My name's Morgana. I'm 30 and Italian. I'm a BBC, Star Wars & Marvel lover and a fantasy freak. Basically, this is just a shipper's blog.
+ I love F1. Like, a lot. Vettel/Ferrari/McLaren is what I'm here for. Currently obsessing over Stranger Things & Byler 💛 ao3: mogiah
For a moment, it’s just him and his kids and a crackly radio on the road to a party, with the spring wind sneaking in through the slightly open windows. It’s a blissful moment that doesn’t last quite as long because Sophie starts to ramble all about her new dress, how she and Luna made sure to match for this special occasion, and Mike’s grumpiness comes back when he remembers he’s going to an engagement party.
Will’s engagement party, to be precise.
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Thirty-five years after their graduation, Mike finds himself dealing with his feelings for Will on a balmy spring night.
Hello fellow bylers 💛
I'm a little late, but I'm very happy that I got to participate in this year's byler gift exchange! As always, a big thank you to the @bylergiftexchange mods for organising such a cool event!
This is a gift for @nevyobjects11! I chose the 'good luck babe' prompt (with a bit of jealous Mike in it too, I guess 😌), I hope you enjoy this!
a sad beautiful (tragic) love affair (Chapter 3) by @morganee
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Chapter Three - you were never mine to lose
Summary:
Will is tracing lines on his chest, and Mike tries to understand if he’s writing something but he gets lost in the feeling and doesn’t really pay attention to it.
“You could write about us,” Will suddenly says and Mike opens his eyes. He hadn’t even realised he had closed them.
“What?”
“You could write a story about us,” Will repeats. “And give us a happy ending. I’d like to read that.”
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[podfic of the fic by mogiah]
a sad beautiful (tragic) love affair (Chapter 2) by @morganee
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Chapter Two - I hope I never lose you (hope this never ends)
Summary:
Time flies and Mike spends his days between running around the city with Nancy and meeting Will in secret and definitely not-crowded places. Will takes him to the swings a couple of times, always when it’s dark or when Mike’s shift ends, or sometimes, when they meet in the garden while Mike is working and has a bit more time to spend with him.
It’s where they’re sitting now, swinging quietly in their seats, and Mike thinks that he wouldn’t mind changing their routine a bit.
“Are you free tonight?” he asks. He knows that whenever he asks that, it means planning a date in the gardens. But hopefully, tonight will be different.
“Yeah, I am. Why?”
Mike bites his lip. “Do you want to come to my place?”
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[Podfic of the fic by mogiah]
a sad beautiful (tragic) love affair (Chapter 4) by @morganee
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Chapter Four - this love is worth the fight
Summary:
Will is tracing lines on his chest, and Mike tries to understand if he’s writing something but he gets lost in the feeling and doesn’t really pay attention to it. “You could write about us,” Will suddenly says and Mike opens his eyes. He hadn’t even realised he had closed them. “What?” “You could write a story about us,” Will repeats. “And give us a happy ending. I’d like to read that.”
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[podfic of the fic by mogiah]
Guess who's got a new microphone and used it to record that last chapter! This podfic is now complete and reached a duration of about 5 hours and 30 minutes.
Let me tell you a story (about a boy and a boy) by @morganee
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Summary:
Three times Holly thought Will and Mike were dating and one time she was sure of it.
Seasons prompt for day 2 of Byler Week.
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[Podfic of the fic by mogiah]
I posted this the day before yesterday already, but I wanted to put it on tumblr with the cover art that I only just finished so. More podfic!
Apocalypse AU + Aftermath of a demogorgan attack that killed Ted and severely injured Karen. Nancy is busy conspiring against the military which forces Mike to step up as the next eldest sibling in taking care of Holly.
Mike would sing for Holly to help her sleep and Will listens in sometimes because he likes the sound of Mike’s voice 💙💛
Now that January is here, that’s a wrap on the 2025 Byler Big Bang! We welcomed 17 fics and even more art into the fandom over the course of December, and now we want to celebrate everyone’s hard work one more time with this masterpost of all the fics and art links completed for the challenge. A huge thanks to everyone who took part or otherwise supported the fics and art of the creators!
We will be back in summer 2026 with info about next year’s event.
[The full fic collection on Ao3]
Dancing Is a Dangerous Game by @liminalgayhorror with art by @strangerpringle
nightwalker by @jediwill with art by @faevont
Without a Flame, There’s Just Smoke by @obsessionatthemoment with art by @bluepeaaa
six feet under (I’m still walking around) by racinggoats with art by @shubaoven
Date With Fate in a Black Sedan by @swingthesameway with art by @faaremi
Knowin’ I’m Half of You by @the-third-waterfall with art by @khiquii
Andromeda by @pearyaoki with art by @liminalgayhorror
The Impossible Wish by @jabberwockymoreau with art by @cherrishnoodles and @bluepeaaa
Heaven Knows I Can’t Change If I Wanted To (You Cut Me Open, and I Look Exactly Like You) by @jasperthejester with art by @klowtales
The Cleric and The Frog by @fresh-and-funky with art by @katimanki
One Last Kiss by @dogdaysareover365 with art by @thenomadicfox11 and @amurderlesscleric
The Joy of Christmas by @biigiiiii with art by @fluffyfangirl
son of man by @willelworld with art by @wonderwoman326
You’ll always be my favourite idiot by @willtheartist with art by @soapywaterjuice and @voidcrumbs
forsooth, it was strange and terrible by @howtobecomeadragon with art by @jabberwockymoreau and @6000yearstogether
i gotta stand up (i gotta face it) by @djemsowhat with art by @lesbianerdd
to love in forbidden times by @morganee with art by @thenomadicfox11
Thank you to everyone who participated and everyone reading, liking, reblogging, and enjoying the lovely works! We’ll see you next year!
