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is there something on your mind by tellthatbrokebitch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Apr 2023
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“-make any sense, Mike!” Max said, looking like she was on the verge of punching him again. “Even if any of the members were romantically involved, that wouldn’t be enough to make him decide to leave the band-”
“Okay, but what if it was a polycule situation, and he wanted out? It’s possible, and if you say it isn’t, that’s legally a lie and Byers can arrest you-”
“You seriously think Zayn left-”
“Are you two arguing about One Direction?!” Will interrupted, his inner turmoil temporarily forgotten in light of this disturbing revelation. “You’re actually middle schoolers.”
Max scowled. “Take it back, Byers.”
“I refuse. Also, lying to someone isn’t a criminal offense, Michael.”
“Are you sure? Because Stevie threatens to throw me in jail every time we see each other.”
Will sighed. “Pretty sure that’s just because you piss him off.”
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psych au! featuring police detectives steve and will, "psychic" duo mike and max, and the murder that finally brought them together
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18 Feb 2026
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so freaking fun!! can't a girl just enjoy a fun fic instead of her usual unhealthy dose of angst from time to time? I never get to see confident flirty mike so this was like a dream come true. and confident competent detective will yeah I'm gone. unfortunately I love Mike my annoying son and also madwheeler!!!! lucas and will best friends!!!! mike was giving a mix of spencer reid and Sherlock Holmes plus his own mike wheelerisms and i thought it was so peak.
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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31 Jan 2026
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god this fic was so good. the characterization was absolutely incredible, everything felt so realistic, the dialogue was fucking fantastic. will byers being confident and a little bit mean everyone cheered! Mike getting his shit together and being pathetically down bad everyone cheered even more!
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Mike would do anything for Will. Would he die for Will?
(Or; While exploring the Hawkins church, Will's mind falls under Henry's control. Mike does all he can to bring Will back.)
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28 Jan 2026
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so insanely good and well written and thought out and beautiful. chat. the religious imagery and symbolism. Mike refusing to hurt will back, refusing to fight back even when will is actively killing him. oh boy. if he has to die, he'd rather it be by will's hand than henry's because at least will would have a reason for it. oh brother.
No one was around to bless the two of them. He and Will were probably desecrating this holy place by bleeding out in it, nevermind the way their teeth knocked together as Mike swallowed the water in Will's mouth, but to Mike, kissing Will back to life was more than enough of a miracle. There was no priest to complete any sort of baptismal rites— not that Mike knew what those were— no minister to watch them thrash in the water and declare their souls saved, but all Mike needed to be saved was Will. They were destroying this pool with the way they clung to each other— the way Mike's hand clutched at Will's wet curls and the way Will's hand came to wrap around Mike's back, slowly yet surely— but since Mike might've just burnt down every church in the world for Will, he couldn't find it in himself to care.
yeah everyone except for this author can just about wrap it up. duffer brothers found dead in a ditch.
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give up on me if you want to, we both know you won't by chamb3rs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Aug 2022
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August 26th, 1985
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For the love of God, stop leaving your tuna sandwiches in our locker, it smells like someone died, seriously. I will throw away your lunch box if I see it in here before noon and I'm not kidding. Your mom can send me an invoice.
-Max
or; Mike and Max are assigned the same locker during their freshman year of high school. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Better, maybe.
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19 Jan 2026
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this is canon to me IDC THIS IS MY SEASON 4. Mike ACTUALLY being a good friend + platonic madwheeler, even little sneaks of him being a good boyfriend. Mike dealing with his emotions and acknowledging his trauma. max seeing just how loved she is. the ending had me fucked up. SHE SAVED ALL THE NOTES HE LEFT HER THROUGHOUT THE YEAR I'M SICK. UGHHHHHHH
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Blow All My Friendships to Sit in Hell With You by chamb3rs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2022
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“I swear, when I find him, I’m gonna kick his ass,” Mike says, stumbling backwards a bit.
A year ago Max would have assumed he’s probably been concussed, and that he only means it because Billy’s hurt El, but Max knows now that Mike wants to fight for her, too. No matter how many arguments they’ve had, over things as huge as a telekinetic girlfriend to the inconsequential nature of Star Wars vs Star Trek, Mike is still standing here, in her corner, at the end of the world.
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18 Jan 2026
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we were absolute ROBBED of madwheeler in s5. I seriously adore this fic and the way their dynamic is portrayed here.
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made by Thee) by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2024
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In an effort to close the Master Gate that’s tearing Hawkins apart, Eleven makes a deal with the Mind Flayer: the Hive will contain the threat of Henry's power as long as people stay out of the Upside Down. Interests mutual for once, they work together to seal the gates for good—but in His final act of infuriated defeat, Henry captures Mike as the barrier between worlds closes, never to reopen.
