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Proverbial Straw by Drhair76
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), The Gray Man (2022), The Fall Guy (2024)
15 Jun 2026
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The door opens.
Claire chokes. Ryland is standing there in blue PJ pants and an oversized PBS t-shirt. He's rubbing his eyes, which are missing his glasses, which makes it even more obvious how similar they look. When his hand falls away, Six watches him process what is standing at his door. His eyes go from Six, down to Claire, then back up to Six.
He laughs, high and stressed, then closes the door in their face.
OR, Six needs help taking care of Claire after they break free from their respective jails. He decides that his younger brother Ryland Grace is the solution.
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- Part 1 of last to make it home
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16 Jun 2026
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THE coltlandgentry bible to me. possibly THE best coltlandgentry au I have ever read. so many incredible relationships in this fic, ryland and Claire, ryland and Colt, ryland and court, claire and Colt, Claire and court, Colt and court, Colt and Jody, ryland and Talia, i'm just listing every single one but I love each one so fucking much. coltlandgentry + Claire this family means the fucking world to me I will never forget them. such a wonderful and beautifully written fic, genuinely perfect in every way.
Colt's heart tumbles in the face of Ryland's grace.
FAV FAV FAV LINE I LOVE IT SO MUCH
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
Or, how Fitzroy recruits Courtland Gentry, and how he tells him about his retirement.
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13 Jun 2026
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foaming at the mouth I love a gray man fic that explores six and fitz's relationship. and the way you can feel the contrast between court and six. the differences and the few similarities that remain. courtland gentry your backstory is so tragic and I love how you come out of it with an air of playfulness I love how we can still feel your youth radiating from you and I love/mourn how it is trained out of you until you are a closed off quiet disciplined hardened killer.
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How to Become an Astronaut (throw a rope around morning) by DisappointmentPeak
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
23 May 2026
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Outliving your expiration date is a funny feeling. Expiration date, you mouth to yourself, and picture a plastic-wrapped foam tray of ground beef turning into pink-gray mush.
(Or: Grace and the long journey to Erid.)
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13 Jun 2026
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so gorgeous. second person pov was such a great choice and I love how for just a moment it becomes a message from the hail mary. I love fics like these.
Reasons why you would be a good astronaut:
1. He needs you.
just keening in the back of my throat. grace rocky soulmatism saving the world
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hold him down by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Fall Guy (2024), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
06 Jun 2026
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"You can keep taking hits all night," Ryder crosses his arms. "But you know what? I can think of a few people who can't."
He gestures behind him vaguely, one of the hired muscle nodding. Something in Colt's stomach twists.
"That brother of yours is in town, isn't he?"
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or: an alternative take on the torture scene from fall guy, coltland twins edition. what if ryder held up his threat?
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- Part 2 of fall from grace (coltland twins fics)
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13 Jun 2026
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SOOOOOOO PEAK OMG proud whump enjoyer over here
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and every day from back then is like a bad old dream (and I can’t fall asleep) by CosmicCat_AceFangirl
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
07 Jun 2026
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On the way to Erid, the consequences of nearly dying at least a dozen times on a non-consensual space mission come back to haunt Grace. Luckily, he has a 400 pound (200 degree) living weighted blanket to make sure he gets his rest. Even if he doesn’t want to.
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13 Jun 2026
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BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS INCREDIBLE WONDERFUL I LOVE IT SO MUCH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH UGHHHHHH MAKES ME HAPPY
“Rocky…” He murmured.
“What the ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ do you want, question?”
HAHHAHAHHAHA I really need some lighthearted fics that make me laugh this is perfect
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notes on a classroom door by Ailren
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), The Fall Guy (2024)
12 May 2026
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"...Mr. Grace?"
Colt froze.
He had turned instinctively at the voice - and for a single moment he saw three or four kids crowding the doorframe of the classroom, and one of them, a girl in a bright yellow jacket, had her hand over her mouth in shock.
"Mr. Grace!"
Or - Colt Seavers visits Grover Cleveland Middle School.
