#yes i'm tagging all of them cause this is very important!!

[castlebyersafterdark]

hey vinny! very excited about your upcoming fics, I love your writing 🫶

in the meanwhile, do you have any fic recs?

Went through my bookmarks and the bookmarks of a few authors I like, picked at random, went on a clicking journey, and made this list. I know there are tons more good fics out there I am missing 🥰🥰 And there were a lot of fics I recognized on my clicking journey but don't remember since I haven't read them in a while so I didn't list. Anyway, in no particular order:

❤️E asking too much (kissingpractice) - My fave college AU in the midnight hour (wisehearted) - Beautiful drunk Byler. They are perfect perfect 🥵 Probably my fave Byler fic. time is a perception, love will cure depression (alternatedoom) - This is SteveWill but it's my fave Stranger Things E rated fic. So perfect, so hot, the characterization is great, I've read it a dozen times and I'll read it a dozen more. my baby lives in shades of blue (afterglown) - Really cute/hot horny Halloween! 🐺🎃 hard times (pterafractal) - Car guy Mike (more like van guy Mike) and Will and they put that van to good use. the art of an apology (anon) - Byler fight and make-up sex. Cathartic. Privacy (bottomwillbyers) - Sharing a room, FWB, incredible horny nonsense. A classic. put my finger on your tongue 'cause you love to taste (thisfleshbetweenmyteeth) - A little kinky and that's what made me insane about this one. Heed tags. heads or tails? (yousaidyes) - Unsure how to describe this other than good Byler tension with a unique concept. After Hours (pterafractal) - College Byler FWB Mad Machine Gun Heartbeat (NoMartiniNoParty) - Byler first time and it's really different and wonderful of angels and demons (problematicbyler) - Another wonderful horny Halloween 👼🎃 your heart's too big for your body (willbyershandmoles) - crying kink, yes pleaaaaase 🤭 we beat the odds together (willbyershandmoles) - Married older Byler!! linger like a tattoo kiss (problematicbyler) - Simple hot spicy makeout the thing about illicit affairs (problematicbyler) - Hawkins era FWB hands on 10 and 2 (wisehearted) - THE ROAD HEAD FIC! And the ultimate passenger princess Will which is very important to me. baby my tongue goes numb (wisehearted) - Phone sex and oh so much more 🥵

🧡M four rules (alternate doom) - Gen, no ships. An interesting take on gay life in 80s era Hawkins, and some stepfather Hopper and Will interactions. Very different, worth a read. Paladin Brown (NoMartiniNoParty) - Excellent Will character study mirror-to-mirror, face-to-face (passerine_in_jade) Substances and sexuality and drama in the apocalypse the comforts that make us numb (passerine_in_jade) hiiiiiiighler darling all the while (cherryisgone) - Drive in movie date! any semblance of touch (anon) - Excellent highler, Mike visits Will at college Didn't take long (SkuldTheNorn) - Horny makeouts, what's better than that

💛T i think there is someone you love (fireflywitch) - El POV and very interesting. Best El I've read. Sibling stuff. Very 80s. i'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet (perexcri) - Tension and a grocery run in the apocalypse. In the Eye of a Hurricane It's You and Me (julia_skysong) - Get together, Lab stuff with Will Luminescence (NoMartiniNoParty) - THEEE best Mike Wheeler focused character study fic 💞 burn off from the rush (astrobi) - A little smoker Will as a treat i just may be a daredevil (coopermyagent) - Will goes crazy on the bullies, Byler being generally insane. these fatal fantasies (coopermyagent) - Another excellent Mike fic We're So Lucky (coopermyagent) - Drunk Byler, surprisingly horny for a T fic and I love that a bed in your shape (passerine_in_jade) - Will lies about losing his virginity. Mike uses the lie to come out. Dramaaaa. snakebites and bitter tonics (bylersworld) - COWBOY BYLER 🤠🤠 movie magic (dragons_like_smores) Will works at the video store. Mike returns tapes. Where he paused the movie is very 🤨🤭 Say It With Your Hands (pseudologia) - Working together at the movie theater, modern AU. no end to this want (astrobi) - Summer pining and super cute! you for me (fudgecakez) - Canon divergent season 4 and so gooood 💚Other some sort of ripple effect (sylvianightshade) - Conversations in a pool at a motel during the roadtrip from Cali to Hawkins. Excellent characterizations. a feeling like this (embarrassedwithapicketsign) - Mike finds a drawing of Wills he shouldn't have. there's glitter on the floor after the party (embarrassedwithapicketsign) - FWB met later in life get together No Scissors Required (comfortablynumbonthepuzzle) - Lovely fic about Joyce finding out about Will. Formative.