Will is the only one around when Mike is taken. He’s the only one who believes Mike is still alive, stuck in Henry’s clutches and in desperate need of a rescue.
When Eleven and the others refuse to break the world-saving truce without proof that it won’t be a wasted effort with disastrous consequences, Will is left trying to find answers (and Mike) on his own.
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17 Jan 2026
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holy fucking shit. not even exaggerating when I say this was LIFECHANGING. I say #letwillbyersbeangryandmean2026. I support every single awful and messed up thing he did for Mike idec. I was surprised at first at how long Mike was stuck in the upside down but I feel like that was definitely the right choice, it made everything so much more devastating but real!! in a strange way will and mike spending so much time together in the upside down was domestic and kind of cute? but hey i've seen stranger things. something about how Mike tried so hard to accept his awful situation and make the best of it, how he refused to lose his whimsy, seeking out the things he found joy in, never ever giving up. i'm clenching my fist THATS MY MIKE WHEELER. god and when it was revealed that will never actually got him out of the mindflayer's clutches, that Mike was trapped in those fucking vines all along and the past THREE YEARS were all in his mind...genuinely sat up in my bed at 12:30 am and LOCKED IN. SO FUCKING GOOD. nothing will top the high this fic gave me
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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- Part 1 of darker in the day than the dead of night
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17 Jan 2026
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SO GOOD. legitimately better than most of season 5 like this is canon to me. honestly everything that I wanted to see happen in s4 and s5 happened here and i'm over the moon. this fic genuinely has it all. road trip where Mike and will actually talk? that motel scene with Jonathan and mike??? will with powers/being the spy again???? MIKE GETTING VECNA'ED AND WILL BEING SO DISTRAUGHT THAT HE UNLOCKS HIS POWERS UGHHH!!! this fic unlobotomizes Mike and gives will the happy ending that he deserves i'm geeked!
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areas of expertise by dudski for disco_vendetta (brinn)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
01 Aug 2020
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@PuzzleStan is:
-A puzzle enthusiast named Stan (44%, 3553 votes)
-An anonymous stan of puzzles (44%, 3602 votes)
-A puzzle enthusiast named Stan who is leaning into the wordplay (12%, 969 votes)Bookmarked by rubyredketchup
10 Jan 2026
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social media aus will ALWAYS be a guilty pleasure of mine
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New Page, Same Old Book by Rend_Herring
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Oct 2019
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He thought he’d hidden these feelings from himself, stowed them away in some dark corner and learned not to think about it. But the second Eddie peeked in from around the corner at the Jade and looked at Richie with those big, limpid pools of Christmas Orphan meets Bambi, and started rambling about gluten and cashews, it all came flooding back into focus. Richie has loved Eddie so long that it’s become an ache that goes beyond reason.
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10 Jan 2026
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this is lowkenuinely one of the best things I have ever read. nothing will ever beat the experience of watching the It movies for the first time and then immediately going to ao3 and reading this in its entirety at one in the morning. this HEALED something in me. it's actually incredible how in character Richie and Eddie both were, like the author was possessed by them. i'm ngl the smut scene at the end was SO well written, so incredibly tender while also containing so much on brand humor, lowkey shed a tear.
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The demogorgon is lifeless, and Will’s never seemed so full of it. He unfurls his hands and lifts his head to meet Mike’s waiting eye, and—for a long while, he just stares, knuckles smearing blood across his upper lip, headlights painting him golden.
I love you, Mike thinks fleetingly, then pitches forward and pukes onto the street.
Mike has a concussion—and a few other issues. Set after the events of Chapter Four: Sorcerer.
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10 Jan 2026
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cool or whatever...I don't even care that much about them...
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It’s September 18, 2008. Castiel is being deployed to rescue Dean Winchester from Hell.
He lands in Dean Winchester’s motel room in 2003. Things go from there.
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12 Nov 2025
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season 4 castiel and pre-series dean wow this is insane your mind i can't. writing was GORGEOUS. the religious imagery...something i'd pray to i think. so freaking good. i think dean finding out about his dad and adam pre-series hurts worse because john's not dead. he's not even gone yet and dean still loses him to a half brother who is the favorite and gets to grow up safe and happy and john loves him the way he has never loved dean. WOW. john winchester this is strike ONE MILLION against you. castiel's devotion though. THANK YOU GOD
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Dean doesn’t just remember Hell; he remembers being raised from it, too.
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12 Nov 2025
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And Bobby knows, he knows, just from the look in the damned thing's eyes staring at Dean, that Dean has made a vital misunderstanding all this time he has insisted that the thing is good. Bobby knows it, even as he drops: Dean has mistaken love for goodness.
hold on now let me just. breathe. really really beautiful take on lazarus rising, i especially liked ruby's parts idk it's so fascinating in her head. and dean's blind devotion to castiel before he even knows the who/what/why of it all. yeah
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Sam manages to break Dean's deal and save him from Hell...at a cost. With no voice, he doesn't know if he can hunt anymore, but he gave his voice up for his brother and he'd do it again. No matter what that means for him.
