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Will hums knowingly through the phone, still without a hint of defeat. “Writer’s block is a bitch, isn’t it?”
“Sure is.” Mike isn’t sure his problem could be called ‘writer’s block’ anymore. More like ‘writer’s incapability’, or perhaps ‘just-some-guy-who-can’t-think-of-anything-itis’. The only half-workable ideas he’s been having are for campaigns, and those are useless to him because he has no party in Chicago. His party is scattered across the country, from California to South Carolina to New York.
“Hey, I’ve got an idea,” Will says abruptly. Mike frowns again.
“I don’t need you to-”
“Come to New York.”
In the early months of 1998, Mike is muddling his way through a shitty day job in Chicago while trying to keep his head above water. His single buoy is weekly calls to Will in New York, where his best friend is living the life of his dreams - professional residencies at fancy museums, graphic novel deals, a million friends, and a seemingly endless line of men vying for his attention. Then Will invites Mike to spend two weeks with him in the city, hoping to break a "funk" that Mike is sure is permanent. But how is he supposed to say no?
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Holy shit, Will thinks. Holy shit, that’s Mike Wheeler.
Dead center stage, his long fingers plucking expertly at a deep blue electric guitar, is a living ghost of Will’s desperately buried past. The central figure of his best childhood memories and worst adolescent shames, the boy he thought he’d left behind for good, the first and only person he’d ever really been in love with. Mike.
Chicago, 1993. Will is working as an illustrator, back in the Midwest for the first time since he left at 14. Mike is the frontman of an up-and-coming alt rock band he started with his college friends. Through sheer luck, their paths cross, and everything they ever left unsaid comes bubbling back to the surface.
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Mike and Will have been circling each other for a while now in the confines of the Wheeler house, converging on an inevitable center point that neither is quite sure of. And that's just one of the things stressing Will out, besides physics homework and the apocalypse. His brother offers him a joint to relax. Mike wants to split it. Despite Will's better judgement, he agrees.
The circle gets a little smaller.
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When Will transfers to UC Berkeley after two years at Lenora Community College, the last person he expects to meet is Mike Wheeler - the estranged childhood best friend/first love that he hasn't spoken to in seven years. When Mike agrees to meet the mysterious twins that Max and Lucas know from their hometown, the last person he expects to see is Will Byers - the estranged childhood best friend he had realized his feelings for far, far too late.
Maybe this is their chance to get it right.
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ribs by ladyofsnails
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jun 2025
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“Who in the hell did you get in a fight with, Deku?” Katsuki demanded again. Izuku groaned loudly, ripping up a handful of grass and sprinkling it all over his face. The expanse of stars flickered in and out of view, reminding Katsuki of much simpler clear nights – clear nights when he still had this idiot beside him, but lucid and covered in bruises from bike crashes and tripping over roots, not fistfights with strangers.
“Does it even matter who?” Izuku finally muttered. “It was just someone.”
Katsuki looked over at his best friend, curled up on the ground with bits of blood coating his lips and blades of grass sprinkled all over his messed-up face. “I guess it doesn’t matter,” he admitted, “but I’d prefer you fucking invite me next time.”
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- Part 28 of snail has bkdk brainrot
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gay people are real and they live in hawkins by ladyofsnails
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jan 2026
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stranger things fics! mostly byler, all blorbo. <3
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snail has bkdk brainrot by ladyofsnails
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jun 2025
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all my bkdk fics, both oneshots and multi-chapter stories!
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Zuko is am extremely famous singer songwriter, and Sokka is an engineering student and his best friend that he is not in love with, thank you very much. No matter what those people on the internet say.
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Modern AU, no bending, still ATLA universe though. Some of the works in this series are just set in the universe, not Zukka focused. The summaries will say if you need to have read the original fic "old burn new flame" in order to understand.- Words:
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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13 Dec 2025
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In a desperate, last-ditch flail of an effort to salvage the situation, Mike grabbed Will’s arm.
The silence veered from heavy to charged. All of Mike’s attention surged into his hand. He felt like the entirety of his consciousness was suddenly located in the place where his skin touched Will’s.
What the fuck, thought Mike for the second time in ten minutes.
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After first using his powers, Will falls unconscious—and stays that way. Refusing to leave Will's side, Mike reflects on the last year and a half while he waits for Will to wake up.aka mikewhatthefuckdidyoudogate, FEATURING: wound cleaning, bed sharing, disco, Jealous!Mike, queer literary analysis, & the most horrifying eldritch specter of all (gay panic). Canon compliant through S5 Vol 1.
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02 Dec 2025
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There is nothing, neither God, the fear of his father nor the guilt that follows those longing thoughts, that can stop the incessant attraction Mac feels every time Dennis touches him.
or: a collection of writings exploring the relationship between Mac and Dennis throughout their high school years.
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14 Sep 2025
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On March 27th, 1989, FBI Agent Dale Cooper makes it out of the Black Lodge and returns to DC. A week later, a Cooper's Hawk starts following Harry Truman around.
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The first year in Twin Peaks following the events of S2.
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- Part 1 of whispering pines
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Harry is all sorts of twisted up about Cooper's impending departure from Twin Peaks, and just about Cooper, in general. But all he can do now is buy the guy a drink and send him on his way. That's the plan, at least.
Bookmarked by ladyofsnails
30 Jun 2025