To My Fellow Fanfiction Readers,

romance should be like stardew valley where everyday i give you a red chili pepper and in return you stop verbally abusing me

everything everywhere all at once is about intergenerational trauma. about depression and passive suicidality and the gravitational appeal of nothingness. about aging, getting older in your twenties and getting older in your fifties. about the specific hurt mothers can cause their daughters and daughters their mothers. about the harsh reality of the immigrant experience and the american dream. but it’s mostly about kindness and family and it’s about choosing to sit at home talking about taxes with someone who loves you, and it’s about telling your daughter that you’d choose her over the entire universe, and it’s about how even in the universes where life didn’t form, love can still exist. and it’s really all of that at once.

I'm down bad

BYLER FIC RECS PT 3

This is a list of byler fics that gave me so much comfort, made me cry or laugh, and helped me get through my recent horrible weeks.

Appreciation post to these gorgeously written works and to the authors who created them: thank you for gracing the fandom with your talent, I’m sending you all flowers and love 🌷🌸🌹💐🌻🌺💌💗💕💖💝💘

who am i (to ask for more) by bookinit

Bury Me in Metamorphoses (With Galatea, My Sweet) by hiscleric

i feel like i know you (but we never met) by andiwriteordie

eyecatcher by smoosnoom 

drag me down, my gilded sun (our orphic song) by hiscleric

home is where the heart is by smoosnoom

the terror of knowing what this world is about by andiwriteordie

i know, i know, i know by aude_sapere

tell me, is it really love? by agustplz

you know me better than i do by unidentifiedblackthorn

the boyfriend problem by RomeoWrites

the ouroboros and the choking rose by aceoflanterns

stare at pictures of you ‘til i’m blind by agustplz

We Will All Go Together When We Go by perexcri

wenclair brainrot anyone? dress designs by @tanuki-pyon

CRYINGG

Headcanon:

After Mike and Will start dating, they go to prom together. Will comes to the Wheeler house to pick up Mike, and Karen insists on taking pictures.

And this is the first time since he was a toddler that Karen has photographed her son with a smile on his face. It makes her heart soar.

She pulls Mike into a long hug, and he laughs slightly, asking, 'Mom??" unaware of the fact that Karen is overjoyed at finally seeing her boy happy.

Then, she pulls Will into an even longer hug. And because Will has always noticed everything about Mike, including the fact that he only smiles in photos with Will, Will knows why Karen is emotional, and he hugs her back tightly.

hate it when people who hate certain stardew valley bachelors are like “why would you go for [bachelor/ette] of all people” like mf why would ANY bachelor/ette go for YOU??? the farmer is out here fishing for 12 hours straight, standing and staring in front of people’s doors until they exit their rooms, and doesn’t even have a fucking bathroom at max house upgrade. you can dislike them all you want, but you should be honored elliot, haley and shane are even willing to look your farmers way to begin with, let alone share a house and bed with you

the leftism leaving people's bodies when it's time to build a villager trading hall

what makes me the saddest is that we have a developing canon sapphic couple right THERE and barely anyone acknowledges them except when it’s needed for proof/analysis,like i literally breath for mike and will but ROBIN AND VICKIE ARE SO UNDERRATED I WANT TO SEE THEM TOGETHER IN S5 SO BAD

tell me more, i adore you

in which you love listening to reid's voice

you were new to the team, so you didn't know why everyone always cut off spencer's rambles. frankly, you thought it was adorable how happy he was to share new facts and statistics with everyone.

"did you know that the average american produces 5.91-" spencer began as everyone began walking out of the building.

"not now, reid." jj groaned. "i desperately need a drink. anyone want to come with?"

spencer looked so disappointed, and you felt bad for him, so you kept your eyes on him, urging him to continue. "go on, what does the average american produce?"

spencer's face lit up, and in that moment, you knew you would listen to any statistic he told you, no matter how odd. "the average american produces 5.91 pounds of waste every day. it's estimated that 4.4 pounds per person goes into the trash each day, while only 1.51 pounds are recycled."

"are you serious? how do you know that? why do you know that?" you pestered him for answers as his cheeks grew pink from your attention.

you were both unaware of the team making bets about when you two would start dating.

"okay genius, teach me something new. what new fact do you have for me today?" you linked your arm around spencer's as the two of you left work.

at this point, it was almost a tradition for him to tell you a new statistic as everyone began leaving.

"did you know that americans prefer french fries to any other way of eating a potato? in second and third place are baked potatoes and mashed potatoes."

as usual, the team walked behind the both of you, exchanging hushed whispers about whether you were dating.

but one fact spencer would never tell you? these facts weren't something spencer knew off the top of his head. you didn't know that every night, he would read through the pages of his numerous books and search the internet for obscure facts. and it was all so he could see your adorably surprised face every evening.