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- Part 10 of PHM fics
- Part 6 of work skin fics
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Bookmarked by rubyredketchup
27 May 2026
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After a moment, he turned to the kids and they picked up tubs of their own, and then, one by one, Ryland's brother and Mr. Grace's kids carried what remained of him out of Room 12 at Grover Cleveland Middle School.
we are defined by the relationships we hold...oh my god. genuinely teared up reading this it's so beautiful
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don't walk alone, just follow me by stardustandswimmingpools
Fandoms: The Gray Man (2022)
20 May 2026
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Things they talk about: emergency exits, grocery shopping, conversational French. How weird Six’s face looks without a beard (Claire’s words). Fastest routes to the nearest hospital.
Things they don’t talk about: Fitzroy.
Six isn’t sure for whose sake that is.
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23 May 2026
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He doesn’t want to make her into a weapon. Fitz didn’t want that for her. But Six can’t think about what Fitz wanted, because he knows this wasn’t it. As much as Fitzroy and Claire were like family to him, they were never his actual family. Six is a machine built to kill. Good at it by design. Fitz wanted something like normalcy for Claire, and Six is an assassin with a number for a name.
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS.
So he sleeps on the couch with a loaded gun under the throw pillow, and he makes her waffles for breakfast with extra chocolate chips.
great juxtaposition here. the difference between his life and hers is so stark, and yet they're also blending together, his life bleeding into hers, and hers into his. wow freaking love it.
Six looks in the mirror and sees blood. Always. Even when there isn’t any. Especially then.
when I read this I had to put my phone down and look at my invisible camera like in the office. how freaking dare you UGHHHHH THIS IS SUCH A GREAT LINE. I love it especially because it's placed so innocuously in the middle of a fun, playful convo, and it's so representative of six as a person. he's got so much blood on his hands that he sees it even when things are good, always dogging his steps. he can't escape it. and then the way he doesn't even linger on the thought, but the conversation flows right along and he flows with it, because he's learned to take the hits and keep going. AHHHHHHHH
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They learn of what happened in the same way: secondhand, delayed - the event already in the past by the time it reached them.
Or - Grace and Colt both learn of what happened to the other through news broadcasts, too far away to do anything about it.
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- Part 9 of PHM fics
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Bookmarked by rubyredketchup
04 May 2026
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oh God. the choking feeling of helplessness, knowing something bad is happening to your other half and being unable to do anything about it. being too far away that the news reaches you only after the event has already happened, like light from the distant stars. the futility of all your actions. thinking you both had more time to patch up your relationship. thinking you both had a future with each other at all. he had to be the hero. he had to save you. he will save you. he won't come back.
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you're holding me like water in your hands by violescence (starkive)
Fandoms: TOMORROW X TOGETHER | TXT (Korea Band)
25 Sep 2025
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Put simply, it might be something like this: there was never a version of Yeonjun he did not want to devour him whole.
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The only way out is through.
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22 Apr 2026
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oh fuck I seriously never read fics with age gaps and power imbalances but wow. written INCREDIBLY well. gonna need to gather my thoughts and definitely gonna need to reread. so good is all I can say for now
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“Beomgyu looks up, his eyes hollow and dead, his voice empty. ‘Why are you here?’
‘To break you out of Azkaban,’ Taehyun says, breathless, fumbling with the lock.
And Beomgyu looks at him a while, taking in the desperation in his eyes, the gauntness of his face, the way his bottom lip has worn raw from worrying. Slowly, he reaches out and cups Taehyun’s cheek with trembling fingers, hesitant, as if caressing a precious artifact, something from a past life.
‘Please get out,’ he breathes.”
In the year 2027, the Third Wizarding War begins.
Taehyun and Beomgyu find themselves on opposite sides.
