Love, the airport

I really wanted to make some art about this fic, it’s so beautiful!

Mike’s character development in it is exceptionally well written and the poetry is a very powerful vessel for his feelings

The poem on the painting is from the fic, it’s the authors

Title: Hollow Boy

Pairing: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler

Tags: Canon Compliant, Post Canon, Closeted Mike Wheeler, Angst, Depression, Dissociation, Guilt, Suicidal Thoughts, Internalized Homophobia, Swimming, Masturbation, Anal Fingering, Flirting, Touching, Holding Hands, Kissing, Nipple Play, Nipple Licking, Coming in Pants, Condoms, Blow Jobs, First Time, Rimming, Anal Sex, Top/Bottom Versatile, Switching, Sex Education, LGBTQ Themes, Self-Discovery, Writer Mike Wheeler, Poetry, Literature, Regret, Queer Culture, Coming Out, Second Chances, Happy Ending

Summary: Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.

Title: Hollow Boy

Pairing: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler

Tags: Canon Compliant, Post Canon, Closeted Mike Wheeler, Angst, Depression, Dissociation, Guilt, Suicidal Thoughts, Internalized Homophobia, Swimming, Masturbation, Anal Fingering, Flirting, Touching, Holding Hands, Kissing, Nipple Play, Nipple Licking, Coming in Pants, Condoms, Blow Jobs, First Time, Rimming, Anal Sex, Top/Bottom Versatile, Switching, Sex Education, LGBTQ Themes, Self-Discovery, Writer Mike Wheeler, Poetry, Literature, Regret, Queer Culture, Coming Out, Second Chances, Happy Ending

Summary: Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.

Men with pale skin to bite, with freckles to lick, with red lips to do sinful things to. Men who sounded like Mike and home somehow. Writers, the clacking of their keyboards in the room an echo of what Mike might have been doing, their rants about their favorite authors and theories similar to what Mike might have said.

Men who felt like his best friends. Men who treated him with utter love one moment and then turned cold the next. Men who didn’t know where to put their hands, who were straight other than with Will, who hated him, who hurt him, and yet kept coming back.

Will had them all. And it never solved anything."

Title: Hollow Boy

Pairing: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler

Tags: Canon Compliant, Post Canon, Closeted Mike Wheeler, Angst, Depression, Dissociation, Guilt, Suicidal Thoughts, Internalized Homophobia, Swimming, Masturbation, Anal Fingering, Flirting, Touching, Holding Hands, Kissing, Nipple Play, Nipple Licking, Coming in Pants, Condoms, Blow Jobs, First Time, Rimming, Anal Sex, Top/Bottom Versatile, Switching, Sex Education, LGBTQ Themes, Self-Discovery, Writer Mike Wheeler, Poetry, Literature, Regret, Queer Culture, Coming Out, Second Chances, Happy Ending

Summary: Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.

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mike walks into will's art show after two years of no contact and sees this portrait like he's in a byler version of portrait of a lady on fire

Title: Hollow Boy

Pairing: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler

Tags: Canon Compliant, Post Canon, Closeted Mike Wheeler, Angst, Depression, Dissociation, Guilt, Suicidal Thoughts, Internalized Homophobia, Swimming, Masturbation, Anal Fingering, Flirting, Touching, Holding Hands, Kissing, Nipple Play, Nipple Licking, Coming in Pants, Condoms, Blow Jobs, First Time, Rimming, Anal Sex, Top/Bottom Versatile, Switching, Sex Education, LGBTQ Themes, Self-Discovery, Writer Mike Wheeler, Poetry, Literature, Regret, Queer Culture, Coming Out, Second Chances, Happy Ending

Summary: Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.