rainmaker

i am 19, antsy, and 30% peppermint tea. @fireservedcold on ao3.

[deorlings]

Will Was Never Found Au part 13

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[makerofrain]

been reading marauders fanfiction since james was white and straight call that #millenialmarauders

[makerofrain]

HEY

i know this is mainly a byler blog because for some reason i don't use tumblr for anything else despite this being my only blog (i'm bad at tumblr sorry), but i wrote a pretty mediocre ending to my perciver (percy weasley/oliver wood) fic i started 4 years ago. since then it's gotten a lot of love and whether you stumbled upon it then or will read it now i'm still proud of it even though it makes me want to roll my eyes sometimes. but it makes me happy that people out there enjoyed it enough. final chapter out now and i can't promise anything but i'll definitely write more perciver if not from this little ooc universe i created out of them <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42128787/chapters/229200956

[makerofrain]

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood, Penelope Clearwater/Percy Weasley Characters: Percy Weasley, Oliver Wood, Weasley Family (Harry Potter) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Hogwarts Era, Gay Percy Weasley, Bisexual Oliver Wood, Lesbian Penelope Clearwater, Latino oliver wood, Music, Kate Bush References, and they were ROOMMATES, Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking, The Golden Trio Era (Harry Potter), Quidditch, Mutual Pining, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Unreliable Narrator, Emotionally Abusive Arthur Weasley, Family Issues, Family Dynamics, Friends to Lovers, Role Models, 80's Music, not canon compliant in a sense that I ignore things, romance centric, each chapter is a year at hogwarts, kinda OOC, Implied Autistic Percy Weasley, Not Canon Compliant Summary:

Percy Weasley and Oliver Wood hate each other for a total of two weeks. It’s easy from there, as being the only Gryffindor boys in their year, they had no choice but to become friends.

* * * *

“Did you….get a haircut?” Percy whispers.

“No,” Oliver whispers back, like it’s a game. “Did you?”

“Someone fucking sedate me,” he mutters to himself as Oliver shifts in his seat, taking out his hefty copy of Advanced Potion Making.

“Hm?”

“I said drink your tea, Wood.”

[ju-nebugg]

an alternate version of that scene…hmmmm…

[marshmallowdevi]

College au sketch

[chilikit]

"byler was never in the cards" mike almost killed his girlfriend to a record by the butthole surfers

[makerofrain]

thinking about wolfstar & byler and how the actors for sirius and remus genuinely thought they were gay for each other, i think finn and noah got wolfstar'd

[lovelyfinn-deactivated20260423]

friends? no thanks. explorers

[waitingbythemailbox]

me and michael // william, it was really nothing

[narrativelogicofbyler]

noah saying “i feel like i was robbed of a good romance in stranger things” is the first time someone inside the machine has actually pointed at the elephant the show kept shoving behind nostalgia and neon. from a film and tv standpoint, it’s a performer finally naming the structural failure the text refused to confront: the only explicitly queer character was treated as an emotional prop, not a narrative subject. will’s arc was built on longing, repression, and service to other people’s romances, while the cinematography and blocking kept hinting at a story the writing wouldn’t let him have. that’s not subtlety; that’s a refusal to commit.

the industry has a long history of letting queer characters ache but never arrive, desire but never be desired, orbit but never be centred. stranger things followed that pattern to the letter, and noah calling it out isn’t unprofessional, it’s necessary. his performance carried the emotional weight of a romance the script wouldn’t acknowledge, and the disconnect between what he was playing and what the narrative allowed became impossible to ignore. saying he was “robbed” isn’t exaggeration; it’s a precise articulation of how queer characters are so often handled: sidelined, sanitised, or treated like narrative inconveniences.

good for him for saying it plainly. it’s rare to see an actor break the polite silence around mishandled queer storytelling, and it lands even harder because he’s right and because he’s gay himself.

[viscountessnila]

guys i love this fandom but i have to say in sevenspins mike is the figure skater and will is the hockey player. ok. mike wheeler with his lanky body, angled limbs and crystal sharp features, still grumpy, still mean to everyone around him. will byers with his broad shoulders, strong build, sassiness and determination, still gentle (off the pitch), still kindhearted. will unable to stop himself from drawing mike's skating poses and mike losing his mind over how soft, sweet will becomes a literal war machine on ice he want to be thrown around by will trust. MIKE FIGURE SKATER AND WILL HOCKEY PLAYER THANK YOU

[puppybottommike]

HELL YES

[puppydogmike]

canon in my head

[moomeecore]

theres surprisingly little fan art for the best character in stranger things

[pikasflower]

Clips from my recent animation!

[skysmadness]

based on this tweet i made as i jumped on the bravebyers bus:

[deorlings]

Will Byers Never Found Au part 2 ½

Will takes Mike to his hideout, they catch up a little.

Part 1 below :)

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[new-ronantics]

s5 repackaging will’s love for mike into a “crush” or a “tammy” renders this line utterly and completely useless btw. according to canon, he didn’t fall in love. what an egregiously terrible writing choice.

[makerofrain]

this line was and is everything to me. just proof that they abandoned what was originally written

will "i'm not gonna fall in love" byers doesn't have some schoolboy crush and never did