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21 Apr 2026
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let's go doomed yaoi!! I love a good 'finding ourselves on opposite sides of the war' au and oh fuck I have so many thoughts about this. beomgyu joining his father out of a sense of obligation(?) and erasing all mention of taehyun in his past to protect him. taehyun's only goal since 3rd year to become an auror and throwing it all away, breaking all the oaths he swore without hesitation for beomgyu. something something my love for you is the only oath that matters, maybe. beomgyu still trying to protect taehyun while in azkaban. taehyun breaking them both out of azkaban. the repetition of falling/flying. ah fuck. genuinely obsessed.
i'm totally just gonna ignore the mcd and headcanon that they survived the fall, got away, and are living happily together to protect my peace of mind
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how to save the world (and lose yourselves instead) by marchviolets
Fandoms: TOMORROW X TOGETHER | TXT (Korea Band)
12 Apr 2026
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in 2028, NASA sent its best interns on a last-ditch mission to save a dying world, but one wrong turn into a wormhole turned a quick trip into a ten-year blackout. now the starseeker is drifting through the dark with a glitchy radio, some dead plants, and a crew that’s starting to realize the "home" they’re chasing might have stopped waiting for them a long time ago.
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soobin realizes that being the commander of the end of the universe was definitely not in his internship description.
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21 Apr 2026
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so so gorgeous and awful and beautiful in its tragedy. to grow up in a world that is slowly dying, dedicating yourself to the cause that will save earth, witnessing the slow death of your home, and being so abruptly thrust into the role of savior, just you and four others with the weight of the whole world on your shoulders, the fate of the planet depending on you. and to be the youngest people ever to make it successfully into orbit, thinking you've done it, you're going to do it, just for one chance encounter with a black hole to doom both you and earth in five hours and ten years. thinking you'd be able to see your parents again, or your sisters, or that you'd have enough time to tell him that you love him, waiting for after the day you've saved the world, which will never come. the sheer unfairness of it. oh fuck. to blink and find everyone you've ever loved dead. to blink and see your life reduced to days. to blink and finally die in space, floating in the uncaring universe forever.
I can't get over this. all of the time plot points in interstellar stressed me the fuck out and I'm feeling the same way here. I genuinely just can't fathom it.
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The truth is that Yeonjun is not a bad guy. He’s oblivious and indifferent and lacks introspection, but those traits alone don’t make someone a villain. What makes Yeonjun impossible is that he clings. He absorbs people, mind and body, and makes them part of himself. He’s like a black hole trapping everyone in an unstable orbit. It’s easy to be an acquaintance of Yeonjun, maybe even a casual friend. He’s charming and funny and makes people feel included. Then, without even noticing, you pass an event horizon. And you begin to spaghettify. Chan hadn’t understood, had tried to warn Soobin away, but Soobin isn’t like the others. He knew exactly what he was signing up for. And besides, there isn’t much inside of Soobin to begin with. Yeonjun has already taken all that Soobin has to give.
Or: Soobin is not in the habit of saving himself. He always has to see it through.
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- Part 3 of casual
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19 Apr 2026
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The atmosphere in Soobin’s room darkens. He wishes Yeonjun could leave him out of whatever the hell is going on between him and Beomgyu. It’s enough that Yeonjun wants Soobin to chase him. Turning it into a race is a step too far.
URGHHHHHHHH
Soobin can hear the smile in his voice, the roundness of it. It’s never as wide as the one he gives Beomgyu, or as teasing as the one he gives Chan, but it’s a real one all the same. Yeonjun does like Soobin, at least theoretically. He’s not the type of person who could pretend.
And he is jealous. He thinks he isn’t, but he is. If he wasn’t, he would’ve called Soobin in the morning or commented on the post instead of asking Soobin to explain. Not that Yeonjun knows that. He struggles to identify his own desires. Yeonjun operates on instinct, like an animal haggard from starvation, hoarding human connection as if it would disappear at any moment. You’d think he’d grown up loveless, the way he’s desperate for attention. At times like this his nonchalance is a thin veneer. Maybe that’s why Soobin sticks around, label-less as he is. Their devotion is reciprocal. Yeonjun would implode if he left.
soobin if you can hear me run. soobin I need you to run. the worst part to me is how self aware soobin is. he knows exactly what he's gotten himself into and he knows exactly what his role is. he can't blame yeonjun or even beomgyu when he's the one holding the knife. the self-destructive behavior is crazy but addictive to read. soobin I need you to take beomgyu and escape from yeonjun's clutches PLEASE
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golden yet for some boy i’ll never meet by reconvenings
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
09 Jan 2021
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Eddie Kaspbrak grows up in the home of the brave.
