16 Bookmarks by why_bite
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In a universe where everyone has their soulmate's first words to them on their hip, Mickey is born with no Words at all. He grows up confused, scared, and committed to a life of loveless flings - and then he meets Ian Gallagher, a mute boy that won't stop getting under his skin.
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My Darling, Orpheus by shittalkerxo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
09 Jun 2024
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No version of this where I don't come get you, is there? He'd said, all those loops ago. And he'd meant it — he genuinely never considered not going to get Edwin. He's always felt drawn to him, like he could understand Edwin on a cosmic level that he was never able to fully describe. He could never fully explain why he stayed with Edwin, instead of going with Death all those years ago — he thought, maybe he was just scared. Scared of moving on, scared of the unknown, but that was never it. He was scared, but not of not knowing where he was going. Somewhere, deep inside he was absolutely terrified he'd never be able to get to know Edwin. That meeting him was just a small intersection of their lives, a crossover in fate, never to meet again.
So, he stayed, and he was never sure why.
(Or, Charles and Edwin are the literal reincarnations of Orpheus and Eurydice and then they're a little more)
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29 Mar 2026
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i have a soft spot for greek tragedies and their retellings
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“For someone who claims not to like thinking,” Edwin says, raising an eyebrow, “you do a remarkably good job of it.”
Charles laughs. “Tell that to my old teachers, mate.”
“If they disagree, then they can’t be very qualified.” Edwin says this simply, like it’s just a fact of life. Like it’s plainly obvious that if anyone thinks Charles is stupid, it’s they who are at fault.
Or: Charles grew up poor and is likely to stay that away, his job at the magic store notwithstanding. By the time he meets Edwin, he's decided that he wants a new life. In between figuring out what's up with the mysterious wish-granting pigeons, and whether he can go to the Royal Ball, Edwin makes him want to take a chance on being happy as well.
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Britain, 1976. Three years into boarding at Saint Hilarion's School, Edwin Paine is assigned Charles Rowland as a roommate.
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Featuring: mistakes better made, days hidden in libraries, and no rafter left unwandered.also featuring: charles doing sport and edwin being gay for it, edwin being a nerd and charles being gay for it, and me pretending i know what boarding schools are like
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come as you are by Nyx_stardust
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch (2019)
26 Apr 2026
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"Something about the man makes Will’s chest tighten. The way his dark curls fall across his face. The slope of his nose. The curve of his lips. They’re shapes Will has drawn thousands of times in secret, sketched in the solitude of his room, hidden away in the pages of sketchbooks tucked out of sight.
Mike?
No. Mike can't be in Seattle. That’s not possible.
Will doesn’t realize just how long he’s been staring until the stranger catches his gaze.
For a brief second, everything freezes. A devilish grin plays at the man’s lips. In that instant, Will knows with absolute certainty that this isn’t Mike. He knows Mike’s expressions like the back of his hand - a little goofy at times, endearing, always genuine in a way that made Will’s heart ache. This… This is something else. A grin that’s more mischievous. Magnetic. Will can’t tear his eyes away as the man approaches the bar."
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Boris is the man Will meets at the bar after the series ends, and they gradually heal each other. <3
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deviltown by marysgrave
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch (2019), The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
17 May 2026
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"Devil town is colder in the summertime, i'll lose my mind at least another thousand times."
Once Joyce dies in the cusp of the Battle of Starcourt, Will is left crippled by his mixture of trauma and his new relocation with Lonnie far away from Hawkins in Las Vegas.
There, he meets a boy.
And everything burns.
"I still get a little scared of something new but i feel a little safer when i'm with you."
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today, yesterday, tomorrow (i loved you even then) by doziertozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
01 Feb 2026
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The Byers are no longer in Lenora. They were there and then they were gone, in the blink of an eye, leaving behind a house covered in bullet holes and haphazard, police issued caution tape. So, Boris does what Boris does best. Improvises! by hitchhiking to Hawkins.
