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  1. Public Bookmark 33

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    Maybe that's what terrifies Naim more than anything. More than the entity that wears Ryan’s face. More than the feeling of being alone. More than the knowledge that there’s something else out there— something unbelievable and otherworldly like his mom had always told him.

    None of that terrifies Naim as much as the idea that he might want this all any way. Want Ryan with him always. Want them to never be apart. Want him not because of everything, but in spite of it.

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    Post movie ending, imagining Ryan and Naim's life together now and what comes next.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    “So, what now? We keep catching coaches from shithole to shithole?”

    A mosquito pricks Ryan’s neck and he smacks it away. He thinks about the weight of Naim’s head on his shoulder on the bus, the tinny melodies emitted by cheap earphones filling the space between them. Remembers how settled he’d felt, how uncertain yet still oddly calm, having only the vaguest idea where he was going but being sure about who he was going with. He looks at Naim. “Maybe, yeah.”

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    Ryan and Naim keep going.

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    20 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 84

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    Will and Mike turn sneaking around into a twisted routine, convincing themselves that whatever happens in the dark doesn't actually count.

    Or: Ruining a friendship is easy. It's the rebuilding that might actually kill them—or finally make them honest.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.

    Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    “So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
    “Have sex.”
    “Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
    “And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.

    OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.

    (a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)

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    27 May 2026