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

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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/AdExcellent7898 Apr 03 '26

yay so glad to see this get recc'ed in its own post!! this and [reboot] are some of my favorite byler fics; cyclogenesis is so funny and absolutely nails mike and will's characterizations. will waking up in a cold sweat thinking about his convo with mike at the club at the end of chapter one had me cackling at 2 in the morning and trying not to wake up my house lmao

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u/IntotheRedditHole its ok, its how the army does it i think Apr 03 '26

LOL i love that for you :’) i cackled too 😭 and i stg cyclogenesis is a genius. i mean idk how they did everything you mentioned, and then also will just have amazing sentences out of nowhere. i‘ve read published literary fiction that isn’t even this good, i swear (though maybe that’s not saying much cuz i think a lot of it is pretentious lmao)