Jun 8
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Today I learned there’s a 140 character limit on tags and a 30 tag limit on posts.
#there’s a fly buzzing in my window and it’s so loud#I think it’s dying or smth it sounds like it’s screaming#stranger things#mike wheeler fanart#I keep trying to capture the fly but it’s tweaking too much#this is the only time I’ve ever wanted a fly swatter before in my life ngl#and I work outside#digital art#this is based on an au I have in my head about Mike and will getting together in ‘89 and going to college in Chicago together and then#Will transfers to a school in CA in ‘91 and it causes a massive fight and they break up (Mike has abandonment issues w Will…)#a bunch more stuff happens (Mike gets arrested + kicked out of school + disowned and then Carlton is introduced…)#but basically Mike goes through the 5 stages of grief over Will#mike also moved in with lumax because qpr madwheelclair supremacy frfrfr#this sketch is from the bargaining/ depression stage#depression hits Mike HARD#Mike jumps off a high bridge and loses his right leg below the knee#Lucas is a mechanical engineer and ends up creating prosthetics for Mike!!!!!!!#Will and Mike reunite in 1996 at Nancy and Jonathan’s wedding YUPPPPP#also their big fight would probably rip the group apart for at least a year#if not until the makeup tbh#Dustin goes to school in CA and would take Will’s side because he knows how Mike is and sees how much this is affecting Will#Lucas would take Mike’s side because he … well#he knows how Mike is and sees how much this is affecting him#so even while both of them (everyone tbh besides probably Nancy and Jonathan) would say that they’re not picking sides they totally would#it would just manifest with Dustin complaining to Lucas that all Mike has to do is apologize to Will and everything will be fine#and Lucas is like???? actually no Mike shouldn’t have to apologize this time… do you even know what Will said to him???#and then they wouldn’t call each other for a week#Jane and Max get into a similar argument#Max was the only one in the group that was truly neutral when they broke up although yes she did give Mike a lot of shit and Will none#however one night they get really drunk and open up to each other and they both realize how similar they are
