May be Ashla

[maybeashla]

Byler fic ideas for sale!

I was joking yesterday, but today I'm quite serious! I've tagged all my rambling and ideas with MaybeAnIdea (sorry for the name).

I don't know if anyone will like them, but if anyone wants to check them out, welcome! I'm also open to similar reading suggestions 👀

A quick recap of what you can find among my ideas:

Will Byers NeverFound!Au;

Mike is not Will's Tammy;

Will's health consequences due to the destruction of the Hive Mind;

Movie/other media-inspired AUs (Just this morning, I was thinking about a Detroit Become Human!Au again, so it's coming sooner or later)

Some ideas are a bit developed, others just hinted at, but they're there! By the way, it helps me to tidy up this profile, too; at least I know how to look for things.

[maybeashla]

I've been looking back at some of my old posts and... I have more ideas for Byler fanfiction than actually started fics, so... Does anyone want some ideas? They are on sale!

Although, I admit, they're almost all for long or for quite long one-shots. Maybe if I started thinking about shorter fics I could write them. But it's not my fault if I get such complex/long ideas.

Also... I'm probably getting so many ideas because I'm trying my hardest not to move on/find a new fandom to focus on. Because, I already know, once I leave the ST fandom it will be forever, I have no reason to come back, and, since Season 5, I can't rewatch the original series anymore so I'm unlikely to go back to being super into ST😭

[penny-for-your-thoughtsssss]

i will liquidize all my assets for this, im in a state of wanting to write but cant think of anything to write about

[maybeashla]

And I'll use all my resources to read something even vaguely similar to my ideas because I have the opposite problem: I really have too many ideas and don't have the time or capacity to write them down 😭

I'll probably make a general post with all my ideas or tag them in some specific way, but if you want to take a look, maybe you might find something interesting. And if you want, you can take one or more ideas/or even just talk with me about it (I also love do this)! They're practically all free as long as you let me know when they're published 👀

[maybeashla]

I've been looking back at some of my old posts and... I have more ideas for Byler fanfiction than actually started fics, so... Does anyone want some ideas? They are on sale!

Although, I admit, they're almost all for long or for quite long one-shots. Maybe if I started thinking about shorter fics I could write them. But it's not my fault if I get such complex/long ideas.

Also... I'm probably getting so many ideas because I'm trying my hardest not to move on/find a new fandom to focus on. Because, I already know, once I leave the ST fandom it will be forever, I have no reason to come back, and, since Season 5, I can't rewatch the original series anymore so I'm unlikely to go back to being super into ST😭

[ladyartemisia28]

I'm always on the lookout for fic ideas!

[maybeashla]

Well, maybe I have something for you! I should make a general post or tag all the posts with ideas in some special way to make it easier to find... maybe there's something nice!

[maybeashla]

I've been looking back at some of my old posts and... I have more ideas for Byler fanfiction than actually started fics, so... Does anyone want some ideas? They are on sale!

Although, I admit, they're almost all for long or for quite long one-shots. Maybe if I started thinking about shorter fics I could write them. But it's not my fault if I get such complex/long ideas.

Also... I'm probably getting so many ideas because I'm trying my hardest not to move on/find a new fandom to focus on. Because, I already know, once I leave the ST fandom it will be forever, I have no reason to come back, and, since Season 5, I can't rewatch the original series anymore so I'm unlikely to go back to being super into ST😭

[maybeashla]

Okay, I'm trying not to think about the anniversary, soooooo...

I have this Will Byers NeverFound!Au from 2022 that features Will's return with no memory in an alternate season 4. Will, in truth, isn't so NeverFound after all, as he ended up in Russian hands shortly before the gate was closed in '84 (yes, the Russians got to Hawkins first for some reason I never figured out). Because of his time in the UD/that damned vine in his throat, Will gained powers, and the Russians, having discovered this, imprisoned him in their base beneath the Starcourt.

In the story, there was this sort of "Russian Brenner" who, obviously, had been experimenting ever since the UD was discovered (especially because he had managed to intercept classified information on the existence of El and the other kids in the lab), and therefore obviously "marks" Will as one of his experiments. I initially considered calling him Seven in Russian, but perhaps it would be more angsty to have him called One in Russian? Just to increase the parallels with Henry Creel.

To be clear, I doubt this fic will ever see the light of day. It's too long (113 pages of scattered individual episodes, without even a single complete chapter), and I couldn't possibly write such a complicated project in English, but, for fun...

It's a better name...

One in Russian

Seven in Russian

It's for me, I'm curious, okay?

Voting ended onJul 16

[maybeashla]

Please tell me this is a satire account and not serious... oh, nevermind... they're also Italian (I hate that most of the Italians in the ST fandom are like this 😭😭)

Anyway... a positive note from the scripts of season 5: "About my friend, El"

[maybeashla]

TTMD TTMS spoiler!

Demisexual Mike is "finally" hereeeeee🎉🎉🎉

I love demisexual Mike 😭

[maybeashla]

Let's ignore the ST season 5 scripts (I hate the Suffers so much) and... let's think of a Byler ATLA!Au! What do you think?