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- Part 1 of color theory
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26 Mar 2026
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this is so meaningful to me. written so incredibly and poetically. a reimagining of it with eddie as a south Korean adoptee is fucking brilliant. my god this hit something deep inside me that I didn't know existed. the casual racism from Richie, the internalized racism that Eddie experiences, the racial triangulation of Eddie and Mike I kind of want to scream. this author seriously has such a masterful way of wielding words.
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“Tooooozier-Kaspbrak residence,” Richie says cheerfully, holding the phone up to his ear. “May I ask who—oh hello, Mrs. K! How the fuck are you?”
Richie and Eddie living together in LA, being in love and dealing with Mrs. K long-distance.
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- Part 7 of The Greater Fool Series
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25 Mar 2026
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domestic fic my absolute LOVE. obsessed with the idea of Richie and Eddie secretly dating since hs, for like SIX YEARS, living together in LA, Eddie going to UCLA, standing up to his mom, Richie absolutely demolishing her, and yk what just obsessed with this fic in general. so incredibly satisfying and incredible.
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“It got Richie,” Eddie blurts out. He doesn’t know what else to say, doesn’t know if there even is anything else to say. He knows Bill and Richie argued after the Neibolt house, about hunting monsters and wasting the summer chasing after death (literally and metaphorically). But he also knows that once a Loser, always a Loser, and a Loser never lets another Loser down.
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Yet another "Richie gets taken instead of Bev" fic.
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the year of the goat and your kid back by derryfacts2 (winchysteria)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
22 Mar 2021
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The day you get the most important email of your life, there’s a new black skidmark on the wall of the stairwell, and you know exactly whose fault it is.
“Margaret,” you intone to the harried, wild-haired woman in the lobby.
She sighs at you as she tries to jimmy her mail key loose. “I know.”
It wouldn’t even be that bad if the kid would just skateboard outside. Or get good at skateboarding. Either of those things. Maggie’s a nice lady, though, and she’s had “trying my best” scribbled all over her since they moved into 6B maybe eight years ago. So you try not to be a dick, even if her son is a gold-standard pain in the ass. He’s good for three things: smells, noise, and reminding you how big Eddie must be by now.- Language:
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17 Mar 2026
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this honestly might be one of the THE best things I've read in a long time. I don't usually go for second person pov nor do I always go for a pov from an outside character but holy God holy peak this fic is incredible. the frank kaspbrak of this fic is everything to me. love how the author explored frank's relationship to Sonia and to Eddie, and ofc husband Hank and Richie!!! every title that frank calls him in his head is accurate like yeah that is the disaster, the demon, the horrible child and I love him. I think one of the most interesting aspects here is frank being gay and having a husband of ten years and yet still containing a little internalized homophobia when it comes to Eddie also being gay because of fucking Sonia
Then you sit in the dark half-world of the living room and wait for the minotaur to come at you.
Okay, so it was pretty bad: someone certainly had their hands down someone’s pants. But you almost wish it was worse. Over-the-top embarrassing, comically nude or involving broken furniture or tangled braces, a big colorful distracting rug to sweep everything under. You wish that everything about this, the stark acidic fear, is because your bald-and-wrinkled infant is now grown-up enough to swap fluids with other people and you accidentally saw it.
Only it isn’t.