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Heart Line (Love Line) by TimesArrowMarchesFoward
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch (2019)
22 May 2026
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“In Las Vegas, I met a psychic once and she read my palms.” Boris slid a slow finger down the skin of Will’s left hand. He stared at it intently, tracing a line up and down, before moving to his right hand. The touch felt electric. “She said there are five main lines and everybody’s different.”
Will swallowed loudly, Boris stepping forward to look closer. “According to her, this one—” Boris motioned to a line between Will’s index and middle finger. “Is your heart line, it shows me your emotions. For you, it’s long, deep and curving up; not broken.”
Boris was smiling again, thumbing the line lightly. “It means you are sensitive, and emotional.” Boris licked his lips, eyes flicking upward to look at Will. “Devoted.”
Or: His senior year in Lenora Hills High, Will Byers meets Boris Pavlikovsky.
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Will Byers and Boris Pavlikovsky are two people that never should have crossed paths, never should have worked even if they did, but now that thy have there was no letting go.
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Will isn't expecting anything when he moves to California, even less when near all of his friends lose contact with him quick. Then he meets a boy that looks like the friend that he left back in Hawkins and knows that its a bad idea to be anywhere near him. But even bad ideas were better than being apart once he had spoken to the other even once.
Boris moves to Lenora in the months after Theo leaves for New York, and starts high school at Lenora Hills High. There, he meets one Will Byers, and both their worlds change for good.
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Temporary hiatus while I finish my Heroes of Olympus rewrite (which I was working on before starting this fic), then I'll come back to this
(This fic does have a tumblr (cause I made fan art for this ship before this and am working it into the fic) so go and check that out here: https://www.tumblr.com/paint-and-smoke?source=share )
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THE ROAD TO HEAVEN IS PAVED WITH BAD DECISIONS by sad_sadist
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019), Multi-Fandom, Abe (Movie 2020), The Turning (2020)
20 Apr 2026
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Translation of my series of the same name.
From the moment their eyes meet for the first time, nothing will be the same. Paths twist and bend, towards an ending that is built with each decision.
What happens when two black holes meet in the vast Cosmos?
The sky explodes.📼 AkiraTetsu is recording a real Podfic, you can listen to it here.
🔴 Саня Ушаков is translating the fanfic, you can read it here.
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- Part 1 of El camino al cielo está hecho de malas decisiones
- Part 1 of TRTHIPWBD
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05 Mar 2026
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dont read past ch 38, they live toxicly ever after in ny
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Something Inside Me to Keep You Bedside Me by paper_star
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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“A nice little heart to heart,” Mike repeats quietly. “About my dead girlfriend.”
“And his dead sister,” Dustin adds, unperturbed.
Or: Post-canon fix-it, from graduation. Four summers, four winter breaks, and four spring breaks in which Mike Wheeler needs to figure his shit out.
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An anonymous writer starts writing in to Will and Robin's queer gossip/advice podcast, 'Dear Dorothy', for help on confessing his love to his best friend. Will tries to offer advice on how best to go about it, aided by his own similar experience being in love with his best friend, who coincidentally is acting really strangely...
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OR: Five times that Will unknowingly helps Mike attempt to seduce him and the one time he knowingly does.
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Bookmarked by why_bite
26 Jan 2026
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we all deserve to be known.
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you're a walking disaster, and yet— by Johaerys
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Hades (Video Game 2018), The Iliad - Homer
18 Feb 2024
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—I'll follow in your wake.
"You'll meet my son, Achilles, soon," Mr Pelides told Patroclus on their drive there. "You two will get along just fine. He's as wild as they come, though." The indulgent pride with which he said the words made them sound almost like a compliment. "Don’t let him talk you into anything."
Patroclus blushed as he swore, with strong conviction, that he would absolutely not do that. No sir.
He knows better than that.
Or: Achilles is a threat and a menace. As they grow up together, Patroclus falls for him anyway.
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- Part 25 of This and This and This: Achilles & Patroclus
- Part 1 of Disasters AU
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31 Mar 2024
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When We Meet Again AU by rainbowpandas, RockyRants
Fandom Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)
26 Jul 2024
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Bookmarked by why_bite
20 Feb 2024