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please don't ever become a stranger (whose laugh i could recognize anywhere) by realboys
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jan 2026
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Being alone does not always equate to being lonely.
Most days, Mike feels absolutely content to be where he is, in the town he grew up in and would most likely die in, just like his parents. It’s something he’s accepted now. Afterall, it had been nearly half a decade since he’d decided to remain.
During holidays, though, especially ones emphasizing family and warm dinners and togetherness, the aching feeling of loneliness runs through his bones like stone-weight.
Five years after deciding to remain in Hawkins, Mike reminisces on New Year's Eve.
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the skin of your childhood (the wound eating you whole) by realboys for juin_3049
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Iliad - Homer
22 Oct 2024
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Hands grab him before he can fall, bruising. A faraway thought comes that the hands on him would hurt, if not for the arrow piercing him through.
Through the pain, he still knows that grip by touch, Ithacan and reminiscent of home even after nine years — Odysseus, Odysseus.
In a moment of sickness during the Trojan War, Eurylochus grapples with youth, a home he cannot return to, and Odysseus. Or, an open casket of a letter to wanting to be wanted.
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feel the world around you, feel it all around you by realboys
Fandoms: Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Anime)
01 Jun 2024
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Rin buys the orange two-sticked popsicle (before Yoichi can beat him to it) and insists on splitting it with him.
He laughs it off and shakes his head at first. “It’s fine, I’ll just get my own—”
Rin just shoves it in his hand, anyway. “It tastes better shared,” is his explanation.
itoshi sae receives a phone call on july 16th, yoichi and rin go to the beach, and two best friends kiss. maybe not in that order.
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“Ness,” Micha exhales, soft and barely-there. Alexis wishes it was something more corporeal, more real, but even this is more than enough. He feels so warm he could burn alive from the inside.
“Micha,” he replies, or at least he thinks he does, because his words are stolen just as his breath is when Micha kisses him lightly.
A sleepy, quiet evening Alexis and his Micha share in Kaiser’s bedroom. Everything is warm and nothing is wrong.
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everything eats and is eaten (time is fed) by realboys
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
27 May 2024
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“After my fight with Sukuna,” Satoru tells her, white hair stained with blood and mud from whatever horrors he was trapped with in the Prison Realm, “I don’t really care what happens with my body.”
“Body,” Shoko echoes, pulling the cigarette away from her mouth and wetting her lips with her tongue. “What, not planning to get out alive?”
being a jujutsu sorcerer feels like being eaten alive, sometimes. ieiri shoko, who's lost two best friends to the same thing, can testify.
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it must be something in the water (my resentments growing smaller) by realboys
Fandom Blue Lock (Anime), Blue Lock (Manga)
13 May 2024
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a series of unconnected fics about orv side characters
mosly kim namwoon because he's eepy
if sing-shong doesn't write him a silly side story soon i will implode
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Dear Mike,
To Mike,
Hi again,
It’s me,
Oh God, Will thought desperately. What was he doing? He glanced at the stack of letters piled high next to his right elbow. Each addressed and labeled to the person they were meant to go to. He’d put off Mike’s for last, rightfully assuming that he’d have the most to say to him. And Will did. There was so much he wanted to tell him. Things he’d always ached to confess. Last summer he’d almost overflowed with words. Now he just felt empty. Resigned.
What did he think was going to happen? He’d stamp a heart in the corner of the envelope and say; “surprise, I’m in love with you.” Even if by some chance Mike still wanted to be friends, Will would be long gone.
He set his pen to the paper again.
Mike,
I know this might be confusing…
__________________________
In which Will deals with the aftermath of his friends and family reading his letters.
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- Part 2 of the heroes among us
Bookmarked by realboys
04 Mar 2026
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When Will Byers was seven years old his father had told him that he would burn in Hell for being gay.
When he had been taken to the Upside-Down, Will couldn’t get it out of his mind that that was exactly what had come to pass.
Or, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in the life of Will Byers
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03 Mar 2026
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Mike liked Will’s art shows, albeit slightly less the higher class they had gotten. Little paintings in the corner of a cafe morphed into white walls and rich spectators poised with champagne and well-mannered criticism. Still, he had been looking forward to it. He wanted to go. But now, walking up to the glass doors, he had to admit he felt jittery.
or, Will's new paintings are a little too personal
Bookmarked by realboys
03 Mar 2026
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“Are you comparing my relationship with Jonathan to the Fall of the Roman Empire?” Steve asked Robin. “Because even I think that’s a little dramatic.”
Robin snorted.
“No,” she shrugged. "The history between you two is so much less important than the disintegration of European superpowers. But," she added, "it's hard to forget pain. You want to know what’s even harder to remember?”
“What?” he dared to ask.
“Sweetness. We have no scars to remember happiness by. But acts of violence? Of destruction? Of personal moral failings? Those are the things that matter. Those are the things that people carry with them.” Then, she reached over and lifted up his hand, flipping it over to observe his knuckles: there was a long, red line that wrapped up and around his wrist and her thumb brushed alongside the skin where it was silvery and smooth. Steve knew exactly where the mark had come from, and so did Robin. “So how many scars did you leave Jonathan with?” she then asked.
Again, Steve paused.
“I don’t know,” he finally answered honestly as Robin’s hand dropped. But if he had to think about it, there must have been a few.
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03 Mar 2026
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If he really has to think about it, like really thinks, he knows his anger is because of the quietness. The emptiness. Of the too big house with the too big pool and the too big television set that he slips in front of each and every evening, always and endlessly alone. He doesn’t tell people this.
Steve Harrington is, and has been for a long time, drowning.
Bookmarked by realboys
01 Mar 2026