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weddings are a mutual copout. just nut up and die alone by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2024
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"Will isn’t even upset about—” Mike gestures vaguely to the space between them, rolling his eyes when Jonathan winces. “Yeah, yeah, everything’s weird forever, I get it. But it’s not like he’s just sitting around pining.”
“Of course not,” Jonathan says in the tight voice that means he’s lying, even though Mike knows for a fact that Will is doing just fine in college, better than he ever has, because wounded soul with hidden depths appeals in a way erratic mess who blacks out at every party really doesn’t. He’s prepared to argue the point, and Jonathan must be able to tell because he presses on, “Forget it. My mom doesn’t hate you, and you’re coming to the wedding."
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- Part 5 of mikejonathan
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you're like aging ballerina, child chess prodigy, old magician crazy by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Feb 2024
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Mike wakes up when the front door clicks shut behind Jonathan. His shift starts at nine and ends at two—not enough hours to live on, especially now, when there’s no one to split the bills with. He has another job, but it happens during the week when Mike is haunting his own apartment, so he doesn’t know more than the vague outline of it: a position at a local newspaper, trips to photograph small ethnic festivals and the early rounds of children’s baseball tournaments.
He thinks about getting up to meet Jonathan in the kitchen; he has a minute, maybe a minute and a half, in which he might avoid another gentle conversation about how he’s doing, about trauma and depression and other words Jonathan picked up to help people he likes better than him.
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- Part 4 of mikejonathan
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we just need to find something that keeps us together, like a dark secret or a timeshare by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Dec 2023
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Steve tips his chair back on two legs. The wood creaks beneath him, but he doesn’t seem to notice. “Wow,” he says. “You are fucked, dude. Nancy is going to kill you.”
“Yeah, thanks,” Jonathan says, remembering belatedly that he and Steve aren’t actually friends, just two guys with a few important people and a handful of traumas in common. “That’s really helpful.”
“Man, there’s no helping you,” Steve says, way too loudly and with obvious relish. “Nancy’s going to tear your balls off with her bare hands. Didn’t you two just break up?”
“It’s been months,” Jonathan says, voice lowered in an attempt to model discretion.
Steve doesn’t take the hint. “Yeah, that’s not nearly long enough to wait before shacking up with her little brother. They say you should give that kind of thing at least a year.”
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- Part 2 of mikejonathan
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when i came out, was it flashy? was it emotional? am i mad that anderson cooper doesn't fly the flag? or for what he's doing in his own way—is it even braver? by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Nov 2023
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Mike's parents announced their divorce two weeks after he graduated from college, which felt like they’d been waiting to get all the kids out of the house but forgotten about Holly. He was married by Christmas of that year and had the gall to claim it wasn’t related.
He was a horror in the lead-up to the wedding, micromanaging everything down to the cab company they took from the airport. He developed a nail-biting habit so bad it disrupted his drunken late-night calls to Will about flower arrangements. It was a mistake in a big, obvious way, but as the person who had continued periodically jerking him off several months into the relationship that was now becoming a marriage, Will didn’t feel like the right vessel for this truth.
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there's only seven types of stories: man vs. man, man vs. dog, dog vs. zombie, james bond, stories of kings and lords, women over fifty finding themselves after divorce, and car commercial by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Oct 2023
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It was a mistake, obviously, to take Mike to Thanksgiving dinner. It just felt wrong not to, when he’s had a standing invitation since kindergarten, and his family situation is more fraught than Jonathan’s, between coming out to his parents and the slow-moving fight he’s in with Nancy, which he insists is only tangentially related to his relationship with Jonathan. Jonathan talked to Will and El and his mother at length before extending the invitation, and everyone said it would be fine, and it inevitably, predictably was not.
“I’m not going to argue with every person who thinks this is weird. It is weird. We knew that going in.”
Mike throws up his hands with enough drama to briefly obstruct Jonathan’s field of vision. “Fine, yes, I know. I dated El and you dated Nancy and Will wanted to date me. You saw me cry when I lost my first tooth and I had a tiny crush on you when I was nine. It’s weird. Okay, sure, stipulated. I don’t see why that means I have to spend the rest of my life fending off your mom with her crazy bug eyes—“
“Hey, watch it.”
“Oh, so now you’ll stand up for something?”
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- Part 3 of mikejonathan
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just a collection of loosely-connected ficlets about sam and adam arguably bonding post-canon. the title is from Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill. The full quote is:
"What is the worst thing that ever happened to him?" her sister asks her. And the answer is nothing ever has.
"That's the problem," she says. "He's just a nice boy from Ohio. He has no idea how to fix something like this."
There is a pause and the wife thinks they are both wondering what it would be like to grow up like that. Their mother died when they were young. Their father was elsewhere. What would it be like to make it so late into life before trouble hit? To always have someone on the front porch, calling you to dinner? The husband doesn't have even a touch of this raised-by-wolvesness."
which feels appropriate because it is generally speaking sam's perspective on adam but also because in this series adam is basically always acting like he was raised in a barn. wolves: notoriously barn animals. whatever, i'm from a city.
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steady wit and ceaseless plans by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandom Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer
14 Jun 2020
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self-indulgent writing exercises by goodbyechunkylemonmilk
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
27 May 2018
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Cornelius Hickey wakes up to find that he's been kidnapped by a man named Harry Goodsir, a man he has never met. Goodsir has met him though - over and over. He has been trapped in a time loop and in desperation, he has taken Hickey and intends to keep him prisoner for the next three years. Hickey has no intention of being a quiet prisoner - but is that enough to change Goodsir's fate?
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10 Nov 2024
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I'll explain everything to the geese by napricot
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
25 Oct 2020
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Bucky is so competent that it hurts my feelings is not a rational complaint to have about a person, and yet, after a year of being Captain America and partnering up with Bucky for the new and improved, post-Blip Avengers, that’s kinda how Sam’s feeling.
It’s not great. It maybe leads to Sam making some rash, ill-advised decisions like claiming he has a previously undisclosed superpower, and then getting caught in a web of lies when he ends up actually developing that surprisingly inconvenient superpower. Talking to birds had seemed like a harmless superpower, but it turns out that birds have a lot of opinions, and they don’t hesitate to tell Sam about them, especially when it comes to his supposedly subpar courting skills. Which is ridiculous, because Sam isn’t courting Bucky. Right?
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22 May 2024
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He knows what Stewy is going to say before he even opens his mouth. “Do you need —”
Kendall raises up, reaches for Stewy’s tie, and pulls him close. He’s a heat-seeking missile. Everything begins and ends with Stewy. God is this feeling distilled forever, God is Stewy in his bed.
“Yes,” he says, quickly, before repeating the word into Stewy’s mouth. “Yes yes yes yes yes —
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15 May 2024
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been living a while in the front of your skull by amleth
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
19 Dec 2021
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Forty-year-old Eddie Kaspbrak, Stan was pretty sure, did not like him.
It took Stan months to realize this, due, in large part, to “the bath.” His therapist considered it a regression to call it this, but Patty had started it and, in truth, Stan found it funny. He had taken a bath, and everyone was very angry about this. Patty was angry. Richie had been angry. Bill had had a hard time looking at him when he arrived in Derry a day late, and was still “just a little concerned.” It didn’t mean very much at all if Eddie scrolled past his messages in the Losers group chat to send Mike another meme, or compliment Mike on another one of his selfies. Eddie often got quiet before he got angry.
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01 May 2024
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Everyone wants something from Lucas, but the Hawkins High Winter Formal forces him to think about what he wants.
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29 Apr 2024