20 Bookmarks by PaperMountainMan
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Lars and the Real Boy by bleeding_hydnellum
Fandoms: Drive (2011), Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
21 May 2026
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"Lars has an aversion to touch. He tells me that it hurts, that it is painful. I understand. Touch can be overwhelming, and for someone so sensitive as Lars I imagine it is worse. I keep my gloves on for him. I clean them meticulously before I even think about touching him, I do not want my dirt to rub off on him. He is soft. He is kind. I am neither. "
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Casey teaches Lars to be ok with touch.
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24 Jul 2026
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pale pink stitches by some_pomegranate_tea
Fandoms: Drive (2011), Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
16 May 2026
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“I’ll wash your jacket,” Lars says, holding his hand out. The bottom half of Driver’s jacket is dark and stained with blood. (The blood goes all the way around, like it’s not only from Driver’s injury. Lars pretends not to notice.) It’s ripped, next to the zipper, from the knife that was in his stomach. Lars doesn’t think Driver should wear a bloody jacket.
Driver shakes his head, eyeing Lars warily.
Well. That’s okay. Lars doesn’t like when people take his blanket, either.
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Lars finds the Driver bleeding in his car on the side of the road. A tentative relationship forms.
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22 Jul 2026
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Ryland Grace develops a sleep problem.
Carl is a man who fixes problems.
Ryland discovers that being taken care of is highly addictive.
Carl discovers that Ryland is, too.Or: the one in which a certain government agent becomes entirely too invested in a certain scientist's bedtime routine.
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06 Jul 2026
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the space between by lizardhands
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 May 2026
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"Grace's body is alive despite every detail telling Rocky otherwise. His human is a cold and wet thing, yet there are biological pumps within his body that shuttle around heated blood no differently than in an Eridian. Rocky knows the blood within him is hot because he can hear its vibration, a static hum that accompanies all that produces heat. But what Rocky wants nothing more is to press his palms against Grace until he can feel it, that scant heat, that proof that he is in fact alive."
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12 May 2026
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my human cries at absolutely anything. i mean ANYTHING. by straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 May 2026
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So Rocky makes a list.
Reasons why friend Grace’s eyes leaked this Eridian cycle:
1. One of the students gave him a carving of Earth. It was lopsided and the continents were wrong, but Grace held it to his chest and his eyes started leaking. It looked like the round-soft-thing he gave me when we first said goodbye.
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- English
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- 1/1
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08 May 2026
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please do not feed the animals by Goldmonger
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
26 Apr 2026
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“Hold still, lovely alien,” the Eridian croons, snapping a claw closed around the hem of my cardigan. “♫♬♩ will be so gentle, yes.”
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29 Apr 2026
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Fill for this fic-a-thon prompt:
Someone in John’s staff sells his diaries to the press in the 70s. They’re printed in the papers. They contain his feelings about Paul. They are him pining over Paul. Paul reads them.
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- English
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28 Mar 2026
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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- English
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29 Jan 2026
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You Were on the Run, so You Took My Last Name by epilogueboyfriend
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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Will touched his cheek in concern. “You okay, Mike?”
Mike managed a jerky nod. “Yeah, fine. You’re just…” He broke off to clear his throat and finally lifted his hands to place them on the small of Will’s back. His skin was smooth and warm. Mike’s thumb moved with the dip in his spine, tracing along the curve. “You know.” Hot and on top of me.
Will smiled, pleased at that. “I do know,” he said loftily, and Mike got the sense he really did, and frequently used it against him to get his way. “But I like it when you tell me.”
Mike wakes ten years in the future, a successful novelist and in a committed relationship with Will.
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17 Jan 2026
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There’s something wrong with Will.
It started three weeks ago, almost four. Will had woken from some sort of nightmare and, instead of seeking comfort in Mike the way he usually would, he’d rolled out a sleeping bag from the closet and chosen to sleep on the floor.
No one believes Mike, except for Joyce. But even she doesn’t understand the full extent to which something is wrong with Will.
Mike understands, though. Mike has been paying attention.
