just another girl on the subway

hi anon!! i'd love to have some good advice for you but the honest truth is that in the time i was writing the most i simply just Happened to be very inspired by byler, and that plus the fact that i was pretty lonely and depressed and actively avoiding having a Life made it easy to spend hours a day thinking and writing about fictional people lol. (not to be all "the obsession faded when i got medicated", but...) what i will say though is that i've always sort of used fanfic as a space to be creative without worrying too much about the end result. the guidelines for success in fic are much looser than in original writing, since you already have the characters and an audience who is invested in them and you can post whatever you want whenever you want, so you can experiment with different writing styles and techniques in what is (hopefully) a low-pressure space. i genuinely think i've improved a ton as a writer from just writing about the same two people falling in love over and over for the past like. four years wow. so if you have the time and energy to practice, i think that's one of the best ways to improve.

hi wayli my beloved <333

🌃 mike visits will at college and will’s friends clock his tea

And—yeah. Will can see why his friends might have gotten a certain idea about Mike. The problem is that everything that makes Mike so wonderful—his kindness, his sincerity, his dedication to his friends—is also what other people can, reasonably, construe as romantic. And Will’s been here before, far too many times.

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🫩 stonathan fwb???

If kissing one boy—and liking it—is tantamount to being generally a boy-kisser, Jonathan thinks he’s probably landed himself squarely in that category. He’s not sure how long it goes on before it stops, almost as unceremoniously as it started. Wyatt pulls back and gives him another one of those teasing little smiles, murmurs “This was fun”, and slips out of the coat closet.