Fortunately, he's not the only one willing to do whatever it takes to stay by his brother's side.
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12 Nov 2025
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when fic authors GET sam and dean's relationship in a way that the show can't keep a grip on. GOD. i can't express how much this fic means to me. it's something really special
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Sam doesn’t know what to expect when he walks into the courtroom. But of all the possibilities, he would never have imagined this one: his brother, grinning like the devil, in the defendant’s chair.
Or, the one where Sam never goes to Jericho with Dean, but instead pursues law school and a life with Jess. Dean falls in love with a gas station attendant named Castiel.
Six years after they last saw one another, Sam and Dean meet again in a courtroom. A lot can change in six years.
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12 Nov 2025
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there's something about pre-series fics i don't know. seeing what could have been. i'm clenching my fist
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“Did you know?” Dean asks out of the blue, a few miles later. He’s confrontational like a little kid. Like he’s seventeen again and demanding that the werewolves let Sammy go, like that one time. Serious, tense. Insecure. Just a little desperate. He doesn’t need to say what he’s asking about.
Or: Dean has two secrets. Sam stumbles into one of them.
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25 Oct 2025
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John Doe gets buried in an unmarked grave at a small cemetery in one of rural Illinois’ many villages. They don’t know that he died ordering one son to kill the other, that he died with a gun in his mouth and a foot to the stomach and his oldest child telling him that he loves him. And hates him. And hates him. And loves him.
And that the killer had had tear tracks cutting through the blood and grime on his cheeks, spider-webbing while he shoveled and cried, and that it had been the hottest October on record, ever. As if Hell was rising, cracking up through the asphalt, dream-like. And he couldn’t dig deep enough to put his father there.
clenching my fist. I love a good exploration of sam and dean's relationship with their father. gorgeously written
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[checks post history] uh… is this the m30s friend that everyone thought was your boyfriend?LiketheGun79
Yes but that's not relevantDean's on Reddit.
A Reddit-styled version of renrub's fic, r/supernatural.
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25 Oct 2025
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good. GREAT even. the concept of dean on reddit cynthia erivo scratching head gif
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"There, naked in the back of Julian’s truck, with his hands in Julian’s long hair (both a little dizzy and sick with the taste of each other underneath the stolen whisky and cigarettes) it was easy to forget about the class they were blowing off, about Julian’s grandma and her secret whisky, his mom and the gun under her bed. Easy to forget about John and his absent presence, Sam and his sun burn, the gun under Dean’s bed and the things he’d killed with it, Oregon, Wyoming, the smoke, the nuns and everything else that had led to them; and everything else that was coming."
it's 1996, it's the arizona desert and it's hot. The Winchesters are leaving town tomorrow, and everyone in this shitty motel knows about it. Dean shares cigarettes that aren't his, Sam shares some secrets that aren't his either. John doesn't share his whisky. Overall, they've probably all had better nights.
A Bush era title for a Clinton era fic.
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25 Oct 2025
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dean and dog motif i've just been punched in the throat. i kind of want to throw up. What does he want today? A son or a dog? john winchester, heh, when i fucking GET YOU
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Fleeing from the closing net of the FBI, Hannibal Lecter finds his chosen retreat borders the territory of a vicious new serial killer preying on Oxford University professors. As he nurses Will and himself back to health, Hannibal works to help Will come to terms with the new layer of intimacy in their relationship and to negotiate Will's compulsion to deliver justice without putting them at risk for discovery.
He can't recall the fall, or which of them broke the choppy waves first, but he can remember Will's hand on the back of his neck, hot as a brand in contrast with the icy water that swallows them. The ocean has a hungry, cold vastness that unsettles even Hannibal, washing them against the rocks like flotsam – and with as little regard for their autonomy.
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23 Aug 2025
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so freaking gorgeously written. I swear hannigram authors are a different breed. after having just finished season 3, I really needed this.
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Yeonjun watches the interaction from the side of the room, beleaguered by the warm and inviting atmosphere around him. Yeonjun is one of those people who feels embarrassed by the way their parents love them, as if care loses value when it’s too freely given. Yeonjun wants his life to be a fight; otherwise, it would be impossible for him to win. It’s just one of his quirks, if one of his more aggravating ones. No matter, because Beomgyu is an emotionally secure person who doesn’t mind losing every now and then for the sake of Yeonjun’s self-esteem.
Only now and then, though. Otherwise it would be too easy. That’s where Soobin’s mistake is, Beomgyu thinks. He just makes it all too easy.Or: In every way but name, Beomgyu is Yeonjun's boyfriend. He wishes he wasn't, sometimes.
