actuallymothman
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You were pushing your luck by actuallymothman
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
03 Oct 2025
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Sort of sequel to "Sometimes is never quite enough", but from Grian's POV
He doesn’t want to be like this anymore. He doesn’t want to cry over every little thing, he doesn’t want to make his mother's life harder than it already is, and he doesn’t want his sister and father to not be here. Not for the first time, his crocodile tears became real ones, and he fruitlessly keeps trying to wipe them away, along with the memories he has of his dad and twin sister.
"I’m sorry I’m like this."
Or, Grian's life during the 8 years Pearl was gone.
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- Part 4 of Highschool AU
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Sometimes is never quite enough by actuallymothman
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
14 Jun 2025
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She just has to wait it out, she kept telling herself. One of these days, she’d get a letter back, and everything would go back to normal. Despite the fact that the apartment was now furnished, and Pearl got to paint the walls in her room whatever color she wanted, and Pearl being 3 quarters of the way through her school year. It didn’t matter. None of it mattered. It was all temporary. She stares at the moon each night, watching it slowly rise over the horizon, changing shape each night. All temporary.
Or, Pearl's life during the 8 years she was away
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- Part 1 of Highschool AU
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Here It Goes Again by actuallymothman
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
27 Apr 2025
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Joel is grounded. Jimmy isn't really doing anything productive right now, and Grian doesn't want to be doing anything productive anytime soon. Cue gingersnap cookies, smoking their first cigarettes, causing destruction of public property and being too broke for the bus back home.
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- Part 3 of Highschool AU
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Highschool AU: How the teens get to school
- etho drives joel in his pickup truck, they annoy each other the whole ride.
- pearl and grian drive in their mother's car (enter twins bickering)
- gem and lizzie take the bus together, the bus driver is /so/ rude though
- jimmy's mum picks martyn up, much to jimmy and martyn's chagrin
- scott and cleo drive together with the windows down, iced lattes are a must.FUTURE UPDATES MISSING:
- cub drives scar in his fugly chevy uplander
- false and ren walk together to school, swap breakfasts
- mumbo takes his rickety bike to schoolSeries
- Part 2 of Highschool AU
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Too bad, but it's the life you lead by actuallymothman
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), Hermitcraft SMP
13 Oct 2024
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“The boy made his choice. He’s old enough to do that, you know.”
Cub leaves for college. Scar stays behind.
Hermitcraft Supernatural AU
(title is a work in progress)
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Highschool AU by actuallymothman
Fandom Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
03 Oct 2025
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Hermits + friends but set in a 2000s highschool movie
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I Wrote the Words (Before Knowing What They Meant) by Deorling
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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“Will's the Sorcerer, right?”
“Uhh, yeah? I mean the character is loosely based-,”
Max burst out laughing, “and you're the Paladin? Oh my God Mike-,”
“The hell is so funny?” Mike snapped.
“You don't even?” Max scoffed. This is why Mike didn't like talking to Max. She spoke as if she knew some joke that flew right over Mike's head, and Mike had a feeling he was the joke.
“Mike. I don't know how to tell you this so I'm just gonna say it,” Max started, “The Paladin is in love with The Sorcerer.”
Mike groaned. They stayed silent for a moment. Max waiting for a reply and Mike cringing at the revelation that maybe this ran deeper than he thought. Maybe the critics weren't wrong. Maybe Heather, along with the rest of his fans, hadn't been crazy after all and hadn't completely misunderstood the text he'd spent seven years writing.
“Why does everyone keep saying that?” He finally grumbled.
Or, In 1996, Mike releases a book inspired by the party and their adventures. A small but loud fandom forms around shipping The Paladin and The Sorcerer. But, that was all wrong. Mike had never been in love with Will, had he?
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- Part 1 of Mike's Very Byler Book
Bookmarked by actuallymothman
05 Feb 2026
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“Hungry,” is all Mike manages to get out. Will can hear each ragged breath scuttle up and down his chest. He squints at Mike, the boy refusing to break eye contact, staring intently at Will. The emptiness from this morning is back.
Will scoots up in bed and shimmies out of his blanket cocoon, placing his hands on the sides of Mike’s arms. “Are you feeling sick?” he questions gently. Something’s not right.
Mike shakes his head and once again, opens his mouth with a brief pause before speaking. “I’m so hungry, Will.”
Mike gets a little too into the occult. After a ritual-gone-wrong, Will has to piece together a decades-old mystery to save his best friend's life.
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Bookmarked by actuallymothman
01 Feb 2026
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I wrote this at like 3:00am based on a dream I had. So.
.Mike was touchy, it was just in his nature.
Maybe that's why, when Mike reached out, hands cupping his own, leaning in close, a murmur of “I miss you, Will. I miss us,” all Will did was squeeze back, the way he always had.
It started off the same as always, something unintentional that Will could brush off, accident touches that slowly grew into something friendly, platonic, normal. The occasional nudge of an elbow to his side, a long look and a hand reaching out to grip his shoulder. Simple. Friendly.
But now?
Now Mike couldn't seem to be able to keep his hands off of him.
It was driving Will crazy.
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Bookmarked by actuallymothman
31 Jan 2026
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“I can picture it now. The fearsome William Byers, riding on his own, wearing this beat-up hat for everyone to see. Like a real cowboy.”
After a few fruitless seconds of attempting to compose himself, Will tries keeping the same teasing energy in his reply. Mike won’t make him crack. “You mean an outlaw?”
“Got me there.” Mike tips his head to the side and smiles, wide and close-mouthed, as he peers up at Will.
Mike and Will flirt during a smoke break behind the saloon. Set in the Red Dead Redemption universe.
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- Part 2 of red dead byler
Bookmarked by actuallymothman
31 Jan 2026
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Mike and Will are keeping their relationship a secret, even though the Party knows that Will is gay. They want to know who Will's mysterious boyfriend is. Feeling left out at being lovey dovey with Mike as carefree as Lucas and Dustin get to be, Will plans for a romantic night out at a queer dive bar so he can finally - FINALLY - show off Mike Wheeler in all his glory. Is it wrong for Will to feel a bit prideful that his boyfriend is his and no one else's? He thinks not. What he didn't expect for is how clueless Mike can be.
Bookmarked by actuallymothman
23 Jan 2026