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- Part 1 of eye of the beholder
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- English
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15 Jan 2026
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A crazy premise, but beautifully executed.
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He’d stared at Will without really seeing him, so caught up in his own thoughts—a constant, monotonous beat of oh my God, I’m alive. Oh my God, Will has powers. Oh my God, he saved me.
And then—
Oh my God, he’s beautiful.
The thought had stopped him short, had landed with a soft and devastating clarity.
Beautiful.
That single word had broken something open within him, something he’d spent years reinforcing with lock and chain and prayer and denial.
After Will saves Mike from the demogorgon at the MAC-Z, Mike finally lets himself acknowledge a truth he's been running from for years:
He is in love with Will Byers.
Now all Mike has to do is come to terms with that truth—especially when Joyce sees it too.
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“Dude,” Dustin says, sounding kind of horrified but also kind of delirious with elation. “Oh my God, you like him. You like Will. Will. As in, our Will. Our best friend Will.”
“I do not–” Mike tries, even though he’d kind of just admitted to accidentally kissing Will Byers, a little, so maybe that’s an entirely fruitless road to go down.
Listen. No one should ever let Mike make decisions right after he wakes up from a nap, okay? Especially not decisions where Will is concerned. This is so not his fault.
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31 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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- English
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- 52,599
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- 8/8
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14 Dec 2025
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Don't Touch Me (It's All I've Ever Wanted) by vecnabutworse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2023
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Desperation sits heavy on Mike's tongue. The taste of it is metallic like blood and nails. Will looks at him, half sat up in bed with sleepily confused eyes. It was as if Mike was waking a child from a deep slumber. But as he sat on his knees, tears streaming down his face because of a dream he can only vaguely remember, he found his hand slowly moving towards Will's and gripping it tightly. The words came out of his mouth before he could stop them and when he watched Will's eyes widen at the words, Mike felt instant regret.
"Tell me I'm good."
Logline: When Mike wakes from another vecna-fueled nightmare, he desperately seeks comfort from Will. Will seems just as desperate to give it to him.
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09 Sep 2025
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and when broken bodies are washed ashore (who am i to ask for more) by wardo_wedidit
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
08 Aug 2022
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“Jesus, took you long enough,” John says, adjusting the duffle over his shoulder. “Thought I might be out here til morning at this rate.”
For a second he wonders if he’s drunker than he thought, but no. As far as he can tell, it is still 1980, and he hasn’t seen or so much as spoken to John in ten years.
Or, John comes to stay with Paul in Scotland to ride out the press storm of his divorce to Yoko, and Paul learns to stop running away.
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04 Sep 2025
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Heartbroken over his separation with Jane and disillusioned with swinging city life, playwright Paul McCartney flees to a small seaside town in Scotland for respite and inspiration. As it happens, you cannot outrun grief.
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04 Sep 2025
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July 1980. Ringo is turning 40, and to celebrate, he's invited a group of friends to stay with him for a week in a house he rented in the Bahamas. John is nervous. This will be more time with Paul than he's spent in years. And that's before he finds out that they'll be sharing a room.
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- 5/5
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30 Aug 2025
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For reasons not explored, John and Paul suddenly find they can’t sleep unless they're near each other. After months of insomnia, they work out the problem during the Abbey Road sessions — and promptly start having the best sleep of their lives. It gives John a bit of whiplash, how easy it is to lose himself in Paul again.
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22 Aug 2025
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During the Beatle years, John left a jumper at Paul's house, and Paul kept it and started to wear it. Now, in 1979, John sees a picture in a magazine of Denny Laine wearing the jumper. HIS jumper. John decides to go meet up with Wings to get it back.
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- English
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- 3/3
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18 Aug 2025
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For the kinkmeme prompt:
Paul hears on the grapevine (or directly from John) that John has a new love called David. Obviously he’s not going to give John the satisfaction of asking about him, but all he hears is how complete John’s life is with David in it, and how John only wants to share his bed with David from now on. Turns out David is a cat, but Paul doesn’t know that.
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- English
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16 Aug 2025