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09 Aug 2025
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“I did,” Yeonjun concedes. “It was nice to hear you say it, though.” Yeonjun is silent for a moment, thinking. “I should’ve asked Soobin, maybe.”
Beomgyu wants to be annoyed, but he’d just been thinking the same thing.
Beomgyu tries not to think about Soobin more than he has to, mostly because Yeonjun can smell it on him like a drug-seeking dog, and then instead of living in Beomgyu’s head, Soobin starts living in the conversation. Yeonjun loves talking about Soobin and hates talking to him. The version of Soobin in Yeonjun’s head is just more interesting than the real thing.
“C’mon, Gyu. You know you’re the man of my dreams.”
Beomgyu turns towards Yeonjun and very carefully doesn’t actually see him when he smiles and says.
“I know, baby.”
Yeonjun’s victory for the day. Another item off Beomgyu’s list.
The problem isn’t that Beomgyu loves Yeonjun too much. If he was in love with Yeonjun, he could just get over it. The problem is that Beomgyu is Yeonjun, in a thousand different ways. To let go of Yeonjun now would be like ripping out his core. It would be accepting defeat. It would be to say that all the years and tears and sleepless nights were all for nothing, because Yeonjun threw him away in the end like he throws everyone away, like he threw Taehyun away, and Chan and Wooyoung about about ten other people who he probably doesn't even remember, and like how Soobin is currently watching himself be slowly lowered into the garbage disposal, the countertop rattling in his peripheral vision. Being Yeonjun’s boyfriend is less a title and more like a job that has shitty pay and no benefits. Beomgyu can be Yeonjun’s boyfriend because he’s stopped expecting it to be fun.
That too, is one of Soobin’s mistakes. He keeps waiting for the fun part. He’s just so earnest. He looks so happy in those pictures, a happiness it’s hard for Beomgyu to understand, much less to feel for himself. Soobin would’ve invited Beomgyu to go home with him for break. Soobin would’ve bought the tickets without Beomgyu having to remind him. Soobin probably isn’t embarrassed about his easy life, or his mother, or himself, and he’s probably kind and considerate and easy to be around, but Beomgyu will never know, because Soobin hates them both and is getting tired of convincing himself that he doesn’t, and soon he’ll get sick of Yeonjun’s shit and leave and it’ll be like none of them ever knew him, and he’ll get to have a good life somewhere else, with friends who actually give a shit about him, and aren’t cowards, and who actually deserve him in all his crinkly-faced, pouty-lipped, golden-haired glory.
When Beomgyu leans down to kiss Yeonjun, he thinks about how it would’ve felt to have the rims of Soobin’s glasses pressed against his face. He wonders if Yeonjun is thinking the same thing.
FML. oh this toxic yaoi. it's actually insane how badly yeonjun and beomgyu need to break up. like, expeditiously. this could honestly be about a throuple with how much yeonjun and beomgyu both think about soobin, even if soobin hates them.
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Yeonjun sometimes seems capable of ubiquity; he’s in at least five different places at once. He’s on the floor chatting up girls, he’s in the kitchen spiking punch, he’s in the backyard and running to the corner store and on the phone with his mom and on a plane to Morocco. Everywhere and anywhere, somehow being everything everyone wants him to be without breaking a sweat. The people’s frat president. King of the world. President of Theta Chi Theta.
Too important to go greet Soobin at the door of the party he made Soobin show up to.Or: Yeonjun is not dating Soobin. This is obvious to anyone with eyes. Soobin still forgets sometimes.
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09 Aug 2025
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Soobin would have to go to parties anyway, because his boyfriend is in a frat, and so Soobin has to go where he goes.
Scratch that. Yeonjun isn’t his boyfriend. He forgets that sometimes.
He wants to go home. He doesn’t know why he came in the first place.
Scratch that. He does know. He just wishes he didn’t.
He makes his way back to the landing, but there’s no empty spot on the couch. Beomgyu has filled his previous place, leaning into Yeonjun’s space, hands on his thighs. His eyes are fixed intently on Yeonjun’s face, pupils blown wide. Beomgyu always looks at Yeonjun like that, as if Yeonjun created the universe from a grain of sand right before his eyes. He has the right, though. He’s Yeonjun’s boyfriend, after all.
ugh this part will ALWAYS hit no matter how many times I reread this. FUCKKKKKKKKK
“He doesn’t mind,” Yeonjun says, at the same time Beomgyu says, “I don’t mind!”
But Soobin minds. It’s an ugly, crawling thing inside him, how much he minds.
soobin if you need someone to treat you right...i'm right here. can't you see me? someone free him from the evil toxic yaoi of beomjun IMMEDIATELY