16 Bookmarks by MerylStar
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He looked up and there was Derek.
That was not unusual nowadays. Ever since Scott had gotten bit Stiles could turn his head in any direction and there Derek would be, looming and irritable. But Stiles didn't usually see Derek when he was out and about in town, doing chores.
Stiles patted his mother's headstone. Not that you're a chore, mom, he thought. He stood, brushed off his jeans, and waved to Derek, who was standing stiffly in the distance with less of the air of a werewolf and more that of a startled rabbit.
Slowly, Derek made his way through a maze of memorials, graves, and floral wreaths to Stiles.
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Stiles and Derek unexpectedly meet at the cemetery and talk about grief and love.
Bookmarked by MerylStar
26 Jun 2026
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stay awhile by EnduringParadox
Beautiful and honest insight of two different but close pains, connecting through the sore tenderness of grief. Carnation on lips and a seed in the heart. It's all so human and simultaneously otherworldly. Lovely and touching in its purposeful simplicity. I often think about "...Every day was a goodbye..."
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Josefina knows Deborah Vance's house by its sounds, especially the piano. When it falls silent, she watches her boss retreat into herself. Then Ava Daniels arrives with her muddy boots and slowly something in the house begins to shift.
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26 Jun 2026
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Cadence by carorines
A house becomes the extension of a lonely heart, slow heaving with hope, and a piano solo finally blossoms into a duet.
Emotional, joyful, sacred and dear. Everyone's is perfectly in character, the most Found Family to ever. The writing style is beautiful and flows like a melody, favorite line may be "like the months apart had never happened, or had happened and made this moment more precious." -
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“Are you this mean to all of your assistants?”
“Not always.” Derek replied. “Just to the ones who think I’m a douchebag.”
“So you are this mean to all of your assistants.”
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Derek Hale, CTO of Bionic Labs, doesn’t need a personal assistant. Laura disagrees. Enter one Stiles Stilinski: personal assistant extraordinaire, who just won’t. shut. up.
(Peter is off to the side, watching with a bucket of popcorn.)
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Bookmarked by MerylStar
30 Mar 2026
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are you gonna eat that? by fanficreader5
It's a romcom between two weirdos having fun verbally fencing in probably the most hilarious dialogue ever.
Every character felt pleasant, real, strong, faithful to canon, with no one overshadowing or being overshadowed.
This work is like a love letter to the beautiful mess of being human.
Very suggestive wording but nothing happens. -
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Original prompt was: "we get seated next to each other on a delayed flight" AU
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- Part 5 of Old works, fun works
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30 Mar 2026
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Smooth Landing by YouRunWithTheWolves
Two stressed jerk strangers in a little stressful enclosed space like an airport during a storm cannot stop themselves from arguing in what is just the funniest verbal tennis match on top of the cutest and weirdest romantic tension. Poor airplane was weighted down by having to carry their ridiculous romcom chemistry.
The ending gets a bit suggestive but only with words not actions.
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Derek accidentally kisses Stiles goodbye. They aren't dating.
It becomes... a thing.
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Bookmarked by MerylStar
22 Mar 2026
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In One Kiss You'll Know All I Haven't Said by
aussiebeeThe sweetest love confession ever.
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Derek always knows when Stiles has a crush on someone. This time, he just doesn't know who.
Written for Sterek Valentine Week . Day 3 Theme: Secret Crush.
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- Part 3 of Sterek Valentine Week 2021
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Bookmarked by MerylStar
10 Mar 2026
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You Forgot To Mention That by JoMouse
Chaotically obvious, silly, smitten force, meaning Stiles, meets repressed and oblivious but equally silly and smitten object, meaning Derek, in this funny and sweet little glimpse of their domesticity, where secret crushes are not that secret.
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Stiles and Derek wake up in an abandoned town surrounded by mountain ash and patrolled by some unknown monster. Unable to escape they must figure out how they got there and what happened to the town. However, they soon start to find that the desolate buildings and empty streets aren't so harmless after all.
Bookmarked by MerylStar
02 Mar 2026
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Ghost Town Howls by Alexdoesthings
A little psychological horror masterpiece that is to be considered a fandom classic in my humble opinion.
Loved the concept and I recognize there could've been more potential towards the end but I'm left satisfied and honestly shaken.
One of the most visceral and dramatic romantic dynamic with a happy ending. Be mindful of the tags, but this love in the outer limits of survival tastes poetically like Sterek. -
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“What the hell are you smiling about?”
Ava's cheeks flush. "Just—" she looks at Deborah, and is stunned into silence; blonde strands escaping her cap, mascara smudged under her eyes, a bead of rain trickling down her forehead. She smiles, slightly wavering, and Ava doesn't think she's ever seen anyone so beautiful.
Or, the one where Ava asks Deborah to kiss the bee sting.
Bookmarked by MerylStar
24 Feb 2026
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i don't want to be anywhere else by avorahvance
The intimate natural background cradles them into a delicate bubble, laid back but charged with emotions, and frees them from their masks and fears, lulling into the messy authenticity of loving and being loved.
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Stiles gives Derek his heart.