Why the hell did you come here? she'd said. Why the hell did you think anyone would want you here? Haven’t you done enough? Go away, Frank, you’re drunk, and you shouldn’t be around him. It’s not right. I will do it all myself. The best you can do is disappear. Get that disease and die for all I care. If you stick around he’s going to turn out just like you.
i'm genuinely gonna jump her ass
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i think the clock is slow by derryfacts2 (winchysteria)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
28 Feb 2020
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So there was that reason that work wasn’t boring, too. There was Richie’s soppy campaign of making cow eyes at the back of Eddie’s head as he passed, gently pressing Betty for details about his personal life (“I don’t think he has one. He had this awful fiancé a few years ago, but we’re all glad that’s over”), and chasing the incomparable high of a quiet, muttered “Thanks, Rich” whenever Richie picks something up for him from the copier.
Richie is a wannabe stand-up comic daylighting as the receptionist at Eddie's office. Eddie is a tightly-wound corporate asshole. They are both disasters. Or: five times Richie watched Eddie and one that Eddie watched him back.
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17 Mar 2026
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they're fucking dumb and I love them so much. I can enjoy a hot funny receptionist x tightly wound risk analyst trope once in a while ok and anyway this one is ethical because they only start to date after the receptionist has quit. I love the author's writing style so funny, so admirable, so talented. deep in the reddie pills rn
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“So. To summarize. I’m stranded on Mars, entirely alone. I have absolutely no way to communicate with my crew or with earth, since our communications antennae turned me into a human shish-kabob. If the oxygenator becomes compromised, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer stops working, I’ll dehydrate. Breach in the Hab means I’ll go poof. And if, for some god-forsaken reason none of those things kill me first, I’m gonna run out of food and starve to death. Oh, and we can’t forget that everyone I know thinks I’m dead. So… yup. Totally fucked.”
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On Sol 6, an unexpected windstorm cuts the Ares III Mission short and six astronauts retreat back to Earth.
On Sol 7, the astronaut they left behind wakes up gasping for air.
(Or, The Martian au)
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17 Mar 2026
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I already fucking love the martian and then you give me Richie tozier as mark watney and i've just combusted. god. fucking God this fic was so incredibly good. yeah I binged it in a day so what. there's so much good stuff here. it's like you take an already powerful and inspiring story of survival and then you add the most universe killing romance i've ever read i'm genuinely eating my fist. the love that Richie and Eddie share here is one of a kind. the whole crew being codependent and loving each other so much is fucking beautiful. i'm gonna be thinking about this one for a while
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I Didn't Know There Were Wizards in California by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
10 Jul 2022
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Will ignores a timid reply from his classmate, his focus fully on this strange interloper that could be his best friend’s twin.
Evil twin, as Dustin would say, his voice low and incriminating. Ultraman type shit. Will considers relaying the situation on their upcoming weekly call to make the current situation less unsettling.
The guy is cautiously smiling back now – a reflection of Will’s unconscious expression at the thought of Dustin’s clarification – and it doesn’t falter, even once Will loses his amusement. Instead, the grin widens, almost too big for his face and definitely too big for Mike’s usual range of expression. His eyebrows rise above the rim of his lenses.
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- Part 1 of Belonging to Your Dreams
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17 Mar 2026
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peak peak peak peak. I think I can't quite get into romantic ryers because I love byler and reddie too much but PLATONIC ryers oh yeah baby that's where it's at. crossovers can be so fucking fun sometimes.
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r/DnD
u/MWpaladin commented on “Can’t tell the difference between sorcerers and…” posted by u/LionsandTigers7 on r/DnDu/MWpaladin: Are you an actual idiot? Sorcerers and wizards are hardly even comparable. It’s not ‘the same thing’ in the slightest. A sorcerer’s magic doesn’t even come from a book of spells, their powers are INNATE. Maybe go back to third fucking grade before you ever try and DM a campaign of your own. Jesus Christ. Another important differentiation to note is… [expand]
Or: a long, very long, retrospective of Mike’s reddit history.
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05 Mar 2026
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genuinely so peak. the mental image of Mike on Reddit while in the upside down...wow it's profound. seeing all the cleradin shippers celebrate them being canon like yeah great I love that for them should've been us though...should've been us...
on a more serious note, this fic is incredible. absolutely diabolically funny, so many peak (niche?) references and inside jokes, gets Mike down to the molecular level, and is just so fun. such a great time.