Byler as two young boys from the Northern Water Tribe, with Mike as the non-Bender Crown Prince (Nancy is rightfully angry because she should be the Crown Princess but the tribe is so bigoted) and Will as the son of a healer who lives just outside the tribe's borders after her divorce from Lonnie (who tried to teach Will bloodbending because he thought his passion for healing was feminine).

Will whose soul is kidnapped by some spirit (the same one that later kidnapped Barb's) and he gets lost in the spirit world.

El as the avatar. And Mike (with Nancy maybe) accidentally finds her while he's trying to sneak into the spirit oasis to get the healing water, believing it could help Will.

[maybeashla]

Okay, so yesterday I just happened to watch "50 First Dates" and...

1. Sean Astin what? Unexpected, but now I'll never be able to watch Sam and Bob without laughing (okay, I honestly don't think I can watch Bob because I just can't watch ST anymore but shhh)

2. When will there be a Byler-style "50 First Dates" fic? 👀

It could start right after Vecna's defeat, where, by killing the Mind Flayer, Will suffers brain damage that compromises his ability to store new memories. Will, unknowingly, finds himself stuck in a loop where every day for him is November 6, 1987 (from the beginning, after his post-Vecna ​​vision awakening, or immediately after the battle against Vecna) and the others must find a way to deal with it. Tell him the truth every day, hurting him by telling him about El's "death"*? Hide the truth from him but, therefore, at least for the party, lose contact with him as time goes by and they grow up? Try to convince him that it's not all Vecna's vision, as happens some days when Will notices inconsistencies in the behavior/physical appearance of his friends/family?

Slow Burn for Mike, who over time comes to accept his feelings for Will. But also angst for Mike, who after losing El, finds himself losing Will every day and who must win him back every day (especially because, whether because of the vision or the conversation at the tower, every morning Will isn't entirely convinced that Mike isn't homophobic/despises him).

Am I the only one who sees the potential? 👀

*Okay, I usually want El alive in most post canon fics but El in hiding/dead fosters angst. And, when it comes to fics that deal with disastrous consequences for Will from the destruction of the hive mind...I want angst!

[maybeashla]

Try not to laugh challenge, and it's for that mileven account that came in bylers space, made some stupid post about Byler and, when I responded, they either blocked me or deleted their profile. All in 10 minutes.

[maybeashla]

Still devastated that Time Cast a Spell on You was made (at least partially, since they detected AI in the last chapters) with AI.

I can't understand how that's possible; it had too many feelings to be made with AI. It feels so real and human.

I sincerely hope it wasn't entirely made with AI (I'd seen some of their other fics from years ago, and the style seems very much theirs) and that the author had a strange moment and decided to use AI in the last chapters. It would still be bad, yes, but at least it wouldn't be a complete bad joke.

Time Cast a Spell on You was my post-S5 canon, even my friends knew the plot and wanted to read it, and now it's simply disappeared without an end and after a terrible news. I feel like I'm back in January, devastated once again over such a betrayal. And, perhaps, the worst part is that the author completely deleted themselves from ao3/social media without offering any explanation; I think their followers deserved a conclusion (at least an explanation and apology).

Now, even silver springs will devastate me... I'm going to cry because I'm going to miss that fic so much.

[maybeashla]

I feel sick. What do you mean, "Time Cast a Spell on You" was written with AI?

I loved it so much, until this morning I couldn't wait for the next chapter, and now...it's gone (really gone because the author just "deleted" it. I wanted to check if it was true that there were Claude codes in it, and it turns out the author made it private or something).

Now I have to test all the fics I follow because I'm so worried it might happen to some other fic😭

[maybeashla]

Okay, "listen"! For me the Walkie Talkie couple is...

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Tammy Thompson and her boyfriend.

I mean... that would be pure poetry

[l00ciddreamerz]

Hey chat,

Just coming on here to say YET AGAIN, that if you’re looking for a beautifully written yet devastating story, you need to read Time Cast a Spell on You by @writteninerised .

When I tell you I’ve cried the last 4 updates—I genuinely have. It’s beautiful, it’s bittersweet, it’s fucking gut wrenching, but in the best possible way. The writing pulls you in such a way that I genuinely feel it in my chest when I’m reading.

It’s one of my favorite Byler fics out there. Seriously I cannot recommend it enough or sing its praises louder.

If you feel so inclined to jump in, please do. And please feel free to message me so we can cry together 😭

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77413466/chapters/202701411

[maybeashla]

The new chapter of Time Cast a Spell on You destroyed me.

I think this fic isn't talked about enough! Please, can we start talking more about non-smut fanfiction? I mean... it's great to go crazy together over TTMD TTMS, but I'd also like to go crazy together over non-smut fanfiction!

And, since we're talking/reading about it, any suggestions for non-smut fics?

[maybeashla]

And it's immediately "What's wrong with you? What is wrong with you?" I really can't believe there are people like that.

Mike wouldn't kill himself for El'death. Life goes on.

And it's not a question of Byler or Mileven, it's a question of a minimum of common sense (I don't know whether to call it that, or simply intelligence).

[maybeashla]

Andie Sachs to Emily: "Friends?"

Emily Charton (possessed by the spirit of Mike Wheeler): Friends? No, thanks... [pause as long as both movies combined] Future best friends.

Okay, no, seriously... Andie's "Friends?" gave me flashbacks and my friends (who only know about ST from what I tell them) turned to look at me.