"No," Will said quickly. "It's okay. He's going to be okay."

Nancy turned, the shock freezing her features into something horrifying. "He doesn't have a pulse."

Will held up his hands as he shook his head. "I know. But it—he—will be fine. You'll see."

Nancy choked on a sob. "He's dead! How is he going to be okay?"

Or: Four years after graduation, they're back in the Abyss, where a failing fight leads to Mike being bitten and losing everything about himself, except his love for Will Byers."

not rated, graphic depictions of violence, 27,558 words, 6/?

if u like horror & heavy whump you'll love this