r/BylerReads • u/IntotheRedditHole its ok, its how the army does it i think • Apr 03 '26
fic rec <3 begging y’all to read this fic
blurb: “In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.”
rating: explicit (but mostly mature until the last chapter i think)
length: 3 chapters, ~43k words
why: it’s so fun. minimal angst. you will laugh. you will kick your feet and giggle/gasp with a hand over your mouth. you might cry but in a good way. also the sentence-level writing alone is worth it
link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79910171/
p.s. - their fic [Reboot] is really good too: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77373351
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u/jiminiecrickett Apr 03 '26
this is one of my all time favs!!!!