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22 Dec 2025
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Jack in the Box by Vaneh
The world building is straightforward, matter of fact, immersive and believable while also flowing easily. The tone is dark and a bit gorey but pleasantly crisp, raw and symbolic. Sterek canon epitome of brutal bluntness, plain but intense romanticism and implicit trust. Their entire love fits nowhere else but inside the hard skin of their cupped hands.
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Stiles is glued together wrong. That’s the best that Derek can figure.
Bookmarked by MerylStar
20 Dec 2025
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if galileo have us good advice by proxydialogue
In this little moment, nothing exists other than them, very romantic and intimate although a bit bittersweet. Delicate and subtle in its simplicity, a good way to glimpse into and understand more the characters' souls. They're not glued together wrong, just differently than everyone else, but that actually makes them gravitationally similar to each other. They can be different together.
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I Wanted to Do the Timewarp But Oh God Not Like This by CrimsonMoonn, ReformedTsundere
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
06 Sep 2024
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Witches are now officially Stiles’ least favorite. They suck. He hates them and their stupid human sacrificial rituals, and their stupid evil knives.
Call him biased because one of said stupid knives is buried to the hilt in his chest, but Stiles doesn’t care. He’s bleeding out, lying in a bed of leaves and rocks, staring up at a canopy of trees and stars. Witches are the worst.
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Bookmarked by MerylStar
14 Dec 2025
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I Wanted To Do The Timewrap But Oh God Not Like This by CrimsonMoonn, ReformedTsundere
Clever and creative approach to time loops. The tone is very informal and casual which goes along with Stiles's stream of consciousness, the locations are pretty clear and atmospheric, the characterization is nice, Stiles is 18 here which would make Derek 21, and there's the right balance between funny and sad.
While mindful of the tags, this is an interesting read to try.
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“Stiles,” Scott says, but Stiles shushes him, and presses play.
Immediately, voices blare out of the tinny little speakers. The image is blurry at first, like the camera was being waved around, and then it clears up. Filling most of the frame is a table with about a hundred kids around it, all crowding a scrawny boy with jet black hair and a ten thousand watt smile.
Derek, Stiles thinks, although he’s barely recognizable. How could that be Derek Hale?
Or, Stiles finds a box of home videos in the burnt down Hale house. Things get complicated.
Bookmarked by MerylStar
14 Dec 2025
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does not heal by splinnters
The developing friendship is so delicate, already becoming a sweet young love but without rushing. The characterization is nice, the writing flows easily but handles the emotional topics well and realistically, makes you realize just how young these boys are and how meaningful and sacred it is that they found each other. Stinging eyes that finally cry and the quiet mess of feeling.
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Derek kills a man. Stiles picks up the pieces.
Bookmarked by MerylStar
13 Dec 2025
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I Need You (To Need Me) by KiiKitsune
The atmosphere is grotesque and psychological, simple yet dark, the imagery just so sleek and visceral.
It's not unsympathetic while also being factual, just on the verge of impartial, and since both characters are morally ambiguous in the show, here they can share a sense of belonging and togetherness over the shock. Their trust is immediate, implicit, instinctual and intimate and it feels like a relieving heart jolt.
While mindful of the tags, don't be discouraged.
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Laura chokes on dirt. It’s cold and heavy on her tongue, and it churns all around her as she claws for purchase, searching for up and out. By the time she finds it, her head is spinning, heart pounding, lungs screaming for air. She coughs and coughs and coughs.
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Bookmarked by MerylStar
13 Dec 2025
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Say a Prayer (Bury My Name) by clotpolesonly
Very descriptive in a direct and simple way that's effective and evocative but also introspective. The atmosphere is like clay mollifying and mixing the trauma of death and the shock of rebirth.
Laura feels very human but she never loses her animal nature either, the two halves complements each other in this sacred and magical moment of weakness and confusion that makes the character feel very realistic and sympathetic but never not strong. -
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They walk side by side back to the camaro, Derek’s all tensed up while Stiles hums some unnamable tune under his breath. When they finally break the treeline, Stiles pulls Derek by the arm so they’re face to face.
“Thank you,” Stiles tells him quietly, making sure Derek knows he’s sincere.
“It’s what we do.”
It is. It really is.
(or: Stiles and Derek learn, over time, how loyalty becomes love.)
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Bookmarked by MerylStar
08 Dec 2025
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love in suspension by creationmyth
A delicate and intimate retelling of season one to three's Sterek bonding moments. Grieving souls reaching out to each other for comfort and innocent curiosity in an unexpected but inevitable twist of fate. You'll smile through the tears. Kinda speechless. Just read this.
"...And it makes me think that she never died. That maybe I just needed to find her in other people..." -
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Stiles had never given much thought to the sun. Or its impending death.
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08 Dec 2025
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waiting for the snow by creationmyth
Best Sterek author, their specialty is post-nogitsune and grief. Topics like ptsd, trauma, depression, self-harm and recovery are treated delicately and feel raw and cathartic, so the flavor is less season-one silliness and more introspective psychology. Read this, read all their works, even if you don't know this show. Trust me.
This work in particular is simple but sharp, touching and endearing, sensorial and dreamy but vivid in a magic realism way. I believe the age gap here is roughly 3 years, like canon, and the only one I can draw the line at.