In the small town of Bromfield, Will lives a simple and humble life with his mother, a washerwoman who struggles to make ends meet. After enduring years of mistreatment in a local factory, Will gets the chance to work as a handyman on the sprawling estate of Earl Wheeler.
There, he meets Mike, the Earl’s only son and heir, a young and mysterious man who always carries a book with him and often disappears into the woods around the estate.
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Will and Mike fall in love in a world that has no room for their love.
Warnings: mention of depression, mention of suicide, minor original character death, period-typical homophobia, mention of past abuse
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“You should wear a hat.”
Startled, Will pushes the trowel a bit too deep into the ground, and his sweaty hands can’t pull it out on the first try. He stands up and, turning around, meets Mike’s gaze.
“I don’t have any,” Will replies, straightening up as much as possible.
“Can’t you ask Lucas if you can borrow one?” Mike asks, laughing slightly, and Will feels the heat go right through his skin and into his bones. “Or Dustin. He has a lot of hats.”
“I guess I could ask him for one, sir,” Will replies, brushing dirt from his hands.
“I’m sure Dustin won’t mind,” Mike says, taking a few steps forward. He starts to pick at some leaves from the nearby bush, shredding them with such delicacy that it’s almost imperceptible.
Will seizes the moment to study Mike closely while his attention is elsewhere; his curls are well-tamed, but a few rebellious strands break free from the cage they’re trapped in. His clothes are exactly how one would expect a nobleman to dress: simple, white, clean, a declaration of rank that doesn’t need words. When Mike looks up at him again, Will takes a few seconds of his time to get lost in the young man’s eyes. They’re brown, so brown that it feels like he’s falling into the depths of the forest, and suddenly, he’s surrounded by crisp air and a scent of wildflowers and moss that brings peace to his soul.
A couple of birds fly right near them, and Will jumps up, startled, as he comes back to reality.
“Sorry, am I distracting you?" Mike says, hiding a chuckle that Will hears anyway. “I wouldn’t want to get you fired on your second day for all the backlog of work.”
“Is talking to you all it takes to get fired, sir?" Will asks with a smile, his hands trying to wipe away the sweat by clapping them together.
“Most of the time, it’s enough to just be in the same room as me.”
“I’ll be careful then, sir.”
“You can call me Mike.”
Will blinks several times before fully understanding his words. “What?”
“When my parents aren’t around, you can call me Mike. Everyone else does.”
“They’ve known you longer, sir.”
“That’s true, but I hate formalities, so you can skip them with me. If that’s okay with you, of course.”
“I don’t think it’s wise, sir.”
He doesn’t know why he says those words, but the fear of being fired if caught calling the Earl’s son by his first name is too much. His family is counting on this new job, it brings extra money into the house, money they can’t afford to lose.
“Do as you please," Mike says. He doesn’t give him a disapproving look, just a smile, and turns to walk towards the woods, a book pressed to his chest.
Will releases a deep breath he didn’t know he was holding and, not thinking too much about what just happened, continues tending to the dry soil in need of attention.
In the small town of Bromfield, Will lives a simple and humble life with his mother, a washerwoman who struggles to make ends meet. After enduring years of mistreatment in a local factory, Will gets the chance to work as a handyman on the sprawling estate of Earl Wheeler.
There, he meets Mike, the Earl’s only son and heir, a young and mysterious man who always carries a book with him and often disappears into the woods around the estate.
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Will and Mike fall in love in a world that has no room for their love.
I’m back for this years Byler Big Bang! As always, a huge thank you to the @bylerbigbang team for organising such a cool and fun event!!
This story has been quite challenging to write, but it's been on my mind for such a long time, and I'm extremely happy I got the chance to finally write it!
This year I got paired with the amazing @thenomadicfox11, and I absolutely love their work 🥹 you can go and see their beautiful art here!!
Last but absolutely not least, a huge thank you to my bestie @spicypiscesworld for creating this graphic and for supporting me, always, through good and bad times (and ideas) 💛
Fanart for the byler fanfic "to love in forbidden times" by @morganee. For @bylerbigbang.
I absolutely loved this fic, it was so sweet!! It's set in post world war 1 England, and Mike's the son of an Earl and Will's the new gardener on the estate. The scene I decided to draw is when they meet up in the woods in secret, away from prying eyes. Please go check it out!! Especially if you like period dramas 💙💛
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
So ST is really over and in that godawful way, but you know what? At least now we are free to make it fully ours. Fuck the Duffers. Fuck the writers. Fuck the producers. Stranger Things doesn’t belong to them anymore.
The only thing they have left is that they put together such an awful ending everyone thought it couldn’t be real. Let that be their legacy and let Stranger Things be our happy place as we do with it whatever we see fit.
If the writers weren't glaringly racist, I’m just thinking about how it would’ve made so much more sense for Erica to have Holly’s plot.
We've known her since season 2 and would have been far more invested in her than in Holly, who we knew nothing about going into season 5. They wouldn't have had to retcon her age *cough*, as she would have been around 12 years old in '87, same as Will when he was taken. She would have had a future-sister-in-law dynamic with Max in Camazotz. She could have relayed so much information to Max about what's been going on while she was gone. We could have seen her nerd out about A Wrinkle in Time and science (which is canonically her favourite subject). We could have seen actual depth added to her character and given an active, emotional storyline to Lucas, who would have been hellbent on finding her. It would have been so satisfying to see that dynamic since we're used to them bickering all the time; a real true-to-life example of the complexities of sibling love. It could have been so, so good.
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